ambassador sondland, that you have evidence that donald trump tied the investigation to the aid? because i don t think you re saying that? i ve said repeatedly, congressman, i was presuming. i also said that president trump no one told you. not just the president. giuliani didn t tell you, mulvaney didn t tell you. pompeo didn t tell you. nobody else on this planet told you that donald trump was tieing aid to these investigations, that s correct? i think i already testified it. answer the question. is it correct, no one on this planet told you that donald trump was tieing this aid to the investigations because if your answer is yes, then the chairman s wrong and the headline on cnn is wrong. no one on this planet told you that president trump was tieing aid to investigations, yes or no. yes. so you really have no testimony today that ties president trump to a scheme to with hold aid from ukraine in exchange for these
get involved in american politics. little did we know he was at the moment involved in back channel negotiations to do just that. because he was being told if he didn t announce investigations into joe biden, he wasn t getting that security aid. here s what s fascinating to me, that aid is held up in mid-july. by that time word had made its way to you and other people on the hill what do you know as someone deeply invested in ukraine policy about the reasons for this mistoreious hold on the aid. right, so we don t learn about the withholding of the aid until only days before our trip ukraine in early september. of course, the president does not have the ability to with hold aid to a country once its been congressionally appropriated. of course we all suspected that it could be that the aid was
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good for president trump. joining me right now is u.s. congressman denny heck of washington state, eli stokels, white house reporter for los angeles times, cynthia is a former federal prosecutor. thank you all. congressman, as a member of the committee, give us a sense take your time the historic nature of today s vote by the house of representatives. well, chris, look, let s put this in perspective. we already have the president s confession as it were in the memorandum of the call and mick mulvaney his acting chief of staff having signed that confession in his press confidential and the text messages. and we ve had one wrosh three witnesses or more fully cooperate. and he threatened explicitly threatened to with hold aid
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