thank you. the revelation about that phone call seemed to catch a lot of people by surprise. weijia jiang says that includes the president. i know nothing about that. first time i ve heard it. reporter: speaking alongside the turkish president today, mr. trump denied ever talking to e.u. ambassador gordon sondland about investigations in ukraine. i don t recall. no, not at all, not even a little bit. reporter: their relationship is what president has tried to downplay since last week. let me just say, i hardly know the gentleman. reporter: and despite claiming he s paying no attention to the impeachment inquiry. i did not watch it. i m too busy to watch it. reporter: mr. trump found time to tweet 30 times about the hearings. cbs news has learned the white house unleashed a plan to dial up its defense of the president during the public hearings with a rapid-response team reacting in real time. the white house posted this video on twitter, showing the chair of the house i
that a member of ambassador taylor s staff overheard a phone call between the president and eu ambassador sondland about ukraine being able to move forward with the investigations trump demanded of them. i know-nothing about that. first time i ve heard it. in any event it s more secondhand information. but i ve never heard it. i don t recall not even a little bit. i don t recall. i know-nothing, while the president said he was too busy to watch the public hearings today his schedule did not stop him from lashing out on twitter with nearly catch this three dozen tweets and re-tweets from him. in one he appeared to call out today s witnesses as, quote, never trumpers. for more i m joined by shannon pettypiece. this guy on a day he claims he s not watching six hours or 5 hours of testimony against him
secondhand information. do you recall no, i don t recall. not even a little bit. and i guess sondland stayed with his testimony that there was no quid pro quo. pure and simple. reporter: now the president is setting up a very critical moment in these public hearings if that aid to bill taylor ends up testifying up on capitol hill and reiterated what bill taylor told those the lawmakers, that he did hear the president ask about democratic investigations in a phone call with the e.u. ambassador gordon sondland, one other thing we want to point out, wolf, as the president was talking about secondhand and firsthand information in the impeachment inquiry and talked about on capitol hill and we could show a tweet from stephanie gresham who tried to make this point earlier in the day saying in this impeachment hearing the dems witnessing have never spoken with president trump. this country deserves so much better. wolf, the press sect secretary
correct? i don t recall. it could have been. i have it here if you d like. yeah. it s on is from president zelensky. it s on page 3. president zelensky says i will personally tell you that one of my assistants spoke with mr. juligiuliani just recently and are hoping very much that giuliani will be able to travel to ukraine and we will meet once he comes to ukraine. did that surprise you? i didn t have the transcript at the time. all i heard is giuliani was mentioned. mr. morrison said giuliani was mentioned in the call. the way zelensky states it here, it sounds like he is very much looki ing forward to speakg with america s mayor. that s what i found out when i read the transcript on the 25th of september or so. okay. now, mr. kent, corruption in
credible witness. there? and ukrainian officials were to john s point of bringing in that meeting, yes, sir. around this same time in mid up what the republicans are saying, well, look, this was the july, did you have any president just interested in changing foreign policy. discussions with ukrainian officials about these this really wasn t a changing investigations? foreign policy. i don t recall. this was executing a private well, let me show you a text policy by the president that would benefit him. message that you wrote on july he kept calling it there was a regular policy and there was 21st where you wrote it again to an irregular policy which was run by rudy giuliani and the ambassador sondland and volker. president. a couple of things strike me if you could just read what you about ambassador taylor today. wrote here on july 21st. number one, we learned something gordon, one thing curt and i new, that ambassador sondland had a direct phone call with the talked ab