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Odonnell the n. F. L. Star who lost his cool says he deserves to play again. And why is the player he attacked now also apologizing . A hockey teams m. V. P. How this pup gets his shot. And as the Democratic Candidates for president debate tonight, theyre taking aim at a new target. This is the Cbs Evening News with Norah Odonnell reporting tonight from ghashington. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. President trumps handpicked ambassador to the European Union sent shock waves across the u. S. Capitol today, changing his story and directly implicating the president in the Pressure Urmpaign against ukraine. Gordon sondland told congress there was a quid pro quo, an attempt to trade Military Funding for an investigation of mr. Trumps rivals, and it was
done at the direction of the president. Sondland insisted everyone was in the loop, including the Vice President and the Secretary Of State, and he dramatically shifted the timeline, saying the attempts to push ukraine to
Warrants . The concern grows out of the fact that all of the failures and the and The Information that shouldved been given and wasnt given. And the question being what was the intent . What what washa their intention . Their motivation there. And what we determined was we couldnt definitively say what the motivation was. Are these pretty smart people . Fairly welleducated . At least welleducated. I dont know if theyre smart. I dont know if were very smart to beow honest with you. I was b going to say they have law degrees, right . At least somehe of them do. So you think the woods review for people at this level of the organization. To be clear, the stuff that didnt happen on the woods review was basic stuff. Yeah. You didnt need to be a deeplyexperienced fbi agent to be able to do it the right way. Well, thats my point. So wouldnt you think that would almost be muscle p memory for people who are going through this process to know they had an obligation to go through that . They clear
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