have an awful lot of access to the president. reporter: sondland, the ambassador to the european union and a million dollar trump donor is scheduled to testify on wednesday amid new questions about his role. in the presence of my staff at a restaurant, ambassador sondland called president trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. reporter: on that call, just one day after the now infamous july 25th exchange that led to the whistle-blower s complaint. i made a perfect call. not a good call, a perfect call. reporter: he said president zelensky could do anything trump asked including launch an investigation into the bidens. i understand you have new information. reporter: a bombshell confirmed late friday in closed door testimony by a staffer who overheard it. the gordon sondland testimony is going to be highly significant because he has already amended his testimony to now say that he told a top ukrainian official that security assistance from the united states, roughly
house democrats are trying to build. reporter: former special representative to ukraine kurt volker defendd the president s actions in closed-door testimony telling lawmakers there was, quote, no leverage implied. there was no linkage. and i think further testimony in depositions will confirm that multiple times. we ve got text messages from vlker and sondland. reporter: volker s private text message the morning of the july 25th call revealed ukrainian officials pushing for a white house meeting. volker, writing to an aide for zelensky, assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down a date for the visit to washington. good luck. on august 9th, sondland messages volker. i think potus really wants the deliverable. going on to suggest volker should ask for the ukrainian president s aid in crafting a, quote, drafted statement so that we can see exactly what they propose to cover.
all right. this is the most important week yet in the impeachment inquiry. why? look at the roster. we ve been putting it up for you, but not only is it all of the people who were sharing these texts about what the hell is going on here in really explicit terms, but you ve got ambassador sondland. i don t know about a quid pro quo. let me revise that. i delivered what really could be argued as an attempted bribe. and now he was heard on a telephone call talking to the president about that and why they were doing it. so, he s big. but he s not the only crucial witness. we re going to give you a preview next. at kay we know that every gift is important. but the most important gift is the one you give to the person who believes in you.
that s one thing. but when you have smelly material going on with hunter biden and joe biden in the ukraine, it s something different. i agree he shouldn t have brought it up in the phone call with zelenski. he should have gone to the doj. you re right. but it doesn t smell right with what hunter and joe were doing. how does this smell right? all the money that was being made. how does the same nose not get equally offended not just going to the doj. i know a lot of people want to write that off as political ak. he s smart. including sondland, i can t wait to see his testimony. does he want to protect himself or this president. we ll see what he says. you insert rudy. he s with the shady guys, okay? they are asking these questions.