Joe biden, come on over to ukraine its never going to happen spewing all they had to do apparently was announce an investigation. Okay, that is it for us. They hearing is set to resume shortly, but now we have special report up next. Spewing that evening, welcome to washington. I am bret baier. Continuing coverage of the impeachment hearings day 3, nine hours on capitol hill as you look alive at the chairman adam schiff getting ready to gavel into the next round of questions this from the lawmakers themselves, while we wait, we will bring in our panel here. Byron york, chief Political Correspondent of the national and josh holmes, former top advisor to mitch mcconnell, now president of the Cavalry Consultants as you look there at tom morrison, tim morris and heading back in for testimony, and kurt volker right behind him. Quickly down the row, your thoughts on today so far . Today is the day that we
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doubt about it, but not until they drag us through this for weeks of sleep inducing, spirit congressman, ambassador sondland seem to have some spotty memory except when he recalled the president saying i don t want anything from ukraine, no quid pro quo. democrats seized on that and then there was an odd ending. watch. there are several other conversations that you cannot recall because you don t have your notes or your documents or your emails, or other information, but you remember that call specifically, exactly what the president said to you in response to your question about what do you want. why is that? i remember the first girl i kissed. i want to say that. [laughs] laura: i don t know what she was going to say there. maybe a little bit of a spicy joke. we could have used some more humor, frankly, today.
american people to read the transcript. he said, i would like you to investigate burisma and this thing with the bidens and the prosecutor. he was talking about that. he wanted him to work with giuliani. sondland with giuliani in the ukraine, said the president told giuliani to work with him. two instances now if the president asking rudy giuliani to go to the ukraine and investigate a political opponent. the aid was held up, it was not released until the whistle-blower came forward and congress came knocking at his door. the president asked for a bribe, we know this, an attempted bride. it didn t succeed. but attempted bribery is still bribery. attempted extortion is still extortion. laura: if somebody dan, you know it, i know it, the american people know it. laura: they are really bad at bribing them, okay? a bunch of different responses from the white house. marc short has invested her gordon sondland was never alone with vice president pence on that september 1st trip to
hypothetical. if someone walks through those two doors wearing rain boots, a raincoat, and holding an umbrella with raindrops falling off of them, do you have to see outside that it is raining to presume or conclude that it might be raining as i? i understand or hypothetical. what this says to me is that ambassador sondland didn t see anything. he didn t see an umbrella, rain boots, anything. it wasn t there. i agree with representative scalise. what i take away at the end of the day is who knows what this guy thinks. but you certainly can t base and impeachment on anything he said because he talks out of all sides of his mouth, and he has these convenient memory lapses, and he is not the most articulate guy i ve ever heard or has the best memory. laura: the rain boots, the
that is actually said that they have evidence of any bribery at all. this is like a case of a bank robbery where the witness doesn t know about a bank. there was no bank even robbed. none of the witnesses actually said that. you re just making all of this up. what you said is in the transcript is not in it. you can read it. i have it right here. speak of the official who testified today said that the ukrainians were aware that the money was being held up on july 25th. they knew this a long time before the president had to say anything. there is lots of evidence that the president was holding this over their head. sondland s call with the president which was overheard by two officials, in which the president only cares about the bidens. i m sorry, you know it, you are twisting yourself into a pretzel. i didn t know you were a contortionist, you re a great. laura: there s important news on what chris just said tonight. they were asking in general about assistance, which the witness did