A source says trumps former adviser fiona hill is furious at Gordon Sondland saying he tried to discredit her and lie in his sworn testimony. This is comeing a day after the release of sondlands testimony showed three pages of revisions he made. He won. Sondland said he did remember that he was or had delivered a message about a quid pro quo to the ukrainian officials. Lets get to capitol hill, senior Congressional Correspondent fanu raju on key testimony under way. So manu, hale tying politics again not to the military case it seems but to the firing of former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine . Reporter yeah. And well see how much defense he ultimately gives to secretary of state mike pompeo, because its come under withering criticism for not defending his ambassadors in the field. Thats one witness why a separate witness, mike mckinley, a top aide to mike pompeo ultimately resigned of mike pompeo to offer that statement of support for the ousted ambassador Marie Yovanovitch started by gui
threats continue to mount thanks very much. our team tonight is cnn chief correspondent kaylin collins and senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elie honig, cnn political commentators david urban and van jones and cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. katelyn polantz start with you. what s your sense of how the former president is thinking about this? he didn t really spend the weekend acting like someone who is about to be indicted. he was playing golf, having lunch with friends going to dinners and mar-a-lago. i think, though the fact that he has added a new defense attorney to his team the day before he s about to be around, does show that they are taking this seriously despite what they ve said about the merits of the case here, adding, someone which i was told happened literally today is when they added this new attorney. someone who has ellie knows him. well he has a good reputation. he has good credentials. he worked in the s d n y office.
roth, also a former federal prosecutor. she currently teaches law here in manhattan. also cnn chief law enforcement intelligence analyst john miller , chief correspondent kaylin collins and van jones, cnn political commentator and former special adviser to president obama. john miller. understanding your obviously been following very closely. what have you learned? well, it was very interesting day today. what we were what we were. what we were understanding was that this grand jury was going to be hearing evidence on other matters outside the trump case, and then this afternoon at two o clock of final witnesses brought in in the trump matter. that witness testified for about half an hour. that witness was we do not that witness testified for about half an hour. um and then the district attorney called for the charging documents with the more than 30 counts. um and then the grand jury took its vote. and that is the document that remains under seal. pending this surrender, so more than
that a parade of witnesses, most of them career diplomats have come forward and testified on capitol hill and essentially corroborated much of the whistle proceeder s complaints. and i think as this investigation nears its public phase, it s going to be more and more untenable for republicans to simply ignore the allegations against the president or to pretend that these witnesses are not credible. they re trying to move the goal post and suggest that his actions don t amount to a quid pro quo. although, his testimony suggests otherwise. to you, kaylin collins has interesting reporting that just crossed. at a meeting call yesterday with republican senators on the hill, the vice president, make pence, his message was, stick with the transcripts. the white house released transcripts of that july 25th call between president trump and president zelensky. that is your defense, stick with the transcript. have you dpleend anything from
ening. at least we don t have to worry about homeowners insurance. just call geico. geico helps with homeowners insurance? good to know. been doing it for years. that s really good to know. i should clean this up. i ll get the dustpan. behind the golf clubs. get to know geico. and see how easy homeowners and renters insurance can be. happy mueller-versary or not in the case may be in the matters arriving from his investigation, he s wrapped up quite a record largely in the public eye in that same year the president of the united states surrogates and supporters turned it into something nefarious, fishy and shadowy, in the president s own words this morning disgusting. we will talk about all that tonight starting with kaylin collins. tell us about the president.