legal jeopardy if he lied to the committee? what happens next? potentially, this was always gordon sondland s escape hatch, as he was approaching his testimony, he had to be thinking, well, everyone s going to say that i was involved with giuliani, that i was involved with the president, i was a direct connection, and as he said himself, there was a quid pro quo. so the only option left in a rapidly-winnowing set of options, yes i knew we were investigating corruption, yes i knew we were investigating burisma, but wait a minute, i didn t know burisma meant biden. that is one of his very few alternatives or options available that are left for him to escape any kind of trouble. so it is no surprise that they are retreating to that hill. they re saying well, burisma, maybe, that would have been okay, but biden, we didn t know there was a connection. danny cevallos, thanks so much for being here this morning.
isn t something rudy can take advantage of, because it is very narrow, and it really only applies when you re acting as an attorney-type advocate in the context of say defending a client from a criminal case. so if federal prosecutors want to explore fara violations, they ve got a lot of tools under the statute to work with. dr. fiona hill said earlier that she questioned the credibility of ambassador gordon sondland s testimony. take a listen. i think from listening to him and his depositions and in, you know, what i ve read, he made it very clear that he was surprised we had some kind of objection. the burisma and the bidens. yes. is it credible to you that mr. sondland was completely in the dark about this all summer? he had an argument about it. i m sorry, i couldn t hear your answer. it is not credible that he was oblivious. could gordon sondland be in
gotten sick. health officials believe the source of contamination may be farms in salinas, california. now back to the democrats impeachment inquiry into the president s alleged abuse of power as multiple witnesses who testified over the past two weeks on the hill, describe rudy giuliani s efforts to pressure ukraine to announce investigations into burisma and the bidens. take a listen. the three priorities of security, economy, and justice, and our support for ukrainian democratic resistance to russian aggression, became overshadowed by a political agenda promoted by former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. i had also gotten ambassador sondland s attention, the attack, the smear campaign against ambassador yovanovitch and in the course of that discussion, that rudy giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow everyone up. ambassador sondland stated damn it, rudy, every time rudy gets involved he goes and f s
i think you saw that and america saw that today. and as a kunsquence, you know, her confidence really broke through. i think shaeld be sitting around this table pretty soon. anyway if we re lucky at this network. anyway, dr. hill explained in vivid detail how she intervened in the so-called ward room, somewhere in the west wing just after that july 10th meeting. when i came in gordon sondland was basically saying, well, look, we have a deal here that there will be a meeting, i have a deal here with chief of staff mulvaney, there will be a meeting if ukrainians open up or announce these investigations into 2016 in burisma, and i cut it off immediately there. because at this point having heard mr. giuliani over and over again on the television and all of the issues that he was asserting, by this point it was clear that burisma was code for the bidens because giuliani was laying it out there.
obeying orders are probably not going to be charged with anything? they seem to all be players but he s the mastermind. well, i would look at it sort of the other way around, actually. i mean the president right now as it stands can t be prosecuted for a crime. he can only be impeached. a and as we know you don t have to commit a crime to be impeached. although what i think is going on here is that we do have a bribery conspiracy. we have a conspiracy to interfere in our election, which as we know from you know the mueller report is a crime in and of itself. i mean, just those two alone i think you know, i think sondland, he tried to walk this line of not implicating himself. that s part of this whole burisma biden fiction, right? as long as they say the investigation was just about burisma, it s maybe not a crime. but once you say it s about biden, a political opponent, he knows he would have been