than bill taylor and ambassador yovanovit yovanovitch, george kent and others, he s a political an.tea, ally of the president who was clearly running point on executing the president s intent by directing career diplomats how to behave in this quid pro quo scheme. sondland knows what the president knew. what the president knew was he wanted the investigation to happen. he asked sondland to execute it, the president is lying when he says he didn t know who sondland was. meanwhile, glenn, the washington post is reporting house republicans lead the plan to shield president trump from impeachment is to focus on at least three deputies, u.s. ambassador to the european union gore dand sondland, trump s lawyer, rudy giuliani and possibly acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney who they say could have acted on their own to influence ukraine policy. is that a shift in strategy that could work? it is a shift in strategy,