About voting press club and the investigations editor in washington for the associated press. We have a terrific program ahead and we invite you to follow along on twitter using the hash tag npclive. In the audience were members of the general public so any applause or reactions are not necessarily from the working press. Id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all of the head table guests werere introduced. I have the president of the public news all bids and member of the Headliners Team. The former president of the National Press club and we have Eleanor Clift Political Columnist with the daily beast. H e National Reporter at the washington post, beside wesley is michael holloman, Deputy Communications director for faie fight and alex, the political reporter nbc news. Skipping over the podium, to my right is donna, president at the dc media strategy and former president of the club and cochair of the mpc Headliners Team in the skipping over th
And we are coming to you live, thats right, we are live, people, an i will prove it the New York Knicks lost tonight. How could i possibly know that if we werent live. Now on a normal night the debates would be the only news anyone would be talking about. But since trump became president there has been no normal night. So today were going to be covering the debate and were going to be covering the blockbuster impeachment hearings that rocked washington d. C. So first up lets get into it. Tonight was the fifth democratic debate and it took place down in atlanta, george go as Tyler Perry Studios where they film neum rouges movies and tv shows. I will be honest, im just glad joe biden made it to the right sound stage because for awhile he was wandering around in the background of other movies t was really awkward, media was like give me one of those famous massages while you are here, im tired as hell, joe biden. Now at the last debate in october they had 12 disem krats crammed on stage.
Way. We have moved past watergate into floodgate. This was an incredible day. We heard live testimony today from the key man in the middle of all this. Trumps ambassador to the eu, Gordon Sondland. This is not a never trumper. This is not a civil servant. This is not a democrat. This is one of trumps wealthiest donors, a wealthy hotel magnate, who was given the position after he donated a Million Dollars to Trumps Campaign fund. He was the quid pro quo in the quo. So today sondland took the stand and said this. I know that members of this committee frequently frame these complicated issues in the form of a simple question. Was there a quid pro quo . As i testified previously, with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is yes. Jimmy and just like that, Donald Trumps defense disappeared faster than he downs a bucket of kfc. It was [cheers and applause] i mean, it doesnt make sense. Its, this doesnt make sense. He tweeted so many times, there was
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