implemented in. i m just going to lay it all on the line and cut donald trump loose. or i m going to take the fifth because there aren t any other options here for sondland. i think that s why the possibility that he might take the fifth is one that people are taking seriously. he s finally ready to see the forest through the trees. i m done with donald trump because donald trump is clearly done with me. look at the precedent, mika. you ve got roger stone. you ve got paul manafort. you ve got michael cohen, you ve got gates. all in jail for real. yeah, in jail. all gave their loyalty to donald trump and what do they receive in return, jail time. more details on the new york times reporting that willie just mentioned, michael schmidt reports gordon sondland kept secretary of state mike pompeo apprised of key developments in the campaign to pressure ukraine s leader into public commitments that would satisfy
pentagon. we need to do more reporting about them to be honest. bob costa, looking at these hearings you had from the official white house twitter account yesterday an attack on lieutenant colonel vindman while he was testifying. today gordon sondland could be a witness even more of a problem for the white house if he sort of goes back and revises a bunch of his testimony and tells the story of how he ran this alleged shadow foreign policy. what is the level of concern you re picking up from republicans and from the white house about ambassador sondland and his testimony today? allies of president trump inside and outside the white house are havery concerned abou ambassador sondland. they re prespinning his testimony, worried that he could bring himself in a way in his testimony closer to president trump because he did have direct conversations with the president based on all this other testimony about the situation in ukraine. yet, when i talked to senate republicans and many hous
commute the sentences of three special forces officers who were found guilty of what we would essentially call violations of w war. trump has been meddling with them for months and finally issued this pardon, commutation. can you explain why that s so dangerous? our special forces warriors, the best fighters i ve ever encountered in the world are in the most extreme situations, and you trust their judgment. you trust that if they take prisoners those prisoners will be protected, that they ll use good judgment about when to shoot and when not to shoot. we invest enormous power in people who basically, you know, go in and do knock and seize and sometimes shoot missions. in these cases the evidence was the evidence reported by junior officers and soldiers was
ukranian colleague, andres yermak, i don t remember if my staff, someone from the embassy or where, and the readout was it was a good phone call. that it was a congratulatory phone call for the president s win in the parliamentary election, that president trump renewed the invitation for se zelensky to come to the white house. i believe you said a readout was exactly as you expected the call to go, is that right? that s what we were trying to. i want to show you the july 25th text to yermak which was the message you were relaying to him so he could prepare president zelensky, and you ll recall this, right, where you said this was the message, good lunch, thanks. heard from white house, assuming
president z convinces trump he will investigate, quote, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to washington. that s what you expected from the call, right? i expected that president zelensky would be convincing in his statements and comments of president trump, that he was exactly that, that he would investigate, git to t investigate, get to the bottom of things in 2016, and that if he was strong in conveying who he is in a person doing that, that president trump would be convinced and renew the invitation to the white house. right. but you don t mention corruption in this text, do you? this is the word corruption is not in this text. the word corruption is not there, investigating things that happened in the past that would be corrupt would be investigating corruption. you say a couple times in opening statement, you said it again, investigating things that happened in the past. you are aware most investigations relate to things tha