a lot of highly irregular things going on behind the scenes with the second diplomatic channel to ukraine. again, it will be up to the members whether this is ultimately impeachable. but this week i think the tide s going to turn. we re going to hear from the other side. gordon sondland will be a key, crucial witness here. he s the first person we re going to hear from who is an ally of president trump. kent, yovanovitch, taylor all policy wonks, people the president doesn t trust, he say he doesn t know them, he calls them the deep state. gordon sondland is a 23re7d of the president, he s appointed by the president, so it s a huge opportunity for republicans to try and, you know, present their side of what happened here. the first witness with firsthand information, as you were saying chris: okay. so let me end where we began on gordon sondland. how important is he in he were, you know, it s a sill hi game, but we like to play it. [laughter] if he says, yeah, trump did it,
Things going on behind the scenes with the second diplomatic channel to ukraine. again, it will be up to the members whether this is ultimately impeachable. but this week i think the tide s going to turn. we re going to hear from the other side. gordon sondland will be a key, crucial witness here. he s the first person we re going to hear from who is an ally of president trump. kent, yovanovitch, taylor all policy wonks, people the president doesn t trust, he say he doesn t know them, he calls them the deep state. gordon sondland is a 23re7d of the president, he s appointed by the president, so it s a huge opportunity for republicans to try and, you know, present their side of what happened here. the first witness with firsthand information, as you were saying chris: okay. so let me end where we began on gordon sondland. how important is he in he were, you know, it s a sill hi game, but we like to play it. [laughter] if he says, yeah, trump did it, do you think that will actually
Things going on behind the scenes with the second diplomatic channel to ukraine. again, it will be up to the members whether this is ultimately impeachable. but this week i think the tide s going to turn. we re going to hear from the other side. gordon sondland will be a key, crucial witness here. he s the first person we re going to hear from who is an ally of president trump. kent, yovanovitch, taylor all policy wonks, people the president doesn t trust, he say he doesn t know them, he calls them the deep state. gordon sondland is a 23re7d of the president, he s appointed by the president, so it s a huge opportunity for republicans to try and, you know, present their side of what happened here. the first witness with firsthand information, as you were saying chris: okay. so let me end where we began on gordon sondland. how important is he in he were, you know, it s a sill hi game, but we like to play it. [laughter] if he says, yeah, trump did it, do you think that will actually
Speaks to kind of a free wheeling style of diplomacy that the administration has really emboldened, and he s got these ambassadors who are politically close to and personally close to the president, and he s given them a long leech, aash and a l running room. that s what you come up with, especially in an administration that doesn t particularly trust career diplomats of the state department and doesn t trust intelligence agencies. you end up with very influential diplomats and ambassadors with direct lines to the president. and president trump once praised gordon sondland in may and recently tried to put some distance between them. take a listen. our ambassador to the european union gordon sondland, thank you, gordon. where is he? great job. let me just say, i hardly know the gentleman. what do we know about their relationship? well, we know he the ambassador was a major donor to the trump campaign.
That. so i ask you as members of the media, how can the american people trust this judiciary committee, which the speaker of the house doesn t trust to handle and impeachment article? i tell you what, when it gets to the judiciary committee, i do have one thing for mr. schiff. if he wants to be special counsel, he has set himself up. here s my challenge to mr. schiff. you want to be ken starr? beacon star. come to the judiciary committee. be the first witness and take every question asked of you. [applause] starting with your own involvement with the whistleblower. folks, this ain t over. get ready. the cloud that is dropping will be dropping on their heads, because process matters, and substance will always win out in the end. and this president has nothing to worry about on substance. i yield back. [applause] congress will go back to their districts for a week. tomorrow will be november 1st.