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Ukraine, essentially says he would be willing to do it and the t president s following up there to say hey, is he going to do it. what did you u learn in your meetings. josh, we ll be watching this weekend. thank you. and as always, we appreciate it. with us now, new york times politics editor, patrick healy, joe lockhart and scherr michael singletop. joe, your reaction to this reporting, testimony which happened behind closed doors friday night then the new details josh was providing us. i think the democrats have been methodical, first establishing what the facts were from taylor and kent and going right at the republicans david holmes provides sondland and trump s phone call where you know he heard it and some others heard it and sondland. obviously has firsthand information. so they are you know, each witness sets up the next as they ....
The u.s. official in ukraine who said he heard ambassador sondland say that the president of ukraine would do anything he was asked to do and he said that conversation was so loud he actually heard it through the ear piece of tcell phone. he could hear the president talking on the other hand. what was sondland doing in ukraine at the time of the call. it was the day after the july 25th call tweep the president and zelensky. the president of ukraine and president trump was getting updated by sondland and the president said so he s going to do the investigations according to this account and he said he would. he would do whatever the president wanted then they digressed into a long conversation about the rapper who the president was trying to get freed if sweden. it was outdoors at a restaurant. the president was talking loudly. sondland was apparently holding up the phone and so other folks could hear some of what was being said, holding it away from his ear and it wasn t exactly a ....
Credible. the man who is essentially connecting so many dots. and republicans very much want to be tearing into him but the b problem is that they re going to be sort of questioning an attacking his credibility, raising him, elevating him as that much more of a central character in this. but that just puts more of f a slight on the fact that fact president trump was talking to him on a regular basis about quid pro quo. he s the center of that. so the republicans sh, president trump can t dismiss sondland as this minor figure. i don t know who he is. who is that person? he s such a center of this. in fact, sondland came up again in new temperature just released this weekend from tim morrison. who testified that the president told sondland that the ukrainian president must announce he was opening investigations to receive the aid. here s how republican congressman mike turner reacted ....
Friday has raised concerns. david holmes told lawmakers the u.s. ambassador to the eu called president trump on he says this was july 26th, the day after that now infamous phone call. remember this, ukraine is known for being the target of russian cyber hacking efforts. the volume of this call was apparently so loud that holmes, who was sitting at sondland s table, was able to hear clearly what the president was saying. there s no doubt that the russians, who have a very extensive intelligence network already in place in ukraine to do things such as not just pick up telephone calls and listen to them, but also sort of the same thing they were doing here in 2016, drive public opinion. in my mind, there s flo douno d ....
Try to build this case. the provesrbial noose keeps getting tighter and igt e. sondland had to go back and revise initial testimony behind closed r doors. now we re learning he never disclosed in either of the testimonies, original and revised testimony, i just wonder about his credibility. he never disclosed it and he had multiple people heard it that are now saying that you know, saying it in their testimony. the problem for sundondland is t he is essential to both democ t democrats and republicans strategy in different ways. for democrats, he is sofrt the key person who overlaps constantly with president trump with rudy giuliani, with the issue of quid pro quo that has been pretty clearly laid out and the democrats need him to be ....