about this phone call and what he told ambassador gordon sondland. here s what president trump said. i know you ve spent time glued to the tv today, but there was one moment when ambassador bill taylor recanted a conversation that an aide of his, and it was the day after the phone call with zelensky on july the 26th in which the aide says that he overheard you say to sondland how are things going with the proceeding with the investigations? sondland repeated back to you according to this aide, that ukraine was prepared to do everything that you wanted it to do. was that is that reccorrect do you know i know nothing about that. the one thing i ve seen that sondland said was that he did speak to me for a brief moment and i said no quid pro quo under any circumstances and the other, i ve never heard this. in any event it s more secondhand information, but i ve
mr. president and in the light of these documents i think they will appreciate the situation. we sent the terrorists back if they ask for them and i m sure they will do the same for us. fox, please. thank you, mr. president. thank you. i know that you didn t spend a lot of time glued to the tv today but there was one moment where ambassador bill taylor recanted a conversation that an aide of his overheard, it was the day after the phone call with zelensky on july the 26th in which the aide said that he overheard you say to sondland how are things going with the proceeding with the investigations, sondland repeated back to you, according to this aide, that ukraine was prepared to do everything that you wanted to do. could you is that correct? and can you fill in some more i know nothing about that. the first time i ve heard it. the thing i seen that sondland said is that he did speak to me
northern syria. there are many people that quibble with that appear at the fact of the matter is a present that was supposed to be an opportunity for the president to address what was going on in washington, like the elephant in the room today. aat the first impeachment hearig and the better part of two decades, not nearly getting as much coverage and attention. john roberts raised it moments ago. neil, good afternoon to you. you saw the president answer a question about what was important to breathe a big moment of the impeachment hearings today. and that was when ambassador bill taylor said on july the 26th, this was new information for him that in aid of his overheard a telephone conversation that president for 24 had with sondland in which the president allegedly asked sondland how the investigations were going and what progress was being made on the idea of investigations. sondland said that the ukrainians were willing to go ahead and do everything that they wanted to do.
the president also in this news conference underway responding to the new evidence revealed by ambassador taylor. let s listen. but there was one moment where ambassador bill taylor recounted a conversation that an aid of his overheard it was the day after the phone call with zelensky on july the 26th. that how are things going with proceeding with the investigations. the sondland repeated back to you according to his aid that ukraine was prepared to do everything that you wanted some i know nothing about that. first time i ve heard it. sondland said was that he did speak to me for a brief moment, and i said no quid pro quo under any circumstances. and that s true. the other i have never heard this. in any event, it s more second-hand information, but i ve never heard it. .
crimes, and where does the astounding case against him go now and perhaps to others? ted william, former d.c. homicide detective, criminal defense attorney and fox news contributor, joins us now. it s shocking but really wasn t surprising. what do you make of it? only 18 days ago he apparently tried to kill himself before. something really went wrong. yeah, absolutely right, something really went wrong, eric, and i ununequivocally there are going to be some heads rolling over this one. what we know is on july the 26th epstein was alleged to have had tried to kill himself. and he was put on suicide watch. and we don t know when he was taken off of suicide watch, but we know that it would have had to have been with the assistance and the chief medical psychiatrist would have had to have given the okay for that to happen.