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msnbc.com/now, the msnbc app and apple tv. and you can find me on social media, twitter, facebook, instagram, snapchat, linked in, all that stuff. thank you for watching. have a great weekend. deadline: white house with nicolle wallace begins right now. hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. donald trump today resorting to a familiar tactic spreading lies and smears on one of his favorite cable news programs in the wake of the house democrat s public hearings this week providing irrefutable evidence that donald trump conditioned refused military aid could tukt informations. the new york times writes, quote, president trump unleashed a series of falsehoods on friday on an effort to invalidate the impeachment inquiry and counter sworn testimony from officials in his own administration. after a week of damaging public hearings. and while divisions in our politics endure, it s beyond debate that the democrats fact witnesses, the majority of them, trump appointees and career ....
it was not in any record i july 25th call. and this is consistent with the reported comments from received. but when you did see . ambassadors volker and taylor. after the zelensky meeting, i yes, i saw that in september, also met with zelensky s senior correct. so on this continuum, the aide, andre yermak. beginning of the continuum begins on may 23rd when the president instructs you to talk i don t recall the specifics of our conversation, but i believe the issue of investigations was to rudy? correct. and you understood that as a probably a part of that agenda direction by the president that you needed to satisfy the or meeting. concerns that rudy giuliani would express to you about what also, on july 26th, shortly the president wanted in ukraine? after our kiev meetings, i spoke not to me. by phone with president trump. to the entire group, volker, perry and myself, correct. the white house, which has now, in your opening finally, finally shared certain statem ....
card witness. has already revised his initial testimony in the president s dealings with ukraine. sondland has arrived and will be before the committee in a moment. late yesterday we had a hearing that lasted deep into the night. we ll see how far we go today. welcome back to continuing coverage on the fox news channel. i m bill hemmer. good morning, bill. i m sandra smith. lawmakers are expected to double down on a phone call with the president. team fox coverage back with us now. chris wallace, bret baier, martha maccallum and bret baier. we ll be with you guys throughout the entire day. ken, we have an oping statement from gordon sondland. there are a lot of skipped areas in 23 pages. opening statement will last at least 10 minutes. from what you ve been able to glean off of this, in a quick speed read what do you see as critical for sondland? right. it looks as if there may be a bombshell or two in this. that s what we re looking for. let s see what he says. he could ....
they were not going to issue that statement that rudy giuliani wanted to include burisma and the 2016 elections there was no white house meeting. it soon became clear to them that the security assistance was also at risk and that took on a renewed importance for them. well, following the 25th call, the july 25th call, ambassador sondland and volker worked closely with mr. giuliani and the ukrainians to help draft a statement that the president could make, president zelensky. wasn t that right? yes. and the report say they were closely and then also there were phone calls with the white house around the same time they were working closely do you know what that statement was supposed to say, according to mr. giuliani and the u.s. officials. the key difference is that it had to include that ukraine would do the investigations of burisma which equaled the biden investigation and the 2016 ukraine interference. was there concern about doing the investigations or what? ju ....
dispute. now turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. yes. on august 31st, senator johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on september 5th with senator with murphy. and he wanted johnson wanted the aid released so he calls the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. right. the president said i m not ready to lift the aid. they had this senator johnson, he writes a ten-page letter, very detailed, and he gives some remarkable detail and i would like to read it. it s on page 6. i this is senator johnson speaking, he said i asked him whether there was some kind of arran arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. without hesitation, senator johnson says, president trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed and he started cursing. he said, no way. president trump said no way. i would never do that. who told you that? and senator johnson goes on to say that president trump s react ....