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Welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper in so many ways, the 2024 Election Season has been unprecedented and unpredictable part of the unusual nature of that campaign includes who end up as the President Ial spouse traditionally known as the Office Of The First Lady if former president Donald Trump wins, Melania Trump will return to the East Rain For The Second Time after exiting four years ago. Now, this has only happened once before in the countrys history. And then theres Vice President harriss husband, Doug Emhoff, potentially the first man to ever serve in this role over the next hour, Cnn Anchor Kaitlan collins, who covered the trump White House reporter, takes a closer look at the history of the first spouse and how it may be redefined by the next person who will hold that title. As a White House reporter, it can be easy to overlook the First Lady, but that role, and those who have occupied id have long had a deep influence on the West Wing and the country. It can be part
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. Well see how far we go today. Welcome back to continuing coverage on the fox news channel. Im bill hemmer. Good morning, bill. Im 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. Well 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 youve 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. Thats what were looking for. Lets see what he says. He could revise this up to the
was a quid pro quo between the white house meeting and the investigations into burisma and the 2016 election that giuliani was publicly promoting, is that right? correct. and in fact you say that other senior officials in the state department and the chiefs of staffs office including mick mulvaney, secretary pompeo were aware of this quid pro quo that in order to get the white house meeting they were going to have to be these investigations the president wanted. correct. and those again are investigations into 2016 and burisma/bidens. 2016/burisma. the bidens did not come up. you would ultimately learn that burisma meant the bidens when you saw the call record. of course today i know exactly what it means. i didn t know at the time. then on july 26th you