part of zervos' defamation lawsuit against the president called her a liar. mr. trump has repeatedly denied assaulting zervos. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett "out front" starts right now. out front next, breaking news. turning on trump, an ally does a 180 and changes his sworn testimony now admitting there was a quid pro quo with ukraine. plus democrats calling the president's acting chief of staff mick mull vavaney to test and it's election night in america, and polls closing in crucial states across the country. john king is here with the latest at the magic wall. let's go out front. good evening, everyone. i'm kate bolduan in for erin burnett. "out front" tonight, a stunning reversal. the president's ambassador to the european union. gordon sondland suddenly remembering there was a quid pro

quo with ukraine. according to his testimony which he amended just yesterday, sondland told lawmakers about a conversation he had with a top aide to ukraine's president and he puts it this way. i now recall, speaking individually with mr. yermac where i said resumption of u.s. aid would probably not occur until ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks. they were going to investigate the bidens and that is a quid pro quo and that statement and who is now saying it is key. it's coming from the president's hand picked ambassador, a close ally with the president. a man who had donated a million dollars to donald trump's inauguration and he is with this now addendum to his testimony blowing through the president's main defense here. >> no quid pro quo!

>> no quid pro quo. >> no quid pro quo. no quid pro quo. >> no quid pro quo. >> gordon sondland now joining the list of officials who also have testified under oath that donald trump was withholding the administration, was writh holding crucial military aid in exchange for investigations into his political rivals and sondland's testimony undercuts trump's defense in another way, the timing. sondland's conversation with ukrainian official about the quid pro quo took place on september 19st in warsaw, poland, when mike pence was meeting with the ukraine's president to discuss military aid, shortly after that high-level meeting sondland now testifies that is when he has a sidebar meeting with zelensky's aid and that is when the aid was likely to unfreeze without the announcement of investigations. in that context, remember this, a major talking point for the

m president and his allies will be the following. withholding the money was fine and didn't amount to the quid pro quo because ukraine didn't know the aid was being withheld. >> how do you have a quid pro quo when the person who is the subject of the pro said it didn't happen? >> neither he nor any other witness has provided testimony that the ukrainians were aware that military aid was being withheld. you can't have a quid pro quo with no quo. >> ukrainians never knew that aid had been withheld and then, of course, maybe most importantly we have the simple fact that the ukrainians did nothing to get the aid released. >> didn't know the aid was being withheld and trump has tweeted and re-tweeted this very defense often and now we hear from sondland. he said directly that the aid was being withheld and saying that directly to ukraine. now what? kaitlan collins is live from the white house. kaitlan, what is the response from the white house to the release of this testimony? >> we haven't seen president trump today and he's made no

public appearances yet and we did get a statement long after the transcripts were released and pointing to gordon osondlan and kurt volker and sondland made a massive reversal in his amended testimony that he added there at end in what was released today and they have not acknowledged at all that in that amended testimony he directly tied the investigation into the bidens to that military aid and the announcement to the investigation and that is something they are not acknowledging which is noteworthy when you've talked about that that is one of the president's main defenses here. what are they going to say because we know they were watching the release of the transcripts very closely and believing that releasing would in some way help exonerate or redeem the white house because they thought democrats were selectively leaking parts of it and now when you read these testimonies in full you will see that there are not a lot of parts that are redeeming to the

president so far and that's what white house officials are saying. the question is will they try to distance themselves from gordon sondland and it will be a difficult tank given the fact that he's someone who donated money to the president and he is a senior aide in this administration and he had direct conversations with the president about what was happening here when other officials were raising concerns when he said the president believed he was in a bad mood and didn't hang up on him, but hung up very quickly after he asked the president what it was he wanted from ukraine. >> first-hand account and direct access to the president and those two things we definitely see in this testimony. great to see you, kaitlan. thanks so much. >> out front with me now, and he sits on the house foreign affairs committee. one of the committees that has been conducting these interviews and you've been sitting in on some of these key interviews, as well. what is your reaction to this addendum to the testimony coming from sondland saying in this testimony that he told a top

ukraine official that was aid was not likely to unfreeze, if you will, if they don't make this announcement about the investigations. >> this could be a smoking gun and the first for the republicans they question the process and the process that they were in, and they were in the room questioning the witnesses including sondland and they went ahead and questioned our vote and then, of course, just a couple of days ago they questioned the whistle-blower. i suspect that tomorrow, kate, they're going to question the addendum to the testimony of sondland, as well. >> do you see this as a smoking gun? >> think that sondland is a credible witness and he amended his testimony. i was in the room when he testified before the committee. >> that was october 17th. >> that's correct. and i questioned him and he came back yesterday and he amended his testimony to reflect that he did have communications with the

mill tae aides. he wanted to be as precise and as transparent as possible. >> congressman, do you think then he was lying to you on october 17th or do you leave open the possibility that as he wrote in the a dend urjs the two statements from two other officials refreshed his memory about this encounter in warsaw, poland. >> i said the day after i was part of that process in the committee that he was either playing dumb or he was lying through his teeth because many of the things he was saying back then which he amended now are incomprehensible and he's someone who is in contact with the president and he was in contact with the ukrainian officials and he knew about burisma, and i think he knew that hunter biden was a member of burisma although in the committee hearings he said he didn't find out about that until the very end. this is someone who said that corruption was a major problem in the ukraine. there are hundreds of companies there that involve corruption

and yet they selected the one company, burisma, which is the one where hunter biden was affiliated. i think he knew that. i think they targeted and cherry picked that company and they wanted to investigate. >> so then what questions do you have for sondland now? what is your question now to him? i mean, i would assume that he's going to be one of the people called for a public hearing. >> we'll leave it to the public hearing. i think he has lots of questions to answer. i think some of the questions may be what connections -- direct connections he had with the president and what connections he has with the president and vis-a-vis this conversation with the president. >> may or may not be key because this is one of the things he said in its testimony he said i still do not know when, and by whom the aid was suspended. >> and he's saying he does not know where this led this -- >> this is like who is on first and who's on second? >> you don't believe it?

>> no, i don't. i would like to see taylor testify again publicly and of course, the lieutenant colonel was very credible, as well and even volker himself stated to rudy giuliani rudy giuliani that the former ukrainian prosecutor was not credible and he was not to be truf to be trusted and there are realities that lead to the conversation. >> let me play mark meadows and his reaction today and this is the next defense that republicans are now saying is that it's -- there is no link, as you're mentioning, no link to the president when it comes to a quid pro quo and so there's nothing there there. listen to this. >> any linkage that has been alleged obviously is based on many times second or third-hand information, but i can tell you each and every time that the

conversations were conducted with either the president was united states or the vice president of the united states. there was no linkage. >> what do you do with that? >> think the american people will make up their minds when they hear the public testimony once again from the lieutenant colonel from sondland and taylor and the witnesses. this is mr. immediameadows sayi first, was there the problem of the process. >> if there is no -- you don't have someone linking it to the president, do you think that's a problem for you. we'll see what they say publicly and you will judge for yourself as will the american people whether or not the president has something to do with it and i believe he did. >> congressman, thanks for coming in. an important day and much more to come. i appreciate your time. breaking news continues and gordon sondland testifies rudy giuliani's push to get ukraine to investigate the bidens. he thinks it may have been illegal. plus, one of trump's former top experts on ukraine admit the

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for president clinton during his impeachment investigation, of course, and former presidential candidate rick santorum. you have sondland pointing this finger at rudy giuliani, and i do want to ask about the big headline tonight which is that sondland is now saying that he alerted ukraine that the aid was unlikely to unfreeze unless they announced investigations. is it at all mrauzic that sondland just remembered this point? >> i suppose it's possible. it's certainly an argument he could make now if he is ever charged with perjury. not likely would a prosecutor come back after somebody has corrected on that point, but he has so many other flaws in his testimony that i just think this sort of flags the problems with his testimony. >> nia, you have to say one thing about him. this is not someone that the president is going to be able to call a never trumper as he has dismissed other witnesses, that's for sure. is this a game changer in terms

of the course of the investigation? we just had democratic congressman on who says he sees this as a smoking gun. >> you know, i think a lot of people who are looking at this, particularly democrats have seen smoking guns all along the way. >> good point and it was what came out of bill taylor's deposition and vindman's deposition, as well and essentially there have been building blocks and most of this testimony just corroborating this initial idea laid out in the transcript that the president released or the memo of the phone call which is that there does seem to be a favor for a favor, quid pro quo in that the president is asking zelensky to do. sondland's testimony was always something of a mystery because his testimony seaped to be at odds with a couple of others and morrison's and taylor's for instance and now he said that essentially his memory has been refreshed because of the testimony out of some of his

colleagues there and putting him in a place where he couldn't recall. his initial testimony was that he couldn't recall things and now he is updating it. >> so yeah, if you're democrat and you're happy about this. i think if you're a republican it's more of the same and maybe you're not even reading the testimony and lindsay graham said he's not even reading what's coming out from the transcripts from these depositions. >> i have been curious since this addendum, revised testimony came out what the reaction would be from republicans and first, we know that republican allies on the hill said there was no quid pro quo, mirroring what the president continues to say and you have mick mulvaney who blew that defense up and they moved to it's not a quid pro quo because ukraine didn't know any of the aid was held up. they no longer can say that with this revised testimony. is this troubling to you? >> i think the way most republicans see this statement today is just, it may be a smoking gun, but it's a smoking

gun from the keystone cops so i don't think anybody sees it as a serious blow to the president. the reality is i think republicans see this on a variety of fronts and number one, the president has maintained that there wasn't a quid pro quo and the transcript backs that up, as republicans read it and i know other people read it differently, and that the president was not in any way offering a quid pro quo in this conversation which is what we know the president said and that's a hard fact. >> forget the phone call, this wasn't about the phone call. >> no, i understand. >> this isn't about the phone call. this is a direct statement from a close ally of the president who seemed to have dawned on him that he thinks that it was somehow very important to tell a ukrainian counterpart that the aid's unlikely to unfreeze unless there isn't an announcement on investigation on september 1st. >> as republicans look at this,

they're looking at second and third-hand accounts of what people thought maybe was being related or what they thought they should be saying or what was going on and the only thing we have from the president himself is the transcript and that was pretty clear that there was no quid pro quo. so i'm just saying, all of this other stuff is people's opinion as to what the policy of the administration was or what they believed it should be. i don't know. i think republicans are waiting to see how all of this conjecture on the parts of all this testimony holds up under cross-examination and scrutiny once their stories get examined by the white house counsel's. >> that gets directly to what i've heard several times in terms -- from republicans, there's no direct linkage, my name is donald trump and i am telling you to tell ukraine that they cannot have this aid, and the white house statement basically gets to that and sondland's statement still says that he doesn't know when and

from whom this came to him. >> i mean, does that give the president wiggle room? >> i don't think so. >> this is one of the reasons why that hasn't been laid out in the specificity is the white house is stonewalling and they're stonewalling for a reason because it has documents. let's go back to mick mulvaney. >> he said there was a quid pro quo. he then also said everything that i did as far as ukraine i did at the direction of the president. that is a direct linkage. he admits there is a quid pro quo and i did it at the direction of the president. >> john, let me ask you this. in what universe does gordon sondland and you're not going to get this money and unless you announce an investigation into the bidens if he didn't get that

directly from the president or if he's confident that that's exactly what the president wanted? >> it's not certainly clear from his testimony because he says in his testimony he had no direct conversations with the president that he was the pointman of ukraine and it comes down to the secretary of state and bolton at the time and he's never contact with the president and he's smart enough to know that he shouldn't be talking about what he does and did not do with the president and that's exactly one of the gaps in his testimony is that they're just incomprehensible that he can do one thing and say he didn't have any direct linkage with the president. >> guys, if you can stand by for me because out front next, we have democrats. they want to hear from the man as joe was just getting to who said this --

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breaking news. democrats calling on acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, the same chief of staff who helped to defend the president

and in doing so said this. >> to be clear, what you just describe side a quid pro quo. funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened, as well. >> we do -- we do that all the time with foreign policy. i have news for everybody. get over it. there's going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> he faced so much backlash from even republicans after that that he had to walk it back to say he didn't say what he said and manu raju is out front and we have multiple witnesses this week which they refused to appear for a variety of reasons and what is the working assumption about mick mulvaney. >> the white house pushing back on this earlier today in the aftermath of the democrats and demands for him to come testify later this week. already there have been six witnesses and white house officials this week who have not shown up despite being faced with subpoenas, demanding their appearance and also there are

four additional witnesses coming tomorrow and we expect three of them not to show up and that includes the energy secretary rick perry as well as the head of the white house office of management and budget and from thursday, the big day with john bolton, the former national security adviser is scheduled to testify that day and he is mentioned throughout these investigation with witness after witness describing him as concerned about the push to investigate the bidens that will urge ukrainians to announce that investigation as aid for that country, roughly $400 million had been held up and then we are not certain whether or not he will come as those discussions continue on behind the scenes and that leaves it to friday when mick mulvaney has been asked to come ask democrats are not expecting him to come, but one person who might come, kate, is jennifer williams and she's an aid to mike pence on the national security team and the questions about mike pence's role has continued to percolate throughout this investigation. we are told she is likely to

appear and we'll see if she ultimately comes and the moment came with closed-door interview and witnesses, as democrats prepare to use that in obstruction of congress, kate? >> thank you so much, manu. >> nia, can you gauge this one out. it's clearly unlikely mulvaney will show up. what do the democrats get here? >> i think they already have mick mull vanny at the white house there confessing to a quid pro quo, and we, of course, backed away from that and said that he misspoke or something. i think the ultimate plan here is if these folks don't show up as you saw manu allude to there. that essentially this will be one of the articles of impeachment if this is something that democrats indeed end up doing filing artic else of impeachment against this president and obstruction of congress, and contempt of congress was one of the three articles of impeachment against richard nixon. i think you have had democrats

here say essentially they're not going to get roped into a court fight with these folks and they want to keep it moving. some of the democrats have been pleasantly surprised with people who have corroborated with this inquiry. there are some people who directives from the state the - department or the directive from the white house, too, and followed through with subpoenas andy is in that way you have a pretty good pile of evidence and the witnesses you don't get and that just is rolled into an article of impeachment. >> john, the statement from the house democratic committee chairs asking mull vain toe come said this, we believe that you possess substantial first-hand knowledge and information relevant to the house's impeachment inquiry. if he did, how big of a deal would this be? >> it could be a very big deal. the chief of staff or even acting chief of staff tends to know everything that's going on in the west wing and probably

we'll have a lot of details and a lot of information that hasn't even surfaced, but what the committee has to be very cognizant of and back when nia mentioned as article three, they had the linkage and they had a linkage problem. they had to show the president's policy or the president's directives were really his decision that somebody would not appear or somebody would not honor a subpoena, and i don't think they're doing that yet. >> senator, back to the transcripts because more came out not just with gordon sondland, but with kurt volker's testimony being released today. he testified that he does not -- that he does not think that joe biden did anything wrong by pushing for the ouster of the ukraine prosecutor, and donald trump has said over and over again, which has been the basis for him calling for an investigation over there.

it was for corruption, but it was only corruption when it came to joe biden and his son. let me read you what kurt volker said about this. he said biden was executing u.s. policy at the time in what was widely understood internationally to be the right approximately see. with that, how do republicans continue then to say that joe biden deserves being investigated which is what donald trump points to as the whole point of this entire saga? >> look, that's been the narrative from the very beginning with this. well's always been the narrative and biden was following through with an administrative policy and whartt others were saying about ukraine. that doesn't mean there isn't something there even though the policy was one that was preferred by those in power at the time. >> isn't that exactly what that means? i've had the ambassador from back then who has testified who said that joe biden was doing

what was policy at the time and what internationally was agreed upon as a good thing. he did not do any wrong. kurt volker is saying biden was in the right? >> the question is whether he had other motives and whether there were other reasons he was doing it and in addition to those, quote, legitimate motives that were talked about and that we don't know and that's what the president wants to find out and whether there was something else that the vice president knew at the time, and that this approximately see that was at the top was consistent with something that he wanted to accomplish on a personal level. >> joe, even with the special envoy to ukraine saying that therehe wanted to accomplish on personal level. >> joe, even with the special envoy to ukraine saying that there was nothing there there. >> i think what is curious to me is the republican talking point for the last two days is this is second and third-hand

information. first off, there's a lot of first-hand information, but it's the president who is keeping mick mulvaney from testifying, rick perry from testifying, and mike pompeo from testifying. these are people who have first-hand information and if they had exculpatory information i guarantee that they'd be up on the hill and they'd all share an ieber to talk to the committee. >> they're stone call walling and john dean can give you chapter and verse. you're hiding your guilt and if they continue to say secondhand and third hand, they're walking into an argument that they can't win because you can't get at what some of this stuff. if you look at omb, you will find that someone, probably the chief of staff and this is the way it would have worked in the clinton white house. the chief of staff would have instructed them. theria a reason to hold the

money or send the money. that conversation is not a privileged conversation and it's not talking to the president. that conversation is highly relevant here and the white house is doing everything they can including defying valid subpoenas to make sure that these people can't testify. that is the -- those are the action of a guilty party. >> nia, in terms of volker. it's a complicating factor here is that in his knowledge did deny knowledge of a quid pro quo. me he asked this, you asked about the the conversations i had with the quid pro none, i didn't know there was a quid pro quo. what do you do that when you compare it to sondland. >> you are going to try to cling on to that, right? and say listen, this guy was involved and he said there was no quid pro quo and there was testimony from tim morrison and he was on the call and didn't seeing about illegal about what

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breaking news. it is election night in america and we're getting some of the first results that are coming out of kentucky. all eyes on that governor's race where incumbent republican governor matt bev inis in a tough battle with andy bash ear, the state's attorney general, of course. it's a race that we know that the president is watching closely, but let's see what's happening first on the ground. john king is out front with us now at the magic wall. so, john, what are you seeing so far? does it look like this is shaping up to be a competitive race? >> we will see. there are some indications it could. if you look at the results right now and you're watching at home and you're not all that familiar

with kentucky and you would say the incumbent republican governor, and the republican of kentucky would share one of those and he's now the state attorney general and he's a well-known democrat and this is a great race anyway, kate and it will give us clues about 2020 which makes it more important and if you look at this again, you're saying the republican incumbent and the republican %-p strong. however, i will say this, and andy bashere so far is underperforming the democrat from four years ago. that's 85,000 votes and give or take a few there and the margin then if you come back now and this at the moment is a closer race and if you're in the democratic campaign you're expecting most of the rural area to fill in red and the issue is the population is declining and it is growing in the suburban area so first, let's come into

an urban area and louisville, only 4% in here and i will give you this as we watch forward. as this number grows, that has to grow, too. he needs to win by 52. if he can take that up and run up the numbers where the people live in the urban areas it will put them back in play and we'll see if that happens. i just want to show you one area. remember in the 2018 midterm, what is the big story? in the trump presidency, republicans are getting hammered in the suburbs and that's why nancy pelosi is the speaker of the house. the cincinnati ohio suburbs in northern kentucky, just to show you, andy bashear is winning right here and matt bevin won this, and he not only won it, but he won it pretty comfortably and we'll watch the suburb as this goes on and we have votes to count. the democrat tonight outperforming the democrat four years ago and still a lot of

votes to count. that's very interesting to watch tonight and there's another big race in mississippi. what else are you watching for tonight? you'll watch the mississippi race, and let's pop this up here and let me get you back to 2019 and we don't have results here yet because the polls close at the top of the hour and look, mississippi is a red state. however, you do have a state attorney general who is a democrat versus the democratic governor who is a republican and two very well known names and democrats are looking to see is there any clues and any seeds of a potential democratic comeback in the deep south which has been ruby red for quite a while. do we expect mississippi to be competitive in 2020 in the presidential race? no. might there be a few lessons to tonight? maybe. there's one prediction early tonight. out front next, tough new talk from joe biden just coming out attacking elizabeth warren calling her an elitist saying her out of touch plans will hand president trump the presidency

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breaking news. polls are closed in verge vi virginia. it would be the first time democrats controlled two chambers and it could have major ripple effects far beyond virginia. brian nobles is out front. >> the name donald trump isn't on a single ballot in virginia today. >> we're going to get this done. >> but the name deb rodman is, she is a democrat and she first ran for office in 2017 in response to president trump's white house victory and says that trump is a big part of why democrats in her state are so energized. >> i'm excited that there is national focus, but i think this race does -- it's a mix kosm of what we're going to see next year nationwide. >> her opponent is shivan

donovan, a republican incumbent who is trying to keep democrats from winning the entire state legislature for the first time in two decades and someone who believes while washington politics loom large, it's not the entire story. >> how much people talking to you about president trump? >> definitely people have opinions and by the time we're finished talking about local issues and what we're getting done they're all onboard. >> but the national attention is undeniable. >> here in virginia, progressives are going to win. >> democratic presidential candidates with their in addition to visits from bernie sanders, kamala harris and joe biden. >> the rest of the nation is watching pup and virginia, turn virginia all blue. all blue. >> former president barack obama who carried the state twice tweeted his support of a collection of virginia democrats. including rodman. that democratic enthusiasm fueled by opposition to

president trump was evident at the polls today. >> i do care about what's going on in washington, because it's crap. and i'm embarrassed about what's going on. >> now we should point out that republicans still feel that they do have a base of support here in virginia. both president trump, vice president mike pence getting involved in getting out the republican vote here. now, the polls did close about 50 minutes ago, far too early to determine who is coming out on top here. but kate in the past president trump said he still believes he can win here in 2020. just a small example of how there are major national implications for the local races tonight sfl absolutely. ryan thanks so much. outfront david chal yan. on this, president trump has been very, very present in both the mississippi and kentucky raise races for example to go there and try and rally

supporters ahead of today's vote. he doesn't that really save a tweet in virginia. is there an obvious reason why. >> not just present in the rallies, alsoen on the airwaves both the republican gubernatorial candidates both eager to show president trump's embrace of them. they think that's the pag to success. why doesn't the presidnt go to virginia? because it's playing out in spushen areas you were talking to john king about earlier, the very areas that fuelled the rice for democrats to the house majority in 2018, the areas they have been making inroads in the trump era in american politics are the areas where a lot of the battleground statehouse and state senate race that is can determine total control. so the question was donald trump going there, would he do more harm than good for the cause? >> yeah, i want to ask you quick, david, about a big statement that presidential candidate joe biden just released on medium. he doesn't name elizabeth warren but it's clear who he is talking

about. taking a swipe at her in the piece they put out. hits warren for taking the my way or highway to the campaign. and saying it's a condescending approach and representative of a elitism that working and middle class people do not share. we know best you know nothing. if you would oernl as smart as i am you would agree with me. what do you make of it. >> them are fighting words. no doubt. joe biden over the course of the last week to ten days has been sharpening critique of elizabeth warren. he is done dismissing the plans as unrealistic. he is trying to clearly take her down a notch. seeing a threat there. 90 days out from the iowa caucuses. you heard it in his speech on friday night in iowa. you heard it throughout the weekend on the cane trail. this is a joe biden sharpening the contrast with elizabeth warren. >> fascinating. great to see you, david.

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dressing to impress the president. here is jeanne. the human back drop between president trump. >> impeachment. impeachment. >> booed and chanted. >> and kissed. even translated president trump's words to gestures. >> these people are crazy. >> but all anyone noticed but what was on the t-shirts they were wearing. >> read the transcript. >> yeah, read the transcript. >> read the transcript. except that we can't. >> because it's not a transcript. it's a summary of president trump's call with the president of ukraine. nevertheless, to convince people. >> it was perfect. >> read the transcript has become the president's mantra. >> my father put the transcript out, read. >> the t-shirts saying read the transcript ee voekd responses like read the mueller report.

alternative slegens such as i would like you to do a favor though or suggest it. >> there were plenty of doubters asking whether the human props wearing read the transcript actually read the transcript. >> someone tweeted, so i i guess a a need a shirt with the actual transcript on it because these [ bleep ] apparently only read t-shirts and hats but trump supporters love the read the transcript apparel. classic trump trolling. >> the do nothing democrats the hell out of office soon. >> president trump said he might read the transcript aloud as a fireside chat on live tv which lit a fire under "washington post" writer jonathan kay the patrick. >> i would like to you do a favor. there is a lot of talk about bide. 's son if you can look into it dot dot dot. >> selling for $30 on the trump campaign website. read the transcript t-shirts or

maybe you prefer i read the transcript impeach trump now i'll give me this one if you give me that one does that count as quid pro quo. jeanne moos. cnn, new york. >> you know what they say. you know what they say. >> thanks so much for joining us. alas a/c 360 starts flew. >> good evening the man giving a million dollar to president trump's inaugural and named ambassador to the european union has blown a large hole in president trump cover story. gordon sondland's impeachment testimony was released today but it turns out he revised his previous testimony. apparently his faulty memory was suddenly restored after details of other witness testimony made clear that sonde media's original story didn't quite add up. sondland now says yes there was a quid pro quo. and he was the guy who was trying to deliver it for the president. the scheme he testified got more insidious his word over time involving activities he said would be improper and