the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump america's ambassador to the european union gordon sandland was central to president trump's attempts to get ukraine to investigate its political rival joe biden and his links to ukrainian energy company. the song told lawmakers that ukraine's president has offered a white house meeting in exchange for corruption investigation he also talked about why the white house withheld military aid to ukraine in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 elections and to resign as mr giuliani had demanded. i shared concerns of the potential quid pro quo regarding the security aide with senator ron johnson and i also shared my concerns with the ukraine. reaction there from the top is washington bureau chief alexandra naaman welcome alexander we just heard the ambassador speaking that this does not sound or look good for the president. not at all what we heard from a

impeachment inquiry has been accused of sexual mixed misconduct by 3 women the women say ambassador gordon sandland retaliated against them professionally after they rejected his advances sunland denies the allegation isis to fight. officials in the u.s. state of texas have ordered residents of 4 towns to evacuate after a new blast at a petro chemical plant 60000 people have been told to leave 3 workers were injured in the initial blast early on wednesday. demonstrators across colombia have held their 2nd national strike in less than a week as part of ongoing protest against president even duke is right wing government and its anticipated economic plans protesters are also demanding the country's riot police be disbanded after a young demonstrator was killed by a tear gas canister over the weekend. apple has agreed to moscow's demands to show the crimean peninsula as part of russia the region is currently shown as russian territory on its map and whether apps but only for users within russian borders russia seized crimea from ukraine in 2014 and later annexed it in a referendum that kiev and its we

tweeting saying it's all over the impeachment inquiry should just wrap itself up because again gordon sandland wouldn't draw the direct link between donald trump and what was happening in ukraine but he took his very close to the line if anything it has moved the democrats closer to passing articles of impeachment in the house but as we've said many times before come out the reality is politics in washington d.c. in 2019 is very tribal the democrats will have hared things that they think put donald trump very firmly in the dock the republicans think this is very much nothing to get worried about and donald trump did nothing wrong whereas donald trump himself he underlined exactly what you just said there by standing on the white house lawn today and saying i wanted nothing i want to do nothing yet as little notepad there sort of shouted that in and tried to ram home. well the timing of him saying there was no quid pro quo which is very important is interesting because he said that to gordon gordon sandland said to him what do you want from ukraine i want selenski to do the right thing i don't

withhold military aid to ukraine with a push to have kiev investigate his political rival but gordon sandland said that he has no evidence that trump ordered that directly the us ambassador to the e.u. testified before the impeachment inquiry on wednesday sandland implicated other top officials saying that everyone knew what was going on and the inquiries a major topic in the latest democratic presidential debate candidates attacked trump accusing him of being corrupt and a criminal.

and the president's pointman on ukraine, ambassador gordon sandland, testified the president told him to work with giuliani. >> i followed the dreshgs direc the president. we worked with mr. giuliani because the president directed us to do so. >> reporter: but in the interview released today with bill o'reilly, the president distanced himself from his personal lawyer. >> so you didn't direct him to go there on your behalf? >> no, no, but you have to understand, rudy is a great corruption fighter. >> giuliani is your personal lawyer. >> yeah. >> so you didn't direct him to go to ukraine to do anything or put any heat on them? >> no, i didn't direct him, but -- he is a -- he is a warrior. rudy's a warrior. rudy went, he possibly saw something, but you have to understand, rudy has other people that he represents. >> no, i know. >> reporter: giuliani recently dismissed suggestions that he'd be the fall guy for the president, taking blame for what happened in ukraine. >> i've seen things written, like, he's going to throw me under the bus. >> right. >> when they say that, i say, he isn't,

and winds testimony was wrong thing to remember here those statements are put out to the media gordon sandland was actually under oath when he gave his testimony so that is very important and top american defense official laura cooper later told the impeachment inquiry that she found out in july about a whole being placed on military aid to ukraine and that the president had ordered it cooper says while she never spoke to trump about the hold she heard it was put in place because of his concerns of a corruption in ukraine about 100 protesters are still holed up in hong kong's perceives polytechnic university police surrounding the campus of arrested more than a 1000 people since monday. international condemnation is growing of the treatment of the protesters and the u.s. house has approved a bill supporting human rights in hong kong. at least 11 people have been killed after airstrikes and missiles targeted parts of syria's rebel controlled province activists are blaming the syrian government and uranium militias for a missile targeted and i.d.p. camp near the turkish border. as the headlines

gordon sandland gave what was the most anticipated testimony so far he said while trying never told him directly about a reciprocal agreement or quid pro quo as they say for military aid it was made very clear to everyone involved that there was a pressure campaign against ukraine was there a quid pro quo as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting the answer is yes mr giuliani conveyed to secretary perry ambassador volker and others that president trump wanted a public statement from president selenski committing to investigations of brewery sma and the 2016 election. of course this inquiry is assessing whether donald trump withheld military aid to ukraine in order to pressure the country into investigating his rival joe biden following the latest testimonies trump himself said the impeachment inquiry should just and not only do we win today it's over and some of the family friends of which there is a deal mike said this thing is over nancy pelosi is a competent she's got nothing done in congress and now with their big star witnes

withhold military aid to ukraine with a push to have kiev investigate his political rival but gordon sandland said that he has no evidence that trump ordered that directly the us ambassador to the e.u. testified before the impeachment inquiry on wednesday sandland implicated other top officials saying that everyone knew what was going on and the inquiries a major topic in the latest democratic presidential debate candidates attacked trump accusing him of being corrupt and a criminal. in a few hours they'll be more testimonies we're expecting to hear from the white house's top russian expert fiona hill and from david holmes a stuff at the u.s. embassy in ukraine let's wrap it all together now with an official in washington. from the u.s. ambassador to the stunning testimony. said it was abundantly clear to everyone ukraine would not receive military aid from the u.s. or a meeting at the white house unless it announced an investigation into a company connected to the son of political opponent question joe biden was there a quid pro quo as i testified previously with regard to the requested whit

orden sandland, -- gordon to thed, u.s.tor european union, is testifying with a bit of a bombshell -- u.s. ambassador to the european union, is testifying with a bit of a bombshell. he also used specifically the words "quid pro quo." he said rudy giuliani's request was "a quid pro quo for a white house meeting with ukraine's president." we will monitor further testimony. this is bluebird. ♪ -- this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ guy: from london, i'm guy johnson. vonnie: from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. this is "bloomberg markets." guy: public pension funding continues to fall short as investment returns aren't exactly matching consumption. taylor riggs has more with this week's muni moment. taylor: joining me to discuss is tom kozlik of hilltop investment. we have been talking so much about public pensions, and i wonder, it's been more than a decade. why aren't they better funded during this recent expansion? thank you for having me, taylor. i appreciate it. i am working on a larger project about pensions, but i thought it was importan

gordon sondland, mbassador to the europe union. fiona hill says this is what happened. she says, ambassador sandland talking about how he had an arrangement with chief of staff mulvaney for a meeting with the ukrainians if they were going to go forward with instigations. this is the first time we know government official xplicit, ukraine's government had to conduct two vestigations into the 2016 that hunter bidenn they company board of, before ukraine's mpresident cout president trump. that order, according to ndland, was authorized,ck by ulvaney. this is what alexander vindman says. he says, ambassador somebody emphasize the importance the investigations. vindman says before that point it had been discussed by rudy giuliani, and at that meeting, national security advisor john bolton turned to fiona hl and said, whatever mulvaney and some blend were doing, he carded a judy: the question is, if mulvaney was doing that, where did that comegi from, and iani? lisa, we ore noty looking at what he's doing, but beginning to understand why he was doing it. lisa: thisee hasa central question for me all week.

nagging at me because you characterized the ambassador sandland linking in whatever way it happened of. aid to. to an investigation as the gordon problem you said it caused you to roll your eyes and besser volcker said it was everybody in the july 10th meeting thought it was inappropriate john bolton characterizes this as the drug deal so seems like everybody in the room understands that there's a huge problem here. my understanding is that it would be normal course of business when you have an ambassador out there going rogue as apparently there was consensus and basters on than was doing that either the national security adviser john bolton or the secretary of state might rein them in why didn't that happen there i can't speak to that but i would generally agree about souter's or for the secretary of state and the president do you have you don't have any idea you were for me don't have any idea why john bolton would characterize what ambassador or the ambassador was doing as a drug deal but not rein him in ambassadors don't work for the national security adviser now that john bolton's national security advisor you presumably

sandland says guys multiple convos with z. that selenski period poetess period let's talk and then ambassador taylor about 1516 minutes later says gordonand i just spoke i can brief you meaning you ambassador volker if you and gordon don't connect probably one hour later and ask your taylor says the nightmare is they give the interview and don't get the security assistance the russians love it and i quit and then at the bottom about 5 hours later how do you respond and say i'm not in the loop to talk monday so you are not in the loop in terms of all of these conversations that ambassador taylor mr morris and ambassador sunland were having yes that's correct and now ultimately the hold was lifted on september 11th is that right ambassador volcker that's my understanding and mr morrison were you aware that prior to september 11th that the white house that there was a whistleblower complaint circulating around the white house i don't believe so no but you were aware of the requests to preserve records were you not. we we received a number of those requests i have a general recollection of one as are waiting to ukraine and one final questi