. >> reporter: detective scott gordon of the fairhaven police department was assigned to the case. his first impression was suicide by carbon monoxide. >> it was apparent that he placed a water pump in the rear of his truck. and eventually, he passed away as a result of carbon monoxide from that. >> reporter: to those who knew conrad best, it didn't make sense. had they missed something? conrad had been getting help, taking medication and seemed hopeful about his future. his grandmother remembered him using that very pump to help out his dad just days before. >> i can still see that smile on his face. the -- this little smirky smile that he always had. >> reporter: and his father recalled the two of them working on a job together a week earlier, setting up fireworks on a barge. >> we were -- like, laughing. we're watching fireworks. he seemed fine. like when i left, the last thing i said to him was, "i love you." and he said, "i love you," back. >> reporter: so his family wondered what pushed him over the edge. as they struggled with their grief, they got comfort from a surprising

gordon sondland. more details about him ahead of his wednesday testimony. >>> scott, what do the two new testimonies immediate for the a.p. inquiry going forward. both for republicans and democrats? >> the central defense that the republicans have rallied around in recent days has been the fact that there were not any first hand witnesses, that the individuals who have stepped forward so far to speak, bill taylor and george kent and people like that, were secondhand or third hand references, that they were playing a game of telephone and talking about things that they had heard people say. these were people on the phone call. jennifer williams, tim morrison, these were also people appointed by president trump himself. we're getting closer and closer to that inner trump circle and so it's been very difficult, i think, republicans will sort of need to have a different defense as more and more of these people in the coming weeks testify who had firsthand an understanding firsthand reference to the july 25th phone call and other developments in this investigation. >> christal, we listened to stephanie grisham cla

i do agree with something that scott said earlier this evening, which is that i think therest a lot of attention going to be on gordonny next week. >> yeah. >> i think as more of this information, in particular the new information about the new witness and that conversation that was held with gordon sondland, ambassador sondland really is going to need to get in touch with his memory between now and early next week because the new witness is going to testify under oath on friday in closed session. and gordon sondland is going to testify in open session. >> and he's not going to be able to read -- >> he's not going to know what that person testifies under oath. and so he's already corrected his testimony one time. congress is not going to look kindly on him having to do do-overs again. >> who would have thought so much would hang on the shoulders of gordon sondland? when he gave $1 million to the inaugural committee, do you think he that, this could end up in -- >> do people here think that bolton will end up testifying or not, that he might testify in a senate trial? >> jeff toobin earlier made the point if he's runn

jon: anticipation is high as gordon sondland, ambassador to the eu and a key player in the impeachment inquiry prepares to testify publicly this week. i'm jon scott. this is the fox report. several officials already have testified about discussions they've had with the ambassador and his involvement with president trump's dealings in ukraine. add that to his own closed-door testimony which sondland revised after other testimony was given. for more on what we can expect, let's bring in real clear politics white house reporter phillip wegman. democrats seem to think ambassador sondland might be a vulnerable witness. why? >> because sondland is not a career diplomat. he's not even a political operator either. instead he's a trump mega donor currented united states ambassador to the -- turned united states ambassador to the eu, he doesn't necessarily know his way around a hearing, and the democrats are going to push him to lay out all the correspondence he's had with president trump as it relates to any conversations that have to do with u.s. aid to ukraine and investigations into biden and sondland at this point is witness number one. jon: well, tim

gordon sondland, and mick mulvaney. >> our panel today as you saw earlier, senior staff writer for the hill covering house leadership, scott wong. we have "wall street journal" justice department reporter sadie gurman and former federal prosecutor carol lam. i'm going to the white house though. okay. looks like because of some breaking news we just got the transcript from what i was mentioning a little bit earlier. mark sandy, who signed that very letter that stopped the funding going to ukraine, of course, that is in the middle of all of this, the question that's in the impeachment inquiry, which is what role and what -- when did this happen in terms of the president asking for the funding to be paused and why did he do it? was he asking for political favor or not? okay. we're going to go him when we can. straight to scott wong. all right. i know you've been reading through all of this right now because it just got dropped upon us but from what you know about it we understand the importance of mark sandy. he could be another one of those primary sources which both sides want, democrats and republicans. >> and one of my co

scott wong, let's walk through when they wednesday slate of witnesses and was likely to be the highlight. >> the big-name on wednesday will be gordon sondland, trumps ambassador for the european union. he is sort of at the nexus of all these events. he pops up on various phone calls with the president. he's there in the july 10 meeting. inwith ukrainians in the white house. this is the meeting if you remember where john bolton storms out of the meeting abruptly ends the meeting because he doesn't like he's hearing from someone, this promise of if you guys conduct these investigations into the bidens and politically motivated investigations, that will help president trump that we will then release the aid area and so he's also on the phone call, july 26 phone call with president trump where he's in a restaurant in tn. he's holding the phone up to allow other people at the table to listen in on the conversation. a year president trump's voice and there are staffers who have testified behind closed doors already that what the president was talking about was asking about the investigations. the quote investigations presumably about the

it was fascinating the way gordon sondland, you know, sort of gleefully was relating to both sides. he seemed to sort of -- his testimony, the words he chose to use as scotted out, it allowed republicans to have a little good news and allowed democrats to have a little good news for them. >> he is a pleaser. i mean that's pretty clear. jim's point was reflected in nunes's opening statement. because it was a warm statement. welcoming him, congratulating him for coming forward. and so on. and then suddenly the temperature changed. he obviously -- someone hadn't given him the opening statement, which was available. and his whole -- everybody's's tenor and tone changed. one thing striking to me about sondland's testimony and gives you a sense of questions about him, was that he has selective memory loss. and generally they revolve around conversations with the president. you know, i really can't remember exactly what -- but he had good recall for other meetings and discussions that were useful to him. and i think he was trying to sort of shift this over to giuliani so he coulded go back to brussels and say i didn't throw the president over. >> also notable, e

scott martin following developments. we're up 27 points. getting news out of washington, could be a market moving event, you never know, the house is poised to release transcript the of interview they conducted with gordon sondland, former eu ambassador, kurt volcker, handling things in ukraine as our envoy. both men gave somewhat conflicting testimony about the role they were playing and the president was playing in this call to the president of ukraine. that inquiry goes on. prompting of a government shutdown has just gone up. ♪ sometimes your small screen is your big screen. and with the xfinity stream app, which is free with your service, you can take a spin through on demand shows, or stream live tv. download your dvr'd shows and movies on the fly. even record from right where you are. whether you're travelling around the country or around the house, keep what you watch with you. download the xfinity stream app and watch all the shows you love. ♪. >> the idea we're going to impeach a president less than 12 months before the next election, based on anonymous whistle-blower with no first-hand knowledge and bias against the president worked with joe biden is ridiculous. we don't get to question him un

gordon sondland. all three in charge according to president trump in charge of guided relations between the u.s. and ukraine. let's look ahead to what we're going to hear. scottident's july 25th call with zelensky, quite a surprise, and extremely unfortunate and explosive, in his prior testimony. but was actually not on it, talking what he saw after he read the rough transcript. democrats are, i am guessing, going to focus on what he felt that way. >> absolutely. i guess republicans will turn around and focus on morrison who i believe has said he didn't find anything particularly wrong with the call. so you're going to have competing narratives than call this afternoon. i assume also there's going to be fosome focus what morrison sd about vindman the white house is tweeting out. i wonder what we'll get out of this today. what i'm particular lg listly l for, gordon sondland's name. who talked to him and are they going to try set anything up pre-sondland coming in tomorrow. >> and morrison did not criticize the presidentedal call per se but he did say, john dean, in his testimony, this is tim morrison, lieutenant colonel vindman's former boss, head of the russi