somlin is a donor an alleged patsy. he is not the secondary of state. >> it is not the shadow government that things are happening that couldn't happen in the original register. that's really important. it also links the president to this in a direct way, and he can talk about it being secondhand evidence or third hand evidence, but we could actually find out where he was at the time and hear from people who had firsthand information if the white house would allow these individuals to testify. >> that goes to my final question to ruth. take a look at these photos, ruth. we have gordon somlin on the other end of that call, plus laura cooper and david hale. >> he and president trump seem to have the worst memories of anybody in government. but somlin's memory keeps getting refreshed. in a normal world, he may have to worry about perjury charges. now we will have the testimony from the other end of the phone call, from the person who witnessed, overheard the president on the phone. and i think the person whose comments thi

somlin, rudy giuliani, mick mulvaney. with his testimony the ambassador was making very clear that this was not some rogue action that a couple people were involved in. this was the regular channel that the president himself was directing. and he said that repeatedly, that it was the understanding that they had to work with rudy giuliani because this was coming straight from the desires of president trump. >> take a look as well at ken st starr who has been providing his running commentary on fox news. not all of it super supportive. here is a little bit of it. >> the chairman began with essentially pulling out the richard nixon articles of impeachment, figuratively speaking. and he pointed to the third article, contempt. contempt in the sense of you stood in the way of this investigation. did ambassador somlin spoke vehemently and bit early about his lack of access to records to help him. i think articles of impeachment are being drawn up if they haven't already been drawn up. >> there has been much talk about where the

in private taylor objected and told somlin this was a bribery plot. those are your two camp. boom, the whistleblower blows up and adds to the taylor concern, filing a complaint about the bribery plot. at that point, let's be clear, those were the battle lines. some people involved said bribery. others denied it. okay. then go back to the chart. enter mick mulvaney, admitting the bribery plot famously saying it happens all the time in a televised spectacle gaffe. watch as mulvaney retracts that and goes back over, migrating into the no bribery camp because he reversed himself. however absurd you find that retraction, that was the white house had several people standing by trump. mulvaney may be damaged but there were multiple people linking arms in the no bribery defense. the testimony is re-shaping those defense alliances. so take a look at our chart. you have the army officer testifying on bribery, a top national security counsel official and then, this is the most important shift to date and it just happened as taylor and other testimony goes public, sondland leaves the no

wednesday three more including ambassador somlin. the week closes out thursday with dr. fiona hill who worked under john bolton. there is also news tonight about the man responsible for bringing the whistleblower's complaint to congress in the first place. new york times reporting trump has considering firing the intelligence community's inspector general michael atkinson because of this action. the president has said he does shared the complaint. he has said he believes mr. atkinson, whom he appointed in 2017, has been disloyal. and there is new reporting tonight from "the washington post" about the two associates of rudy giuliani that our friends at snl branded the two shreks. the one on the left says he and his business partner on the right there told trump at an april 2018 dinner that our u.s. ambassador to ukraine back then was unfriendly to the president and should be fired. please note here, this is the stuff of u.s. foreign policy. both who set up giuliani for meetings with ukrainian officials have been charged with campaign finance violations. today attorney gen

embassador gordon somlin is one of three to testify as a witness.ons with the president about ukraine. ktvu fox 2 news. >>> all right. thank you. time is 5:36. customers here california could have their power shut off tomorrow morning because of fire danger. public safety power shutoffs are expected in almost all bay area counties as well as mendocino lake and santa cruz counties. pg&e customers in san francisco will not be affect ed by the power shutoffs. >> ceo bill johnson spent time at the state capital answering questions about lawmakers. johnson defended the power outages saying they did help prevent wild fires. he also told state senators that pg&e's fire risk footprint has grown from than 15% of pg&e's service area in 2012 to more than 50% of its system  today. and he pushed back at accusations the grid is in bad shape. johnson testified pg&e has spent billions of dollars inspecting and >> whenever we found equipment that needed immediate repair we fixed or replaced it. we have assured that every piece of electrical equipment is suitable t

that's embassador gordon somlin believed to have had several conversations with president trump ant ukraine. >>> ktvu will have live updates on the hearings right here throughout mornings on 2. and don't forget you can watch the hearings live and uninterrupted over on ktvu plus right now. >>> happening today, the orinda city council will discuss an ordinance. this is in the wake of the deadly holiday shooting. earlier this month the city council approved a 55 day moratorium if a host will not be on the property. today's counsel meeting will make it official. that meeting is tonight at 7:00 at the orinda library auditorium. >>> there are new developments this morning. the contra costa county district attorney's office declined to file charges against the five men arrested during the multicity raid last week. four of those men are out of jail this morning. >> we need that evidence. >> now the men were arrested last thursday when authorities served search warrants in marin city, san mateo, vallejo, and antioch. four of the suspects who were released were facing murder charges. the 5th man was

do you remember when gordon somlin volunteered? >> we have what are called the three amigos, secretary perry, ambassador voelker and myself. we have been task ed at the highest levels. >> so former special envoy to ukraine, the three amigos. two have already been imposed by investigators. voelker even handed over thoese text messages. perry is denying in the press he knows anything about all that. but as of now he isn't willing to say that under oath. what does rick perry know about the ukraine extortion plot? another one is what was rick perry doing helping to land a lucrative deal? according to a wild new report, quote, ukraine awarded the contract to perry's supporters a little more than a month after the energy secondary attended the inauguration. the only competing bidder offered more than $60 million for the first phase of the protect compared with 53 mill$5 million, that would be less from perry's supporters. how much more weight this adds to perry's role in the impeachment scandal. all right. so we know that perry goes and