they should just wrap itself up because again gordon sunderland wouldn't draw the direct link between donald trump and what was happening in ukraine but he took is very close to the line if anything it has moved the democrats closer to passing articles of impeachment in the house but as i've said many times before kemal the reality.

considering a run for president and would be a significant political rival to donald trump the sunderland sport for many many hours he's actually on his way to brussels now after giving evidence of just seen pictures of him at the airport and i say he walked as close as he could to the line of implicating donald trump without actually going over it. i was adamantly supposed adamantly opposed to any suspension of aid as the ukrainians needed those funds to fight against russian aggression i tried diligently to ask why the aid was suspended but i never received a clear answer still haven't to this day 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 very recently as mr giuliani had demanded trump has been speaking out he's furious about i think he made some remarks before boarding and a couple lashing out. actually just before i came here he's talking in houston with an apple factory and we'

ambassador gordon sunderland. today's testimonies were very significant because we heard from 2 more witnesses who have firsthand. confirmation or firsthand experiences of ballots. about these goings on in ukraine that we have heard so much about as you mentioned mr holmes was told directly by mr sandland by ambassador sunderland that president trump doesn't care much about ukraine and only cares about big stuff like the investigation into the bidens and fiona hill has also witnessed ambassador sunland talk about this with ukrainian officials in the white house and tell them a meeting with president trump what only happen if president selenski announced these investigations the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi she spoke earlier today in which she had this to say would you take a listen and the evidence is clear that the president. the president has used his case for his own personal gain and in doing so undermined the national security of the united states by withholding. military assistance to ukraine to the benef

ambassador to golden sunderland now writing for the impeachment hearings the question everyone wants him to answer did president trump hold back financial 80 ukraine in exchange for a corruption probe into his democratic rival joe biden and his links to energy fund the reason the own said he was following instructions from trump's attorney rudy giuliani thank you please as i testified previously mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president selenski mr giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election d.n.c. server and. mr giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we knew these investigations were important to the president but what about the millions of dollars of military aid that ukraine was waiting for for president we learned that the white house had also suspended security aid to ukraine i tried diligently to ask why the aid was suspended but i never received a clear answer in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid i

didn't disappoint in his testimony sunderland told will make is that he was pressured to follow orders in ukraine by trying slow every giuliani and that washington had pushed kiev to investigate trance rival joe biden and his links to ukrainian energy firm to raise money and by 10 for white house access as i testified previously mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house does it for president selenski. mr giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we knew these investigations were important to the president but was they also by quid pro quo involving military aid i tried diligently to ask why the aid was suspended but i never received a clear answer 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 just not good enough according to republicans you acknowledge that this is speculation right it was a presumption ok. but a good enough presumption for the demo

ambassador sunderland says that the president only cares about big stuff.ed that there was big stuff going on in ukraine. gordon sondland replied that he meant big stuff that affect the president, like the biden investigation that mr giuliani was pressing. let's speak to our correspondent, david willis, who's been watching. this brings us to the end of five days of public testimony. what struck you as the most difficult out of what we heard today? fiona hill, who was president from's russian advisor urged lawmakers not to be drawn into what she called politically driven falsehoods, the notion that it was ukraine and not russia that interfered in the 2016 election. fiona hill said the notion that ukraine intervened and not russia was something that had been put around, perpetrated by russian security services, and she warned that russia may seek to intervene again and next year's residential election. summing up what might be the end of these public hearings, the end of these public hearings, the health intelligence committee chairman adam chef warned that p

sunderland previously denied the security it was conditioned on the biden investigation but he told the impeachment panel it warts 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 were recently and he insisted senior figures on the administration knew what was going on including the vice president and the secretary of state everyone was in the loop the suggestion that we were engaged in some irregular or rogue diplomacy is absolutely false i'm not sure how someone could characterize something as an irregular channel when you're talking to the president the united states the secretary of state the national security adviser the chief of staff of the white house the secretary of energy he said trump insisted u.s. diplomats what with his private attorney rudy giuliani on handling ukraine so we followed the president's orders sundin says giuliani's direction on ukraine became more insidious w

remember, ambassador sunderland initially suggested in his testimony that that was not the case and now he has come back to the committee and has refreshed his memory if you well. he has said it, he did have concerns about a quid pro quo. bottom line is, i think andy mccarthy, a fox news contributor and contributor as well as national reviewer has written about this extensively. he doesn't quite understand why the republican response has been -- whether there is quid pro quo or not, the fact of the matter is this does not rise to the level of a no impeachable offense. instead you've heard, and, he had to sort of walk that back. the message has been all over the map. but what matters more is the substance of what these diplomats are going to say and the cross-examination of people like jim jordan. that's why the republicans want to get somebody strong like jim jordan for these public hearings because, we are going to learn more. they have not been before the tv cameras, they have not been cross-examined before the american people and, that's one thing that we originally talked about. tha

diplomat gordon sunderland says donald trump pushed officials to pressure ukraine to investigate political rivals in return for a. song from project songs but democratic presidential hopefuls keep up the pressure. here is likely the most corrupt president in the modern history of america. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up a show of support for hong kong protesters as the u.s. congress threatened sanctions if human rights aren't upheld. not your god he would not let a non. issue of the world he would defy tradition and raise their voices to demand change. top story this hour a man once considered an ally of donald trump has publicly stated the president did want to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival joe biden america's ambassador to the e.u. testified before the impeachment inquiry into the u.s. president on weapons day gordon songdo and also implicated other top officials saying quote everyone was in the loop alan fischer is in washington. from the u.s. ambassador to th

now here's a question, why did sunderland change his testimony?onnection between sunderland and democratic operatives on the committee? it makes me incredibly -- incredibly suspicious. why did sunderland change his mind >> seth: you think he's in cahoots with the democrats you're not even in cahoots with your own mouth [ laughter ] trump and graham sound like 2 guys leaving a bar at 4:00 a.m. arguing who should dive home. "give me the keys, you're too foistered to drive." "no, way, no way we need a r -- i'll call sonderland he'll pick us up in his chevy buroosima. [ laughter ] also verbal slipups aside, you think one of trump's handpicked ambassadors, a guy who, again, gave him $1 million to his campaign is in cahoots with the democrats? these guys are such paranoid freaks, they're going to start accusing everyone of being against them "who's the whistle-blower, is it you, rudy? what's that around your neck?" "oh no oh no, i thought this was my lucky necklace." [ laughter ] and yet despite the fact that these guys can barely get two-syllable words

three call centres, in sunderland, hull and worcester could be closed.mics correspondent, andy verity has more details. sunderland, where workers used to be told that manufacturing was the past and call centres were the future. not any more. a few miles away, near the town of houghton—le—spring, 2500 call centre workers were among those told by npower today theirjobs were going. disappointment, but it's a shame, there's nothing else we can do. i'll take it one step at a time. i'm still going to do myjob, still going to do the best i can, and take it from there. it's a heavy blow for an area already reeling from bad economic news. the future does look bleak, to be honest. you've got tata, you've got british gas. for 2000 people to lose theirjob, what else is going to replace thatjob? where are they going to go? it's just another nail in the coffin in this area. it's one after another. my fear is what about nissan — that could be next, and if that happened this city would be dead. for people, you know, especially if they've got children and mortgages and t

to president trump's attempts to get ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden has to sunderland told lawmakers that there was a print a quid pro quo in which ukraine was offered a white house meeting in exchange for announcing their corruption investigation is part of what ambassador sunderland had to say i tried diligently to ask why the aid was suspended but i never received a clear answer 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 ukrainians so what does it all mean w.'s washington bureau chief alexandra naaman can bring us up to speed welcome alexandria so we heard the ambassador saying that there was a quid pro quo so where does that leave the president. well this is a bombshell we have to say

three call centres, in sunderland, hull and worcester, could be closed.ve called it a "cruel blow" for the compa ny‘s workers in the run—up to christmas. our economics correspondent andy verity has more details. sunderland, where workers used to be told that manufacturing was the past and call centres were the future. not any more. a few miles away, near the town of houghton—le—spring, 2500 call centre workers were among those told by npower today theirjobs were going. disappointment, but it's a shame, there's nothing else we can do. i'll take it one step at a time. i'm still going to do myjob, still going to do the best i can, and take it from there. it's a heavy blow for an area already reeling from bad economic news. the future does look bleak, to be honest. you've got tata, you've got british gas. for 2000 people to lose theirjob, what else is going to replace thatjob? where are they going to go? it's just another nail in the coffin in this area. it's one after another. my fear is what about nissan — that could be next, and if that happened this city

no i don't think they have to because they're supporting evidence from people like sunderland he ranback to correct his testimony because he perjured himself before so he had to cover in-cell so if you can get in trouble. it's like you know the focus on the original whistleblower by republicans is also problematic because it really doesn't matter even if that you know was of lawyer was a new york times reporter which i've seen written somewhere because all that did was start this thing going and and now you've got actual ambassadors testifying several of them and you know key other key people in the bush administration in the area and in the trump administration so you know as these things move on i think where the interesting thing that's going to happen is when you start having testimony live on t.v. and you'll see these you know questions aired from both sides and people will have to decide when they look at it we went through the same thing with the nixon impeachment you know that you you had people attacking the witnesses who were undermining nixon's presidency and sometimes the

officials due to testify one of them is ordered sunderland the u.s. ambassador to the european union and sunderland will be on the hot seat because it omissions he made in earlier testimony about key phone calls he had with trump over ukraine rob reynolds al-jazeera washington. russia says it all went $103.00 captured naval ships in ukraine on monday ahead of a planned peace summit the vessels have been moved to a handover no cation which is understood to be in the black sea russia sees the ships off the coast primary year ago more than 13000 people have been killed in eastern ukraine over the past 5 years in fighting between pro russia separatists and ukrainian forces. still ahead on al jazeera falling short initial valuation for saudi arabia's state owned oil company is no event some expected last campaign is celebrated as a death row inmate in the u.s. to texas gets a temporary reprieve. hello winter certainly getting into northern china what's it doing further south as we saw this picture 24 hours ago the cloud is height is still running out from

three call centres, in sunderland, hull and worcester, could be closed.l blow" for the compa ny‘s workers in the run—up to christmas. 0ur economics correspondent andy verity has more details. sunderland, where workers used to be told that manufacturing was the past and call centres were the future. not any more. a few miles away, near the town of houghton—le—spring, 2500 call centre workers were among those told by npower today theirjobs were going. disappointment, but it's a shame, there's nothing else we can do. i'll take it one step at a time. i'm still going to do myjob, still going to do the best i can, and take it from there. it's a heavy blow for an area already reeling from bad economic news. the future does look bleak, to be honest. you've got tata, you've got british gas. for 2000 people to lose theirjob, what else is going to replace thatjob? where are they going to go? it's just another nail in the coffin in this area. it's one after another. my fear is what about nissan — that could be next, and if that happened this city would be dead. for p

three call centres, in sunderland, hull and worcester, could be closed.l blow" for the compa ny‘s workers in the run—up to christmas. our economics correspondent andy verity has more details. sunderland, where workers used to be told that manufacturing was the past and call centres were the future. not any more. a few miles away, near the town of houghton—le—spring, 2500 call centre workers were among those told by npower today theirjobs were going. disappointment, but it's a shame, there's nothing else we can do. i'll take it one step at a time. i'm still going to do myjob, still going to do the best i can, and take it from there. it's a heavy blow for an area already reeling from bad economic news. the future does look bleak, to be honest. you've got tata, you've got british gas. for 2000 people to lose theirjob, what else is going to replace thatjob? where are they going to go? it's just another nail in the coffin in this area. it's one after another. my fear is what about nissan — that could be next, and if that happened this city would be dead. for p

why did sunderland change his testimony? a connection between sunderland and democratic operatives on the committee? did he talk to schiff? did he talk to schiff's staffers? >> that's graham's theory on possibly why sondland changed his testimony from no quid pro quo to yes quid pro quo. another theory is that sondland went first in the list of testimony -- i've been having a little trouble with mylist. well, apparently i can't. oh, there it is. he goes first in this list of testimony and other people talked after him and these people did say there was quid pro quo. you're going to have to trust that there was a list there. very different from what he said off top. so after a number of people testified to something different, sondland suddenly remembers more detail. let's see if i can show you the book. nope! all right. so there's this book coming out called "a warning" by a person "the new york times" has confirmed is a top trump insider. it says all kinds of bad things about the president. you can read it, you cannot read

just now is really tribal so you have this very important evidence from gordon sunderland the democrats think it should be important and they probably moved a lot closer to impeachment judy his testimony they have been at any point in this process where republicans still believe the president did nothing wrong and there is nothing that gordon sunland anyone else is going to say that at the moment will change that view thank you for that update alan fischer in washington d.c. so let's talk more about golden sun and the moment everyone is waiting for was when he said it was quite abundantly clear as alan was saying that president trump was involved in a quid pro quo early up someone said the president's lawyer rudy giuliani asked for investigations on behalf of the president 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 rees

ambassador to the european union gordon sunderland who now remembers telling an aide to the ukrainian president devoted to me that selenski. warsaw meeting in september along with the u.s. vice president mike pence that u.s. military aid to ukraine would likely not occur until ukraine and an investigation into corruption as part of this investigation included allegations against the son of the former vice president and possible democratic presidential nominee for next year's 2020 at election here in the u.s. joe biden. testified on october 17th to 3 house committees and it lasted around 10 hours you can imagine the level of detail in his deposition now it transpires that the week after his deposition he returned with his lawyers to capitol hill here in washington to review what he had said so as you can imagine their reaction to this news has created quite a stir among democrats in particular and president meanwhile is still claiming that the inquiry is illegitimate and the republicans that are standing behind them the majority are standing behind them have been calling it that this i

american aid while pressuring ukraine to investigate president donald trump's political rivals sunderland testified in the impeachment inquiry on choose day in a reversal of his initial testimony he said that by the beginning of september quote in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of the aid i presumed that the aid suspension had become linked to the proposed anti corruption statement. washington correspondent for the area is following the inquiry and really the whole story for us public testimony of the us ambassador to the e.u. was quite a shock wasn't it. i don't mean it was a shock in the there's been many shocks but this was such a drastic change from the u.s. ambassador to the u. gordon films a man to basically so well but he's not saying is that he remembers in fact telling an aide to the ukrainian president both of them made selenski in september at a war so meeting in which u.s. vice president vice pence was there that u.s. military i do you pray and would likely not occur on till ukraine and that is an investigation into corruption which also included al

after evanovich had been pushed out of her position and it was a dark juncture that ambassador sunderland's role seemed to grow larger. and did you express any concerns to him directly i did express concerns to him directly what were those concerns i asked him quite bluntly and a meeting that we had in june. of 2019 this is after the presidential inauguration when i've seen that he had started to step up in much more of a proactive role on ukraine you know what was his role here and he said that he was in charge of ukraine and i civil who put you in charge. and he said the president did surprise you when he told you had it did surprise me we had no directive we hadn't been told this ambassador bolton had never indicated in anywhere that he thought that and was playing a leading role in ukraine i believe used the term a large remits that he characterized he had been given a large remit from the president 8 i can't remember what i said we met but it was part folio he was comes to me you know these are all synonyms he was talking to was about the fact that he'd been given a very broad portfoli

ambassador to the european union, martin sunderland, deputy assistant defense secretary laura uber and edith hale, state department undersecretary for political affairs. watch live coverage beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span three. you can also watch online at cspan.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. cemex senate republican and democratic leaders other weekly news conferences and first robert calkins talk about the impeachment inquiry hearings. followed by democrats calling on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, to bring legislation from the house to the senate floor. [background sounds] >> i can imagine where everybody is. [laughter] something going over at the house. okay, the thing i want to emphasize today is that i saw senator cornyn, earlier this morning talking about what has brought getting done. there are things that we have to do. we're not making any progress on because of the impeachment obsession over the house. we have to reach a deal on spending and on defense appropriations i thought we had an agreement this summer and they renege on that. the nda hun

this is speculation right it was a presumption ok subsequent the trump told him directly on not sunderland is still convinced action to talk by the 8th of september it was it was abundantly clear to everyone that there was a link should the ukrainians go out on a ledge and make the statement that president trump wanted them to make and then they still don't get their white house visit in there a that would be really bad for our credibility the democrats have welcomed his testimony calling it significant. trump himself said it meant the impeachment inquiry was over much as he might wish it to be true it's up to the democrats when the hearings and. well as the piece when hearings would forward the democrats showcased their front runners for the 2020 presidential election democratic presidential hopefuls taking part in a 50 televised debate the future of health care and tackling racial inequalities that candidates at odds with their people but on one subject in particular there was broad agreement where god would not direct were justice department like this president does i let them make thei

etiquette is important folks in the irregular channel were senate confirmed ambassador sunderland and senate confirmed ambassador. . you have the -- ambassador perry. presidents are allowed to have whom they want doing the work of the country. >> she testified it was a smear campaign. do you believe her. -- do you believe her? thes it appropriate for president to be attacking a witness while she is testifying? >> excuse me. i do not know that it was an attack on a witness. it was a characterization of her resume. when you look at this, you guys want him to go in with no attorneys, no witnesses, no twitter or anything. at some point, you have to say, what is it going to be a fair process? today was not a fair process. it is not going to be a fair process in the bunker. it was not a fair process and they bustled the gentlewoman from new york over and over. it is not fair. you think it is a fair -- >> the second sentence of that tweet. adam schiff never brought this up. the second sentence goes back to the july 25th call transcript. resident to president trump he is concerned that ambass

impeachment inquiry has been accused of sexual misconduct by 3 women the women that are gordon sunderland retaliated against them professionally after they rejected his of. denies the allegations. officials in the u.s. state of texas of ordered residents of 4 towns to evacuate after a new blast at a petrol chemical plant 60000 people have been told to leave 3 workers were injured in the initial blast early on wednesday. demonstrators across colombia are holding this 2nd national strike in less than a week as part of ongoing protest against president even duke his 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 uses within russian borders russia seized crimea from ukraine in 2014 and later an exchange in a referendum that kiev and its western allies say was ille

it was interesting to see the reactions of some gop members when they heard sunderland's testimony. thought gesticulating and suggesting that he had turned tales on donald trump and that has obviously caused some consternation within the gop itself. obviously caused some consternation within the gop itselflj obviously caused some consternation within the gop itself. i watched the opening of that session about 2k hours ago and the tone among the members of the committee was quite terse, to say the least. and then sondland began his testimony. at the white house take on this is interesting. this testimony exonerates the president. while we have seen that there are facts and according to the current president there are alternative facts. sondland says there was a quid pro quo and donald trump was clear there was no quid pro quo. sondland has gone under oath and testified this in both public and private testimony. we have no reason to disbelieve what he said under oath. plus sondland says that his work with donald trump has gone back for yea rs, with donald trump has gone back for years

the former alloa and st mirren boss was sacked by sunderland last month.ucester in the opening game of rugby‘s champions cup. the four—time champions were 20 points to nine down at half—time, but went on to win by 25 points to 20. and the former captain, sam warburton, has joined the wales coaching staff. he will be the technical adviser for defence and breakdown under the new boss wayne pivac. warburton won 7a caps for wales and five for the british and irish lions, before retiring in july last year following a string of injuries. and ahead of this weekend's brazilian grand prix, williams driver, robert kubisa, suffered a heavy crash in today's second practice session. he did emerge unscathed. as for sebastian vettel, he was quickest with ferrari. the world para athletics championships in dubai came to a close today. once again the british team excelled themselves, winning plenty of medals and breaking world records to finish third in the table. our reporter kate grey is there, following notjust gb‘s success, but the competition as a whole which is back i

as an alice i think what's really important is that this person, gordon sunderland has refreshed memorynterested choice of liquid. ——as an analyst. a second possible has come forward, we now have somebody who had direct contact with president donald trump about this and makes it clear, it was a quid pro quo, another would be could use for this is a bribe. so to go after your political opponents in exchange for the us government providing military aid to another country, could potentially be impeachable and that will make it very difficult for trump's republican supporters to defend this. it's quite interested, donald trump in the white house and those around him from the beginning have been very clear, this is a witch—hunt, this all just been very clear, this is a witch—hunt, this alljust part of the campaign on the part of the democrats to find anything they can and they are not going to succeed, again. how do you think this is playing out in terms of the run—up to the election next year? blessing in kentucky, and in other states, in local elections, the republicans are not doing well.

sunderland, where workers used to be told that manufacturing was the past and call centres were the futurere. a few miles away, near the town of houghton—le—spring, 2500 call centre workers were among those told by npower today theirjobs were going. disappointment, but it's a shame, there's nothing else we can do. i'll take it one step at a time. i'm still going to do myjob, still going to do the best i can, and take it from there. it's a heavy blow for an area already reeling from bad economic news. the future does look bleak, to be honest. you've got tata, you've got british gas. for 2000 people to lose theirjob, what else is going to replace thatjob? where are they going to go? it's just another nail in the coffin in this area. it's one after another. my fear is what about nissan — that could be next, and if that happened this city would be dead. for people, you know, especially if they've got children and mortgages and things like that, it's absolutely terrible. npower has struggled to stop customers leaving and recently struggled to make a profit. it's an incredibly sad day and we can

testimony is not correct interestingly enough they put their statements to the media gordon sunderland was actually giving evidence under oath and if you lie under oath even to a congressional hearing you can be in really big trouble you have to remember that so big important day historic day donald trump 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 d

. >> and then t turning around an saying that sondland was, calling him sunderland, calling him sunderland, and saying he may have been talking to schiff's team or one of his staffers and that's why he changed. >> niels lesniewski, thank you very much. >>> former vice president joe biden slammed republicans at a washington, d.c. fundraiserbl yesterday.wa making a prediction about their demeanor in a post-trump presidency, biden had this to say, with donald trump out of the way, you're going to see a number ofto my republican colleagues have an epiphany, mark my words. but republicans weren't the only ones to getwe the brunt of bide. the former vice president also took a slight dig at senator elizabeth warren for criticizing candidates who have expressed doubt aboutid her medicare for l plan. he said quote, the people that arehe running against me tell mi am naive, one said i should be in the republican primary, god love her.lo that's not the way you get things done. >> president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani announced yesterday he has obtained new legal representation in the on ong

. >> here's a question, why did sunderland change his testimony?as there's a difference between sunderland and democratic operatives on the committee? did he talk to schiff or schiff's staffers. >> that's graham's theory on why sondland changed his testimony from no quid pro quo to, yes, there was. here is another theory. that sondland was the very first person to testify. and i'm obviously having some trouble with my board this morning. all right, sondland's the first one to testify. then all the other people who testified after him talked about quid pro quo. very different from what he said and after these people testified, he suddenly remembered more detail. you may have heard about that book that's coming out. it -- it's friday. it's called "a warning." it's by a person "the new york times" has confirmed is a trump top insider. now, saying all kinds of bad things about the president. you can read this, don't read it, but recognize this. this was written by a person hiding behind his or her name. meanwhile, in washington, longtime republicans, l

at kimberley let starts with the allegations concerning gordon sunderland this all comes after a rather dramatic testimony in that impeachment inquiry how do you think these allegations will impact the situation as it stands. well gordon sagal and just to remind viewers it is really the star witness for the democratic party's case against president donald trump and and really the basis in many ways for why they believe that he should be impeached his testimony particularly damning he behind closed door said there was no quid pro quid pro quo but then changed his testimony and said very publicly that in fact that the president was leveraging his office in order to try and get an investigation into his political rival joe biden so now the fact that the has had his credibility challenge with these allegations from these 3 women certainly is problematic for the democrats in all of this the 3 women have accused gordon someone of sexual misconduct one of them says that it haunted her that she saw the he had been confirmed as an ambassador and essentially gordon solid is denying all of this on

gordon sunderland is the us ambassador to the eu.rdon sondland is us ambassador to the eu, he's seen as an ally of the president — we know he gave a million dollars to the trump inauguration — and we know he was central to the trump administration's policy on ukraine. the accusation is that mr trump connected us policy on ukraine — with demands for investigations into his political rivaljoe biden. and that mr trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani was orchestrating it all. today — gordon sondland said this. mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president zelinski. mr giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election d&c server and brees ma. mr giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we knew these investigations were important to the president. let's unpack that statement. bbc‘s washington dc bureau chief paul danahar mr sondland was appointed ambassador to the eu last year — he'd previously run a luc

who's going to give evidence then was from timothy morrison who said that he was told by gordon sunderland the ambassador to the e.u. that the ukrainian aid would be unfrozen if the president announced there was going to be an investigation into the 2016 election and also possible corruption by joe biden so gordon sunderland is due to give. evidence on wednesday that little nugget certainly makes his that is testimony much much more interesting not that it wasn't going to be interesting before and certainly another key testimony on wednesday just remind us and what happens once these public hearings are finished. well we still go a little way to go public hearings they go through we will get what we saw at the end of the hearing today both sides stating their case the republicans through devon in a standing up say this is a farce see you tomorrow and adam schiff the committee chairman saying look this is where it all points this is what donald trump did wrong this is why he cannot do this he was looking to get personal benefit from a political decision of the united states government no it

the republicans there was no quid pro quo or donald trump or said that many times here is gordon sunderland one of the main conduit between the white house and the ukrainian saying yes there was a quid pro quo donald trump saying i hardly know the man he delivered $1000000.00 to the inauguration campaign he would regularly in contact with donald trump according to his testimony he said that senior figures in the administration including the vice president the secretary of state the energy secretary the chief of staff they all knew that there was a quid pro quo that they were putting pressure on the ukrainians to deliver an investigation into joe biden a political rival no interestingly enough in the last couple of hours we've heard from the vice president's office and we've heard from the secretary of state's office they say that gordon's on dylan's testimony was wrong he gave evidence under or thought means if he is lying he could be in big trouble and they just put out statements to the mean. saying that they got this thing wrong this was a big day it was an important day it could possibl