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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Defense and State department officials testify in impeachment probe; Sondland: I pressured Ukraine at "express direction" of Trump

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

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3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Sondland: "Yes" there was a Quid Pro Quo in Ukraine scandal; Sondland ties Trump, Pence, Pompeo to Ukraine pressure campaign; Sondland: "I followed the directions of the president"; Sondland: "Everyone was in the loop" on Ukraine pressure; Sondland: I did not hear directly from Trump that Ukraine aid was tied to investigations; Sources: Trump campaign, GOP "blindsided" by Sondland testimonyTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is CNN breaking news.

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Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world.

0:36.6

I'm Wolf Blitzer in the situation room.

0:38.6

We're standing by for the impeachment inquiry to resume with new testimony from

0:42.8

Pentagon official Laura Cooper and under Secretary of State for

0:46.0

political affairs David Hale that's about to begin but what we've heard so far

0:50.8

today is truly remarkable.

0:53.4

President Trump's hand-picked ambassador of the European Union,

0:56.5

Gordon Sunland, testifying there was a quid pro quo

1:00.7

with Ukraine.

1:01.7

Sunland saying he took part in what he calls the

1:04.6

express direction of President Trump and that the Vice President, the

1:08.8

Secretary of State and the acting White House Chief of staff all knew about it.

1:14.0

Let's bring in our reporters and our analysts to discuss and I want to play a clip

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first of all and I'm going to start Caitlin with you

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listen to this.

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