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Key Witness Confirms Hearing Trump Call About Ukraine Probes; The Impeachment Inquiry; All Coming Back To Him?; Fiery Testimony

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Key Witness Confirms Hearing Trump Call About Ukraine Probes; Aide Testifies Diplomat Told Pres. Trump The Ukrainian President "Loves Your Ass"; Yovanovitch: Pres. Trump's Attacks On Me "Very Intimidating"; Key Witness Confirms Hearing Phone Call; Says Pres. Trump Asked About Ukraine Investigations; Testimony: EU Ambassador Said Pres. Trump Cared About "Big Stuff" Like The "Biden Investigation"; Testimony: Official Believes Hold On Military Aid Was Used To "Increase The Pressure" On The Ukrainians; Key Witness: Pres. Trump Told Ukraine "Will Do Anything You Ask"; Key Witness Was Told Pres. Trump Only Care About Investigations; Outed Amb. Yovanovitch: "How Can Our System Fail Like This?"; Pres. Trump Denies Witness Tampering With Tweet Attack On Ousted Ambassador, Says He Has Right To Free Speech; House Intel Member On Today's Hearings; Roger Stone Found Guilty Of Lies That Protected Pres. TrumpTo 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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0:00.0

Good evening.

0:01.8

Tonight, new impeachment testimony that puts President Trump directly hands on and moment

0:05.8

to moment at the center of a scheme to squeeze Ukraine into dirtying up an American political

0:09.6

rival.

0:10.6

A first-hand account that provides further evidence that President Trump didn't really

0:14.0

care about corruption in general, or Ukraine's well-being, nor US policy in the region, what

0:19.7

he cared about, according to the New Testimony, was investigating the Biden's.

0:24.0

The testimony is from David Holmes, a staffer and experienced diplomat serving at the

0:27.8

US Embassy in Kiev.

0:29.6

In his opening statement, he describes a phone call the president's European Union

0:33.5

ambassador, Gordon Sondland, made in front of him to the president on the 26th of July.

0:39.4

This is the day after the president's call asking Ukraine's president to investigate a conspiracy

0:43.8

theory about the 2016 election, one letting Russia off the hook, and to investigate the

0:48.8

Biden's.

0:49.8

Sondland places the call in front of Holmes and others on an apparently unsecure personal

0:55.0

cell phone at an outdoor table in a Kiev restaurant.

0:59.1

The president, he says, was talking loudly enough to be overheard at times.

1:03.2

And, quoting now from Holmes' testimony, quote,

1:06.0

I heard Ambassador Sondland greet the president, explain that he was calling from Kiev.

1:10.6

I heard President Trump then clarify that the ambassador was in Ukraine.

1:15.0

Ambassador Sondland replied, yes, he was in Ukraine, and went on to state that President

1:19.2

Zelensky loves your ass.

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