"So we followed the President's orders"

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Former Federal Prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg and Yahoo News' own Jon Ward join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." Zeidenburg weighs in on the impeachment process, whether there is any actual "crime" here, and what he would do if hired to defend President Trump. Then Ward paints the picture of what it's like in the actual hearing room, his takeaways from both the Republicans and Democrats, and what we can expect moving forward in regards to the impeachment proceedings.

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0:00.0	We all understood that if we refused to work with Mr. Giuliani, we would lose a very important
0:09.9	opportunity to cement relations between the United States and Ukraine.
0:16.7	So we followed the President's orders.
0:20.9	So we followed the President's orders, memorable words this week from U.S. Ambassador Gordon
0:26.3	Sondland.
0:27.3	As he recounted the pressure campaign by President Trump and his deputies to get the Ukrainian
0:32.2	government to announce an investigation into the President's political rival, Joe Biden.
0:37.1	It was one of many memorable lines that Sondland delivered during some of the most significant
0:42.0	testimony yet in the House impeachment investigation.
0:45.7	Sondland laid out how Vice President Pence, chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Secretary of
0:50.6	State Mike Pompeo, were all aware of what was going on.
0:55.2	Quote, everyone was in the loop, Sondland said.
0:58.2	And as for the investigations, the Trump was demanding that Ukrainian President Zelensky
1:02.2	tell the world about Sondland said he had to announce the investigations.
1:07.3	He didn't actually have to do them.
1:10.0	As the hearings wind up and the House moves to the next phase in the impeachment drama,
1:14.4	we'll dissect Sondland's testimony with Peter Zidenberg, a former federal prosecutor
1:19.0	who once investigated another White House, and we'll look at what happens next with
1:22.8	the Yahoo News reporter John Ward on this episode of Skull Duggery.
1:27.3	Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of Sondland, well,
1:36.7	I'm not a crook.
1:37.7	I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.
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