U.S. envoy revises testimony, admits to quid pro quo; Sondland: When I talked to Pompeo about Giuliani he rolled his eyes & said "It's something we have to deal with"; House requests WH chief of staff Mulvaney to testify Friday

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🗓️ 5 November 2019

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0:00.0	This is CNN Breaking News.
0:04.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin with Breaking News in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump and an admission by a top Trump aid that he told the Ukrainians if they wanted
0:15.7	400 million dollars in aid from the US they would need to publicly announce they
0:20.9	were investigating the Ukrainian firm Berizma and as he also put it quote
0:25.5	Berizma equals Biden it's all part of the release this afternoon of two explosive
0:31.6	transcripts related to the Ukraine scandal
0:33.7	Kurt Volker the former US special envoy for Ukraine and Gordon Sunland the US
0:38.1	ambassador to the EU testifying as to their discomfort as President Trump pushed them to his personal attorney
0:45.2	Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani pushed them to get the Ukrainians to announce an investigation into
0:50.5	Joe and Hunter Biden.
0:52.0	As someone put it, quote,
0:53.6	it kept getting more insidious as the timeline went on.
0:58.3	That is the word that President Trump's own ambassador
1:02.0	that he appointed used insidious.
1:05.0	Though the deposition transcript was released today,
1:07.6	Sunland was forced to revisit his earlier testimony from October 17th
1:11.5	and amend it.
1:12.3	Sunland is now acknowledging that he informed a top aid to the Ukrainian president of this
1:18.1	quid pro quo aid for investigations and that he had that conversation with the Ukrainian
1:24.4	aid on September 1st when the aid was still being withheld, the military aid.
1:29.3	In other words, it's not true that the Ukrainians did not know that there was this alleged
1:34.8	attempt to force them to investigate the Biden's at the time.
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