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Erin Burnett OutFront

Witness: Sondland said Trump didn't care about Ukraine, just "big stuff" like Biden investigation, New witness testimony appears to contradict Trump's claim that he hardly knows Sondland, Ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine: Trump's attacks during testimony

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

News

3.9715 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Witness: EU ambassador told Trump Ukraine's president will do "anything you ask him to", Witness EU ambassador said Trump did not "give a s**t about Ukraine", Witness: Sondland told Trump that Ukraine president Zelensky "loves your ass", Trump tweets attack on former ambassador; democrats may add witness intimidation to impeachment articles, Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone found guilty; 6th Trump associate convicted, Stone found guilty on all countsTo 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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Out front next, breaking news is State Department aide testifying behind closed doors that Trump

0:35.7

asked about Ukraine launching investigations

0:37.9

and said he cared about big stuff like the Biden investigation.

0:42.4

Plus, the former Ukraine ambassador testifies about fake smears against her, the president

0:46.4

meantime tweeting another smear at her, was it witness in intimidation, and Roger Stone

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guilty.

0:52.5

The message is sending to a key impeachment

0:55.0

witness about to testify. Let's go out front. And good evening, I'm Aaron Burnett. Out front

1:02.0

tonight, the breaking news, damning new evidence that ties Trump to the investigations into Joe Biden.

1:08.6

This evidence is firsthand. CNN has just obtained the opening statement.

1:14.4

This is from David Holmes, an aide to top Ukrainian diplomat Bill Taylor. This is, this is

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an incredible document. Holmes is telling lawmakers behind closed doors about a July lunch

1:27.2

that he had with the

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Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland. And this lunch happened in Kiev.

1:33.3

It was at that lunch that Sondland announced he was going to call President Trump.

1:38.8

And then this is what happened, according to Holmes. So let me just read this crucial part.

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We're going to read as much of this as we can to you, but I want to read this part to you. He says, I heard President

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