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  • I will begin by swearing you in.

  • Was there a quid pro quo?

  • As I testified previously, with regard

  • to the requested White House call and the White House

  • meeting, the answer is yes.

  • On Wednesday, Gordon Sondland appeared before the House

  • intelligence committee to give testimony

  • in the impeachment hearings.

  • His testimony was a challenge to the defence that the White

  • House, the Republicans and Donald Trump have maintained

  • all this time in a couple of different ways.

  • One, the confirmation of the quid pro quo

  • was a direct contradiction of what Donald Trump has said all

  • this time, that there was none.

  • And secondly, the fact that Sondland

  • pointed to so many other Trump administration officials,

  • including Mike Pompeo, secretary of state,

  • and Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff,

  • makes it all the harder for the White House

  • to maintain its stance of no co-operation

  • with the impeachment inquiry.

  • Democrats have subpoenaed several officials

  • who have refused to testify because the White House has

  • ordered them not to.

  • We now can see the veneer has been torn away.

  • Just why Secretary Pompeo and President Donald Trump do not

  • want any of these documents provided to Congress

  • because, apparently they show, as Ambassador Sondland has

  • testified, that the knowledge of this scheme to condition

  • official acts, a White House meeting and $400m in security

  • assistance to an ally at war with Russia,

  • was conditioned on political favours the president wanted

  • for his re-election.

  • Gordon Sondland is in a tricky spot.

  • He is still the US ambassador to the European Union.

  • After his testimony on Wednesday he headed back on a flight back

  • to Brussels.

  • And so the question is, how long can he stay in this job?

  • The testimony that he gave today was damaging to the president,

  • in several ways.

  • Clearly, any relationship that he had with Trump

  • probably has not survived this process.

  • And he himself kind of laughed about that possibility.

  • He was asked, Trump once said that you were a great American,

  • and then he later said that he hardly knew you.

  • And Sondland sort of almost cheerfully said, easy come,

  • easy go.

I will begin by swearing you in.

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