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"IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY"
Impeachment inquiry
CNN
In a stunning twist, a top US diplomat revised his testimony to confirm the existence of a quid pro quo. Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU, now says that he did, in fact, tell a top aide to the Ukrainian President that US security aid was linked to investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and the 2016 election. His new testimony, released yesterday, adds to Democrats' evidence that President Trump connected the freezing of security aid to Ukraine to investigations into Biden as well as the hacking of the Democratic National Committee's servers during the 2016 election. That information cuts to the heart of their impeachment case against Trump. Listen to more explosive details here.
Key diplomat changes testimony and admits quid pro quo with Ukraine
By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN
Updated 6:47 PM ET, Tue November 5, 2019
(CNN) - In a significant reversal, a top US diplomat revised his testimony to impeachment investigators to admit a quid pro quo linking US aid to Ukraine with an investigation into President Donald Trump's political rival.
US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland on Monday sent the committees a three-page addition to his testimony, saying he had remembered a September 1 conversation in which he told a top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the security aid was linked to investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and the 2016 election.
"I now recall speaking individually with Mr. (Andriy) Yermak, where I said resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks," Sondland said.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/gordon-sondland-kurt-volker-transcripts-impeachment-inquiry/index.html?utm_source=CNN+Five+Things&utm_campaign=bef637f6a7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_05_02_56&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6da287d761-bef637f6a7-104928233
By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN
Updated 6:47 PM ET, Tue November 5, 2019
(CNN) - In a significant reversal, a top US diplomat revised his testimony to impeachment investigators to admit a quid pro quo linking US aid to Ukraine with an investigation into President Donald Trump's political rival.
US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland on Monday sent the committees a three-page addition to his testimony, saying he had remembered a September 1 conversation in which he told a top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the security aid was linked to investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and the 2016 election.
"I now recall speaking individually with Mr. (Andriy) Yermak, where I said resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks," Sondland said.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/gordon-sondland-kurt-volker-transcripts-impeachment-inquiry/index.html?utm_source=CNN+Five+Things&utm_campaign=bef637f6a7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_05_02_56&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6da287d761-bef637f6a7-104928233
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