- US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland gave public testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning.
- In his testimony, he confirmed Trump's quid-pro-quo arrangement with the Ukrainian president and implicated several government officials in the arrangement, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former national security adviser John Bolton.
- In a break in the hearing on Wednesday, Fox News anchor Bret Baier called Sondland's testimony and his 23-page opening statement "very damaging to some of the arguments the GOP has been making."
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Fox News anchor Bret Baier said that US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland's testimony in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning was "very damaging" to the Republican Party's arguments.
Sondland confirmed Trump's quid-pro-quo arrangement with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, and he implicated several other government officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former national security adviser John Bolton.
He also testified that Trump instructed him to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to pressure the Ukrainian government into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
In a break from the hearing on Wednesday morning, Baier said in a Fox News segment that Sondland's 23-page opening statement, and his testimony that "everyone was in the loop" regarding the quid-pro-quo agreement, was "very damaging."
"This, on its face, is very damaging to some of the arguments the GOP has been making," he said.
He then followed up his comments by retweeting a statement by the lead prosecutor in the Bill Clinton impeachment trial, Ken Starr: "There is now proof that the President (Trump) committed the crime of bribery...This has been one of those bombshell days."
Watch Baier's full comment on Sondland below:
Baier had previously been critical of the president during last week's testimony from Marie Yovanovitch. After the president tweeted a critical statement about Yovanovitch during the hearing, Baier, on air, said Trump's actions "added an article of impeachment in real time."
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Ken Starr, lead prosecutor in Clinton impeachment hearings: "There is now proof that the President (Trump) committed the crime of bribery...This has been one of those bombshell days."
- Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) November 20, 2019Ambassador Sondland testifies today on Capitol Hill: pic.twitter.com/X23sXuvlWN
- Bret Baier (@BretBaier) November 20, 2019