字幕表 動画を再生する 英語字幕をプリント 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.
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