What Went Down During Gordon Sondland’s Testimony

His inserting Pompeo so deeply into the Ukraine scheme is interesting. Sondland is, to me, not making Trump seem a lot worse through his testimony. But he is making Pompeo seem worse.

I said earlier that about two thirds of Republicans who don’t think Trump made the aid conditional on the investigation think it would be inappropriate if he did. It’s worth noting that the proportion who think if would be impeachable if it happened is much smaller.

Seems like an email that Sondland just read is new. He wrote it to Pompeo: “Mike – Kurt and I negotiated a statement from Ze[lensky] to be delivered for our review in a day or two. The contents will hopefully make the boss happy enough to authorize an invitation. Ze plans to have a big presser on the openness subject (including specifics) next week.” Sondland emphasized its value in his reading of it — it’s clear that he wants to make sure that everyone knows how looped in Pompeo was about the whole Giuliani/Ukraine fiasco.