What Went Down During Gordon Sondland’s Testimony

That email is interesting, Clare, in the context of Sondland’s earlier testimony. He said, in an exchange about his early August back-and-forths over the statement, that there was “nothing to ask Secretary Pompeo until we were ready to go.” That was right around when that new August 11 email was sent. Another example of how Sondland appears to be implicating Pompeo much more directly than he did in the past.

Yeah, Perry, I’m not sure if it matters now for Pompeo’s political future whether he leaves the State Department now or next year. He’s in this now.

What he just recounted, pulling aside a Ukrainian advisor and telling them that the aid was conditioned on investigations, is what Sondland infamously refreshed his memory about a couple of weeks ago. It’s a key detail.