Reporters are staked out around the Capitol today, as they have been in recent weeks, for any sighting of witnesses coming and going to the House impeachment inquiry.
Today, it was Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, who showed up to testify about President Trump’s policy toward Ukraine and his effort to steer diplomats toward personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani for direction.
As Sondland walked to the Capitol with his attorney, NBC News correspondent Geoff Bennett approached and attempted to ask the ambassador a question. The attorney with Sondland, Robert Luskin, tried to push Bennett out of the way, placing his hands on him at one point.
“As a respected attorney, I am sure you understand how the free press works,” Bennett protested.
The man moved away, and Bennett approached Sondland and asked, “Can you say definitively there was no quid pro quo?”
“I am not...
Today, it was Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, who showed up to testify about President Trump’s policy toward Ukraine and his effort to steer diplomats toward personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani for direction.
As Sondland walked to the Capitol with his attorney, NBC News correspondent Geoff Bennett approached and attempted to ask the ambassador a question. The attorney with Sondland, Robert Luskin, tried to push Bennett out of the way, placing his hands on him at one point.
“As a respected attorney, I am sure you understand how the free press works,” Bennett protested.
The man moved away, and Bennett approached Sondland and asked, “Can you say definitively there was no quid pro quo?”
“I am not...
- 10/17/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Reporters on Capitol Hill were staked out on Tuesday to capture a key witness arriving to provide behind-closed-doors testimony to Congress. Instead, about an hour before Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, was to start, his lawyer announced that he would not show.
News networks quickly focused on the increasing possibility that this could trigger an additional article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, this time for obstruction.
Appearing at the Capitol before cameras on Tuesday morning, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-ca) didn’t go as far, but confirmed that it may only add to their case.
“The failure to produce this witness, the failure to produce these documents, we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the Constitutional functions of Congress,” he said. He revealed that also being withheld were some of Sondland’s text messages on one of his personal devices.
Sondland, a...
News networks quickly focused on the increasing possibility that this could trigger an additional article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, this time for obstruction.
Appearing at the Capitol before cameras on Tuesday morning, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-ca) didn’t go as far, but confirmed that it may only add to their case.
“The failure to produce this witness, the failure to produce these documents, we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the Constitutional functions of Congress,” he said. He revealed that also being withheld were some of Sondland’s text messages on one of his personal devices.
Sondland, a...
- 10/8/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The Trump administration on Tuesday blocked U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland from testifying before a House panel, blocking a planned deposition from Sondland that was to have been part of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Last week, Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, turned over to Congress text messages in which Sondland, a wealthy Trump donor before he was appointed E.U. ambassador, spoke about plans to pressure Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter in exchange for...
Last week, Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, turned over to Congress text messages in which Sondland, a wealthy Trump donor before he was appointed E.U. ambassador, spoke about plans to pressure Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter in exchange for...
- 10/8/2019
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
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