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BREAKING: Gordon Sondland will tell House impeachment investigators he opposed Trump’s request to run Ukraine policy through Rudy Giuliani, according to a copy of his opening statement obtained by @politico

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@politico Sondland will also testify that he believed military aid to Ukraine “should not have been delayed for any reason.”

More here, with updates to come w/ @kyledcheney >>

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@politico @kyledcheney Here is Sondland’s full opening statement: politico.com/f/?id=0000016d…
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The House sergeant-at-arms just waked back into the SCIF. Still unclear if Laura Cooper’s deposition has actually started.
There is movement, per @MZanona. And it appears that the security sweep, prompted by GOP lawmakers bringing phones into the secure area, is almost finished.

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McCarthy just now appeared to excuse GOP members bringing cell phones into the secure area of the SCIF, telling me:

“These are individuals who have never been in Intel Committee before or anywhere else. So it’s nothing serious from that matter.”

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Other Republicans are using this justification too, telling me that they worked to collect everyone’s phones after realizing that some members had walked in with their devices.

Still, the entire facility had to be swept due to the security breach.
Wow — an official working on the impeachment inquiry says some Republicans “refused to completely remove” their phones from the facility “after being advised by the Sergeant at Arms and security personnel that there were members still in possession of electronic devices.”
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