LIVE on @MSNBC: Amb. Sondland testifies this morning in impeachment hearing. 
Chairman Schiff delivers opening statement at impeachment hearing.
Rep. Nunes delivers opening statement at impeachment hearing.
Rep. Nunes tells Amb. Sondland that he is "here today to be smeared."
Amb. Sondland delivers opening statement at impeachment hearing.
Chairman Schiff to President Trump: An Article of Impeachment against former President Nixon alleged refusal to cooperate with congressional subpoenas, saying Trump and Sec. Pompeo's "effort to obstruct this investigation" is "at their own peril."
LIVE BLOG: News, updates and analysis from Amb. Sondland's testimony in the impeachment inquiry. nbcnews.to/335fGqi
BREAKING: Amb. Sondland says explicitly that there was a "quid quo pro" at play.
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Amb. Sondland is stressing multiples times in his testimony today: "Everyone was in the loop."
Rep. Nunes tells Amb. Sondland that he is before the House impeachment hearing today "to be smeared." nbcnews.to/2qvuQrE
WATCH: Amb. Sondland says that telling President Trump in a phone call that Ukrainian President Zelenskiy "loves your ass" does "sound like something that I would say," and adds that he and the president communicate "in a lot of 3- and 4-letter words." nbcnews.to/349lqAE
Live now on @MSNBC: Analysis of Amb. Sondland's testimony.
.@NicolleDWallace: Amb. Sondland just took a "blowtorch to every defense Donald Trump has offered." on.msnbc.com/2XAZsUD
@NicolleDWallace WATCH: Amb. Sondland to impeachment inquiry: "We followed the president's orders." nbcnews.to/2O838dH
@NicolleDWallace Former Sen. McCaskill: Rudy Giuliani is the "next one up for the White House to try to distance the president from him."
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@NicolleDWallace WATCH: @GarrettHaake breaks down the latest from Amb. Sondland's testimony. on.msnbc.com/35oPlov
@NicolleDWallace @GarrettHaake JUST IN: VP Pence's office disputes Amb. Sondland's testimony about the vice president in today's impeachment hearing nbcnews.to/2QzM55B
@NicolleDWallace @GarrettHaake From "we followed the president's orders" to "he didn't actually have to do them," here are 6 of Amb. Sondland's most important lines during his impeachment testimony today, so far. nbcnews.to/35lunHm
@NicolleDWallace @GarrettHaake Rep. Swalwell to @NBCNews: “Schiff-Sondland exchange revealed necessary elements to show high crimes and misdemeanors, and bribery.” nbcnews.to/37onSFp
@NicolleDWallace @GarrettHaake @NBCNews Republican counsel Castor questions Amb. Sondland's about his recollection of events without notes. nbcnews.to/35lvmai
@NicolleDWallace @GarrettHaake @NBCNews Republican counsel paints Amb. Sondland’s testimony as unreliable because of lack of documents.
Sondland noted that the White House and the US State Dept. have blocked his access to relevant documents and communications. nbcnews.to/37q0LdK
Sondland noted that the White House and the US State Dept. have blocked his access to relevant documents and communications. nbcnews.to/37q0LdK
@NicolleDWallace @GarrettHaake @NBCNews Giuliani responds to Amb. Sondland, argues that Sondland is speculating and there was no demand to the Ukrainians for quid pro quo. nbcnews.to/2QBgm47
@NicolleDWallace @GarrettHaake @NBCNews Many Republicans have left the impeachment hearing room as testimony with Amb. Sondland continues. nbcnews.to/37q0LdK
@NicolleDWallace @GarrettHaake @NBCNews President Trump's handwritten notes as he spoke to reporters on the White House South Lawn before departing for Texas on Wednesday morning.
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@NicolleDWallace @GarrettHaake @NBCNews .@NicolleDWallace on Amb. Sondland: "The body language is of a man with nothing to lose – liberated by the account he's telling." on.msnbc.com/2O2Vm4C
@NicolleDWallace @GarrettHaake @NBCNews .@neal_katyal: "Basically, Sondland is pointing the fingers at Trump ... he further confirms that there was a quid pro quo." on.msnbc.com/2r7eoOn
@NicolleDWallace @GarrettHaake @NBCNews @neal_katyal .@AriMelber: "There is a thin line here between Sondland as a witness and Sondland as an alleged co-conspirator."
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WATCH: Amb. Soland laughs out loud as Rep. Jordan asks him who was in “the meeting that never happened.”
“The people that weren’t there,” Sondland quipped.
“The people that weren’t there,” Sondland quipped.
@NicolleDWallace @GarrettHaake @NBCNews @neal_katyal @AriMelber .@DrJasonJohnson on Amb. Sondland's testimony: "This is a slow motion explosion." on.msnbc.com/35i93SY
Correction: The above tweet misspelled "Sondland" on first reference.
In a tweet, Giuliani asserts that the Republican counsel in the impeachment hearings "doesn’t do his own research and preparation," arguing that he does not have financial interested in Ukraine.
"I would appreciate his apology."
"I would appreciate his apology."
Russian President Putin says he’s pleased that the “political battles” in the US have put accusations that Russia interfered in US elections on the back-burner. nbcnews.to/2KFY4L9
Fmr. US Amb. McFaul: "This notion that Burisma and Biden are somehow parsed and are different... I just do not find that credible. I know they're connected." on.msnbc.com/37y1YzM
"The president of the United States has 5 Pinocchios on a daily basis – so let's not go there."
Rep. Speier, after back-and-forth with Rep. Conaway on Washington Post fact check over claim that whistleblower has statutory right to anonymity. nbcnews.to/2reU4dC
Rep. Speier, after back-and-forth with Rep. Conaway on Washington Post fact check over claim that whistleblower has statutory right to anonymity. nbcnews.to/2reU4dC
WATCH: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney and Amb. Sondland engage in a tense exchange about who would benefit from an investigation of Joe Biden. on.msnbc.com/2D3Cdcm
"This was a complete and exhaustive accounting from not only a star witness, we’ve heard that term, but someone that could be either the linchpin to the entire alleged bribery plot, or a co-conspirator." - @AriMelber on.msnbc.com/331aNyl
"Because they don’t have much to defend, they’re spinning to the point of lying. Let me just fact-check some of that. " - @NicolleDWallace responds to Rep. Jordan's post-hearing statement
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Rep. Amash: "Impeachment in the House is an indictment. If this were an ordinary prosecution, there’s no grand jury in America that would not return an indictment on the facts and evidence presented in these hearings."
“I wanted there to be a little accountability for Gordon Sondland, who I thought was a little smug through a lot of today’s hearings …We appreciate his candor but we should be clear what it took to get it out of him.” - Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney on.msnbc.com/346yjLT
“I think it was a good strategy by Amb. Sondland to say, ‘We’re all in this together’ and pull everybody under the bus with him.” - Amb. Michael McFaul on.msnbc.com/2Owu7yj
.@AriMelber:" If you had these facts on a governor, could you indict on these facts?"
Fmr. DOJ Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann: "Absolutely. Absolutely. This is the kind of case you would bring. There are all sorts of ways of charging this kind of case." on.msnbc.com/2qyIJ8l
Fmr. DOJ Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann: "Absolutely. Absolutely. This is the kind of case you would bring. There are all sorts of ways of charging this kind of case." on.msnbc.com/2qyIJ8l
@AriMelber NEW: On July 25, the day of Trump-Zelenskiy call, Ukrainians were asking about their military aid, Cooper testifies. She says staff brought these details to her after reviewing her previous testimony.
.@AriMelber breaks down how today's impeachment hearings featured "people who worked for Donald Trump confirming that this was a tit for tat, a quid pro quo, an extortion/bribe, to go after Biden." on.msnbc.com/2QF8FK3
“I don’t know that this changes the ultimate outcome for Republicans. I think they’re still going to vote to acquit him, but I think the cost of acquitting him went way up today.” - @JoyAnnReid on.msnbc.com/2s5BIfR
With Amb. Gordon Sondland’s testimony, @HardballChris says Pres. Trump should be worried about other members of his inner circle flipping. on.msnbc.com/2KAJlBl
