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“I did say to him, ‘Ambassador Sondland, Gordon, this is going to blow up’. And here we are.”
— Fiona Hill, in testimony before the House impeachment inquiry.
“I don’t believe there should be any interference of any kind in our election… That’s actually why as a nonpartisan person and as an expert on Russia and an expert on Vladimir Putin and on the Russian security services, I wanted to come in to serve the country to try to see if I could help… We’re here to relate to you what we heard, what we saw and what we did. And to be of some help to all of you in really making a very momentous decision here. We are not the people who make that decision.”
— In a stunning moment at Thursday’s impeachment hearing, Fiona Hill asked whether she may respond to Republican attacks, after three GOP congressman in a row used their five-minute question allotments to criticize the impeachment inquiry and its witnesses, Axios reports.
“Fox should stay with the people that got them there, not losers!”
— President Trump slammed Fox News over its coverage of the House impeachment probe, taking issue with the network’s decision to interview Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).
“There will be articles of impeachment. I think we’ve known that, it was just confirmed today. Substantively, what we heard from the chairman just now is: It’s over. We now know — this is his position — we now know that the president in fact committed the crime of bribery.”
— Ken Starr, who headed the investigation that led to Bill Clinton’s impeachment, told Fox News that Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s testimony was a “bombshell” and will lead to President Trump’s impeachment.
“You know what these proceedings look to me like right now? They look like the Kavanaugh hearing without the vagina hats.”
— Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), quoted by Bloomberg, on the House impeachment inquiry.
“I have not had access to all of my phone records, State Department emails and other State Department documents. And I was told I could not work with my EU Staff to pull together the relevant files.” He added that he has never been a “note-taker,” meaning the absence of this information made his recollections even more difficult.
— Ambassador Gordon Sondland blamed inconsistencies in his previous testimony saying repeatedly that the State Department and the White House didn’t allow him access to the things he needed to provide accurate previous testimony.
“That sounds like something I would say. That’s how Trump and I communicate. A lot of four-letter words. In this case three letters.”
— Ambassador Gordon Sondland, confirming he told President Trump that Ukraine President Zelensky “loves your ass, he’ll do whatever you want” while talking to him on a cell phone at a Kiev restaurant.
“My Republican colleagues, all they seem to be upset about with this is not that the president sought an investigation of his political rival, not that he withheld a White House meeting and $400 million in aid we all passed in a bipartisan basis to pressure Ukraine to do those investigations. Their objection is that he got caught. Their objection is that someone blew the whistle, and they would like this whistleblower identified, and the president wants this whistleblower punished. That’s their objection. Not that the president engaged in this conduct, but that he got caught.”
— House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, quoted by The Week.
“Dad, I’m sitting here today, in the U.S. Capitol talking to our elected professionals — is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the Soviet Union. Do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth.”
— Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, quoted by the Daily Beast, during his opening testimony before the House Intelligence Committee.
