Breaking earlier on Friday evening:
David Holmes, a career foreign service officer serving in Ukraine, told a congressional panel behind closed doors that he was present when Donald Trump spoke on the phone with U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland about Sondland’s efforts to make Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky announce an investigation to Hunter Biden. Holmes opening statement, obtained by CNN, discloses that there are as many as three other witnesses to the call. [...]
Trump responded “So, he’s gonna do the investigation?”
Sondland: “He’s gonna do it,” and added, according to Holmes testimony, President Zelensky will do “anything you ask him to.”