It’s Wednesday, November 20. In today’s newsletter: sorting through what Ambassador Gordon Sondland said. Plus, who will punch and who will be punched at tonight’s Democratic debates.*” TODAY IN POLITICS »(ANDREW HARNIK / AP)Ambassador Sondland didn’t disappoint, as a much-anticipated witness for the Democrats.1. “Was there a quid pro quo?” he said in his opening statement. “The answer is yes.”
The effort to extract investigations from Ukraine in exchange for helping Trump’s political fortunes was extortion, and the president directed it. Everyone knows. The question is just whether, like Sondland, they are finally willing to admit it.
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