Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Sondland was keeping the White House very closely informed about his progress.

Sondland then walked over and told Morrison what he told the staffer, that military aid to Ukraine would likely be released once Ukraine announced a pair of investigations that would help Trump politically. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, speaking with a top tier Zelensky staffer. Morrison said that in early September, he saw the U.S. But Morrison also confirmed a key piece of testimony implicating the president that was delivered in last week's hearings. He also defended a decision to lock down the contents of the call to keep it from leaking. He said that in his view, nothing inappropriate or illegal happened in the July call. Morrison's testimony had a bit more in it to bolster the White House's defense. But the word Burisma does not appear in the transcript-ish of the call that the White House released. That's the company that employed Joe Biden's son Hunter until earlier this year. Williams also says according to her notes, the president specifically mentioned Burisma during the call. Highlights, Williams listened in on the July 25th phone call between Trump and Ukraine's President Zelensky, and said she found it unusual and inappropriate. We now know what Congress learned from Tim Morrison, a White House National Security Council official and Jennifer Williams, a foreign policy staffer detailed to Vice President Mike Pence. House Democrats released two more testimonies on Saturday.

Today we're talking to our good friend and BuzzFeed News politics reporter Miriam Elder about a news article that's playing a big role in these hearings, a 2017 story from Politico that some Republicans are pretty sure is proof that Trump is right about Ukraine being, and I'm paraphrasing here, a bag of dicks whose election meddling was worse than Russia's, but before we get to all of that, let's catch up on what happened over the weekend.

I hope you're ready for this week, because we have three, count them three, days of hearings on deck. Good morning, I'm Hayes Brown, reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News. It's Monday, November 18th, 2019, 55 days since the House began its impeachment inquiry, and this is Impeachment Today.

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