WATCH: Was there a 'quid pro quo'? 'The answer is yes,' Sondland says

Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, told House lawmakers on Nov. 20 that there was a quid pro quo, directly answering a question that's repeatedly emerged in the impeachment hearings. "I know that members of this Committee have frequently framed these complicated issues in the form of a simple question: Was there a 'quid pro quo?'" he said, speaking during the fourth day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. "The answer is yes." Other government officials have testified that Sondland helped push Ukraine to investigate the 2016 elections, the Ukrainian company Burisma and the Biden family. In a July 25 call that has become the focus of the impeachment inquiry, Trump asked Zelensky to investigate former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

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