sondland summed up his dealings with president trump and ukraine early on: "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?' as i testified previously, with regard to the requested white house call and white house meeting, the answer is yes." he also revealed that many people in the administration, including vice president pence and secretary of state pompeo, new about the plan to get ukraine to investigate the bidens. 