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Sondland, a key impeachment witness, faces potential credibility questions from both sides

WASHINGTON - When Gordon Sondland enters the ornate House hearing room for televised testimony on Wednesday morning, he'll be something of a jump ball in the contest between Republicans and Democrats to control narratives of the Ukraine case - a witness who could provide crucial testimony for either side, but whom both regard with suspicion.

A former big-dollar donor to Republicans rewarded with a plum ambassadorship, Sondland says he told the Ukrainians that U.S. foreign aid and a White House meeting with the president was contingent on conducting investigations into the Biden family.

And unlike other witnesses in the impeachment case, Sondland had direct conversations with President Donald Trump about relations

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