“Sondland’s attorney sent the committee a letter and a three-page addition to his testimony, which said he had remembered a conversation on Sept. 1 with Andriy Yermak, an aide to the Ukrainian president, linking the aid to the investigations.” Something seemed to jar Gordon Sondland’s memory and he remembered that, oh yeah, there was a quid pro quo. Meanwhile, more transcripts are being released, the Dems want to depose Mulvaney, Lev (of Lev and Igor fame) is willing to talk, and the GOP wants to get Jim Jordan on the House Intelligence Committee to make the public hearings more absurd than they’re already expected to be. Here’s the latest from the impeach pit from CNN and WaPo.

+ “After the president crosses that red line, Republican elites—whether lawmakers, current or former government officials, or conservative media figures—invent a whole new line and devote all their energy to explaining why Trump’s crossing of the previous boundary is perfectly acceptable, even admirable.” Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: The Trump Infallibility Doctrine.