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Insult insulted as you did today essentially blaming you for somalia. As if this is another step by the president to intimidate witnesses. He didnt intimidate you. Youre here. Youve endured. But there are other people out there that can expect the trump treatment if they come forward. Thats a question for us. Now, you also indicated that the president has a prerogative to appoint a noncareer person and to be candid, republican president s and democratic president s have done that. The mr. Sondla...

Aware that anybody in this party perjured themselves? >> no, i dont. >> i yield my testimony. >> i thank the gentleman. i want to make one thing clear for folks watching today. bribery doesnt involve a quid pro quo, bribery involves the conditioning of a specific act for something of value. an official act may be a white house meeting. an official act may be 400 million in military aid, and something of value to a president might include investigations of their political rival. the reason we don...

Over and over again. its not fair. >> reporter: theyre going to -- [ inaudible ]. >> do you think its a fair process for the witness? >> the second sentence of that tweet, for example. one example. adam schiff never brought this up. second sentence of the tweet goes back to the july 25th call transcript. in that president slnzelensky i saying to president trump hes concerned that ambassador yovanovitch is a "bad ambassador" and president zelensky believed that ambassador yovanovitch had a loyalt...

But what you are is what holds this country together, what holds our foreign policy together what makes it seamless, what makes it work. and im glad america gets to see that. i will just emphasize once again about the importance of your testimony. mr. kent and ambassador taylor gave us the broad outlines of this story. this is a story about an effort to coerce, condition or bribe a foreign country into doing the dirty work of the president. investigations of his political rival. by conditioning ...

Not a very good defense. i put to you with the historical context, heres the remarks from congressman schiff today as we heard republicans say the entire plot didnt get pulled off. take a look. >> the fact that they failed in this solicitation of bribery doesnt make it any less bribery, doesnt make it any less immoral or corrupt. it just means it was unsuccessful. >> john. >> the test of the nixon impeachment was not the efficacy of either the break in or the cover up, both of which were disaste...

Military aid. it was 14 days delays. big deal. democrats think theyre cat. they have nine political lives when it comes to impeachment. none of these people should be taken seriously because they know they do not have a legitimate case for impeachment and theyre going forward with it anyway. >> jason. >> i would never go into court and say i tried to assault you but you beat me off you so i guess im good. thats the argument the right has at this point. we were attempted to bribe someone. we were...

This solicitation of bribery doesnt make it any less bribery. doesnt make it any less immoral or corrupt. it just means it was unsuccessful. and to that, we owe other dedicated public servants who blew the whistle. had they not blown the whistle, we wouldnt be here and i think it is appalling that my colleagues continue to want to out this whistle-blower so that he or she can be punished by this president. but lets underscore once again while you are the beginning of this story, youre not the en...