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White house visit for president zelensky. >> so, ill start with you, jill, on this. tell me why this is so damaging, because ambassador sondlands credibility itself has been questioned after changing his testimony three times. >> you are right. and the only reason its so damaging is because its in corroborating with everything else we heard. what was so damaging this week was how all of the pieces of puzzle fit together, how everyone testified to the same facts. and the republicans did not do ev...

Seeing all this public testimony wrap up in a mount of public defense. this is something the president relishes, seeing those republicans go after them and essentially stand by him and defend him in this. i think thats more what it is when the president says hes welcoming a trial happening. but the president is described as being jubilant by officials. certainly thats not the vibe he gave off talking to reporters, debunking the theory that just yesterday fiona hill was laying out that ukraine wa...

Republicans or former republicans or lifelong diplomats who have worked for i think in almost all the cases more republicans than democrats. in terms of just evaluating sort of the credibility of the evidence provided by the witnesses, its inconceivable to me that were not seeing more cracks in the republican political fire wall. >> i agree with that. i mean you have witness after witness going and corroborating what the whistle-blower said and thats why the devin nunes strategy of where is the ...

They really wanted this meeting. we couldnt get the aid. they wouldnt give it to them. the guys on the phone with the president shouting so loud hes got the phone out here. hes saying, yeah, the president doesnt care about anything but the bidens. what happened and why is clear. the question is the consequence. >> right. and people who didnt necessarily know each other. >> right. >> i mean they may have heard of each other, worked at the same place, but they didnt know each other and theyre all ...

They were asking us what to do. they didnt want to do this. they didnt want to get involved. they couldnt figure out where the aid was. they really wanted this meeting. we couldnt get the aid. they wouldnt give it to them. the guys on the phone with the president shouting so loud hes got the phone out here. hes saying, yeah, the president doesnt care about anything but the bidens. what happened and why is clear. the question is the consequence. >> right. and people who didnt necessarily know eac...

Corroborating what the person testified before them. each fact is fitting in and theyll keep following it up. for example the testimony of holmes about the sondland public conversation with the president from his cell phone in a restaurant and there were two other witnesses. im sure what theyre doing, theyre calling those other two people to confirm their recollection is the same and so its really a question of how much time will it take and how far do you have to get? as a prosecutor you learn ...

Campaign dirt, and two is that he did do it, but it is no big deal, and not an impeachable offense and it was a perfect call, and the third is that he did do it, and wrong, but impeachment ought not happen or let the voters decide. it is becoming increasingly difficult to do at least the first bucket, the first category saying that this is simply did not happen, and to deny it. it is not an anonymous whistle-blower who heard something from somebody, and it is one official after another now testi...

When i was reading mr. holmes opening statement, i noticed he started with these words, i did not seek this opportunity to testify. can i tell you in my 30 years as a prosecutor i had so many witnesses come in and say mr. kirschner, i dont want to testify. and pretty much to a person when they said that you knew they were about to blow somebody up with some truthful incriminating testimony. so i think it actually enhances his credibility that he didnt seek out this opportunity to testify. now, o...

The seventh, witness tampering, carries up to 20 years in prison. i think gordon sondland better pay attention to that. >> glenn, a word on how close this roger stone case got to donald trump. one of the things hes convicted for was lying about a phone call that roger stone had with president trump. and its one of those phone calls, a cellphone call during the campaign thats overheard by someone, in this case rick gates. >> how close did it get? it bumped right up against donald trump. because o...

Having access to the opening statement from that witness, i mean that witness is able to give us jaw dropping detail about that call which, again, puts the president right personally at the center of this scandal. but in addition to that the witness is giving us corroborating information and testimony about other elements of this scandal in terms of what he was able to see from the u.s. embassy in ukraine, of course a key position. and he was there after marie yovanovitch had left. a lot of the ...