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His opening statement, which cnn originally obtained exclusively caused a stir when it became public on friday. we now have the complete transcript of his testimony. cnns phil mattingly and our team in washington are going through the full q&a. phil, i know youve just gotten this. anything stand out? >> reporter: i think theres a couple things im looking for here. obviously we had the opening statement, the explosive and i would say rather expolice the opening statement from david holmes last th...

And that is on top of new cnn reporting. sources tell cnn president trump has again said he wants to fire witnesses who have testified against him in the impeachment hearings prompting his aides to consider moving those witnesses, some of them out of the white house and back to their home departments within the government. late today we learned about a new addition to the list of now nine officials and former officials who will be going before the house intelligence committee on television start...

Outstanding. obviously the call is pretty notable but what else he can say on that front is what were going to be digging through now. >> nine witnesses testifying publicly this week, holmes included, two of them facing tough questions about why key portions of their accounts differ from most of the others, all of them potentially facing fresh twitter wrath from the president. sources familiar with the matter tell us the ones who work on assignment at the white house might see careers hurt or at...

Distinctive experience in my foreign service career. ive never seen anything like this, someone calling the president from a mobile phone at a restaurant and then having a conversation of this level of candor, colorful language. theres just so much about the call that was so remarkable that i remember it vividly. this is one of the questions going into the testimony, he didnt take notes and didnt have a recorder, how do you remember this? when you have a career foreign officer outdoors at a tave...

With coming forward before our committees, there will be consequences. thats a form ofretaliation, a form of intimidation at this point. so were very, very disturbed by those particular pieces of news. >> and ambassador sondland is going to be testifying this week. there obviously remain gaps, inconsistencies in his earlier testimony. is the committees focus wednesday going to be attempting to clarify exactly what he knew and when he knew it because even this call that david holmes has now testi...

I made a perfect call. not a good call. perfect call. >> so far he is really the only one describing it as a perfect call. but the day after that allegedly perfect call, there was another made from an outdoor table of a restaurant in kiev in ukraine with the president talking so loudly that gordon sondland the ambassador to the european union, had to hold the phone away from his ears at some points. im quoting now from david holmes testimony who was sitting there at the table, quote, i heard amb...

There obviously remain gaps, inconsistencies in his earlier testimony. is the committees focus wednesday going to be attempting to clarify exactly what he knew and when he knew it? because even this call that david holmes has now testified about hearing, that is not something that ambassador sondland even in his revised -- his revised testimony when he amended it after hearing the testimony of other people that contradicted his original testimony, he still didnt mention this call. >> right. well...

Now, holmes, youll recall, has already told lawmakers in closed door session about the phone call he overheard the president and gordon sondland have a day after the july 25th conversation with ukraines president. the one the president continues to describe this way. >> it was a perfect call. an absolutely perfect phone conversation. it was perfect. that was perfect. the conversation was perfect. i made a perfect call. not a good call. perfect call. >> so far he is really the only one describing...

That decision. those are going to be the key elements im looking at. also another key thing keep an yao i on what the republican questioning is. how they work through this process. they knew this was coming. they knew it was going to be explosive when william taylor first kind of unveiled the bombshell if you will during his open testimony in front of the house committees on wednesday of last week how they decided to interact with mr. holmes. not only will it be interesting from an informational...

In ukraine. ambassador sondland replied yes he was in ukraine and went on to state that president zelensky loves your ass. i then heard president trump ask, so hes going to do the investigation? ambassador sondland replied that hes going to do it adding that president zelensky will do anything you ask him to. the call ended. he asked sondland whether the president, quote, gives a shit about ukraine. sondland replies that he does not saying he only cares about, quote, big stuff, unquote, that ben...