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Mexican officials claim it burst into flames. the family says its not true. their belongings were found outside the car, and the gang, they say, set it on fire, victims inside, sending up a column of smoke to lure the rival cartel into a trap. >> there were reports that they shot this vehicle until it blew up, but we now have details and no thats not true. we believe they may have been used as bait to try and attract the cartel in the sonora to th them. >> so, whether they were bait, a random vi...

"the new york times." and here come with the impetus is the whistleblower. those are important, that is the match that starts the wildfire. you are absolutely right. what is are sitting there going, "is it worth it again? is a big enough? is this it, is this the one? is this where the wheels come off the wagon?" >> melissa: when they said they were gasping as they were hearing testimony, and we are looking at the transcripts. "what were you a gasping at?" what do you think about ambassador bolto...

Their time on him at all. they have good witnesses already. theyve done their closed hearings. they have bill taylor. they have lieutenant colonel vindman. they have marie yovanovitch. they have ambassador mckinley. they have people who have credibility, who have given a lifetime of service to the country, who are nonpartisan and who have come forward and testified under oath to the facts. and so amongst those witnesses and maybe a couple others, theyll determine which ones they want to have com...

The country deserves to hear from josh bolten under oath. hes one of the people at the center of all this. we deserve to hear from giuliani under oath, from mulvaney under oath. anderson, as i go back to think about these things, remembering another crisis and another administration when reagan was president in the iran-contra scandal broke. the president was in deep trouble. there was talk of impeachment. what did he do? he said, look, were sending everybody up that the hill wants to hear from....

Presidents defenders or maybe affiliates in congress or others who are observing from the outside, commentators say, well, the institutions are holding up, you know, this is just a lot of bluster that comes out of the white house. these arent things to be really worried about. these transcripts show that the institutions are under tremendous strain. >> well, also, david, strain from the guy whos running the state department. i mean we talk about secretary of state pompeo. his former adviser, mik...

Repeatedly denigrated the intelligence professionals are serving as americans, not as republicans and not as democrats. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. when we return, more revelations from the first impeachment inquiry transcripts released today. some concerns. rudolph giuliani shad owing in ukraine.

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Or as ambassador mckinley put it in his testimony, in 37 years in the foreign service in different parts of the globe and working on many controversial issues, i had never seen that. four administration officials were supposed to testify today. none of them showed up. more transcripts are due out tomorrow. i want to talk about all of this. joining me now is david gergen, carrie cordero, and john dean. david, im wondering what you make of the transcripts that have been released today. >> im very ...

As for the white house reaction, cnns jim acosta is there for us tonight. has the president said anything so far about the transcripts? >> reporter: not a whole lot, anderson. we should point out hes having a rally in kentucky right now. standing behind him onstage are some supporters wearing t-shirts that say "read the transcript." i think the president and his supporters are referring to the transcript of his phone call with the leader of ukraine, not these transcripts that are being released ...

Republicans probably did attend these sessions. we dont know because in these editions at least, that information is not revealed. so the redaction actually favors the republicans for their no-show. youre not going to be able to mess with these transcripts. the witnesses know what they said. they would be outspoken if there was something that was not properly included in there. and theyre pretty haunting documents, and theyre going to be even worse when theyre played out live. >> carrie, do you ...