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Day it is important for democrats to, you know, put forth witnesses that directly spoke with the president. gordon sondland is going to be a linchpin in the investigation here. he is the person who omitted this call that was practically on speaker phone in kyiv. he is the person here who is going to provide the most compelling testimony, or is willing to, that the president directed him to coordinate this scheme to get ukraine to launch an investigation into political opponents. >> shermichael, ...

Corruption. this whole argument that the president of the united states is so obsessed with and concerned about corruption is completely debunked by the evidence in his own call transcripts. >> in fact, what we heard testified from marie yovanovitch this week is that the actions that were taken were counterproductive in terms of rooting out corruption. she was removed, and she was part of the effort to really right the ship in what was happening in ukraine. let me ask you about another thing we ...

He goes on to say later in the tweet -- its a u.s. presidents absolute right to appoint ambassadors. and now in real time the president is attacking you. what effect do you think that has on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, its very intimidating. >> intimidating. schiff during a break in the hearings was calling it witness intimidation. >> we saw today witness dimation, once again going after this dedicated and respected career public servant in an effo...

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Witness intimidation means he wants to sign up for another article on obstruction of justice too. the new york times saying the tactic functions not just as an attempt to discredit his critics but as a warning to deter others from coming forward. what do you make of the analysis that equates this to witness intimidation and possibly adding to the articles of impeachment? >> the president is going through a process where he cant represent himself in any way, shape or form and that is the problem....

Sound bites and they were going crazy about trumps tweet about marie yovanovitch. watch. >> we have not seen a climate of intimidation of public servants like this since the mccarthy. >> all this violent language, the intimidation in which they get out of the country and shut it down.tw >> this is thuggery. >> >> the president is live tweeting this and he is tweeting intimidation. this is criminal. >> laura: they try to quid pro quo then they went to bribery and now they are on witness intimidat...

Marie yovanovitch. watch. >> we have not seen a climate of intimidation of public servants like this since the mccarthy. speak all of this violent link which, the intimidation, get her out of the country, shut her down. >> the president is live tweeting this and he is tweeting intimidation. this is criminal. >> laura: they try to quid pro quo then they went to bribery and now they are on witness intimidation. >> honestly, are you serious? i just i cant believe we have gotten to this. its either ...

The president has done this. are we a country that says thats okay? or are we a country that says its not and the president should be impeached? >> that is related to the very heart of this impeachment inquiry here, david. i want to move over to you, chris lou. just looking at the calendar. okay. so we have sondland on wednesday who is going to be on the hill. and then dewe move to the day before and weve got williams and morrison as well. but gordon sondland now because of the david holmes reve...

Republican side is trying to besmirch his integrity because hes a pretty credible witness. he has given 50 years of his life to the country, vietnam veteran, fifth in his class at west point and all that. so the republicans understand that trying to knock him down on a personal level is probably unwise. but they do say that, look, he didnt know what he was -- what the president was doing. he never talked to the president, he never met the president. any conversation had e had was secondhand and ...

And it was in that part of the whistle-blowers complaint, in the classified addendum that the whistle-blower mentioned in addition to his or her other claims about the presidents behavior -- holy toledo -- it looks like in addition to the president soliciting ukraine to give him help against joe biden, it also looks like the president was holding up aid to ukraine while he applied that pressure on them. this is from the classified annex of the whistle-blowers complaint. quote, on 18 july an offi...