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Of the united states. the democrats are saying this is illegal, could be added to the articles of impeachment. youre a lawyer, john. whats your view? >> well, it really depends, eric, on what the intent was of the president. if his intent was indeed to influence the testimony of marie yovanovitch in any way, that would be unlawful. the president when asked about this yesterday said hes exercising his first amendment rights. thats not a good argument. the courts have said your first amendment is ...

Bidens. >> this is the testimony that im most interested as well as a lot of other legal people are most interested in watching on wednesday morning, this is the testimony of gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union. unlike the witnesses weve seen so far, eric, he is not a trained diplomat. hes an individual who donated $1 million to the presidents inaugural committee and got this plumb post of u.s. ambassador to the european union. i think his testimony will be unlike the test...

Adam schiff will not commit to that being the end of the impeachment hearings. back to you. eric: i may be jumping the gun, tim morrison reportedly said he was troubled by the call but didnt he see anything illegal in that. any indication so far in terms of ms. williams, what her view was? >> reporter: in the thumbnail sketch that i did a few minutes ago, she thought the conversations about, quote, investigations, appeared to be unusual. and again, this is where democrats -- if you look at kind ...

Next wednesday. john, good to see you. >> thanks a lot. arthel: a big day in louisiana where voters head to the polls for a hotly contested gubernatorial race. john bel edwards is facing a stiff challenge from republican eddie rispone, a businessman who compares himself to then candidate trump back in 2016. >> now, you have an incumbent, you have an outsider, a conservative, someone who has never run before, not beholden to special interests, similar to what the president had to face when he ran...

>> as we sit here testifying, the president is attacking you on twitter. ill read part of one of his tweets. everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia. how did that go? he goes on to say, later in the tweet, is that u.s. presidents have the right to appoint ambassadors. the president real-time is attacking you. >> its very intimidating. eric: president trumps tweets adding to the drama and legality at the hearing in which marie yovanovitch was testifying and the pr...