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Are looking for? we are all reading this transcript right now and they talk a little bit -- >> i was given a hand signal that something may be coming earlier but thats about it. >> melissa: let me tell you whats catching my eye here, theres a lot of testimony, it seems like, from the ambassador or senior advisor to the secretary of state, michael mckinley, who you mentioned, talking about morale within the department and about the removal and i wonder how much of that goes to this idea that ther...

>> steve: witness statements. >> marie: let me finish with your you jump on me over this. the president wants you to focus on one transcript of one call because he thinks he can spend map of these transcripts. let me finish, these transcripts will show that the impeachment process is about much more than one call, its about months and months. all these other witnesses speak to the broader -- >> harris: you know what, in the very beginning, several weeks ago, the whistle-blower wasnt needed, noth...

Example of the courageous people that have come forward. people who work for john bolton, people who have in their careers much more at risk have shown the courage to come forward, they have not hidden behind litigation, they have not hidden behind the white house as witnesses today have. theyve showed enormous courage and patriotism and i would urge others to follow their example, not follow the corrupt example of the white house which is seeking to obstruct this investigation. >> some of these...

That is directly contradictory to their practices when they were in the majority. today we also are beginning the process of releasing transcripts of our depositions, this morning we released the position of ambassador mckinley and ambassador yovanovitch and i believe you all to review those transcripts. there are a few things i will become immediately clear. the first is that contrary to the claims of the president and his acolytes on the hill, these have been proceedings in which the republica...

Calling on republicans to release their own version of the transcript? >> there has been some supposition by some republicans and some republicans commented this morning that democrats may try to cook the books on this, contour these transcripts in a way thats favorable to them. i was told by one republican source early this morning that when they did structure a release for these transcripts, the democrats would probably release the one that was favorable to the democratic because first and the...

As we watch that, any surprises any any sort of context that you werent expecting to get? >> not released surprises, harris. for these officials not showing up today, you heard adam schiff say that builds in their obstruction case. democrats likely will put together what they believe is obstruction by the white house as one of the articles of impeachment they move forward to eventually. i think the transcripts are interesting, i have the excerpts of the transcripts here, they obviously put out t...

Remember, someone wrote an op-ed to saying there is an organized resistance to the bureaucracy. that person, on top of all the transcripts, their book is coming out in the next couple weeks. these people in the bureaucracy take president trump, they cant believe he is the president, theyve been working against him since day one. combine that with the democrats trying to overturn the election and thats what you have now. thats why we shouldnt take it seriously. these people inside the bureaucracy...

Abusing the processes of the house to selectively leak information. if they cared about transparency they wouldnt be putting out those transcripts that help their case, they would be putting all of them out there at the same time. because the truth is, what weve seen so far is conflicting evidence through different bits of a bureaucracy. so the democrats, these diplomats with all their years of expertise, even among that group youve got one of them, curt walker who in his sworn witness statement...

For more of the fresh rate release transcript from the democrats. take it away. >> im just going to read you right would have gotten here from the three committee chairs. the acting chair of the oversight committee and eliot engel, the chair of the foreign affairs committee. two transcripts released today. this is important because its the first time i get a look behind that closed the door the intelligence committee where for weeks now theyve been having these closed-door depositions and interv...

Of the principal reasons that caused this career as a public servant to decide he must resign his office as he did. we will be releasing further transcripts. tomorrow we are scheduled to release the transcripts of ambassadors and we will continue to release the transcripts in an orderly way, we will continue to allow witnesses the opportunity to review their transcripts, continue to make redactions or private information, personal identifying information. we will continue to release the transcri...