dropoff? viewership from last week. i think the real thing to look at here, you had some of this polling on earlier in the hour, how set people are in their ways. people see this as a prefixed conclusion, that the democrats are going to impeach, the republicans are going to acquit, and we re going to be right back where we started. a really big issue that we write a lot about on axios, the way people can live in filter bubbles, depending on the television shows you watch and the twitter followers. these are two completely different stories. either the democrats railroading the president or the president deserving to be impeached. neither side is breaking through. and what can we expect from democrats in this week s round of public testimony given the witnesses that are going to be in front of the panel? yeah, what the democrats want to say is really kind of paint a picture of how this was a, quote, pressure campaign by the president and his allies on the ukraine, pulling away from
that this is buncombe stuff wasn t going to work. now they re going to say look, maybe there conversations that we had most people would feel a little uncomfortable with but the bad thing didn t happen, so let s move on. bret: i guess the question is, if this ig report comes out as we expected now where before that 11th testimony, does it in essence bolster republicans even further to stand with the president if it s this paint a picture of the beginning of the russia investigation that has a lot of question marks? look, this is what the republicans have been waiting for they are hanging a lot on this. there s a lot of expectations around us. it needs to deliver. i suspect it will be a lot of unhappy people and i suspect that people like mccabe and others, comey and others will be very unhappy when all is said and done. bret: there s the ig report that deals with the fisa allegations and then there s john durham, the u.s. attorney from connecticut who was also doing a broader loo
box by first announcin investigations into the bidens and the 2016 election. democrats calling the testimony damming. ambassador bill taylor testified and gave the most sweeping and devastating testimony about president trump s efforts to shake down the ukrainian government. repter: some republicans are pouncing after taylor testified that ukraine did not learn the aid was being with held until weeks after the july call between president trump and ukraine s president. neither he or any other witness has provided testimony that the ukrainians were aware that military aid was being with held you can t have a quid pro quo with no quo. reporter: still tonight the second most powerful republican in the senate is revealing cracks within his party saying bill taylor s testimony paint a picture, in his words, that is, quote, not a good picture. thank you. to the crisis in northern syria, president trump declaring a cease-fire there is no
so far, seven people confirmed dead. as you look at those pictures there, it s clear, and we re hearing that from officials there as well that, the death toll sadly will likely rise. our patrick oppemann is live in freeport in the bahamas. correspondent paula newton is on her way to the abaco islands. we ll hear from her the moment she gets back. let s start with you, patrick, if we can. your rare eyes and ears on the ground there. you ve seen the rescues, some of the devastation. help paint a picture for our viewers this morning of just how extensive it is. reporter: it s the entire island. we saw that photo yesterday of an island under water, the before and after. remember, the highest point of land on this island is considered high ground for the bahamas is 30 feet high. the storm surge was at least 20 feet high. most of this island and most of its houses, i think we can say, were under water for hours a
let s get some perspective with kate andrews, an associate director at the institute of economic affairs. joining us from our london bureau. given the information from this leaked dossier, it does paint a picture of serious problems should a no-deal brexit happens, it makes it clear as well these are not worst case possibilities, these are hard and plain facts and the document lays these scenarios out. it makes for very frightening reading indeed if you take it to be as you say fact and not other element of fearmongering. the reason i think it s in dispute, on the front page of the bbc news website about a