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Questions about the -- >> i disagree with your conclusion. its a conclusion, not a -- >> my english teacher says you have a conclusion. if you want to interview yourself, go right ahead. >> why dont you want to answer the question. is it okay for the president -- >> its not a question. >> why dont you want to do an interview instead of interviewing yourself? >> the president asked on the white house lawn -- >> will you answer my question? >> i guess thats the answer. >> if you dont want to inter...

Legal. now this is a process argument. and any time youre arguing about process, you are generally not winning, but that is where republicans really are. they are fully in a process argument. pelosi is trying to take a little bit of that away from them. i do think that they want to argue on that for the gop does, because the stubstance as were laying out with vindman. >> process plus character assassination. julie pace and ann guerin. well speak to a democratic congressman about what could be ...

Heard for the first time from someone who was actually listening in on the controversial phone conversation july 25th between the president of the united states and the president of ukraine. how significant is that? >> well, i think it is very significant for a couple of reasons. one, i mean it takes another process argument off the table for republicans. theyve said a lot of the witnesses are just -- it is hearsay, they dont necessarily know what theyre talking about. this is someone who was on...

Process argument. with more testimony like this republicans dont want to touch the substance here, do they? >> they dont. i dont share your view on the this that somehow the dam is going to break. i think the arguments will shift as they have to shift. the republicans will stand with donald trump. why? not because of the evidence but because he has a 90% approval rating among republicans. thats whats driving this. unless that number starts eroding they will continue to push back and whatever way...

See much of that in the senate. i would echo what bob costa was saying earlier on, republican senate as a whole, not speaking for all of them, but the vast majority are deeply, deeply uncomfortable with the substance of whats happened here and thats why you saw that very timid resolution last week. the backstory to that was lindsey graham wanted to put out a fairly bombastic letter to nancy pelosi that would have basically been a middle finger, sign of solidarity, were not going to go down this ...

Anyone who didnt sign it would be on the enemies lisp number t two if they didnt get enough signatures, it would be a sign of weakness. they come with this watered down document, basically a process argument. i think tomorrow is important because of who he is, hes a veteran, as jeremy laid out, a wounded veteran from iraq. going to be very difficult to paint him as a partisan hack and his concerns are going to carry more weight than some of the other testimony that weve heard so far. >> robert c...

>> robert costa, to that point, what about the senate republicans, after this expected vote on the house floor, theyve been saying theyre the jury, what impact might this testimony have on a crack in the firewall, really, of the republicans in the senate? >> its significant, but so far the public response has been relatively quiet from senate republicans. theyre watching the testimony in the house impeachment inquiry very closely, talking to top senate aides over the weekend, republicans, they t...

See much of that in the senate. i would echo what bob costa was saying earlier on, republican senate as a whole, not speaking for all of them, but the vast majority are deeply, deeply uncomfortable with the substance of whats happened here and thats why you saw that very timid resolution last week. the backstory to that was lindsey graham wanted to put out a fairly bombastic letter to nancy pelosi that would have basically been a middle finger, sign of solidarity, were not going to go down this ...

Us. >> gene robinson has the first question. gene. >> i just want to know what you make of this coming testimony by colonel vindman, where it sort of leaves us in this whole saga. and why somebody in the middle of that phone call didnt just hang up the phone. >> well, you know, the testimony is significant in some ways because it almost mutes the existence of the telephone call. we have someone who was on the call. we know his background, hes a deck core rated w decorated war veteran. i think th...

And the republicans are seeing they have to migrate to the substance and the president said lets talk about the substance and the process. but the republicans have to defend the position that the quid pro quo is not an impeachable offense and where they had to go to and where the substance will go. the challenge is that the white house continues to not cooperate and that adds another front to the battle that republicans will have to fight on. not just the substance, but also now adding themselve...