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That i would just point out is, you jknow, gordon sondland, ti morrison and others basically vouch for the recounting of these conversations with the president or zelensky that ambassador taylor made. and soam i have not yet heard anybody dispute these particular descriptions of those conversations. and thats very important. >> how do you understand what your role is? both you as a member of congress, but also the committee in this. i cmean, as you said before, these individuals have given depos...

>> you said you think most americans have read the transcript. do you think most americans have read the transcript of the phone call? >> well, since the transcript is only a couple of pages long, since its pretty darn good reading and since both the president repeatedly and his opponents have read the transcript, im guessing more have called the so-called transcript. its a recounting of the call. than have read the thousands pages of those out there. >> heres where mike conaway thinks you will ...

Vea big show tonight on the eve of the first public hearings about impeaching president trump. and by the way we get it. it is 2019 and people in the press and politics say this is big, a lot. but this is big. donald trump stands closer to impeachment tonight than ever beefore. let me tell you what were going to do tonight on "the last word." later we will ton to a related reportx john bolton saying in a private meeting hes concerned trump has compromised national security for u.s. business inte...

Ready to defy trump and talk to the impeachment probe that is trying to end trumps presidency. the new testimony coming in tonight from a top state department official, george kent, recalling trumps specific demands that ukraine carry out the political investigations he wanted. recounting how another now-famous witness, ambassador sondland, said trump wanted nothing less than president zelensky to go to the microphone and say, investigations, biden, and clinton. kent also telling congress that t...

Also big in virginia, mississippi, what it means for the national picture. so right now to cnns don lemon on a big night. >> it is a big night. listen, we havent called it, but i mean if you have the secretary of state, the actual person who counts the votes, pretty fairly certain that she is right. she said to you theres going to be -- there could be a re-canvassing. explain the difference between re-canvassing and a recount. >> so they dont have an automatic recount, which is where a certain m...

Heñr saw what happened, who hav been career service. theyre not partisan, sitting under oath with their hand 1nder oath with their hand quo, that will be devastating to this president. >> which is why a lot of people say the republican party is trying to do irkt caassassination to witnesses. >> thank e1you. at the heart of all ofe1e1 , a quid pro quo between president trump and ukraine looms at the center of the impeachment inquiry. an opinion writer wonders if the july phonexd call was the f...

Likely to see next month. >> you can remember the sitting member of the military sitting if uniform recounting what he saw in witness. elly williams, i want to get at what has been the series of presidential defenses, hear responses. it started with this idea of hearsay, whistleblower, democrat, et cetera, hearsay point is gone. now have you someone who is on the call. >> yeah. >> second phase you can call it character assassination. theyve gone after bill taylor i imagine that will continue wit...

Inside the white house who presumably can add more light. if he shows up over a dozen times in bill taylors testimony, if he actually does show up and testify on thursday, thats another witness who presumably can provide specific information about what the president himself did. >> mike schmidt, on gordon sondland, hes not john bolton, hes not mick mulvaney. he wasnt in the oval office every day. but his own testimony includes the recounting and i think from documents we have seen from kurt volk...

Malfeasance elsewhere. >> weinstein didnt only pressure nbc executives to shutdown the expose, the hollywood producer also attempted to leverage his longtime relationship with hillary clinton. here is farrow recounting that experience to bret baier. >> i cant speak to her state of mind, what i can say as she attempted to withdraw from an interview that she had committed to for a foreign policy book i was working on for which i had interviewed every other living secretary of state and before doin...

Veteran diplomat had to add to his luster as a witness. >> i think thats right. and also, his sense of integrity and the importance of what was the bipartisan u.s. policy, his adherence is very career and -- clear and it comes through in his written statement that what he was concerned about was we knew what the policy was, help the ukrainians fend off this russian aggression. the president was basically extorting them by withholding aid that they desperately needed. theyre lining a drowning man...