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About it and i wouldnt have done it if i did. >> just in general as you well know, kicking off week two of the public testimony, major player, sondland included, volker included, colonel vindman included as well. what are you going to be looking for? >> again, for me, the entire week is sondland, he is the star, vindman is important, some of the others, volker is important, because sondland essentially says that trump told me, volker, and others, to go talk to giuliani but i sort of let the othe...

For what they said and they are the most amenable to being tools for the president to carry off the plot. volker will come before the committee tomorrow. to harrys point, hes already in a little hot water in terms of what he said so far, right? >> thats exactly right. it will be really interesting to see how volker comes in front of the committee, what he says, whether or not he points to sondland. as weve seen over the past week or so, you know, a lot of reporting has come out on sondland. all ...

Either has to call hill and vindman liars or own up with to fact he did place conditionalities on these acts. >> how do you come these three separate testimonies coming into play, you have sondlands testimony on wednesday and fiona hills on thursday. >> im still concerned sondland is operating. hes a walking advertisement for foreign surveillance. to date sondland has been a treasure-trove for trump. by working through ambassador sondland trump has been able to put an official hold on political ...

He was president nixons former white house counsel. kaitlan, i want to start as we begin this week, we saw that list of witnesses, jennifer williams, the president attacking her over the weekend, setting the stage to draw questions about her and then gordon sondland testifying on wednesday. what are the stakes for the white house? >> its interesting also because the president has been wanting to try this approach of undermining these witnesses, dismissing them and what their complaints or concer...

Do this investigation of the bidens. given all of that, what is the first thing you plan to ask ambassador sondland on wednesday? >> well, gosh, you know, ambassador sondland was at the center of this alleged scheme to condition military aid on an alleged investigation of trumps political rivals here. i think that well be asking him al about the events leading up to the july 25th call, as well as the day of the call and events subsequent to that. he was intricately involved with all of those eve...

Parakiles, a u.s. foreign policy consultant and an associate at lse ideas. that is a think tank at the london school of economics. thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> good morning. >> so how significant might gordon sondlands public testimony be, do you think, in light of these new details in "the wall street journal" that he apparently kept the trump administration apprised of efforts to get ukraine to investigate the bidens ahead of the presidents infamous july 25th call? >>...

>> the president tweeted hes seriously thinking about that. what do you think? >> he has done a lot of this in writing and that is his twitter feed and what hes tweeting throughouts the testimonies and specifically what we heard from him when ambassador yovanovitch was testifying friday. a lot of people said the president damaged himself by doing so. if the president decides he wants to submit questions by his lawyers, we have been through this before alla the mueller investigation. im not sure ...

That ukrainians didnt know about the aid being stalled at that point. if its clear from these e-mails or his testimony that these ukrainian -- top ukrainian aides knew about that in early july its going to change the timeline for republicans and the white house. >> thats great point. >> thanks, kaitlan. joining us to discuss kelly magmum, served under president obama and president bush. michael gearhart, our legal analyst and impeachment expert. good morning to you. michael, let me begin with ...

Treason or a high crime, that would be different. but we dont see that. jillian: the first two public testimonies both lasted more than five hours. at least eight more officials will take the stand this week. a fox news alert. an urgent manhunt underway after four people are shot and killed at a backyard football party in california. fresno police say the shooter or shooters walked up to the home and opened fire, hitting 10 people in a targeted attack. the six surviving victims are expected to r...

>> then are there any people testifying that the white house is ep anticipate happy about, people that could help the presidents case? >> reporter: remember tim morrison and kurt volker are people requested by republicans. these are people republicans wanted to testify. theres one other person that republicans have asked for. they both in their closed-door depositions have slightly less alarmist i guess is the way to describe it. volker knew that rudy giuliani was asking questions but he was try...