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Possible. i mean, i think thats why weve had so much focus on process so far. none of these republicans really want to debate these issues on the merits themselves. particularly, the elements in these depositions, in these testimonies, the facts generally speaking are not in dispute here. some elements of the timeline are. who told whom what and when. theres certain details that some of these witnesses conflict with each other in. but in the general argument that were going in here, nobody defen...

Trump administration officials delivered a clear quid pro quo message, telling investigators that u.s. ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland, had informed him that not only was a white house meeting with zelensky contingent on the probes trump desired but his condition had been coordinated with the white house chief of staff mick vul mainy. vind mand said at another point in his testimony that sondland told the ukrainians they would need to deliver an investigation into bidens for a ...

Pages worth of testimony that we heard so far. but during these televised hearings theyre going to need to get to the point. theres already three main questions that the house rules committee voted on when they were sort of creating the procedural outline for these public hearings this week, so we know that theyre really going be trying to aim directly connect all of these testimonies back to the president himself, asking bill taylor, maria von vich, george kent, did these orders come directly f...

At for, from these testimonies? is there a likelihood that any new information will be learned from them? >> one thing im going to be watching is actually not as much what the witnesses say, although thats important, but we have an idea whats coming from them, but how the questioning is actually conducted. part of the problem democrats have had to date, particularly with the mueller hearings, a few months ago, is theyre all over the place. they interject, they get five minutes each, they dont pa...

President, cannot appear or be forced to testify, so im covered either way. >> i want to get your take on sort of the public testimonies that were going to be hearing this week. what are you going to be looking for most? >> you will hear from bill taylor, george kent and marie yovanovitch this week, and possibly the most explosive testimony is that of bill taylor because we heard it already before, but he said something to the effect that he was very alarmed. something to the effect of this is c...

Persuade the american people of something that is really pretty simple, which is that the president acted criminally and extorted in the way a mob boss would extort somebody, a vulnerable foreign country, its probably best not to use latin words. theyve attested to the fact that it occurred. what were dealing with is krupg corruption, abuse of power in a whey that damaged national security. >> joining us from washington political reporter for "the washington examiner" with us once again emily la...

Chief of staff mick mulvaney. vindman said at another point in his testimony that sondland told the ukrainians they would need to deliver an investigation into the bidens for a white house meeting saying that there was absolutely no ambiguity in that request. vindman said he became aware by about july 3rd that military aid to ukraine had, in fact, been frozen, which is two weeks earlier than the date other officials have cited in their testimonies and added that the holdup occurred following abn...

What are you going to be looking for from these testimonies? is there any new information expected to be learned from them? well, i think we might learn some new information. one of these main points of these public testimonies is to introduce these better to the american people. the transcripts from the closed door hearings have been released, but thats hard to get a grasp on in these thousands and thousands of pages of testimony in order to really digest it. theres so much communication as you...

Quid pro quo, certainly a pressure campaign on some of these -- for some of these witnesses and shows sort of the chaos inside of the administration, while im sure republicans will point to a lot of things that they say, well, theres no proof of quid pro quo. and i also expect them to point to a lot of other issues that they are hoping to highlight such as issues from the 2016 election and corruption issues in ukraine. >> lets switch gears for a moment if we can and talk about the republicans st...

And it goes against what the american people want. it was offensive. >> and so peter thats interesting because shes talking about using the access that she had. that she challenged the president or express ed to him directly and shes saying other people should but u then parallel that to the witnesses who are about to testify and in their closed door testimonies, they all talked about how they did raise concerns. they were uncomfortable with what was being asked or the policy being driven, but n...