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Well see if we get any further reaction later today. >> arlette, thank you so much. in the meantime, the white house is fighting house subpoenas for some of their top officials. cnns kristin holmes is joining us from the white house. mick mulvaney wants to join in on this lawsuit. what are you hearing about that? >> reporter: thats right, fred. we learned about this late last night. this followed a day of key events. the first thing happening was mulvaney not showing up despite being subpoenae...

The president politically, pushing the ukraine government to do so. fiona hill testified that she quoted john bolton saying rudy giuliani is a hand grenade thats going to blow everything up. in a new letter sent by boltons attorney to capitol hill, he reveals that john bolton has information on events, meetings, conversations about which you already received testimony, but about meetings and conversations that have not been discussed in the testimonies so far. and this was revealed in a court ca...

Rough day yesterday. two testimonies came out one from alexander vindman. she a ukrainian expert, till works for the white house, here is why he is so important. he is still on that call. no matter how many times president trump repeats that line that it is third hand knowledge, maybe he has not met vindman, maybe he doesnt remember him, but it does not make it true that he was not on that call because she a firsthand information source about that call. and when this testimony came out, the othe...

Testimonies thus far. are you willing, are the democrats willing to put an impeachment vote on hold another few weeks to possibly get john boltons testimony? >> i can say i think although we have not discussed this, it just came up, we all need him. if he wanted to come forward, he should have come forward earlier. look where we are. we have to get this done by the end of december. our cup runneth over. we heard from the staff, people in the room. i think youre dealing with an official who remem...

Pro quo? >> absolutely. i think the biggest question here is going to be, have the president and his allies done such a good job of convincing their base that this is a deep state plot, these people are all closet trump haters or pro democrat or whatever, that theyve done such a good job of that that no matter what any of these witnesses say, nothing is going to move the needle. then you are in a situation where you need a bolton or giuliani to kind of acknowledge this, and were going to find ou...

Rooting out corruption in this call, but we dont know if they got into detail. clearly the president wants this transcript out there, and he wants it out there now. heres what the president said. >> now, they want to have a transcript of the other call, the second call, and im willing to provide that. well probably give it to you on tuesday, monday being a holiday. wll probably give it to you on tuesday, but we have another transcript coming out, which is very important. they asked for it, and i...

Influence a country like the ukraine and hold up military aid. >> you mentioned the watergate scale. into watergate happened back in 1973, there were only three tv networks, right, and the other networks are going to carry it and still youve got way more stations now. i want you to watch john dean. >> its ought out growth over excessive concern of political impact of demonstrators, excessive concern over leaks and insatiable appetite for political intelligence all coupled with a do it yourself w...

Been discussed in the testimonies thus far. it sounds like there is more to this story yet to be revealed, no? >> well, yes, i think so. and john bolton, of all people in the white house, other than the president himself, probably knows more about this than anyone. and also hes remarks attributed to him by other witnesses had problems with this sort of second policy towards ukraine, you know, characterizing as a drug deal and rudy giuliani as a hand grenade and all that sort of thing. so if he d...

Whae realize they better clarify what they said, this is exactly what happened to sondland, he realizes he cant backtrack and say theres no quid pro quo because that famous e-mail, i think its from bill taylor, where theyre talking about. >> the text message. >> yes, ana, that is exhibit number one, if i were the prosecutor, giving the opening and closing arguments against the steamers, the president and all of his conspirators. >> let me ask you about mick mulvaney, though, because the presiden...

There shouldnt be impeachment hearings is what i said. maybe they misconstrued it. but what i say is read the transcript. reporter: democrats say they have plenty of testimony to show the opposite, that the impeachment inquiry and the proceedings should continue to happen. they made a significant portion of the closed door testimonies public his week. we expect to hear from two people in a public hearing this week and another one will take place on friday. arthel: for more on this well bring in ...