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Transcripts of those closed-door testimonies as have i, and you get a sense at the top of many of those hearings it was quite a competition between the republicans and the democrats there, and quite a fight. you get a sense once it goes before the public cameras, thats going to just intensify? >> reporter: 100%. youre going to have republicans talk about the whistle-blower and try to tear down his or her credibility. youre going to try to get republican attempts to have witnesses identify who th...

Every single one of these witnesses has come through, provided consistent testimonies that line up exactly with what the whistle-blower report said with the exception of ambassador sondland. ambassador sondland had an acute case of selective amnesia when he testified. and many would probably suggest it was borderline perjury at times. and obviously him coming back and supplementing his testimony was to basically try and fill in holes after he saw how others testified. >> and fiona hill has subse...

Politico. good evening and welcome to you all. andrew, i want to start with your reporting on how the democrats are planning to roll out, planning to tell this story. i think we can all agree the mueller report lacked in the telling of the story. >> thats exactly right, and i think democrats are looking to next week by drawing from the main takeaways this week. and i think the top-line item was consistency in that there are so many common threads running through the testimonies of the eight or s...

His lawyer says. what does that tell you about where boltons mind might be right now? >> i have a hard time taking john bolton seriously. that has always been the case but especially now. i think on nonsubstantive grounds or at least in terms of this scandal, john bolton it is clear from the testimonies that have been released has tried to keep this drug team in hdeal ins at arms length. he tried to stay away. he wanted nothing to do with it. i think the question becomes if he actually does have...

Giuliani was leading them down was not in the best interests of the country. it was in the personal interests of the actors, but not in the national interests. >> anita, the criticism is why havent we heard what has been happening behind the closed doors, what are they now we have many of the transcripts. there are still more. will that satisfy the back and forth on the hill and around the white house? >> we will see these public testimonies starting wednesday. and so the argument by house repub...

Seen, why havent we heard what has been happening behind these closed doors? what are they saying? now, we have all the -- we have many of the transcripts. right? anita, of what has been said. theres still yet more. will this satisfy that back and forth on the hill and around the white house? >> you know, i mean, were going to see these public testimonies starting wednesday, as you mentioned. and so the argument by house republicans and by the president that this is all secretive, the criticisms...

Officially begin the next phase of the impeachment inquiry with those public hearings. they are scheduled for next week. there are three key witnesses to include there. house lawmakers are set to hear from bill taylor, the top diplomat in ukraine, deputy assistant secretary george kent and former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. the closed-door testimony from those three among the thousands of pages released by house democrats this week from eight current and former administration ...

See from the transcript, that was who the president was saying the president should go to when they had questions of all of this. the white house is essentially bracing for those public testimonies to happen starting next week, but dont forget, its not just bill taylor going on wednesday and george kent is also going to be there and if its the same level in detail as what we saw in the released transcript today, that is something the white house is not wanting to deal with as well as new questio...

What are you learning? >> reporter: john bolton has been a key person mentioned throughout this impeachment inquiry and witness after witness described hims is someone who is in the center of key events and raised concerns about the push by rudy giuliani and the president to pursue investigations to help the president politically even referring to rudy giuliani as a quote, hand grenade according to the transcript released today of fiona hills testimony but john bolton apparently has even more in...

The testimonies thus far. the interesting thing is he still doesnt want to testify. >> yeah. but he sure is dangling something in front of these house democrats they really want new and potentially consequential information in regards to this house impeachment inquiry. hes been at the center of all this. he was the national security advisor to the president while all of this is going down and we have heard descriptions throughout the testimonies and we described guiliani as the presidents person...