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Testimonies, republicans said some of this testimony could work in their favor. we just saw the last one with morrison that didnt necessarily believe anything the president did was necessarily illegal. depending on what some of these witnesses said in these testimonies, it will change how we viewed impeachment. this is the next phase. it will be a long phase. but its going to change a lot of how everything has been going. arthel: president trump told the "washington examiner" thursday he may rel...

Invited to testify next week regarding president trumps july call with his ukrainian counterpart. lauren blanchard is live from washington with more. >> reporter: despite the fact that the house is on recess next week, there will still be a full schedule of closed door testimonies. representative liz cheney september a letter to speaker pelosi last night, calling for the release of all transcripts, saying the selective leaking in which the house intelligence committee has been engaged must end i...

Just hammer the process providing no defense for the president. how will that read in open hearings? >> not as well as it has right now. once the public is collude in on everything that happened. especially when we get a sense of what happened. its been 100 hours of depositions. once we start to have those hearings that krm -- that argumt wont connect with americans if it is rye now. they are really going to have to plan a strategic defense of the president to kind of make the case. arthel: how ...

Present, but he might speak at an open hearing. on thursday lawmakers want to speak with security advisor john bolton. his lawyers say he will not voluntarily appear and theyre waiting for a subpoena. and the resolution vote didnt have a single republican yea, and nancy pelosi insists the impeachment inquiry is not partisan, a point president trump doesnt quite believe. and all of these testimonies may be scheduled, but they are not guaranteed. the administration is still not planning to coopera...

Impeach the president or what the inquiry will produce but we have no choice but to pursue that because we take an oath of office to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> this isnt about the speaker honoring her oath or honoring the constitution. it is about her honoring and enraged activist liberal base that gave her the gavel to make her speaker. >> reporter: always testimonies may be scheduled but they are not guaranteed. the administration says the investigation doesnt...

Personality or his policies. thats for the elections to decide. this is about our honoring our oath of office about whether hes honoring his oath of office to protect and defend the constitution. >> they must think were nuts, to be honest. its all a phony deal, this whole impeachment scam, to try to undermine the 2020 election. >> and all of these testimonies may be scheduled, but they are not guaranteed. the administration continues to say the investigation doesnt give the president due process...

Vindman said he quote, did not think it was proper for the president to ask a foreign power to investigate a domestic political rival. that gets us to wednesday. two career state department diplomats testify the president displayed a deeply pessimistic view of ukraine. katherine croft and christopher anderson said president trumps attitude was out of step with most white house and state department officials. they viewed support for ukraine as critical. then on the last day of testimonies, that w...

Future president of the united states with a bunch of campaign flunkies talking about how to get stuff from hostile foreign intelligence services, including wiki leaks. again, i dont think, you know, if you are looking for a smoking gun, theyre all around us. but i think it does tell you something about how corroded and how denatured our expectations of political leaders have become. that were reading this and sort of saying, yeah, you know, of course they did it. it is really its -- its really ...

As well as what weve heard from the reporting on the testimonies given from the hill, that -- that this issue of ukraine being at the heart of the question of the dnc server had happened not only from this very call but before and after. how might this all fit together, nile? >> well, look. i mean, clearly this is an important aspect of this. the fact that paul manafort was pushing this theory so early. and i think the documents that are uncovered here are going to be fascinating as people look ...

For democrats as the timeline is shrinking. >> the reason theres a time crunch is that my republican colleagues in the white house have orb instructed the investigation. >> next week, house democrats have 11 more witnesses on their deposition calendar, and their testimonies could prove pivotal. >> donald trump went on the attack while speaking in tupelo, mississippi. >> yesterday the democrats voted to potentially nullify the votes of 63 million americans, disgracing themselves and bringing sham...