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She said, i believe those references to be more political in nature, so that struck me as unusual. the president calls her a never trumper, saying he doesnt know her and basically has never heard of her. why? just because saying its unusual, saying it was for political purposes. thats not good for the president. but why decide to, in advance, after republicans were not happy when he live tweeted essentially during the yovanovitch testimony, why do it again? >> the president may not be happy but ...

The pressure they live under every day and the president and his supporters would do well to realize that and offer a little bit, a modicum of support of the people who give their lives to protect this country. >> just to add to seans point, all you have to say, he wont do it because he wont do it because of trump as jamie said, but say these people are good, dedicated career public servants. these are people with long records, nonpartisan records. these are not -- hes not going to say these are...

. all right. it is the top of the hour. good monday morning, everyone. im poppy harlow. >> and im jim sciutto. its a major week for the country ahead. eight witnesses set to publicly testify in the ongoing impeachment investigation. the political stakes here for both parties, frankly, are high. even higher for u.s. ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland. he will testify on wednesday after other witnesses have described his direct talks with president trump about efforts to pressure ukraine to i...

26th about investigations into the bidens. also, "the wall street journal" reporting this morning there are a trail of e-mails where sondland kept acting chief of staff mick mulvaney and energy secretary rick perry updated on the effort to start those investigations. >> ahead of this pivotal week the president is on the attack once again taking aim at yet another witness, pence aide and career foreign service officer jennifer williams, set to testify under oath tomorrow. the president is calling...

It shed light on possible other motivations behind a security assistance hold. williams testifies in public tomorrow. president trump not waiting, instead attacking her on twitter as a never-trumper without any proof and reacting to this comment by nancy pelosi. >> the president could come right before the committee and talk -- speak all of the truth he wants. >> reporter: trump tweeting this morning, i like the idea and will in order to get congress focused again. strongly consider it. the pres...

Never trumper, its what the vice president is not saying that is speaking volumes here. his office said williams is a state department employee. lets go to carl bernstein with more. what do you make of that statement. >> hes trying to distance himself between the vice president and someone who is his key adviser who is going to give testimony apparent ly quite damaging for the white house and president trump himself. she is his rile adviser. >> what about the president.

Definitely risked some things to go work for his administration, im talking about ambassador bill taylor who came out of retirement to work for president trump, obviously jennifer williams. you dont do this without some sort of personal risk. we have no idea what it will look like in ten years to have trump white house on your resume. >> these are people who have been testifying in open hearings for the last several days are people who have been in public service for decades. they have served un...

Then she should meet with the other never trumpers who i dont know and mostly never even heard of and work out a better presidential attack. now, there is no evidence to support the presidents claims here that jennifer williams is a never trumper, just like theres no evidence to back up the presidents similar attacks on lieutenant colonel alex vindman, a ukraine expert at the national security council as well as the ambassador bill taylor, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, both of whom the presi...

Much. let me clue -- chew over this with you guys. raise your hand if you think the chance that president trump will testify publicly is zero. interesting. >> zero is hard. >> could i add a qualifier, in person under oath? >> the greatest reality show ever. >> and you think there is a chance he might do it and you do too. >> not zero. >> a .5%. >> youre hedging your bets. >> and that he might apologize some day to somebody. yes, no? >> this is not your show. >> sorry. >> only the moderator can...

Because we did nothing wrong. >> reporter: after months of haggling the president ended up submitting answers to questions in writing. in a special counsel robert mueller stated in his report mr. trump stated on more than 30 occasions he doesnt recall or remember or have an independent recollection of information called for by the questions. add to that attorneys for the house of representatives now say they are investigating whether the president lied to mueller about not remembering aspects of...