even before ambassador william taylor spoke to congress today, the president was speaking out. listen to what he said yesterday and asked -- ask yourself did he perhaps know how damaging today's testimony might be? >> they're interviewing ambassadors who i never heard of. i don't know the people. i never heard of them. >> i don't know most of the people. if i do i met them quickly or know them little. ambassadors and some others. i don't know -- most of them i never heard of their names. >> back now with david gergen. gloria boringen and abbey gill ip and david axelrod. i don't know this person is a common trope from president trump and michael cohen and and others. i want to read something else from the ambassador's statement. ambassador sondland tried to explain that president trump is a businessman. when a businessman is about to sign a check. he asks the businessman asks somebody to pay up before signing the check.