be wild. >> and on the flip side, it is incumbent on the democrats to make the case through questioning which historically speaking doesn't always go the way the majority party wants on either side depending on the goal. >> that is exactly right. what is different this time around is that democrats will have the first 45 minutes to question these witnesses consecutively. that's bill taylor and george kent on the first day of the public hearings and that allows them a good chunk of time to tell a straightforward narrative in order to get a more direct picture painted here. because with these 2500 pages worth of transcripts, it is easy for republicans and democrats to cherry pick what they want people to pay attention to but here they'll ask pointed questions that will be asking the senior white house officials, some of them republicans, trying to directly connect the quid pro quo, this extortion scheme directly to president trump. >> so let's go back to that and to your point about republicans. president trump just won't let his fellow republicans on