president to pressure the ukrainians do something that was not aligned with u.s. policy. on the republican side we're seeing a lot better coordination from the white house and republicans trying to focus very much on messaging. we talked last week about how the president doesn't want the republicans to focus on process, stick more with the details about that. republicans on the hill were saying in response to the president that tweet during the ambassador's testimony last week wasn't very helpful. stay off your phone during these hearings and let us fight on the hill. >> good luck with that. thank you very much. we'll be reading axios a.m. in a little bit and you can sign up for the newsletter by going to signup.axios.com. >> that does it for us. "morning joe" starts right now. still, if you're a republican, i get it, it's just so hard to say is trump innocent or is he guilty? i mean all we so far is a sixth trump associate convicted of a crime, his lawyer under criminal investigation, trump himself exiting witness tampering, the witness blower eaccount saying