the only other democrat who spoke today in addition to the speaker, he came out, he is leading this impeachment inquiry, and listen to this brand-new update he gave on what he thinks they're getting from those witnesses. >> thank you, madam speaker. i wanted to give you a brief update on the investigation. in the last couple of weeks i think we've made dramatic progress in answering some of the questions surrounding that july telephone call between president trump and president zelenskiy in which the president of the united states sought to coerce a vulnerable ally into conducting i think what can best be described as sham investigations involving his opponent and involving a debunked conspiracy theory about the 2016 election. we had learned that call was not in isolation. there was a great teal of preparatory work that was done before the call. there was a lot of follow-up work that was done after the call. and we have learned much of this thanks to the courageous