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Hour gets under way on this tuesday night. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 1,034 of the trump administration, and the latest round of public impeachment hearings wrapped up just a short time ago actually. it was a marathon day. the question was relentless today. it will be again tomorrow. four witnesses testified for nearly ten hours before the house intel committee about what they knew about president trump's request to ukraine's president to investigate democratic political rivals. the day was divided into two sessions. the first set of witn...

Sondland is a crucial yet a flawed witness at the same time. he's crucial because he's essentially the connective tissue running through all of this witness testimony that we have heard ever since he came in for his closed-door deposition. but he's a flawed witness in that both sides, democrats and republicans, have pointed out that he has serious credibility issues. he already had to amend his testimony and disclose that conversation he had with a senior ukrainian official about what he told them about what it would take for them to get the military aid finally delivered to them. and of cours...

Potential witness only increased today? >> i think so. the testimony we heard today about his participation in that july 10th meeting makes him a very valuable witness. he is the one who cut the meeting short, and as lieutenant colonel vindman testified, it wasn't that the meeting was over. they had additional agenda items to discuss, and they had more time left before the meeting was over, and he stopped it abruptly when gordon sondland raised this issue of investigations in exchange for military aid. now, he has said he will not testify unless there is a court order to do that. i think the d...

Who have left the white house like john bolton. we have never seen the president turn on current white house officials who are going to go to work in the white house complex tomorrow morning. that was a first, and, again, he did it in realtime. and thirdly, i think we saw that colonel vindman was very -- you know, he wore his uniform, it evoked images of oliver north from more than three decades ago in the iran-contra hearings, and the uniform was a symbol and also a bit of a protector for colonel vindman to show that, i'm an american citizen. i serve my country. and yet he was still open to c...

An individual in the intelligence community. >> what agency was this individual from? >> if i could interject here, we don't want to use these proceedings -- >> it's our time. >> i know, but we need to protect the whistle-blower. please stop. >> that exchange, that interruption was followed by a rather tense correction. >> mr. vindman, you testified in your deposition that you did not know the whistle-blower. >> ranking member, it's lieutenant colonel vindman, please. >> there were also attempts to call lieutenant colonel vindman's loyalty into question. the iraq war veteran, purple heart reci...