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Phone conversations with rudy giuliani at what looks to be the beginning of this scheme to smear the ambassador. we have other lawsuits already pending and soon more to come that are going to focus on different aspects of this scandal from the omb withholding aid to contacts later in time with mike pompeo and other senior officials. so, again, these are just the first disclosures, and for our first round to connect this scandal directly to the oval office is pretty significant. >> when you say the first round of disclosures, have you got active other applications, freedom of information applic...

Testimony and read all these deposition transcripts and if a witness describes a document and congress says it doesn't have access, well the freedom of information act means we can get it. we can sue for it, and we're going to force it out in the open. and if it takes past the senate impeachment trial to get all the evidence out, we're going to keep fighting for it. >> let me ask you this, though, the state department has some reining, the executive branch offers reasoning why they won't provide this to congress. for guys like me you think, wow, they must have thought this through. you are und...

Ambassador to the eu, no national security experience, no government experience, he's a hotel magnate, a big donor to the president. $1 million to the inauguration. joining me now is the fellow in governance studies and senior -- and bob barr he served as house manager in the impeachment of president clinton and former undersecretary of state for political affairs, ambassador wendy sherman. margaret, given the evidence we have laid out is congress any closer to impeaching president trump than they were before the hearings? >> i think so, stephanie. in deposition transcripts that were released ...

They got caught breaking their promise that impeachment would only go forward with bipartisan support because of how damaging it is to the american people. they got caught running a sham impeachment process featuring secret depositions, hidden transcripts and an unending flood of democrat leaks to the media. they got caught trying to obtain nude photos of president trump from russian pranksters pretending to be ukrainians. and they got caught covering up for alexandra chalupa, a democratic national committee operative who colluded with russians to try to smear the campaign by redacting her nam...

Long years of service to the country. you are not democratic witnesses or republican witnesses, you are nonpartisan witnesses, and you've stuck to the facts. that is as it should be. first i want to make a couple of observations about the hearing today. dr. hill, you are criticize us several times from your opening statement. you are much more diplomatic than i am, i have to say. anyone watching these proceedings, proceedings, anyone reading the deposition transcripts would have the same impression that you evidently had from hearing my colleagues talk about the russia hoax. that the whole ide...