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His opening statement, which cnn originally obtained exclusively caused a stir when it became public on friday. we now have the complete transcript of his testimony. cnn's phil mattingly and our team in washington are going through the full q&a. phil, i know you've just gotten this. anything stand out? >> reporter: i think there's a couple things i'm looking for here. obviously we had the opening statement, the explosive and i would say rather expolice the opening statement from david holmes last thing. i think the thing most people are most interested in the wake of that closed door depositio...

And that is on top of new cnn reporting. sources tell cnn president trump has again said he wants to fire witnesses who have testified against him in the impeachment hearings prompting his aides to consider moving those witnesses, some of them out of the white house and back to their home departments within the government. late today we learned about a new addition to the list of now nine officials and former officials who will be going before the house intelligence committee on television starting tomorrow. the ninth is david holmes, a seasoned diplomat and a staffer at the u.s. embassy in ki...

Outstanding. obviously the call is pretty notable but what else he can say on that front is what we're going to be digging through now. >> nine witnesses testifying publicly this week, holmes included, two of them facing tough questions about why key portions of their accounts differ from most of the others, all of them potentially facing fresh twitter wrath from the president. sources familiar with the matter tell us the ones who work on assignment at the white house might see careers hurt or at least moved out of the white house and back to their home departments at the behest of the preside...

Distinctive experience in my foreign service career. i've never seen anything like this, someone calling the president from a mobile phone at a restaurant and then having a conversation of this level of candor, colorful language. there's just so much about the call that was so remarkable that i remember it vividly. this is one of the questions going into the testimony, he didn't take notes and didn't have a recorder, how do you remember this? when you have a career foreign officer outdoors at a tavern and someb somebedy picks up his cell phone, an unsecured line, this is why he remembers it so...

With coming forward before our committees, there will be consequences. that's a form ofretaliation, a form of intimidation at this point. so we're very, very disturbed by those particular pieces of news. >> and ambassador sondland is going to be testifying this week. there obviously remain gaps, inconsistencies in his earlier testimony. is the committee's focus wednesday going to be attempting to clarify exactly what he knew and when he knew it because even this call that david holmes has now testified about hearing, that is not something that ambassador sondland, even in his revised testimony...