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It turns out what taylor testified was not just backed up. it was backed up with explicit detail. david holmes in a nearly six-hour deposition with lawmakers saying in his opening statement which we obtained by cnn, at one point i then heard president trump ask, so he'll do the investigation. ambassador sondland replied, he is going to do it. he will do anything you ask him to. profane as he recalled some of the interactions going through the specifics of a meeting that he had over a meal with ambassador sondland where sondland talked about a meeting he just had with the ukraine president. it ...

In the middle of marie yovanovitch's testimony, this tweet from the president starting with everywhere marie yovanovitch turned bad. then he criticized the record in somalia and ukraine. democrats now accuse the president of witness intimidation. yovanovitch calling the tweet very intimidating. trump denied that. the white house saying he was simply expressing his opinion. the president saying he has the right to speak. just about three weeks ago, another example. trump disparaged a witness in this same inquiry. the day after diplomat bill taylor testified behind closed doors on the ukraine sc...

How do we know that's not happening here? russia is saying, look. america is always saying that we're corrupt. i'm the one running this place. they're no better than we are. every day vladimir putin wakes up, it is a new present for donald trump and it's great for him. >> let's take a step back. all of this, the goal of the hearings are to get facts and truth. in part for the democrats, in large part, to persuade the american public. or more of the american public that this is a case to potentially impeach the president. so there were republicans from the beginning calling for point of order s...

Now in the u.s. government, in the policy and foreign policy community, all is in great favor to russia. you know, i remember a day when i was working in federal government that these conversations were all dealt with in family. you talked, okay, what is our plan going to be? maybe you would citizen side. at the end of the day, you would come up with policy. none of that came out. and when you deal with these things as publicly as you are, and especially with the president is denigrating his personal representatives like an ambassador. well, it is all very chaotic and it shows your hand. down ...