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Witnesses. so, they came to tell the hear in these argsd so we can think about the vietnam veteran, the decorated service to the country, the 50 years that ambassador taylor has been a public servant. and then prosecutors also think about things like that voice, that hair, again, just a brilliant witness. you know, the facts now not that much in controversy, the big impeachment question is based on what we all know does that just removing him from office when an election is less than a year away? i think both witnesses today made the case that the president is a clear and present danger to nat...

Credibility of the witnesses for themselves. and i'm confident that they will. >> jeremy bash, ambassador schiff there underscoring that new development today, that new piece of evidence entered into the record by ambassador taylor about a phone call from the president to his e.u. ambassador political appointee gordon sondland where he is calling to ask about the investigations, the investigations into burisma in 2016 is and then the reflection from gordon sondland that all he cares about is the investigations. >> yeah. i think this new fact is relevant because, again, what's at question? what...

>> there's no question about it. and so the fact that they won't i think tells you a lot about the -- about how the white house is handling this. >> have you ever seen anything like this? >> never. bill taylor was asked that question today. have we ever -- i worked from 1980 on in the u.s. government for five presidents. no president in our lifetime has ever asked another leader to investigate that president's rival for political gain for the president's re-election. it's an abuse of the president's power. i mean, the lawyers here will tell me if there is an impeachment case. i think as a civi...

People that said, hey, you better do this, you are in trouble, and he finally relented. well, and what's come through in some of the testimony was there were people within the executive branch in the testimony of laura cooper that the transcript we just got that were concerned about laws being broken in realtime. congress had already appropriated the money. it was about releasing congressionally appropriated funds to an american ally for whom it was life and death. >> where is he? >> that's a loaded question, claire. >> why isn't he on the republican's witness list? >> we are going to take the...

Staff for the cia and department of defense. >> i think there is a foundational question that was presented here today which is is it okay for an american president to demand that a foreign government official investigate the american president's political rival. president trump and his allies present a clear defense. they say, yeah, it's okay, it's fine with us. there is nothing to see here, just read the transcript. he did it but it's not impeachable. there really is no dispute about the facts. i think as this procedure -- >> jeremy, let's dip in and listen to chairman schiff who just starte...