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Of the united states. the democrats are saying this is illegal, could be added to the articles of impeachment. you're a lawyer, john. what's your view? >> well, it really depends, eric, on what the intent was of the president. if his intent was indeed to influence the testimony of marie yovanovitch in any way, that would be unlawful. the president when asked about this yesterday said he's exercising his first amendment rights. that's not a good argument. the courts have said your first amendment is not trump trying to intimidate a witness in an official proceeding. this of course was an offici...

Bidens. >> this is the testimony that i'm most interested as well as a lot of other legal people are most interested in watching on wednesday morning, this is the testimony of gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union. unlike the witnesses we've seen so far, eric, he is not a trained diplomat. he's an individual who donated $1 million to the president's inaugural committee and got this plumb post of u.s. ambassador to the european union. i think his testimony will be unlike the testimony that we've heard so far, from the three witnesseses that we've heard so far, which was ver...

Adam schiff will not commit to that being the end of the impeachment hearings. back to you. eric: i may be jumping the gun, tim morrison reportedly said he was troubled by the call but didn't he see anything illegal in that. any indication so far in terms of ms. williams, what her view was? >> reporter: in the thumbnail sketch that i did a few minutes ago, she thought the conversations about, quote, investigations, appeared to be unusual. and again, this is where democrats -- if you look at kind of how they're structuring their case here, they said okay, we've heard from people who had secondh...

Next wednesday. john, good to see you. >> thanks a lot. arthel: a big day in louisiana where voters head to the polls for a hotly contested gubernatorial race. john bel edwards is facing a stiff challenge from republican eddie rispone, a businessman who compares himself to then candidate trump back in 2016. >> now, you have an incumbent, you have an outsider, a conservative, someone who has never run before, not beholden to special interests, similar to what the president had to face when he ran. arthel: casey siegal joins us from baton rouge with the latest. >> reporter: good to see you. you ...

>> as we sit here testifying, the president is attacking you on twitter. i'll read part of one of his tweets. everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia. how did that go? he goes on to say, later in the tweet, is that u.s. presidents have the right to appoint ambassadors. the president real-time is attacking you. >> it's very intimidating. eric: president trump's tweet's adding to the drama and legality at the hearing in which marie yovanovitch was testifying and the president at that same moment tweeting about her. the former ambassador saying that while she test...