Describes the importance of the testimony. what exactly did mr. holmes see? what did he hear? and what did he do? you know it was the reason we called him in today. and who we have called in right now joining me, kevin cerilli, correspondent for bloomberg news, and abigail tracy and kevin give me the significance, share your thoughts on this overheard conversation between the president and gordon sondland. this is emerging to be the key moment in the public impeachment inquiry hearings. i was at both rounds of hearings this week and really, aside from the president responding in real-time via tweet to marie yovanovitch could be an article of impeachment in real-time, this really was the conversation in question. i was also at the white house when president trump was speaking alongside president
And his take on why republicans haven t supported impeachment. here. all of the attention is on your former colleagues in the senate, they would be the jury if there was an impeachment proceedingso when you call your friends in d.c. what are they saying about these new allegations? well, somebody mentioned yesterday that if there were a private note that there would be 30 republican votes. that s not true. there would be at least 35. or maybe maybe more if it were a private vote, but that s not possible. so they have to come out and many of them are up for re-election in tough seats and i know that feeling. at least 35 is what he s saying. kevin, ask be awe this. asking amy klobuchar about this in the last hour, she did not take the bait. from the people you re talking with on capitol hill and what you re hearing, if there was a
Talking about. listen to what they told me over the course of this past week in new hampshire. so when you see that democrats are, though, moving forward with impeachment they re crazy are the are you think they re crazy. they re crazy. what s happening in congress is not helping the democrats. they are not helping themselves acting like school children on a playground. reporter: do you think democrats have waited too long to do that or is now the right time? i think they ve been very prudent in decision-making up to this point, taken their time to make their decision first and final, that nancy pelosi made sure that she slowed them down when they were jumping the first time around and waited for him to pull another one, which he did obviously. with this phone call to ukraine. reporter: and kendis, kevin cerilli made a really good point when you talked how polling shows this breakdown along party lines. in the course of my conversations i found that people who tended to like trump before this latest information
As i left capitol hill yesterday, i can tell you it s a much more reserved atmosphere. republicans in the senate really carefully keeping their comments to themselves as of now. you heard from the likes of senator mitt romney as well as ben sasse, two republicans quite frankly critical of this administration for quite some time. that said, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has also given the appearance as of now he wants to let this process play out and we all know this. that speaker pelosi would like to see the impeachment, articles of impeachment maybe brought by thanksgiving, around that timetable and with a vote before the end of the year. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell told npr should the house act the senate would act quickly thereafter. kevin, talk to you what you mentioned there. a little bit of chinks in the republican armor on the senate s part. senator from arizona, jeff flake, talking about all of this
Moment, and so there are questions for suburban democrats and suburban republicans, and i just don t think enough details have been released that i think over the next week or so as new details in the investigation continues, we will have much more clear, a more clear illustration, perhaps, of where we are. and it s easy for many of them to do this wait and see tactic as we see. this might play out as soon as by thanksgiving. yes. from bloomberg news, thank you. thank you. all right. how is impeachment playing beyond the d.c. beltway or the corridor for that mat jer the latest morning consult poll kevin referred to shows support for impeachment has grown to 43% with an equal percentage of voters opposed. this poll came out earlier in the week. these, by the way, are tough times for presidential candidates trying to get