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>> in terms of the remaining closed-door depositions i know there was one today where a state department official david hale actually showed up. i know tomorrow you're expecting to hear testimony from a person who worked in the vice president's office. it's the first time as far as i know that a vice presidential adjacent person will be speaking. there was also a decision today to drop a subpoena for an official who had gone to court to try to have a judge decide whether or not he should obey the subpoena. can you tell us anything about that decision? >> in the last case the kupperman subpoena...

Authority of congress to do oversight on behalf of officials like this. it's a frivolous claim. it's going to be disposed of earlier, and as i understand it that's the point behind withdrawing that subpoena, to essentially take away mr. kupperman's dilatory legal arguments and have them advance more quickly through the mcgahn case. >> in terms of his dramatic revision to his testimony we saw from ambassador sondland yesterday, it was a remarkable document saying, i now refreshed -- i've had my recollection refreshed, i now recall things -- and basically what he discloses is that on the sidelin...

Federal court is like, forget roger stone. i mean, yes, his criminal liability here is of interest, but forget roger stone. the case is about something way bigger than that, and we've known that was a possibility when we first saw the charges against stone in the way they laid out the case against him in the indictment, but i did not expect it to be like this in court today. just listen to this. we got the transcript today. i had no faith we would get it in time for tonight's show, same day that it happened, right? but just before i came down to the studio and we got on the air tonight, we got...

But it's about the president. and it's in part, you know, while the house is already in the midst of impeachment proceedings against the president, this case that started today in criminal court in washington is about in part whether president trump's sworn written statements about roger stone were true. whether his sworn written statements about what he knew about what stone was doing, whether he was any part of that, this case in part is about whether the president's written answers might themselves have been illegal false statements. back to zelensky here. quote, just after stone got this m...

Messages, emails, texts, that showed the truth of what happened in 2016 that he had many written records that could help the committee establish what had actually happened. but roger stone didn't do that. he didn't even come close. instead he repeatedly lied to the house intelligence committee. he did it because if he had told the truth, as he said before, it wasn't pretty, it would look bad. and so instead he told these lies. roger stone did all of this to obstruct an investigation by the house intelligence committee into russian interference in the 2016 election. the committee was undertakin...