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Quo, and so how is this going to be playing out on television and the people can hear for themselves those on the witness stand say it? >> well, yo will have the competing storylines, and you will have this wasn't an extortion slash solicitation of the bribe which is what we mean when we say quid pro quo or we are going to say that it was a request for one thing in exchange for another, and that is perfectly fine or actually all of these piled on top of each other, this and the process argument, and where is nelly orr and why aren't we hearing from hunter biden, and the bidens are corrupt, and...

President trump's allies and gop staff. so, david, to you, there goes another trump line of defense that, you know, this is a process which lacks transparency and the republicans have no access. >> well, because they didn't have a defense on the merits, they went to this process argument. >> that argument doesn't hold either. >> it doesn't hold at all. i worked in the u.s. attorney's office with adam schiff. adam schiff is doing a tremendous job of putting this together. he's going to be one of the managers of the impeachment trial in the senate. that's what lindsey graham was. lindsey graham ...

That rudy giuliani. his involvement, the level of involvement. is that a problem? >> i'm glad democrats are concerned about that. honestly when you think about that really that's a process argument, that is not the sort of thing that you beach is a president for. if the president wants to use anybody in the country in order to conduct foreign policy, that's his prerogative. you may not like it and there are good reasons why you ordinarily would not do that because it always is a question in the minds of fair minded people are you acting politically for your own benefit, you know, personally mo...

Is so important here. speak into what matt said, also, taylor is the first witness for a reason publicly. i do something tha do the induss have been calling for weeks. now, they are getting it. the process argument goes away and now they have to engage. it's bigger and broader than that one phone call, bret. >> bret: in the cross-examination, some of this is really interesting to look at. some of the aid about knowing whether the aide was coming, about taylor himself, citing a "new york times" article. we are talking about what giuliani thought or said. there is a cross-examination part of thi...

Different tune, remember during michael mckinley's testimony. mark meadows said obviously we've talked about confidentiality and michael mccall said we need clarification on the rules that apply to confidentiality. sometimes they like things out in the public, sometimes they don't. is anybody really running the messaging here? >> well, chris, the messaging is being run largely by the president himself and it's a reactionary process. he's literally reacting to what's happening in the news each day. and the democrats are slowly, as garrett was pointing out, moving into a more public phase. as th...