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Anyone who didn't sign it would be on the enemies lisp number t two if they didn't get enough signatures, it would be a sign of weakness. they come with this watered down document, basically a process argument. i think tomorrow is important because of who he is, he's a veteran, as jeremy laid out, a wounded veteran from iraq. going to be very difficult to paint him as a partisan hack and his concerns are going to carry more weight than some of the other testimony that we've heard so far. >> robert costa, what is your knowledge of what went into the idea to bring everything up in the house on a...

>> robert costa, to that point, what about the senate republicans, after this expected vote on the house floor, they've been saying they're the jury, what impact might this testimony have on a crack in the firewall, really, of the republicans in the senate? >> it's significant, but so far the public response has been relatively quiet from senate republicans. they're watching the testimony in the house impeachment inquiry very closely, talking to top senate aides over the weekend, republicans, they told "the washington post" that they believe senators right now want to be there to defend presid...

See much of that in the senate. i would echo what bob costa was saying earlier on, republican senate as a whole, not speaking for all of them, but the vast majority are deeply, deeply uncomfortable with the substance of what's happened here and that's why you saw that very timid resolution last week. the backstory to that was lindsey graham wanted to put out a fairly bombastic letter to nancy pelosi that would have basically been a middle finger, sign of solidarity, we're not going to go down this impeachment route. he got blown right back at the republican lunch when he pitched it. they thoug...

Us. >> gene robinson has the first question. gene. >> i just want to know what you make of this coming testimony by colonel vindman, where it sort of leaves us in this whole saga. and why somebody in the middle of that phone call didn't just hang up the phone. >> well, you know, the testimony is significant in some ways because it almost mutes the existence of the telephone call. we have someone who was on the call. we know his background, he's a deck core rated w decorated war veteran. i think the question more broadly for republicans will be this. how do they shift the defense of the preside...

And the republicans are seeing they have to migrate to the substance and the president said let's talk about the substance and the process. but the republicans have to defend the position that the quid pro quo is not an impeachable offense and where they had to go to and where the substance will go. the challenge is that the white house continues to not cooperate and that adds another front to the battle that republicans will have to fight on. not just the substance, but also now adding themselves a process argument they have to push back on. >> this might be in a way bad news for republicans ...