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Public might respond. democrats know they need broad public support to make the case for removing donald trump from the presidency. and as they prepare for that, they're using new language, more directly, to more directly describe what they say the president did. no more quid pro quo and instead they're calling it extortion. the first witnesses they're call rg the top diplomat to ukraine, bill taylor and senior state department official george kent. they testify on wednesday. ousted ukraine ambassador marie yovanovich will follow on friday. they all already testified behind closed doors. each ...

But here you have impeachment witnesses like a former ambassador saying that donald trump threatened her for her objections to that infamous july phone call, recounting she was shocked and surprised trump would speak about me or any ambassador in that way to a foreign counterpart. the point there is that this diplomat was concerned trump was acting more in concert with foreign interests in this shadow agenda than the u.s. state department. she details this by going on and showing how a now famous trump loyalist, mr. gordon sondland advised her to address these political attacks by going politi...

As he raised concerns about rudy guiliani's shadow agenda in ukraine. and that white house chief of staff nick mulvaney side lined diplomats and tapped three political appointees to spearhead efforts there. curt volker, gordon sonlands and rick perry who se says coined themselves the three amigos. mike pence, rudy guiliani the pentagon and omb all announced yesterday that they would not cooperate with the inquiry. we wonder, do the democrats need their cooperation? so far officials across the administration former and current have defied administrative mandates to stay off capitol hill. joinin...

Interview tonight with lester holt during nightly news on your nbc station. thank you for watching. you can catch me every week day morning at 5:00 a.m. right now katy tur picks up the coverage. >> good to see you.day, even on holiday. >> good afternoon. it's 11:00 a.m. out west and 2 p.m. in washington. donald trump's own people could be his undoing. it's day 21 of the impeachment inquiry, and here is what's happening. the president's former top advisory on russia and europe is behind closed door with three congressional committees giving testimony long-feared by white house insiders. a perso...

>> can an embassy work if they don't really speak for the president? if the president has his own person conducting his own shadow -- i wouldn't even call it diplomacy, his own shadow agenda in a country, what does that do to the embassy which is actually -- the foreign service officer actually sworn to follow the constitution and to represent the legitimate interests of the united states? >> there are two points here. first, occasionally, not often, not normally, a president will have unofficial envoys. but if the policy is sensible and if the process is sensible, whatever that unofficial env...