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Arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance of more than 2 million people. massive efforts to reprogram an entire ethnic group. china blamed the uyghurs for attacks five years ago that killed scores of people. that same year, 2014, president xi made a series of speeches calling for a crackdown on separatists. show absolutely no mercy, he said in one speech. this video from xinjiang suggest that is what is happening. men with hands bound and heads shaved and blindfolded at a train station. cnn is not able to independently verify the video on where it was taken but two former detainees told c...

>> i always defend -- the greatest diplomatic court in the history of the world. very proud of the team. >> so good news, right? he always defends his employees except apparently when asked again seconds later about yovanovitch. >> i don't have anything to say. i'll defer to the white house about particular statements and the like. i don't have anything else to say about the democrats' impeachment proceeding. >> well, that's what you call a profile in courage. now to the breaking reports about new attempts at retaliation against some of the people who either have testified or will testify this...

His opening statement, which cnn originally obtained exclusively caused a stir when it became public on friday. we now have the complete transcript of his testimony. cnn's phil mattingly and our team in washington are going through the full q&a. phil, i know you've just gotten this. anything stand out? >> reporter: i think there's a couple things i'm looking for here. obviously we had the opening statement, the explosive and i would say rather expolice the opening statement from david holmes last thing. i think the thing most people are most interested in the wake of that closed door depositio...

>> good point. >> it's not like they have a safe harbor to go back to. >> we've got to leave it there. everyone stick around. a key pillar of the president's defense, that he did nothing wrong, is on shakier ground tonight. new cnn reporting on that is next. at bayer, we're helping put more gold

Xfi advanced security. if it's connected, it's protected. call, click, or visit a store today. we're following major breaking news in the impeachment investigation of president trump. a diplomatic aide testifies that he heard the u.s. ambassador to the european union tell president trump that ukraine's leader would, quote, do anything you ask him to do. cnn has now obtained david holmes' opening statement during a closed-door sworn deposition tonight confirming he overheard that incriminating phone conversation between the ambassador and the president. let's go to capitol hill right now. con...