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punxsutawney, pennsylvania. get your arms around that. they're waiting to see. >> i love it. >> will the groundhog see his shadow? >> fantastic. >> band is on stage. everyone is ready to go. >> we have to do the show live from there sometime. >> oh, my god, i'd love to do that. can we do the show live from punxsutawney? >> groundhog day for me is one of those things, i can never remember whether the groundhog sees its shadow, it's good or it's bad. it just doesn't stay with me. maybe because i don't care. i don't know. i don't know. >> but that would be fun. >> yeah. >> gobbler's kno...

State department is fully supportive of not only what we've done but our ukraine policy moving forward. >> but no defense your employees? >> i always defend the employees. it's the greatest diplomatic court in the world. proud of the team. >> i'm curious if you think ambassador taylor has been effective in that policy and if he's going to remain in his job or if the president has lost confidence in him. >> state department is doing a fantastic job. think we've deliver in a way that the obama administration has not delivered on ukraine. >> and when ambassador yovanovitch was on the hill on frid...

Distinction. >> well, willie, the house impeachment investigators released a transcript from last friday's session? >> yeah, another important witness. the closed-door deposition from state department official david holmes. he's the man who overheard the july 26th cell phone call between u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland and president trump when holmes joined sondland at a restaurant in kiev. according to the transcript, homes told -- >> by the way, can we have a real here, it's kiev, all right? >> thank you. everybody, it's e-kiev. i'm going to give you nevada. so we'll sa...

Therefore he's kind of like working with the ukrainians, let's just try to meet donald trump's demands and then everything can come back into place. but i think he has to be forthcoming. it's overwhelming evidence against him. i just don't see how he actually ends up helping the republicans. if he tries to stick to his former testimony, i think he also undermines the republican position because it will crumble. he has no credibility with the former testimony. there's just so many data points and specific information that contradicts what he told congress originally. and, you know, just to refr...

Interesting this week, even gordon sondland testifies. because there are some people who think gordon sondland is going to realize that he went a little too far and possibly say, look, i was just doing whatever the president told me to do. there's some republicans who want to make the case that gordon sondland went a bit too far and was out of realm of what president trump was hoping he would do. >> willie, they've already proven, have they not, we already have testimony that the ukrainians felt pressure, right? >> yes. yes. >> that the ukrainians felt pressure that they didn't want to do this...