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Nobody appreciates that more than president trump himself who is like me and i assume like you an avid cable news watcher. >> he probably watches more. >> i watch a lot but assume he watches more as well. >> the white house is no strange tore high profile public hearings. you had robert mueller and james comey. what makes this different is the consequences, not just the political costs. the fact this is about impeachment, helping democrats build their impeachment case for a vote. certainly, the white house is concerned looking ahead to that. what they've been banking on so far with the selecti...

He said i warrant hnt him to doe ran on and that was the end of the conversation. i wouldn't say hi hung up on me but almost like he hung up on me. the president is like, no quid pro quo, no quid pro quo. >> but get what i want. >> sondland got this information from somewhere. we have all of this witness testimony and from other officials that sondland made a direct link between investigations and a white house visit, for example, and potentially security assistants in front of ukrainians in this meeting with john bolton, and i don't think sondland came up with this on his own and he clearly h...

Doors and now we have their written testimony, the transcripts, they all report to the secretary of state mike pompeo. what does it say about what he's been up to because he's been totally, totally supporting what the president says. >> well, the secretary of state has undermined the state department. he has abandoned the career foreign service people. it is a stain on his mark on that department. and he has been an enabler and facilitator of policies he knows is fundamentally wrong. mike pompeo is trying to walk the line that he wans to run for senate in kansas, wants the president's support ...

Really concerning to our democracy. >> how do you engage people who you know who are lying, who are engaging in bad faith, how do you engage them on the merits of the subject at hand when they will do exactly what you just describe? >> it's very hard to engage them and that's one of the reasons that this written testimony, the depositions that are coming out and getting people in front of the cameras and holding their hand up and having them questioned and cross-examined by really competent counsel, which is going to happen here. i mean, goldman who's working for the house intelligence committ...

Servants. i think ambassador yovanovitch said it well in her written testimony. she said, as a foreign service officer, i take an oath of office that i think about every day and that oath of office is to protect and defend the constitution of the united states from all enemies foreign and domestic and when you look at these three top level diplomats who have come forward, i believe they are coming forward as an obligation under that oath of office that they have taken and, perhaps, there is something we can learn from them. >> an obligation, if not maybe an eagerness to fulfill that duty of sh...