Thank you, my friend. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to prime time. We have breaking news coming in literally right now.

There's new witness testimony that just dropped and provides a window into this week's coming impeachment hearing storm.

And other news tonight on how the president may be hoping to retaliate against those testifying.

This is the week of the heavy hitters in the impeachment inquiry.

If it doesn't make sense at the end of this week, it never will. So we have breaking news. Let's get after it.

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All right. First, we can get past the headline about the diplomat who overheard the EU ambassador, Sondland, on the phone with the president.

Okay? We now know a lot more about that experience, about that reaction, about why it mattered, okay? Phil Mattingley is on Capitol Hill. We don't usually do this, but I don't usually get this kind of information that I can't process alone. Phil, thank you for jumping up for me on this. What do we know about Mr. Holmes? Yeah, look, Chris, we obviously, we got a look at the 10-page opening statement on Friday night, and it was explosive, and in various levels it was explicit as well.

But the one key thing that David Holmes was unveiling to lawmakers was this lunch that he had with Ambassador Gordon Sondland,

where he overheard Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the EU, call President Trump, and then he overheard President Trump talking explicitly about investigations,

about the relationship between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky.

One of the things we didn't know is, one, how is he able to hear all of this, and two, how is his

recollection so crystal clear in his mind?

I think there's a couple of things that are interesting here.

First and foremost, he made clear that they could hear President Trump because President Trump

spoke so loudly that Gordon Sondland moved the phone from his ear.

But why he remembered all of these vivid details, take a look at this.

This was an extremely distinctive experience in my Foreign Service career, Holmes testified.

I've never seen anything like this.

Someone calling the president from a mobile phone at a restaurant and then having a conversation of this level of candor, colorful language.

There's just so much about the call that was so remarkable and I remember it so vividly.

Chris, that's the explanation, no notes, no recordings, but remembers it vividly and also says in

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