Good evening. Today again, what may be the most daunting week in the history of the Trump

administration, facing public testimony by officials from the State Department that

the president orchestrated the shakedown of another country for political gain. On Wednesday,

Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry will open the doors to the public to what has

until this moment been a closed-door process. President Trump has repeatedly demanded transparency

in the House impeachment inquiry. This week, he is getting his wish, though he certainly

doesn't see it that way. This week, three witnesses who have worked intimately with

Ukraine policy will testify. Now, behind closed doors, they have already testified to

what they believed was an attempt by the Trump administration to bribe Ukraine for an investigation

into the Biden clan. Also, to the machinations of the president's personal attorney, Rudy

Giuliani, to accomplish this feat. So that much we know we can expect from open testimony.

What we don't know is how the witnesses testify publicly may influence the opinion of American

voters if it does so at all. We also don't know for sure what the White House and the

president's supporters on Capitol Hill are going to do to combat what looks to be a growing

mountain of evidence against the president and his administration, a mountain that has

gotten larger with the release of more closed-door testimony in just the past few hours. We don't

know because so far, the reaction has been a smattering of everything from nothing to see

here to the White House's two incompetent to hatch an extortion scheme. That last one

came from Senator Lindsey Graham, who, like the president, has kind of been all over

the map on this one. His latest defense came over the weekend. Here he is trying to make

an argument about process and the identity of the whistleblower. So if they don't call

the whistleblower in the House, this thing is dead on arrival in the Senate.

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