Good evening.

We have new reporting tonight on when the public will get to see public impeachment hearings

on who may testify as well as the drafting of articles impeachment against the president.

And in the face of that, there are new signs tonight that his defenders still have few

good answers on the actual substance of the Ukraine affair, even though behind the scenes

they are reportedly trouble by it.

As soon as Jamie Gangelis citing Republican sources who say that senior diplomat William

Taylor's testimony this week was, quote, a game changer, unquote, that's still reverberating

within their ranks.

Privately, that is, publicly for the second straight day Republicans, for the most part,

avoided directly confronting or discussing the evidence he gave.

Instead, they objected to the way the hearings are being conducted, and the way Ambassador

Taylor came to know what he knew.

Anything it seems, but the actual details from this career, nonpartisan civil servant

and West Point graduate in Vietnam, more vet, who detailed with contemporaneous notes

and was handpicked for the job by the president secretary of state.

Yesterday, Republican Senator John Thune certainly took what he said seriously enough to gravely

say the emerging picture of a president of Trump, quote, is not a good one.

Today, however, it was a different story.

Right now we're hearing one side of the story, and until we get the full picture, I think

I said this yesterday, and it gets hard to draw any conclusions.

I said, well, the picture that painted of the president wasn't great.

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