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Ukraine envoy Bill Taylor provides devastating testimony that establishes a quid pro quo in the House impeachment inquiry.

What can Republicans possibly do to defend Trump?

Besides creating a circus?

Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news.

My name's Renato Mariati.

I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a CNN legal analyst and I'm joined by my friend Patty

Vasquez the host of the Patty Vasquez show who joins us regularly on this

podcast before we get to our show, I want to spend three minutes talking about what we're changing as a result of our listener survey.

Thank you to the 860 of you who responded and to the winner of our gift card, Martina Krause.

We've already made some minor changes.

We eliminated the phone call sound effect and I've made the

introduction to the show much shorter. To improve sound volume and reduce variation, we now

use a compressor and a normalizer. But there's more to come. Today

we're launching our new website which you can find at on topic podcast

dot com. All one word on topic podcast.com. All one word on topic podcast.com. Now you can search and

browse past episodes. You can view bios for all of our guests and you could submit questions and feedback on the show.

On our website you'll also find a link to our new Patreon page.

That's a way that you can subscribe for bonus content and help support the show.

I spent a lot of money on the podcast and to add new features I've hired somebody to help keep

up our website and our community. And speaking of the community, the lowest level

of Patreon sponsorship is $3 a month. That gets you access to our special Facebook

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