Good evening. What was already an important week in the impeachment inquiry just got that

got got that much more interesting and that is on top of new CNN reporting sources tell

CNN that President Trump has again said he wants to fire witnesses who have testified

against him in the impeachment hearings prompting his age to consider moving those witnesses

some of them out of the White House and back to their home departments within the government.

Today we learned about a new addition to the list of now nine officials and former officials

who will be going before the House Intelligence Committee on television starting tomorrow.

The ninth is David Holmes, a seasoned diplomat and a staffer at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev.

He's set to testify Thursday.

Now Holmes you'll recall has already told lawmakers in closed door session about the phone

call he overheard the president and Gordon Sunderland have a day after the July 25 conversation

with Ukraine's president the one the president continues to describe this way.

It was a perfect call and absolutely perfect phone conversation.

It was perfect. That was perfect. The conversation was perfect.

I made a perfect call not a good call perfect call.

So far he's really the only one describing it as a perfect call but the day after that

allegedly perfect call there was another made from an outdoor table of a restaurant in Kiev

in Ukraine with the president talking so loudly the Gordon Sunderland the ambassador to the European Union

had to hold the phone away from his ears at some points.

I'm quoting now from David Holmes' testimony who was sitting there at the table quote,

I heard Ambassador Sunderland greet the president and explain that he was calling from Kiev.

I heard President Trump then clarified that the ambassador was in Ukraine.

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