this testing on a day when support for impeaching the president and removing him from office is on the rise. now at 50% for the first time. it is trademark trump to turn up the volume when he wants to distract you from something important, like today's witness or today's numbers. so this morning the president deploying a word with historic meaning, calling the democratic investigation, quote, a lynching. bill taylor is the crucial witness behind closed doors this hour. taylor is a career foreign policy hand who the trump administration pulled out of retirement to take the top diplomatic job in ukraine. he's the one who told another trump diplomatic appointee that freezing military aid and investigation into the president's political opponents was, quote, crazy. today cnn told taylor they plan to walk through those text messages and provide them a clear timeline in his five months as acting ambassador to ukraine. expect those questions to cover