and what republicans can ask them point-blank, if you were so alarmed, how come you didn't speak out or resign earlier? and there had been any reports prior to the whistle-blowers of bolton having any disagreements with the president in terms of his foreign policy relations can ukraine. >> one thing to keep in mind, as we really are beyond the point of waiting for some new witness to come out with some new bombshell information, we've seen remarkably consistent testimony. kurt volcker, gordon sondland, alexander vindman, bill taylor, again and again, they're all telling the exact same story, eliminating all of the innocent explanations that this was not about anti-corruption efforts, this was not about u.s. national security, that there was a quid pro quo and it was about the president's political interests. >> i want everybody to stand by. we'll have a lot more on all of the breaking news happening up on capitol hill. but there's also breaking news in california's wildfire disaster. i quickly want to go to cnn's stephanie elam. she's on the scene for us and watching the fire that came perilously close to the reagan