would like him to answer questions. he says he would do it maybe in writing. do you disagree with the speaker? i disagree the president is serious about it. i don t think any of us believe donald trump is serious about this. a serious person would have already cooperated with the lawful subpoenas we sent over. instead, he s blocking people who could help us in the investigation. we just got this notification the justice department michael horry wi horowitz has been subpoenaed to testify on december 11th on the origins of the russia investigation and what the investigators were up to. what s your reaction to that? transparency is good, wolf. i m looking forward to the report. there s no denying russia was involved in our election and hacked donald trump s e-mails
protected mr. trump or himself. and guiliani s lawyer and their ukraine connection. we re learning about focus on the criminal investigation into rudy guilliani. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn, breaking news. breaking news. democrats just added a ninth witness for a jam-packed televised impeachment hearings during a critical second day of testimony that begins in a matter of hours. an aide overheard a phone call an eu ambassador said ukraine will do anything you asked will testify thursday. house speaker, nancy pelosi, saying this facts are uncontested mr. trump abused his power for his own personal benefit. this as democrats may be looking
he said behind closed doors he heard the president ask to sondland, so he s going to do the investigation? and sondland said president zelensky will do anything you ask him to. let s break it down with laura coates. what do you think? he omitted crucial information in his earlier sworn deposition. he revised it once. what do you anticipate? first, he s gordon sondland. the fact he had one of these epiphanies was the reason you take the depositions. you should coordinate what you should tell and you have a full and complete accounting of what you ve done. over time, suddenly, oh, you meant the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me congress. in this role he has failed time and time again. interesting to see whether he
the president tweeted he s seriously thinking about that. what do you think? he has done a lot of this in writing and that is his twitter feed and what he s tweeting throughouts the testimonies and specifically what we heard from him when ambassador yovanovitch was testifying friday. a lot of people said the president damaged himself by doing so. if the president decides he wants to submit questions by his lawyers, we have been through this before alla the mueller investigation. i m not sure the president would be doing himself any favors. we ve seen through his twitter feed he either calls these witnesses never-trumpers or never met them and doesn t know who they are. none of that makes the president look good in this case. the president also said throughout this time this was a perfect telephone call. this does not square where republicans defending him are saying and something that should
unfolding, house speaker, nancy pelosi is now telling democrats the president of the united states clearly abused his power. what s the latest on that front? that s right. the speaker of the house not mincing words, saying to her democratic colleagues, the facts are uncontested the president abused his power for his own personal and political benefit at the expense of our national interests. while she said there is no guarantee they will vote on articles of impeachment of even draft them. she says this underscored by democrats they believe based on the close door testimony they have enough to move forward. there will be another week of public hearings and this process is moving forward and there will be a judicial committee meeting and more likely than not there will be enough votes to impeach president trump. now to the president s impeachment defense he claims he may kev in writing even as he attacks the investigation and