witnesses or storytellers to bring that story to life in a way that connected with the public. there is no shortage of storytellers. you ve got donald trump on the south lawn saying, yeah, china, if you re listening, you do it too. you ve got rudy on fox news. you ve got sondland s testimony that we are reading about. fiona hill, they are all witnesses to the conduct in question. is that, you think, the difference here at this point? yeah. look, so far it seems like every day they ve been able to have a witness up there. and that generates a story and there is a statement that comes out from what the witness has begun to lay out and what they are saying. and then there are some leaks about broader things that are in the testimony. and it keeps the momentum going forward. and they are beating the drum against the president. now today they run into the problem where cupperman was supposed to testify. that would have been a big deal because he was the deputy national security adviser. b
number is 55% not just of the process but for his removal. i am stunned that the polling on his removal is as high as it is 12 months before an election. and it has increased dramatically quickly. it was in the mid- to high 30s at the end of the mueller investigation and basically stayed there all through the summer despite everything democrats were doing. i think you make a very good point about intent. i think the transcript has one way of showing that. and then back to gordon sondland whose attorney made clear over the weekend that sondland believed the president was asking for a quid pro quo. he was making clear if you do not publicly announce this investigation into burisma, which was code for joe biden, and i think sondland knew it was code for joe biden despite his protestations to the contrary, you are not going to get a meeting with me and you are not going to get the security assistance that you needed. having a witness like sondland is key. there is another witness who i