Washington, DC - 8 November 2019

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

"I'm not concerned about anything, the testimony has all been fine. I mean, for the most part, I never even heard of these people. I have no idea who they are. There are some very fine people. You have some never-Trumpers. It seems that nobody has any firsthand knowledge, there is no firsthand knowledge. And all that matters is one thing, the transcript and the transcript is perfect."

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

Every one of those people cancel themselves out. So what they do is they go all over Washington, let's find the 10 people that hate President Trump the most and let's put them up there. Now, in some cases, they really turned out to be very much honest and fair. But in no cases that I've been hurt. In no cases that I see have I been hurt."

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

"My polls are up, the fundraising is through the roof, has never been this high. We just set fundraising - because people are angry about it and it's made Republicans and people that vote for me, not just Republicans, really angry. They've really become angry. Because it's a hoax. And I'll tell you, the whistleblower, I call him the fake whistleblower, he gave a fake report by phone call. And when I did it all of a sudden, when I released that call, all of a sudden, everybody disappeared. The whistleblower disappeared. Whatever happened to the second whistleblower? Why isn't the first whistleblower to testify anymore? You know why? Because everything he wrote in that report almost was a lie.

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

And the whistleblower because of that should be revealed. And his lawyer, who said the worst thing possible two years ago, he should be sued and maybe for treason, maybe for treason. But he should be sued. His lawyer is a disgrace. A disgrace. And then ask him this: Where is the second whistleblower, right? Where is the witness that gave the whistleblower the information? They all disappeared. Because Adam Schiff is a corrupt politician. He's corrupt. He made up a speech and he put my voice in it. He made up a speech. Had nothing to do with what I said. Adam Schiff is a corrupt politician. That's not giving us due process, not giving us lawyers. And despite all that, we're kicking their ass."

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President Donald Trump is dismissing the significance of the impeachment inquiry testimony that has been released so far as he left the White House for a trip to Georgia.

He says, "No one seems to have any first-hand knowledge" and claims that, "Every one of those people canceled themselves out."

He's also criticizing Democrats in the House for planning public hearings, even though the White House pushed for them to happen.

Trump again took aim at the whistleblower and his attorney, Mark Zaid, who Trump said "should be sued...maybe for treason."

He called the Democrat Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, a "corrupt politician," but added, "despite all that, we're kicking their ass."