that's... >> en though it is completely juvenile and a waste of time. >> please welcome john hodgman.n? ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: hodgman's forayma onto the scrn had started with an appearance on "the daily show with jon stewart" following thepu ication of his first book in 2005. invited him back as a regular contributor.if >> i sense may-- and i don't mean to embarrass you-- i nse "hodgman-mania." >> reporter: a few months later, apple called, and you said no at first. >> oh, yeah. ( laughter ) it's true. i was a dummy. >> reporter: but they came back. >> iuthink abo that, and i get chills because what if they said, "oh, too bad, we've got a million other people to thk about this." how different my life uld be and how... not just in terms of famous success but in... in... in richness and exrience. >> reporter: yeah, we probably wouldn't be talking. >> we'd probably be grea >> hey, p.c., nt to see the web site and home movie i made? >> "oh, i'm so creative, and all my programs are so easy to use." >> reporter: during his run of 66 commercials for apple, hodgman continued to

firsthand witness: director of european affairs at the national security council, and "military john hodgman," colonel alexander vindman. now, during trump's ukraine phone call, vindman was listening in from the situation room, so it wasn't hearsay. vindman could actually hear the bad stuff trump say. vindman explained, "i listened in on the call in the situation room with colleagues from the n.s.c. and the office of the vice president. as the transcript is in the public record, we are all aware of what was said." yes, we all are. ukraine said they were ready for more military aid. then trump said, "i want you to do us a favor, though," and then asked for dirt on the bidens and the d.n.c. pretty bald. it's like if "the sixth sense" were called "bruce willis doesn't know he's dead." ( laughter ). >> jon: spoiler aletter there. >> stephen: spoiler alert. >> jon: yeah. >> stephen: now, vindman's testimony directly contradicts that of ambassador to the e.u. and "jean-douche picard," gordon sondland. ambassador sondland told house investigators that no one had raised concerns about the president'