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i'm natalie allen. this is "cnn newsroom." ♪ thank you again for joining us. an attorney for former white house national security adviser john bolton says his client has relevant information about the ukraine scandal that has not yet been disclosed. even so, bolton failed to show up for a deposition thursday. meantime, newly released testimony puts acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney squarely in the middle of the ukraine scandal. >> two of the most central players in the relationship with ukraine putting the president's chief of staff at the center of the scandal and delivering the hashest blow to the president's claim there was no quid pro quo. >> this is a hoax.

this is just like the russian witch hunt. >> lieutenant colonel alexander vinman telling lawmakers there was no ambiguity. vinman was on the called between the u.s. and ukrainian presidents which he said left no doubt that this is what was required in order to get the meeting that the ukrainians had been pushing force. mulvaney admitted to the quid pro quo last month. >> get over it. >> the decorated colonel testified that he responded that it was inappropriate and had nothing to do with national security. >> well, i want to thank colonel vinman for his courage in come forward, his willingness to come forward. >> vinman wasn't alone.

his boss dr. hill read the transcript of the call and said she was shocked. i've sat in an awful lot of calls and i have not seen anything like this. >> hill told sondland that the ukrainians would get a meeting if the ukrainians started up these investigations again. hill testified that sondland told this to the ukrainians in a meeting and john bolton suddenly ended the meeting. bolton told hill to report it to the top nsc lawyer saying i'm not part of whatever drug deal sondland and mulvaney are cooking up. vinman reported it, as well. hill and vinman both knew about the role that rudy giuliani played in ukraine, working to get the u.s. ambassador removed. after he was successful, bolton told hill that giuliani was a hand grenade that's going to blow everybody up. >> dr. hill left and said since

then she has gotten all kinds of threats, including death threats, people hammering on her door, she was called a mole and she was accused of including with enemies of the president. cnn, washington. let's talk about these developments with amy pope. she's an social fellow at chatham house in london and most recently served as the deputy assistant to former president trump and dependent homeland security advise at the white house. thank you so much for joining us this morning. good morning. >> let's begin with trump's close advisers. a lot of talk there in that report about acting chief of staff mick mulvaney. then there's the president's former national security adviser john bolton and rudy giuliani. they have one thing in common, they will not testify.

without their input, does that damage the inquiry? >> i think we have enoughest here that z something was going very, very wrong. that is extraordinary to go down and interrupt a meeting happening with foreign officials because the national security adviser is concerned about the path that is being taken. we certainly have the foundation. ultimately, i believe these witnesses will testify. once the full story comes out, it looks to corroborate the initial allegations of the whistle-blower. >> an attorney for bolton says his client has relevant information about the ukraine scandal that has not yet been disclosed, but it seems the committee, right now, is not

going to hear that because bolton doesn't want to come forward. it sounds like he's kind of teasing the committee. i've got stuff, but you're not going to get it voluntarily. >>. >> my suspicion is there is negotiation happening behind the scenes regarding his testimony. if he is subpoenaed to testify, there are very few options for him. that is what i suspect is happening. the fact that they're putting this information out there suggests that he will ultimately come forward. his lawyer wouldn't do that if that wasn't his intent. >> we know next week the hearings get under way. will that be a significant

paradigm shift? >> it's interesting because the republicans have complained for some time that the closed door depositions were unconstitutional, violeting the president's due process and then you see the president himself saying i can't believe we're now going to have public hearings. there is an odd contradiction at this point. in terms of paradigm shift, i think we're moving towards a paradigm alignment and a situation that may look more like past impeachment hearings. ed. >> ambassador william day lore is called an astoundingly incredible witness in part because of his understanding that there was a quid quo pro linking military aid for ukraine to investigate the president's

political rivals. any surprise that he is the first witness? >> not at all. if i were advising the chairman of the committees, i would want to put on the most mon partisan, people with the longest experience across multiple administrations who can credibly testify as to why this particular behavior triggered so many alarm bells. and the reason to have someone like taylor is that he does have that credibility, he served in the state department for many, many years across several different administrations and the committee hearing is going to showcase why this particular behavior was so out of line with traditional norms, regardless of whether we're talking about republican administrations or democrat administrations. >> amy, thank you and please stick around because we want to get your thoughts on our next story. billionaire michael bloomberg has given the clearest signs so

far he is considering running for u.s. president. the former new york mayor filed paperwork on friday to get on alabama's democratic presidential ballot. as arlette saens reports, this could mean trouble for joe biden. >> joe biden placing his name on new hampshire's primary ballot as he faces the threat of a new challenger. michael bloomberg taking steps to make a late entry into the 2020 race. but biden says he's not worried. >> i welcome him in the race. michael is a solid guy. let's see where it goes. i have no, no problem with him getting into the race. >> bloomberg seen in new york city this morning not answering questions as his team was set to file the primary paperwork in alabama whose deadline is today. the former new york city mayor originally ruled out a 2020 bit in march as he saw a narrow path

to victory with biden in the race. as recently as september, bloomberg said he was comfortable with his decision. >> when you look at the layout of who is going to vote and where the country is z, i would be very unlikely to get releblthsed. >> . >> recent polling has shown the overwhelming majority of potential democratic voters are satisfied with their options in the current field. >> smaller group and -- >> but now advisers to bloomberg say he's concerned the current crop of democratic candidates is not well placed to beat donald trump. >> it is not just to have somebody come in, anybody, and say they're going to buy the selection.

>>. >> for years, bloomberg was a republican, then registered as a democrat before becoming an empty last year. >> we've got to send a message to elected officials. vote for common sense gun laws or we will throw you out. enough. z. >> as bloomberg gets closer to jumping into the 2020 race, president trump predicts a bloomberg candidacy will fail. >> he will not do very well. and if he did, i'd be happy. there is nobody i'd rather run against. >> all right. trump wants to take on bloomberg. that could be interesting. joe biden says, amy, he's not worried about bloomberg getting into the race. do you think he should be? >> i don't think so. when you look at the issues joe biden has confronted in terms of

whether he should be the nominee, most of them center around his age, the fact that he's an older, white, more middle of the road man. so you put in another county who is even older than joe biden who was a registered republican, you know, it's just no contest. i mean, i think here biden has so much more relevant experience, especially when it comes to things like foreign policy. if you're going to compare like to like, it doesn't seem like this is something biden should be worried about. the democrats need to narrow down the field if they are going to get some momentum. >> what about the reasons bloomberg gave for running? he says he's worried the current field can't beat donald trump. >> it's not clear why he thinks his entering the race is going to change that calculation.

he certainly is a credible candidate. he has relevant experience. but he has not been part of the debates that have happened to date. it looks like his strategy is to skip some of the early primaries. i am not sure why he believes this strategy is ultimately going to put him into the center of the debate or will actually result in a better situation for democrats. >>. >> if voters in iowa or new hampshire aren't for biden yet after eight years as obama's vice president and 30 years in the senate, why would they suddenly decide they are for him? >> well, look, this is a very unpredictable race.

so i -- and i'm not a pollster. what i do know is he's a very centrist candidate. we know that has appealed to voters. we know from what we saw in the recent elections with virginia and with kentucky that people are looking for candidates who will reach across the aisle, who will not increase the division, the partisan rhetoric and who are looking to get meaningful change done. so i think biden offers a credible way forward. whether that persuades voters, we will see. >> donald trump lost sa bub barn support in state elections this week. there is a belief that people that have voted for trump that might consider not would be looking for a moderate on the democrats' side. that makes sense. i will want to ask you how will a billionaire candidate bloomberg fair against the anti-billionaires on the ticket,

warren and sanders? >> i believe that the voters are frustrated in general with a system they believe hasn't worked for them. when you look at the reasons why president trump won in 2008, 2012, and you look at the people who then voted for trump, there is a clear line of frustration that whether it's weather and equality, manufacturing, jobs, all of that really matters to people and their bottom lines. having another brl heir doesn't seem like the solution. >> all right. we appreciate your insight so much. thanks for getting up early in london to come on. >> thank you. >> and his monday, joe biden

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live video here from germany. commemorations are about to get under way in berlin marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. that's angela merkel there under the umbrella. doesn't look like a sunny day there for this ceremony. europe european leaders are at the memorial sight for it. jub land crowds dismantled the symbol that allowed those in the

communist east to travel freely to the capitalist west. fred plight begin will be joining us for this mem ragz that lasts a few hours. fred, hello to you. it was quite some time since the fall of the berlin wall and many remember it. what is the mood there today for the them ragdcommemoration? >> we're at what's called the eastside gallery. this is the longest stretch of the berlin wall that is actually still standing. it's on part of a river that runs through berlin. but, of course, the biggest afraction here today is the cnn trevant. this was a common car that people drove in germany. we had it painted and everybody

loves it. the mood today is different than the big anniversaries we've seen in the past. five years ago, there was a big light installation. ten years ago, they had a set of dominos being pushed over. the heads of nations were here to commemorate this. this year, things are actually a bit more low key. you have some leaders here from eastern european countries and, of course, were very important because they had revolutions of their own. poland, the czech republic, where a lot of the dramatic changes happened in 1989, where those also took place. but i would say in total while the mood here in berlin is jubilant, it is somewhat more solemn than it has been over the past 30 years that have been going on. and the mayor of berlin, he said the reason for that is because the berliners feel that right now globally the political

climate is, you know, a bit more solemn, is a bit less jub land than it had been. they talk about things like brexit, the political situation here in germany that might dampen the mood just a little bit. so there are celebrations, but they're not as big as they were five or ten years ago. >> and to your point there, fred, angela merkel has had some pessimistic remarks surrounding this anniversary about the future of germany. and the leadership that she worries about. >> you are absolutely right. z i would say her feelings about unification were very clear. she said it was the best thing that happened to germany, it was a very important thing, but at the same time, it's clear that this country does face some dramatic problems and some dramatic issues. while not all of them stem from

that time, they are certainly amplified by that time, as well. the far right is on the rise in places and some folks in those places who still feel as though they have been somewhat left behind in germany. if you look at the big companies that have relocated to many places in the eastern part of germany, yeah, there are a lot of factors that do dampen that mood. you have had these far right parties gain a lot, anti-european parties, as well. and certainly something that does very much weigh on the political mood here in this country. in many ways, there are a lot of people here in this nation who still feel 30 years after the berlin wall there are certain divisions among the populations.

if you look at the eastern part of the country, it is a mixed bag of results. so we've been looking back at what's with been going on over the past 30 years and here is what we found. >> the line of demarcation lies in berlin. >> the cruel division between the people of east and west berlin. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> so here at cnn, we actually own our own cnn trevant. this was the epitome of east german automotive engineering. and for the anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, we're going to take this car and take a drive back into history, that is if i fit into the car because it's small and i'm big. ready to go. the remnants of the wall are a

tourist attraction nowadays, but this deadly barrier with border guards, oukz towers and barbed wire struck fear into the berliners it divided. i stop and pick up peter beaver who grew up in east germany despising the communist regime and the wall it needed to keep people from fleeing to the west. >> you look and saw the wall. and, you know, it's end. it's end of the world. you can go where you want. >> as a young man, peter beaver establishmented to flee east germany several times until he finally succeeded in 1972. he helped others get out, as well, until he was betrayed and arrested by east germany's secret police and spent five years in jail there. >> it was a little --

>> psychological terror. >> yeah. i sit in a little room and his one month, two months, nobody came and said anything. >> the west german government eventually paid east germany to release peter beaver, but many others who tried to get away paid with their lives. more than 100 of them in berlin. z in 1989, east germans had had enough. the regime opened the wall leading to mass celebrations as people from all over the world joined in to literally tear down the wall. >> i think about the freedom that's for me. the highest point. >> highest good that people can have is freedom. yeah. >> 30 years later, a united berlin is thriving, having shed the shackles of communism and

dismantled the wall many thought could never be breached. >> berlin very much is a thriving metropolis. it's become a center of europe. but i can tell you, i lived in east berlin, natalie, for five years and back then, berlin was really like a small back water town. to see the way it is right now, it is remarkable. as was just noted in that report, it has now become a tourist attraction, but at the same time, 30 years later, it is still so very important to especially educate young people about what the wall meant and how terrifying the berlin wall was to people who were living on both sides of it here in what was this divided city of berlin, natalie. >> i was wondering how engrossed in this evening the young people are. how does the car there drive,

fred? >> so the car, we can give you a little tour if you have one second of time. so the trevant car, it has 45 horsepower, it goes about 70 miles per hour. the thing is, if i try to get into it, it's quite difficult. i do drive this car, right? so i can show you getting into it, i'm about 6'5". so, like, it's very difficult for me to actually get in. but then i do make it. and also, the other thing is that if you do the ignition, you have to pull this lever here which is called the choke for the car to actually -- big man, small car. it works, but it's definitely -- it's a bit like -- it's a bit like being in the navy driving this car. it's not just a job, it's an adventure, natalie. >> we enjoyed your report there. fred, we'll see you again as the ceremony gets under way. thanks very much.

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live pictures here from germany as the crowds celebrate the wall coming down. the dismantling of the wall led to the reunification of germany

and ultimately the end of the soviet union. fred pleitgen is back with me observing these events. who all is expected to take part, fred? >> the events this year are a little different than they were five years ago or ten years ago when the big heads of the state. normally you would have the president of russia, of france, the prime minister of britain, the united kingdom, as well. this year, it's the eastern european central heads of state. and the reason why they did in this year is because a time of these central european countries were so instrumental during that time. you look, for instance, at poland which obviously had

communism undermined for quite some time there. so poland really a very central country also to the demise of communism. the hungarians were one of the first ones to open the iron curtain. it was a hungarian border guard who then decided on his own to open the iron curtain. you had the czech republic, the slovakians. so all these countries obviously played a very, very big role in what eventually led to the reunification of germany. however, one of the things that angela merkel said, and i think we're seeing her on some of our live video feeds, she said the

one thing that we always have to keep in mind in that now unified country is that, of course, many nations played a part and both germanys played a part in the unification, but it was the east germans that led to the fall of the wall. and that's something that she says today also has to be remembered, as well. we talked about this a little bit. it's still very much a country that at least in the minds of some people is still very much divided. where some of the east germans still feel like they're second class citizens or they haven't caught on economically. angela merkel was saying in an interview, keep in mind, these are the people who, through the protests that they started in october and november of 1989, and leading up to the opening of the wall which was announced by mistake by the east german government, they then pushed through the wall and that was the beginning of the end of the communist nation. that is something angela merkel

said she wanted to make a point of. they're not one big event. there are events here in berlin that have unfolded over the past week or so. on november 4th, 1989, was the day of the largest demonstration in eastern germany in what is called the alexander square in central and what is now east berlin. so all that pays tribute to the fact that it was the people of these central european nations that played a large role undermining communism and the east germans pushing through the berlin wall and leading to the berlin wall getting taken down and eventually this country being gifted with reeunificatio. >> the ceremony has begun, so let's just listen for a few moments. ♪

♪ >> so, again, event eggs today inclu include a candlelighting that will take place over the next three hours. of course, the dismantling of the wall leading to the reunification of germany. all right. let's go now -- let's go now to matthew chance. he is in moscow and, of course, matthew, when the wall came down, so crumbled the soviet union. how are they remembering this anniversary there? >> they're not sending a very high level delegation to these

celebrations under way in berlin now. it's the russian ambassador to germany will be representing the russian federation. look, there is a very different perspective here in the russian capital to these dramatic historic events compared to, you know, how people in the west see it. this whole era which started with the fall of the berlin wall and finished with the collapse of the soviet union has been described by vladimir putin a few years back as the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. it plunged millions of people in what was utter chaos and economic despair and that's still very acutely felt. just last year, vladimir putin said if there was one historical event that he could change, it would be the collapse of the soviet union. so even though mikhail gorbachev

are heralded in the west for this great triumph, if you like, from a western point of view, in russia, and particularly for vladimir putin and the people that support him, which is a lot of people in this country, they say that gorbachev policy, the collapse of the soviet union, allowing the berlin wall to fall, as an example of huge political naivety that, as i say, plunged what was the soviet union and what is now russia for the most part into a huge amount of geopolitical turmoil. so, again, a very different perspective that you get here in russia compared to what you're hearing and seeing on the ground there in berlin itself. >> yes. certainly understand. mikhail gorbachev, heralded around the world, but not so much inside russia itself. matthew chance for us there. thank you for that perspective, matthew. we'll continue to follow

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india's top court says the fiercely contested site in northern india should be given to hindus who want to build a plot there. muslims were handed a separate plot of land. it sparked deadly riots back in 1992. joining me now live from new delhi, talk to us about the reaction to this decision.

>> so lts a significant and landmark achievement, really. the going ahead with this verdict by the supreme court has been a good one as far as the hindus are concerned. the hindus constitute 80% of the population in india. muslims, not so much. they considered about 14% of the percentage of population in india. the representers in court are upset with this verdict. they are not satisfied. they might even be fighting for a review petition in the supreme court. they claim five acres of land in an alternative land property is not what they're looking at. they want to fight this further and that could be an option that they're looking at in the near future. as far as the prime minister is concerned, moments after this verdict was out, he has hailed the court for coming to an amicable solution as far as the longest legal battle over a

title suit in india is concerned. so politically, as far as the affiliates of the main hindu party in india, they're extremely happy. muslim political party, not so much. if you remember the 1992 destruction of the barber mosque, the court has called that illegal today. that was another significant order that the supreme court had spoken about while reading out its landmark verdict. >> thank you for us there in new delhi with the latest on this decision. thanks. we want to turn now to the story we continue to follow out of mexico. a remote mormon community there is under heavy protection after nine americans, including two infants and three mothers were

massacred in an ambush. the family continues to bury their loved ones and they have not given up on the search for answers. the questions, were the killings random or were the mormons targeted? >> it was another day of funerals and heartache for the family of nine americans who were cut down, murdered by members of a mexican cartel as they were driving to a wedding. for this tight-knit mormon community that lives on the other side of this mexican border. why these three women and their children, six children who died altogether, were targeted by this cartel is still a mystery. the mexican government says it may have been a case of mistaken identity as cartels battle over this territory that is used for drug trafficking by the cartels.

but members of the mormon community said they didn't understand how that could have taken place, that they're well known in this community and that they had stayed out of the cartel's way, for the most part, over the years and there was no reason that members of a cartel would come into the area and fire over 200 rounds, these unarmed women and children. all the same, though, they said even though their hearts are broken, they're just now begin to go fight for answers and for justice. >> translator: while we feel fire inside, if we felt the need for justice before, now it's multiplied. we have a desire to put an end to this atrocity. we will continue to seek justice. >> right now, the community is being protected by mexican military and police, but it's unclear how long they will be able to stay there. mexican government officials admit that this area is lawless and they do not have the resources there to keep

residents safe. and even though members of this community have lived there for years, some are saying they are considering leaving and the fact that six children, as young as 7 months old, could be murdered in cold blood perhaps it's no longer safe to live here for anyone. patrick ottman, cnn, mexico city, mexico. >> again, it is a historic day in berlin, germany. we're revisiting the day the iron curtain began to fall apart and europe began counting down to the end of the cold war. we'll continue our live coverage as we push on here.

we turn you now again to live in berlin. we are covering germany marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. the ceremony has just begun. leaders from other european countries and former soviet bloc countries are on hand for this. the barrier dividing the city's communist east and capitalist

west was dismantled. this video from 30 years ago, dismantled by jubilant crowds back in 1989 symbolically ending the cold war. there w there was no mistaking the historic events unfolding in berlin 30 years ago and cnn was there back then every step of the way. here are some of the sights and sounds of how we covered the fall of the wall back in 1989. ♪ >> it was the largest demonstration in east german history. the main square was carpeted with a half million people. the city virtually came to a standstill. >> our top story, the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling

down. it is opening its boarders, allowing citizens to go anywhere they wish. the future of the berlin wall is now up in the air. >> the east berlin leaders have taken a sledgehammer to that wall. it's conceivable that the real sledgehammers will be brought out on that wall. there's just no point of it being there, a prospect that no one could have predicted a year ago or even a month ago. >> this has been a city physically divided for 20 years, but now it's come together, east and west, in a spontaneous outburst of emotion. this could be the first move to dismassagesing the berlin wall that has stood as the divided germany since it was built in 1961. >> one after another, drivers and passengers alike say they plan to spend a weekend in the

opposite germany and see how the other half lives. >> any west german businesses are staying open around the clock to give them a chance to not only spend their money, but pick up goods to take home. hundreds of thousands of east germans stormed the streets of west berlin. >> this morning, a new hole was made in the wall. yesterday it was the galinica bridge that opened up. to many of us, these are just place names, but what signal do these places send to the german people? >> i was on the bridge yesterday and i was never seen more grown men with tears in my eyes than at any time in my life that on that bridge. >> the vast majority of east germans do not want to leave homes and jobs to go to the west. east german leaders hope that by dismantling those things that have become symbols of their past, they can encourage the return of skilled workers, the

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mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> that is ronald reagan, president of the united states and mr. gorbachev did just that. it has been 30 years since the berlin wall was torn down.