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"cnn tonight with don lemon" starts right now, and that bolo is gordon sondland, don. >> i was going to say, what happened to the bolo? >> that's where it is. that's the bolo. >> he's on the hot seat tomorrow. i think of all the witnesses and out of everyone here -- well, besides rudy giuliani and the president, he's the one that's most in peril because either he gets perjury, you know, if he doesn't change and then there is evidence to the contrary, or if he changes he's going to get attacked by republicans. and if he doesn't, he may get attacked by democrats. so he's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

but i think he can't have a -- perjury is the most serious, so i think he's probably going to tell the truth, or he should at least. he have learned from, you know, roger stone, on and on. >> the question is what did he -- i agree with you, but what did he learn from roger stone? roger stone arguably -- you know, look, i've known stone a long time. he calls himself a dirty trickster. he knew they were going to get his communications. arguably he knew what would come out to be true would be bad for the president, and he may have taken a conviction because of it, and you're not hearing the president say he's going to pardon him. imagine how that silence is playing in sondland's head right now. he's the only guy, don, that people say they heard say, if you want this money, you got to give the president the bidens. >> and he's the guy behind that infamous phone call in the kiev restaurant, in the restaurant in kiev, right, that was so loud,

that he's, oh, oh. and you've been there before. you've been there before. why did you say this about me on tv? you're like, wait a minute. hold on, hold on. let me get to -- there are people around me. or if you're in a car, usually when people talk in a car, you can hear every -- especially if they have the phone up to their ear. you can hear because it bounces off the ear. headphones, maybe not so much. >> let alone when you're in a place where at least two of the three cell carriers are owned by russia. you know? maybe you want to be a little bit on the quiet tip in terms of what you say. don, before we came on tv, don was saying, what's going on with you? how are you feeling? when you're as close as we are, we spend so much time, you get to get a feel. i'll tell you why i'm frustrated. i don't disagree with the republicans saying we want firsthand information. why are you giving us all these bits and pieces for something this important? but i can't take their outrage seriously when they say nothing about the fact that the president is keeping the people that they want to hear from. that's why rudy's not coming. that's why pompeo and mulvaney and bolton aren't coming.

how can they not be upset about that if they're upset about not getting firsthand information? >> i don't know if i agree with you on all of that because, look, there's been so much hypocrisy, especially on the republican side. this is not a witch hunt. there's every -- every person has corroborated what the whistle-blower has said. everyone knows, even the people who are defending the president, that what he did on that call was not perfect, that what he did was wrong. they're just trying to figure out a defense and how to twist themselves in knots to come up with something. i'm with "the daily show" on the trump -- i forget what they call it, where you get this -- they did this skit where you get the box of excuses every single day for trump defenses. and it comes in the mail and says, oh, wait a minute, the president -- no, the president was joking. oh, no, he wasn't joking. so every single day there's a defense. so i have to disagree with you. i think on this one the republicans are on the wrong side of history, and they are the most hypocritical. i'm not a partisan. i know people think that i'm

some liberal democrat. i'm not. or i'm some -- they used to think i was a conservative republican. i'm not. but i don't think the republicans are serving themselves well right now with their defenses or lack thereof of a credible one. i got to move on, though. >> they're in such a box. >> they are in a box. >> because they're trying to -- they say the president has no defense. everyone in that room who is a republican is doing nothing but defend the president. not one of them asked any questions to elicit any kind of understanding of what happened. >> nothing on substance. >> they're all just defending him. he couldn't do better than he is in that room. >> cognitive dissonance. google it. >> that's a big word. the biggest word i use is mayonnaise. have a good show. >> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. now let's just be honest. the shakedown. that's exactly what it is. the shakedown is exposed, people. come on. and the evidence comes from the republicans' own witnesses. the former envoy to ukraine,

kurt volker, who resigned just one day after the release of the whistle-blower's report, telling the president's defenders exactly what they did not want to hear. they called him apparently expecting him to say what he said in his closed-door testimony, that he saw no evidence of a quid pro quo, or let's call it for what it is again, a shakedown. well, now he says he was wrong. he was out of the loop. he didn't know burisma meant biden. >> since i gave my testimony on october 3rd, a great deal of additional information and perspectives have come to light. i've learned many things that i did not know at the time of the events in question. >> so now he knows the shakedown involved digging up dirt on joe biden. >> in hindsight, i now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the ukrainian company burisma as equivalent to investigating former vice president biden. i saw them as very different,

the former being appropriate and unremarkable, the latter being unacceptable. in retrospect i should have seen that connection differently, and had i done so, i would have raised my own objections. >> that's complete 180. volker's testimony revealing the corruption was within our own administration. and the president's defenders probably did not want to hear volker singing the praises of joe biden. >> as i previously testified, i have known vice president biden for 24 years. he is an honorable man, and i hold him in the highest regard. >> so like i said, that was the republicans' witness. and then there's the former nsc official tim morrison, who lays out the whole thing, the whole sordid shakedown in one simple sentence. >> what did ambassador sondland tell you that he told mr. yermak?

>> that the ukrainians would have to have the prosecutor general make a statement with respect to the investigations as a condition of having the aid lifted. >> okay. so let's remember gordon sondland is testifying bright and early tomorrow morning, 9:00 a.m. and if he has learned anything from the testimony so far, like i said just moments ago, he'd better be prepared to tell the truth. in the midst of all of this, congressman jim jordan, who was put on the intel committee specifically to be the republicans' attack dog, seems to be doubling down on his strategy of yelling. i should point out that yelling doesn't mean that you've uncovered grave wrongdoing. it just simply means that you are yelling. >> that's the sad thing. people like ambassador volker and tim morrison, who have served our country so well, are now stepping out of our government because of what these guys are doing. that's why mr. turner got so fired up a few minutes ago, why i'm so fired up too.

>> just yelling. i said gordon sondland should be prepared to tell the truth in his testimony tomorrow. well, i just want you to take a look at this picture. so seven witnesses so far standing up, raising their right hands, and swearing to tell the truth about the administration they serve. that takes courage. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, a decorated army officer, whose family came here from the soviet union 40 years ago, giving a message to his late father, who brought the family here. >> dad, i'm sitting here today in the u.s. capitol talking to our elected professionals. talking to our elected professionals is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union and come here to the united states of america in search of a better life for our family. do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truth.

>> you'd hope that he'd be right, and then you learn that the army is now providing security assistance for him and his family. and then you learn a short time after vindman said that, this tweet, an attack from the white house twitter account, taking another clip from vindman's testimony and using it completely out of context. the president himself re-tweeting it. >> when you were -- you went to ukraine for the inauguration? >> correct. >> at any point during that trip did mr. danyliuk offer you a position of defense minister with the ukrainian government? >> he did. >> and how many times did he do that? >> i believe it was three times. >> well, what the president and his white house left out is what happened next. lieutenant colonel vindman clearly testifying under oath he dismissed the job offer, reported it up the chain of command, and didn't even take it

seriously. >> do you have any reason why he asked you to do that? >> i don't know, but every single time i dismissed it. upon returning, i notified my chain of command, and the appropriate counterintelligence folks about the offer. i'm an american. i came here when i was a toddler. and i immediately dismissed these offers, did not entertain them. >> hmm. isn't it interesting the white house left all of that out? left it out because it was a deliberate effort to give you the false impression that lieutenant colonel vindman was somehow in cahoots with ukraine. and, yes, the old loyalty slur applies here. some republicans shamefully even trying to turn his military service against him, turn his military service against him. ranking member devin nunes failing to call him by his rank and getting quite the clapback.

>> mr. vindman, you testified in your deposition that you did not know the whistle-blower. >> ranking member, it's lieutenant colonel vindman, please. >> congressman chris stewart actually going so far as to question why he was wearing his military uniform even though it is not at all unusual for military officers detailed to the nsc to wear their uniforms for congressional hearings. >> lieutenant colonel vindman, i see you're wearing your dress uniform. knowing that's not the uniform of the day, that you normally wear a suit to the white house. >> and then there is this from the president this afternoon at the white house. >> i don't know him. i don't know, as he says, the lieutenant colonel. i understand somebody had the misfortune of calling him mister, and he corrected him. i never saw the man. i understand now he wears his uniform when he goes in. >> one of these two men -- okay?

one of these two men, the president and lieutenant colonel vindman, earned the right to wear the uniform of this country as he sees fit. one of these two men devoted his life to duty and honor. one of these two men still has shrapnel in his body. compare that to the military service of the president and his chief defenders -- congressman devin nunes, jim jordan. oh, right. none of them has served. one of them has bone spurs. they feel free to spout debunked conspiracy theories that ukraine was behind the interference in our 2016 election, not russia, though our own intelligence community says without question it was russia.

>> colonel vindman, are you aware of any evidence to support the theory that the ukrainian government interfered in the 2016 election? >> congressman, i am not, and furthermore, i would say that this is a russian narrative that president putin has promoted. >> a russian narrative that vladimir putin has promoted. and these are members of the intelligence community spouting nonsense. out of everyone in congress, they really should know better. they're the intelligence community. let's face it -- committee, excuse me. let's face it. they do know better. they know. but instead of admitting the truth, the consensus that our intelligence agencies share with high confidence, that it was russia, not ukraine that interfered with the 2016 election, we get nonsense about tv ratings and drug deals.

>> well, ambassador and news for you. i have some bad tv ratings are way down, way down. whatever drug deal the democrats are cooking up here on the dais, the american people aren't buying it. >> worried much? worried that the first witnesses called by the republicans aren't exactly saying what you want to hear, what you want them to say? contrast that with lieutenant colonel vindman showing courage, the courage to stand up to the most powerful person in the world and drawing applause in the hearing saying this. >> this is america. this is the country i've served and defended, that all of my brothers have served, and here right matters. >> thank you, sir. yield back. [ applause ]

>> a huge day in the impeachment inquiry today. and with everything we have learned, i'll bet i know one person who was taking notes. ambassador gordon sondland set to testify in just hours. he's already changed his story once. what will he say tomorrow? we'll discuss with ambassador nick burns, laura coates, frank bruni, next. we made usaa insurance for members like kate. a former army medic, made of the flexibility to handle whatever monday has in store and tackle four things at once. so when her car got hit, she didn't worry. she simply filed a claim on her usaa app and said... i got this. usaa insurance is made the way kate needs it - easy. she can even pick her payment plan so it's easy on her budget and her life. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa

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damning testimony today in the impeachment hearings, laying out evidence of the trump administration's shakedown of ukraine and setting the stage for tomorrow morning's big testimony from gordon sondland, the ambassador to the eu, who has already changed his testimony once. so there's a lot to discuss. ambassador nicholas burns is here, laura coates, and frank bruni. good evening one and all. thank you so much. laura, you've had a long day. it was 12 hours of testimony. >> i better not look it, don. >> no, no. you look great. we all were like watching and then i couldn't believe, i kept

looking at my watch saying, this is still going. this is still going. hello, everyone. all of the witnesses today, laura, even the ones called by republicans, testified to elements of a shakedown. you watched the testimony. what should president trump take from today's hearings? >> well, what he wants to take from today's hearing is, as he said, the republicans are, quote, killing it. but i think what he really means by that is killing really any chance at a viable defense that would actually attack the substance of the claims that have been made. every one of these witnesses essentially, even those who had the epiphanies or the willful ignorance of, oh, is that what was really going in kurt volker land, all had the same discussion, which is what happened behind closed doors. there was a conversation between the president of the united states with the president of ukraine. the president of the united states had extraordinary leverage over that person because of the military need. he withheld military aid. why? because he wanted a personal favor for his re-election campaign, converting every

american taxpayer into a donor for the trump 2020 campaign. now, that did not change because of the way people questioned the integrity or the patriotism or the job description of any of the witnesses. however, this is the only real line of defense one can take if the substance is the same throughout every single testimony. >> well, it's always interesting to me when they say, well, the president said no quid pro quo. that's like me saying i'm interviewing you, laura, but i'm not interviewing you right now. this is not happening, you know. it's bizarre. >> it is. >> i want to bring frank in. frank, today's testimony really sets the stage for what really will be the most consequential day in the impeachment hearings. tomorrow it's going to be gordon sondland, ambassador gordon sondland's testimony, especially what we're learning from that july 10th white house meeting. what do you think? >> well, that july 10th date is becoming more and more important. we've been talking so much about july 25th, but now we're hearing more and more about july 10th and gordon sondland saying in that meeting, bringing up the investigations and then according to several witnesses

john bolton cuts the meeting short. is he going to talk to us about that tomorrow? what is he going to say? his name keeping coming up with witness after witness and we get all those accounts, and his account wasn't that quite complete or in some cases was contradictory. he's really in an interesting position because he doesn't want to lie, but he's got stuff he said or didn't say before. i think he's going to tell a much more complete story. i'm taking that cue from the fact that he already amended and extended his testimony once, and i think he's going to prove to be one of the most damning witnesses yet in this inquiry. >> along the lines of not knowing -- about cutting the meeting short, right, there were a couple things we learned today. ambassador burns, we heard volker attempt to explain how he didn't associate burisma with biden. do you find it hard to believe that volker -- you know, the special envoy to ukraine didn't know about the biden/burisma connection? >> well, don, i know kurt very well. i've worked with him for several

decades. this was a surprise because obviously burisma was connected in everybody's mind with the bidens, with hunter biden. and so i think it shocked a lot of people. on the other hand, kurt volker didn't turn out, as you said, to be the witnesses the republican side thought they were going to be. he extolled the virtues of joe biden, and several times was given the opportunity to say in effect he didn't believe any of these stories about vice president biden, and he shouldn't because they're fictitious. they've the product of the imagination of donald trump and rudy giuliani. i think the pieces of the puzzle are beginning to fall into place, and they're revealing a quite considerable months-long conspiracy of sorts to extort the ukrainian government. and you saw that today when the republicans -- they're not even contesting that story that's appearing before our eyes, witness after witness. they're just throwing up flares to divert our attention, and i thought, don, the bullying, the mean spiritedness of some of the republican members, going after the character of lieutenant colonel vindman, accusing him of

having dual loyalties to ukraine, which of course is an old trope in american politics and a very ugly one. and then donald trump jr. taking to twitter to excoriate him, lieutenant colonel vindman, and criticize him in very personal terms. think of the depravity of the trump family, the president allowing his son to attack a decorated veteran of our military. i thought this was the lowest point of the hearings over the last two weeks. and the contrast between these upright, professional, ethical, career civil service officers and some of these politicians, i found it really striking that people can see the difference. >> just when you think we've reached the gutter, it gets lower than the gutter. i don't know. maybe we're going to get down to the earth's core. who knows how low we're going to go here? when williams and vindman were asked whether anyone in the national security community supported putting the hold on ukraine's security assistance, both of them said no.

doesn't that say a lot, laura? >> it does. it underscores the point that the existing diplomatic policy with respect to the ukraine was as exactly what you'd expect when congress has appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars to give them military aid to fend off russia. the idea that they would be needing that money more than anyone else, they essentially were required to have it, should not surprise anyone. that's what makes this essentially so problematic. it's such an abuse of power. it's not a political slush fund we're talking about. it's about aid who, as bill taylor last week talked about this very issue, that it actually helps the national security of americans. congress recognized that and appropriated funds accordingly. but one thing that really needs to be talked about in this issue as well, don, is looking ahead to tomorrow, when we have gordon sondland who is assured to be somebody who is going to get a lost attention because he is the party we're all talking about,

remember what's available to him still could be the idea of even the fifth amendment. he may recognize that he is in legal peril here because of all of his inconsistencies. and while today it may have worked for him to have epiphanies, it may not be the case for him to clarify yet again tomorrow on this issue. >> he's the one i said that's most in peril here besides the president and rudy giuliani. frank, i got to go but quickly, how low are we going to go? >> i don't see how we go lower than what we saw today, which was basically republicans and then the trumps from afar throwing spitballs at a decorated military veteran. >> disgusting. thank you, all. when we come back, i'm going to speak to a former watergate prosecutor about today's hearings. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. well you remember what happened last year. you can't bring a backup thanksgiving

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testimony from four key witnesses today, three of them were on that infamous july 25th call, and it all may have raised the stakes for impeachment. let's discuss with jon sale. he was watergate assistant special prosecutor, also a former personal attorney for rudy giuliani, represented giuliani early in the impeachment inquiry. and we appreciate you coming on. thank you, sir. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> when we last talked, we hadn't heard from any witnesses. seven people have now testified publicly, so give me your assessment of how the hearings are going. what do you think? >> well, first let me join in what your other guests said about condemning the attacks on loyal, patriotic americans who have served our country. so i just wanted to get that out there. i think it's poor judgment that the republicans did that. i think the hearings have gone pretty much as expected. it reminded me watching them -- it really reminded me of watching a tennis or ping pong game going back and forth except this one there was no ending.

i don't think either side made any significant difference, and i think a week ago -- i usually don't save these, but there was a new york post, and see if you can see it. can you see the headline? it says "guilty, now for the trial." i think that we're not following the lesson of the founding fathers where first alexander hamilton reminded us not to be partisan when you talk about impeachment. it's just gotten more and more partisan, and rather than looking for the truth, don, what's the hurry? last weekend they worked friday night, saturday, to get this over with. they don't work on health care. they don't work on reducing prescription drugs over the weekend. there is a way where we can get better testimony than gordon sondland. he's the main event tomorrow because we don't have the testimony of mulvaney.

we don't have the testimony of bolton. and there was a lawsuit filed by the deputy national security adviser seeking guidance, whether or not he has to honor the subpoena, and they withdrew the lawsuit, and the congress has asked that -- withdrew the subpoena and asked the case be dismissed. why couldn't they wait? maybe they would have won that lawsuit, and we would have gotten firsthand information, and then the american people would have the truth. instead, rush to judgment, vote to impeach. then when it gets to the senate, that's where mitch mcconnell will control the rules, and if the republicans didn't like what the democratic rules were, the democrats aren't going to like the rules in the senate, where there's going to be a quick acquittal. >> i think the democrats have said why they're doing this with the lawsuits and not seeking some of the subpoenas because i would imagine they're on a timeline coming up with the election and also from the hearings, the holiday. so they're thinking that it's going to take too long to wind its way through the court system and that what the white house and what republicans are doing now is just trying to run out the clock.

that is their strategy. you don't think that's a good strategy. >> well, i don't know if it's a legitimate strategy. in watergate, we litigated and got to the supreme court in less than three months. the courts all recognize this has to be expedited and i'm just suggesting the result is inevitable. and if we don't want to get the best evidence, if we want to get a pre-determined result -- >> so you think it's better to go through the process even if it takes it much closer to the election, just go through the process and go through the court system? >> well, it's unprecedented to, in a first term, to have an impeachment hearing. so it is getting close to an election, and that leads to the argument should the people decide. what's impeachable conduct here is hard to get your arms around. >> jon, can i ask you something? we only have a short time. i don't mean to be rude but we only have a short time. >> sure. i'm sorry. >> let me ask you a question. so you were talking about the partisan part of it. does it bother you because on the partisan side, at least on the republican side, there are these debunked conspiracy

theories that they keep relying on instead of -- listen, no one should be making up their mind. i agree with you about whether the president should be impeached or not. listen to the testimony. but don't you think it may be partisan because of the beliefs and throwing out these debunked conspiracy theories, trying to out the whistle-blower? doesn't that make it more partisan at least, that takes it into a completely different realm than it should be. >> oh, i'm not suggesting there isn't blame to go around. >> right. >> what i'm saying is whether or not -- i think the facts are going to be agreed upon, and the debate is going to be is it impeachable. james madison said you don't get rid of a president for maladministration. is it impeachable? that's what the congress has to decide. my problem is i think they've already decided. >> jon sale, always appreciate having you on. and your perspective. thank you, sir. >> thanks, don. >> we'll be right back.

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i want to bring in now congressman raja krishnamoorthi, an illinois democrat, on the intel committee who questioned the witness today. congressman, i appreciate you joining us. i know it's been a long day. so thank you so much. the white house says today's testimony is somewhere between a tie and a win for them. what's your reaction to that? >> oh, i'm not sure about that. you know, i think that lieutenant colonel vindman this morning provided very compelling testimony. i know they tried to do their best to attack him, which is really shameful the way they did

it, trying to question his loyalty. you know, imply that as an immigrant that he could not possibly be patriotic. and you know, just going after him in ways that are really unbecoming. but i think that they didn't lay a glove on him zplsh i want to play this because you took great issue with that. let's listen. >> yeah. >> your father never gave up working hard to build his very own american dream, did he? >> he did not. >> well, lieutenant colonel vindman, your father achieved the american dream, and so did you and your family. from one immigrant american to another immigrant american, i want to say to you that you and your family represent the very best of america. i assume that you are as proud to be an american as i am. correct? >> yes, sir. >> implying, you think they were implying he wasn't loyal to america because he's an immigrant? >> yeah, you heard one of the

question lines, you know, talking about how he may have been offered the post as defense minister at ukraine. i think it was kind of an unserious offer made by a senior adviser in ukraine and they took it so seriously as though he's more interested in protecting the -- protecting ukraine than protecting america. >> mm-hmm. let's talk about -- move forward and talk about what's going to happen tomorrow. we're going to hear from the eu ambassador gordon sondland, a key witness who spoke directly with the president about the shakedown. do you expect him to be truthful? because he's changed his testimony. he's had to amend it. >> he's remembered new events and conversations and statements. that's why he amended his deposition testimony. maybe he'll remember more tomorrow. as long as he's truthful and he's fulsome i think he'll be in good shape.

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moments of today's testimony in the impeachment hearing coming from lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. i want you to listen to what he said in his opening statement about his decision to testify. >> i also recognize that my simple act of appearing here would not be tolerated in many places around the world. in russia my act of expressing concern in a private channel would have repercussions and testimony woulded surely cost me my life. dad, i'm sitting here today in the u.s. capitol talking to our elected professionals is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago oo it leave the soviet union and come here to the united states of america in such of a better lifef for our family. do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truth. >> if you thought his years of

of service would protect him from attacks on his loyalty, you would be wrong. the official white house twitter account put out a misleading tweet questioning his judgment. and the don jr. tweeted a link saying he wasn't a hero. they took the cue from the president himself who weeks ago attacked vindman as a never trumper. let's discuss now. good evening. sad, really, unbelievable. lieutenant colonel vindman, like him, you immigrated from the soviet union when you were young. what is it to watch attacks on where his loyalties lie? >> it's painful but i can't say it's surprising given the atmosphere that president trump has created of xenophobia, anti-immigrant and frankly,

anti-semitism. i think it's especially cruel given what lieutenant vindman and i, the country we were fleeing. his father served in the soviet military and grandfather lost their leg but still their loyalty was questioned because they were jewish. and to come here and have your loyalty questioned again when you spilled blood for this ecan country is not only deeply ironic, it's deeply cruel. >> they're ready to move lieutenant colonel vindman and his family. >> a war here oo a purple heart recipient is requesting 24- hour security detail for him and his family because he's been attacked for simply standing up

for doing his job. he's being called a double agent. remember that a couple of weeks ago. he's probably going to be called an immigrant because he's -- and it's an anti-semitic conspiracy theory. let's not forget that donald trump, the president accused je jews of being disloyal. this is the man streaming is a white antisem ts view. and they're helping bring the invasion of middle easterners and there's a cost to this. there's a cost to lieutenant colonel vindman's family. and there's a cost to jewish

families and also internationally. in new zealand and el paso. there are consequences to this hate. >> i found that surprising questioning why he's wearing his uniform and what language he is speaking when he is talking to other people he works with. it's unbelievable. we've dp we've got to get to more special coverage. thank you for watching. ♪ a wealth of information. a wealth of perspective.

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