new owner. >> dana: ron aello and laka and mystery person there off to the side, thank you very much for joining us. it's an amazing story. i'm dana perino. here's bill hemmer. >> bill: afternoon, everybody. thank you, dana. we begin. lawmakers for the first time hearing from an impeachment witness who was actually on the july phone call between president trump and ukraine's president. good day, everyone. i'm bill hemmer. this is fox news reporting. we are also waiting for the house to release a resolution that outlines the guidelines of the impeachment inquiry before lawmakers vote on it earlier this week. details on that in a moment. first a military office in the national security council is telling house committee members about what he calls his concerns about what he heard during the conversation between the president and the ukrainian president. his name is alexander vinman.

shefrbed in iraq and earned many medals including a purple heart. fox news obtained his opening statement that reads in part, quote, i did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and i was worried about the implications for the u.s. government support of ukraine, end quote. president trump responding on twitter, how many more never trumpers will be allowed to testify about a perfectly appropriate phone call when all anyone has to do is read the transcript. i knew people were listening on the call. why would i say something inappropriate, which was fine with me. but why so many? our senior producer on the hill just moments ago reporting the white house tried to block him from showing up today, so the house intel committee issued a subpoena for him to appear. with that, we obtain fox coverage. mike emanuel is on the hill with the latest on this resolution. but first, chief correspondent catherine herridge

on the hill. nice to see you and good afternoon. >> good afternoon. just about six hours ago, colonel vindman arrived on capitol hill and has been in a deposition with the democratic led committees. we don't have any information about the cross-examination of vindman but we do have his prepared remarks. right out of the gate he said he was not the source of the complaint that's the foundational piece to the impeachment inquiry. that states i want the committee to know i am not the whistle blower who brought this to the cia's attention. i do not know who the whistleblower is and i would not feel comfortable to speculate to the identity of the whistleblower. vindman said he had direct or first hand knowledge of the conversation because he reports that he was sitting in the national security council situation room. he goes on to continue and states, quote, i realized that if ukraine pursued an investigation into the bidens and the ukraine energy firm

where bunter biden sat on the board, it would -- he also singled out the administration's point man for the ambassador gordon sonlan. he writes about a meeting prior to the phone call between the president and the ukraine president zelensky in which he said he raises objections quote, i stated to the ambassador that his statements were inappropriate and reference to the investigation. the in to investigate biden and his son had nothing to do with national security and that such investigations were not something the nsc, national security council, was going to get involved in or push. again, we have a lot of information from vindman's prepared testimony, but we don't have anything about the cross-examination and whether there were holes in the testimony that became apparent over the last six hours. >> bill: we just learned another

key witness is going to be in court. what about that? >> so, charles cupperman was a deputy do the former national security adviser john bolton and he's a central player in all of these events around july of earlier this year. he went to the courts and said, i'm stuck in an impossible position. the white house directed me not to go to capitol hill, citing various issues around presidential communications. but said i'm also getting a demand, a subpoena from congress to appear. so i want the courts to decide the matter and what we learned today is that the federal court here in washington is fast tracking that matter and will thereby a status hear involved in the white house, the house of representatives and all cupperman. >> bill: thank you for that. while you were talking there, we're hearing the resolution has been filed. we don't have the text, but we're waiting on that. mike emanuel is all over that as well. mike, nice to see you live from

the hill. hello. >> reporter: republicans continue blasting democrats because they've yet to see the text of that resolution the white house is due to vote on on thursday. top republicans on the three relevant committees, jim jordan, michael mccall and devin nunes writing, quote, no matter how hard you try to legitimatize this sham impeachment inquiry, it cannot hide the democrats goal of relitigating the results of the 2016 presidential ele electi election. today the house gop leader said this vote on thursday is too late. >> i applaud the speaker for finally admitting it is an entire sham. but you can't put the genie back in the bottle. due process starts at the beginning. it doesn't affirm an sham all the way through. if you were in a legal term, it would be a mistrial. >> reporter: a key house democrat encouraged his republican colleagues to abandon president trump. >> the evidence of wrongdoing is hiding in plain sight, but we

will continue to proceed in a serious and solemn fashion. the timetable and the votes that we take will be dictated by the facts and the truth and nothing else. >> reporter: house rule chair jim mcgovern has been finishing up the language of this resolution that will be on the house floor thursday. we should get it any time. >> bill: what are key senate leaders saying? >> reporter: they're sitting back and watching. mitch mcconnell said a short time ago that the house leadership is reacting to pressure. >> i think the next step, as i just said, is to take a look and see whether the house is going. obviously, they responded to the pressure that we've put on them, to try to handle this in a more transparent way than meets basic standards of due process that every american will be entitled to. >> reporter: mcconnell suggesting the house leadership is making it up as they go

along. the senate democratic leader defended his colleague leading the house. >> it's a vote to continue the investigation, the impeachment investigation. they're all having public hearings, so this idea that we won't be able to hear from somebody, the whistleblower is now being corroborated by somebody who's on the phone, who was on that call, and has impeccable credentials. >> reporter: the united states senate is not on the hot seat yet. they sit back and watch and wait to see how and when the house gets this done. >> bill: good deal. thank you for that. breaking news again in moments. once we get the text of that resolution, you will hear it. we believe it will lay out some sort of road map that will take us into wednesday and into possibly a full vote on the floor of the house on thursday. that's what we believe we will get some of the key elements in a moment here from those on the hill. in the mean time, it started as a demonstration. it ended in death.

this was a wicked scene. gunshots blasting through bodies and blood spilled across the ground. we'll tell you where and what happened here. a dangerous trip inside syria to an islamic state camp with some of america's sworn enemies inside. >> al-baghdadi was killed during an american raid. there seems to be one leader among them who is telling the others not to speak to us. >> bill: what a story they have to tell and you'll hear it next on fox news reporting. saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong.

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>> the main thing as i parse through this resolution, i just got this a couple of minutes ago. i'll just read you off the top it says directing certain committees, so plural. so what that means the house intelligence committee, the judiciary committee and the other two that have been looking at this, will be able to continue to have an investigate oeur process with impeachment. usually, bill, when you haveento the judiciary committee. the fact they are casting this wider net is a very important distinction in this investigation. it also says here the chair of the permanent select committee on intelligence shall designate an open hearing or hearings pursuant to this. so that tells us there's going to be a wide berth for the house intelligence committee to talk about this. nancy pelosi is coming past us. house speaker, can you tell us about the resolution here? [ inaudible ] i don't know if you could hear that, but she said her

chairmans, plural, will be putting out a statement here in just a little bit. pelosi was asked yesterday, bill, by some reporters about this impeachment resolution and she shied away from that language. she said it's not an impeachment resolution. when i asked the house majority leader about this earlier today, he shied away from this. the problem is that some democrats are skittish about using that term. now, there's going to be a vote thursday about codifying this. the question here is how many democrats might jump ship and might not vote for this and how many republicans? >> bill: let's try and take it a step at a time here. based on our understanding, this goes to a committee tomorrow. with democrats in the majority in that committee, they would likely pass this forward. and based on the calendar, we expect a full vote of the house on thursday. is that a timeline? >> absolutely. there was a little bit of question about whether or not

they would use that thursday, but pelosi told some democrats this morning that they would do that. >> bill: some of these democrats in trump districts, of which there were 31, what have they said about being forced to vote yes or no on this? do they like that idea? >> i had a conversation yesterday with a freshman democrat from upstate new york. he flipped the district from red to blue, one of those top district democrats. he indicated he was fudging here a little bit. he said, i have to see the tech of the resolution. i said the same thing to a republican from nevada, the swing state of nevada. he said i have to see the text of this. >> bill: chad, apologizing for that. steve scalise. let's drop in. >> -- trying to run a one-sided soviet process. this is an impeachment inquiry. and, in fact, speaker pelosi's resolution confirms that it's an impeachment inquiry, yet every

other impeachment inquiry we've had have allowed both sides to call witnesses. have allowed the white house to participate. that's not happening right now. in fact, not only is it not happening, but it's important for jim jordan to know what just started happening today in this committee where they're trying to impeach a president behind closed doors without any due process. >> thank you, steve. i think most of you know chairman schiff has prevented the witness from answering certain questions we have during the deposition. one of the things you do in these deposition is ask the basics, who, what, where, when, why. when we asked the whistleblower who he spoke to, adam schiff said, we're not going to allow that. every one he says this is not classified. he tell us that.

the witness has their counsel there. they don't need adam schiff being chairman and lawyer. that's what happened today. look, democrats run out and say the republicans are trying to figure out who the whistleblower is. we're trying to figure out who the witness is. the resolution the speaker just filed, at some point she points that this is going to the judiciary committee, if they push it there. there will be witnesses called. we'd like to figure out who those witnesses should be, so the american can get the facts, get the truth, and we know who these individuals are. it seems interesting to me that chairman schiff is so sensitive. we put it out last week. 435 members of congress. one of them. only one of them knows who the whistleblower is. more importantly, who the sources are for the whistle blower that were the basis of him filing his complaint. somehow, he doesn't want anyone else to know that. mr. schiff and hist on display n

we tried to ask the witness certain questions and mr. shiff would not let him answer. >> are you asking for names? >> that's usually what you do. >> did he answer? >> he wouldn't. the chairman wouldn't let him. >> democrats are contending that process of elimination to try to figure out who the whistleblower is. >> it's a process of trying to figure out who we're trying to call as witnesses. the letter came from ranking member nunes, mccaul and myself. we said go read the complaint. bullet point number 1 of the do who the half tleblower say? dozen officials are. we want to call them as witnesses. it's tough to determine can't ask them questions.

>> what about the concern raised in his opening statement that the messaging the bidens could potentially under mind national security. what's your reaction to that? >> my reaction is to say what i said this morning. there are four facts that have never changed. mr. vindman is not the first one who was on the call. we heard from president trump and president zelensky. we got the transcript. both said no conditions, no pressure, no quid pro quo. we know the ukrainians did not know at the time of the call that aid had been withheld. tell me what action president zelensky did to get the aid turned back on? did he do a press conference? did he say he was going to investigate? none of that happened. even though you got this stuff adam schiff wants to talk about. that's all it is. none of the basic things have ever changed. >> the meeting never happened. the meeting the ukrainians

wanted did not happen. vindman raised concerns that it's not happened amid the investigation into the bidens. >> president zelensky and president trump met at the united nations. >> he said they were trying to get a meeting and it didn't happen. >> president trump and president zelensky met at the united nation nations. >> one point that needs to be made on top of what jim said just happened today, adam schiff has been trying to claim that this is a fair process by saying that republicans are allowed to ask questions. that he gets to choose all the witnesses and him and himself only, which means it's not a fair process on the face. even his claim that republicans can ask questions has been under mined because now he's directing witnesses not to answer questions that he doesn't want them to answer.

he's not cut off one democrat. he's not interrupted one democrat, but today he started telling witnesses not to answer questions by certain republicans. that reeks. if you want to talk about a soviet style process, again, that might be what they do in the soviet union. not in the united states of america. we can't stand for this. the american people are being denied equal justice. >> remember, awalked out here yesterday after dr. cupperman filed a petition with the court to get an answer. walked out here and said he needed to stand up for the right of congress to get answers. our witness today is under subpoena. he's supposed to answer the questions from members of the united states congress. not just members from the majority of the united states congress. when this is subpoena from congress, we all get to ask the questions. adam schiff can't say, you can answer our questions but not the republicans congress. if he's so concerned about

congress, let us get our questions asked and answered. >> other than questions designed to find out who the whistleblower is -- [ inaudible ]. >> we're trying to figure out who we want to call as potential witnesses. you ask us who we would call. we gave you a list. we have other names, too, that we could give you. >> which question you had -- >> i can't get into the specific questions we asked. after certain events that took place in july we asked the witness, whom did you speak with and adam schiff said, no, can't do that. >> it's clear pelosi needs to declare a mistrial. what happened today confirms even worse, just how poorly adam schiff is handling this process in denying the ability for republicans to even ask basic questions that are critical to the heart of whether or not a president of the united states is impeached.

this is something hamilton himself warned against when he was writing in the federalist papers expressing concerns about how congress would handle impeachment. this is exactly what he talked about. this stinks to high heaven. this should not a be allowed. >> bill: immediate reaction from steve scalise and jim jordan. a moment ago, a statement from the chairman of the three different committees is now available. what are they saying, chad? >> they're saying there's a resolution provides rules in the format for open hearings in the house intelligence committee including staff led questioning of witnesses and authorizes the public release of transcripts. that's from the committee chair. what i do think is important here is the fact that when i go through this 8 page resolution, they indicate that there are rights that they can call witnesses. there's no timeline for when they have to wrap this up. that they will have public

hearings under the egis of the house intelligence committee. then they send this over to the judiciary committee. that is the part of this process which we all thought would happen, but this codifies, history in the house of representatives, bill, when they deal with impeachment, it's the judiciary committee that writes the articles of impeachment. judiciary committee took the work of the outside counsel. you have cox in watergate, ken starr in the monica lewinsky affa affair. they took this in the cod tpeu kaeugs of this investigation is that you have multiple committees which will then have hearings and subpoenas and rights, and then send this to judiciary at some point to write though articles of impeachment. >> bill: why would that strategy be adopted now? what would be the advantage for the committee having to do it that way? >> democrats will say there has been no investigation. their argument is that there was

no independent counsel looking at this. there should have been. we can argue robert mueller was looking at issues pertaining to russia, not ukraine. republicans turn that around to adam schiff saying he's supposed to be the grand jury and prosecutor. in the cases of nixon and clinton, you had outside counsels who did the review, sent to it the judiciary committee and the committee took that work at face value and translated that into articles of impeachment. that's the key distinction when comparing this in a historical prism. >> bill: i'm reading through this. open hearings, five minutes per lawmaker. sounds pretty standard. did you hear senate david purdue last night? he was on with bret on special report. he said what's the chance this goes forward in the senate with some sense of authority? suggesting, will it pass? and senator purdue said not a

chance in hell. he said why do you say that? he said, because i see the evidence. what are you hearing on behalf of senators if it goes to that end point as of today? >> two points. i asked mitch mcconnell just about an hour ago whether or not when they continue on republican side of the aisle to condemn the democratic process, can they be fair jurorists. he said we have to see what the house sends over to us. again, keep in mind the number is 67. i'll take you down the rabbit hole. 67, two-thirds of vote. but if you have senators absent, we might not get to a trial until january, february. what happens in february? the iowa caucuses, the new hampshire primary. there is nothing written down that senators have to be there or vote. you either vote conviction or innocent. arlen specter said not proven under scottish law. they said you can't vote that way. if you have senators who don't

show up or don't vote, that 67 number dwindled. it's two-thirds of who votes. so that could affect the impact there. that's something nobody has really considered in this matrix. >> bill: one last question here. got to make it quick. provide the president opportunities to participate. how would the white house take advantage of that opportunity? what would their strategy be in an open chair? >> you can see them sending counsel. you can see them sending their witnesses to provide exculpatory information. we saw that with the process of bill clinton and richard nixon. that could play out in those hearings there. and again, this doesn't pertain to the senate, but in a senate trial, you present it much the way that you have the prosecution and the defense, the house sends over managers. then the president would send over his defense team. in 1998 charles ross was the lead attorney for president

clinton. >> bill: great work, chad. we'll bring you back in a moment, as things develop. chad pergram on the hill. breaking news yet again from california. it is around noon time there. wild fire alert yet again. state of absolute emergency. one fire after another burning across california. you've got news in the north, you have news in the south. our fox news crews are all over. they are live in the state. and we will take you there for what is happening today. that is next.

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>> bill: so the leader of isis is dead, but tens of thousands of his followers are living in limbo in a sprawling camp in syria. kurdish guarding telling fox news they have started their own califait at the camp. it's not clear what will happen to the children and wives of the fighters who come from all over the world but their home countries apparently do not want them back. here's a map of where the camp

is. there have been on going concerns that turkey's bloody assault on our kurdish allies could allow even more isis prisoners to escape. so far this does not appear to be the case. benjamin hall tried speaking with isis fighters inside that camp. what a story there is inside there. benjamin, what did you find? >> reporter: bill, absolutely. of course, we have such significant news on saturday with the death of al-baghdadi. we had the sense that isis is really on the losing ground. what we saw the ideology is stronger than ever. that these people, tens of thousands of them, are a ticking time bomb that they are waiting to escape and no one has plans of what to do with them. the people in this camp are the ones who fled the califate at the last moment. inside this camp they recreated the rules of the caliphate. they have the police who effectively run much of the

camp. if you break their laws they will kill that person. they have mutilated some people. they have cut them up. they found the body of a 1-year-old beaten to death. they can't explain why or even what goes on in the heads of these terrorists. the authorities do not have control inside the camp. they don't have the numbers. they have resorted just to controlling the perimeters. inside, it is the wild west. at night, isis sleeper cells are able to slip into this vast camp, they're able to smuggle things in, guns, grenades, even one $65,000 cash shipment was intercepted. it is really a country to itself. >> there are 71,000 people inside this camp. we can't go any further than this. that's because the guards have no control inside. they say it is a little caliphate. we can hear people shouting at us in english from inside. they are international

section of the camp. they come from all over the world. if you come and talk to us, we can tell your story. we w hear what it's like in here. >> no! >> nobody wants to talk to you! >> reporter: al-baghdadi was died during an american raid. there seems to be one leader among them who is telling the leaders not to speak to us. they turn their back. they're gathering together. they don't want to speak. the one thing that could make this worse is if the situation on the ground gets worse. at 11 eastern today is when the cease fire was up between russia and turkey. there have been a number of violations. if that were to get any worse, more of these prison guards will have to move north and push back the turkish invasion. this is the great concern. they cannot hold them for that much longer. this is in numerous other

places. there have been numerous prison breaks. the fear is the ideology remains as strong as ever and they are looking for new leaders and new avenues to carry out their terror. >> bill: benjamin hall live in northern syria. thank you, sir. >> all our friends we grew up here, all the land marks and everything, is all gone. i don't know how we made it through the last couple day. >> that from a man who decided not to evacuate from the kincaid fire. he said all of his neighbors left and some of their homes are gone already. this as fire fighters battle nearly a dozen fires up and down the state. the kincaid is the largest becoming the size of 100 central parkes. it is happening in sonoma county. we're all keeping a very close eye on the getty fire burning in the hills of los angeles. more than 25 million people said

to be under red flag warnings today. that means strong winds, warm temperatures and low humidity are the perfect conditions for fires to start and spread. but fire officials say they have a small window today where forecasters say the winds will calm somewhat. they said they want to use that time to increase containment because at 11:00 local time later tonight, those winds are expected to pick back up. here's the mayor of los angeles warning people that they might not be able to go home anytime soon. >> you should prepare for that now. those extreme wind events we're gonna see maybe wind gusts as much as 70 miles an hour. as we've seen in northern california, those can pick up and transfer the fire miles away sometimes. >> bill: check out this video from the kincaid fire. san francisco firefighters hosting it last night, saying it was from earlier yesterday

morning. fire crews driving to the flame, both sides of the road. that's power company pg&e, starts more preventive blackouts. this morning tens of thousands lost power. we have team fox coverage. william la jeuness is at the fire, but let's begin in the north. dan, how is it now? good day. >> reporter: hey, bill. this working farm where i am all burned yesterday morning. you can see dozens of vehicles and a lot of equipment just torched. there are still some hot spots here. earlier this morning we saw a mopup hand crew doing some work to prevent this area from flaring up when the winds pick up later tonight. they're expecting wind gusts 40 to 50 miles per hour just before midnight. that's the danger time. their biggest concern on this already 75,000 acre fire is making sure it doesn't jump over the west side of highway 101.

it's an area that was evacuated, then yesterday, mandatory order was lifted. it's heavily populated and hasn't burned in several decades. the people who were allowed back home were basically told to be ready to leave tonight just in case. there are currently 21 shelters spread out throughout the county with the capacity of 5,000 people. but, bill, many, many more than that remain evacuated. >> bill: i have to imagine folks are frustrated with the power outages. what are you hearing on that front, dan? >> reporter: pg&e is the largest utility in the country. right now it seems they can't win. it's criticized for its equipment causing fires and criticized when they shut off the power to prevent more fires. on sunday, 2.5 million customers were without power, over half got their power restored. but now more shutoffs with tonight's wind event. utility has opened a bunch of places where people can charge their phones and lap tops.

as we go through day 4 of this, patience for many has run out. >> it's kind of frustrating, you know? i mean, i guess we just gotta follow the rules. >> you do what you have to do. as long as there's no fire where i live, that's good. we're riding this out. >> riding it out. >> i don't know what we're gonna do. >> reporter: i can't say this enough, bill. there has not been a single person killed in this fire. we've had two fires, definite fatal fires over the last two years, more than 100 people were killed in those. good news that the fire crews are doing their job. people have gotten out of the way of this blaze. >> bill: thank you dan springer. we continue with the latest on southern california. the getty fire is scorching areas around the hills of los angeles. william la jeuness reporting in l.a. how are things today?

hello. >> reporter: bill, we got blue skies right now. as dan said, they save lives and homes. you see several were taken here. fire started. you can see the getty center right through here. all those embers jumped this canyon, then lit up the sides of this hill. took out this house and several more on this street called tiger tail. 9,000 remain evacuated here. the roads are narrow, so it's still closed in most individuals. however, we did catch up with a couple who got in and collected what they could. >> horrible. we left at 2:00 in the morn. we didn't take anything. >> what'd you come back for today? >> clothes for the kids, a few things for us. we hope we can come back after the winds die down. >> reporter: wild fires are part of the california landscapes, but statistically, the seasons are longer, the fire's 70% more destructive. today we're entering phase 2, if you will. air attacking, and structure

protection. now they're trying to cover the sleeping embers so they don't reignite when the high winds return tonight. >> it only takes one embetter to blow downwind and start another fire. embers have been known to travel several miles. so we're very concerned about toeupbt's wind event. >> reporter: winds of santa ana, what do they really mean? basically dries out all the fuel moisture, if you will, making things more susceptible for fire. all, it pumps more oxygen into the fire, bill. that means it blows hotter and faster. >> bill: thank you william la jeunesse. want to bring in a professor and director of the fire weather research laboratory san jose state university. craig, how are you and good day to you? i appreciate your expertise. give our viewers a sense of what concerns you right now. if it's not just the winds,

perhaps it's more than that. >> it is the wind system that's happening. these downflow wind storms are really fast, really strong winds. and so when you have a large fire and you add some type of wind on it, it can spread the embers very far distances and start new fires. so it's a real critical time tonight. >> bill: normally you see the winds at sundown and sunset. why at 11 p.m. or even midnight is that forecasted to kick up, 50 miles an hour it's forecast? >> that's kind of when the winds can decouple from the surface and flow over the mountain ridges. it's when the temperature and the pressure gradiant starts forming up the strongest. just the time of day it happens in this case. it's just part of the way the system works. >> bill: you have seen 30 fires in six years. is this one any different, craig? >> yeah. we've deployed our mobile atmospheric profiling systems to 30 fires in california. these are wind driven fires.

this is what they look like. lots of embers spread, lots of flames. this is pretty intense because of the wind speed. that was really critical last night. >> bill: you have a window now. can you explain to our viewers in 30 seconds or less here, the issues with pg&e and how they're able to start fires? is it the sparks off the wire? is it the wind that knocks down the towers? what is it to those living outside of california, craig? >> well, fires from caused by a lot of different things, from lightning to campfires and other things. when power line gets swung in the wind, it can make contact with the other line and it can start a spark. or it can come down and ignite the landscape. so it does happen a lot, but there's other sources of ignition as well. >> bill: indeed there are. sometimes it's arson. sometimes it's nature. craig, good luck, okay? thanks for being with us today. a lot of breaking news. we appreciate your input.

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>> bill: updating our top story. the house at this hour filing a resolution on proceedings for the impeachment investigation of president trump. a full house vote could happen on thursday. some key parts of the resolution read the following way. house intelligence, house oversight and foreign affairs committees will continue to be involved and can transfer information they can gather to the judiciary committee. now, the judiciary committee would actually write articles of impeachment if it comes to that. the intel committee then can have open hearings and there's also no timeline to complete the inquiry. so those are the bullet points we're getting now. to catherine herridge live on capitol hill. >> reporter: we had comments from the minority whip and also jim jordan. i want to decode that for folks at home. when we got the prepared remarks from lieutenant colonel vindman

this morning, there was a section that caught my attention because it seems carefully crafted. vindman confirms he did share readout or the content of the presidential phone call july 25th with others. the reason that matters is that presidential phone calls are considered classified and if that information went to someone not authorized to receive it, that's a potential violation of 18usc798. and vindman writes, quote, i provided readouts to a very small group. this is important. of properly cleared national security counter parts with a relevant need to know. what you heard congressman jordan say today is when he asked vindman who he shared this information with, what he did after the july 26th phone call, congressman jordan said the chairman of the intelligence committee adam schiff shut down that line of questioning. so the republicans are trying to find out who vindman shared this

information with, whether they were authorized to receive it and whether there's a connection here with the original whistleblower complaint, bill. >> bill: thank you. when you get more, we'll bring you back. thank you. a former aide who served former defense secretary james mattis say the americans know about key decision making moments inside the trump administration. to do that, he's written a book called "holding the line inside trump's pentagon with secretary mattis." the author is a retired navy office officer. he claimed that mattis and the pentagon's top brass were at times surprised by announcements from the white house about military policy. spokes person for general mattis telling fox news he's not read the book and does not intend to and called the author a junior level staffer. that staffer and author is with me know. good afternoon to you.

>> good afternoon. >> bill: what's new in this book? >> i think what's new is it's an opportunity to bring the reader inside for a first person account of how mattis and others and the trump administration work to make the military great again. >> bill: was he a good boss? >> he was a great boss. he had demanding standards but cares deeply about this country. >> bill: some of it talks about the unconventional nature of this president. i was reading that. so what then is new? >> it's going to walk you in. you'll get an opportunity to sit in the room with the president, with others in the president's cabinet. you'll see the behind the scenes on how those decisions are made. it's all about how you make america's military great again. some of those things are very positive. >> bill: you're proud of your service? >> two decades in the navy as a fighter pilot. you bet. >> bill: james mattis put out a

statement. he writes about you saying, i haven't read the book, don't intend to. his choice to write a book reveals an absence of character. he may have received a few brief moments of attention but those moments will be greatly outweighed by the fact that to get them, he surrendered his honor, end quote. your reaction? >> i have always believed for a very long time the way i was raised and my two decades of service that your honor and character are about making the difficult decisions when there's a thousand reasons not to. it's not doing it when the political winds are in your favor. >> bill: do you believe mattis enjoyed his job working for president trump? >> i think mattis enjoyed the opportunity to work alongside some of the greatest men and women this country has to offer. >> bill: what about the commander in chief? >> i think it was a challenging relationship. president trump has very high standards. he's very demanding. he wants to respond to his

needs. >> bill: what do you think about the death of al-baghdadi? >> it's a win for america. seeing what the delta force was able to do, to go in and contest an environment and take al-baghdadi out was a win. >> bill: the news we also got in the last 24 hours that his right hand man, so to speak, is also dead. another victory. >> another victory. shows you that we're relentless in pursuing isis and making sure we bring them to their knees. >> bill: when you think about the next challenge in the war on terror. you were in the service for 20 years. at what point are you able to say, we beat them? >> i don't think you'll ever be able to say that. it's going to require a continual vigilance. that's why you can never give up this fight. as you read in the book, there's an entire chapter dedicated to our war on terror, what we've done in the past and what we're doing today. >> bill: what is next? >> that continued vigilance. we've asked our allies and partners to contribute their fair share and making sure we work with them. >> bill: we'll see whether or

not james mattis takes up your invitation to check it out. >> thanks, bill. >> bill: thank you again for your service to our country. in a moment the houston astros are just one win away from their second world series title in three years. the astros up 3-2 after dropping the first two games to the washington nationals. they are smart in washington. they want to get a win. for them it's do or die. the series shifting back to houston for game 6 tonight. nats looking to win their first in history. verlander against strasburg. game 6 tonight here on fox first pitch just after 8:00 eastern time. you can check it out on the big fox there as the first pitch goes down in houston, texas. most sports fans hoping for game 7.

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