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kylie atwood, thank you for that reporting. discuss further with paul ros rosenweis who isfellow institute. and mick mulvaney pushing a quid pro quo with ukraine. what do you make of that? >> i think that makes it clear to the extent there was an attempt to solicit information that was beneficial to president trump, that solicitation goes all the way to the white house. there had been some suggestion in the last few days that perhaps ambassador sondland was acting on his own, or that rudy giuliani was acting on his own, without any, without any impetus from the president, but now that it's become clearer that the chief of staff was acting in his official capacity as the manager of this effort to secure ukrainian assistance for the president's re-election campaign, it's becoming much clearer that all of this activity goes all the way back, at least as high as the chief of staff, and then it becomes pretty incredible to think that it doesn't involve the man behind all three of these other fellows, the president of the united stat

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go to kylie atwood covering that piece's this. who did he talk to?: the night before his testimony ambassador gordon sondland told lawmakers he called secretary of energy rick perry. the reason for making that phone call is he wanted to refresh his memory with regard to a july 10th meeting at the white house. fiona hill, the former russia top adviser to president trump described that meeting to lawmakers as a pretty tumultuous one in which the ukrainians were having discussions and bolton cut the decisions short and that's because during that discussion there was a mention of the investigations and biden brought up during those meetings, and bolton then after that meeting told fiona hill he did not want to be a part of this drug deal that was going down and being orchestrated by chief of staff mick mulvaney and by the u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondland. now, in his testimony, sondland says he doesn't remember it that way and tells lawmakers, "he thought it was a great meeting and we all left happy." now, the bottom line here, brooke, there is

kylie atwood, what section are you highlighting?e're getting a little bit more details with regard to bill taylor who was recruited from retirement to take this job by secretary of state mike pompeo. and it was pulled in after ambassador yavonovich extensively was pushed out of the job because trump lost confidence in her. but bill taylor didn't initially want to take the job. what he told lawmakers is that when he saw sat down with secretary of state mike pompeo to discuss the situation at the state department, he said that, quote, all to say i was concerned that there was, i think i put it, a snake pit in kiev and a snake pit here and i was not sure that i could usefully serve in that context. so he described secretary pompeo commit to go u.s. policy with regard to ukraine and he also said the giuliani did not come up in that conversation. but there was a conversation about a congratulatory note that had not gone through yet, by taylor noted that. that statement did go forth. what we're learning here is that bill taylor was hesita

. >> cnn's kylie atwood has more on the significance of secretary pompeo's remarks. past supported intelligence it was russia who interfered. intelligence that came from the cia which he used to be cia chief. how is he trying to have it both ways? >> reporter: brooke, do a little comparison here to understand how the secretary of state once the cia director for the trump administration, has evolved on this topic. so that quote you just played from the secretary yesterday in which he left open the door to the possibility that ukraine was the one who messed with the u.s. elections in 2016. he was specifically asked, does he think that the u.s. and ukraine should be investigating the fact it was ukraine and not russia. okay? given the chance there. who hacked the 2016 dnc server and release those emails. that is when he gave that answer that you played. leaving the door open to the possibility that it was ukraine. back in 2017, he discussed this specifically. he was then the cia director. he had seen the intelligence that all, completely made the case that it was russia

kiley atwood has more. >> reporter: it's a subject the secretary of state has repeatedly dismissed. >le all this noise is going on, you all are fixated on this. i'm not going to get into the issue surrounding the democrat impeachment inquiry. >> reporter: now one of his own ambassadors has placed him squarely in the middle of the story. >> everyone was in the loop. >> reporter: gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the eu, told lawmakers pompeo knew about the quid pro quo with ukraine and claimed he did nothing to stop it. >> we kept the leadership of the state department and the nfc informed of our activities. and that included communications with secretary of state pompeo. >> reporter: sondland came with proof. multiple emails he sent to pompeo. in one he laid out a plan to get president zelensky to commit, quote, on those issues of importance to potus and the u.s., meaning investigations which would politically benefit president trump. sondland hoped he told pompeo that this proposal could, quote, break the logjam. pompeo replied, "yes." >> and the white house -- >> reporter: whi

kylie atwood, stand by. we'll get back to you as well. i want to get back to our analysts.e cordero, you are a legal and national security analyst. i assume adam schiff, the chairman of the intelligence committee, the democrats, they picked these two diplomats as their lead-off witnesses because they assumed they were the most effective, most credible in making the democrats' point. >> i think they have a number of credible witnesses. these being two of that group. so i think, really, many of the witnesses we're going to hear from over the course of the next two weeks all have experience and all are credible. bill taylor, i think, is a critical witness, though. and he's someone whose testimony i was most interested to read his transcript from his -- >> by the way, you see ambassador taylor walking in right now. top u.s. diplomat in ukraine. an experienced american diplomat going back decades. >> he is. and i think what we're going to see is that he is going to be incredibly well spoken, well prepared. as a diplomat, he is someone who is a communicator. he is someone who is

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kylie atwood is out front. >> it's a subject the secretary of state has repeatedly dismissed. >> eventhis noise is going on, you all are fixated on this. >> i'm not going to get into the issues surrounding the democrat impeachment inquiry. >> but now one of his own ambassadors has placed him squarely in the middle of the story. >> everyone was in the loop. >> gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the eu told lawmakers pompeo knew about the quid pro quo with ukraine and claimed he did nothing to stop it. >> we kept the leadership of the state department and the nsc informed of our activities and that included communications with secretary of state pompeo. >> sondland came with proof, multiple e-mails he sent to pompeo. in one, he laid out a plan to get president zelensky to commit, quote, on those issues of importance to potus and the u.s., meaning investigations which would politically benefit president trump. sondland hoped, he told pompeo, that this proposal, could break the logjam. pompeo said yes. pompeo was in brussels, pressing disinterest. >> i didn't hear a single thing. i w

we have kylie atwood with us. >> we're learning that the morale at the state department has been devastatedspecially over the last few weeks as this house impeachment inquiry on ukraine has escalated. secretary pompeo, the state department, they are really facing allegations from these folks on the hill that are not flattering of secretary pompeo. we have heard publicly from a lot of folks outside of the state department and inside the state department that they really wanted to see secretary pompeo come out and defend yovanovitch, but he has not done that. it's important to note, however, that the morale at the state department hasn't always been awful. michael mckinley who is one of pompeo's senior aides announced he was going to be resigning because pompeo did not defend ambassador yovanovitch. he expressed the sentiment to lawmakers that pompeo does deserve some credit for rebuilding the institutionings the state department after secretary tillerson had been there. the specific transcripts come out from michael mckinley, from ambassador yovanovitch. there are a number of things in these

kylie atwood takes a look at pompeo's involvement. >> it's a sukt the secretary of state has repeatedly. >> even while all this noise is going on, y'all are fixated on this. i'm not going to get into the issues surrounding the democratic impeachment inquiry. >> but now one of his own ambassadors have placed him squarely in the middle of the story. >> everyone was in the loop. >> gordon sondland told lawmakers pompeo knew about the quid pro quo with ukraine and claim he did nothing to stop it. >> we kept the leadership of the state department and the nfc informed of our activities. and that included communications with secretary of state pompeo. >> sondland came with proof, multiple emails he sent to pompeo. in one, he laid out a plan to get president zelensky to commit on those issues of importance to potus and the u.s., meaning investigations that would politically investigate for president trump. pompeo replied yes. pompeo was in brussels expressing disinterest. >> i didn't see a single thing today. i was working. sounds like you may not have been. >> gordon sondland never told the pr

with us to talk about that, former doj prosecutor marino, attorney kevin carroll and kylie atwood, reporteryou worked on the hill. you understand how this works. what does it tell you? >> it depends how many witnesses they choose to call on testimony, if they'll have a lot of rebuttal witnesses for the president. and also if they want to cut their holiday short. >> you know lawmakers. >> they want to get back home from the district. it's doable but it's a tight schedule. >> kylie, i know you're in touch with the sources who are would-be witnesses in the testimony. what are you hearing about this and how much of a spotlight this is? >> i think it's important to recognize that the three people that are providing open testimony next week are all career foreign service officers, right? so these are folks that are connected to the state department and they are also key witnesses because they kind of speak to one another. you have the top u.s. diplomat, bill taylor whofls in ukrairs w. he gives the version of events that happened over the summer. and then you have the washington version of events

let's go to kylie atwood. kylie, you've been poring through these excerpts. what are you learning?er: so this is developing. we're still looking through these. but one thing that ambassador sondland referenced in his opening remarks before this testimony that he was concerned about the role that rudy giuliani was playing. now we are getting some more examples of the fact that secretary pompeo was fully aware of the role that rudy giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, was playing in the u.s./ukraine foreign policy which should be owned by the foreign policy officials. let's read that excerpt from gordon sondland to the -- testi. he was asked, did you ever discuss rudy giuliani with secretary pompeo? only in general terms, he replied. and what did you discuss? that he's involved in affairs. and pompeii row rolled his eyes and said, yes, it's something we have to deal with. so the state department and pompeo were fully aware of the issues relating to giuliani, indicating there were no efforts to set up guardrails between what giuliani was pushing, an investigation into joe biden

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cnn national security reporter kylie atwood joins me. kylie, start with the testimony from lieutenant colonel vindman who says he saw this, from the president and from sondland, as clear demand, a meeting in exchange for investigations of the bidens? >> reporter: that right. so alex vindman was on this july 25th phone call between president trump and president zelensky. and in his opening remarks before lawmakers he told them that he was fearful about that call. he raised it with the lawyers at the white house, because he saw that it was not proper for this demand that president trump was making, that the ukrainians investigate a u.s. citizen. obviously, that citizen being the bidens, and so then lawmakers during their testimony with him asked him exactly what he meant by a demand, because in the transcript president trump says he wants this favor and this is how vindman describes that. he said, "the power disparity between the president of the united states and the president of ukraine is vast, and, you know, in the president asking for

. >> joining us now, cnn's kylie atwood. how did ambassador sondland go from being a megadonor to appointee to the focus of this impeachment kbeechl? >> because he had a direct line to president trump. he is a political appointee. he is not a career diplomat like the other folks we heard from. he donated over a million tlars to president trump's inauguration. then he stayed in touch. we now hear president trump saying he hardly knew ambassador sondland. but the reality is he's one of the few people who was able to pick up the phone and call president trump. so let's look at what he told lawmakers behind closed doors in that initial testimony. he spoke about the fact that president trump directed him to work with rudy giuliani on ukraine. and he said that that sfoint disappointed him, actually, and he never would have recommended that rudy giuliani be involved with foreign policy. nonetheless he had to work with giuliani. and one of the things he claimed in that initial testimony is that he did not know that things that giuli

kylie atwood is joining us right now. why kick off the public televised impeachment hearings with these two witnesses? why is their testimony so crucial? >> yeah, well, wolf, as manu said, house democrats have laid out the fact that these two witnesses are going to be able to tell the full story line of the president's misconduct. and though neither of them had direct contact with president trump himself, it's really important to look at what they already told lawmakers behind closed doors because it's the expectation that they will reiterate that when they speak to lawmakers today. first we have the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine. that's bill taylor. and he is the person who came before lawmakers and said it was his understanding that there was an explicit expectation that the ukrainians would have to announce investigation into president trump's political rivals in order to get what they wanted. and that was the release on the u.s. security assistance that had been held up. he had been told there was a hold on that $400 m

picture because he didn't sit for the picture so it took nine months to send it to embassies or kylie atwood from a state department official who served in kiev said she didn't refuse anything we didn't get the picture until late 2017 so trump was at fault for the thing he's blaming yovanovitch for. >> so he tells more lies and untruths and falsehoods than any president in modern memory. is there evidence that this has eroded his credibility at all? >> well we've seen it in the polls consistently that about two-thirds of americans do not think the president is honest and trustworthy. we pay a lot of attention to his base and that is important. we have to understand where his staunch supporters think but we have to remember that the overwhelming majority of americans do not believe what this president is saying. >> daniel dale, thank you so much. and see more of daniel dale this sunday night. i have a cnn special report taking a deeper look at the president's strained relationship with the truth. we're looking at the impact of all of the lies, impact on wall street on congress and the america

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kylie atwood, you're getting new information as well.ombshell information including information regarding the fired national security advisor john bolton. >> the key here is there is a new detail with regard to what ambassador bolton knew and what he was telling folks about the conversations with regard to the security assistance. the problem is that when he was at the embassy in late august, this statement says that he indicated that security assistance would not be lifted before the warsaw meeting. now, they were expecting for president trump to meet with president zelensky. obviously that ended up being the vice president meeting with president zelensky, but how did ambassador bolton know that aid wasn't going to be lifted? what we're told here is the indication is that something had to come that would favorably impress president trump. that is in the words of this statement here. now, the question there is what does that mean, to favorably impress the president. and we are not going to be hearing in this impeachment inquiry from the

the '60s atwood stock and the hippy movement. the '80s had the collapse of the berlin wall.that portrays our mood now? with the holiday season upon us, i think it might be this. when a caters cart started driving by itself in circles in reverse. and really when you think about it, does that really say it all? about how we are all feeling these days? like, we're all stuck in the wrong gear with nobody actually at the wheel, as you can see, carining wildly out of control. we're not going forward. we're not going backward. we're just sort of running around in circles repeatedly backing over the debris flung out by our collective national conniption fit. and we're wearing ourselves out as the world stands by waiting for a night and shining armor. fortunately everyone is fine after that incident at o'hare, and if you're traveling this thanksgiving hopefully it goes a bit more smoothly. that's all for tonight. thank you for end subpoenaing a little bit of time with us over the holiday. from all of us at "meet the press daily," we wish you a happy holiday and hopefully i'll see you

kylie atwood is joining me right now. first of all, kylie, tell us more, how did this go from being a hotelier, a guy who had a bunch of hotels, made a lot of money. all of a sudden, he's the u.s. ambassador to the european union. >> when president trump won the nomination and then became the president, he turned into a trump donor. he was always of the republican establishment. and then, once trump ended up in the white house, he donated to his inauguration, donated a million dollars. and then he has this direct line with president trump. that is not normal for other u.s. ambassadors to other countries. because he can pick up the phone and call president trump, he has landed at the center of this impeachment inquiry. so let's look at some of the things he told lawmakers behind closed doors that are going to be things they are going to look at when they talk to him today in an open setting. one of the things he said is that president trump directed him to work with rudy giuliani, his private attorney, on ukraine. and he s

kylie atwood is here with me watching all of this unfold. what do we know, first of all, about this diplomat? >> so david holmes is a midlevel career official who works at the state department. he's a career foreign service officer. he has been at the ukraine embassy for the u.s. for about a year now. and he is someone who has served around the world. he's been in afghanistan, russia, in india. so he does have experience. he's also known for expressing his opinions. he's someone who is described to me by folks who know him as very sharp and in 2014 he actually wrote to the administration, the obama administration at the time, a cable of constructive dissent. and what he said in that cable was that there was a multilayered structure installed by obama that had hindered our diplomatic effectiveness and made it hard for those making decisions to get a clear stream of advice. it's not someone who has stayed quiet as he's been on the job. but it's important to remember he's the political counselor at the embassy in kiev. it's his job to understan

and kylie atwood, this will be dramatic stuff that we're about to hear. >> because both of these officials that we're hearing from this morning work at the white house. they both raised concerns about this july 25th call which really launched in whole investigation. so first alexander vindman, he is a top nsc russia expert. he is a deck ratorated war vete. and he said that he doesn't think it was proper to ask a foreign government to investigate a u.s. citizen. obviously president trump asking for an investigation into the bidens. he was also worried about the wider implications there. and so specifically when he was speaking with lawmakers behind closed doors, he does talk about raising concerns about this july 25th call. and he said that his understanding was that the ukranians understood asking a favor to be asking for investigations. the other thing that he told lawmakers is that mick mulvaney, the president's chief staff, is now implicated in this quid pro quo because he was in touch with gordon sondland. sondland being the u.s. ambassador to the eu who has talked about there being th

i want to go to kylie atwood for a look at secretary of state mike pompeo's role in all of this. >> reporteranovitch talks largely about the state department and how it is in a moment of crisis right now, how it's being hallowed out from within, and she talks about that broadly given the fact that she says the policy process is unraveling. there are folks that says the state department, high level officials and mid-level officials who are worried about an uncertain future so they are heading for the doors. she talked about that and then talked specifically about her personal experience, the human toll that will this all-out attack on career level officials at the state department is having. she talks about moving 13 times as a state department official, being in hardship posts and when she saw those words from president trump on that phone call undermining her, she put her hand on her chest and talked about how difficult that really was, giving a little bit of emotion there, but the other part, anderson, is that she also speaks about strategic reality here, and it's not just about state depa

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