i think it has more upside let's dig deep were jim taylor, the president and ceo of brixmor. "mad money." >> thank you appreciate you having me. >> one of the things you guys did that others haven't is you decide we're going to take the darn hit we're going get out, to use your term, the nonrelevant retailers and get into the relevant retailers. and you're pretty far along in the transition. >> we are. we've just over the last couple of years had over 12 million of new leases with tenants, as you mentioned in the open who are actually thriving today. some of the disruption has been a great opportunity for us to upgrade our tenancy in the open air business, which generally still is thriving and doing pretty well. >> how many of your companies can you check a box and pick up at the store because if you're going to a shopping mall, both buy online, pickup store doesn't work. >> it works in the open air center we dedicate a few parking spaces right out in front of the store. and the retailers who get it, who really understand how their customer wants to be served do a great job a

last time we spoke to jim taylor, he owns hundreds of open air shopping centers, places where peoplell shop unlike malls which have become bowling alleys and waste lands they are selective with their anchor tenants they want stores that drive traffic and happy to let go of anyone who is not doing good business when that lease runs out. we looked over the top ten something jumped out to me three of the top seven are off price chains they are cramer faves, tjx, ross and burlington stores. tj maxx is their biggest tenant. these stocks will continue to roar higher. look over the other shopping center regency center supermarkets but still sjx top five tenant and most recent investor presentation, tjx and ross stores as two of the best tenants opening lots of properties they call out tjx and ross as members of the top 25 tenants. strip, camco, tjx is their largest tenant with ross and burlington top 15. these off price chains are still expanding. so what makes these companies such great tenants i think the landlords love them for the same reason customers do tj maxx and ross are treasure h

now, last night, i had this fellow jim taylor from a giant 400 strip malls and he was saying the world's irrelevant stores and relevant stores. gap is irrelevant. >> that is a strong indictment of a store we all grew up with one way or another it was such a hot property under mickey drexler and others. it was where you went to shop and no more. >> my mom got me my chinos you weren't allowed to wear jeans. i always felt i was dressed proper properly when i went to gap. they have some nice stuff but the problem is everyone's kind of given up on them in a mall. no one wants to go to the mall to begin with. and then to fall into a gap at the mall i would rather fall off an airplane at the air force academy. >> let's talk a little bit -- >> i would be like hugging the person. >> i would, too. i would too and i'd be saying pull that rip cord, will you at any rate, let's talk a little bit about trade and i said earlier that i felt like i've seen this movie before where it sounds like we're -- we're falling in love. we're hugging the chinese. we're going to get a deal. and then something happens

investigations and you had a phone call with president trump that you relayed to both jim morris and ambassador taylor who's accounts of that conversation you do not dispute. where president trump confirmed that president selenski needed to publicly announce the investigations or otherwise the obvious implication of the stalemate would be that the aide would not be released is that correct again the implication i did not hear directly from president trump that the aide would be held up until the statement was made i did not hear those words you agree that with whatever mr morris and ambassador taylor testified to about the conversation you had with president trump is that right. remind me again i don't want to misspeak well you just said you have no reason to dispute their accounts based on their detailed notes were they saying that i told them that president trump said that the aide would not be released until the. statements were made because i said repeatedly i don't recall president trump ever saying that to me ok i think what they said if i just finished a lot of questioning was that doesn't trum

republicans say, no way this gets to that jim jordan, bill taylor shot you played, wait you never metresident trump, you never spoke with chief of staff mulvaney, does not hear the president's call with zelensky? how does what you say constitute evidence? that is the big battle royale. kennedy: vla vladimir. >> yes that is the moment i was watching, it seems that jordan sort of took taylor's assersions apart quickly. if you just tunes in that is all you see, you are like that is flimsier than i thought. impeachment is serious. you are talking about a guy who talked to a aide who was sitting there who didn't really clearly hear president trump end of the phone call, he was siting with sondland who was talking to the president. so, that seems that level of disconnect, while it may contain something serious, we don't have objectively the level of seriousness it rises to, i i don't think it meets the impeachment bar. >> the other big level of disconnect, if you are just turning in. not knowing what has been going on. not reading trim, you would be wondering who the whistleblower circumsta

that was what jim jordan tried to accomplish. ambassador taylor said that he thinks he initiated the phone call, but he couldn't be absolutely sure. that was all jim jordan had. that's all he tried to do in that deposition was ask about who placed the call, who received the call. no republican in that room tried even the slightest attack on the ambassador taylor who's a west point graduate and served in every administration republican and democrat since ronald reagan's administration. republicans and democrats will not be fighting with ambassador taylor. his deposition transcript shows it's impossible for republicans to try to do that. but they will need to create a diversion in the hearing room to try to shift the attention from the devastating testimony about what donald trump and rudy giuliani and gordon sondland were doing with ukraine. so you can expect jim jordan if he's there will be yelling at democrats in that hearing. yelling about the procedures being followed by the impeachment inquiry and complaining that they are somehow unfair. repu

jim jordan also lied about ambassador william taylor, lied about taylor testifying you've got to impeach the president. jim jordan put those words in ambassador taylor's mouth, not true. ambassador taylor didn't come close to saying anything like that. he simply repeatedly answered questions about what he saw and what he heard and what he knows, nothing but facts. ambassador taylor and donald trump are a year apart in age. they are a year apart in college graduation, but they could not possibly be farther apart in the way that they have lived their lives. >> ambassador taylor, what year did you graduate from west point? >> 1969, sir. >> it was the height of the vietnam war, wasn't it, sir in. >> the height was about that time. >> what was your class rank at west point? >> i was number 5. >> how many people in your class? >> 800. >> 800 cadets, you were number 5? >> yes, sir. >> so when you were top 1% of your class at west point, you probably get your pick of assignments, but you picked the infantry. >> i did. yes, sir. >> you were a rifle company commander? >> sir? >> where'd you serve?

republican jim jordan tried to dismiss taylor's testimony as hearsay. >> he did listen in on the presidentl? >> i did not pick >> you never spoke with chief of staff mulvaney? >> that is correct. >> and you are their star witness? >> reporter: new video tonight and a big jump in reward money in a kidnapping and murder case and santa cruz county. this tech executive was found that october 1st, the 50-year- old was adopted earlier that day abducted earlier that day., his body, and his body and his bmw layer found, on the road, deputies released the surveillance video of it three suspects near the victim's home. they also upped the reward money to $150,000. and the story is going viral tonight. they are calling this guy the jailbreak cat. i barely figured out how to open a door at a shelter in houston and start letting out all the other cats.'s another cat has been put in solitary confinement and, as you can see, he is deftly not too happy to be doing time. >> thanks veronica. >>> coming up next, if you were wanting an expensive gift this holiday season, one new survey says don't get your hop

roastssman jim jordan star witness, ambassador taylor.ine writer is likely going to be pretty -- busy over the next several days. here's the schedule. as steve noted, they continue tomorrow. ,he u.s. ambassador to ukraine recalled from her post in may. she is set to testify before has intelligence tomorrow. it continues next week on tuesday, the morning of november 19, jennifer williams, an 82 will testify, alongside a cancel aid that was on the phone call with president trump and president zelensky. the formerfternoon, u.s. special envoy to ukraine will testify along with tim morrison, national security council eight. on wednesday, november 20, the morning u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland, will testify. a lot of conversation about him at yesterday's hearing. on wednesday, laura cooper, a deputy assistant secretary deputy of defense for eurasian affairs will testify alongside david hale, the under secretary of state for political affairs. on thursday, they end with fiona hill, the former white house russian expert wil

. >> reporter: congressman jim jordan called taylor's testimony confusing.or gordon sondland will get to testify next week and correct anything that taylor had to say yesterday. lauren and cheryl. lauren: hillary, thank you so much. the second major event was fed chair jay powell testifying before congress and talking up the u.s. economy. cheryl: we get the latest from edward lawrence on the other big hearing that washington was closely watching and wall street. edward, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. federal reserve chairman jerome powell taking a victory lap over the economy. he says the monetary policy has been accomodative enough to keep the economic expansion going. powell signaled there may not be another rate cut in december, unless economic data comes in weaker than expected. he went on then to talk about the consumer, saying consumer spending is driving this economy. he sees consumer spending remaining strong as business investment and manufacturing are weaker in this economy. powell made the revelation after saying that this is the 18th co

reporter: he was brought in specifically for this hearing committee today, jim jordan challenged taylor how he knew what he knew and backs this up. we'll hear from sondland next week. he will get a chance to back up what taylor says he says that sondland said to this committee, or he has a chance to refute it but jordan told taylor today from his standpoint, what taylor says happened did not end up happening, is not backed up by sondland's testimony. so we'll hear a lot more of that later next week. charles? charles: hillary, thank you very much. i want to bring in fox news contributor deneen borelli and dnc spokesman jose moreno. let me begin with you. the market ignored this whole thing. public opinion has begun to wane on this. did the first day go as you anticipated? >> absolutely. we continue to learn new information as the hearings become public. it is important for the american people to have the transparency to really understand what happened on this phone call. you know, we've been going at this for a while but i think what we learned in the last month alone, the transcripts an

listen to this exchange between jim jordan and bill taylor. >> you weren't on a, where you? you didn't listen in on the call? >> i did not. >> you never talked with chief of staff mcilvain, never met the president? is what i can't believe in you are there star witness, your their first witness. >> the most explosive new piece of evidence came from acting ambassador to the ukraine bill taylor who said he learned brand-new information he considers evidence in the last testified in front of the committee behind closed doors. he said he learned from a staff member that that staff member overheard donald trump tell the eu ambassador his top priority for ukraine was to get hunter and joe biden investigated. >> a member of my staff could hear donald trump on the phone asking the ambassador about the investigations. he told donald trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. he responded donald trump cared more about the investigations of biden which giuliani was pressing for. >> hunter biden not there today. a lot of republicans who submitted their wish list over the weekend wo

that took center stage today and take a listen to this exchange between jim jordan and bill taylor. >> you weren't on the call, were you? >> i did not. >> you've never talked with chief of staff mulvaney? >> i didn't. >> you've never met the president? >> i have not. >> this is what i can't believe. >> about the most explosive piece of evidence came from acting ambassador to the ukraine bill taylor who said he's learned brand-new information that he considers evidence since he last testified to the committee behind closed doors. he said he learned from one of the staff members that that staff member overheard president trump tell gordon sondland that his personal top priority for the ukraine was to get hunter and joe biden investigated. >> a member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. ambassador sondland told president trump that the ukrainians were ready to move forward. ambassador sondland responded that president trump cares more about the investigations of biden which giuliani was pressing for. >> he wasn't there

taylor. i thought jim jordan had the best yes to him when he said, this is sondland's testimony.assador day lower that i told mr. morrison that i conveyed this message on september 1, 2019 in connection with vice president pence's visit to warsaw. jim said we have six people and four conversations. you just tell me this is where you got your clear understanding and you are their star witness. it is outrageous that the democrats would try to eliminate an elected president based on quadruple hearsay. and it wasn't even accurate. taylor even said in his written testimony he read that he thought it was unfair of the president to ask about investigation into corruption. are you kidding me? lou: we are not kidding you and i know you are not kidding us. great minds think alike. the sentence you have chosen is the sentence i'd heard, and it took me back to the 6th grade and my english teacher teaching us to diagram sentences. folks at home. here we go with with congressman gohmert was talking about. reconstructing four different folks within a sentence. see if you can diagram it. here it

elizabeth: here is the other thing, william taylor, according to jim jordan, met with ukraine leader three times since president's july phone call with leader of ukraine, nothing. no linkage of security assistant to bidens or burisma was brought up. the issue, democrat look like they are having problem with their messaging, new rhetoric now is bribery? >> you say, you don't investigate in search of a crime, you have proof of a crime then you investigate. >> that is what adam schiff is doing, he has a crime, i would love someone to tell me that crime,. >> you said you don't need a crime. >> attempt of -- >> founders. >> elements of bribery are there you have a president use his official office, he is using taxpayer money. to demand from a foreign government that they are bribed to do an investigation to di dip dirta president's opponent in upcoming electiontion som. >> on basis of what president said to far there are any number of potentially impeachable offenses. >> we heard from our reporter in dc, adam schiff not ready to draw up articles of impeachment. >> the message changes all

congressman jim jordan questioning ambassador taylor about how he got to what he called a clear understanding that the aide was withheld unless it was an investigation of the democrats 2016 efforts in the bidens saying that it was second, thirdhand information, again hitting that again and again, then eric swalwell coming back and say we won't have to deal with that hearsay if we heard from people like white house chief of staff mick mulvaney and national security advisor, former national security advisor, john bolton. others, democrats like joaquin castro saying the president of ukraine was desperate for the aide to protect his people from the russians to continue the fight and then republican will hurd singh did you get the aid? was it legal aid? one key moment was when radcliffe questioned what about the impeachable offenses from this? >> in this impeachment hearing today, where is the impeached fence in that call. are either of you here today to assert there was an impeachable offense? shout it out. anyone. i've got one minute left. >> you ask the witness. >> i withdraw the question. >> b

>> and bass doer taylor, that's correct. congressman jim jordan, lee zeldin and mark meadows -- >> as we hear more testimony, the testimony we heard today it's getting easier to defend the president. reporter: now all eyes are turned to john bolton and whether the committees will subpoena him for his scheduled appearance tomorrow. lou: as the radical dimms in the house of representatives obsess over efforts to overthrow the president, senate hahr majority -- senate majority leader said if the house were to impeach the president, the senate would acquit. >> it looks like they will send it over to the senate. that means we'll have to take it up. i will say i'm pretty sure how it's likely toned. if it were today, i don't think there is any question it would not lead to a removal. lou: joining us tonight, congressman doug collins. the ranging member of the house judiciary committee. thanks for being here tonight. as john roberts reports, after all the hell me -- after all the melodrama. it amounts to not one whit. am i businessing something? >>

from breitbart this morning, bill taylor's bombshell repeats what was already known from the july 25 phone call transcript. this from news max this morning, congressman jim jordyab roast star witness ambassador taylor. the headline writers likely going to be busy over the next several days. here's the schedule ahead as steve noted this morning. the hearings continue tomorrow. marie yovanovitch the former ambassador to ukraine recalled from her post in may. she's set to testify before the house intelligence committee tomorrow. and then it continues next week on tuesday, the morning of november 19, jennifer williams an aide to vice president mike pence will tefment alongside national security counsel aide alex vindman. he was on that july 25 phone call with president trump and president zelensky. that same afternoon, kurt volker, former u.s. special envoy to ukraine will testify along with tim morrison, national security counsel aid. wednesday, november 20, the morning u.s. ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland will testify. a lot of discussion about him at yesterday's hearing. and then that same afternoon on wednesday, laura cooper, deputy ass

you heard jim jordan quote from a piece of testimony from taylor, right? where taylors i had a conversation with that person and i had a conversation with that person and they're using that against him and this was a game of a church conversation, i believe, jim jordan called it. is that a problem for you in the eye of the public? >> erin, they're going to use any excuse they can to defend the president as they have from day one without an open mind and getting at the truth and letting the facts speak for themselves. there is a mountain of evidence, a mountain of evidence to suggest that the president did it. it's compelling and inarguable. there is more evidence than the sun will rise in the east tomorrow. >> i appreciate your time. >> next, how bill taylor's testimony completely contradicts this -- >> let me just tell you, i hardly know the gentleman. >> plus, publicly, president trump says he's not watching the impeachment hearings. >> are you talking about the witch hunt? is that what you mean? is that what you're talking about? i hear it's a joke. >>

to be less focused but more dynamic. >> one of the things we just learned from jim himes, he told alisyn that bill taylor'spening statement could be long. that'll be interesting to see. when the lawyers -- when daniel goldman starts his questioning this morning, what do you think this democratic attorney will try to get at from these witnesses? >> strategy point number one for the democrats. quid pro quo, what the republicans are now calling conditionality. best termed i think as a corrupt deal. they need to drive this home. these witnesses are strong on that. bill taylor testified previously. that was my clear understanding. security assistance money would not come until the president of ukraine committed to pursue the investigation. of course bill taylor said the same thing at the time this was happening. thaez are his texts. we will see these today. i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. and kent is similarly strong on this point. he testified he heard from potus wanting nothing less than president zelensky to go to the microphone and say investigations, b

yesterday, they asked taylor and the guy that did it jim jordan, he is going to be coming up at 8:15.asked bill taylor how many conversations did you have with zelensky? three or four. how many did you have with the president? none. at any point did the ukrainian president say where's the aid? what's going on with the aid? no. because he did not know. yes, that's correct. he made it clear, taylor, i have so much respect for him. i'm not here to be anyone's star witness. i'm not here for political gain. his track record shows that he is telling the truth on that. i will say this. i thought the republicans did a really good job and steve castor had an interesting delivery when he broke down to george kent who is clearly to me anti-trump administration. when he broke down the concerns that kent had about burisma. when he broke down that he went to the u.s. aid program for having a charity inside the ukraine that was sponsored by burisma he said excuse me, you do not want to sponsorship about burisma and, was asked, who -- what high profile person is on that board? the president -- former

jim, let me ask you this, taylor, everyone is talking about this will be a big deal when he testifiese direct evidence or any kind of direct dealings with the president about this. he goes to the concern, he goes to how unorthodox this was. he goes to the rudy bails him out and said on the show yeah i had to ask about biden. so taylor is only as good as rudy has been. fair point? >> so, the way i'm thinking about taylor right now, and we still have to see more of these facts and testimony from next week. he seems like the lynch pin to all this. he links everything together the two pieces and sees a lot going on on both sides and trying to figure out what it all means. and i think he has this credibility and this background that makes him so believable. so, anyway, so i see him as a critical piece in all this. >> right. you have. >> that's really interesting question here, chris. they knew what the strategy was. they knew what they had to get from the ukraine ands in order to deliver the meeting. so how did they know that? all indications so far is they were likely getting that directi

the meetings on an august 27th i heard ambassador bolton express to master taylor and national security council senior director jimmorrison his frustration about mr giuliani's influence with the president making clear there was nothing you could do about it you recommended that mr sankoh his replacement is prosecutor general open a channel with his counterpart attorney general barr in place of the informal channel between mr you're mocking mr giuliani ambassador bolton also expressed frustration about about her silence expansive interpretation of his mandate after president from canceled his visit to warsaw we continued to try to appeal to the president in foreign policy and national security terms to that end and master taylor told me that ambassador bolton recommended that he ambassador taylor send a 1st person cable to secretary peo articulating the importance of the security assistance at a baster taylor's direction i drafted and transmitted the cable on an on about retailer's behalf on august 29th which further attempted to explain the importance of ukraine and the security assistance to us national security

diplomat bill taylor, the transcript of his closed-door testimony came out this afternoon. joining us now, former fbi counsel jim baker. and let me read an excerpt from bill taylor, the distinguished ambassador now serving in ukraine, he's laying out his understanding of what a quid pro quo was. ambassador taylor, that was my clear understanding. security assistance money was not come until the president, meaning zelensky, committed to pursue the investigation of the bidens he's referring to. the chairman, so if they don't do this, they are not going to get that? that was your understanding? ambassador taylor, yes, sir. the chairman, are you aware that quid pro quo literally means this for that. ambassador taylor, i am. so what is your analysis? >> so it is very clear evidence there was a quid pro quo as understood by ambassador taylor interacting with the ukrainians and amplified what we heard yesterday in the corrected testimony from ambassador sondland about there being a quid pro quo and that he had communicated to the ukrainians and so i think that line of defense has collapsed. the significance, i guess i

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jim aswad. >> a few years ago when taylor and kanye west were sort of feuding, scooter braun and justin bieberforgave them for it. >> reporter: now could you rerecord? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: might you do that? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: while reregarding would give swift new control over her new music, her contract prevents her doing so until a year from now. >> they're arguing that her performing those songs on the amas would be on television, that it would be recorded, that that violates that agreement. >> reporter: in her facebook post swift claims they'll allow me to use my music only if i agree to not rerecord copycat versions of my songs. >> it's very much a quid pro quo because they're delaying any way her rerecording her older songs and thus costing them an awful lot of money. ♪ you belong with me >> reporter: thursday night the #i stand with taylor was standing with taylor. >> the moral outrage is about the ownership of her songs. they're her songs and the fact that someone else owns them, controls them, can tell her not to play them on television, there is a lot of outrage there. >

jim kmel live." tonight -- 6-time grammy nominee, billie eilish. from "21 bridges", taylor kitsch.n unnecessary censorship. and music from jessie reyez. and now, simply put, jimmy kimmel. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> jimmy: i'm jimmy. um a i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for coming. thank you for responding to my subpoena. there's a whole lot to get to today. but before we dive into the impeachment proceedings, i'd like to show a video that i think will give a pretty good idea of how well the

. >> ohio republican jim jordan, who was added to the intelligence committee, challenged taylor's understanding of facts. >> you are their star witness. i have seen church prayer changes that are easier to understand in this. >> i don't consider myself a star witness. i'm not here to take one side or the other or to advocate a particular outcome. >> taylor, a west point graduate, referred to his very detailed notes of events. republicans countered, taylor and kent do not have direct knowledge and never spoke to president trump about ukraine. >> officials alarm at the president's actions was typically based on a secondhandn fourth hand rumors. >> democrats pushed back. the white house is fronting those who have spoken with the president from testifying about it. >> i suspect if you have a problem with hearsay, you have a lot more direct testimony and direct evidence if you weren't blocking that ability. >> taylor said he was concerned about the allegation of withholding security funding in exchange for help with president trump's political campaign. >> it was counterproductive to all of what we

jim jordan. here is a sample of the counsel, tbill taylor, theby the acting ambassador to ukraine. >> ambassadoraylor, do you know whether hunter biden offers anytng other than the fact that his dad's the former vice president? >> i don't. >> ok, but given hunter biden's role on burisma's board of directors, at some point you testified in your deposition that you expressed some concern to the vice esent's office. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> and what did they do about that concern that you expressed? >> i have no idea. i reported my concern to the office of the vice president. >> ambassador, you weren't on the call, were you? with president, you didn't lienen on prestrump's call and president zelensky's call? >> i did not. >> you never never talked with chief of staff mulvaney? >> i ner did. >> you never met with the president? >> that's correct. >> you had three meetings again with zelensky, and it didn't come up. >> and two of those they had never heard about, as far as i know. >> and president zelensky never made an announcement. this is, this is what i can't believe, and you're th

here is a back and forth between congressman jim jordan, a republican, and ambassador bill taylor. >>n in on president trump's call? >> i did not. >> you never talked with chief of staff mulvaney this. >> i never did. >> you never met with the president -- >> that's correct. >> president zelensky never made an announcement? this is what i can't believe, and you're their star witness. chris: isn't it the case, congressman, that none of the witnesses that you've had on the stand so far in public has any firsthand evidence of what president trump said? >> that is the case, chris. and, of course, that changes this week. the three witnesses that you saw in public this week, of course, were important because they could give can be context to what has occurred. and you summarized it in talking to my friend mr. scalise, it was characterized as crazy to withhold military aid which did happen despite what mr. can scalise said -- mr. scalise said. and, of course, we heard from ambassador yovanovitch who did have firsthand experience of waking up at one in the morning to be told she had to get on

here is a back-and-forth between congressman jim jordan, a republican, and ambassador bill taylor. >>n't listen on president trump's call, president zaleski called? >> i did not. >> you never talked with chief of staff mulvaney? >> i never did. because you never met the president. >> i never did. >> two of those they never heard about as far as i know. >> president zelensky never made an announcement? this is what i can't believe in you whether star witness. >> chris: isn't it the case, congressman, that none of the witnesses that you've had on the stand so far in public has any first-hand evidence of what president trump said? >> representative himes: that is the case, chris. and of course that changes this week. the three witnesses that you saw in public this week of course were important because they could give context to what has occurred. and you're summarized it in talking to my friend mr. scalise. it was characterized as crazy to withhold military aid. which did happen, despite what mr. scalise said, and of course we heard from ambassador yovanovitch, who did have first-hand ex

from the conservative websites, from breitbart, bill tabor -- bill taylor's bombshell repeats what was already known. congressman jimordan roasts star witness ambassador taylor. the headline writers likely going to be busy over the next several days. here is the schedule ahead as steve noted, the hearings continue tomorrow, marie yovanovitch recalled from her post in may, she is set to testify before the house intelligence committee tomorrow and a continues next week on tuesday, the morning of november 19 with jennifer williams, an aide to vice president mike pence will testify alongside .lex inman -- vindman that same afternoon, kurt volker, former u.s. special envoy to ukraine will testify along with tim morrison and november 20, u.s. ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland, will testify. a lot of discussion about gordon sondland at yesterday's hearing and that same afternoon on wednesday, moore cooper, deputy assistant secretary of defense will testify alongside david hale, the under secretary of state for political affairs and on thursday, the hearings end with fiona hill, former white house russian ex

jim jordan cut through the heart of a narrative spun by ambassador bill taylor's claim that he had aupposedly clear understanding of a so-called quid pro quo. >> ambassador taylor rawlts that mr. morrison told mr. taylor that i told will morrison that it conveyed this message in' presidentr vice president pence's visit to kiev. and this is where you tell me you got your clear understanding. lou: the media tried to change the he script with more hearsay saying a second american official overheard a phone call about investigations about president trump and ambassador sondland. an anonymous person was briefed on what that official says he or she overheard. when it comes to naming an impeachable offense committed by the president. the radical dimms are left with absolutely nothing. as congressman jordan pointed out yesterday, these were their star witnesses. here is congressman john vapt cliff. >> in this impeachment hearing today where we impeach presidents for treason or bribery or high crimes. where is the impeachable offense in that call? are either of you here to assert there was an

over at the white house, we're told there's heightened concern about bill taylor's public testimony next week. let's go to jim acosta joining us from louisiana right now where the president is holding another political rally. even as mr. trump hits the campaign trail he's clearly beefing up his so-called impeachment defense team. >> reporter: he certainly is, wolf. the president is on his way to campaign for the governor in this state. the white house is focused on impeachment right now bringing on new staffers today to counter-message the impeachment inquiry playing up on capitol hill. there are plenty of jitters inside the republicans not just in a couple of states. as one source said they're calling these elections playing out this week a bad omen for the president. president trump is escaping to the campaign trail with a cloud of impeachment hanging over his every move. the white house is bracing for the upcoming public hearins in the inquiry and getting more nervous about newly released testimony from senior officials like the top diplomat, bill taylor and gordon sondland, who revised his recollections t

a double down on questioning taylor's credibility as a witness. listen to jim jordan. >> you aren't on the call, were you? you do not listen in on president call? >> i did not. >> you never talked with mick mulvaney? >> your their star witness. you are first witness. >> intelligence chairman adam schiff said all of these tec's from republicans is entirely beside the point. he said a bigger issue in this inquiry is whether president trump violated his office by failing to put american interests above his own. listen. >> of the matter is as simple it is terrible that. our answer to these questions will affect not only the future of this presidency, but the future of the presidency itself. and what kind of conduct or misconduct the american people may come to expect from their commander in chief. >> the other big bone of contention, neil, between democrats and republicans over the whistleblower and their identity. members like jim jordan, and we even heard from tesco say, we need to hear directly from this person. we need them to testify behind closed doors or in

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that was ohio republican congressman jim jordan trying to undercut damning testimony from ambassador bill taylorg it wasn't first-hand information. the top attack dog for president trump, jordan, was hand picked to join the intelligence committee last week in preparation for the public impeachment hearings this week. as republicans mounted defenses of the president they relied mostly on diversion. the republican committee's devon nunes' said democrats were trying to overturn the results of the 2016 election. >> anyone familiar with the democrats scorched earth war against president trump would not be surprised to see all the typical signs that this is a carefully orchestrated media smear campaign. the main performance, the russia hoax, has ended and you've been cast in the low rent ukrainian sequel. >> others pointed to the white house memo of president trump's july phone call with ukrainian president to say it showed no evidence of pressure. while texas congressman john rad california who was at one point president trump's nominee for director of national intelligence argued the phone call was

jim jordan said let me back up. you have never spoken with the president. where do you get this clear understanding about linking aid to investigating? he asked that of bill taylorn people. we have double hearsay going on, they crumbled under the pressure of jim jordan. jillian: listen to what john barrasso had to say. he asked the question a lot of people are wondering about. >> in this impeachment hearing today where we impeach the president for treason, bribery or other high crimes, where is the impeachable offense in a? are either of you here to assert there was an impeachable offense in a queue queue jillian: what do you make of his question and the answer? >> there is no impeachable offense, there is no crime. this is just like the mueller probe. before donald trump was elected you had the fbi investigating him, listening in on trump campaign officials, then he gets elected and we are supposed to have russia collusion, the president was exonerated and the question by radcliffe, where is the crime, the impeachable offense. rob: the democrats argue this was all set up before hand by rudy giuliani, the president didn't have to say it on the phone call. democr

since we are talking facts and figures and you are talking about taylor's testimony, did it seem almost humorous when he was talking is jimple in four conversations and one answer, things like that? >> it provided a good overview, we will hear from ambassador yavanovitch who was removed by this administration and folks on the a, lieutenant colonel indman and sondland, this is just the first day. kent and adam schiff saying and fatter coins it was russia that attempted to interfere in our election, ukraine did not attempt to interfere but at the same time we have democratic senators who encouraged ukraine to investigate donald trump in may 2018 but no one is talking about that, these three senators right here and we have a quote that we supported the capacity, building process and i disappointed that some appear to have cast aside these principles to avoid the i are of donald trump, and any efforts to impede cooperation with this investigation. >> this is not the first time democrats have a double standard when it comes to donald trump. not the first time they had a donald trump double standard when it comes to ukraine. de