testimony from jennifer williams, aid to mike pence and director for european affairs national security council alexander vindman. in a 230, ambassador kirk volker the special envoy to ukraine and national security council white house aide to morrison. on wednesday 9:00 a.m. eastern, testimony continues with u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland. at 230 deputy assistant russian ukrainian or cooper under secretary of state for political affairs. and on thursday at 9:00 a.m. eastern the committee will hear testimony from fiona hill, former national security council senior director for europe and russia. watch the first two public hearings in their entirety on the website on c-span.org/impeachment. there you find transcripts of testimony and procedures for the hearings and points of interest feature that identify key moment in the hearing indicated by a start in the timeline. next week watch live coverage of the house impeachment inquiry hearing on c-span3, c-span.org or listen live wherever you are with the free c-span radio out. >> up next her campaign 2020 coverage continues as former massachuset

williams, aid to vice president mike pence, and director for european affairs, national security council alexander vindmansador kurt volker, special envoy to ukraine, and national security council white house aide to morrison. on wednesday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, testimony continues with u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland. at 2:30, deputy assistant secure terry of defense for russia, eurasia on thursday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, the committee will hear testimony from fiona hill, former national security council senior director for europe and russia. watch the first two public hearings in their entirety on www.c-span.org/impeachment. you will find transcripts of witness testimony and procedures. plus, a points of interest feature that identifies key moments indicated by a star in the timeline. this week, watch live coverage of the house impeachment inquiry hearings on c-span3, c-span.org, or listen live wherever you are with the c-span radio app. host: joining us from los angeles is radio talk show host dennis prager. thanks very much for being with us on this sunday morning. we appreciate it.

williams, aide to vice president mike pence and rector for european affairs at the national security council alexander vindman and ambassador called folder, special envoy to ukraine and national security council white house aide tim morrison on wednesday at 9 am eastern, testimony continues with us ambassador to the european union gordon sondland and 2:30, secretary of defense for russian ukrainian and eurasian affairs laura cooper and david hale under secretary of state for political affairs and on thursday at 9 am eastern the committee will hear testimony from fiona hill, former national securitycouncil senior director for europe and russia . what's the first to public hearings in their entirety on our website c-span.org/impeachment and there you will find transcript of witness testimony and procedures for the hearing plus the points of interest feature that identifies key moments during the hearing indicated by a star in the timeline next week watch live coverage of the house impeachment inquiry c-span3 or listen live wherever you are with the free c-span radio app.

vice president mike pence, and director for european affairs at the national security security council lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, and 2:30 ambassador kurt volker, a former u.s. special envoy to ukraine and national security counsel whice aide tim morrison. on wednesday, testimony continues with u.s. am cast door to the yuped, gordon sondland. at 2:30 deputy assistant secretary of defense for russian, ukrainian, andure rashian affairs lauren cooper and david hale undersecretary of state for political affairs. on thursday, the committee will hearing testimony from fiona hill, senior director for europe and russia. watch the first two public hearings in their entire on our website c-span.org slash impeach you'll also find transcripts of witness testimony and procedures for the hearings and a point of interest feature that identifies key moments during the hearing indicated by a star in the timeline. this week watch live coverage of the house impeachment inquiry hearings on c-span3, c-span.org, or listen live wherever you are with the c-span radio app. c-span followed 2020 democratic presidential candidate pete but

from jennifer williams aid to president mike prince into european affairs at the national security council alexander vindmanand at 230 ambassador kurt volker, the special envoy to ukraine and national security council white house aide to morrison. on wednesday at 9:00 a.m. eastern testimony continues with u.s. ambassador to the european union union gordon sondland. at 230 deputy assistant secretary of defense for russian, ukrainian and affairs under secretary of state. in on thursday at 9:00 a.m. eastern the committee will hear testimony from fiona hill former national security council senior director for europe and russia. watch the first two public hearings in their entirety on our website c-span.org/impeachment. you can also find transcripts and procedures for the hearings. plus a point of interest feature that identifies key moments during the hearing indicated by the timeline. next week watch live coverage on c-span3, c-span.org or listen live wherever you are with the free c-span radio app. up next president trump announces his administration on healthcare cost and billing. the federal rule had to be

national security analyst samantha vin grad. sam, so far witness testimony has all been in private. we have seen a number of transcripts released from those closed-door hearings, among them national security council's alexander vindmaniona hill. what kind of issues did you see in their testimony? >> let's start with the walking, talking, texting security risk currently assigned to brussels. hill goes through in detail the security risks that ambassador sondland posed. for example, he used his personal cell phone. he went into meetings with european officials with no briefings. he even gave out her personal information, major red flags. he is still in brussels meeting with foreign officials. now that it's public that he had such poor counter intelligence hygiene, he's even more of a target by foreign intelligence services. second, this testimony by fiona hill and lieutenant colonel vindman really lays out what an easy target or willing participant president trump is when it comes to disinformation campaigns against their own officials. any american that served overseas knows they're a target for people that disagree with american foreign policy and what american officials are doing. that's a tale as old as time. what

the other witness is a career military officer and at the time a member of the national security council alexander vindman and went to white house saying president had abused his power. the question is do the republicans and the president try to impugn a american soldier wounded in iraq? other witnesses this week. volker will be huge. if today starts the way others did opening statements on both sides and questioning from adam schiff and chairman there. democratic attorney and then nunez and. attorney and the individual lawmakers. now as this goes on, so too does the news of the world and, today, the trump administration reversed its policy giving the go ahead to israeli benjamin netanyahu to build israeli settlements in the west bank and something the u.n. says violates national law. north korea kim jong-un says he will no longer gift president trump with something to brag about. our special coverage begins shortly after 6:00 a.m. and continue covering the local news including the upcoming planned power outages at wnbcbayarea.co or our app. >>> no update on the san jose replies on a lengthy standoff that

watche testimony from jennifer williams and director from european affairs, the national security council alexander vindmand kurt volker, the special envoy to ukraine, and tim morrison. on wednesday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, testimony continues with u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland. secretary ofty defense for russia, ukrainian, and eurasian affairs laura cooper. 9:00 a.m.rsday at eastern, the committee will hear testimony from fiona hill, former national security council senior advisor for europe and russia. watch the first two public hearings in their entirety on our website, c-span.org/impeachment. you will also find transcripts and rules, plus a point of showsst feature that moments of interest indicated by a star in the timeline. watch on c-span, c-span.org, or the free c-span radio app. announcer: next, a presentation from bbc parliament on the life and career of former house of commons speaker john bercow. this program showcases old interviews and speeches from his 10 years as a member of british parliament. it is 25 minutes. mr. bercow: order. order. ♪

committee is holding two hearings starting with testimony from national security council european affairs director lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, jennifer williams and eight to vice president mike pence. later lawmakers will hear from kurt volker former u.s. special envoy to ukraine and ten morrison, national security council director for russia. watch live coverage of the impeachment inquiry hearings on c-span3 and online at c-span.org. >> earlier today at a cabinet meeting at the white house president trump talked about today's impeachment inquiry hearing and he spoke to reporters on border security and his recent hospital visit over the weekend. >> before i start i just want to say thanks to sonny perdue for allowing us to use his facilities over there at usda over the course of every wednesday when we had our cabinet bible studies. thank you for doing that. for those of you would participate in that bible study, it's been, mr. vice president, i know you've always been there in absentia because we are glad you didn't, , frankly just because you're such a

from jennifer williams, an aide to vice president mike pence along with the national security council's top ukraine alexander vindmantomorrow afternoon they will hear from ambassador kurt volker and tim morrison a former white house national security official. on wednesday we will hear from eu ambassador gordon sondland, and wednesday afternoon we will see laura cooper, a department of defense assistant secretary as well as david hale, the third highest ranking official in the state department. on thursday morning lawmakers will hear from fiona hill a former national security official who served as the top russia adviser. >> on friday we heard from marie yovanovitch and the most stunning part of the testimony may have come just after the president decided to weigh in in the middle of her public testimony the president tweeted this, everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in smaomalia, h did that go. it is a u.s. president's absolute right to appoint ambassadors. intelligence committee chair adam schiff called it witness intimidation, but president trump argued that it was freedom of speech. her

aid vice president mike pence and director for european affairs for the national security council lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. and ambassador kurt volker former u.s. special envoy to ukraine and national security council white house aide tim morrison. >> today supreme court justice elena kagan talks to george mason university students about the american judicial system. live coverage at 4:30 p.m. eastern on on c-span3, online at c-span.org or listen live on our free c-span radio app. >> general john raymond is the command of your space command and he has been invited to talk about building this space force. this is posted by the center for strategic and international studies here in washington, d.c. live coverage on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we are live this morning to remarks about building the u.s. space force. general raymond is the command of the u.s. space command. this is hosted by the center for strategic and i

and director for european affairs at the national security council, alexander vindman. and kurt volker the special envoy to ukraine and national security white house aide tim morrison. on wednesday, testimony continues with u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland. and then deputy is achbt secretary of defense for russian and eurasian affairs lora cooper and david hale. and on thursday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, the committee will hear testimony from fiona hill, former national security director for europe and russia. watch the first two public hearings on our website, c-span.org/impeachment. there you'll find transcripts of witness testimony and procedures. plus a points of interest features that identifies key moments during the hearing indicated by a star in the timeline. watch live coverage of the hearings on c-span3, c-span.org. or listen live with the free radio app. >>> tonight on the communicates, mark randolf, co-founder of netflix and author of the book "that will never work" shares

the committee holding two hearings with testimony from national security council european affairs director colonel alexander vindman and jennifer williams, an aide to vice president mike pence. lawmakers will hear from kurt volker and tim morrison, national security to route director for russia. watch live coverage of the impeachment inquiry hearings on c-span3 and live at c-span.org. over the weekend, former massachusetts governor deval patrick spoke at an event in las vegas hosted by the nevada democratic party. this was mister patrick's first major speech since announcing his candidacy for president. prior to the event he spoke with recruiters about his campaign strategy and his position on various policy issues. >> hi everybody. i said it right, please make notes. this is i think the fourth, fifth city we've been in in the last few days since announcing. it's been an exciting entry into the race, i've been meeting wonderful people and geg

the committee is holding two hearings starting with testimony from national security council european affairs director alexander vindman and jennifer williams and aid to mike pence. they will hear from kurt volker and tim morrison and national security council director for russia area and watch live coverage of the inquiry hearings on c-span3 and online at c-span.org. >> tv has live weekend coverage of the miami book fair running saturday and sunday featuring author discussions and interactive viewer call in segments. on saturday at 11 am eastern republican senator tom cotten talk about arlington national cemetery. former obama administration national security advisor and un ambassador susan rice discusses her life and career. megan phelps roper on the westboro baptist church, patrick dineen chair of constitutional study at the university of notre dame on liberalism and wired magazine's andy greenberg discusses russian hackers. on sunday at 10:30 a.m. eastern our live coverage continues former under secretary of state in the obama administration richard stangl on the proliferation of disinformation in international pol

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national security aide to vice president pence, jennifer williams. we will also hear from two ukraine policy advisors on president trump's national security council. that is alexander vindman and tim morrison. we will also then here for special envoy to ukraine kurt volker. really, the big ticket item this week is gordon sondland's testimony. he is president trump's ambassador to the european union. he is slated to testify on wednesday. sondland is one of the first witnesses we will hear from him who is really an ally of president trump. president trump appointed him to his position. he's a good friend of the president, and he has had a lot of one-on-one interactions with the president. these other witnesses have not. all the witnesses so far have testified about second or even thirdhand information. sondland's testimony, harris, really presents the trump administration a chance to lay out the case from their perspective, and it gives sondland a chance to clarify his untested money. as we covered last week, he give deposition to the committee behind closed doors. a few days later he came back and amended it. a lot of questions now about what exactly he saw, heard, and talk

top ukraine expert on the national security council alexander vindman and top russia aide to vice president mike pence, jennifer williams. both officials are expected to challenge president trump's claim that his july 25th phone call with the president of ukraine was, quote, perfect. williams characterized it as politically motivated, unusual, and inappropriate. vindman said he was so concerned that the call would undermine national security he reported it to the nsc's top lawyer. the president has attacked both witnesses as never trumpers but as we mentioned the latest attack on vindman is coming from senator ron johnson. in a letter to jim jordan and devin nunes dated yesterday he writes this. a significant number of bureaucrats and staff members within the executive branch have never accepted president trump as legitimate and recent his unorthodoxed style and i trution on to his turf. they react by leak together press and participating in the ongoing effort sabotage his policies and if possible remove him from office. it is entirely possible that vindman fits this profile written by sena

national security officials, including both nonpartisan and political appointees. the top ike expert on the national security council, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, told houseestigators he was concerned president trump was blocking $400 million in aid to ukraine to force that country to publicly announce an investigation into joe biden. according to two sources familiar with his deposition. when he raised concerns about the transcript of the now infamous july 25th call between president trump and the ukrainian president, he was told to keep quiet by the national security council's top legal adviser. an aide to former national security adviser john bolton, tim morrison, supported previous testimony about how long the effort to block military aid had been going on. he confirmed an attempted quid pro quo but said he did not view the july phone call as illegal. he did however, ask the same nsc lawyer to review it. no surprise the president is putting that nugget in the win column. but complaints about the process of impeachment were answered by democrats with the formal guidelines this week which mean we could get testimony transcripts as early as next week, an

jennifer williams aid to mike pence and director for european affairs at the national security council lieutenant colonel alexander vindman and kurt volker and white house and tim morrison. on wednesday at 9 am eastern testimony continues with us ambassador to the european union board sunderland and secretary of defense for russian ukrainian and you eurasian affairs was over and david hale, under secretary of state for political affairs and on thursday at 9 am eastern the committee will hear testimony from the owner hill, former national security council senior director for your and russia. what's the first to public hearings in their entirety on our website c-span.org/impeachment. there you will find transcripts of witness testimony and procedures plus a point of interest feature that identifies key moments during the hearing indicated by a star in the timeline. next week watch live coverage of the house impeachment inquiry hearings on c-span3, c-span.org or listen live wherever you are with the free radio app. >> live now to the federalist society national lawyers convention in washington. the hero marks from attorney g

department officials, white house officials, nsa, including lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the national security council's top ukraine expert who was on the trump call with ukraine's president and expressed alarm about the call. and now the president, you know, says he's not concerned at all about a lot of that testimony and the release of those transcripts. in fact he's even said he doesn't know a lot of those witnesses. listen. >> i'm not concerned about anything. the testimony has all been fine. i mean for the most part i never even heard of these people. i have no idea who they are. they're some very fine people. you have some never trumpers. it seems that nobody has any firsthand knowledge. there is no firsthand knowledge. and all that matters is one thing, the transcript. and the transcript is perfect. >> so, lynn, gordon sondland, we know the president knows that person because he was a big donor and now the u.s. ambassador to the eu. at the very least shouldn't the president know the nsa office officials? how familiar should he be with vindman and other nsa people? >> in a perfect world, of course

nd director for european affairs at the national security council, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman2:30, ambassador kurt volker.-- and white house council aide tim morrison. testimony continues with u.s. ambassador to the european sondland.don then at 2:30, deputy assistant secretary of defense for eurasianukrainian, and affairs, laura cooper, and david hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs. and on thursday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, the committee will hear fiona hill, m former national security council senior director for europe and russia. two public rst hearings in their entirety on our website c-span.org/inteechlt. there -- c-span.org/impeachment. a points of interest feature identifies key items. live, online at c-span.org, or listen free with app.-span radio the u.s. house is back at 4:15 eastern to start legislative work for the week. agenda, federal spending legislation to extend current overnment funding past thursday's midnight deadline. that measure would need to be approved by both the house and sent to e and then president trump for his signature to avoid a pos

also doubling down on that notion, national security council lieutenant corner alexander vindman on that infamous call with trump and the ukrainian president and asked if he had any doubt trump was asking political opponents. there was no doubt vindman said. and the next big step, open hearings next week where the public will get to see and hear what's only been going on behind closed doors up until now. and i'll be right here all week on the hill. >> keira, thank you. watching for that. >>> president trump, meanwhile, insisting he's not concerned about the testimony of those two white house officials or anyone else who has given depositions in the impeachment inquiry. abc's david wright is at the white house with how the president is sounding off against the investigation. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning. the president's talking points are quite similar to what we heard throughout the mueller probe. he calls this a hoax just like the russia witch-hunt he said and even as the parade of witnesses appear to be corroborating that some sort of pressure was brought to bear on u

in at least one case, alexander vindman, who serves on the national security council, is going to be in uniform because he's a military officer, lieutenant colonel. these are people who have almost all of them at least from the perspective of the folks who have given the most damaging testimony, people who have stellar reputations in the government over a long period of time. and it's going to be very difficult i think for republicans to portray them as partisans or people who walk into the door, came into the -- came into their jobs every day looking to undermine the administration that they had pledged to serve, a country that they had pledged to serve. >> erin, we've been reading through the transcripts. and there are plenty of minimum wage par moments -- major moments, nuggets of information that came out. but this one seemed to synthesize some kind of theme here. george kent said that the president wanted to hear three words from ukraine's president. biden, clinton, and investigations. what's the impacts of that? >> as we saw with fiona hill's transcripts that came out and alexa

the national security council ukraine expert lieutenant colonel alexander vindman and a trump foreigny aide to the vice president jennifer williams, both of whom were on that july 25th call between mr. trump and the ukrainian leader >> i found the july 25th phone call unusual because in contrast to other presidential calls i had observed it involved discussion of what appeared to be a domestic political matter >> it was inappropriate. it was improper for the president to request - demand an investigation. >> the references to specific individuals and investigations such as former vice president biden and his son struck me as political in nature given that the former vice president is a political opponent of the president. >> the hearing got heated when republicans questioned colonel vindman about whether he knew the whistle-blower the iraq war veteran and purple heart recipient pushed back hard >> mr. vindman, you testified in your deposition you that did not though the whistle-blower. >> ranking member, it's lieutenant colonel vindman, please >> lieutenant colonel vindman, you testif

national security council. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman and fiona hill.vindman told congress that in early july ambassador gordon sondland made clear that the u.s. relationship with ukraine was contingent, that's the word, on the political dirt trump was seeking. as a prerequisite to getting face time with trump at the white house, the ukrainians would have to deliver an investigation into the bidens. there was no ambiguity. vindman said. according to vindman and fiona hill, that condition came from trump's chief of staff mick mulvaney, the same official who froze military aid to ukraine on orders from the president. vindman said that by august it became evident that the freeze on military aid, quote, was an added pressure point to obtain the deliverable from ukraine emphasizing that the message was clear and that the logic there seems inescapable. he also testified that having listened to trump's call with president zelensky, there was no doubt, his phrase, no doubt about the favor trump wanted. as vindman described it the power disparity between the pre

top ukraine expert on the national security council, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman and top russia aide to vice president mike pence jennifer williams. both officials are expected to challenge president trump's claim that his july 25th phone call with the president of ukraine was perfect. williams characterized it as politically motivated, unusual and inappropriate. and vindman was so concerned that the call undermined national security that he reported it to the nsc's top lawyer. the president has attacked both witnesses as quote never trumpers. however the latest attack on vindman, a decorated army officer, is coming from republican senator ron johnson. in a letter to jim jordan and devin nunes dated yesterday, johnson writes this. a significant number of bureaucrats and staff members within the executive branch have never accepted president trump as legitimate and resent his unorthodox style and his intrusion on to their turf. they react by leaking to the press and participating in the ongoing effort to sabotage his policies and if possible remove his from office. it is entirely

the top ukraine expert on the national security council, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman who listenede call testified on tuesday that the notes from the call had some missing phrases and that he tried to correct the transcript. now, to be clear, the phrases do not fundamentally change lawmakers' understanding of the call but nonetheless, this makes clear that vindman is an extremely credible witness who offered a first hand account of critical episodes in the quid pro quo. and was so trubled by trump's live phone call with ukraine's president that he reported his concerns to his superior the behavior was so troubling that trump's allies can't actually defend it so instead, they're attacking the process and witnesses themselves, like vindman, a decorated iraq war veteran who received a purple heart. trump allies in congress and the media have suggested that vindman might have an affinity towards ukraine because he emigrated from there when he was three. >> so he's got a purple heart and he is from the soviet union. he emigrated here and has an affinity to the ukrainian people we also k

alexander vindman. volker andrt national security council white house aide to morrison. watch the first two hearings on c-span.org/impeachment. you will find transcripts of witness testimony and procedures for the hearings there, plus a point of interest feature that identifies key moments during the hearing indicated by a star in the timeline. this week, watch live coverage of the house impeachment inquiry on c-span3, c-span.org, or listen live wherever you are with the free c-span radio app. >> democratic representative jim himes recently held a town hall with constituents in connecticut . he talked about the impeachment inquiry, health care access. this event occurred prio t

deposition transcript of president trump's top ukraine expert on the national security council army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. vindman when was on trump's call with the ukrainian president testified that there was no doubt trump was seeking nfg investigations from ukraine involving the 2016 election as well as former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. according to the transcript of his october closed door testimony released friday, vindman told impeachment investigators, kwoequote, it dot take a rocket scientist to see where the gain would be for the president in investigating the son of a political opponent. vindman testified that trump administration officials delivered a clear quid pro quo message telling investigators that u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland informed him that not only was a white house meeting with zelensky wanted contingent on the probes trump desired, but this condition had been coordinated with white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. vindman said at another point in his testimony that sondland told the ukrainians they would need to deliver an investigatio

eight more witnesses are scheduled to testify including the national security council's top ukraine expert, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman and u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondland nbc's hallie jackson has more on what to expect from the historic day ahead on capitol hill. >> reporter: in the calm before the impeachment storm washington's bracing for a blockbuster day. >> democrats in washington would rather pursue outrageous hoaxes and delusional witch hunts which are going absolutely nowhere don't worry about it >> reporter: the president projecting confidence in the hearing starting with bill taylor and george kent who paint a picture of a quid pro quo. the president's supporters slamming democrats >> they're relying on people like bill taylor as a star witness who is going to tell us something that is third or fourth-hand information. >> reporter: nbc news has learned more about the gop playbook a strategy memo circulating encourages republicans to point out the military aid the president appeared to be trading for personal political help ultimately flowed to ukraine and that ukraine's president said president tr

alexander vindman. vindman is a ukraine specialist with the national security council who listened in on president trump's july phone call with ukraine's president. meanwhile, new transcripts from the closed door testimony of david holmes was released overnight. holmes, a ukrainian embassy staffer, testified privately over the weekend. he will testify publicly on thursday. skyler henry is on capitol hill. what was revealed in the latest transcripts? >> reporter: yeah, anne-marie, good morning. david holmes is a career state department official based in the ukraine. transcripts show that he testified u ukrainian officials were told they weren't guaranteed military aid unless they received certain transactions. the release of the transcript is no surprise as we're a few hours away from the next round of pink -- impeachment inquiry hearings. the impeachment inquiry into trump wraps up with nine witnesses scheduled to testify publicly. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman and aide jennifer williams speak to the house intelligence committee first this morning. >> that was a perfect call -- >> reporter: both we

committee, aide to vice president mike pence, jennifer williams and national security council director lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. look for both williams and vindman to offer their opinions about listening in to that phone call between trump and ukrainian president. in closed door testimony released yesterday, williams said she found the president's investigation and the demands, quote, unusual and inappropriate. vindman testified that he found it so disturbing that he reported it to the nsc council. then tuesday, later in the day, former u.s. special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker and national security adviser tim morrison. volker, one of the three amigos tapped by the administration to lead ukraine policy, testified to rudy giuliani's problematic role in ukraine affairs. on that call, firsthand experience and expressed concern over the president's political requests in saturday's newly released testimony. hang on. we've got wednesday morning. yes, the most anticipated witness of the week. gordon sondland after having revised its closed door testimony, admitting a quid pro quo, sondland pressuring ukrainian lead

insights, fiona hill, the former top russia adviser on president trump's national security council and lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the nsc's top ukraine expert. >> a man already a major figure in the ukraine saga apparently has information that impeachment investigator does not. >> all of the witnesses are lining up in terms of what they're saying, they all saw this was a shakedown operation against the ukrainian government. >> by this time next week congress will have completed the first two public hearings in the impeachment proceedings against president donald trump. >> house democrat denny heck tells cnn they're setting a target of wrapping a week's-long investigation up by christmas. we have a lot to bring you this hour with nbc journalists and our team of analysts all across the country. public hearings are scheduled for next week with three key witnesses. house lawmakers are set to hear from bill taylor, the top diplomat in ukraine. deputy assistant secretary george kent and former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. join us is reporter from axios and jonathan allen. >> what are your expectatio

alexander vindman. he is someone still working at the national security council.eir ukraine expert and someone who has h purplert. he's the one that democrats point to and say, this is someone with very good character. they're going to point out that he is someone who had conceims in rea with the july 25 phone call between president trump and the president of the ukraine. vindman listened into that call, then went to his superiors and said, i have concerns awaut the that the president is asking for investigations into joe biden and hishu soner biden. republicans, though, say that vindman has been inconsistent they also say he's someone who can't really speak to whether or that's impeachable he something shouldn't essentially be coming before congress in this way. that's o person they're going to be pointing to and kind of contrasting mentions between both parties. second is kurt volker, ati lo foreign services officer, a special envoy to ukraine from the u.s.o he's longer in that role but he's someone that democrats are going to point to and say, when that call ca

tonight, the white house is blaming the discrepancy on lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the national security council'sne expert. a source tells cbs news that vindman signed off on that language before the president actually made the call. today, vindman is not commenting, but, norah, he is set to testify in public next week. >> o'donnell: more to come. weijia, thank you. late today, house speaker nancy pelosi weighed in on today's testimony in an exclusive interview with margaret brennan for sunday's "face the nation." >> reporter: why do you think he was tweeting about her? >> because he-- he knows-- well, he made a mistake, and he knows her strength, and he was trying to undermine it. of course presidents appoint ambassadors. but people don't insult people, especially when they're giving testimony before the congress of the united states. >> o'donnell: and margaret joins us now. margaret, i want to get to some breaking news tonight because we're learning about some testimony that was behind closed doors today about david holmes' deposition. what have we learned? >> reporter: yes, this is the america

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morning, jennifer williams, an aide to vice president pence testify alongside national security council aide alexander vindmanhe testified he was on that july 25 call between president trump and president zelensky. willesday, kurt volker testify alongside tim morrison, a national security council aid. on wednesday, the u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland will testify in the morning. in the afternoon, were cooper and david hale. assistant secretary of defense. david hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs. it wraps up next week in the open hearings with fiona hill, former white house russia expert. three of those individuals we just named were on the republican witness list request. five other witness requests made by republicans were not granted by adam schiff and the democrats on the intelligence committee. david hill, tim morrison and david volker for on the original witness request list. those who were not granted, debbie archer, hunter biden's business partner. republicans wanted hunter biden as well to testify. a.exander chalup r, aell as nellie oh researcher at fusion gps.

alexander vindman, a ukraine expert on the national security council. this afternoon, they heard from former special envoy to ukraine ambassador volker and jim morrison, advisor to europe and russia. on c-span we would like to hear from you. here is how to join the conversation. for democrats -- we welcome all others at -- we will take about 20 minutes or so of phone calls to hear from you on this tuesday evening, the first of three hearings we will cover this week on the c-span networks. let's go to the republican line in starlike, wisconsin. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have been watching all day. alln, the witnesses testified that they witnessed no primary, extortion, quid pro quo, all that. and ir thing i noticed, will challenge the democrat callers to flollow -- they all say the president attacks witnesses. billyt as if they took a club and hit him. he is defending himself. i heard the same people say the president attacks people, but they call him a criminal. they say he doesn't care about people, he hates other countries, he is a failu

it involves lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the national security council's top ukraine expertsd efforts to silence it. cnn's manu raju joins us live with that. >> reporter: alexander vindman, who testified on capitol hill early this week, a member of the white house staff who raised significant concerns about that july phone call. he was told not to discuss that phone call according to a source familiar with his testimony. recall what he said behind closed doors. he said that the president's call with president zelensky in which president trump asked president zelensky of ukraine to announce an investigation into the bidens, he was worried that call to hurt national security, could undermine national security. and he was so concerned about the matter that he took his concerns to the national security council's lawyer, john eisenberg, and reported those complaints to eisenberg. we are told that eisenberg made it clear that he should not discuss this call any further. now, at the same time, you know, vindman made clear that he was -- that the phone call -- the rough transcript of

and director for european securityt the national council, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. 2:30, ambassador volker, white l security council house aide tim morrison. on wednesday at 9:00 a.m. testimony continues with u.s. ambassador to the union gordon sondland. nd then deputy assistant secretary of defense laura cooper and david hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs. and on thursday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, the committee will hear hill, ony from fiona former national security council senior director for europe and russia. first two public hearings in their entirety on our website c-span.org/impeachment. there, you'll also find transcripts of witness testimony and procedures for the hearings. points of interest feature that identifies key moments during the hearing star in the a timeline. this week watch live coverage of the house impeachment inquiry on c-span3, c-span.org, or listen live wherever you are with the free c-span radio app. >> tonight on "the communicators", marc randolph, netflix and author f the book, "that will never work," sheers his experiences -- shares his experiences. keys andt.o. hi

alexander vindman... the national security council's top ukraine expert.( daa ) this afternoon we will hear from ambassadoroy to ukraine... and timmorrison who is a ite house aide with the national security council.( james ) karin caifa is live washington d-c this morning with the latest. karin.

>> stephen: the first of four witnesses today was national security council ukraine expert, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. ( laughter ) vindman came to the united states as a child when his father fled the soviet union, and went on to enlist in the army, where he received a purple heart for his service in iraq. given his history, the only way vindman could be more all-american is if he appeared in a ken burns documentary about the statue of liberty, which he did as a child. >> came from kiev... and then we went to-- our mothered die, and then we went to italy, and we came here. >> stephen: "and when i gwow up, i want to be in the awmy and testify about the pwesident's cowwuption in ukwaine." vindman used his opening statement to send a message to his father, who fled the soviet union. >> when my father was 47 years old, he left behind his entire life and the only home he had ever known to start over in the united states so his three sons could have a better and safer lives. "dad, i am sitting here today in the u.s. capitol talking to our elected professionals is proof you made the right decision 40 years

alexander vindman. he was in charge of european policy. at the national security council.ing we do know that he said in the deposition a couple weeks ago. he said, "if ukraine pursued an investigation into the bidens and burisma it would be interpreted as a partisan plan. he would undoubtedly resolve in ukraine losing the bipartisan support. it has thus far maintained." vindman's on the telephone call, and he thought of his testimony that some of the partial transcript, the notes release from the telephone call with the president and the leader of ukraine, left out important words and phrases and that was necessary for context. when we look at the transcript from george kent, the state government official, he indicated that body language and tone of voice and hesitancy in the conversation he had with vindman, that there was concern about that telephone call. that's something george kent testified when we looked through his remarks yesterday. >> harris: excuse me one second, but just on that one quick point you're making with george kent, some of the criticism about the tra

fiona hill, the former top russia adviser on president trump's national security council, and lieutenant colonel alexander vindmanine expert. >> john bolton, former national security adviser, a man who is already a major figure in this ukraine saga, apparently has information that impeachment investigators do not. >> republican allies of the president are now launching a desperate bid to save the president by sacrificing three of trump's top deputies. that's according to the "washington post," which reports today republicans are sewing doubts about whether sondland, giuliani, and mulvaney were actually representing the president or freelancing -- freelancing! they were rogue. >> we'll start with the impeachment inquiry as it gets closer to officially entering the next phase. public hearings are scheduled for next week with three key witnesses. >> and while the president insists there was no quid pro quo, at least six officials have now testified that there was. >> a little bit of breaking news. according to the "washington post," house republicans are planning to ask that hunter biden and the whistle-blower testi

from jennifer williams, a state department official, and lieutenant colonel alexander vindman of the national security councill was inappropriate. it involved a discussion of what appeared to be a domestic political matter. there were also revelations about a new phone call the very next day between donald trump and the eu ambassador where they talked about investigations. that conversation was overheard by david holmes, another witness, and confirmed by sondland himself. the initial part of the call, ambassador sondland, sort of, when the president came on the call, he sort of winced and held the phone away from his ear. yeah, sounds like something i would say. the call indicates how deeply involved donald trump was in all of this. so what does this mean for trump? a lot of foreign policy professionals and government were concerned about what was going on in the white house and one of the men at the centre of the controversy, gordon sondland, has now testified that they were right. american viewers have been tuning in by the millions, but it is still too early to tell whether enough minds have been changed t

alexander vindman. national security council guy, ukraine, testified this week, donald trump suggested he was a never trumperot at all true. and secondly, on that july 25th phone call. that's out the door. secondhand thing, reference to the whistle-blower complaint. now a guy is on the record, who sent hours and hours yesterday on capitol hill talking this week about it. complete transcript. well, it's not a complete transcript. know thanks to vindman the natural gas company in ukraine supposed to be included and weren't. and if you watch cable television yesterday you know we had a vote. party lines. 232 yes, 196 no. 2 democrats crossing over opposing it. there was a vote. formal impeachment rules and finally republicans excluded. this one makes me insane. ted yoho from florida was on with poppy harlow this morning and pointed out he could attend these things as a member of the foreign affairs committee. he just hasn't done so. the other thing i want to point out here, erica. this idea they're being held in a secret basement location. that's where the secure conference hearing room is. so would you rather h

important testimony in the house impeachment inquiry from lieutenant colonel alexander vindman of the national security council and from jennifer williams, an advisor to the vice president. regrettably, some republicans, including one in this chamber, have tried without evidence or substantiation to undermine, to call into question, to smear the credibility of the witnesses, including lieutenant colonel vindman, a purple heart recipient who has spent his life in service to our country. the attacks on the witnesses are painful and wrong. they're reminiscent of a brutal country, not a democratic republic that we are. i hope everyone will treat these witnesses with respect and listen to their testimony with an open mind. it is unbecoming of any senator to smear these patriots, whether they agree or disagree with their testimony. the house has a responsibility to seek the truth and uncover all of the facts. and if it comes to it, the senate has a responsibility to examine the evidence and render impartial judgment. finally, on infrastructure, as the impeachment inquiry continues, democrats in both chambers continu

national security council director alexander vindman representing the white house. joseph pennington representing the embassy and gordon sondland. while ambassador sondland's mandate for the european union, did not include member countries like ukraine he made clear he had direct and frequent access to president trump and chief of staff mick mulvaney and portrayed himself as the conduit to the president and mr. mulvaney for this group. secretary perry, ambassador sondland and ambassador volker styled themselves the three amigos and made clear they would take the lead on coordinating engagement with the zelensky administration. i became aware that mr. giuliani, a private lawyer, was taking a direct role in ukrainian diplomacy. april 25, mr. zelensky's childhood friend and campaign chair was ultimately appointed the head of the security services of ukraine indicated to me privately that he had been contacted by quote someone named giuliani who said he was an advisor to the vice president. i reported that message to deputy assistant secretary of state george kent. over