scott wong is with the hill, senior staff writer. start us off by walking us through the witnesses who will be testifying tomorrow at these open -- at these open impeachment hearings. scott: i think the main witness that we are watching for on tuesday will be alexander been been. -- alexander vinman. he is a created a rack war veteran, a purple heart -- he is war veteran, a purple heart recipient. he was on the phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine. the reason why he is significant is he raised alarm bells twice, once during a july 10 meeting between ukrainian officials at the white house and white house officials including gordon sondland. this all has to do with the alleged bribery or alleged quid pro quo where president trump has been -- the people around him have been demanding investigations, for ukraine to carry out investigations into the bidens in order to secure that $400 million of security aid. he will be critical, he will be able to speak directly to what it was like, what he interpreted on that

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stanley wong is not his real name. his accounts cannot be verified independently, b but his story s in line with accounts from other tainees. at that time, border police had begun systemematically searching the phones of f hong kong verse- hong kongers crossing the bder to the mainland. he explaineded it was an authorized march and that t hong kong laws allowed him to participate but they would not listen. >> they said this was about a matter of national security and that it was not up to me to decide what endangering i it means. national security is above all other laws. when national security is concerned, they said we can catch you in hong kong or any other place in the world. >> wong was held in a single cell that had been covered in soft material. the blast door was translucent from the outside. all the lights left permanently on. over and over, they interrogated him asking him about connections to foreign nationals. >> i had to crouch like this for the duration of the interrogation. they placed me right under an

scott wong, senior staffer at the hill newspaper.we very much appreciate the time at the beginning of a very busy week for both of you. >> guest: thanks very much. >> live now i c-span2 a discussion about the fires in the amazon rain forest in brazil and effects of climate change as was the presidents declining for aid to fight the fires. watching live coverage here on c-span2. expecting this to start shortly. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

for fear of retribution we cannot show his face stanley wong is not his real name his accounts cannot be very fide independently but his story is in line with accounts from other detainees. at that time border police had begun systematically searching the phones of hong kong was crossing the border between hong kong and the mainland a photo of wong attending a peaceful march in june caught their attention he explained it was unauthorized march and that hong kong allowed him to participate but they wouldn't listen. they said this was about a matter of national security and that it wasn't up to me to decide what in danger in it means national security is above all other laws when national security is concerned they said we can catch you in hong kong or any other place in the world. one was held in a single cell that had been covered in soft material the glass door was translucent from the outside only lights left permanently on over and over they interrogated him asking about photos on his vote and contacts to foreign nationals i had to crouch like this for the whole generation of the i

nejra: selena wong in beijing.g up on the show come easyjet reports earnings and we will speak to the ceo of easyjet. we speak also to the managing director of the international monetary fund. do not miss that interview at 9:30 a.m. london time. when you are traveling to work, hop on to bloomberg radio. this is bloomberg. ♪ nejra: this is bloomberg daybreak europe, i am nejra cehic in london. here is selena wong in beijing. 3000 jobs could be cut across europe. the latest move to the regions industry. two thirds of the reductions would be office staff. it did not give a detailed breakdown of where the cuts would be made. u.s. presidential hopeful elizabeth warren is calling out blackstone for its real estate practices at accusing the company of shamelessly profiting from the 2008 housing crisis. this comes as she releases her housing plan including strengthening tenants' rights. wework will begin cutting jobs in the u.s. we of jobs may go, around 2000 positions. more news could come on friday when the company's cha

scott wong, thank you as always, my friend.get to exclusive new reporting from nbc news out just this morning. the state department is being asked to investigate the use of personal cell phones by senior u.s. diplomats in the wake of the impeachment hearings. joining us now the reporter behind the story, nbc news national political reporter josh letterman. josh, good morning to you. thanks for joining us on this. i'm going to go ahead and assume this has something to do with the conversation between gordon sondland and the president and that now ukrainian restaurant that is at the height and much the talk of the testimony we've heard so far. >> that's a safe assumption, yes. people's jaws really dropped where they learned about this conversation where you have gordon sondland at a restaurant in public in kiev, at a restaurant with waiters coming and going, calling up the president on his cell phone. and you heard the president so loudly that several other people at the table with sondland could overhear him. and we had another

. >> we also have scott wong who covers capitol hill. another capitol hill reported. scott, go ahead with your first question. been: republicans have come up until now they have been complaining about the impeachment process as the hearings and depositions have been behind closed doors, but now with this impeachment vote looking ahead at the process as it moves into the public sphere, what thealk about merits of your arguments look like. ? president trump has urged republicans to fight this on merits, not the process. can you talk about the arguments on the merits going forward? congressman johnson: we just had a lengthy press conference after the house floor from after the vote, which is bipartisan, by the way. democrats voted not to proceed on the resolution. but we have had problems with process and the substance. and we are anxious to debate both of those things and to do it out in the open. we issued a challenge. every member was standing together. the congressman said it well, he has been down, he has been hearing all this, and he challenged the drama ship to re

straight to scott wong. all right. i know you've been reading through all of this right now because it just got dropped upon us but from what you know about it we understand the importance of mark sandy. he could be another one of those primary sources which both sides want, democrats and republicans. >> and one of my colleagues who is at the capitol at the moment who i just spoke to said jamie raskin and the democrats, what they were after today was to find out whether or not, you know, the $400 million in aid was held up for a technical glitch or if there was a political motive behind that they believe there clearly is a political reason why that $400 million was held up by the president and the white house. obviously the chief of staff of the white house is the former omb director mick mulvaney. and so that was the line of questioning from republicans today from folks like jamie raskin who is on the oversight committee and in the room for the closed door depositions. they wanted to find out what specifically was the

timothy wong, good luck to you.heck in a year. >> coming up next, from ebola, to h.i.v., is the government shutting down a program that could schettino down the next epidemic. with one year to the next presidential election, how winner?e are polls at soledad: now to a weekly feature question like to call we are paying attention even if you are too busy. the resent ebola outbrackets have come from bats to, rats, to humans. now the government is shutting down a program dedicated to finding dangerous animal viruses that could eventually spread to humans. since the birds flu compare, the program has discovered more than 19,000 new viruses, including a new strain were ebola. but by january, the $207 million program will officially end. that has public health experts worried. they warn it only takes one carrier of bird flu to pass through inspection at an airport or a train station in china to trigger a global pandemic. and with more than 30,000 passengers flying from china to the u.s. every day, it could pose a real poss

joining me from washington, senior writer for the hill, scott wong. good morning to you. thanks for joining us on this. >> good morning. >> dooms have obviously voiced concerns -- dooms have obviously voiced concern, and calling for hunter biden to testify amidst the impeachment inquiry, how do you impact the scenario here with regard to biden's 2020 chances. well, it is simply not going to happen. democrats control the majority, they control the impeachment inquiry process, adam schiff has been very clear, that none of the bidens will be called before the house to testify. they have their set of witnesses. republicans have, they requested testimony from the whistle-blower and from hunter biden himself. but adam schiff is shutting that all down. i will say that over in the senate, on the other side of the capital, rand paul and some other trump allies are making some noise that they do want to focus on biden as a defense of trump, to try to draw a parallel to say look, there was some wrong doing on this side. but look at joe biden, there was wrongdoing on that side as wel

. >> and senior staff brightwrite the hill, scott wong.anny, i want you to weigh in on the twitter controversy. did they or did they not? what is the legality whether or not the white house can actually freeze john bolton's twitter account if in fact they did just that. >> first, i'm not entirely sure what exactly happened on w-john bolton's twitter account. did the nsa process, or as bolton suggested, software to do it or did he have his password on a yellow post-in note that he had on his desk and couldn't access to the twitter account, especially if he gave shared access to the white house. it may be a case, can you give me the post-it note with my passwords and the white house delayed in giving it back to him. we don't really know. even his language is kind of vague. so it is really not first amendment suppression if they delayed in giving him back wherever he wrote down his passwords. but is it something more nefarious than that? possibly. >> and they talk about the twitter account but the pertinent question is will john bolton testif

. >>> and let's turn now to michael wong to turning about the potential deal dween schwab anamerd tradeould mean for the online brokerage industry. welcome, michael nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> what do you make of the potential deal? does it make sense to you? >> yeah, of all the potential mergers with the publicly traded online brokerages, in was probably the leastiky. the market was betting likely that e-trade would merge wh e td ameritrade or e-traed with charles schwab. i think the nearly 70% pop in td ain mere trade and drop in e-trade are about proof this was unexpected. >> e-trade was down sharply today. you might have thought it would fwoet are go up in sympathy but it had gone higher anticipating maybe a deal like this. does this take e-trad out of the story? or do you think there are other mergers coming? >> i think that e-trade is still in play. besides just t regular industry consolidation of them merging with let's say a schwab or amerdtrade, we think that they could potentially merge with a regiol ban or wealth management firm. there are plenty of pla

we have just heard what joshua wong said.t is the opinion of many people here, and it is one of the demands for a long time now. people want an independent investigation into what the police have been doing that day and the weeks before, and anything else will not satisfy the protesters. they will continue going on the streets, as you can see. people have no trust in the police. there is no trust. carl: you are watching dw news. still to come, a former football pro who competed for germany committed suicide 10 years ago after suffering from depression. we will hear from his widow, his campaign since then to raise awareness of mental illness in the sports world. and a new production of a mozart opera being staged in rome, but it is a show with a twist. first, spain is holding another general election. on sunday, yes, another one, a fourth in four years. the socialist party won the largest share of the vote, but could not get a majority in parliament. after failing to form a government, he hopes to increase his share of the vot

protesters gathered at victoria park after the leading activistjoshua wong called for 100,000 peopleed from standing in forthcoming district council elections. 0ur correspondent stephen mcdonell reports from downtown hong kong. the banning ofjoshua wong from standing in local elections has made people angry, and it emboldened many to turn out in protest today. but we also have this story that beijing is considering revamping how this city's governance is run. they are talking about changing the way in which the chief executive is selected. now, at the moment, these protesters say they want to vote for the city's leader. right now, carrie lam holds that position, the chief executive is appointed by a committee which is stacked by pro—beijing loyalists. we don't know how beijing is going to change that mix. i mean, many are saying they would be surprised if it moved in the protesters‘ favour, but nevertheless, they are turning out here, like i say, in the thousands. many thousands. here comes the water cannon behind us. you can see here, i think we will soon run out of time, but you ca

[murmuring] senator wong. >> reports indicate that thousands of daesh or isis fighters are being heldy kuridish fighters in northern syria. and the u.s. decision to withdraw from the region. myas i said in my remarks to response to senator wong's questions, we are very concerned about the impacts this military action by turkey will have on the campaign against daesh. we know we have received th territorial defeat ofe daesh. straleylso know in a and most particularly recognizes given the vulnerabilities in our own region that daesh is more than capable of the small bursts of large bursts and energy activity and continuing terrorist activity not just in the middle east but allied with other stream is organizations in our region and more broadly. so, any action that enables their activity, that enables that engagement is of concern to australia. >> australia did introduce specialist legislation about those people that had been fighting for isis overseas or any terror organization. and returning to us trillion. >-- to australia. >> thank you, mr. speaker. will the minister update the hous

weekend windows was smashed as an office of china's shin one news agency prominent activist joshua wong had called for 100000 people to march on saturday the protests began over proposed changes to extradition rules that have since been scrapped but they've grown into a movement against what's being seen as beijing's growing influence to the pollen has more from the territory well this is exactly what the police did not want they cleared this area hours ago from protesters using tear gas and pepper say spray sending protesters dispersing their did up in the heart of hong kong's financial district setting up barricades there once again secure over the streets since then police have again fired tear gas arrested people but the protesters have come back here this has been the scene of most weekends this is how the protesters have been operating with the philosophy reward for now this week protesters are angry about the fact that they say hong kong only democratic process the legislative council elections has been interfered with with big dude from beijing they say that this qualification o

i'm thinking of because of joshua wong democratic change.ted to put forward his name is candidacy in the local elections. he hasjust been told he cannot stand. he has been told he cannot stand. he has been barred from standing on the council elections and as he puts it, i have been barred from my role championing democratic rights in hong kong and engaging on the issue on an international level. this is nothing short of political screening and censorship. so i come back to the question, what really, honestly, is there even to talk about what now with beijing, or carrie lam? we need to... i'm not happy with the current situation and i think it's very u nfortu nate situation and i think it's very unfortunate that candidates for elections have to be politically screened that way but having said that, let's put the so—called disqualification in context. it only started after the 2014 occupy central protest. it started after the newly elected legislatures when they took the oath of allegiance to they took the oath of allegiance to the basic law.

greta: congressional reporter scott wong, katherine tully-mcmanus, thank you both for being on "newsmakers." [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: coming up in just a few minutes, discussion on impeachment, foreign interference, and how to best safeguard the 2020 elections. that will be live from the brookings institution here in washington, d.c., starting at 3:30 p.m.. the house intelligence committee chair adam schiff spoke today about the release of deposition transcripts of the former ukraine abbasid or and a former state department senior advisor. you can read those transcripts at c-span.org. >> good morning. today we had additional scheduled depositions with the top lawyer for the national mr.rity council, as well as blair from the office of management and budget. and someone who work closely with mick mulvaney. both of them defied congressional subpoenas and refused to appear for their scheduled depositions, as has bee

kaylee wong: very similar.rted just from realizing it was a service club so i joined it, and a few volunteer service events in, i met a lot of people that, like, i became really close friends with. and through that, we together volunteered and helped out our community. robert: when you look around, is this also a--we were talking about college students and what they have to deal with, and of course it's a different circumstance. do you see, you know, other student level families dealing with hunger? kaylee: yeah, actually a lot of times i do, and sometimes they don't like to talk about it 'cause they might be, like, embarrassed or something like that, but i think it's good that we now emphasize the fact that it's not something to be embarrassed about and that you can get the help that you need. robert: yeah, tony, did you also have that kind of perspective at all? tony: yeah, i think definitely key club does help with hunger in some aspects, because as volunteers we do help with the food bank and some service p

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impeachment inquiry hearings with "wall street journal" salama an senior staff writer for the hill scott wong. ater a discussion on the impeachment inquiry with george washington university law turley.r, jonathan be sure to watch c-span's washington journal life at 7:00 monday morning. join the discussion. members of congress reacted to the impeachment inquiry. at house speaker nancy pelosi. *- emails, ou produce the notes, calendar entries, they could produce that tomorrow, our committee has subpoenaed them. you join me many calling on the state department to produce the evidence? >> you bet because i don't think anything there at all that will implicate the president. me sean, you will join with in calling to hear from the whistleblower. we could protect his anonymity. protect him and how in the world can you impeach the president of the united states and never hear from the who started that process? >> respectfully -- he was deeply involved with this. how can you say that we don't need to hear from him? want to come back -- >> excuse me, let me respond. in t, thank you for me calling on th

you are on with scott wong and vivian salama.ler: it seems like the president can rub his stomach and head at the same time, he tweets while walking and talking to the press. nobody has asked him, are you doing the tweeting. sarah huckabee sanders says it is not him, that is misleading. i've never seen him walk around with the cell phone. i never know who is who or what is what. there is so much concentration on what he is tweeting when we can hear him saying what he is saying all the time. i thought it might be interesting to see all these photos of this lady ambassador walking with the crowds in ukraine. she is ukrainian and they showed a picture on tv yesterday of her walking with a crowd wearing a t-shirt. host: do you want to know more about marie yovanovitch? caller: she spelled out the conditions in which she was going to answer the questions. and they listened to her. they did not approach any of the things she didn't want to talk about. she has a new job. ethic the government is paying her. she had a lot of choices in th

. >>> congressional reporter for -- and scott wong covering white house leadership for the hill. good morning to you both. scott, first to you. those just released testimony transcripts from the two people actually on that july 25th phone call wean president trump and president zelensky. one an aide to vice president pence, jennifer williams. she said the call was unusual and inappropriate. how critical a piece is her testimony? >> well, i think what you're seeing is a consistency. you know, there are people in mike pence's office, the vice president's office at the national security council in kiev at foggy bottom telling the story that there was this unusual back channel being run by rudy giuliani, that was raising red flags in various departments and agencies around the united states government on both the sides of the ocean and so that is what democrats are zeroing in on and it's putting a lot of pressure on republicans and on the president himself. >> we also have the transcript from former national security council official tim morrison who was on the call. crystal, did we

wong and teaemofocracy activists have been lobbying the u.s.gress to hold officials in mainland china and hong kong to account for human rights abuses. the bill was passed this week. >> hong kong human rights and democracy acts is the act at was sanctioned who suppress hong kong's human rights including government, officials, police frce and also the election officers that imply political censorship and with their abuse of power. ♪ in the land of the free and the home of the ave ♪ >> reporter: thousands of people matched to the u.s. on congress to push the bill through, but in time of confrontation between bay jig d washington with the two sides in the middle of a trade war. both beijing and the hong kong government denunced the u.s. move. regina ip, the former secretary for security of hong kong and a current cabinet member says the ve could backfire, adversely affecting u.s.-hong kong trade and diplomatic relations. >> hong kong may take countermeasures. if they impose sanctions on people in charge, quite unnecessarily, totally unwarranted, w

kidnapping of book sellers, disqualification of elected lawmakers and political prosecution of joshua wong, nathan law, and many others. however, every time, every single time, we pushed for passage, there was vigruss opposition from diplomats, so-called experts, committee chairs and u.s. business interests in hong kong. so passage of this legislation is long overdue. my house bill co-sponsored by my good friend and colleague jim mcgovern of massachusetts and 46 others bipartisan co-sponsors passed last month on act 15. today we consider a final bill derived from working with our colleagues in the united states senate. specifically the act directs the secretary of state to report and certify to congress annually whether hong kong continues to deserve special treatment under u.s. law. different from mainland china in such matters as trade, customs, sanctions enforcement, law enforcement cooperation, and protection of human rights and the rule of law. it directs the state department not to deny entry visas, based primarily on the applicant's arrest or detention for participating in nonviolen

scott wong, as mentioned earlier. carole lam. carole, let's start with you on this. you are the advisor to president trump. what should he do with these two deadlines? >> well, it's a tough -- tough decision they've got going on here because it's a little bit like a criminal trial. certainly -- certainly, the president is not likely to testify himself. but when you're trying to decide whether or not to mount a defense, you have to be aware that you're not just going to get to put on your side of the story. the -- your story that you put forward can also be attacked by the other side. so that's the tough decision they have to make now and with the president's schedule in the last couple of day, i imagine there's been a lot of vetting of potential positions that they could take with respect to whether or not they're going to actually send counsel to actually start mounting a defense. or whether they're just going to say this process is just illegitimate and we're not going to partake in it at all. >> so we may hear something. we may not hear anything from this presiden

scott wong, going forward, what do we know based on what was in this resolution? what will it look like? what will the inquiry now look like? scott: i think the resolution talks about two aspects of this. one is an affirmation that this is a legitimate impeachment investigation going forward. it was the first a formal vote that the house of representatives took to sort of endorse this effort. remember there was that whole fight with among democrats about , whether they needed to take a formal vote to actually launch the impeachment inquiry. so this settles that question. on the second part of that is what this looks like going forward in these public hearings. what this essentially does is lay the groundwork for what that does. how witnesses will be interviewed, what the format will be. there will be 45 minutes of questioning from the democrats, from the democratic chairman and his staff counsel, so we will see some professionals be able to ask questions of these witnesses on the intelligence committee in the public setting before television cameras and then repub

eminent activist joshua wong called for the people of hong kong to stay united we mourn together and we urge home the people where black you should to get your today and tomorrow to show our side dorothea and unity and now is the hind foot of government to set up the in the band as investigation on the clash with the king you know and see for truth and justice and which is pretty insane and and reasonable for how to gotham and allow the police attempted to hold on people. later protesters blocked roads set street fires and vandalized subway stations. riot police fired tear gas at least 2 places and they've been accused of using excessive force including the regular use of tear gas and pepper spray. protests started in june initially because of a planned extradition deal to mainland china however shortly afterwards demonstrations turn to mainly demanding democratic reforms more protests are expected on the weekend the death of child say look could well for their heightened tensions. well day doubly as mathias building is in hong kong right at the spot where the young man phil earlier

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kimson wong. when we started this campaign, you were running r.n.g.nge and you let us meet there. thank you so much for your support along the way. bill lee who is here. bill has always been a leader in this community. we want to thank the mayor's family. you being there at our community meetings was really wind behind our backs and thank you so much for motivating us. i'm going to end on a bit of a personal note. not so many people know that i was head of the asian-american association. president chu was president 25 years before me. [ laughter ]. >> you know, i was planning for my installation dinner and i thought long and hard about who i wanted to be keynote speaker. one answer emerged which was the one person whose career i wanted to capture as a person i wanted to emulate and it was ed lee. he was a community-based civil rights leader who went on to serve this city. and he exemplified the service that i wanted to impress on my fellow colleagues. when i got to work for mayor lee early on in his administration, it really was with great pride that