. >> bill crane is a public relations consultant in atlanta and a friend of tex. >> he was describeds a gentleman. >> he was a gentleman, standing when a lady enters the room. >> tex was divorced too. that's how he ended up living in the same condo complex as diane. >> they started going out. she said she enjoyed talking to him, but he was too short and he was too old. obviously she got over that. >> it didn't hurt he had a ranch east of atlanta. it was nice enough back when tex first bought it, but it was fabulous after diane got through with it. it had a pool, a gun range, ponds, horses, a saloon, and some texas longhorn cattle. that's diane. they were there a lot. >> diane was a great hostess. she was the life of the party. >> soon tex and diane decided to make it permanent and a wedding date was set, november 5th, 2005, at the ranch. everyone at the rehearsal could tell this wedding would be over the top. and it was. >> it looked like something out of a disney movie. >> sheriff howard sills was on the guest list. >> there were hundreds of people here, people all aspects of societ

detailing everything specifically that bill taylor, the top u.s. diplomate in use crane told lawmakers. what was key about bill taylor's testimony is that we saw the opening statement. that in and of itself was 15 pages. and he went through a very detailed account of everything that he has documented over the last few months as the top u.s. diplomate in ukraine. after he gave that opening statement in which he told lawmakers that he was told by ambassador gordon sondland that everything, including u.s. security assistance, ukraine getting that security assistance, was dependent on ukraine coming out and publicly saying that it would be opening investigations into with burisma, biden and the 2016 elections. so he said that in the opening statement which, of course, we have now learned, after gordon sondland went back and revised his testimony that he did, in fact, tell bill taylor that. now, gordon sondland is a key player here because he was in touch with president trump repetitively over the last few months. but the interesting thing is, you look at this transcript, the

they talked about impeaching bill barr and judge kavanaugh. now it's the cranerp sequel to the russia -- the ukraine sequel to the russia hoax. lou: there is no small irony that radical dimms are the ones after talk about russian meddling in our elections are the ones who are really messing with our elections, demanding the american people be denied the right to re-elect this president by attempting to overthrow him with just a little over 11 months remaining before the elections of 2020. >> when you look at the promises they made voters. we'll have a great time on the campaign trail showing how they abandoned those promises. they were afflicted by the trump derangement syndrome. there is $200 million in military lethal aid to ukraine that the democrats won't bring to the floor because they are busy trying to use the ukraine to smear the president. they are depriving them of lethal aid so they can grandstand about lethal aid. lou: stalling the usmca trade agreement. nancy pelosi just can't be bothered right now. she has far more trivial things to consider. congr

else, i want your reaction to getting the news now that the star witness today, bill taylor, the ambassador to yeah crane actually has a staffer now ready to testify he overheard the president following up on a deal he struck, extortion he setup with the president of ukraine. more actual real direct evidence. >> right. it's a bombshell. and the reason why it's a bombshell is because it brings the story away from what's going on in ukraine and brings it to trump. and that's what needs to happen more. >> because he was on the phone. >> because he was on the phone. because he's actually involved. he's physically involved. and one thing that happened today that i thought needed to happen more was they need to take it away from fact, fact, fact, e-mail, e-mail whatever and make it a story. this is what this case is about. it's about trump trading american integrity and arms for his own political gain. it's got to be -- and every question has to go back to that. >> i thought they were pretty good at that. you don't think so. glenn? >> i think this phone call now with sondland saying ukraine is ready to move fo

correspondent melinda crane is standing by for us melinda what is happening today where the mayor will inaugurate to this commemoration of the fall of the berlin wall it's being billed as you said as a festival celebration but in fact as you can probably discern it's a little bit more understated than that behind me is a stage where there will be performances also as soon as it is fully dark there will be projections of historic events on the buildings all around me and this commemoration is being called 7 days 7 places which is basically in recognition of the fact that although most of us think of the moment of the peaceful revolution here in germany that ended the division of the country as the 9th of november when the berlin wall actually fell in fact the revolution was a sequence of events over a period of weeks or even months and one of the absolute milestones of that sequence occurred right here 30 years ago when a massive demonstration took place the largest in east german history you have to imagine a sea of humanity gathered around this world clock behind me and emanating out all across this historic square let's take a look back to find out more. in novemb

this is being billed as a celebration and a festival in fact there will be many discussions that will pay tribute to this ambivalence and complexity our chief political correspondent linda crane thanks a lot well much has changed since the wall fell the once divided city has been unified but as we report some divisions still remain. the center of the island skyscrapers and tourists filled the streets but this was the death strip until 1909 as oh no belinda was allowed to enter that danny who grew up in east berlin the wall stood right next to his home this is where he started taking photos. when i was renting a little prickly if i took my zoom lens and photographed it from far away. because it was strictly forbidden to take pictures of the border area that's going to resolve one of. his pictures show balloons radical transformation this wasteland has become germany's government quarter. the city may change but some things stay the same people need to love and eat. values to love to come back here with my camera because there was lots of life here lots of images to be captured and one thing that hasn't changed is qana because it's still here today. famous for its color the wor

bill taylor. jessica schneider is working the story for us. taylor describes a quid pro quo for u.s. aid going to crane. >> that is right, wolf. and taylor was specific to say that he was told that ukraine would get no military money until the country's president zelensky announced the political investigations that the president was requesting. taylor was detailed in his testimony and even telling the committees that he took meticulous notes in a little notebook complete with quotes so he is certain about the accuracy of his recollection. >> reporter: thetop u.s. diplomat in ukraine bill taylor told lawmakers it is his clear understanding security assistance money would not come until ukrainian president zelensky committed to pursue the investigation into the 2016 election and the ukrainian company where joe biden's son served on the board burisma. they account the how tim morrison told him president trump did insist that president zelensky go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of biden and 2016. taylor was awarmed and sent a cable to secretary of state mike pompeo describing the foll

this is bill taylor writing in ukraine today, setting the sort of bench mark what used to be the noncontroversial u.s. policy towards you cranend what u.s. support for that country was and why. and then he closes with this. quote, as everyone who promotes democracy knows, strengthening and protecting democratic values is constant process requiring persistence and steady work by both officials and ordinary citizens. he says, quote, as in all democracies including the united states, work remains in ukraine especially to strengthen rule of law and to hold accountable those who try to subvert ukraine's structures to serve their personal aims rather than the nation's interests. bill taylor, america's top diplomat in ukraine writing that op-ed in a ukrainian newspaper before flying back to this country to give testimony in the public impeachment proceedings against president trump tomorrow. work remains to strengthen the rule of law and to hold accountable those who try to subvert these structures to serve their personal aims rather than the nation's interests. work remains. this is an exciting eve. we've got michael beschloss here

bills supporting hong kong protesters plus . i should have seen that connection differently and had i done so i would have raised my own objections donald trump's former special envoy to crane tells the impeachment inquiry that he didn't realize kiya was pressured to investigate job i . also head out of business how weeks of antigovernment protests in iraq are affecting trade. israel says it's fighter jets have launched attacks in syria warplanes hit syrian army targets and iran's could force in the early hours of wednesday morning that's according to the israeli military serious as many of the rockets were shot down a day earlier israel intercepted 4 rockets launched towards the occupied golan heights from syria as an author is our correspondent monitoring developments out of beirut zina what's the significance of the targets here. well multiple targets multiple locations the attacks are being described as wide scale extensive the israeli army a knowledge ing that it was behind the attacks in and around damascus according to the israeli military they hit positions bases warehouses arms the pows belonging to the quit this force now this is an arm of the iranian revolutionar

bills supporting hong kong protesters plus . i should have seen that connection differently and had i done so i would have raised my own objections donald trump's former special envoy to crane tells the impeachment inquiry that he didn't realize kiev was pressured to.

bill since the 18th century. and now, this historic landmark is undergoing a major change once more. the main optic will be brought down from the top. we will be craning it‘s hard to believe that this old lamp — there are bits of it scattered all around here — used to sit on this, on a bath of mercury. the mercury has been removed for safety reasons. and now two led lamps are sat on the top of the tower. these will eventually be brought down into the lantern room. the disadvantage of the old optic was from a distance, because it was a sweeping beam, from a long distance away, you only get a 0.2 second flash. so with the static omnidirectional leds, you get a solid one second flash wherever you are. the foghorn is also being replaced. this one went out of service years ago, but a new signal will be mounted near the top of the tower. obviously we have detectors mounted up. so as soon as they see fog, it then sounds the emitter. this team is just at the beginning of the project, which — weather permitting — will be finished in february next year. looking up, seeing the stars beyond and it was a real romantic atmosphere and feeling about the place and we