bolton emerged with mr. trump unmoved and instructed the aid to look for new unts to get those officials in front of mr. trump. the testimony tying trump directly and seemingly unilaterally to the decision to withhold military assistance comes against the backdrop of more new testimony tying trump to the conditioning of military aid in exchange for investigations into biden. from the transcript of morrison's closed-door testimony released over the weekend about trump's reliance on e.u. by any chance gordon sondland to carry out his orders. the intel committee chairman adam schiff asks. sondland understood his responsibilities to be doing what the president asked him to do? morrison replies he related to me he was acting-he was discussing these matters with the president. schiff asks, and, in fact, every time you went to check to see whether he had in fact talked to the president, you found that he had talked to the president? morrison supplies yes, mr. chairman. and perhaps no one faces a greater risk and hi

and asked if bolton blocked the account. the president said, of course not. bolton went further with accusations and more questions the white house is not answering. interest not because not answering the tweets and not speaking on capitol hill. his attorney teased has explosive information the democratic investigators on capitol hill do not know kwlaab what is at the pressure of the ukraine and carrying out the investigations that the president and his personal attorney rudy giuliani warranted. something to see if bolton will be a witness to that, come forward and speak. so far we do not believe so. while fiona hill testified, he was spotted by john berman walking down fifth avenue in new york not keeping a close eye on the hearings by any means. >> back to john bolton in a second. picture this, phil mattingly. looking ahead and what's happened in the last couple of days, not only keep republicans together, he may get support from some democrats when the full house votes on impeachment. you tell me. nervousness on behalf of

bolton insists he resigned.ng to be pretty when it ask come out and some of these are policy issues. not just personal. john bolton is an interventionist, whether you like it or not his policy all along, still unapologetic about the invasion of iraq which he thought was a good idea. he wants confrontation with north korea. he differed with the president in several key respects. wanted armed confrontation always on the table and always talked about. a very aggressive kind of a foreign policy figure and to the extent he had differences, he wants those differences, i suspect to come out. he's an ideological warrior, somebody who knows what the world should look like according to his own lights and hasn't backed down from this kind of a thing. we're in for quite a time. not just in terms of impeachment but the larger policy points he's tried to always push to the front rnts go front. >> good point. >>> watchdogs report on the origins of the russia investigation. what sources say that report will reveal about how the

>> well -- why isn't bolton denying that?ht. >> i think that he very much wants to keep that as his bargaining chip for how valuable his information is. i don't think he's going to walk that back. i think it's been corroborated by the other testimony, by miss hill's testimony as well. so i think that's exactly what his leverage is in being able to appear in person, give that kind of information would be extremely damaging to the trump defense. he wants to make it clear that he has that. he's not going to come out now and attempt to soft sell that or walk it back. >> right. i agree. it would be very hard for him to do so. and i want to talk about then this new information we're getting from these documents about the phone call or phone calls between pompeo and rudy giuliani that was arranged reportedly by the white house back in march. i'm wondering, does this now really implicate president trump in any way directly? >> it's very strong circumstantial evidence of his involvement, martin. it would be very hard to imagine that h

or bolton's impressions of things was in fact contingent on that. holmes goes on to continue that in the wake of those meetings on august 27th, members of the u.s. embassy, individuals were working on trying to, quote, frame the issue for president trump on security assistance so essentially he would come around to releasing that. as he walks through that process, he says, quote, my

he was a former deputy to bolton.emocrats say they don't want to just play this game and just let it go for a while. how long would that go before there could be some resolution? could that be resolved quickly? >> so the democrats' position i think so far has been, look, we don't need bolton. the transcript alone is enough. and we already know what bolton has said in a variety of accounts including from fiona hill in the testimony released today. it's all damning with respect to president trump. so we don't need bolton and don't want to have a court fight. there is a separate court fight that's been brewing about bolton's deputy as kupperman which has been set for argument on december 10th. so here is, i think, the solution for the democrats because now bolton is tantalizing us with more details about what he knows. i think the democrats should subpoena him, go to the house and say -- go to the court and say december 10th is ridiculous. we want to have an argument next week. we certainly had that in lots of other high

could we see bolton testify at some point?reporter: it sure seems like bolton is ready to talk and that he has something to say. and there's no doubt democrats want to hear from him. but the white house has instructed him not to testify, citing executive privilege. ultimately, there are a couple of cases now before the courts that could affect his decision on whether or not to defy the white house and testify. david? >> long week, jon, thank you for your reporting. >>> now to the race for 2020. a massive ad buy from former new york city mayor mike bloomberg. the price tag, at least $25.4 million on tv adds, airing over eight days beginning tuesday. more than half of the spending by all the other democratic candidates so far. bloomberg has filed to be on the ballot in five state primaries, but his team today insisting he has not made up his mind. >>> and a former cia case officer has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiracy to spy for china. jerry lee was found with notebooks full of classified information, including

. >>> and bolton is back. john bolton breaks months of silence returning to twitter and claiming the white house blocked his access to his account. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. sources say democratic house aides are spending thanksgiving week preparing a report that will spell out the case for impeachment and that they plan to continue deliberating with speaker nancy pelosi's staff to determine the size and scope of the articles against the president with pelosi making the final decision. >>> also breaking, two u.s. officials are telling cnn that intelligence officials told senators in a highly classified briefing that russia has engaged in a years long campaign to shift blame for 2016 election interference from moscow to ukraine. that as president trump and his republican allies continue to push the conspiracy theory that ukraine meddled in the last presidential election. we'll talk about that and much more wit

notably john bolton, mr. trump's national security adviser has let it be known he has significant information but is uncertain whether any congressional subpoena for his testimony would be constitutionally valid. he wants a judge to decide. what is the potential impact of a similar ruling in the cupperman case which is the one filed by lawyer shared by mr. bolton and his deputy, mr. cupperman? >> that case has a whole other issue which is the house has dropped the subpoena of cupperman. his lawyer wants the judge to rule on it any way to get some clarity on this issue. he knows it will hang around and he knows that bolton is hanging out there. the house has decided not to subpoena bolton. i'm not sure exactly why they did that. it will continue to delay this and mover it months and months ahead. assignments li it seems like they want to move quickly. they have scheduled things next week. they want to move this to the senate. the problem is that speed slows -- that speed moves them ahead quickly but really hur

mick mulvaney dropped his legal attempt today to join the bolton lawsuit after bolton objected to mick mulvaney joining his lawsuit. mick mulvaney will now have his own lawsuit asking the same question of the judge. these are delay tactics designed to slow down the impeachment investigation, but adam schiff says the committee will not engage in a months-long legal pursuit to enforce the congressional subpoenas of these witnesses. but the investigation will take a negative inference from mick mulvaney's refusal to testify on the assumption that if mick mulvaney had something helpful to say about donald trump, anything helpful to say about donald trump, he would testify. and, therefore, his refusal to testify can be taken as a negative inference against president trump. the first news reports of john bolton's memorable -- john bolton's inevitable book appeared this weekend. viewers of this program knew that john bolton was working on a book deal the day he left the trump white house since i announced it here on this program that night because it was wicked obvious. reports indicate that

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next event i want to cover is the july 10th meeting in about it or bolton's office. talked a little bit about this morning i don't know if you caught the coverage but. there was testimony that at some point brass or someone mentioned investigations and reported leave it the meeting ended abruptly what can you tell us about that in fact thank you and let me answer that question 1st i'd like to come back to your prior question for a 2nd to if i may but on the july 10th meeting this was a meeting that we had arranged between alex to 1000000 who is the head of the national security and fence council and the national security adviser bolton. attending the meeting was also secretary perry besser saul and myself i believe fiona hill and also andre yarmuk. the purpose was really a counterpart to visit. i thought that this would be the best opportunity as the 1st high level meeting that we are having in washington with a senior u.s. official to bester bolton after presidents alinsky inauguration i thought to be a great opportunity for the ukrainians to make their case that th

in ambassador bolton's office. talked about this morning, if you caught the coverage, but there was testimony that at some point ambassador sondland mentioned investigations and reportedly the meeting ended abruptly. what can you tell us about that? >> thank you. and let me answer that question first. i would like to come back to your prior question for a second too, if i may. but on the july 10th meeting, this was a meeting that we had arranged between alex dem ill you can, head of the national defense council and adviser bolton, attending the meeting was also secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself and i believe fiona hill and andre yermak. it was a counterpart visit. i thought that this would be the best opportunities -- the first high-level meeting that we're having in washington with a senior u.s. official, ambassador bolton, after president zelensky's inauguration. i thought it would be a great opportunity for the ukrainians to make their case, that they are the new team in town, real deal about fighting

on john bolton what do you think? >> john bolton's tweets struck like lightning bolts.at a key moment. he didn't tweet this out a few days after the impeachment inquiry or hearings took place. it was the day after. it was timed for effect, and clearly john bolton has a story and he wants to tell it. >> on your point about diplomats rocking. you know, all of these career diplomats sounding the alarm an the damage done to our national security as a whole. how much damage has been done and how do we fix it? >> talking about the damage, i think that was evident in these hearings about how the staff has been demoralized, and in effect, what we're seeing is an effort to really gut the national xurt security counsel and call out individual members of our national security structure and expose them to this political process, question their loyalty, question all parts of their personal background that have no bearing on this inquiry. who's going to want to serve on the national security council after having seen what jennifer williams what lieutenant colonel vindman and others h

the bolton lawsuit is unnecessary and it's trying to ask the judge whether john bolton should answera subpoena or should he take donald trump's advice not to testify. he is beyond the control of the president of the united states and there is no legal reason for him to evade that subpoena. mick mulvaney dropped his legal attempt today to join the bolton lawsuit after bolton objected to mick mulvaney joining his lawsuit. mick mulvaney will now have his own lawsuit asking the same question of the judge. in both cases these are delaying tactics designed to slow down the impeachment investigation, but chairman adam schiff says the committee will not engage in a months-long legal pursuit to enforce the congressional subpoenas of these witnesses. but the investigation will take a negative inference from mick mulvaney's refusal to testify on the assumption that if mick mulvaney had something helpful to say about donald trump, anything helpful to say about donald trump, he would testify. and, therefore, his refusal to testify can be taken as a negative inference against president trump. the

to bolton's twitter account.ld we see bolton testify at some point? >> reporter: it sure seems like bolton is ready to talk. but the white house has instructed him not to testify, citing executive privilege. ultimately, there are a couple of cases before the courts that could affect his decision on whether or not to defy the white house and testify. >> jon, thank you. >>> now to the race for 2020. a massive ad buy from mike bloomberg, at least $25.4 million on tv ads. bloomberg has filed to be on the ballot in five state primaries, but his team today insisting he has not made up his mind. >>> and a former cia case officer has been sentenced to 19 years for conspiracy to spy for china. >>> we turn to the unfortunate moment today for tesla. during their rollout of their bulletproof cybertruck, with what they say are unbreakable windows, they tried to prove it. here's rebecca jarvis. >> reporter: tonight, the tesla unveiling that shattered expectations. ceo elon musk showing off his new cybertruck. the dramatically

process seems to be massively important to john bolton. while we don't know what john billi bomb t bolton will testify, but people say he is a wild card. but given what he said about the president and this administration, does it give us any insight into what he could say if he testified in the impeachment inquiry? >> people in the room said that john bolton didn't mention ukraine that they heard. so setting that aside, we don't kn exactly what you would say about ukraine except that we know what everyone around him and who worked with john bolton has sid his views were and what he thoit about t thought about the ukraine issue. and so clearly john bolton really is at least suggesting very strongly that he wants to test filed. he had an out in the way that his former deputies and lawsuit was playing out and he didn't take it and his lawyer told house democrats that he has a lot to say including things that they have not heard of. and so i suggest that john bolton really wants to testify and if you couple that with what he said in this speec

cooper who is the attorney for john bolton.does not comport with our reading, and we've talked to a number of people who have read this decision from the federal judge. she specifically says that national security information is like any other, that they have to respond to the subpoena, they have to show up and then they can assert a privilege, whether it's national security or executive privilege, and that would then be litigated separately. she's saying there's nothing special about national security that would prevent a former national security adviser. and we know former presidents have testified, jerry ford testified, presidents and commanders in chief can testify to congress. this judge is saying there's no ruling that says that a national security issue is more sensitive than any other issue. that said, the white house has already vowed to appeal, they've filed papers saying they're appealing, peter. >> yeah, it's interesting, the judge seemed to write her opinion almost with ambassador bolton in mind. she did directly s

interesting to see he and bolton with this feud over the aid, bolton wanted it released and mulvaney fighting hard against it. these transcripts reveal a lot more information about how these officials testifying were under the impression it was mulvaney signing off on this and if he is, the chief of staff you believe what he says he wants is what the president wants. those are the questions only fueled by this that the democrats will have. not likely we will hear from mulvaney because he's not showing up on capitol hill. >> he defied a subpoena, mulvaney, and a bunch of others. we'll put some up, to testify later this week. what do you make of that? >> congress made a strike choice. adam schiff's committee said we are going full-speed ahead and not going to take the time to go to court to force people to testify. what that means in practical terms these people have a free pass not to testify. no court will force them to do it and no contempt proceedings. it may be the judiciary committee adds an article of impeachment citing the president for the failure of his staff to cooperate. th

about an annoyed john bolton on the loop -- loose?here was a comment by the white house, the press secretary said maybe he just needed to reset his password. they do not seem very concerned the outcome of that maybe they should be, because this isjust outcome of that maybe they should be, because this is just the latest indication that there is tension between bolton and the white house. earlier this month a lawyerfor bolton stated in a court filing that he has a lot of information about the ukraine issue that has not been previously discussed in testimonies. also earlier this month there were reports thatjohn bolton has a book coming out, so this is some increasing tension between the white house and bolton, the tweets being just the latest example. and yet has he ever given any had —— indication he ever given any had —— indication he is willing to give evidence at an impeachment enquiry? he has joined a lawsuit from his former deputy who basically went to the judge to ask whether he should comply with the congressional subpoenae in

had in august where bolton tried and failed to get trump to lift the hold on u.s. military aid to ukraine. among the crucial looming questions are when will john bolton reveal what he knows about the ukraine dealings and in what forum. he might have to testify at a senate impeachment trial or bolton's first revelations could come in a new book he's writing which is due out next year, sometime before the election. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> we're joined now by james davis to talk about these developments. he's the director of the institute of political science at university and a professor of political science with a focus on international politics. thanks for joining us, professor. >> good morning. >> i don't know about you, but my head is spinning. it's the friday before a holiday here in the united states, but washington is having none of that so far. let's look at these developments. john bolton, he could be a wild card still in play here and now devin nunes could be facing questions about his association, a meeting over ukraine. what do you make of these?

john bolton's lawyer in on november 8th said bolton was personally involved in many of the events, meetingswhich you've already received testimony -- i'm sorry, as well as many relevant meetings and conversations that have not yet been discussed in the testimonies thus far. so i sort of get the fact he's trying to make money out of the whole thing, but he does seem to be constantly baiting somebody into saying you need to talk to me. do you think there's material information that he has because mulvaney, bolton and giuliani actually know what happened. >> of course there's material information that he has. i think he's got some really good book agents doing a great job teasing his book, and he definitely has material information on ukraine. but i want to put a finer point on something jennifer mentioned at msnbc, at one of those investment banks, paid speeches, closed door meeting he implied something that would be one of the five biggest scandals in american history. allowed our kurdish allies to get slaughtered because of personal and business interests that he has. he made that as a thro

mulvaney, giuliani, bolton. these people can tell you whether the president told them to do something. the president and others have made it clear he's willing to throw them under the bus. guarden sondland responded to being t threatened by throwing somebody else back.be >> this is assuming mr. giuliani and bolton would tell the truth before congress, which is in the case of mr. giuliani -- however, the case that this is a coup or witch hunt, this is the most preposterous statement of it all. the people who are going to impeach this president are republicans, gordon sondland, not exactly anybody's idea of the diplomat's diplomat. a partisan hack. somebody who gave a lot of money that rnc. comes before congress and says there's a quid pro quo. curt volker a neoconservative arguably tried to finesse and manage a situation. has also delivered a verdict that yes, there was something dodgy. john bolton on the -- quoted in the press. i don't want any part of this drug deal. nobody's idea of a progressive liberal opera

bolton was going down this path with -- bolton and his lawyer chuck cooper, they worked together undergan and they are very, very tight and they wanted to argue this -- they wanted to basically force the courts to decide this question of separation of powers. but it is becoming really difficult just politically for him. he has now been -- we got reports that he was doing a paid speech and talking about his time in the white house there. we obviously know that he's got a book deal. he sent all of these signals to the white house that i'm not going to be your loyalist. his agents for the book deal with the same agents that did james comey's book deal. if you are trying to signal to trump i am going to be your synchofant, that's not really something that you do. i don't have enough visibility into his thinking to answer a question like that. i'm been trying to find out and i just simply don't know the answer to that. >> you know, he seems to me, and i spoke to congressional sources yesterday who reiterated that they would not pursue his testimony. it seems that you can get at what he did

>> we have -- we have invited ambassador bolton to appear and that sounds like a nervous lawyer to mey are refusing to honor a legal request to provide relevant testimony. chris: wait. forgive me, sir. wait a minute. wait a minute. but the point is that he has gone to a judge and said, you tell us, i've got an order from the white house, i've got an order from congress, you tell me what to do. >> right, mr. wallace, that's not how it works, you show up and respond to a subpoena or you go to a judge and get it quashed or you show up and you invoke a legitimate privilege and refuse to answer a particular question. it is unprecedented to say you, congress, go to a judge and tell me to appear, that's not how it works and ambassador bolton is a better lawyer than that, he knows that personally. chris: they are not saying congress, go to the judge, they are going to the judge, that's what they did with cooper and other clients who was assistant to a deputy to bolton and bolton, they are going to the judge and they are saying, judge, we've got the competing claims, you tell us what to do, th

form a national security adviser john bolton fails to appear before the impeachment inquiry only testify if a court clears it up. for the. cambodian opposition leader sam rainsy and other politicians are blocked from returning home . to the president has announced tough new measures in an effort to stop 3 weeks of anti-government protests descending into more rioting and looting president sebastian pinera is proposing laws to congress to toughen penalties for looting and acts of violence especially by people hiding their faces with hoods and mosques but a protest is attacked upscale areas of the capital santiago on wednesday a series of concession measures have failed to pacify the protesters who are angry at economic inequality with latin america at its newman is live from the capital santiago you see how significant these new measures. hello charlie well they are and they're clearly a response to growing pressure on the president not so much from the people who are out in the streets protesting clearly but rather from his own support base right behind me is the headquarters of a politi

in that letter, bolton's lawyers stated that both bolton and his deputy charles kupperman have informationity and foreign affairs adding that bolton has information that has yet to be touched on publicly. bolton had been scheduled to testify as part of the impeachment probe last thursday. but he did not appear. both he and kupperman have asked a court to determine whether they should obey house democrat's request to testify. according to axios, people around the president say they are actually worried what kind of notes bolton might have kept and when he might decide to divulge them. the sources which include current and former administration officials tell axios that bolton was the most prolific note taker at the top level of the white house. and probably has more details than any impeachment inquiry witness so far, specifically about the president's dealings with ukraine. we've also recently learned that bolton has a new book deal with simon and schuster, and according to reports, that deal is worth about $2 million. >> details not going well for the president. >> and "the new york times

by waiting for bolton, is there not a risk of fatigue? of the public turning on democrats for just dragging this thing out way too long? >> well i would argue just the opposite. because the poll numbers haven't moved among republicans, even after all of these very compelling hearings over the last several weeks by the house intelligence committee, among republicans and independents, all the more reason you need to call john bolton who is uniquely situated. he has a tremendous amount of respect among republicans. he's, he was a fox news commentator for many years. one of their senior commentators on national security. before that he served president bush. he is uniquely in a position to change some people's minds and because the polling remained so static, because everyone's locked into these partisan camps, we need john bolton to testify. we absolutely need him, and a delay of a month or two in an inquiry as important as this should not be the reason not to call him. i think democrat wos make a mistake if he's not called. >> thank you so

remember john bolton being upset. we took a picture. it was great. he went upset. she doesn't say exactly the same thing as lieutenant colonel vind mvin vindman, but she does move the dial to vindman's side away from sondland on this. she says no, his back stiffened. that was the kind of detail that is enough to say sondland was not being forthcoming on what i saw in thatom meeting. and this is important to your point. it does put john bolton right back in the middle of this. and most substantively and importantly saying this was wrong. this was a drug deal, i want to make sure lawyers know i'm not down with this. i want to make sure i knew what was said. i know things are being said about trading, meeting with the president for investigations, and that goes directly to what this impeachment hearing is ng about. >> claire, the i politics of th seems to have broken down on republicans leaning heavily on the lack of firsthand witnesses, a lack ofse -- adam schiff said yesterday republicans are looking forpu magical word

mr bolton's comments come after a dramatic week at the impeachment hearings.iday president trump phoned into a fox news programme and said he would welcome a full impeachment trial in the senate if the house of representatives votes to impeach him. nada tawfik has more. adjourned. less than 2a hours after two weeks of dramatic and contentions public impeachment hearings ended, president trump is out with his counter—attack. increasingly, every waking moment in washington seemed to hang on the latest revelations from these 12 us officials, called as fact witnesses by democrats to bolster their case that president trump abused his office for personal political gain. with impeachment all but certain and pressure building, the president rang into his favourite programme, fox and friends, for a nearly hour—long interview. mr president, you expect an impeachment vote. do you expect to get impeached, and would you say you embrace the idea of... no, i don't expect it. you don't expect it? you don't expect democrats will vote for this? i think it's very hard for them t

>> should john bolton be disappointed?me people think he's going to blow the lid off this and some think you don't know what you're going to get. >> i mean you don't know what you're going to get with bolton. we don't know. it's 2k5i67gerous and to tell you the truth i'll let other people reliable and credible do the talking. >> always interested to get your spective. why wouldn't you want a malcolm nance book? my saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. steven could only imaginem 24hr to trenjoying a spicy taco.burn, now, his world explodes with flavor. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day all-night protection. can you imagine 24-hours without heartburn? these days we're (horn honking) i hear you, sister. that's why i'm partnering with cigna to remind you to go in for your annual check-up. and be open with your doctor about anything you feel. physically, and emotionally. body and mind. too shabby! too muc

the big thing what exactly does bolton know? a very important development, but looking at the big picture here. we know these hill committees were seeking out bolton's testimony but didn't want to go to the courts for it. essentially, this is saying, that they will have to, because lawyer says he will not testify unless a court ordered him to do so. now the hill committee has to come up with an idea to decide whether or not they want to actually take this to court, which could take a very long time. we know there was already a date for bolton's associate set for december. we know that democrats, they want to wrap this up quickly. this would really prolong that process here but, again, a pretty tantalizing letter saying there's a lot of information that nobody knows. >> no doubt about it. kristen holmes, we don't know what "all about" is. interesting to hear them tease he has something to share. thank you. >>> josh campbell joins us along with j.w. barrett, assistant professor of law at george mason university. j.w., you were a m

hill said that ambassador bolton referred to this deal as this is a drug deal. >> ambassador bolton told am not part of the -- this whatever drug deal that mull vainy and sondland are cooking up. >> i heard ambassador bolton express to taylor and tim morrison his frustration about mr. giuliani's influence with the president, making clear there was nothing he could do about it. >> did you tell ambassador bolton about this conversation, as well? >> i reached out to him, as well and requested his availability for a secure phone call? >> what was his response when you explained to him what ambassador sondland had said? >> tell the lawyers. >> so bolton knows a lot, okay? and he's out there tweeting about things and teasing the american public instead of actually talking and telling everything he knows. remember the other day when he tweeted, quote, stay tuned. if john bolton wants to do the right thing and protect american national security instead of getting on a twitter high horse, he should testify. that's the right answer for him. he doesn't work for trump anymore and that's the other bi

bolton directed dr. hill to report this to nsc legal adviser john eisenberg telling her, you go and tell eisenberg, i'm not part of whatever drug deal sondland and mulvaney are cooking up on this, and you go ahead and tell him what i heard and what i have said. dr. hill did so, as did lieutenant colonel vindman who separately approached the same lawyers with his concerns. on july 18, the day before dr. hill left her post at the nsc, holmes participated in a secure inner agency video conference on ukraine. towards the end of the meeting, a representative from the office of management and budget announced that the flow of nearly $400 million in security assistance for ukraine was being held up. the order had come from the president, and had been conveyed to omb by acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney without further explanation. holmes unaware of the hold prior to the call was shocked. he thought the suspension of aid was extremely significant, undermining what he had understood to be longstandi

bolton and kupperman are not.e was not involved in national security as a regular matter of course. and that's different in terms of whether privilege or immunity might apply. but mostly that he doesn't come at it from the same point of view. he is still operating they say on behalf of the president and they are taking a neutral position and he has already said that there was a quid pro quo. i don't know if we are supposed to use that phrase any more or not. but he said there was a direct link between the security aid being cut off and the president's desire for an investigation of democrats. he then tried to take it back. both bolton and kupperman haven't said publicly what their version of events is. but broadly speaking, put aside illegality what you have is these two men who are on very different sides of this issue. mick mulvaney tried to make it work for the president. he was the one who followed the order to cut off the security aid. john bolton said i don't want any part of this drug deal that mulvaney tha

remember when the president didn't want to give bolton the job because he didn't like the mustache, bolton shaved the mustache and he still got the job. mulvaney is a politician who wants to be inside the white house. if he had something to help the president he could raise his hand and say, mr. president, let me testify ala cory lewandowski style. but he hasn't. he's doing everything possible not to testify, which makes you wonder he must not have anything good say. >> what's your impeachment snack tomorrow? >> i'm going to say milkshake. brings all the boys to the yard. >> great reference. unexpected. >> i do know you like musical references. >> stephanie ruhle firing on all cylinders late into the evening. and coming up arguments expected to start tomorrow in the roger stone trial. the big question, though, has donald trump's justice department put forward evidence he committed perjury? we'll get into all of that coming up. we'll get into all of that coming up. looks different. the unbeatable strength of advil. what pain? coughing ...a cougher. welcome to flu season, karen. is a regular

ambassador bolton was there. >> okay. but as far as you know, ambassador bolton communicated to the vice president that the goings-on in ukraine were positive? >> that's my understanding. >> with president zelensky. and at this time ambassador bolton was advocating for the lifting of the aid? >> he had been for some time, yes. >> and did you participate in the warsaw meetings? >> we had a reduced schedule from what had been arranged for the president, for the vice president. but the vice president met with president duda of poland and met with president zelensky and i participated in both meetings. >> what do you remember from the meeting with president zelensky? >> it seemed very -- it seemed very positive. >> what was the message -- i mean, president zelensky raised the issue of the aid, correct? >> yes. >> how did the vice president respond? >> he represented his support for the aid. he represented the strong commitment of the united states to ukraine. and he explained that president trump, because this was after the p

embassy in kieve bolton viewed giuliani as a hand grenade that is going to blow everybody up. and was powerless to prevent the former mayor from engineering former u.s. ambassador to ukraine maria on a bitch is firing in late april or her recall holmes was stunned by the intensity and consistency of media attacks on the avantage by name as a u.s. ambassador and the scope of the allegations that were leveled against her. you have on a vicious dismissal as a result of giuliani's smear campaign was one of several things that unsettled dr hill another was the role of gordon's on land who emerged as a key player in ukraine in ukraine policy in may when he was named as part of the u.s. delegation led by secretary rick perry to president zilinskas inauguration. lieutenant colonel alexander venom and also attended the inauguration and as holmes recalls during a meeting with president selenski took the opportunity to advise the new korean leader to stay out of u.s. domestic politics another concern that arose for dr hill around this time was her discovery of a potential n.s.e. back cha

bolton and i had a good relationship. the reason this is causing people to speculate what exactly bolton knows is we know president trump is someone who if he gets hit at he hits back. this is a very complementary phrase for somebody who is kind of attacking him on twitter and of course said he quit the administration. so a lot of questions here. we know bolton's communicating on twitter right now. we'll keep our eyes on that. >> very interesting. let me ask you this. cnn of course learning these new details of an orchestrated effort by the white house to connect rudy giuliani with secretary of state mike pompeo as giuliani was pushing for investigation of the bidens. what do you know on that? >> reporter: this is right. this is a very interesting development. the state department releasing these documents, 108 pages of them under a court order. not willingly doing so. essentially they show that pompeo spoke to giuliani twice before giuliani gave over that packet of information back several months ago that had what he bel

bolton. the testimony we have under oath from vindman, they can decide how credible they think he is. he says in this high level meeting in july before the infamous phone call, quote, bolton cut the meeting short when sondland started to speak about the requirement. underline that five times. add a highlighter and call it a bribery conspiracy. bolton cut the meeting short when sondland spoke about the quote, requirement ukraine deliver these investigations to get things from the government. that is very clearly vindman putting bolton in the room where it happened, in the scene of the briarry conspiracy and yes, there have been leaks that benefit bolton about him calling it a drug deal, calling it out. well if it was a drug deal then, if he needed to object to it then, if he needed to stop it then, at what point do those same requirements, those same sense of national security import mean that he should testify? >> and just to add to the body of bolton's conduct that we know about, i mean ther

we will go live to bolton.ime minister who just got into that car and you can see the row of firefighters behind that area that was cordoned off by the police. the prime minister hasjust arrived in bolton to speak some of the firefighters who had been attending that fire. he had already expressed his concern for what had happened overnight in bolton via a tweet. there was some speculation that he might head to the scene. it would appear that he has just done that, having been campaigning in the east midlands a little bit earlier on today. that was the prime minister getting into that car that you saw moving away, having spoken to those firefighters. to give you a sense of the scene, we were talking about it an hour ago, you can see still a large area of the centre of bolton that has had to be cordoned off as bolton that has had to be cordoned offasa bolton that has had to be cordoned off as a result of that fire. fire engine spending many hours at that scene, a0 fire engines. and every flow of that building had

i don't know do they need bolton. no would be nice ave bolton, maybe you just don't know which way bolton's going to mean tre's a reason why. people on both sides are a little leery ofim, he's a looscannon. now this can and candidates pointed at you. yeah, again though i was that you would you want people who have had direct contact and right in the x and you're right about the loose cannon and go, but i'm a little rprised that the kind of what that term. we fiona hill was there were in private convsations both and at the same etings. now there is one level higher that bolton had access to the qution is. did he what did he was he any part of that or was he being excluded because we've also seen in a number different instances where john bolton has been iced out by the president. he may not e he may have been excluded from some of these ukrainian discussions. it sounds like in some ways he almost deliberately removed himself. the idea of sing i want be part of a drug deal as a way of saying i don't to be accomplished.

john bolton's lawyer said today that his clients, that mr.y adviser has significant insights into matters involved in the impeachment inquiry but he will not testify until a court resolves whether or not he has to comply with the subpoena. should you, democrats leading the inquiry wait until you could have bolton testify? it sounds like he knows a lot. >> right. right. so i'm a former prosecutor and i would love to track down every single lead and every single witness. but in this case, all of the damning evidence really came out pretty early. we have the sum vised call transcript and ambassador volker's text messages released showing diplomats under about the quid pro quo. we know that donald trump froze critical security aid to ukraine. essentially this is a lot of undisputed facts. we would love to have john bolton come in if he is going to wait for a court order, that might take months and months and we're not going to way months and months. >> is it your believe that the rough transcript of the conversation between trump and zelensky, th

you broke that great story about john bolton. >> thank you so much. it is tuesday, november 12. up, the fate of the dreamers hangs in the balance as the supreme court hears the trump administration's case for ending the program. we'll be speaking with one dreamer who is a plaintiff in the case. and we have brand new 2020 polling. we'll tell you who is leading in the all-important state of iowa right now. plus new exclusive reporting on how a senior trump official faked her resume and "time" magazine cover. what we know about this woman and why she has been

. >> how about ambassador bolton? >> i know that ambassador sondland said in that email that bolton was in agreement. to my knowledge, he was not at that particular juncture. to my knowledge. it was based on the fact that he didn't feel the call had been properly prepared. as i said earlier, we wanted to make sure there was going to be a fulsome bilateral u.s.-ukraine agenda that was discussed, which is usual with these calls. >> were you surprised that a call ultimately was scheduled? >> i was when i learned about it, that's right. >> did you have any communications with anyone back 8-year-old staff about how that came to be? >> i did not, no. >> this pause in the security assistance aid, i -- >> i learned about on july 18th, the day before i left. >> there were several meetings about this, i believe you testified to. >> i said that i knew there was going to be a meeting in that time frame, and there was one put onto the schedule for the following week. of course, i had left, so i didn't attend that. >> is it fair to