i accepted the position of principal director for russia ukraine and eurasia in 2016 and was honored to be appointed formally to the position of deputy assistant secretary of defense in 2018 in my current role i work to advance u.s. national security with a focus on deterring russian aggression and building strong partnerships with the frontline states of ukraine and georgia as well as 10 other allies and partners from the balkans to the caucasus strengthening ukraine's capacity to defend itself against russian aggression is central to my team's mission the united states and our allies provide ukraine with this with security assistance because it is in our national security interest to deter russian aggression around the world we also provide security assistance so that ukraine can negotiate a peace with russia from a position of strength the human toll continues to climb in this ongoing war with 14000 ukrainian lives lost since russia's 2014 invasion these sacrifices are continually in my mind as i lead deity efforts to provide vital training and equipment including defensively full

we cannot tolerate the hegemony of any country over your asi eurasia. but how to get there would require flexible thinking and flexible technology that we have ever been faced with in that situation. if you go to most universities, you will find a huge majority of maybe i'm wrong. some of your ideas can find a way to work its way into the commission report. i will open it up now to questions in the audience. it's hard to see there is a glare. >> thank you, doctor kissinger for talking to us today. i am a practitioner resident at the georgetown university. i wondered if you could expand on your thoughts about the emotional intelligence quotient and how you take into account things like empathy. when the internet was expanding, a lot of critics of the new technologies that would make humans less personal into the champions said it would free up the mind for vigorous thoughts and more profound thinking and that's true in some sense but it's also being used by small minded people to spread their negativity and thinking so i wonder how you square in tension

of the world we consider essential for our tolerate so we cannot the hegemony of any country over eurasia but how to get there? it would require flexible thinking. technology and we have never been faced with such a situation. also, if you go to most find aities, you will huge majority that will contradict this approach. so maybe i'm wrong. [laughter] >> i will open it up now. clearly some of your ideas about that strategic design can find a way into the ai commission report. i will open it up now to questions in the audience. it is hard to see. thank you. dr. kissinger, thank you so much for talking to us today. residentctitioner and of the georgetown university school of foreign service. i was wondering if you could expand on thoughts about the emotional intelligence quotient and how do you take into account relying on ai for issues of emotional intelligence like empathy, when the internet was expanding a lot of critics of the new technology, saying it would make humans less personal and mentally lazy and the champions and the postmodernists said it would free up the mind for bigger tho

so we cannot tolerate the hegemony of any country over eurasia. but how to get there? would require flexible thinking and flexible technology. and we have never been faced with such a situation. and also if you go to most universities, you will find many, huge majority, that will contradict this approach. so maybe i'm wrong. [laughing] >> i'll open it up now. >> almost unthinkable. [laughing] >> some of your ideas about that for gigi does i can find a way to work its way into the ai commission report, so i'll talk to others about that i'll open it up now to questions in the audience. there is a clay or so it's hard to see. i do see someone in the back there. >> thank you, dr. kissinger. thank you so much for talking to us today. i'm a practitioner and resident at the georgetown university school of foreign service. i was wondering if you could expand on your thoughts about the emotional intelligence quotient and how do you take into account rely on ai for issues of emotional intelligence like empathy when the internet was expanding, a lot of critics of the new technolo

so we cannot tolerate the germany of any country over eurasia. but how to get there would require flexible thinking and flexible technology, and we've never been faced with such a situation. and also, if you go to most universities you will find many, the huge majority that will contradict this approach. so maybe i'm wrong. [ laughter ] >> so i'll open it up now. >> almost unthinkable. >> clearly some of your ideas about that strategic design can find a way to work its way into the a.i. commission report. we'll talk about that. i'll open it up now to questions in the audience. there's a glare so it's hard to see. i do see someone in the back there. >> thank you. dr. kissinger, thank you so much for talking to us today. my name is elis e a practitioner and resident in georgetown university of foreign service. i wonder if you can expand on the emotional intelligence quotient and how do you take into account for a.i. for issues like empathy. when the internet was expanding a lot of critics of the new technology said it would make humans less persona

laura cooper is the deputy assistant assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine, and eurasiathe department of defense. she is a crewmember of the senior executive service. ms. cooper previously has served as a principal director in the office of the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security affairs. prior to joining the department of defense in 2001, ms. cooper was a policy planning officer at the state department at the office of coordinator of counterterrorism. two final points. first, witness depositions as part of this inquiry for unclassified in nature and all open hearings will also be held at the unclassified level. any information that may touch on classified information will be addressed separately and second, congress will not tolerate any reprisal, threat of reprisal, or attempt to retaliate against any u.s. government official for testifying before congress, including you or any of your colleagues. if you would both please rise and raise your right hand, i will begin by swearing you in. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you ar

since 2008 colonel vindman has served as a foreign area officer specializing in eurasia, serving at home and embassies in ukraine and russia. he has served as a politico affairs officer for the chairman joint chief of staffs. he joined the trump administration in 2018 when he was asked to serve on the national security council. jennifer williams began her career in government service in 2005 after graduating college joining homeland security during the george w. bush administration and working on the bush/cheney presidential campaign. prior to joining the office of the vice president, she served at the u.s. embassy in london as a public affairs officer. in april 2019 miss williams was detailed to the office of the vice president, mike pence, where she serves as a special adviser on his foreign policy team covering europe and russia issues. in that capacity she keeps the vice president aware of foreign policies in europe and russia and prepares him for foreign policy engagements and meetings with foreign leaders. two final points before our witnesses are sworn. first witness depositions a

oicer specializing in european and eurasia political affairs. served in the united states embassies in kiev, ukraine and moscow, russia. in washington, d.c. i was the political military affairs officer for russia, the chairman of joint chiefs of staffs where i drafted the global campaign plan to counter russian aggression and malign influence. in july, 2018, i was asked to serve at the white house national security council. at the nsc, i'm the principal adviser to the national security adviser on ukraine and other countries in my portfolio. my role at the nsc is to develop, coordinate and implement plans and policies to mansion the full range of diplomatic, informational, military and economic national security issues with the countries in my portfolio. my core function is to coordinate policy with departments and agencies. the committee has heard from many of my colleagues about the strategic importance of ukraine as a bulwark against russian aggression. it's important to know that our country's policy of supporting ukrainian sovereignty and in

of thanks to michael hirson the eurasia group.oming up, home depot and kohl's both cutting their forecast. we will discuss why their outlooks are raising concerns about consumer strength heading into the holiday season. this is bloomberg. ♪ joe: new retail outlets have translated into some market jitters as we look ahead to that holiday season. lowering its growth outlook can timing just -- outlook for the second time in just months. bloomberg retail reporter matt townsend joining us now. ugly day for retail beyond home depot. kohl's getting slammed. -specific company story, a retail story, or economic story? let's start with home depot. are you able to clearly tie this to things that what the company is doing? matthew: the analyst community, they have taken a line that said, we believe that. there is a lot of defense of the home depot stock among the analysts. they are a home improvement company, which is basically the strength of the consumer economy. they have had three straight quarters where they have missed topline sales est

he had just taken over doctor hills post as the nsc eurasia director.the first time. i wrote to mister morrison with these words. the call between solecki and potus president of the united states should happen before 7.21. which is the parliamentary elections in ukraine. purpose is for solecki to give potus assurances of new sheriff in town. corruption ending unbundling moving forward. and i emphasize any hampered investigations will be allowed to move forward transparent. the goal is for potus to invite him to oval. mr. morrison acknowledged in said, thank you and specifically noted that he was tracking. these issues. there was no secret regarding moving forward and the discussion of investigations. i've reviewed other state department documents some of which are not currently in the public domain. detailing mister giuliani's effort. the very same day. ambassador volker secretary perry and i were meeting. with the ukraine officials in washington. received a communication. that mister giuliani was still talking with ukrainian prosecutor. yuriy lutsenko.

i accepted the position of principle director for russia, ukraine and eurasia in 2016, and was honored to be appointed formally to the position of deputy assistant secretary of defense in 2018. in my current role i work to advance u.s. national security with a focus on deterring russian aggression and building strong partnerships with the front line states of ukraine and georgia, as well as ten other allies and partners from the balkans to the caucuses. defending ukraine against russian aggression is central to my teams a mission. providing ukraine with security assistance because it is in our national security interest to deter russian aggression around the world. we also provide security assistance so that ukraine can negotiate a peace with russia from a position of strength. the human toll continues to climb in this ongoing war, with 14,000 ukrainian lives lost since russia's 2014 invasion. these sacrifices are continuallcontinual ly in my mind as i lead dod efforts to provide training and equipment, including lethal assistance to the ukrainian armed forces. i've also supported a ro

laura cooper is the secretary of defense to russia, ukraine and eurasia at the department of defense.hays career member of the senior executive service. miss cooper principally served as principle director in the office of assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security affairs. prior to joining the secretary of defense in 2001 miss cooper was a policy officer in the state department and coordinator of counter-terrorism. two final points before witnesses are sworn, first, witness depositions as part of this inquiry were unclassified in nature and all open hearings will be held at the unclassified level. any information that may touch on classified information will be addressed secondly and congress will not tolerate reprisal or threat of reprisal or attempt to retaliate against any u.s. government official to testify before congress including you or any of your colleagues. if you would both please rise and raise your right hand i really begin by swearing you in? >> do you swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth so help y

founder and ceo of the eurasia group days here. theeard views about in foothills of the cold war, cold war mentality. the largest two economies in the world. we have been talking about a trade deal with them for two years. they are getting tired, the chinese. they are getting angry even though they are fairly quiet about it. they also think they are in a better vision to wait -- a better position to wait the americans out. we have trump very focused on the market and the implications of further trade escalation. and, we have economic impact that in 2018 -- 2019, 2020, it plays out to her the americans more. we are of the reasons, far from a significant breakthrough. we might be able to get to the of the chinese being able to buy the big, but we are far from anything that looks like trust. haslinda: the phase one deal is more symbolic than significant? how much is the u.s. getting in the phase one deal? >> trump around the world is looking to get some announcements done in advance of the election. whether it is bringing the taliban

i accepted the position of principle director for russia, ukraine and eurasia in 2016, and was honored to be appointed formerly to the position of deputy assistant secretary of defense in 2018. in my current role i work to advance u.s. national security with a focus on deterring russian aggression and building strong partnerships with the frontline states of ukraine and georgia as well as ten other allies and partners from the balkans to the caucuses. strengthening ukraine's capacity to defend itself against russian aggressions essential to my team's mission. the united states and our allies provide ukraine with security assistance because it is in our national security interest to deter russian aggression around the world. we also provide security assistance so that ukraine can negotiate a peace with russia from a position of strength. the human toll continues to climb in this ongoing war, with 14,000 ukrainian lives lost since rushes 2014 invasion. the sacrifices are in my mind as i lead the efforts to provide training and equipment, including defensive lethal assistance to the ukrai

laura cooper serves as deputy assistant secretary of cadefens for russia, ukraine, eurasia and responsible for broad range of countries and the former soviet union and the balkans. between them they have several decades of national security at experience serving both the public and and democratic presidents. as we heard from other dedicated public servants like former ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch, former deputy assistant secretary of state george kent, ambassador bill taylor, lieutenant colonel alexander brenneman, and jennifer williams, their only priority has been the security of the united states. secretary hill was witness to the smear campaign against ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch and the efforts by some of the state of burma to help her. in late march jovanovich Ãb unless there was a strong statement of defense of her from the state department. hale push to get the state department to provide a robust full-page statement of defense and praise ambassador marie yovanovitch to no avail. the silence continues to today. late april we heard in riveting testimony last f

it's the most corrupt country, they say, in all of eurasia.ts doing business in the most corrupt country in all of eurasia? why did joe biden go there to fight corruption and come home with a $50,000 a month job for his son? if that is not corruption, i don't know what corruption is, to respond to the congressman. >> julie: what do you think would be the potential political fallout for the president and the administration? is it better, they believe, to stay out of the fray and hammer the proceedings from a far or do they go in there and fight it tooth and nail the way the president was willing to when mueller wanted to ask him his questions, and he wanted to go in and testify on his own? the president has been very forthright and actually testifying, or at least wanting to, despite his counsel's suggestion. >> the polls are actually not as the president depicts it. every single pole that was taken after the second week of hearings, after sondland said there was a quid pro quo, shows that 50% of americans favor not just impeachment, but remova

my former position under -- in my former position as national intelligence officer for russia and eurasia under george w. bush and barack a obama. i was the intelligence committee senior expert on russia and former soviet republic including ukraine. because of my background and experience that as i was asked to join the national security councilti in 2017. at the nsc russia was part of my portfolio but i was responsible for coordinating u.s. policy for all of western europe, all of eastern europe including ukraine, and turkey, along with nato and the european union. i was hired initially by general michael flynn, katie mcfarland and general keith kellogg. but then i started working april 2017 when general mcmaster was the national security adviser. i and they thought that i could help them with president trump's stated goal of improving relations with russia still implementing policies designed to deter russian conduct that threatens the united states. including the unprecedented and successful russia operation to interfere in the election. this relates to the second thing i want to commu

since 2008, i have been a foreign area officer specializing in european and eurasia political military affairs. i served in kyiv, ukraine and moscow, russia. in washington d.c. i was the political military affairs officer for russia for the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff where i drafted the global campaign plan to counter russian aggression and russian maligned influence. in july 2018 i was asked to serve at the white house national security council. at the nsc, i'm the principal adviser to the national security adviser on ukraine and other countries in my portfolio. my role at the nsc is to develop, coordinate, implement plans and policies to manage the economic national security issues of the countries in my portfolio. my core function is to coordinate policy with departments and agencies. the committee has heard from many of my colleagues about the strategic importance of ukraine against a bull work of russian aggression. our country's policy of ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity, instructing a free and democratic ukraine as a counter to russian aggression has be

also testifying will be george kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for europe in eurasia. the question at the center of the impeachment inquiry: did president trump abuse his power , or commit an impeachable offense when he asked ukraine's president for a favor, to investigate rival joe biden and his son hunter at the company for his mother that paid hunter to be on the board. intelligence committee chairman adam schiff sent out a memo saying each ride will have 45 minutes for questioning. uc hastings law professor devon levine says adam schiff and minority leader devon nunez will likely leave much of the questioning up to their professional attorneys. >> once everybody is acting at the direction of the president, how close was somebody like ambassador sondland to president trump. >> reporter: there will be five minute blocks to democrats and republicans to speak. >> democrats in washington would rather pursue outrageous hoaxes and delusional witchhunts. >> reporter: house republicans are circulating and 18 page memo saying the evidence gathered does not establish an impea

at 2:30, deputy assistant secure terry of defense for russia, eurasia on thursday at 9:00 a.m.mmittee 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. dennis: i appreciate your having me.

program along with russia's eurasia economic union and when you combine those 2 and they are complimentary it's going to be very very big and portends an alternative world order of which turkey will benefit and greenbacks are off the table greenbacks will be off the table thank you former pentagon official michael maloof thank you. unless you're a teenager you remember where you were on 911 if you're my age you remember where you were when we heard the president kennedy was shot and then between on november 9 1989 the berlin wall came down and around the world we saw it happen on live t.v. it was a moment many germans on both sides never thought they would live to see. she is proud. to be able to walk through brandenburg gate on this day when the wall fell the police were there but they let us through that was a real emotional rush for me i grew up in both the east and west sectors and this experience was something special with and everything that came after it could not compare to this day it was impossible to imagine when everything that was set in stone just fell as if this is something

center on the united states and europe she previously worked at the national intelligence council eurasia foundation and the john f. kennedy school of government david holmes is the political counselor at the u.s. embassy in key or he serves as the senior policy and political advisor to bastard taylor who testified earlier in these hearings is a career foreign service officer he has previously served in moscow new delhi. and pristina is also served on the staff of the national security council as his special assistant as special assistant to the united states secretary of state 2 final points before witnesses are sworn 1st witness depositions as part of this inquiry were unclassified in nature and all open hearings will also be held at the unclassified level and the information that may touch on classified information will be addressed separately 2nd congress will not tolerate any reprisal threat of reprisal or attempt to retaliate against any u.s. government official for testifying before congress including you or any of your colleagues if you would please rise raise your right hand i wi

assistant secretary at the department of defense for ukraine, eurasia and russia getting an email thatalked about asking a question about security assistance and we have ambassador volker and ambassador taylor and a bunch of other people who all testified ukrainians didn't know about a hold on the need until august 29. it's an email.it's amazing how this comes up at the last minute and it's just some email from some staffer. i know what people testified to end and what she said and then she talked about security assistance related email she didn't talk about any type of hold she said the email talked about assistance, it didn't talk about a hold on the aide. [inaudible question] most importantly. no announcement of any type of investigation has been released. that's the focus. the focus is the democrats are trying to impeach the president of the united states 11 and a half months before the next election. based on anonymous whistleblower with no firsthand knowledge who worked for joe biden. with joe biden. that's the issue here, not what happened to the ambassador. >> thank you for you

officer who is currently detailed to the office of the vice president and responsible for europe and eurasia related issues following is an issue and congratulatory phone call with ukrainian president selenski on april 21st president trump asked vice president pence to represent him at zelinsky s upcoming inauguration ms williams was working on a just 6 for the trip and would be a coveted attendee 2nd in significance only to the president and would have sent an important signal of support to the new ukrainian president in early may however rudy giuliani had been planning to go to ukraine to pursue the president's interest in having the bidens investigated but had to call off the trip after it became public. among others giuliani blamed people around zelinsky for having to cancel and claimed that they were antagonistic to trump 3 days later the president called off the vice president's attendance at zelinsky inauguration instead a lower level delegation was named energy secretary rick perry ambassador sohn and a baster kurt volker the 3 amigos senator ron johnson and lieutenant colonel of inm

the geopolitics, i want to bring in phil gordon, the assistant secretary of state for european and eurasia affairs. in that role, he was responsible for ukraine. phil, pleasure to have you on. can you tell us, to begin with, what do you make of the charge that, to put it as some republican congressmen did, obama gave ukraine blankets but trump gave them weapons. in other words at the end of the day, trump has been far more generous in his support for the ukrainians and their struggle against the russians than obama was? >> well, it is certainly true that the trump administration started supplying a degree of weaponry, javel. n anti-tank missiles that the obama administration wasn't supplying to ukraine. that's a fact. it was a policy call. i think president obama's view was that ukraine could never fight its way out of this situation. and that escalating on behalf of the ukrainians would just lead the russians to escalate more and would we be prepared to if down that route? there are people, including vice president biden who were on the other side of that debate but ultimately in that sen

coming wednesday, testimony from laura cooper, the pentagon's assistant secretary for ukraine and eurasiadavid hale, the white house expert, fiona hill rounds out the testimony on thursday. we will see hill. and one of the things they want to talk about is the conversation he had with sondland after talking to the president after which he said the president doesn't so much care about ukraine but the big things like the investigation into the bidens. >> clearly significant. sara murray, thank you for that report. let's bring in our analyst and correspondent. let's talk a little bit about these nine witnesses we will hear from starting tomorrow morning. house speaker nancy pelosi raised the possibility of the president himself testifying. watch what she said on sunday. >> the president could come right before the committee and speak all the truth that he wants. >> you don't expect him. >> if he wants to take the oath of office. or he could do it in writing. he has every opportunity to present his case. >> the president tweeted he's seriously thinking about that. what do you think? >> he has

we have the latest on that london terror attack that we spoke about earlier and we will speak with eurasia managing director for europe. that's next on bloomberg. ♪ to the turning back developing story in london, armed police shot and killed a suspected terrorist after an attack sent hundreds running for their lives, several people were injured, this was just before 2:00 in the london bridge area. our correspondent has more, i have to ask, how does this keep happening to london? there is a context, it's not just london i would argue but much of continental europe, where there's a big concern in the aftermath of what is happening in syria, and turkey's invasion. a lot of terrorists are potentially returning back home, that's creating a context for this kind of action. but the news is still quite a lot low --is not a lot known about this. romaine: as we are waiting for the details, the threat of these types of attacks, we have seen this become an issue in politics in the u.k. and across europe. has this been on the back burner amid all of the concerns that are more related to the economy and

anything about jamestown, we are a non-profit foundation in washington that deals and specializes in eurasia with terrorism and deal a lot with china. and we appreciate the people, this program or discussion today is going to be broadcast on c-span. we're very excited about getting the visibility throughout the united states and the critical importance of this speech is that randall schriver's speech today, comments are on the record. he appeared last year at the jamestown foundation china defense and security conference. his comments were off the record at the time. so this year we keep progressing in how we're advancing with secretary schriver and we're trying to get more attention to this issue. but let me first of all say that a couple words about randy. he is has long been known in the china community as a robust voice on china, leading strategic thinker on china. in 2008 he cofounded the project 2049 with mark stokes. he's been very active in this region for quite a long time and has a wide and distinguished career starting off with the consulting firm armitage international and he's g

vindman for an area officer specializing in eurasia at home and us embassies in ukraine and russia. serving as a political military affairs officer for russia for the joint chief of staff joining the trump administration a jul july 2018 when he was asked to serve on national securityt council. jennifer williams began her career 2005 shortly after graduating from college when she joined department of homeland security as a political appointee during the george w. bush administration after working as a field representative on the bush cheney presidential campaign she joined foreign service the following year beirut lebanon and jamaica. prior to joining the office of the vice president she served as the public affairs officer at april 2019 was detailed to the office of the vice president where she serves as a special advisor on foreign policy team covering europe and russia issues she keeps the vice president aware of issues and prepares them for foreign-policy engagements worker two final points, the first witness deposition were unclassified the principal advisor the national securit

witness testimony this time from george kent deputy assistant secretary of state foreeuropean and eurasia affairs and know he felt cut out of decisions regarding ukraine. jim baker is back with me. jim i have a little nuggets. read this to you. this is from manu raju up on the hill. kent offers more corroboration gordon sondland, eu ambassador, asked marie yovanovitch, the ousted ambassador, to write a "tweet declares for support for the policy of president trump consent sa kent said was a way to defend herself as opposed to the state department defending her." that was gordon sondland's position. have yovanovitch tweet this public support. and the president of the united states via always twitter and this corroborates what we heard from gordon sondland. what do you think about that? >> i mean, it's bizarre. it's not normal. it is just the strangest sort of management structure i've ever heard of. i mean, i guess thinking about this whole situation and how the administration has managed both the personnel and the policy with respect to ukraine, i thought one of the benefits we were suppos

held numerous other senior positions at the state department including in the bureau of european and eurasia affairs. she also previously served. she received multiple honors for her diplomatic work including her distinguished service award. two final points, first witness depositions as part of this your classified in open hearings. any information that may touch. congress will not tolerate any reprisal, threat of reprisal, or threat of an official testifying before congress. if you would please rise and raise your right hand i will begin by swearing you in. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? let the record show that the witness answered in the affirm di ative. thank you, with that ambassador marie yovanovitch, you're recognized for your opening statement. >> mr. chairman, ranking member nunez and other members of the committee. >> you'll need to speak very close to the microphone. >> thank you for the opportunity to start with this statement. to reintroduce myself to the committee, and to

she previously worked at the national intelligence council, the eurasia foundation and john f.avid holmes is the political counselor at the u.s. embassy in kyiv where he's the senior policy and political adviser to ambassador taylor who testified earlier in these hearings. he is a career foreign service officer. he has previously served in moscow, new delhi, kabul, bogota and pristina. he's also served on the staff of the national security council as his special assistant -- as special assistant to the united states secretary of state. two final points before our witnesses are sworn. first, witness depositions as part of this inquiry were unclassified in nature. and all open hearings will also be held at the unclassified level. any information that may touch on classified information will be addressed separately. second, congress will not tolerate any reprisal, threat rev prizal or attempt to retaliate against any u.s. government official who are testifying before congress, including you or any of your colleagues. if you would please rise, raise your right hand, i will begin by

also testifying will be george pence, the deputy assistant secretary of state for europe and eurasia. the question at the center of the impeachment inquiry, did president trump abuse his power commit and impeachable offense when he asked ukraine's president for a favorite to investigate rival joe biden, his son hunter and the company boersma that paid hunter to be on the board. intelligence committee chairman adam schiff sent out a memo saying he will have 45 minutes for questioning. >> it's a much more efficient, effective way to do it. >> democratic committee chairman adam schiff and minority leader devon nunez will likely leave much of the questioning to their professional attorneys, who my focus more on facts than political grandstanding. >> was everybody acting at the direction of the president? how close was somebody like ambassador sondland to mister trump ? >> afterwards there will be a five minute block for democrats and republicans to speak. at the economic club of new york, president trump called the impeachment inquiry a hoax. >> democrats in washington would rather pursue

since 2008, he has served as foreign area officer specializing in you're raise i can't -- eurasia, servinga. he has served as a military affairs officer for russia for the chairman joint chiefs of staff. he joined the trump administration in july 2018 when he was asked to serve on the national security council. jennifer williams began her career in 2005 shortly after graduating from college when she joined the department of homeland security as political appointee during the george w. bush administration and after working as a field representative on the 2004 bush/cheney presidential came pain. she joined the foreign service the following year completing tours in jamaica, beirut and lebanon. prior to joining the office of the vice president, she served at the u.s. embassy in london as a public affairs officer. in april 2019, ms. williams was detailed to the office of the vice president mike pence where she serves as a special adviser on his foreign policy team covering europe and russia issues. in that capacity, she keeps the vice president aware of foreign policy issues in europe and russ

laura cooper, one of the top officials at the department of defense workingn russia, ukraine and eurasia-term strategy, almost 20 years. she warned the wte house that freezing this aid to ukraine might the illegal. her insight is into how she tried to persuade the white house to release the eight. her insight is als, when did ukraine know that the aidas frozen? right now that ey knew about july 25. the reason that is significant is on july 25, that's one president zelensky talks to president trump. if ukraine really knew the military aid was frozen,hat undercuts the white house argument that the ukrainians couldn't have been asked for a quid pro quo becausehey felt no pressure, because they didn't know they'd had f beenzen. w r testimony is july 25. the ukrainians kready the aid was frozen. and just a reminder, these are lethal arms. these are real policy toward ukraine that was delayed for 55 days essential for u.s. national security according to u.s. officials. that was at the heart of delay and this impeachment testimony. judy: and that is ongoing right now. we will be reporting on al

she previously worked at the national security col, eurasia foundation and the john f. kennedy school of government. david holmes is the political counsellor at the u.s. embassy in kyiv where he serves as the adviser to ambassador taylor who testified earlier in these hearings. he is a career foreign service officer. he has previously served in moscow, new delhi, kabul and bogota. he has served on the national security council as special assistant to the united states secretary of state. two final points before our witnesses are sworn. first witness depositions as part of this inquiry were unclassified in nature and all open hearings will be held at the unclassified level. any information that may touch on classified information will be addressed separately. second, congress wno reprisal or attempt to retaliate against any u.s. government official for testifying in front of congress including you or any of your colleagues. if you would please rise, raise your right hand, i will begin by swearing you in. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give is t

showing years of studying the country and eurasia and even though has publicly testified under oath itaine that interfered in the 2016 presidential election, some republican lawmakers are still resisting that including texas congressman roy who took part in the closed door members as the house oversight committee. >> there is ample evidence of ukraine having engagement and involvement with things talking about our 2016 election so far. poor than enough. >> reporter: that kind of theory helps russia. the kind of theory that bolsters russia and is what russia wants you to say. >> what do you have -- >> testified to. >> that's her opinion. >> meantime what fiona hill testified under oath. >> the cost of this investigation, i ask please don't promote false interests as republicans and democrats another for decades ukraine is a valuable part of the united states and playing an important part in our national security. i refuse to be part of afternoon effort lit mizing an r a narrative the ukrainian government is adversary and ukraine not russia attacked us in 2016. these fictions are harmful

service officer who is detailed to the office of the vice president and responsible for europe and eurasia related issues. following the phone call with president zelensky, president trump asked vice president pence to represent him at the inauguration. ms. williams was working on the logistics of the trip. pence would be a coveted attendee and wof sent an important signal of support to the new president. rudy giuliani has been planning to go to ukraine to pursue the president's interest but had to call off the trip after it became public. among others, giuliani blamed people around zelensky for having to cancel. three days later, the vice president was called off of the inauguration. senator ron johnson and lieutenant colonel vindman would also attend. after returning from the inauguration, several members of the delegation briefed president trump on their interactions with zelensky. trump criticized ukraine and instructed them to work with rudy. a few weeks later, on july 10th, ambassador sondland met at the white house with a group of officials including colonel vindman and informed the

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. dennis: i appreciate your having me. host: your newest project, called "no safe spaces." this is the trailer. let's watch and listen. [video clip] >> you have the right to remain silent. anything you say will be used against you. >> you are not listening. i want your jobs to be taken from you. >> a protest has t

hill's post as the nsc eurasia director. and i met him that day for the first time. i wrote to mr. morrison with these words, the call between zelensky and potus, should happen before 7:21, which is the parliamentary elections in ukraine. sole purpose is for zelensky to give potus assurances of new sheriff in town, corruption ending, unbundling moving forward, and i -- and i emphasize -- any hampered investigations will be allowed to move forward transparently. goal is for potus to invite him to oval. volker, perry, bolton and i strongly recommend. mr. morrison acknowledged and said, thank you and specifically noted that he was tracking these issues. again, there was no secret regarding moving forward and the discussion of investigations. moreover, i have reviewed other state department documents, some of which are not currently in the public domain, detailing mr. giuliani's efforts. for example, on july 10th, the very same day that ambassador volker, secretary perry and i were meeting with the ukraine officials in washington, ambassador taylor received a communication that mr. giu

hill's post as the nsc eurasia director, and i met him that day for the first time. i wrote to mr. morrison with these words, the call between zelensky and potus, president of the united states, should happen before 7/21, which is the parliamentary elections in ukraine. sole purpose is for zelensky to give potus assurances of new sheriff in town, corruption ending, unbundling moving forward, and, and i emphasize, any hampered investigations will be allowed to move forward transparently. goal is for potus to invite him to oval. volker, perry, bolton and i strongly recommend. mr. morrison acknowledged and said thank you and specifically noted that he was tracking these issues. again, there was no secret regarding moving forward and the discussion of investigations. moreover, i've reviewed other state department documents, some of which are not currently in the public domain, detailing mr. giuliani's efforts. for example, on july 10th, the very same day that ambassador volker, secretary perry and i were meeting with the ukraine officials in washington, ambassador taylor received a com

witnesses saw jennifer williams, a state department employee detail to vice president pence's office on eurasia matters. and lieutenant colonel vindman on the national security session. the afternoon session heard from two officials the republican side called as witnesses. kurt volker, the former u.s. special envoy for ukraine and the peace talks there, and tim morrison, an nsc senior official overseeing russia and europe policy. morrison was on that july 25th call with ukraine's president. he resigned in october. volker provided one of the hearings big unexpected moments when he amended his closed door testimony and acknowledged others had laid out conditions to ukraine for releasing military aid. >> at no time was i aware of or knowingly took part in an effort to urge ukraine to investigate former vice president biden. i was not on the july 25th phone call between president trump and president zelensky. i was not made aware of any reference to vice president biden or his son by president trump. until the transcript of that call was released, i did not know that president trump or others had r

laura katherine cooper is the deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia. military aid to ukraine was the the most issue in her jurisdiction at the defense department. she knew the president was withholding military aid and began asking questions about it well before politico first reported it in late august. according to what she had been told by kurt volker, the trump special envoy to ukraine, and the acting ambassador to ukraine, william taylor. quote, i knew from my kurt volker conversation and also from sort of the alarm bells that were coming from ambassador taylor and his team that there . humanitarian aid were being withheld from ukraine, and at her level, all of the governing professionals like herself were worried that it was illegal. quote, immediately deputies began to raise concerns about how this could be done in a legal fashion, cooper said. the comments in the room at the deputy's level reflected a sense that there was not an understanding of how this could legally play out. laura cooper testified that ukraine had met all of the requirements

testimony from laura cooper, who is the deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine, and eurasia. you might remember her testimony happened the day that republican trump supporters in congress stormed the scif. they stormed into the secure hearing room that's reserved for classifi took over the place ev though they didn't have clearance to be in there. they, like, ordered pizza and broke security and mounted the stunt in there for hours and hours to physically block the impeachment proceedings from going ahead. laura cooper is the pentagon official whose testimony got delayed that day for five-plus hours because of that stunt. but ultimately, she did testify and we got the transcript of that testimony today. and in that transcript, we get this really interesting window into her bewilderment as a seen year defense department official responsible for that part of the world. we get a sense of sort of her bewilderment and shock about this crucial u.s. aid to ukraine being held up. it was, for example, laura cooper's office at the pentagon that put together the announcement that ukrai

>> i was a deputy assistant directory, so i had 40 assistant secretaries in eurasia, and for nato and the european union. >> and then you were involved with the national security council, you were the direct owe for nato and western europe? >> that is correct. >> and you were the senior official for european affairs? >> i was acting for six months or so. >> much like mr. morrison had. and we will note that all of the witnesses that we have interacted with and ambassador yovanovitch said you were a brilliant diplomat. that is very high praise. and for over two years you served at the special administrative for the ukraine -- >> that is correct. >> use observed for free on a voluntary basis? >> that is correct. i did. >> you put a lot of time and effort into that job? >> yes, i did. >> that taxpayers got their money's worth, didn't they? >> not for me to say. >> you believe america's policy on the ukraine has been strengthened as to your tenure? >> absolutely when i look back at the record i think we did an awful lot to support ukraine. >> this is in fair part due to president trump? >>