i now yield to the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, mr. engel. mr. engel: thank you. i'm elliott engel chairman of the foreign affairs committee. for the last month, we have been working lockstep on this impeachment inquiry. so far we have seen damning evidence that the president abused his power and jeopardized our national security to help his own political for the tunes. -- fortunes. he pressed for another round of foreign interference in an american election. it's what the framers feared the most. we laid the groundwork for the next open phase of this investigation. moving ahead, the foreign affairs committee will continue to support this effort because we know that the administration's abusive power resulted in our foreign policy being subverted and our diplomats being smeared, side lined and harassed. we cannot stand for that. i'm glad that the resolution we passed today will provide for an open and fair process that will allow the american people to hear from witnesses, see the evidence and understand the troubling story of what the president and his allies did.

investigating the abuse of power, ted lieu, he's a part of the house judiciary and house foreign affairs committee part of the committees undertaking the impeachment inquiry. congressman, let me start with the no-shows from that white house. four official, i believe, did not appear today citing, i think, executive privilege. the white house not wanting them to appear. what's your reaction to that? >> thank you, chris, for your question. the american people should be asking what is the white house trying to hide? if they really thought that this was a perfect phone call, as donald trump alleges, then they would be happy to have the white house officials come and explain about that phone call, explain what the message was with regard to ukraine. instead, they're obstructing witnesses, they're telling them not to come and it's very unfortunate we're not going hear their stories today. >> what do you make about the revelations in marie yovanovitch's testimony that at one point the secretary of state says that he will call sean hannity to try to find out what

. >> member of house judiciary and foreign affairs committee guy, appreciate it as always, all right,he democrats say there's going to be public hearings soon in your committee, one of the first questions and first things you want to know and say? >> well, leland, i want to know why we had to wait till now to have public hearings, this has been going on for 38, 48 days or so. leland: come on, you know very well an investigations, you're an attorney as well, the grand jury happens in secret, why is that a problem? >> sure, we had that with mueller, right, now that we are removing hearings -- leland: this isn't about mueller, this is about something else. >> right. leland, we have to remember that the vast majority of congress has been kept in the dark, i'm very fortunate to be on on the house foreign affairs committee and been in depositions, 75% of my colleagues have not been in the deposition, how are they supposed to make decisions -- leland: back to the original question, what is the first thing in chair committee, we will start with this, what have you been able to read and see in

deposition phase, other lawyers on different committees have asked questions including the foreign affairs committee. the foreign affairs committee will not be involved in the public hearings, is basically just going to be the intelligence committee and whatever shared staff is brought on. almost all ofally the time in terms of the staff lawyers on the republican side to mr. castor. host: republicans insisted that other witnesses, the witnesses that they would like to hear from get called before the committee, one being the whistleblower, others being hunter biden. any indication that that will happen? guest: there are a couple of people i can see democrats volker, number one kurt mike ross were thinking about calling him anyway because he was one of their witnesses behind closed doors. others like hunter biden and the whistleblower, and the people that the whistleblower talked to, for example are much likely -- much less likely to be called if not impossible. adam schiff has close the door to that right now. he said something over the weekend like the committee will not be used as an arm of the pre

report required by this paragraph shall be prepared in consultuation the chairs of the committee on foreign affairs and the committee on oversight and reform. section 3. transmission of additional materials. the chair of the permanent select committee or the chair of any other committee having custody of records or other materials relating to the inquiry referenced in the first section of this resolution is authorized in consultation with the ranking minority member to transfer such records or materials to the committee on the judiciary. section 4. impeachment inquiry procedures in the committee on the judiciary. a. the house authorizes the committee on the judiciary to conduct proceedings relating to the impeachment inquiry referenced in the first section of this resolution, pursuant to the procedures submitted for printing in the congressional record by the chair of the committee on rules, including such procedures as to follow the participation of the president and his counsel. b, the committee on the judiciary is authorized to promulgate additional procedures as it deems necessary for the fair

bring the experience that i have of serving in congress now for nearly seven years on the foreign affairs committee, the armed services committee, the homeland security committee. i understand deeply the importance of our national security and bringing the experience i have now of serving as a soldier for over 16 years. deploying to the middle east twice. this experience to fulfill the most important responsibility the president has. to serve as commander-in-chief. commander-in-chief, i will end our long-held foreign policy of trying to be the world police, overthrowing dictators and governments around the world that we don't like whilst propping up those we do. this newrk to end of cold war and arms race. i will redirect our taxpayer dollars toward serving the needs of our people right here at home. the needs are great. there are many. we must come together as americans and work together as we strive toward that more perfect union that serves the just of the american people and our country and actually being that force for good in the world that we know we can and should be. thank you all for bein

was received on july 25th at 2 31 pm that e-mail said that the ukrainian embassy and house foreign affairs committee are asking about security assistance the 2nd e-mail was received underly 25th at 4 25 pm that e-mail said that the hill knows about the f m f situation to an extent and so does the ukrainian embassy i did not receive either of these e-mails my staff does not recall informing me about them and i do not recall being made aware of their content at the time i do not have any additional information about precisely what the ukrainians may have said what may have been their source of information about a holder any possible issues with the flow of assistance or what the state department officials may have told them my staff also advised me in the last few days of the following additional facts that may be relevant to this inquiry again my staff does not recall informing me about them and i do not recall being made aware of this on july 3rd at 4 23 pm they received an e-mail from the state department stating that they had heard that the c.n.n. is currently being blocked by o.m.b. this apparent

that situation in fact just last week he received a letter in which that was from the house foreign affairs committee which includes both republicans and democrats and in that they were essentially pushing them for a 2 way ever since this is in the invitation of the president out of the one to washington and they said the president everyone's decision i'm quoting this to invade northern syria on october 9th has had disastrous consequences for u.s. national security and that's led to deep divisions in the in the nato alliance and also cause a humanitarian crisis on the ground but president trump referred earlier when he spoke to the press to focus on that for what is he called a good relationship with turkey and also he stressed the fact that they were hoping to reach a potential 100000000000 dollar trade deal between the united states and turkey yeah that's right there was a lot of questioning about whether or not a deal could be reached this visit we've got these tensions within nato. either way you look at it this is a win for air to want to get the invitation to go to the white males are we seeing

we asked the democratic spokesperson for the house foreign affairs committee about this, and here is e response we got. "the committee wanted to hear from an ambassador whose assignment was cut short under unusual circumstances. the staff outreach was part of a months long effort that culminatedua in the september 9h launch of an investigation into these l events." while congressman asked ambassador yovanovitch about the email. and yovanovitch claimed that she never personally responded to it. never responded to the democratic staffer. in fact, it turns out that she did respond. in fact, she said "she looked forward to chatting with you" to the staffer. and as congressman pointed out, the original answer that was dishonest was given under oath. so maybe she will get hauled and took court like roger stone and threatened with life in prison? ha! just kidding. meanwhile we have an actual whistle-blower in media world, that whistle-blower works for "abc news" and leaked and off air tape of an anchor amy robach talking in very frustrated tones about how her employers at abc news killed her

thank you. >>> let's discuss the news with gerry connelly on the house oversight and foreign affairs committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. let's get immediately to the lengthy letter that the house intelligence chairman adam schiff has now distributing saying that you are learning additional information in his words almost every day. if that is true, congressman, how you could hand off a report to the judiciary committee as soon as next week? >> well, the fact that we're continuing to learn information doesn't mean that we somehow stop or delay the process that we're undertaken. i think we have plenty of evidence in front of us without requiring additional information or evidence to proceed with the impeachment of this president. >> according to "the washington post," the white house made the decision to withhold money for ukraine and then later tried to find ways to justify the decision. why not try to obtain those documents or testimony once again from people like mick mulvaney before you complete your report? >> again, wolf, that would question a legitimate line of inquiry. and if

>> noah reporting that we have heard communication of someone on the foreign affairs committee, is that not true? >> there may have been communication with me? you.d e-mail with >> i am not aware. >> thank you. >> and for clarification, someone may have askeded you frm the ukrainian embassy about the withholding of aid, is that true, did you hear from them? >> i testified earlier that the communication from the ukrainian embassy from my staff and my staff mentioned this to me after my deposition, the only specific munication that i recollect with ukrainians about the specific issue was on september 5 at a reception at the ukrainian embassy. >> was that just a query generally about the forthcoming aid or a specific regarding them the own aware that the aide was withheld? >> just to be clear, the september quick conversation that i had was specific to the hold, there was no awarenesson f that in the question of concern. >> thank you. ms. cooper, actually to both of you, at the end of the day it really does, i've done this before it comes down to this, the transcript and holding up is a tr

we have been joined by the distinguished ranking member of the foreign affairs committee, mr. mccaul, thank you for your leadership in bringing this legislation to the floor, i acknowledged you earlier along with our distinguished chairman, mr. engel. we are proud to pass the senate version of chairman mcgovern's protect hong kong act to suspend sales on dangerous munitions to the hong kong police. we also salute senator merkley for his leadership in passing that on the senate floor. . merica must take a stand with hong kong. i'm so pleased that we are making our statement in the house, and in he the senate on both sides of the aisle, democrats and unified in speaking out for democracy. vote and i urge a yes both -- on both of these bills and i yield back the balance of my time. the peaker pro tempore: gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. speaker, it's my privilege to yield as much time as he may consume to the istinguished chair -- ranking member of the committee on foreign affairs. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman from texas is recognized

that email said that the ukrainian embassy and house foreign affairs committee are asking about security assistance. the second email was received july 25g9 th at 4:25 p.m. that the hill knows about the fmf situation to some extent and so does the ukrainian embassy. i did not receive either of these emails. my staff does not recall informing me about them. i do not recall being made aware of their content at the time. i do not have any additional information about precisely what the ukrainians may have said, what may have been their source of information about a hold or any possible issues with the flow of assistance or what the state department officials may have told them. my staff also advised me the last few days of the following additional facts that may be relevant to this inquiry. again, my staff does not recall informing me about them and i do not recall being made aware of this. on july 3rd at 4:23 p.m., they received an email from the state department stating that they heard that the cn is currently being blocked by omb. this apparently refers to the congressional notification

question, and i've had the opportunity to sit through the depositions as a member of the foreign affairs committee. i think the american people will see over the next several days and several weeks overwhelming evidence of the president's wrongdoing, that he abused the power of his office, that he undermined our national security. he undermined the integrity of our elections by withholding military aid in a white house meeting until he got ukrainians to gin up a phony investigation against his chief political rival. this is damning and shocking conduct on the part of the president. obviously we've approved proceedings that will give the president a chance to come forward and present evidence and cross examine witnesses and try to explain this. but i think there's overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing certainly sufficient for us to move forward before the judiciary committee and consider articles of impeachment. and i expect that will happen -- that they'll have an responsibility to respond to it. but the evidence is overwhelming. the facts are uncontested and we've heard a number of different defens

public hearing setting in which the health, the house intelligence committee along with the foreign affairs committee and the oversight committee will start to place in the public's hands the information. i also think the transcripts are going to start to be released next week, and that's going to give the american people an eye on exactly what we have heard, and what we have heard is growing evidence of grounds for impeachment. democrats are going to hold strong in terms of defending the democracy we have, and the questions for the g.o.p. is are they going to put donald trump ahead of our country? >> brennan: well, when will those public hearings actually start? are you talking a week after next? you said you have more depositions scedz yield this week. next week do we start to see the public hearings? >> i think the following week is likely to be when we will start having hearings. of course, once our work is completed, the investigation, then it will move to the judiciary committee. but it's really important to point out that, one, the republicans complained about the process, but the process was

would congresswoman tulsi gabbard to offer a motion to discharge a esolution from the house foreign affairs committee. that resolution would withdraw u.s. troops from syria. session in turns to about five minutes. we'll have live coverage here on c-span. reminder that tomorrow the house intelligence committee will continue its public ongoing as part of the impeachment inquiry. former u.s. ambassador to marie yovanovitch, slated to testify. that starts at 9:00 a.m. eastern. watch on c-span2, justices online at c-span.org, c-span, online at c-span.org. also on the free c-span radio app. lucie, florida. caller: good morning. i want to give a shout out to to my friend in fallon, illinois. i played soccer there. -- i was watching adam schiff. i was like, really? you have nothing. really? come on, man. we

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. >>> i want to now turn to democratic congressman gregory meeks, a senior member of the foreign affairs committee, which is one of the committees that is part of the sort of oversight committees that are involved in the impeachment inquiry. >> correct. >> a sort of 30,000 foot view here for a second. rudy giuliani and his role. i mean obviously the impeachment testimony has focused on his role in ukraine. but if you look at venezuela, particularly if you look at turkey, it does seem like this is an individual who is essentially peddling access to the president for profit on behalf of foreign interests. >> absolutely. he's got a lobbyist, and that's why the southern district attorney's office is looking at his transactions. you know, giuliani is basically -- his role basically in this is he is the attorney to the mob boss. as a result, he's trying to benefit from being associated by the mob boss. >> you mean the president of the united states? >> that's who i mean. therefore, he wants to peddle that for his own personal wealth as well as get the dirt that the mob boss has sent him to ukraine to re

over the last two weeks and before that, it seems like this really belonged in the house foreign affairs committee. that's the relevant jurisdiction. and for that reason, i wonder how can anybody look at this and think, well, this is going about the way it should, when the committee was picked probably because adam schiff would be a better committee chairman than the house foreign affairs committee chairman for this purposes. >> well, jake, the genesis of this investigation was the president's phone call which triggered a whistle-blower to come forward to the intelligence community and inspector general. so because that's the origin, that's where we get our jurisdiction. >> that makes sense, congressman, thank you for your time. much more on the impeachment hearings coverage including the phone call that involved an ambassador, a rapper in sweden and lunch at a restaurant in ukraine. stay with us. maria ramirez? hi. maria ramirez! mom! maria! maria ramirez... mcdonald's is committing 150 million dollars in tuition assistance, education, and career advising programs... prof: maria ramirez mom and d

that email said that the ukrainian embassy and house foreign affairs committee are asking about security assistance. the second email was received on july 25 at 4:25 p.m. that email said that the hill knows about the situation to an extent and so does the ukrainian embassy. i did not receive either of these emails. my staff does not recall informing me about them and i was not aware of their content at the time. i do not have any additional information about precisely what the ukrainians may have said, what may have been their source of information about a hold or any possible issues with the flow of assistance, or with the state department officials may have told them. my staff also advised me the last few days of the following additional fact that may be relevant to this inquiry. again, my staff does not recall informing me about them and i do not recall being made aware of them. on july 3 at 4:23 p.m., they received an email from the state department stating that they had heard that the cn is being blocked by omb. this partly refers to the congressional notification state would send f

trish: joining me right now, republican congressman scott perry, a member of the house foreign affairs committee case the incentive is find a way to come to the u.s. because you can apply for asylum and hang out here. don't we need to change that if we want to curb these numbers? >> without a doubt. the nag magnet has been there whether it's economic or otherwise. human trafficking and smuggling is a crime. regardless of what elizabeth warren says, i am not sure which parts are unnecessary. apparently these traffickers saw it was necessary, they cut a hole tonight and drove through. it's not only the economic concerns, but it's the criminal concerns. if you are a young lady walking on a pier in san francisco you might lose your life. or a person in hazelton, p.a., someone might shoot you there. it's important that we know who is coming to this country and they do it lawfully. i think it's appropriate that they wait in mexico where they came through and we'll adjudicate them there. trish: you could be a vietnam vet in your early 60s walking home from work and you could get hit and dragged 50 feet

and yovanovitch's characterization is "greatly concerning," a spokesperson for the house foreign affairs committeeells us "congress has a constitutional duty to conduct oversight. the state department doesn't tell congress how to do that job and should be more concerned with the culture of retaliation and impunity that has festered under this administration." again, harris, two wildly differing perspectives on something that we have now in an email. republican saying this is a major transgression and they are going to be looking into it a lot further, democrats saying everything is above board and it's no big deal. >> harris: gillian turner, a complete wrap up for us. thank you, so many pages to get through with the transcript, so we appreciate it. let's talk about jim jordan's move over to house intel. steve hayes, fox news contributor. i want to get your initial reaction, and then i have a little news to add to it. >> sure. jim jordan has proven himself as a dog and defender of the president, willing to make arguments others aren't willing to make. as a tactical matter, having jim jordan on the

doing here today this seems more appropriate for the subcommittee on human resources at the foreign affairs committee if there's issues with employment. >> reporter: but democrats point to the president's criticism of yovanovitch in that july call telling ukraine's leader the woman was bad news adding, she's going to go through some things. >> she's going to go through some things didn't sound good it sounded like a threat. >> did you feel threatened >> i did >> have you ever heard of a president of the united states recalling another ambassador without cause based on allegations that the state department itself knew to be false? >> no. >> reporter: republicans tried to poke holes in the democrats' case arguing that yovanovitch's replacement as the top diplomat, bill taylor, is a man democrats had just praised in wednesday's hearing. >> if recalling ambassador yovanovitch was part of the sum scheme by trump and pompeo and giuliani to get zelenskiy to do an investigation, why would they replace her with the star witness, bill taylor i mean, that's the plan, not the best plan i have ever seen put toget

that email said that the ukrainian embassy and house foreign affairs committee are asking about security assistance. the second email was received on july 25th at 4:25 pm. that email said, that the hill knows about the fmf situation to an extent and so does the creating an embassy. i did not receive any of these emails and my staff does not inform me about them and i did not recall where their content was at the time. i do not have any additional information about precisely what the ukrainians may have said or their source of information about holds or any possible issues with flows or assistance or the safe department officials may have told them. my staff also advised in the last few days that the following additional facts that may be relevant to this inquiry. again my, staff does not recall informing me and i do not recall being made aware of this. on july 3rd, at 4:23 pm. they received an email from the state department stating that they had heard that the cnn was being blocked by onb. this reporters to the state that was set by fmf i have no information further on this. on july 25t

congresswoman susan wild is on the house foreign affairs committee, and i spoke to her earlier from capitol hill. ted by asking if president trump should have gotten a commitment to a cease-fire by before granting this visit. rep. wild: i think we should have gotten the commitment before president erdogan was invited to the white house for a visit.ho it is a grear to be invited to the white house, and i don't think that it should have been done in this order. i would've liked to see the least get a commitment frommp at president erdogan to stop buying russian missile defense systems? rep. wild: words only means much. actions are far more important. i'm very concerned that we will heps maybe a command, or per -- maybe a commitmenla or perhapuage that is somewhat softer than a commitment, that will not be lived up to. that is why i believe at inviting him for this state visit before we saw the kinds of action we need to see had been accomplished. laura: are you worried about the kind of symbolism that this white house visit confers on president erdogan whilhe is accused of suppressing his dom

i turn it over to lee zeldin from the house foreign affairs committee. mr. zeldin: in a way you could say congratulations to nancy pelosi and wanted a bipartisan vote on her impeachment inquiry resolution and got it. it was a bipartisan vote against her inquiry resolution. there are a number of other democrats who chose to vote the wrong way and should have voted no and won't be here to serve with us anymore with us come january 2021. nancy pelosi as the leader, has chosen to sacrifice a few of her own members. those members are going to lose for all of the right reasons. because as we have seen during this past vote, staffers were running on the democratic side of the aisle, don't cheer, don't clap. the eagerness, the happiness that democrats have and their enraged liberal activist base has at home to rip the country in half. steve scalise said we need to work together to pass usmca and reduce the cost of prescription drugs. instead we have colleagues who have gavels who are ripping our country in half. we have been saying for weeks not only should there ha

i'd like to call up our ranking the foreign affairs committee, mr. mccall. >> thank you, jim. you know, for 38 days we've witnessed a one-sided the mosttion, in secret room in the united states capitol. callut an opportunity to witnesses on our side, without white house counsel present. defies historic precedent. adam schiff states to jim and myself, we've been sitting through these depositions, the d.o.j. declined an investigation that he is now be both the prosecutor and the grand jury. a federal prosecutor. adam schiff was too. he knows better. you can't be both. the american people have been shut out of this process, itself.democracy every time we get close to a close to the whistle-blower, we get shut down in that room. yourselfave to ask this question. why? why does adam schiff not want us to ask those questions? role of the whistle-blower? what role did adam schiff have to the whistle-blower? what role did his staff have to the whistle-blower? one man, to turn this country upside down, to have vote today, our founding in the warned about this federals' papers, that a fu

received emails on july 25 in which the state department said ukrainian embassy and house foreign affairs committee, quote, were asking about security assistance. you can read more of the hill .com. we go next to steve in jolt, in tennessee. welcome.. >> you u.s., i think that the republicans don't want to listen to what's being said. they don't want to hear the truth about trump. they don't want to hear the truth about trump, the republicans don't. >> okay. >> and i think really if you -- >> go ahead. steve >> i think if you really get down to, it him and putin have something going on, because he won't even let him have the calls, you, know when he was on the phone with putin, nobody could understand what was going on, so you know, they just don't want to, you know, they don't want to -- >> steve, you still there? >> yes, sir go ahead and finish up. >> yes, i, mean you know, the calls, they just -- >> got to let you go, there were showing somebody, president trump at the apple plant in austin, texas, the president flew down there, today their tear left, their his right, is tim cook, the ceo for ap

becoming a financial war a former chinese finance minister said on saturday way chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the china's people political consult of conference e p p c c national committee he said quote the next step in the frictions between china united states is a financial war.

the worst fears have been realized and with that, i'd like to turn it over to the house foreign affairs committee. >> in a way, you could say congratulations to nancy pelosi. she wanted a bipartisan vote on her inquiry resolution, she got it. it was a bipartisan vote against her inquiry resolution. there are a number of other democrats who chose to vote the wrong way who should have voted here tohey won't be serve with us anymore come when nancy2021 pelosi, as the leader of her congress has chosen to sacrifice a few of her own members. those members are going to lose for all of the right reasons because as we have seen during this past vote, staffers were running around the democratic side of the aisle baking members, don't cheer, don't clap. happinessess, the that democrats have and their enraged liberal activist base at home has to rip the country in half, we are here. steve scalise talked about wanting to unite our country, to work together to be able to pass usmca to reduce the cost of prescription drugs but instead, we have colleagues who have rippingho are eagerly our country in half. we ha