what are the legal boundaries here for what meadows and jordon are doing? going from the secure room, everything is supposed to stay secret in there and going to the oval office. where is the law and have they crossed the line? >> they are bound by rules that the procedures are for the house in terms of whether or not they are allowed to reveal information from the depositions. it has to -- the govrpi igovern procedures are the procedures in the house and there's rules about classified information. i haven't seen any allegations that they revealing classified information. if you have the information in your head and go into a secure space in the white house and discuss it, that is okay. i think it's worth pointing out that i don't think it's a legal strategy that they are potentially giving the white house advice on. impeachment is not a legal proceeding. it's a political proceeding. they are getting information and they are helping probably with the political strategy that the white house is developing. >> it strikes me their response to this is very caref

jim jordon telling c nrnn he ne divulged nifinformation that shd not be answered. they have been careful not to divulge anything to break house rules. they have been trying to help guide them as white house lawyers try to shape the legal strategy and as we know a big sticking point for the administration is they don't have lawyers in the room during the hearings and the white house is turning to allies on capitol hill to help them. >> i'm sure they are getting plenty of help. thanks very much for that. excellent reporting. president trump has been lashing out as he heads to a campaign rally later tonight. let's go to our chief white house correspondent. the president just spoke to reporters, answered a few questions. >> reporter: that's right. the president was just a few moments ago rallying against the impeachment process, sounding inkrei incredulous to how he could be impeached when the economy is doing so well. the president continues to lead a deeply divided country on the subject of impeachment. >> reporter: top aides are preparing for what may be inevitable.

that's why jim jordon was put there to make sure they had one of their soldiers in that slot. >> billaylor, george kent, talk to me about what their credentials are and why the democrats think they're going to be so powerful. >> bill taylor is a career diplomat. he is somebody who served his country in the military. he's served his country for about 50 years under republican presidents and democrats. he started under reagan. he retired as the ambassador to ukraine appointed by george w. bush and continuing under obama. this is the person the trump administration turned to. so i think he has obviously credibility that goes beyond just a political partisan. he's not a known figure in party politics. he's somebody who served under both administrations under both parties. george kent as deputy assistant secretary of state, somebody who is critical of both some of the appearances at least of what biden did as well as what he saw under trump, not a partisan figure, somebody who was upset and distraught by what he saw happening to foreign policy, how he was told to keep out of it. people lik

jordon took holmes to task for not telling one of his bosses about that phone call he overheard betweensident trump and eu ambassador gordon sondland holmes responded he thought everybody understood the implication. >> last week you come forward with supposed this new information. there's nothing different in there th transcript maybe that's the reason their you are their closing witness. >> of course the president is pressing for a bidhrough every word in the call because every one by that point agreed it was obvious what the president was pressing for >> both holmes and the other witness who used to work on the nati they believe ukrainian policy had turned policy. back over to you >> thank you >>> time now for today's power mover. shares of twitter higher by more than 3%. still down 25% in the month. it will give users chance to hide replies to combat abuse shares of etrade is down the marijuana stocks are soaring today. continuing a big rebound after a house economy approves the bill that could erase the federal band canopy stock still down big for the year >>> ahead, tesla set to un

congressman jordon also told me he has never divulged dpogs to the white house that he is not allowedo. an interesting development as the white house grapples with trying to understand what these allegations will that the president is facing in these closed-door testimonies where they are not allowed to have an attorney present. >> one of those testimonies this week was from army lieutenant colon vindman. there are new details emerging about what he was told to do whether he voiced concerns about the administration pressuring ukraine. what are you learning about that? >> that's right. lieu tenlt kroernl vin manned was on the call that the president had with the ukrainian official. he immediately registered his concerns about the call and appropriateness of what the president was discussing with the national security attorney john eisenberg. we're also learn asoareding to a source that he testified behind closed doors earlier this week. that eisenberg also directed vindman not to discuss the call and his concerns about the call with anybody else. eisenberg is also the attorney who actu

my 14-year-old son who hadn't been watching the hearings came in in the evening session today and jordon, what party he was, he was like mom, can you turn off that yelling man. i think he speaks for all of us. it's an interesting tactic. it seems to be just yell and undermine the witnesses. it's not just the audience of one is trump though. it's also that they're getting their documents from trump. i felt like the republicans this morning were stunned and didn't know how to deal with sondland and it was only when they sort of rallied later in the day and trump essentially gave them marching orders that they seemed to snap to and mount a much more vociferous attack on the witness. >> an interesting day and interesting tomorrow. it starts at 9:00 a.m. our live coverage is going to continue now with anderson cooper. >> good evening. thanks for joining us. coming up on 11:00 p.m. here in new york. two big stories, damaging testimony about the president and the debate in the race to be his democratic opponent. debate in the closing moments, we'll be talking to candidates getting a sense of ho

. >> congressman jim jordon was also on the sunday talk shows.ake a listen to what he said. >> most importantly the ukrainians did nothing as far as investigations goes to get the aid released. there was never this quid pro quo that the democrats all promise existed before president trump released the phone call. >> they got the aid, nothing to see here. having said that, clearly this dart board like onslaught of defenses isn't working great because there's a new abc poll out this morning that shows 70% of americans think what trump did was wrong and more than half think he should be removed from office. >> and that argument that representative jordan just made is about to get blown out of the water because based on reporting gordon sondland was overheard by aides who are already testifying that this was a quid pro quo and that the president was pushing these investigations and that it seemed like zelensky had acquiesced to it. but what happened was the whistleblower report came out and the whole thing blew up. that's point number one. point numb

an outspoken defender of the president, close ally congressman jim jordon temporarily to your committee so he would be there to question. what do you make of that? >> of them transferring jim jordan to the intelligence committee temporarily? sounds like a great big fat of -- >> so he can ask questions. >> -- right. sounds like a big fat vote of no confidence in devin nunez to me. that is the only way to interpret that since he has been the ranking member this last year and was chairman previous to that. the truth is and we don't like to reveal too much about who comes and who goes in those closed sessions but i'll say this for jim jordan at least he's been present. >> thank you very much. are you contrasting that to devin nunez specifically? >> i'll leave that to you and the viewers to interpret, erin. >> all right. i appreciate your time as always. thank you. >>> next, mike pompeo's former adviser says he pushed the secretary of state to issue a statement in support of ambassador yovanovitch. why did pompeo suggest something different? plus trump and his allies want to out the whistle-

jordon at the conclusion of our praf broadcast tonight. >> thank you to all for starting us off. >>> coming up next, we're seeing and hearing all the familiar signs. could it be we're about to see and hear a fall guy or two? we will put this question to a former u.s. attorney and see if it's a legal strategy that could work, for starters. >>> and later, the author of "everything trump touches dies" on the state of alabama. why it suddenly has the president's attention. and what's out there that could blow up the democrats at this late hour. "the 11th hour" just getting started, in view of the u.s. capitol on a friday night. ♪ born to be wild... born to be wild...♪ 25 cent boneless wings at applebee's. get 'em while they're hot. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. i wish i could shake your hand. granted. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ (mom vo) it's easy to shrink into your own little world. especially these days. (dad) i think it's here. (mom vo) especially at this age. (big sis) where are we going? (mom

mule approximately overseas assignments including mission director in nigeria, in gausa and iraq and jordon. he he chaired a task force to defeat the islamic state in iraq and syria. assistant add min strairtor harvey has received awards from the department of state and usaid for his exceptional service. thank you both for being here today. let me remind the witnesses to limit your testimony to five minutes. without objection your prepared written statements will be made part of the hearing record. again, thank you so much for being here today. you are recognized. >> ranking member wilson, thank you for inviting us today. >> can you pull the microphone a little closer? >> that better? >> yes. >> thank you for inviting us here to discuss us the president's budget requests. stability is the administration is impeartive in the middle east to protect the people. that core objective which benefits u.s. interests as well as the regions drives our diplomatic and foreign assistance.the foreign assistance budget request of $6.6 billion for the region will support priorities that counter iran's influ

i would like to ask unanimous consent that peter staley and jordon cohn are granted privileges of the floor for the 116th congress. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. manchin: and i yield the floor mr. president. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mrs. capito: thank you, mr. president. i'm really pleased to be here with my fellow west virginia senator, senator manchin, who has been -- we've joined each other on this topic before, but he's been a real champion for our miners and i'm really grateful to him and others who have participated. but i think it's -- we've got to talk about this every day and make sure that we underscore the urgent need to pass the bipartisan american mine rs act. i -- miners act. i appreciate senator manchin and certainly appreciate senator mcconnell and senator portman as well. back in 2017, time was running out on the health care benefits for 22,000 retired miners. i remember it well, particularly following the patriot coal bankruptcy. we came together as a bipartisan group to pass the legislation with