to julie. >> julie: mike emanuel, thank you very much.e will bring a marc thiessen, a former writer at the american institute and a fox news contributor. thank you for coming on. he reaction for nancy's announcement. it did not take long. >> no, i think my column coming up in the post just a few hours. nancy pelosi just signed a political death warrant for 31 democrats who are elected interim districts. the reason she is speaker today is because democrats in 2018 were able to commence 31 voters in the trump districts that they have to keep those voters in 2020. the polls show that those majority of voters plan to vote for donald trump. "new york times" reported, nearly two-thirds of voters in six battleground states that voted for trump in 2016, democratic congressional candidates in 2018 say they will back the practice in them. they artie have an uphill battle to win reelection. because split ticket voting is very rare these days, but nancy pelosi by forcing them to vote on impeachment is asking voters in the states to vote who are going

julie. >> julie: thank you.professor of medicine at the medical center here in new york city and a fox news contributor. this is scary stuff. and to hear that it lingers in the air for two hours, how worried should travelers be. there's so many people in those five airports right now. >> first of all, they don't need to be worried now, they need to be worried if they were in those airports during the period of time that matt was just saying. they only need to be worried if they were not vaccinated aura, and this is an important point that has not come up yet, or if they were born before 1989 when we only gave one vaccine, before 1957, we were born before a '57, you are immune, you had measles. i am testing people to see if they still have their immunity. if they are immune because you had a full vaccination series, you are not going to get measles from being in those airports, not at all. but it is easy to have your physician check. i don't just give a booster, a check to see if you are immune. that's what shoul

july have any. >> julie: rich edson thank you very much., i have to ask you before i let you go. the u.s. is pressing the iraqi government is there any cooperation there from iraq? >> there's a big push here going from the u.s. government. and the u.s. and the iraqi government have been coordinating. the message from it u.s. governments is you have to secure. the iraqi government says on all of this and this is a tweet from the iraqi government earlier today while the u.s. airstrikes on military units and acknowledge that the symbolic funeral marches for the march tissues is a solemn act of remembrance. those taking part must stay away from diplomatic buildings and compounds. iraq says its military source also make sure to protect american and other diplomatic facility as is their job. julie? >> julie: thank you, bring in rebeccah heinrichs. great to see you on new year's eve, thank you for joining us. defense secretary mark esper he is saying that the militia group behind the attack was responsible for several recent incidents and secretar

i'm julie banderas.e daily briefing" starts right now. >> dana: the impeachment standoff at a standstill but the white house has the house speaker is going to budge. we'll see. hello, everyone. i am dana perino and this is "the daily briefing." the white house inc. speaker nancy pelosi will have no choice but to send over the articles of impeachment to the senate eventually. the speaker says the house can't move forward until lawmakers know what sort of trial to expect in the senate. also she's calling out the president for blocking witnesses and documents. rich edson is traveling with the president live in west palm beach, florida, where it's nice and warm. i guess everybody feels pretty good down there with how the

here's julie. julie in for harr. >> julie: doubling down on impeachment, bringing additional charges against president trump, this as both sides are digging in on rules for the senate trial. welcome to "outnumbered overtime," i am julie banderas in for harris faulkner today. we begin with the judiciary committee, pushing up for don mcgahn's testimony revealing in a court filing that they could actually pursue new articles of impeachment. based on evidence that he may provide, may, i should emphasize. for democrat say that the house has investigative work that is not over. speak of the house of representatives continues to control the two articles, has not yet submitted then, speaker pelosi is trying to figure out what the rules of the game are going to be. but this does not stop at the house judiciary committee and other committees can do going forward. >> julie: senate judiciary chair lindsey graham tweeting this "best evidence yet that democrats don't believe they can beat president trump at the

julie. >> julie: rich hudson, thank you very much.or more let's bring in tony kass, radio host, and back from "outnumbered" couch, capri cafaro. capri, i will start with you. i was starting to see a crack in the g.o.p. unity? >> i don't necessarily, we will not know until the vote actually occurs. these are a number of obscenitiesenatorsthat have exp, whether it is lisa murkowski, or met romney. i think that this is par for the course up until this point, and we will only know what happens when we see the vote. and actually we talked about on the couch, there is a difference between needing a simple majority to get some additional witnesses in versus the actual 67 senators that you need of people to get them. >> julie: tony, i should ask you. should mcconnell be coordinating with the white house? lisa murkowski does not think that should happen. or will all lies beyond the the moderates, murkowski, mitt romney, collins? >> none of it matters until nancy pelosi sends the articles. and to the report from rich, they will put forward more

julie won. not a surprise to julie. she was confident that she would win.ng in court listening to the trial, she couldn't stop herself from thinking about the time her old boss, dr. george tiller, was in a similar spot when he, too, got hauled into court, when he, too, had to defend himself in court from charges that wouldn't have existed if not for a relentless campaign by anti-abortion activists bent on stopping him from doing his job. and how one guy would stop him from that spectacle. >> he was my only target. >> and would get so furious wynn the law came down on tiller's side that he would murder him for it. >> do you worry that someone in that courtroom will be the next scott roeder? >> absolutely. yes. >> that's a lot to carry around. >> that's why i -- as much as i wanted to win -- sorry -- sometimes i thought losing might be better. >> julie burkhardt told us she has tightened security at her home, that she is cautious, but she told us her work is what she loves to do. she told us this, specifically. she says, quote, i don't think any of us should

julie won. not a surprise to julie. she was confident that she would win. but sitting in court listening to the trial, she couldn't stop herself from thinking about the time her old boss, dr. george tiller, was in a similar spot when he, too, got hauled into court, when he, too, had to defend himself in court from charges that wouldn't have existed if not for a relentless campaign by anti-abortion activists bent on stopping him from doing his job. and how one guy would stop him from that spectacle. >> he was my only target. >> and would get so furious wynn the law came down on tiller's side that he would murder him for it. >> do you worry that someone in that courtroom will be the next scott roeder? >> absolutely. yes. >> that's a lot to carry around. >> that's why i -- as much as i wanted to win -- sorry -- sometimes i thought losing might be better. >> julie burkhardt told us she has tightened security at her home, that she is cautious, but she told us her work is what she loves to do. she told us this, specifically. she says, quote, i don't think any of

here's julie.doubling down on impeachment, bringing additional charges against president trump, this as both sides are digging in on rules for the senate trial. welcome to "outnumbered overtime," i am julie banderas in for harris faulkner today. we begin with the judiciary committee, pushing up for don mcgahn's testimony revealing in a court filing that they could actually pursue new articles of impeachment. based on evidence that he may provide, may, i should emphasize. for democrat say that the house has investigative work that is not over. speak of the house of representatives continues to control the two articles, has not yet submitted then, speaker pelosi is trying to figure out what the rules of the game are going to be. but this does not stop at the house judia

julie? >> thank you so much, jeff paul.ow to the second attack on the faithful this weekend, federal prosecutors charging a man accused of dabbing five people during a hanukkah solution at a rabbi's home. this was just outside of new york city where we had a string of anti-semitic attacks recently. the suspect is expected in federal court just moments from now. jacqui heinrich is live in muncie, new york with the late latest. >> that suspect is now being charged with the federal hate crime and we just received a criminal complaint against thomas and it contains some disturbing details. it says he went into the rabbi's home with his face partially covered with the scarf and said no one is leaving. investigators also say in his car they found a journal with anti-semitic statements and references to adolf hitler and, nothing's. police say 84-year-old grafton thomas stabbed five people with a machete he bought from china during a hanukkah celebration friday night and among the injured is the rabbi's own son, also an elderly vic

officials about the aid as early as july 25th the day of the phone call. increased by ukrainian officials continued in the weeks and that followed until the hold was revealed at the end of august but this is important it was important for the ukrainian officials to keep it quiet because if it became public then russia would know that the u.s. support for ukraine might be on this so by the end of that month the evidence revealed several facts one the president demanded that ukraine publicly announce 2 politically motivated investigations to benefit is reelection to a coveted white house meeting was expressly conditioned on ukraine announcing those investigations 3 president trump had placed a hold on vital military assistance to ukraine without any explanation and notwithstanding the uniform support for that assistance from the relevant federal agencies and congress ambassador taylor testified that this quid pro quo between the investigations president trump wanted and the security assistance that president trump needed was crazy and he told ambassador sunl

julie? >> julie: thank you very much. i will go to capri first, i want to talk about the president street because he is angry but in his tweet he talks about how she was narrowly voted in as the majority of the house. it still gives the democrats every right, though. according to the constitution to impeach a president, that's why there is a checks and balances system but your reaction? >> capri: number one, elections have consequence is on both sides. we democrats need to accept the fact that president trump won the electoral college, constitutionally that makes him the president of the united states legitimately. democrats won the house majority, they now are in the majority. the impeachment process is a political one in the sense that it's the house rules that ultimately govern the process in the chamber. right now, speaker pelosi is holding onto them because she thinks that holding onto them and not giving them to the senate is going to give some leverage. i do believe it is in her right to hold onto them, no differen

on july 19th, ambassador sondland emailed mr. mulvaney, secretary perry, secretary pompeo and others after speaking to president zelensky. the subject was, i talked to zelensky just now. and ambassador sondland wrote, he is prepared to receive potus's call. potus is president of the united states. we'll assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will, quote, turn over every stone, unquote. both secretary perry and chief of staff mulvaney quickly responded to the email noting that given that conversation, a date would soon be set to schedule the white house telephone call. the evidence also unambiguously shows that the ukrainians understood this quid pro quo and had serious reservations, particularly because president zelensky had won the election on an anti-corruption platform. in fact a few days before the july 25th call ambassador william taylor the abilitying u.s. ambassador to ukraine and the former permanent ambassador to ukraine texted ambassador sondland and volker -- rather, he stated in his t

i am julie banderas and for harris faulkner.ys sending impeachment articles to the senate. she says democrats want to ensure there will be a fair trial as they demand white house officials testify. there is a glitch. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell calling on democrats to end the charade saying they should follow the standards of former president clinton's impeachment trial. watch. >> exercise, political exercise. all i'm asking of humor was that we treat trump the same way we treated clinton. we had a procedure that was approv

back to you, julie. >> julie: thank you very much. when you get more news, bring it to us. i want to bring in the fox news national security analyst, so much to unpack here. first of all, we want to talk about the active shooter. we know the weapon used was a handgun and that weapons were not allowed on this air base, this person was in aviation student from saudi arabia, authorities are now investigating the shooting as whether or not it was terrorism related. it sounds very much like that is the case. where does this investigation begin? >> very important at this stage of even we know about details, it is not the time to go over these details because of the witness situation and because of the investigation. however, what was offered is important. he is a saudi national, he was training under u.s. government agency to become a fighter pilot or any other function and that alone should lead us into some direction on the first question i would ask, he was definitely radicalized or he had some psychological problems, we discovered that in the next hours or days and if he was

julie, thank you for being here today. >> julie: i'm julie banderas in for sandra smith. the house approved the impeachment vote 23-17. the full house of representatives is going to vote on whether to impeach the president of the united states sometime next week. house judiciary committee member mike johnson slamming democrats for what he called a partisan process. watch. >> what we're talking about in here is removing a president because the democrats don't like that style. they don't like him. the way our system is designed, the way our constitution is written is the party in charge even if you have the majority in congress you don't get to remove a president because you don't like him. they did not produce a bit of evidence to support a charge of impeachment. >> bill: fox coverage with reaction from the white house. mike emanuel is watching things on the hill. let's get a gauge where we are now and where next mike. good morning. >> good morning. the expectation is there will be an impeachment floor vote in the house of representatives sometime mid next week after actio

on july 19th, ambassador sondland emailed mr. mulvaney, secretary perry, secretary pompeo and others after speaking to president zelensky. the subject was, i talked to zelensky just now. and ambassador sondland wrote, he is prepared to receive potus's call. potus is president of the united states. we'll assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will, quote, turn over every stone, unquote. both secretary perry and chief of staff mulvaney quickly responded to the email noting that given that conversation, a date would soon be set to schedule the white house telephone call. the evidence also unambiguously shows that the ukrainians understood this quid pro quo and had serious reservations, particularly because president zelensky had won the election on an anti-corruption platform. in fact a few days before the july 25th call ambassador william taylor the abilitying u.s. ambassador to ukraine and the former permanent ambassador to ukraine texted ambassador sondland and volker -- rather, he stated in his t

in the afternoon of july 11, into july 12. we are basically out of time here. when he gets 110 yards from fort stevens, internally within the city, and forced him back a thousand yards from fort stevens, that is the watermark. by the evening time, the six quarters on the field take position behind the northern defenses and the 19th corps lements arrive, as well. the battle is shifted and the divide in the city is over. here is a really great image of fort stevens in 1865. you can see how open that is. that's silver spring, maryland. place close attention to that tree right there. it will be the center between fort stevens and the other fort. he did not leave the city, he angs out around this area. the 100 pound -- will go into ction. the next day, on july 12, he rode out and found troops were ready to the fort and he had no chance to take the city. we will talk about abraham lincoln real quick. he arrives on july 12 in the late afternoon, escorted to the front by horatio of the six corps, and the president is nder fire. there

on july 26th, u.s. officials met with president zelensky and other ukrainian officials in kiev and president zelensky mentioned that president trump had brought up some quote, very sensitive issues, unquote. after that meeting, ambassador sondland had a private one-on-one meeting with andre yermak, president zelensky's top aide. during which ambassador sondland said they probably discussed the issue of investigations. at lunch right after that with mr. holmes and two other state department officers, ambassador sondland pulled out a cell phone and called president trump. somewhat shocked, mr. holmes recounted the conversation that followed. i heard ambassador sondland greet the president and explain he was calling from kiev. i heard president trump then clarify that ambassador sondland was in ukraine. ambassador sondland replayed, yes, he was in ukraine and went on to state that president zelensky, quote, loves your ass, unquote. i heard president trump ask, so he's going to do the investigation? ambassa

on july 15, 1958 at roughly 3 p.m. in the afternoon lebanese time, the second marine regiment landed on beirut beach. the marines came ashore anticipating that this would be d-day, that they were going to be facing a hostile audience. in fact, what they ran into is lebanese and other foreign tourists sunbathing on the beach. some of them in the nude, or newly invented bikini. unfortunately i don't have the picture of anybody in the bikini on the beach but i do have a picture of lebanese rushing to the shore fascinated by the marines having landed. literally as the marines charged up the beach, weapons loaded ready to go to war, vendors charged down the beach selling coca-cola, cigarettes, and other lebanese delights. lebanese turned out in large numbers to see the sights. here you can see taxis pulling up. it was all in the way a little bit of a comic opera, but everything underneath it was deadly dangerous point the marines were landing in lebanon in 1958 in the midst of a very vicious civil war between christians and

that then proceeded to this july 19th breakfast then a july 22nd phone call then ultimately they met in madrid on august 2nd. >> thank you. further evidence of the meticulous investigation that chairman schiff with you direct ed. we will stand correct. thank you and i will take that and ask that the record reflect that. that that is the correct date. in either case, rudy was key, whatever was said. correct? >> certainly. >> now let many ask, sir, let me put up slide 24. and mr. goldman, am i correct that there came a point in time when president trump through his chief of staff, mr. mick mulvaney, ordered that the approved military aid to ukraine be withheld as you previously indicated? correct? >> yes. >> and this is the testimony of the people who were involved. mr. kent said when this happened, there was great confusion among the rest of us because we didn't understand why that had happened since there was aid was in our national interest. it just surprised us all. mr. holmes. then you had the additional hold on the assistance with no exmr. nation and we still don't have an explan

on july 26th and july 27th and august 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 12th, 13th, 15th, mr. goldman august 16th, 17th and august 19th, isn't that correct. >> yes. according to secretary pompeo as well. >> this is my point. these are government officials that work for us instead they are working to help the president advance his personal political interest. isn't that what you found mr. goldman. >> that is right. >> this isn't a close call. we have a president at war with russia desperate for a white house meeting. the president promised a white house meeting but then he blocked the oval office. he blocked it. and said i need a favor. not a favor to help america. a favor to help me get re-elected. our framers feared one day we would face a moment like this and they gave us impeachment as a safety valve not to punish the president but to defend our elections and our constitution and that is what we must do. i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back. mr. buck. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. castor, i want to direct your attention to page three of the telephone call dated july

[applause] >> first of all thank you for coming tonight july 151958 at 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon the second marine regiment landed on beirut beach the marines came ashore anticipating this would be d-day facing a hostile audience but in fact what they ran into was tourist laying on the beach some of them in the nude or in the newly invented bikini i don't have a picture but i do have a picture of them rushing to the shore fascinated by the marines having landed literally as they charged up the beach weapons loaded and ready to go to war vendors went down the beach selling coca-cola and other delights the lebanese turned out to see the sights here you can see the taxis pulling up so it was a comic opera but everything underneath was deadly dangerous the marines were landing in lebanon after very vicious civil war of christians and muslims and to expect going to combat and to violate the sovereignty of lebanon and they saw them supporting their christian enemies as those who are trying to hold onto power and in germany tactical nuclear weapons to be airlifted to th

on july 26th, u.s. officials met with president zelensky and other ukrainian officials in kiev and president zelensky mentioned that president trump had broughtio up some quote ver sensitive issues, unquote. after that meeting ambassador sondland had a private one-on-one meeting with president zelensky's top aide. during which ambassador sondlana said that they probably discussed tissue of investigations. at lunch right after that with mr. holmes and two other state department officers, ambassador sondland pulled out a cell phone and called president trump. somewhat shocked, mr. holmes recounted the conversation that followed. i heard ambassador sondland greet the president and explain that he was calling from kiev. i heard president trump then clarify that ambassador sondland was in ukraine. ambassador sondland replied yes he was in ukraine an went on the state that w president zelenskye quote loves your ass. i then heard president trump asp so he's going to do the investigation. he replied that he is

so i'd like to start with turning back to the july 25th call.it's a fact that in the president's own words and the transcript submitted by him reveals that after you crane asked for military aid, trump says, i would like you to do us a favor, though. >> after president zelensky thanks president trump for the military sentence, then president trump asks for a favor. and of course by this point president trump had already placed the hold on the security assistance. >> now, my republican colleagues have suggested that the ukrainians did not even know about the military aid being withheld. is that true? >> no. there was significant evidence that even as early as july 25th at the time of this call that ukrainian officials had suspected that the aid was being withheld and there was a "new york times" article last week that wasn't included in our report, but from the former foreign -- deputy foreign minister who said that they -- that ukraine -- the president zelensky's office received a diplomatic cable from the embassy here the week of july 25th sayi

on july 26, u.s. officials met with him and othere ukrainian officials in kiev and mentioned president trump brought up, quote, some very sensitive issues. after that meeting the ambassadowith theambassador hade one-on-one meeting with the top aide during which ambassadors on sondland said they discussed at the investigations. with two other state department officers, ambassador sondland pulled out a cell phone and called president trump. somewhat shocked, he recounted the conversation that followed. i heard him preach the president and explained he was calling from kiev. i heard hi him than him then clt ambassador sondland was int ukraine. he replied yes, he was in ukraine and went on to state that president zelensky, quote, loves your ass. i then heard president trump asks if he'sen going to do the investigation. the ambassador sondland replied he is going to do it, adding, president zelensky will do anything that you ask him to do. after the coffin of the ambassador told mr. holmes the president tr

now we are to july 3, july 4. i could not get a picture of the maryland heights story, but it is actually where that rock is. that is harpers ferry. he's got the high ground. when early gets up there, he thought about attacking him, but he remembered what his worries -- orders were. there were no shots fired. they cross into shepherdstown , west virginia in 1864. now the telegraph is going into washington saying we have a core of troops going your way. the initial reports were 30,000, 40,000, 45,000. early had at most 12,000 men. when they crossed the potomac -- i will get to that in a moment. here is a core of troops. they crossed the potomac. they camps right around what was the antietam battlefield. it was a very hot summer that day. one of the problems was the confederates were very ill supplied. one third of the men did not have shoes. they were waiting on a shipment of shoes that finally came from the railroad. and also, while they were at antietam, that is when early got the order from property lee to do th

the security assistance was paused president he had 5 discussions with us senior officials on the july 25th he spoke with president trump on the phone so i 26 he met with ambassador volker that's where taylor ambassadors on one. on august 27th he met with ambassador bolton september 1st he met with vice president pence in warsaw and on september 5th he met with senator ron johnson senator chris murphy in kiev in one of these meetings the president selenski raise any concern about linkage between security assistance and investigations in particular the september 5th meeting with senator johnson and senator murphy is notable because they're not part of the trump administration and president selenski could be candid with them what did occur during those 55 days were historic effort by ukraine's parliament called the rada to implement anti-corruption reform. president pants had pressed president lenski about these reforms during their september 1st meeting in their depositions ambassador taylor lout of presidents lindsey's rapid reforms and national security council official morrison testi

lee on july 22. robert e. lee is full into the midst of the siege of petersburg in richmond against the army of the potomac and the james under general grant. we tells him, if you stay out in the shenandoah valley you can , stay as long as you want. all you have to do is make sure the troops under horatio wright, about 15,000 men, make sure they don't show up back in petersburg. the very next day, early is going to send his cavalry out in force and they are going to drive the union cavalry almost all the way back to winchester. they're going to capture several officers. from these officers, they are going to learn that horatio wright headed back to washington a couple days ago. jubal early wastes no time and he gives the orders for his army to go on the offensive against george crook the following day. his army will be stationed, the vanguard of his army will be stationed around the village of kearns down three miles south of winchester. the senior officer of the infantry division is colonel james mulligan fro

and stay focused on the july 25 call. the president's abuse of office for his benefit and no one else's. now my colleague confirmed the presidents pressed for these investigations was not an objective of u.s. foreign policy, correct? is there any evidence that national security council wanted an investigation into the bidens, burisma, or any interference in 2016? any evidence about the state department wanting them? about the dod? >> no evidence of that. >> did any witness tell you they wanted ukraine to investigate the bidens on the 2016 election? >> no. >> we certainly know now the ukrainians did not want to either. in fact they made it very clear they did not want to be an instrument in washington domestic reelection politics. so the only person who is a beneficiary from that investigation is president trump and off-white everyone on on the july 25 call knew it was wrong. the investigative committee or testimony from three witnesses who participated in that call, is that correct? >> listen to that call. >> even in real

july 25th he spoke with president trump, july 26th he melt with voluker, pence and senator ron johnson, senator chris murphy in kyiv. in none of these meetings did president zelensky raise any concerns about linkage between security assistance and investigations. in particular the september 5th meeting is notable because they're not partot of the trump administration and president zelensky could be candid with them. what did occur during those 55 days were historic efforts to implement anti-corruption form. vice president penceru had presd president zelensky about these reforms during their september 1st meeting. morrison testified that he noted that everyone on the ukrainian side of the table was exhausted because they had been up all night working on these reforms. president trump discussed the matter with pence, senator portman ande, acting chief of staff mulmulvaney. they discussed whether ukraine's progress on anti-corruption reformpt was enough to justify releasing the security assistance. morrison testified that vice president pence was obviously armed withsl the conversation h

this is dated july 19, 2019 before the call. mr. jewel july sagiuliani says travel to kyiv in the coming days and wants to meet with the nation's president-elect to urge him to pursue inquiries about two matters of intense interest to mr. trump. one is the origin of the special counsel's investigation into russia's interference, and the other is the involvement of former vice president joseph r. biden and his son. >> can we talk about the breakfast with volker? >> not yet. if we can continue to slide 17. this is the same article. and mr. giuliani was very explicit when he was interviewed. and he said, this isn't foreign policy. i'm quoting with the words that are highlighted. he says, he will be very, very helpful to my client. my only client is the president of the united states. he's the only one i have an obligation to report to, tell him what happened. and let's go to slide 18. this is from real clear politics, and it should be on the screen in front of you as well. what mr. giuliani said about the ukraine, he said, it's a big s

and stay focused on the july 25 call. the president's abuse of office for his benefit, no one else's. now, as my colleague ms. jackson lee confirmed, the president's request for these investigations was not an objective of u.s. foreign policy, correct? >> that's right. >> is there any evidence the national security council wanted an investigation into the bidens, burisma, or any alleged ukrainian interference in 2016? >> no. >> any evidence about the state department wanting them? >> no. >> how about the dod? the dod want those investigations? >> no evidence of that. >> did any witness tell you that they wanted ukraine to investigate the bidens of the 2016 election? >> no. >> we certainly know now that the ukrainians did not want it either. in fact, they d made it very clr they did not want to be an instrument -- this is a quote -- an instrument in washington domestic re-election politics. so the only person who was a beneficiary from that investigation is president trump. and that's why everyone on the july 25 call knew

on july 25th, he spoke with president trump on the phone. july 26, met with ambassador volker, ambassador taylor, ambassador sondland. on august 27th, he met with ambassador bolton. september 1st, vice president pence in warsaw and on september 5th, he met with senator ron johnson, senator chris murphy and in none of these meetings did he raise any concern about a linkage between security assistance and investigations. in particular, the september 5th meeting with senator johnson and senator murphy is notable because they are not part of the trump administration and he could be candid with them. what did occur during those 55 days or historic efforts by ukraine of parliament to implement anticorruption reform. vice president pence had pressed president zelensky about these reforms during their september 1st meeting. in their deposition, ambassador taylor lau did his rapid reforms and national security council official morrison testified that during the meeting that he noted everyone on the ukrainian side of the table was exhausted as they ha

on july 25th he spoke with president trump on the phone. july 26th he met with ambassador volker, ambassador taylor, ambassador sondland in kiev. on august 27th he met with ambassador bolton. september 1st he met with vice president pence in warsaw. on september 5th he met with senator ron johnson, senator chris murphy in kiev. in none of these meetings did president zelensky raise any concern about linkage between security assistance and investigations. in particular the september 5th meeting with senator johnson and senator murphy is notable because they're not part of the trump administration and president zelensky could be candid with them. what did occur during those 55 days were historic efforts by ukraine's parliament to implement anti-corruption reform. vice president pence pressed president zelensky about these reforms during their september 1st meeting. in their depositions ambassador taylor lauded refornls and morrison testified during a meeting in kiev they noted everyone on the ukrainian side of the table was exhausted because

hill voiced her concerns to the nsc lawyers on july 10 and july 11th, long before anyone on the committee knew about it. why was she -- why did she go to report what she had learned? what motivated her? >> she was concerned that ambassador sondland and mick mulvaney were entering into essentially a transaction whereby the ukrainians would open up investigations for president trump's political interests in return for getting the white house meeting that president trump had offered. >> and i want to talk about deputy assistant secretary george kent who served as a career foreign service office for more than 27 years under five different presidents, democrats and republicans alike. and he wrote or updated notes to file on four different occasions to record his grave contemporaneous concerns about the president's conduct. mr. goldman, what were the events that led mr. kent to draft notes to his file? >> there were several. there was a conversation at the end of june where several american officials had indicated to president zelensky that he needed to go forward with these investigations. the

just like he did not mention corruption on the july 25th call. shortly after this call, president trump asked vice president mike pence to attend president zelensky's inauguration. but on may 13th, president trump did an about-face and directed vice president pence not to attend. an adviser to vice president pence testified that the inauguration had not yet been scheduled and, therefore, the reason for the abrupt change of plans was not related to any scheduling issues. so what had happened in the three weeks between april 21st and may 13th when vice president pence was originally invited and disinvited or removed from the delegation? a few things. first, on april 25th, vice president biden formally announced his bid for the democratic nomination for president. about a week later on may 3rd, president trump spoke with president putin on the telephone. one senior state department official testified that the conversation between president trump and president putin included a discussion of ukraine. third, on may 9th, mr. giuliani told "the new york

so i would like to start with turning back to the july 25th call. it is a fact that in the president's own words and the transcript submitted by him reveals that after ukraine asked for military aid, trump says, i would like you to do us a favor, though. >> right after president zelensky thanks president trump for the military assistance, then president trump asked for a favor and of course by this point president trump had already placed the hold on the security assistance. >> now my republican colleagues have suggested that the ukrainians did not even know about the military aid being withheld, is that true? >> no. there was significant evidence that even as early as july 25th, at the time of the call, that ukrainian officials suspected that the aid was being withheld and there was a "new york times" article last week that was included in the report but from the deputy foreign minister who said that ukraine -- president zelensky's office received a diplomatic cable from the embassy here the week of july 25th saying that the aid had been held. >> c

on july 25th, he spoke with president trump on the phone. july 26th he met with ambassador volker, ambassador taylor and ambassador sondland in kyiv. on august 27th, he met with ambassador bolton. september 1st he met with vice president pence in warsaw, and on september 5th he met with senator ron johnson, senator chris murphy in kyiv. in any of these meetings did the president raise concerns about security linkage and investigations. in particular, the september 5th meeting with senator johnson and senator murphy is notable because they are not part of the trump administration and president zelensky could be candid with them. what did occur during those 55 days was historic effort in reform. vice president pence pressed e president zelensky about these, and tim morrison testified that during a meeting in kyiv, everybody on their side of the table were exhausted because they had been up all night working on these forms. president trump met with vice president pence and acting chief of staff mick mulvaney. they discussed whether ukraine's ab

hill voiced her concerns, the nsc's lawyers, on july 10 and july 11th long before anyone on this committee knew about it. why was she -- why did she go to report what she had learned? what motivated her? >> she was concerned that ambassador sondland and mick mulvaney were entering into essentially a transaction. whereby the ukrainians would open up these investigations for president trump's political interests. in return for getting the white house meeting that president trump had offered. >> and i want to talk about deputy assistant secretary george kent, who served as a career foreign service officer for more than 27 years under five different presidents. democrats and republicans alike. and he wrote or updated notes to file on four different occasions to record his grave contemporaneous concerns about the president's conduct. mr. goldman, what were the events that led mr. kent to draft these notes to his file? >> there were several. there was a conversation at the end of june. where several american officials had indicated to president zelensky that he needed to go forward with these in

on july 19, ambassador sondland emailed mr. mulvaney, secretary perry, secretary pompeo and others after speaking with president zelensky. the subject was i talked to zielinski just now. wrote, he sondland has prepared to receive potus' call. it will ensure him he will run a fully transparent investigation" turn over every storm -- every stone. mulvaney responded to the email, given that that conversation a date would soon be scheduled, the white house telephone call. the evidence also shows that the ukrainians understood this quid pro quo and had serious reservations, particularly because president zelensky won the election on an anticorruption platform. a few days before the july 25 call, ambassador william taylor, the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine texted ambassador sondland and volker. rather, he stated in his testimony on july 20 i had a phone conversation during which he conveyed to me that president zelensky did not want to be used in a u.s. reelection campaign. president trump's pressure campaign on president zelensk

so i would like to start with turning back to the july 25th call. it's a fact that in the president's own words in the transcript submitted by him reveals that after ukraine asked for military aid, trump says "i would like you to do us a favor though. >> right after president zelensky things president trump for the military assistance, then asks for a favor and by this point, president trump had already placed a hold on the security assistance. >> my republican colleagues have suggested that the ukrainians did not know about the aid being held, is that true? >> there was significant evidence that even as early as july 25th at the time of this call that ukrainian officials had suspected that the aide was being withheld and there was a "new york times" article last week that wasn't included on the report but for the former deputy foreign minister who said that his office received a diplomatic cable from the embassy here the week of july 25th saying that the aide had been held. >> it was july 25th the same day of the call but the state department email

hill voiced her concerns to the nsc's lawyers on july 10 and july 11, long before anyone on this committee knew about it. why was she -- why did she go to report what she had learned? what motivated her? >> she was concerned that ambassador sondland and mick mulvaney were entering into essentially a transaction whereby the ukrainians would open up these investigations for president trump's political interests in return for getting the white house meeting that president trump had offered. >> i want to talk about deputy assistant secretary george kent who served as a career foreign service officer for more than 27 years under five different presidents, democrats and republicans alike. he wrote or updated notes to file on four different occasions to record his grave contemporaneous concerns about the president's conduct. mr. goldman, what were the events that led mr. kent to draft these notes to his file? >> there were several. there was a conversation at the end of june where several american officials had indicated to president zelensky that he needed to go forward with these investigations

on july 26th u.s. officials met with president zelensky and other ukraine officials in kiev and president zelensky mentioned that president trump had brought up some quote very sensitive issues, unquote. after that meeting ambassador sondland had a private one-on-one meeting with an draw yermak, president zell's top aide. ambassador sondland said they probably discussed the issue of investigations. after that with mr. holmes and who other state department officers ambassador sondland pulled out his cell phone and called president trump. somewhat shocked, mr. holmes recounted the conversation that followed. i heard ambassador sondland greet the president and explain he was calling from kiev. i heard president trump then clarify that ambassador sondland was in ukraine. ambassador sondland said yes, he was in ukraine and went on to state that president zelensky loves your ass, unquote. i then heard president trump ask, so he is going to do the investigation? ambassador sondland replied he is going to do i

on the july 10 meeting. there are episodes, i think, during the course of the investigation, that we have not at least been able to get everyone's accounts. investigation has not been able to reveal first-hand evidence other than the call transcript. >> we have already talked about this, that ambassador sondland would presume things, assume opinions basedm on what other people told him, and he would use those as first-hand. >> is started with his role of the ukraine portfolio. a lot of people at the state department were wondering why the ambassador at the eu was so engaged to issues related to ukraine. there are answers. ukraine is aspirant to join the eu. and there are a lot of other reasons. you scored this very well at the opening hearing. ambassador sondland said he did the 26th ofew on july where he said the president has given me a lot of assignments. the president has assigned me to ukraine and so forth. when we asked him, he conceded that he was suspending, that the president never assigned him to u

on july 26th, u.s. officials met with president zelensky and other ukrainian officials in kyiv, and president zelensky brought up trump had brought up some, quote, very sensitive issues, unquote. after that meeting, ambassador sondland had a private one-on-one meting with andre yermak. during which they said they probably discussed the issue of investigations. after lunch right after that with mr. holmes and two other state department officers, ambassador sondland pulled out a cell phone and called president trump. somewhat shocked, mr. holmes recounted the conversation that followed. i heard ambassador sondland greet the president and explain he was calling from kyiv. i heard president trump then clarify that ambassador sondland was in ukraine. ambassador sondland replied, yes, he was in ukraine and went on to state that president zelensky, quote, loves your ass, unquote. i then heard president trump ask, so he's going to do the investigation? ambassador sondland replied that he is going to do it addin

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