he was never a big fan of kurt volcker. volcker knew that president trump was interested in this investigation, in pushing an investigation into joe biden. so he felt like he had to engage in some sort of way. that's what a source close with volcker told me just this week when we were discussing this. >> because that issue, susan, is whether or not the president in that phone conversation with president zelensky of ukraine, for all practical purposes said, you want u.s. aid, get me dirt on the bidens. >> this is why volcker's resignation could spell some trouble for the white house. the claims of executive privilege only work for current officials or for officials who aren't interested in testifying. so volcker might not be interested in being the fall guy here. we saw rudy giuliani essentially say if i'm going down, i'm taking you down with me. state department officials were in a difficult position. rudy giuliani is out there freelancing ukrainian policy. they're trying to understand what's going on. now, volcker might be

>> brennan: i want to ask you because you may have direct knowledge here, since you have said kurt volcker the u.s. envoy to the ukraine set up those meetings you said for you with ukraine's leaders, he has resigned, do you know why? >> i don't know why kurt resigned, i mean,. >> brennan: he is being deposed this week. >> kurt did his job honorably and decently. i think already a lot of people in the state department who maybe have questions about what he did and why he did it but i should tell you, he wasn't the only one. he was joined by another ambassador who talked to me, debriefed me, gave me information about what to ask mr. urmack. >> brennan: who is thaded. >> i didn't do this at my own, i did this at the request of the state department and i have all of to text messages to prove it, and i also have a thank you from them for doing a good job. so -- >> brennan: who sent you that? >> why is the state department. >> did pompeo ask you to do this things? >> he did not mr. volcker did and mr. sunday lynn did but after i talked to the secretary last week he said he was aware of it, he to

kurt volcker who is at ambassador levels. judge jeanine: and kurt volcker set up the meeting. sets up the meeting and suddenly resigns. could he be the one leaking the information? >> i would seriously doubt it. i feel sorry for what's happening kurt. judge jeanine: why did he resign? >> i don't know, maybe they got angry he brought me in. judge jeanine: the leaks in the white house. >> a lot of them want to undermine the president of the united states. and they are from the obama days. judge jeanine: why can't the white house control the leaks. >> white houses haven't been able to control leaks. i had leaks when i was mayor. mayors -- weak people do it. we have an anonymous witch hunter -- we have an anonymous whistleblower who has no direct evidence, noing. it should be thrown out. it's all hearsay. i have that much direct evidence and they don't want to hear from me. they want to investigate how i found it rather than the truth of it. judge jeanine: the president mentions reciprocal when he talks about the ukraine. you know they will jump all over that. should they be able

the ambassador and kurt volcker, democrats believe, can take us beyond the president's call. they believe this was going on weeks and months in advance and that the former ambassador and the former special envoy know all the critical pieces, a, about what rudy giuliani was doing, and b, how much government resources went into this. >> absolutely. they played a role into hearing from the state department, hearing from rudy giuliani who wants to come over and meet with these people, helping set the meetings up, and they know where the pressure points were, especially relating to the $400 million in aid in military and state department aid that was held up that is also a piece of this. so that's sort of the first stumbling blocks they have to get through. and eventually, you know, the mysterious whistleblower might come and testify, and at that point, what threads get pulled out, we're still really waiting to see. >> where we are at the moment is this is still, for the large part, a democrat-led enterprise. there are no republicans so far jumping on board. there are republicans

then you have ukraine asking that same state department official, ambassador kurt volcker, to set upeting with them to connect them with rudy giuliani. now, the state department does acknowledge on the record that they connected giuliani to the ukrainian aide, but what giuliani is now saying is that he did it at the direction, that he was told that he had to have those meetings by the state department. that's where it gets a little bit murky here and that's where secretary pompeo has stayed out of it. we know that he did sign off on this -- >> release. >> -- connection that was made by ambassador kurt volcker, but he's not wading into this territory directly because it could implicate him and get him in some trouble. >> he also didn't want the log of the call released but has acquiesced and now we're going to see it within hours. >> sure. >> great reporting, thank you very much. >>> this afternoon on top of all of this, it is the united nations general assembly here in new york and the president will meet with the president of ukraine. congressman mike rodgers, former congressman, fo

a trump administration official resigns amid the ukraine controversy and i'm referring to kurt volckeresident trump's special envoy to ukraine stepping down following allegations of a cover-up. volcker was named in the whistle-blower complaint released to us yesterday. it comes as nancy pelosi says, another administration official, the attorney general, has gone rogue. >> i do think the attorney general has gone rogue. he has for a long time now and since he was mentioned in all of this it's curious that he would be making decisions about how the complaint would be handled. >> all right. and my panel is back with me. so john dean, let me just start with you. do you think speaker pelosi is right. she's referring obviously to the attorney general bill barr who was named in the complaint as worked with my attorney general and rudy giuliani often in the same sentence with the ukraine president. >> i think her assessment is correct. it's a question of where he's gone rogue or from whom, and i think it's from the american people and into trying to be a defense counsel for the president, and

special envoy to ukraine is out, kurt volcker. he name was in the whistle-blower complaint.e left the day after this came out. democrats in the house are still going to want to talk to him and now access to him got a little bit easier if he left the white house. he's one of dozens of people who knew about about or actively participated in a concerted effort to benefit one man, president donald j. trump. the whistle-blower cites more than a half dozen u.s. officials who know the facts and a dozen white house officials who listened in on the call. the acting dni's testimony gave us even more names. so as you push in closer to the president, you see some big names personally in this. volcker's right there with some of the most powerful men in the government, which is why his resignation and possible testimony certainly matter. at the heart of this, we get to two people, the president and a man who hasn't held elected office in over 18 years. it was last week right here that rudy giuliani tried to create so much smoke, he may have choked on it. >> did you ask the ukraine to inve

democrats want to hear from some trump administration folks like kurt volcker, like mike pompeo.hey want to get more information on how this played out. it does feel like the major democrats who had been on the fence before and trying to contain this thing, including ,he speaker and adam schiff those folks who had been on the fence about moving forward with impeachment seemed to be fully on board with this and really focused and narrowed in on this ukraine scandal. it does feel like we are headed for impeachment regardless of what the white house does or says at this point. host: this is what speaker nancy pelosi said yesterday at the texas tribune festival. she talked about the impeachment investigation. [video clip] itthe president did not see was wrong to do that and the other facts that unfolded as we saw. , very different from impeachment, impeachment is you make a decision whether to impeach. >> this is an effort to determine what the facts are and if the allegations -- >> i think they are quite self-evident. they are. >> you're prepared to pronounce them self-evident witho

let's look at a tweet he just sent out -- it's a text he received from kurt volcker, a special representativet. he said, mr. mayor, really enjoyed breakfast, as cut. i suggest we schedule a time on monday, maybe 10:00 a.m. or 11:00 a.m. washington time. in this complaint there were concerns by u.s. officials that giuliani was circumventing the process, and i've heard that from state department officials. but pompeo yesterday said everything that the state department officials were doing was entirely appropriate. we're waiting for an update. >> giuliani also did an interview, spoke with the atlantic after the complaint came out, saying he does not deserve scrutiny. what does he mean. >> he said he is the one who should be the hero. he said he's looking forward to watching the state department sync themselves as they try to create distance. he's proving he's willing to come out with something to show though. >> thank so much. >>> coming up, joe biden has found himself at the center of all of this, and he's fighting back, accusing the president of trying to hijack the election. that's next. ♪ th

kurt volcker, the special representative for ukraine and gordon sandler, ambassador to the eu who according to the complaint spoke with giuliani in an attempt to contain the damage. all of them, you saw them up on your screen. see how that worked out? and tonight we're really just at the very beginning of all of this. the house speak aer nancy pelos says he wants a fast impeachment inquiry focused on the president of ukraine. so we may get an answer very soon. stay tuned. abuse of power. a coverup. serious accusations against this president. where does the investigation go from here? that's the question. mike rodgers is here, susan hennessey, sean turner. they will answer next. ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft for the win win. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. unfortunately, it can't do anything about that. now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? you wanna see something thatama

diplomat kurt volcker who by the way resigned today was upset about rudy giuliani's role in pushing kievopen investigation into the bidens and that volcker sought to, quote, contain the damage from giuliani's outreach to ukraine. fox news now has text messages between volcker and giuliani from july 19th showing that volcker actually encouraged rudy giuliani to reach out to ukraine and even connected giuliani to a source very close to president zelensky. tucker. >> tucker: thank you, trace. for two years democrats told us that proof of russian collusion was eminent, any day now, they said. we're still waiting. now, democrats like ted lu want the public to trust them that the evidence on ukraine is just around the corner. president trump, they tell us, was definitely making a corrupt deal with ukraine's president. joe biden's son and his $50,000 a month no so job nothing to see here. move along. >> hunter biden receiving $50,000 a month from a ukrainian energy company, do you think that that is evidence of corrupt behavio behavior? >> no. people sit on boards and they get monetary payments

this i think the challenge for whouts this morning is they're grappling with the resignation of kurt volcker, the special envoy for ukraine. how they explain that is going to be interesting in the next 24-48 hours. we heard from nancy pelosi last night. her consistent line is she's taking no joy in these impeachment proceedings but that she has an obligation and a duty to do them and to undertake these proceedings and to follow it wherever it may lead. >> hans nichols thank you. >>> i want to bring back in our panel again. picking up with hans' reporting. you have heard from jay sekulow there defending the president, saying it was secondhand information. how far is this argument going to go when it comes to defending the president? >> as far as it needs to. we've seen that team trump will do whatever they can, not to show that he's innocent or right, but rather to discredit other people. that's the only thing they have going for them right now. there is no strategy, there's no war room gearing up for this impeachment. the white house staff is scurrying around because they're frightened and s

. >> and you're in favorite of kurt volcker testifying for them and dan coats and rudy giuliani?tely. i think there is a legitimate oversight responsibility. what i don't think is that when you have rashida tlaib and al green saying, publicly, we don't impeach him, he's going to get re-elected. when you have cory booker on here saying, this is a chance for us to get at. and you hear aisha saying, we're very unhappy with everybody coming up before the congress and saying, we're exerting executive privilege. that's what this is about? and. >> no, i want the congresswoman here and her colleagues to have the opportunity to actually sort through the facts and be able to understand them and explain them back to the american public. and rowan, they're unable to do that, because this administration is blocking, at every juncture, their ability to access the documents that they should be -- >> so that's what this impeachment is about? >> that's what -- >> not about ukraine. >> let me bring in the congresswoman. it is true that congresswoman rashida tlaib said on her inaugural party, let's

because she was seen as being an enemy of the president or not and loyal to him and bester kurt volker volcker who is a long respected diplomat in the united states but he's also involved in this with her blower complaint he was the leader in ukraine the whistleblower says that he was trying to basically clean up really giuliani's mess so they're going to depose him the deputy assistant secretary of state george kent the councilor brett brecht ball and bassett or gordon someone and he is the u.s. ambassador to the european union so this is these are depositions and what they're going to do is sit down put them under oath and try to get to the facts don't expect this to be televised where you see come members of congress sometimes grandstanding not get a lot of information this is under oath they're going to ask for all of the facts and again lying to congress is a felony. patty the revelations and allegations of the interactions between president trump and his ukrainian counterpart have clearly something of a turning point for the democrats now they have it's triggered impeachment but nonethel

with 5 state department officials four of whom are named in the was a lower complaint including kurt volcker, the us envoy for ukraine who resigned on friday, he set up a meeting between giuliani and a top adviser to ukraine's president. on friday nancy pelosi said there is no deadline for the impeachment probe but it will move expeditiously. >> this is not a cause for any joy that we have to go down this path. it is difficult decision to make. but we have that obligation. >> reporter: adam schiff was very clear that these subpoenas are just the first of many to come and more will be issued next week. also the intelligence community inspector general who found the whistleblower complaint credible despite finding evidence of political bias against donald trump is scheduled to testify in a closed-door hearing friday. >> someone who knows how this works out, the push to impeach is at stake. it might come back to bite the party pushing it. always good to see you. why do you say that? >> i say that because impeachment is doomed to fail given what we know. the facts are flowing in. in the history

among them kurt volcker who abruptly resigned.g democrats do-nothing savages of over the summer the president was asked about whether he would accept dirt on other opponents. here's what he told george stephanopoulos. >> if something called, norway, i have information on yew opponent, i think i would hear it. >> you would want interference in an election? >> it's not interference. it's information. >>> joyce vance is now an msnbc legal analyst. jake, let me start with you. two letters, one from the house speaker, one from the chairman of the house intelligence committee describing steps forward here. yes, they're on recess, in their district work periods, but the work continues, they say. >> that's true. all the committees will be working over this two-week recess. the challenge will be for democrats to keep the drumbeat going, i think. i think that's a big political challenge. the intelligence committee will be doing interviews. the house will try to weaponize the administration's unwillingness to cooperate with these investigati

. >> kurt volcker set up the meeting -- >> i assume the secretary knew. and when i spoke to the secretary afterward, he told me he had some knowledge of it. >> he asked you a question, where's bill barr on this? >> well, i put all the evidence out in public. >> that's the answer to this question? >> it's all out there. i'm not pressuring anybody. >> reporter: well, that's a great question. where is bill barr on this? well, a person familiar with his thinking told the associated press that barr was, quote, surprised and angry to learn that trump had lumped him in with giuliani on that call with the ukrainian president. joining me now, democratic congresswoman, madeleine dean of pennsylvania. she's a member of the judiciary committee, one of the six house committees conducting the impeachment inquiry. and congresswoman, thank you for being here. i'm going to start with that question about william barr. in your view, is he sufficiently implicated by the whistle-blower in this scheme to both try and cook up an investigation that exonerates russia for attackin

special envoy to ukraine ambassador kurt volker soon after volcker quit his state department job this comes just after he and other top administration officials were named by a whistleblower in the complaint he alleges the president cut off foreign aid to ukraine and days later in a phone call asked the ukrainian president for a favor a promise to investigate trump's potential rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who once had a seat on the ukrainian company board now the u.s. president is trying to turn the tables releasing this ad accusing biden of being in the wrong the prosecutor not fired. trump is accusing biden of getting a ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his son when in fact the prosecutor was fired for not going after corruption cases look in the weeks and the months to come is to congress's job to pursue the facts and. donald trump accountable in the meantime my job. our job is to make sure all else we beat down the track what does seem clear is that after so many months of trying to investigate not getting very far in this investigation is mo

special envoy to ukraine ambassador kurt volker soon after volcker quit his state department job this comes just after he and other top administration officials were named by a whistleblower in the complaint he alleges the president cut off foreign aid to ukraine and days later in a phone call asked the ukrainian president for a favor a promise to investigate trump's potential rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who once had a seat on the ukrainian company board now the u.s. president is trying to turn the tables releasing this ad accusing biden of being in the wrong the prosecutor is not fired for not giving the money trump is accusing biden of getting a ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his son when in fact the prosecutor was fired for not going after corruption cases look in the weeks and the months to come is to congress's job to pursue the facts and. donald trump accountable in the meantime my job. our job is to make sure we beat donald trump what does seem clear is that after so many months of trying to investigate not getting very far in this inv

special envoy to ukraine ambassador kurt volker soon after volcker quit his state department job this comes just after he and other top administration officials were named by a whistleblower in the complaint he alleges the president cut off foreign aid to ukraine and days later in a phone call asked the ukrainian president for a favor a promise to investigate trump's potential rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who once had a seat on the ukrainian company board now the u.s. president is trying to turn the tables releasing this ad accusing biden of being in the wrong brush clearing out fire. trump is accusing biden of getting a ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his son when in fact the prosecutor was fired for not going after corruption cases look in the weeks and months to come is that congress's job to pursue the facts and. donald trump accountable in the meantime my job. our job to make sure we beat. what does seem clear is that after so many months of trying to investigate not getting very far in this investigation is moving their fast so far the ad

special envoy to ukraine ambassador kurt volker soon after volcker quit his state department job this comes just after he and other top administration officials were named by a whistleblower in the complaint he alleges the president cut off foreign aid to ukraine and days later in a phone call asked the ukrainian president for a favor a promise to investigate trump's potential rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who once had a seat on the ukrainian company board now the u.s. president is trying to turn the tables releasing this ad accusing biden of being in the wrong the prosecutor not fired for not getting the money trump is accusing biden of getting a ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his son when in fact the prosecutor was fired for not going after corruption cases look in the weeks and the months to come is to congress's job to pursue the facts and to haul donald trump accountable in the meantime my job. our job to make sure we beat. what does seem clear is that after so many months of trying to investigate not getting very far in this investigation

special envoy to ukraine ambassador kurt volker soon after volcker quit his state department job this comes just after he and other top administration officials were named by a whistleblower in the complaint he alleges the president cut off foreign aid to ukraine and days later in a phone call asked the ukrainian president for a favor a promise to investigate trump's potential rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who once had a seat on the ukrainian company board now the u.s. president is trying to turn the tables releasing this ad accusing biden of being in the wrong the prosecutor not fired. trump is accusing biden of getting a ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his son when in fact the prosecutor was fired for not going after corruption cases look in the weeks and the months to come is to congress's job to pursue the facts and. donald trump accountable in the meantime my job. our job to make sure we beat. what does seem clear is that after so many months of trying to investigate not getting very far in this investigation is moving very fast so far the

documents, committees have scheduled depositions with five state department officials including kurt volckerriday. volcker helped set up a meeting between giuliani and an advisor to ukraine's president to discuss investigating the biden family. on friday speaker nancy pelosi said while there is no deadline for the impeachment probe it will be moving ahead expeditiously. >> so in this is not a cause for any joy that we have to go down this path. it's a difficult decision to make but we have that obligation. >> next one will be a busy one on impeachment front. first depositions scheduled to take place. additional subpoenas are expected to be filed. on friday the intelligence committee's inspector general is expected to testify in a closed door hearing. you may remember the ig found the whistleblower's complaint credible despite finding evidence that they held political bias against president trump. back to y'all. ed: garrett tenney live from washington. you can hear democrats -- there was dramatic shift. nancy pelosi a few days ago, let's hold the line. let's not rush to judgment and impeachme

kurt volker. the next day volcker tells us he resigns. lots of legal questions.chael moore, thanks for being with us. >> let's talk more about that, rudy giuliani, because he's fighting back. he said he had the state department's blessing to reach out to ukraine. >> reporter: rudy giuliani is fighting back, insisting his talks with ukrainian officials were proper, important, and encouraged by the u.s. state department. >> in fact, i'm a legitimate whistle-blower. >> so why is president trump's personal lawyer so worked up? it comes in the wake of news about the now infamous call between trump and ukrainian president zelensky. in that call giuliani's name comes up repeatedly as trump asks for an investigation of former vice president joe biden. giuliani knows what's happening. if you speak to him, that would be great. that raises accusations that giuliani was acting as an improper person in the state department. giuliani says no way. he was investigating corruption and he has the state papers to back it. >> i went there at the request of the state department, 15 m

special envoy to ukraine ambassador kurt volker soon after volcker quit his state department job this comes just after he and other top administration officials were named by a whistleblower in the complaint he alleges the president cut off foreign aid to ukraine and days later in a phone call asked the ukrainian president for a favor a promise to investigate trump's potential rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who once had a seat on the ukrainian company board now the u.s. president is trying to turn the tables releasing this ad accusing biden of being in the wrong the prosecutor not fired you're not going to trump is accusing biden of getting a ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his son when in fact the prosecutor was fired for not going after corruption cases look in the weeks and the months to come is to congress's job to pursue the facts and. donald trump accountable in the meantime my job our job is to make sure we beat donald trump what does seem clear is that after so many months of trying to investigate not getting very far in this investigatio

envoy to ukraine kurt volker who issued his resignation last night. volckers a key figure in the whole ukraine controversy. he's named in the whistle-blower complaint as someone who set up a key meeting between rudy giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, and a top aide to crew cranian leader zelensky. he said it was in order to followup on the president's july 25th phone call. so volcker's actions facilitating giuliani's contacts are going to be scrutinized as well, victor and christi. >> plenty of questions there. sarah westwood, thank you. >> good morning, lynn. good to see you. coming off that, i want to ask you about secretary pompeo. what can they do to compel him to speak? >> it may end up in a court battle. what you can't do here is raid an office. you know, this is not what it was, a battle of the white house and secretary of state, go in and cart out materials p obviously you can't do that here. we'll see if this becomes a court battle and if the committees are able to get what they need in some other way while they fight this. you know, this thi

special envoy to ukraine ambassador kurt volker soon after volcker quit his state department job this comes just after he and other top administration officials were named by a whistleblower in the complaint he alleges the president cut off foreign aid to ukraine and days later in a phone call asked the ukrainian president for a favor a promise to investigate trump's potential rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who once had a seat on the ukrainian company board now the u.s. president is trying to turn the tables releasing this ad accusing biden of being in the wrong brush clearing out fire. trump is accusing biden of getting a ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his son when in fact the prosecutor was fired for not going after corruption cases look in the weeks and the months to come is to congress's job to pursue the facts and. donald trump accountable in the meantime my job. our job to make sure we beat. what does seem clear is that after so many months of trying to investigate not getting very far in this investigation is moving their e. fast so far t

kurt volker. sources tell cnn volcker resigned from his position last night. he was mentioned several times in the whistle-blower complaint. he ee said to be a key figure between rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney. they want his and the others' depositions completed by october 10th, victor and christi. >> sara west wood, we appreciate it. thank you. >>> she voted to impeach president nixon and she said she would do the same for president trump. congressman holtzman joins us next. >>> we have more information on the alleged bomber who terrorized new york. what if other kinds of plants captured it too? if these industrial plants had technology that captured carbon like trees we could help lower emissions. carbon capture is important technology - and experts agree. that's why we're working on ways to improve it. so plants... can be a little more... like plants. ♪ and my side super soft? be firm? with the sleep number 360 smart bed you can both... adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. so, can it help us fall asleep faster? yes, by gentl

special envoy to ukraine kurt volker has quit after being named in a whistleblower complaint volcker is one of several officials accused of trying to cover up an incriminating phone call between president donald trump and ukrainian president vladimir the landscape the whistleblower accuse chump of pressurising his opposite number to investigate his political rival joe biden has been asked to give evidence to politicians about the call earlier we were joined by matthew cook for from the kiev post newspaper he says kurt volker will be missed in ukraine. i think this will be a very negative event will be perceived quite negatively in ukraine volcker was highly respected both in ukraine and on both sides of the aisle in the u.s. he was seen as a positive big year a lot of people in ukraine say that he was very sensitive to the issues he listened a lot and he also from the point of view of the u.s. he was someone who could push negotiations and and approaches to the pretention resolving this conflict even sometimes when they weren't necessarily entirely palatable and ukraine in general th

inquiry against the us president kurt volker stepped down after whistleblower report emerged about a phone call between president donald trump and ukraine's leader volcker was named in the report which alleges that trump tried to pressure the ukrainian government into digging for information on a political rival democratic presidential hopeful joe biden congressional investigators are set to interview volcker and 4 other state department officials next week they've also subpoenaed secretary of state mike pompei over documents concerning contact with the ukrainian government trump says democrats have launched a politically motivated witchhunt. to show his carrying on as normal at the white house president trump meeting with leaders of the hispanic community a key votes a group he needs to whom for 2020. crisis what crisis. but away from the cameras the president is raging his anger is directed at the man now leading the impeachment inquiry against him on twitter trump wrote adam schiff must resign and be investigated he's been doing this for 2 years he's a sick man. chairmanships committee is now in overdrive the california democrat has signaled he's kee

kurt volker decided he could no longer be effective in his post. the house foreign affairs committee has announced that volcker will be questioned next week. >>> a bipartisan group of u.s. lawmakers is headed to ukraine. their main goal is to see the effect of u.s. withholding military aid. that happened just before president trump reportedly asked ukraine's president to look into allegations of the former vice president joe biden. the nearly $400 million in aid was eventually released to ukraine. one of the lawmakers who made the trip spoke with cnn about it. take a listen. >> we're going to have to be very, very careful, one, because of the task the six of us have in the impeachment inquiry itself. yes, we're going to have to be very careful. with the military, those are straightforward questions. we don't have to dance around it. you do have the equipment you need, have there been delays, what have been theism plications caused by the president of withholding those funds of nearly 60 days. it's almost half a billion dollars of critical equipment as well as the money to pay for the american trainers. >> let'

special representative for ukraine negotiations kurt volker visited kiev and met with president zelensky. volckeras accompanied in his meetings by u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon suddenland. the ambassadors reportedly provided advice to the ukrainian leadership about how to navigate the demands that president had made of mr. zelensky. joining us now, richard engel, chief foreign correspondent from ukraine, reporting on ukraine closely since 2014 and covered the political uprising there, investigated paul manafort's dealings there and you just spoke to the former deputy foreign minister moments ago. what have you learned? >> well, officials here in kiev are terrified about what's going on in washington right now they are in an incredibly weak position, a position here many felt president trump tried to exploit. this country is fighting a war against a superior rival and adversary namely vladimir putin's russia. they are completely dependent on the united states for political support, for military support, so when the trump administration withheld about $400 million worth of military a

and he has excellent record so yes he's saying the current volcker submitted his resignation so why does this matter well in this complaint kurt volker is former ambassador court he's figures prominently in here and the whistleblowers say he knows what went on so the these congressional committees now have subpoenaed 5 different people they're going to testify over the next 2 weeks kurt volker saying that he's stepping away from the state department gives him potentially more ability to talk now the president what he's been doing the u.s. president donald trump what he's been doing during all these investigations not just up until now but he's invoked executive privilege saying that anyone he's talked to can't actually speak to members of congress now he could still claim that with volcker having left the administration but it's important to point out that when the president is facing impeachment hearing the courts give wide latitude to congress to investigate this comes back from richard nixon went all the way up to the supreme court and the supreme court ruled that when it comes to investigating potential corruption and crim

kurt bowker has resigned. we're waiting to hear back for official confirmation from the u.s. state department but it's been widely reported that bassett or volcker has resigned interesting timing he was named specifically in the whistleblower claim it says he was trying to clean up rudy giuliani in the president's personal lawyer clean up his mess and the congress committees 3 of them said they want to know exactly what he has to say volcker so one of the things we're waiting for is now just a few hours ago these committees issued subpoenas for documents from the state department and they want to depose 5 different state department officials were waiting to see if u.s. president donald trump is going to do what he normally does in the situations when congress is trying to investigate him in the last year he basically claims executive privilege so we're waiting to see just how the state department is going to react to the president is going to react up until now they've pretty much just dismissed all of the requests refuse to let people testify they might are facing a much different situation now and i can't stress this enough how much everything