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it is going to be interesting to see where they're going to go because up until kurt volcker, their entirehad people saying impression. ambassador taylor here to tell you what i heard. ambassador volcker had direct knowledge. he denied every element of their claim. they will have to rebuild their case with someone. we've certainly not seen that yet. brian: real quick, gordon sondland will ask about a conversation someone overheard him talkinging to the president about. no one discussed this with him. what is your approach? is it possible to hear both sides after conversation not on speaker phone and say that, use that as testimony? >> well, david holmes testimony heard sopped land on the phone and heard both sides of the conversation is suspect. even if it is true, david holmes offers nothing in his testimony. he said nothing other than what the president of the united states himself said in the phone call the day before. he didn't say the president directs sondland to tie the aid to investigations. there is no new information there other than just the explosiveness of how the democrats ar

looking forward to kurt volcker who you just mentioned. i'm curious how you an the committee will question him on the core of the story which is that he was in the car and didn't know where it was going because he's quite experienced and so there's quite a bit of parsing in what we understand he said to your committee privately. how will you approach that in the questioning and will it matter in your view of what he has to offer as a fact witness? >> first of all, you may know more than i do but the word on the street is one may seek to amend their previous testimony, something, of course, we have seen before. >> congressman, we're certain you know more than we do about what the intelligence committee is about to do. >> well, no. i can answer that question for you, but again, we need to stand by hearing there may be an amendment of testimony. that could shake everything up but to answer your question, ambassador volcker and ambassador sondland both claim that, yeah, they were sort of aware that these investigations were out there. and in o

. >> reporter: more key testimony from kurt volcker, the point man in the us, tim morrison again, republicans in. >> did the president of the united states ever say he was not going to allow wade to the united states, and the 2016 election. aren't you the official? >> that is correct. >> reporter: at the end of the day chairman adam schiff blasted the republicans defense of donald trump. >> their objection is he got caught, that someone. the whistle. they would like this whistleblower identified, the president wants this whistleblower punished. that is their objection. not that the president engaged in this conduct, but that he got caught. the defense is did he release the aid, after he got caught. >> reporter: at 9:00 am, one of the most anticipated witnesses, ambassador to the eu gordon houthi ainsley: -- gordon sondland will appear along with david hail. lots more on tap today. heather: afternoon into evening as it was yesterday. witnesses in the impeachment hearing reiterating hunter biden raised concerns of potential conflicts of interest, real clear investigation, mark hemingway agrees,

. >> reporter: more key testimony for kurt volcker, the point man leading ukrainian policy for the usc staffer, republicans zeroing in on the withheld aid. >> the president of the united states ever say to you he was not going to allow aid to the united states to go to ukraine unless there were investigations into burisma, the bidens or elections? you took apart their entire case. aren't you the official channel? >> that is correct. >> reporter: the man leading this entire process, chairman adam schiff blasted republican defense of the president. >> their objection is he got caught. their objection is someone. the whistle and they would like this whistleblower identified and the president wants this whistleblower punished. that is their objection, not that the president engaged in misconduct but that he got caught. there defense is you end up releasing the aid. after he got caught. >> reporter: what does the president say? he weighed in at the end of the day as well. listen. >> focus on impeachment, you have a kangaroo court headed by shifty shift. >> it continues today, the much-anti

kurt volcker and tim morrison, what can you tell us? >> republicans showed up this evening really ready to take on the democrats bribery narrative head on, double down on a new counterattack strategy of their own. >> last week the democrats told us this infraction was asking for a quid pro quo. this week it is bribery. as witnesses the democrats of call the parade of government officials who don't like donald trump's ukraine policy. >> it either of you have any evidence of proof quid pro quo? ambassador volcker? >> i did not. >> any evidence of bribery? >> now. >> any evidence of treason? >> know. >> at that former special envoy to ukraine kurt volcker and former senior director for russia and europe over the national security council cam morrison who was on the july 25th:both said they were concerned about it. >> i feared at the time of a how this disclosure would play in washington's political climate. my fears have been realized. >> after reading a record it was clear to you that biden, burisma in 2016 election discussions trump desi

[applause] reporter: kurt volcker is delivering his opening statement right now. i now understand that others saw investigating burisma as investigating the bidens. i saw them as separate. the former as unremarkable. the latter as being unacceptable. back to you. connell: chad, thank you, another big day tomorrow. melissa: here is james freeman from "the wall street journal." he is also a fox news contributor, host of "fox nation"'s deep dive. >> yes. melissa: james, you were watching that report with us beforehand and you her chad describe that as the chippiest moment from today. i was trying to watch this. i poured a giant bucket of ice water on my head to try to stay awake. i don't know, is this moving the needle? is anyone getting anything out of this? >> i don't think this is enhancing the cause of impeachment. we're hearing, no one with any specific crime to report. we are hearing a number of people had differences with the trump policies or the manner in which he conducted foreign policy but, i think it is really, it is really striking how this sort of recu

last one to be questioned today is kurt volcker.r in the afternoon. >> for the most part the republicans will look to this. no personal attacks. they will make it clear if the president of ukraine didn't feel pressure, if the foreign minister of ukraine didn't feel pressure. >> money was not withheld. >> money not withheld, problems with the transcript are problems with the transcript. whatever you say it is what exactly is the problem. pressure campaign is happening in every walk of life. conditioned aid is in every walk. the big picture too is if you didn't like it. does this really rise to impeachment? i think that will be their focus. >> there are nine witness this is week. jim jordan to your point said the same thing. i don't care how many witnesses you call. follow the facts. >> first-hand information for the first time. that jennifer williams and vindman they heard it. steve: but at the same time, you know, how many people actually had, were so freaked out by it, then they started telling people, we know mr. vindman did. kevi

kurt volcker is a long-time foreign service officer, aen speciaoy to ukraine from the u.s., no longerthat role, but he's someonetimes will point to who say when the call came out on july 25th, he was surprised and troubled. but republicans will make the case kurt volcker said he was never himself requested to doyt ng wrong. he's also going to say, they think, that he is someone who is going to say ukraine didn't know in raltime thi money was being held up. essentially they didn't know there was a bribe because they couldn't know there was a bribe happening. and gordon sondland is t person everybody is going to be watching, i am going to beca watching, e he's a european union ambassador, a close ally of present trump, and he's going to be making the case essentially that he was in direct contact with. president tru democrats say he knew that president trump wanted these investigations before and after the call,d that he was pressuring for that. republicans will be making theia case essey that sondland acting on his own but theen president didn't directly say i need you to do this for m

listen to what kurt volcker testified. he said biden wasn't even a topic of conversation. and if you're having a conversation, which if you can read the transcript, we all can, and you're talking about corruption, president zelensky brings up draining the swamp. you're talking about corruption, you're talking about ukraine. how does joe biden not get mentioned when you think he was the point person on corruption. >> so i gave you your time. john, i'm told we have some other news, as well. so what i want to do is close this out, make sure i give you a response to liz's position there. what liz is partly saying is, partly, no, we didn't do it, and to the extent we did it, we were just looking for corruption. >> well, of the times that the president has withheld money, it was to get this favor. and if you want to do something, you want to read the transcript, read the incomplete transcript that says precisely the give and take, which is an exchange for javelins, i want you to do me a favor, though, and it's biden, and biden's name is in there. >> it's not biden. it's dynamic.

this presumption follows another release transcript from the us envoy to ukraine, kurt volcker, tellingawmakers he was puzzled about aid being held up saying i didn't know the reason, no reason was given as to why that was adding i didn't know there was a quid pro quo. the white house firing back writing in a statement, quote, both transmits released today show less evidence for this illegitimate impeachment sham than previously thought. lindsey graham echoing that statement. >> when somebody presumes something all i can say is the president of the ukraine has denied at the time of the phone call. >> reporter: senator rand paul with his call for the whistleblower's name to be revealed. >> i can and i may but i can do it now, nothing stops me but i would say this. i do think this individual is a material witness to the potential biden corruption. ibly28 chuck schumer says not so fast. >> calls to make public the whistleblowers identity are despicable. ibly20 the white house is mick mulvaney will not testify in the impeachment probe on friday. much more to come. ibly28 results are in from

pull up and they're allowing three, david heal is one of them, tim morrison is another and then kurt volckerre list that they requested. >> right. again, i think it's -- the balance they're trying to reach as the democrats is do they have enough fairness, enough republican witnesses so that the public views the process as fair. and i think that it's always -- i think sometimes schiff is running this as he though he is back in court and a former prosecutor. i think he's going to be -- he might regret some of this when he doesn't really realize he had has the power as chair to prevent the issues from being raised. heather: each side gets an opening statement of 45 minutes. then everyone that's in there gets five minutes of questioning, that would be 13 democrats and nine gop members. can you briefly maybe in one sentence explain to everyone at home why schiff has so much power in this? >> well, constitution gives the impeachment right to the house and where the democrat versus the majority. he has technically all -- they could impeach for whatever they want. so the real question will be how do

was a demand for investigation and rich hung in it was appropriate with have been, we feel from kurt volckerrrison who will take the hot seat, two more transcripts of depositions were released yesterday, under secretary of state david hale and david holmes, ukraine embassy aide who said she overheard the phone call between the president and ambassador sondland who said the president only cared about an investigation into biden and doesn't, quote, given after about ukraine. he has been called to testify on thursday, the president appears to be considering testifying, accepting nancy pelosi's invitation even though i did nothing wrong, he is considering it but republicans on this committee are struggling not to do so. >> i would encourage the president at all. it as far as my advice whether he should come testify, the president would just be lowering himself to adam schiff's level, lowering himself below adam schiff's level. >> as for that testimony, that won't come until tomorrow. all eyes on capitol hill today. >> and a lot of eyes on fox because we will be carrying all that live. thank you.

and kurt volcker, president trump today was asked about the transcripts, he points to his own transcript of the phone call with ukraine president zelensky, saying this is at center of all that referred to transcript he released. president is on his way to tuck talks to campaign for governor matt bevin who is up for reelection tomorrow. after hosting national at white house, 7 players opted out, some over political differences, including relief pitcher shawn doolittle, also united states notified united nations it would move forward with its withdrawal from paris climate agreement, that will be a year long process. liz. elizabeth: great t to see you. thank you so much. >> your money, stocks hitting record highs, dow, s&p and nasdaq at historic highs, dow up 18% on the year. >> the stock market hit a new all-time high, all three we had nasdaq, s&p, we had dow. we hit a all-time high. that is many, many days that we've hit all-time his i highs n the dj. administration. elizabeth: looking at the numbers. that is equal to purchasing power of russia, germany and spain combined. reporter: good

congress released the testimony from former special envoy to ukraine kurt volcker who told lawmakers he never felt he was asked to do anything wrong adding, quote, you asked what conversations i had about that quid pro quo etc. none because i didn't know there was a quid pro quo. house democrats say they have many more witnesses to interview including meeting tomorrow with under secretary of state for political affairs, lawmakers hope to sit down with former national security adviser john bolton but it is unclear at this point if he will meet with lawmakers. shannon: a key decision on a key day, thank you. senator rand paul who has at times been both a friend and a critic of the president is calling for the release of the name of the whistleblower at the center of house democrats impeachment inquiry. gop colleague senator mitt romney doesn't agree. >> i can and i may but i could do it right now. nothing stops me. >> my own view is whistleblower is particularly those blowing whistles on action within the government should be allowed to remain confidential. >> the republican chairman w

hear from on tuesday, followed by lieutenant colonel alexander venman, then former special envoy kurt volcker morrison. speaker pelosi, who says she doesn't know when the inquiry will end, is inviting the president to testify. >> the president could come right before the committee and speak all the truth that he wants. >> you don't expect him to do that? >> if he wants to take the oath of office or he could do it in writing. he has every opportunity to present his case. >> reporter: on wednesday, one witness both sides are eager to hear from, ambassador gordon sondland, who is believed to have had multiple interactions with president trump concerning ukraine. >> my guess is that ambassador sondland is going to do his level best to tell the truth because otherwise he may have a very unpleasant legal future in front of him. >> i abide by what the president did and what president zelensky actually received. president zelensky received the money. >> reporter: look here, in all, a total of eight witnesses this week, in addition to sondland on wednesday, you have pentagon official laura cooper and

we have alexander venman, jennifer williams, kurt volcker and tim morrison, and gordon sondland, a lot waiting for that, laura cooper, deputy assistance secretary of state, david hill, state department official and then we have fiona hill at the end of this week and she's a former trump russia adviser. but as i said, at least a couple of these people do have firsthand knowledge of the actual phone call. >> yeah, well, we the american people also have firsthand knowledge because we can see the best evidence, we can see the transcript of the phone call, that there's nothing there. great, we can all observe the sky is blue. fantastic. doesn't mean there's anything legally impeach aable abouable . what these witnesses are bringing forward is there opinion of the policy of president trump. james madison specifically said that mal administration or the policy differences or the ability of the be president to actually execute his office well is not actually an impeachable offense. just because these people may disagree with how president trump uses his power in office, that doesn't mean he di

ambassador to the european union, and kurt volcker, former u.s.resentative for ukraine negotiations. those transcripts still have yet to be released. we believe that will come some point midday presumably around this time. sondland has become a fee figure, neil, we have seen part of his text messages that were released by house democrats. one of them includes a back and forth with bill taylor the top diplomat in ukraine. as the aid was held up, u.s. aide to ukraine. he said to sondland, as i said on the phone it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign four hours later sondland said, bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trump's intentions. the president has been clear no quid pro quo's of any kind. during the four our gap, the president asked him what do you want from ukraine. it is possible when the transcripts are released that is a focus of some of the line of questioning. as for adam schiff, he is out with an op-ed in "usa today" which he says that the inquiry really is just beginning, writing at

gillian: like kurt volcker, he was one of the first to testify privately,. leland: at least one democrat coming up to talk about the list and their reasoning on it. gillian: this comes as democrats move to this new phase in the impeachment hearing, they're saying it's a new phase, when all of this will come out into the open l. we've got three hearings set for next week. allison barber is at the white house this afternoon. she's got all the details. allison, what can you tell us. >> reporter: a lot of different things going of on. president trump said today that he will release the transcript of a second phone call he had with ukraine president vladimir zelensky, a phone call took place before the phone call that sparked the impeachment inquiry, this one reportedly took place in april in the hours after zelensky won his election. sources told fox news that a final decision had not been made on releasing the april transcript. president trump says it is coming out early this week. >> they want to have a transcript of the other call, the second call, and i'm wi

hale, and kurt volcker.witnesses a witnesses that the democrats are going to bring, and the american people will have the opportunity to make their own minds up. yiu know, for months, now, the republicans are this is being done in the dark, this is being done behind closed doors, now it's in the open and now they've got to change their narrative, and, so, that's whath 're doing. >> woodruff: congresswoman jackie speier, the intelligence committee, thank you very much. >> woodruff: thank you, judy. >> woodruff: and now, two people that joined me here all day. mieke eoyang, formertaffer for democrats on the house intelligence committee, and emichael allen, former ho intelligence committee staff director under republican leadership. also joining us in studio is c. boyden gray, former u.s. ambassador to the european union under president george w. bushd ite house counsel for president h.w. bush. and, from raleigh, north carolina, walter dellinger, former acting solicitor general and head of the office of legal c

she questioned tim morrison and kurt volcker on capitol hill. listen to this. >> okay. >> the truth is the facts are indeed not complicated. i am going to close out with two questions for the both of you. did ukraine open investigation into the bidens, mr. morrison. >> not to my knowledge, ma'am. >> ambassador volcker? >> not to my knowledge either. >> did either of you have any evidence of quid pro quo, mr. morrison? >> no, ma'am. >> ambassador volcker. >> i did not. >> any evidence of bribery? >> no, ma'am. >> no, ma'am. ainsley: she has been raked on the coals for that. kellyanne conway's husband was one that called her trash. >> first of all, she has become a star. you know, every time you do something, you have guys like jim jordan, meadows, all these guys they have been around and they're stars but they have been stars. every once in a while you meet a new star. i know a lot about stardom. i know a lot about it, i made plenty of them but i tell you what, this young woman from upstate new york, she has become a star. her way, you can never

tim morrison, kurt volcker and david hale, since richard got the point, i will listen to you.s me the republicans think those officials have exculpatory information that helps donald trump. >> republicans are incensed that adam schiff has carefully leaked and published the transcripts that are helpful to democrats. their contention is, and if you read the transcripts will find out this is true, that basically the public at large is not being presented with both sides of the argument. people like voelker who presented a more exculpatory testimony basically haven't been heard from. in terms of hunter biden and devon archer they are at the heart of a controversial effort on the part of the vice president's son when biden was the point man in ukraine, to profit off of his father's position. i doubt it was illegal. >> let's give richard a fair shot. of this is a fair investigation should we have hunter biden in? the president says he just wanted to root out corruption in ukraine and maybe hunter biden did not do anything wrong but we haven't heard from him other than the one interv

tim morrison, the top russia expert at the nsc and former envoy to the ukraine kurt volcker. tomorrow eu ambassador gordon sondland will make his appearance today. this is one name dropped by pretty much every other witness in the hearings. he will get a chance to tell his side of the story. neil? neil: hillary, thank you very much. speaking of impeachment cameras gone into the white house right now. the president is meeting with his cabinet is entertaining questions. we're told he watched a it about of the house impeachment hearing today. he will let people make up their own minds about the whole thing. he says separately on china it is up to china to see that a trade deal ultimately comes to pass. we should say for the markets, bigger issue is not impeachment but the china thing. you can almost track it day by day, tick by tick, the better it looks for trade deal better it looks for corner of wall and broad, the antsier it looks it playing out that way today. lee carter, and did not yale dimartino booth. let me begin with you, you follow federal reserve closely. one of the

ambassador sondland, was this message that kurt volcker passed to andriy yermak the message you left for kurt volker on that message? >> i don't know. it could have been. >> you don't have any reason to think it wasn't? >> i honestly, honestly don't remember but seems logical to me. >> if ambassador volker testified he did get that message from you, you have no reason -- >> no, if he testified he got that message from me, i would concur with that. >> so is it fair to say this is the message you received from president trump in that phone call that morning? >> again, if he testified to that, to refresh my own memory, yes, likely i would have received that from president trump. >> but the sequence certainly makes sense, right? >> yeah, it does. >> you talked to president trump, you told kurt volker to call you. you left a message for kurt volker. kurt volker sent this message to andriy yermak to prepare president zelensky, and then president trump had a phone call where president zelensky spoke very similar to what was in this text message, right? >> right. >> you agree the message that

. >> reporter: the other witness testifying is kurt volcker, the former special envoy to ukraine.ole and said that never knowingly participated in any effort to get ukraine to investigate vice president biden. he said in his mind, there was a sharp distinction between investigating burisma and investigating biden and the latter, guys, he said, would have been unacceptable back over to you >> ylan mui, another busy day in d.c. thank you for bringing the latest >>> still ahead, home building permits surging to a 12-year high how that could impact economic growth, coming up. >>> plus, we speak exclusively to nasa administrator jim bridenstine on a mission to return restaurants to the moon i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. ♪ nice rock. it's time to drop gold. go digital. go grayscale. with time, comes change that's for sure... and when those changes might help more people, especially those in retirement, i think it's worth talking about! so, aag is introd

trying to understand, was there a relationship between the two, i don't see that anything from kurt volckeror really changes the bottom line. neil: you and i were talking about at the break, he did seem to talk about the u.n. ambassador, i said that resumption of u.s. aid would not likely occur until ukraine provided anti-corruption statement we had been discussing many weeks. that was an addendum to what he had said prior. >> everybody skips over the word likely. neil: right. >> also his addendum, he presumed that there was a relationship between the two. he didn't know one way or the other. neil: republicans are saying, as i mentioned, if there was such a connection it's not an impeachable offense. >> look. i just return to the law. it is not exclusively a legal question. obviously it's a political question about the question of impeachment and removal from office. neil: right. >> to return to the law i don't think it is enough to say i'm going to imply a relationship here that is corrupt. i think that really under these circumstances, given the fact it is somewhat nebulous exactly what w

and kurt volcker described his role as per flexing and kept getting more insidious.e of bloomberg's government reporter kathleen and patrick are here also scombroins us. patrick, thanks for sticking around. how damaging are these revelations to trump. >> we're seeing a turn of the screw or brick in the wall, whatever analogy you want to use in terms of analysts building their case and what we saw with the public release it was significant. we know two things now, one is gordon sondland is saying he does explicitly recall giving a quid pro quo to the top ukrainian official and added an addendum to his previous testimony and we know sondland and volcker had concerns about rudy giuliani's role that seemed pretty significant. i think given the closeness giuliani has for the president there will be a question that might be more central going forward. francine: what does it mean about the impact republicans demand more of proceedings be made public. kathleen: that's been the chief criticism, the inquiry behind closed doors and know we move closer to the public bay with the

kurt volcker and on ambassador gordon sondland, laura cooper, david hale and fiona hill.toç do we, griff. ainsley: until they find what they wand. steve: endless. meanwhile we have a sound bite from yesterday, jeff van drew, a democrat, a congressman from the very deep blue state of new jersey talking about what this impeachment inquiry is doing to the country. listen to this. >> i just don't think we're hearing anything new. real quickly we must import, understand the importance, the level of what impeachment is. hundreds of years of history. no one has ever been convicted of impeachment. and that is the point. we spend millions of dollars in my opinion. tons of money, tons of time. tons of hurt. fracture the nation apart. i haven't seen this to be a good thing. steve: fracturing the nation. let's bring in mike huckabee, fox news contributor. former arkansas presidential candidate. he joins us live from the panhandle of florida. governor is the impeachment inquiry fracturing america. >> it really is. people are polarized and divided. it is not doing anything to get acco

ainsley: there is a transcript excerpt we're getting conversation between congressman zeldin and kurt volckere united states or ukraine did you receive any indication whatsoever for anything that resembles a quid pro quo? mr. volcker says, correct. >> pretty dispositive. volcker and, zeldin exchange will be ignored because it doesn't fit the narrative. it doesn't fit the, we're headed to recession. there is russia collusion. we should impeach the president over a call that the whole world can see the transcript. i walk around with it. right here, everybody. read it. much like the president's social media feed, everybody has access to it. now we're bringing witnesses in who tell you what they presumed, how they interpreted it. last time i checked there was one person and a vice president who were elected to set the nation's foreign policy and to decide these matters. other thing i wanted to mention here is that ukraine got its aid. if using aid as we speak. president obama is basically the my pillow guy when is it came to ukraine aid when he was president. gave them pillows and blankets. if no

but this is from ambassador kurt volcker to andray yermak. and who's andray yermak?residential administration -- the ukrainian presidential administration. he's a senior adviser to president zelensky. >> now, this text message is less than a half hour before the call on july 25 president and since neither of you were on it, i'll read it. it says, from ambassador volcker, "good lunch, thanks. heard from white house. assuming president z. convinces trump he will investigate, quote, get to the bottom of what happened, unquote in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to washington. good luck. see you tomorrow. kurt." is this the sort of thing you're referring to when you say it sounded like president zelensky was prepared for this call? >> this would be consistent, yes. >> now, turning to the fourth excerpt from the july 25th call, where ukraine's president zelensky links the white house meeting to the investigations that president trump requests. president zelensky says, i also wanted to thank you for your invitation to visit the united states, specifically washington,

giuliani in a whatsapp message, kurt volcker told me in part, spoke with rudy per guidance from s. s is the state's official designator for the secretary. spoke with rudy per guidance from s. look, we tried our best to fix the problem. while keeping the state department and the nsc closely apprised of the challenges we faced. on july 25, presidents trump and zelensky had their official call. i was not on the call, and i don't think i was invited to be on the call. in fact, i first read the transcript on september 25, the day it was publicly released. all i had heard at that time was that the call had gone well. looking back, i find it very odd, very odd that neither i nor ambassador taylor, nor ambassador volcker ever received a detailed readout of that call with the biden references. now, there are people who say they had concerns about the call, but no one shared any concerns about the call with me at the time which frankly would have been very helpful to know. on july 26, ambassador taylor, ambassador volcker and i were ul -- were all in kiev to meet with president zelensky. the

this week you'll have people like tim morrison, kurt volcker, who has supported what president trumpas said there's no link between a quid pro quo which is the p democrats have been saying and tim morrison said the ukrainians weren't aware that aid was being withheld until more than a month after the phone call between president zelensky and president trump. how can you have a quid pro quo when the other party is unaware that the financial pay is in play. >> the substance is a sham. i can't help but watch the show. what did garrett tenney break down, new transcripts from jennifer williams and tim morrison. jennifer williams and tim morrison are testifying this week. we already know what they said. they said it behind closed doors where they rehearsed. now we're going to take it public because it's all a show. they want to affect public opinion and tim morrison, what he said was yeah, we put it on the private server because we didn't want it to be leaked because so much of what our administration has faced has been leaked. the substance isn't there. >> that might be why huckabee was o

tim morrison is one, curt volcker is another -- kurt volker is another. and having hunter biden is unrelated to the ukraine call, so that becomesser relling haven't. the whistleblower, again, has protection. >> reporter: the public phase begins this week with ambassador bill taylor and assistant secretary of state george kent on wednesday. ed: joining me now, reuters white house correspondent jeff mason. good to have you here in new york. the president's here in new york, so you're covering him. >> that's right. ed: when you look at this, democrats suggesting it's going to be a legitimate inquiry, obviously, republicans disagree. we were told yesterday it's going to be more like the impeachment show on wednesday. >> i think the fact that it's being done in public makes it a show, and that's actually something mr. trump is objecting to. he said there shouldn't be public hearing, and then he clarified yesterday on the tarmac, no, he just doesn't think there should be hearings at all. ed: even though he was calling for more transparency a few days before tha

special envoy to ukraine kurt volker and gordon songkhla and the current us ambassador to the e.u. witnesses say the volcker installment played a key role in trump's unofficial channel to ukrainian government officials. iranian president hassan rouhani says his country will begin injecting uranium gas into centrifuges at an underground enrichment facility from wednesday it's the 4th measure taken by iran since july in response to u.s. sanctions reinstated by president from washington withdrew from the landmark nuclear accord last year. and dirac's human rights commission says 2 people have been killed and dozens injured after security forces opened fire on protesters in basra they have been staging a sit in port when live ammunition was used to disperse the crowds those were at the top stories on al-jazeera stay with us al jazeera world is coming up next and then i'll have more news for you half an hour. i don't see. what the political harbison they want her butt off. but in a bit of a measure i've had the apostles run the whole us and. then i would rather see them up for the heck out of you. and all. in th

kurt volker has served the u.s. as a public servant very well do either of you have any evidence that mr volcker committed perjury or lied to this committee in his test him in his testimony of this committee do either of you have any evidence that kurt volker perjured himself or lied to this committee in his testimony investor taylor any evidence mr i've no evidence scant. i believe volcker's deposition was over 400 pages and i don't have it in front of me so i can't get what you have no evidence that he lied or perjured i have no basis to make that judgment no matter what we're not in a court gentleman and if we were the 6th amendment would apply and so would rules on hearsay and opinion and most of your 2 testimonies would not be admissible whatsoever but i understand in your profession you deal in words of understanding words of beliefs and feelings because in your profession that's what you work with to try to pull together policy and to go in and out of meetings to try to formulate opinions that affect other people's decision making and better tailor have you ever prepared for a meeting with a president or a pr

special envoy to ukraine kurt fokker and gordon saw the current us ambassador to the e.u. well this is a set that volcker and some of played a key role in trump's unofficial channel to ukrainian government leaders trump is accused of withholding military aid to ukraine unless it investigated his democratic rival joe biden. and politicians have been at all over whether the whistleblowers identity should be revealed every single member of this body should stand up and say that it is wrong to disclose is or her identity or rhetoric can sometimes be overheated but i'm appalled by these developments there's no other word for it we're in a moment of history when republicans over only a few weeks have shifted from saying that no laws were broken to saying that laws were broken but it's not impeachable to outright advocating that laws be broken. down this person degenerating. to the presidency itself. it was never designed for a situation like this you can prosecute somebody. that's right confront your accusers. castro has more now from washington d.c. . the transcripts reveal that a key witness has reversed his

kurt volker and tim morrison? scott: republicans have had a chance to submit their list of the initiald witnesses will be democratic witnesses. the second group with volcker and tim morrison will be republican called. the reason republicans want to call these individuals is because they want to ask them, was there anything illegal on this phone call that you heard, was there anything that -- have you had specific conversations with the president of the unit it states about this ukraine arrangement and what republicans are hoping, based on previous testimony, these individuals will say they heard nothing illegal, they heard nothing impeachable. that is the significance of those individuals. the threee are two of republican witness requests that were granted by chairman adam schiff. it was a list of eight or more that was submitted by republicans. who is the other one republicans want to testify? scott: i don't remember the other one specifically. host: david hale? scott: possibly. the initial request included hunter biden himself, who was on the board of the ukrainian oil company as well as the whistleblower, the unnamed anonymous sub lower. republicans ma

special envoy to ukraine kurt volker and gordon sumlin the current us ambassador to the e.u. witnesses have said that volcker and song lend played a key role in trump's unofficial channel to ukrainian government officials trump is accused of withholding military aid to ukraine unless it investigated his democratic rival joe biden. let's take a closer look at the at how the events unfolded between the u.s. president and his ukrainian counterpart on april 21st donald trump called volodymyr at zelinsky to congratulate him on his election victory on the week of july 18th trump ordered u.s. military aid for ukraine to be withheld and just a week later trump called the ukrainian president a 2nd time or more goes 12th on anonymous whistleblower filed a complaint over that call with the inspector general of the intelligence community on september 11th the us government released the ukrainian aid that it had been withholding 2 weeks later the white house released a rough transcript of president trump's july 25th phone call with zelinsky where politicians have been at all over whether the whistleblowers identity shoul

testified your deposition that you met with kurt volker i believe was an august 20th the hold on security assistance was still in place you testified that ambassador volcker told you that if you could get zelinsky to make a public statement quote that would somehow disavow any interference in u.s. elections and would commit to the prosecution of any individuals involved in election interference it might lift the hold on security assistance is that current or i believe that i testified that it was my inference that that would lift the hold on ukraine security assistance and that was your inference because at the time you were talking about the hold on security assistance that's correct the 1st part of our conversation was about the hold on security assistance and it was during that portion of the conversation that he brought up the effort to. get this public statement. it was during that conversation i'm not sure i would say it's during that part of the conversation what else did you discuss in the conversation the only 2 topics that i recall are the urgency of lifting the hold on security assistance and then him relaying this separate diplomatic effort th

coconspirator coconspirator kurt volker i find it remarkable and troubling how the democrats and their collaborators in the press have been able to vilify bassett or volcker who was supposed to work on these matters in ukraine like you and bassett are it was a very regular channel and no amount of storytelling by the left and the democrats on this diocese will change that was the regular channel testimony received today was far from compelling conclusive and provide 0 evidence of any of the crimes that have been alleged in fact ambassador solomon testified that he presumed the temporary person pozen military aid was conditioned on ukraine carrying out the investigations the democrats are desperate to portray as nefarious the democrats have as their custom seized on this presumption as proof they can use it against the president however ambassador sunland testified in his deposition that when he asked president trump what do you want from ukraine president trump replied i want nothing there is no quid pro quo let me repeat president trump said i want nothing there is no quid pro quo this comes on the hills of the testimony by ambassador volcker that he saw

kurt volker himself who suggested the wording of the statement that trump wanted from ukraine. in which it was going to have it explained to the public that it was investigating joe biden and it was volcker who said that the statement had to include the name of the company on which joe biden's son was once a chairman so all wishes is to say that volcker could be a pivotal witness the republicans are hoping that he will continue to defend the president this afternoon however he has been incriminated further by witnesses we've seen in the past few weeks so it's an open question exactly what volcker will divulge and remind us for people who've been watching this what the process is beyond these hearings how how does impeachment work beyond these particular hearings. sure so after these public hearings wrap up then the house of representatives will vote on the articles of impeachment the charge sheet and the essence of say what political or crimes are misdemeanors treason as spelled out in the constitution or committed by trump then that charge sheet goes to the u.s. senate to hold the trial of president trump how that will unfold is completely they're going to make it up as they go there is

kurt volker and tim morrison? scott: republicans have had a chance to submit their list of the initiald witnesses will be democratic witnesses. the second group with volcker tim morrison will be republican called. the reason republicans want to call these individuals is because they want to ask them, was there anything illegal on this phone call that you heard, was there anything that -- have you had specific conversations with the president of the unit it states about this ukraine arrangement and what republicans are hoping, based on previous testimony, these individuals will say they heard nothing illegal, they heard nothing impeachable. that is the significance of those individuals. the threee are two of republican witness requests that were granted by chairman adam schiff. it was a list of eight or more that was submitted by republicans. who is the other one republicans want to testify? scott: i don't remember the other one specifically. host: david hale? scott: possibly. the initial request included hunter biden himself, who was on the board of the ukrainian oil company as well as the whistleblower, the unnamed anonymous sub lower. republicans made t

the white house is he lighting kurt volcker who resigned as a special representative for ukraine negotiationsvolcker was asked by a republican congressman about the july 25th phone call between presidents trump and zelensky, the congressman said in no shape or form, from the united states or ukraine did you receive any indication whatsoever for anything that resembles a quid pro quo? volcker responded, correct. back here at the white house, the acting chief of staff mick mulvaney received notice house democrats want to interview him on friday. mulvaney walked back comments from the october 17th press briefing, he said of a quid pro quo, quote, we do that all the time with foreign policy. safe to say, connell, even though democrats want mulvaney up to the hill to talk, that will not be happening. connell. connell: blake burman on the north lawn, busy as always. we move on here tackling the so-called skills gap. i will speak with a one businessman. he is a host on the show. the way his company is attracting young people to the workforce. what else is coming up, melissa? melissa: neat stuff. pre