in washington, lauren blanchard fox news. john bolton is key and he has not been subpoenaed to testify. today he broke his silence. he fired off this tweet right here that says glad to be back on twitter after more than two months. for the back story stay tuned. since that initial tweet happened he sent out a new one about every two hours. the second message to his 800,000 followers was this. we have now liberated the previous account previously suppressed unfairly in my resig security advisor. a couple hours later he saidres security advisor the white house refused to return access to my personal twitter account out of fear of what i might say? to those who speculated i was in hiding, i'm sorry to disappoint. again bolton has not been subpoenaed to testify at his former deputy has. his deputy did not appear for his deposition after the white house told him not to cooperate. the judge will decide if bolton's deputy has to testify or if he is immune. >>> elon musk showed off his new addition to tesla. he introduced the cyber t

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we begin with lauren blanchard in our washington bureau. lauren? >> jon, another handful of current and past administration officials have been called and are scheduled to be on capitol hill this coming week. the problem for democrats is actually getting them there. let's look at the tentative hearing schedule. on tuesday, lawmakers are expecting wells griffith from the department of energy and from the office of management and budget michael duffy. wednesday lawmakers hope to see energy secretary rick perry who is leaving his job at the end of the year, but his office says he won't appear unless it is an open hearing and even then, he will only consider it. plus the acting omb director russell vought. another possible know show on thursday, former national security advisor john bolton. his lawyers say he will not voluntarily appear, and now they are waiting on a subpoena. republican frustration is growing with all of the closed-door hearings, while the speaker of the house says the inquiry isn't partisan, some democrats recognize why republicans a

lauren blanchard has some highlights now and tells us what is next. >> reporter: president trump said he wants and is ready for a trial if articles of impeachment make it to the senate. this as he continues to say the whole impeachment inquiry is politically motivated. >> of course he wants a trial because we have been in a sham court. >> reporter: the president and his team seem braced for the impeachment inquiry to move forward in the house. even though they say it is all based off a whistleblower who hasn't been called to testify. >> i consider it to be a fake whistleblower because what he wrote didn't correspond to what i said in any way, shape, or form. >> reporter: democrats say they >> if you e those to get an investigation of his political rivals, that is impeachable. >> reporter: especially after what they learned from the second week of open testimony. >> i found the phone call unusual because in contrast to other presidential calls i observed it involved discussions of what appeared to be a domestic lyrical matter. >> the investigation of a political component was improper.

lauren blanchard just reported on this last night. wyoming wrote a letter to the speaker asking for the release of transcripts of depositions that have already taken place behind closed doors. do you think speaker pelosi will comply? if she doesn't, will this diminish the potency and relevancy of the upcoming hearings? >> we heard from house chairman adam schiff that those transcripts could be released as early as next week. i don't know if speaker pelosi will be responding to liz cheney. but they set out to say they would be releasing these transcripts. arthel: the plans in the works is what you are saying. >> yes. arthel: they plan to call back some of the people who test fired in the closed door sessions to testify in the public hearings. do you have think that will quell the arguments that the democrats have been holding hearings in secret? >> i think one of the main complaints of republicans is the president and his counsel have not been able to question or offer any defense. in these hearings they are planning to hold in the hou

. >>> the impeachment hearings are underway again on capitol hill as lauren blanchard reports the man described as the most anticipated witness so far is testifying before the house intelligence committee. >> was there a quid pro quo? >> as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and the the a yes. >> reporter: out of the gave the president's ambassador to the eu gordon sondland justifying a white house invite for ukraine's newly elected president depended upon the country's government publicly announcing investigations into the president's political rival, adding though he never knew for sure why military aid had been frozen. >> this kind of a 2+2 = 4 conclusion that you reached ? >> pretty much. the only logical conclusion to you that given all these factors that the aide was also part of this quid pro quo ? >> yet. >> reporter: sondland revealing more details about rudy giuliani's unusual role. >> we do not want to work with mr. giuliani. simply put, we were playing the hand we were dealt. >> reporter: the ambassador offering an explanation for reversin

in washington, lauren blanchard, fox news. >>> tonight president trump tweeted criticism a speaker nancy pelosi saying in part quote, i can't believe voters could be happy with the job sing the do-nothing democrats are doing. san francisco has really gone downhill. >>> san jose employees are investigating a deadly shooting involving one of their officers. the man who was killed was reportedly walking down the street with a gun. officers were called to jackson avenue in the alan brock neighborhood of san jose. we are there tonight with more on what happened. >> reporter: this entire area was blocked off for a gun started off over at the shopping center and walked across the street and was coming down the sidewalk. police were across the street, e . the officers telling the witn one been sought and saw the man fall. san jose police say they received several calls thursday afternoon about a man walking down jackson avenue with a handgun. police say they arrived at 2:26 pm. officers say the name of holding a gun and did not comply with their directions. one police officer fired at the man ne

in washington, lauren blanchard fox news. >>> witnesses are set to testify on tuesday, wednesday, andy. on the days of those hearings, we will have live updates on mornings on 2, and we will carry the hearings live and uninterrupted on ktvu plus. >>> newly released documents reveal one of the boston marathon bombers is linked to a triple murder in 2011. investigators say he told authorities that they beat and slit the throat of three young men in massachusetts. the new documents were filed during a pending appeal and a death sentence for the boston bombing. prosecutors say the brothers set the bombs off. cumberland died in a gunfight with police days after the bombing. >>> coming up, a prosecutor puts on leave after he used s a experts are weighing in on why this was such a bad idea. >>> also ahead, vendors strike an ice cream parlor. coming up, surveillance pictures the shops owners hope will lead to an arrest. when it comes to health coverage, it helps to have someone in your corner. that's why there's covered california. we're the only place where you can get financial help to pay

kristin: lauren blanchard, thanks. leland: for the democratic side of this we go to the house democrat's chief democratic whip, michigan congressman, good friend of the show, dan kildee. appreciate it. >> thank you. leland: probably colder in michigan than in d.c. >> it not good. it's cold. leland: give us the defense here of why the democrats with their rules that were passed on thursday, give the republicans so many talking points as to this being a partisan, rather than bipartisan effort. >> well, i think part of the problem with this whole thing is that it's being viewed as an opportunity to create talking points. i mean, what we passed was a process, an outline of a process that gives republicans the right to question witnesses, both in the deposition-- >> congressman, you and i know it does not give the minority anywhere close to the rights that the minority was given either in the clinton impeachment or the nixon impeachment. >> actually, leland, that's not the case. it's precisely the rights given, let me-- >>

lauren blanchard has the details now from washington. >> reporter: democrats opening a new public faceimpeachment inquiry. the house intelligence committee releasing the first transcript of closed-door deposition from key witnesses. former ukraine ambassador testified she was warned by ukrainian officials that trump allies were targeting her in a smear campaign. she was recalled from her post by the president. >> this is someone who served the country with distinction for decades. it is someone who also is one of the first witnesses to this irregular back channel that the president established with rudy giuliani. >> reporter: former advisor, michael mckinley, told investigators he resigned in part because he felt the state department was being used for political purposes. the president's gop ally has denied president trump held back military aid to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rival, joe biden. >> we have seen the transcript, everyone that has been able to read that, that is the best evidence that no quick pro quote. >> reporter: monday, officials summoned to give depo

lauren blanchard reports from capitol hill. >> reporter: ambassador marie yovanovitch was a soft-spoken witness but democrats say what she told them and what the president's actions were during the hearing will strengthen their case. after hours of sometimes personal testimony, former ambassador marie yovanovitch left the hearing room to applause. it started out like any other hearing and then -- >> as we sit here testifying, the president is attacking u on twitter. >> resident trumps tweeted thing everywhere yovanovitch went turned bad. >> i have freedom of speech, just as other people do. they have taken away the republicans writes. >> it's very intimidating. >> i don't think saddle at all. >> the white house said it was difficult to imagine, a greater waste of time than the hearing. immediately after yovanovitch's hearing raft of lawmakers headed to a secure room to hear testimony from the embassy staffer david holmes who oversaw hard alleged conversation between president trump and the eu ambassador gordon sondland who will be expected in open hearings next week. >> as we have diffe

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lauren blanchard ktvu fox 2 news. >> we'll talk more about the impeachment hearings. back to our studio here at oakland. let's start with the fact that this morning we heard some republican lawmakers sound a lot like the president in these hearings where the president wants to push back completely and particular with mr. holmes who said i was at this restaurant i heard the president on the cellphone. and so person amount of push ba she that the ukrainians somehow try to interfere with our election. what she was referring to is al lines and in this testimony today she's again trying to say look this is what the russians want us to do this is how we're getting divided and this narrative is a long way to do and still she pushed in that. >> he made a point today that a lot of people i guess you could say. >> i thought he was very impressive. representative hurd is one of the republicans on the committee. this is his last opportunity during this part of the hearing to speak and the core of what he said that was very wrong. i accept what he did was harmful to national polic

lauren blanchard. >> it was a caged tiger. >> tucker: come on, now. was it a tiger??n men stuck into an abandoned house to smoke some reefer, and they wound up seeing a tiger inside. luckily for them, they got out of there before the tiger and the crouching tiger caught the munchies. >> tucker: here in new york city, researchers are about to begin work on a new senses. this time they are not counting people, however.ey they are focusing on a small furry creature in central park. what kind of animal is it? >> no, are they counting? you've got to read the script. >> she's reading the teleprompter! >> tucker: you're not allowed to read the teleprompter. >> yes, i am. >> i win by default! >> tucker: wait a second. i'm going back to something i said earlier, which is that when you have cable news anchors on your show, things tend to fall apart. let me just check with the judges really quick. the judges say the host of the program is allowed to add lid on his own scripts. i think.s >> she's reading it! >> tucker: what is the answer? >> it is squirrels. >> tucker: you know i

. [♪] aishah: live from "america's news headquarters," i'm lauren blanchard in washington.major personnel change in the trump administration. defense secretary mark esper firing spencer. he had drawn the ire of president trump for his handling in the case of navy seal eddie gallagher. hong kong's municipal election, votes are still being counted. but pro-democracy candidates are winning a record 71% of voters casting ballots. the vote is seen as a referendum on theom protests. >> welcome back earlier we were talking with laura trump take a look. >> so great for you to join us. >> thank you for having me back. laura, i have a theory of what is going on right now. we have an anonymous book coming out this week in the impeachment hearing going on, i they get a weird way they an ominous book actually helps make an argument that you and i have been making for a long time and it's all connected and it's all part of the same thing which is the establishment tried to reject and undermine and obstruct a blocker president. they boys hated in attacking their policy ideas who is delive

reporter lauren blanchard has more on the incident. >> milwaukee police arresting a 61-year-old white victim 42-year-old mahood villalas. accusing him of illegally being in the u.s. reportedly asking him... >> why you no respect my laws. why you come to my country. you came here illegally. >> a u.s. citizen who immigrated from peru initially ignored the man but did move his car. when he got back to the restaurant, the man was waiting for him and that's when he allegedly threw the acid in villalas's face. >> the feeling was burning and i tried to defend myself but i couldn't. >> he suffered second degree burns on the left side of his face. officers investigating the incident as a hate crime. hiss family says he's a veteran who suffers from post traumatic stress. on monday a milwaukee mayor expressed his disappoint. pointing fingers at the president who he thinks insights hatred against minorities. >> and it's wrong. >> a white house spokes person responding to the mayor's comments says the blame lies on the attacker and the trump administration has quote repeatedly condemned racism, bi

in washington, lauren blanchard.>>> you can watch the entire impeachment hearing now underway uninterrupted and live in we are bringing you the latest relevant throughout mornings on 2. >>> the top democratic presidential candidates are in atlanta prepared to take on the debate stage or they phase, onl candidates have qualified national poll shows elizabeth moore, joe biden and bernie sanders lately but in the early caucus date, people to judge is in the top of the latest poll with a nine point lead. in california, here in california joe biden and elizabeth moran are neck and neck among likely democratic primary voters, biden has 24% backing to 123% and bernie sanders comes in third with 17%. rally at the top five are, harris and people to judge.>>> investigating reports of racist graffiti in the next half hour we will let you know what employees found britain on a refrigerator at a bpa building and san jose. plus, taking up the last of the debris in paradise, what's next in the cleanup efforts of the town that was devastated by the camp fire. to build a bridge. to throw a baseball... to th

lauren blanchard is live from washington with more. >> reporter: despite the fact that the house is oness next week, there will still be a full schedule of closed door testimonies. representative liz cheney september a letter to speaker pelosi last night, calling for the release of all transcripts, saying the selective leaking in which the house intelligence committee has been engaged must end immediately and the full and complete record must be he provided for the american people to see. here's the tentative schedule of who has been called to the cap l capitol. tuesday, wells griffith and michael duffy. wednesday, lawmakers hope to see rick perry, who is leaving his job at the end of the year but his office says he won't attend unless it's an open hearing and even then he'll only consider it. then thursday, lawmakers want to speak with former national security advisor, john bolton. his lawyers say he will not voluntarily appear and are now waiting for a subpoena. house judiciary member andy businesbiggs is calling on adamf to also face questioning in the impeachment inquiry. >> the qu

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lauren blanchard in washington with the latest. >> it will be a busy week ahead of closed door testimonieseduled tuesday from the department of energy wells griffith office of management michael duffy, and russell volt and energy secretary rick perry who is leaving the job at the end of the year. and they said he will not take part in an inquisition where counsel is forbidding to be present, but he might speak at an open hearing. on thursday lawmakers want to speak with security advisor john bolton. his lawyers say he will not voluntarily appear and they're waiting for a subpoena. and the resolution vote didn't have a single republican yea, and nancy pelosi insists the impeachment inquiry is not partisan, a point president trump doesn't quite believe. and all of these testimonies may be scheduled, but they are not guaranteed. the administration is still not planning to cooperate with the inquiry because they say it doesn't give the president due process and speaker pelosi says they'll move on to more open hearings soon. neil: thank you very much. republicans are accusing democrats of being