whether i think it's very likely that there will be a requests by the democrats to bring mr bolton as a witness before a senate trial and i think the calculus there changes and we could well end up hearing mr bolton's testimony it will be quite dramatic in a trial before the u.s. senate. quake in northwestern iran has killed at least 4 people and injured 70 others the magnitude 5.9 quake struck around 2 am local time near the town of huston iran's press t.v. is reporting 8 rescue teams would deploy to the area. became a fasteners president says his security forces will hunt down the people responsible for killing 47 employees of a mining company gunmen attacked a convoy of 5 buses from a canadian owned mine near in the east despite a military escort 60 people were injured and dozens more feared missing no one has claimed responsibility but groups linked to i saw an al qaeda have staged dozens of attacks in the region in recent years in an address to the nation president rock club already has called for unity to tackle the violence. we must remain dignified and courageous that's why i

mr. bolton will wait until we hear from the lawyers. robert: why is he saying that? >> i think mr. bolton is a great communicator, one of the most effective conservative communicators in this town. he wanted to, i thi, add his information to the top of all this as we go into the public w hearings nexk that there was more out there. so i think it's giving an entree, as sheryl was talking about republicans, iemn spectacle of a big republican break here because it has not happened to this point. sheryl: it's not going to happen. anita: the one thing the president has been saying. even one person turning will set this presi off. the thing he wants right now that he's been so upset about this week inas these couple of weeks, he wants more about him, defending him,aking supporting him and he hasn't had rtthat. rocould be hard to predict where republicans go. we haven't seen bolton testify. we haven't seen ambassador taylor put his hand in the air. josh: the president doesn't have the warmest relationship with senate replicans. remains incredibly popular with the republican party but he do

mr. bolton, i would love to hear from mr. mulvaney, for those republicans seeming to imply they want the americans to know everything, well then why are they blocking their testimony. >> brennan:. >> we have seen how damaging through the testimony and through the transcripts that these witnesses have been. they want no part of it. >> brennan: have you heard enough at this point to vote for articles of impeachment? >> i believe that the special counsel, mr. -- detailed obstruction at least 10 or 11 counts that were so severe that he would have indicted the president of the united states if it wasn't for the doj rulings that you can't. the fact of the matter is, the preset,bructed justice and that's an article of impeachment. >> brennan: and you are ready to vote for it. all right. thank you very much, congressman, we will be right congressman, we will be right back with our cbs news battleground tracker poll. >> tom steyer: wall street banks took advantage of millions of americans during the recession. so, my wife kat and i to

mr bolton's comments come after a dramatic week at the impeachment hearings.iday president trump phoned into a fox news programme and said he would welcome a full impeachment trial in the senate if the house of representatives votes to impeach him. nada tawfik has more. adjourned. less than 2a hours after two weeks of dramatic and contentions public impeachment hearings ended, president trump is out with his counter—attack. increasingly, every waking moment in washington seemed to hang on the latest revelations from these 12 us officials, called as fact witnesses by democrats to bolster their case that president trump abused his office for personal political gain. with impeachment all but certain and pressure building, the president rang into his favourite programme, fox and friends, for a nearly hour—long interview. mr president, you expect an impeachment vote. do you expect to get impeached, and would you say you embrace the idea of... no, i don't expect it. you don't expect it? you don't expect democrats will vote for this? i think it's very hard for them t

counterpart ukrainian counterpart of those national security advisor had had with mr bolton and that conversation was very substantive up until the point where. the white house meeting was raised and mr and besser sunland intervened to talk about the investigations it was at that point that ambassador bolton ceased the meeting closed the meeting finished the meeting. and. told his staff to report this meeting to the lawyers and he also later then indicated to fiona hill who was also participant. and ses death that he besser bolton didn't want to be associated with this drug deal so it was in the implication was it was the the domestic politics that was being cooked up and did ambassador son say this in front of the ukrainian officials to your understanding and bus a bus or son listen in the meeting where besser bolton was having a conversation with his counterpart range the issue of investigations being important to come before the white house meeting that had just been raised well and ukraine officials where they and ukraine officials were in that meeting as they are now a around th

mr. bolton, and mr. said, well, you should cable the secretary of state, which of course raises questions about why mr. bolton, who ambassador taylor said shared his concerns about how crazy this was to be withholding military aid. of course ambassador bolton didn't do anything about it that we know of. he said go cable the secretary of state. so in the first time in a career spanning half a century, ambassador taylor went directly to the secretary of state, who as far as we can tell ignored him. >> gop lawmakers also called for the whistle-blower to testify. they pushed conspiracy theories about hunter biden and alleged ukrainian election meddling. in a way, did they give the president what he wanted from ukraine but didn't get? >> well, if what you mean is they're trying to -- they're continuing to try to damage a rival of the president, i suppose you could look at it that way. >> what i'm asking is they got it out there beyond just conservative media and conspiracy theory sites. it was put on the big

mr. bolton had? >> i did because july 10th is really the first time it crystallized for me that there was basically a different channel going on here. foreign policy channel and a domestic policy channel. and we're not in that channel. >> you described it as a politicaler an political errand and national security policy. is it fair to say that you felt it was improper what was occurring by mr. sondland in the ward room? >> it was improper and it was inappropriate and we said that in the time, in real time. >> and here's my point. if it was improper and you went so far as to report this to the lawyers, what was the nature of your disagreement with mr. sondland who has come here and said he had no idea that burisma meant bidens until much, much later than july 10th. and of course, we know that he and ambassador volker had a blizzard of interactions with mr. giuliani, they were amending statements, proposed statements comfortab for the ukranian president, it went on all summer. how is it you had this di

mr. bolton, right? >> correct. >> i mean, it's not why he sent you down there to see how the meeting is going? >> correct. >> and, in fact, he instructs you to go to the lawyer ever been instructed to go reported something to the nsc lawyer before. >> that was the first time. i have self-instructed a couple of times. s that watt first time i have been instructed to go. >> why did he send you to report this to the lawyer? >> well, he clearly wanted to have himself on the record as not being part of what was basically an agreement to have a meeting in return for investigations. and he wanted to make sure that i and colonel vindman wasn't a part of this as well. remember there was a call related to this about not getting involved in domestic politics. >> yes, i understand. you, of course, did you concur with this concern that mr. bolton had? >> i did. because july 10th is really the first time that it crystallized for me that there was basically a different channel going on here. policy channel and a domes

former adviser fiona hill who worked closely with mr bolton said he was concerned about the presidentlitical rivals. the role played by mr trump is my personal lover rudy giuliani. in the course of the discussion said rudy giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow eve ryo ne hand grenade that was going to blow everyone up. mr trump has watched for the last fortnight as a dozen departments and officials raised concerns he was pursuing his own personal political interests rather than america‘s. the president used a phone call with his favourite tv show box and friends, to set out his defence as well as attack democrats. mr president, you expected an impeachment vote and you expected impeached and you say you embrace the idea... i don't expect to. you don‘t expect they will vote for this? it is very hard to impeach you when they have absolutely nothing. mrtrump when they have absolutely nothing. mr trump continues to be asleep and i the central allegation that military aid to ukraine was withheld to try and force its government into launching investigations into his potential pr

mr. bolton. and he said you should cable the secretary of state which raise as number of questions about mr. bolton who ambassador taylor said how crazy this was to withhold military aid. he said go cable the secretary of state. so for the first time in a career span 1/2 a century, he went directly to the secretary of state who, as far as we can tell, ignored him. >> they called for the whistleblower to testify and alleged ukrainian election meddling. did they give the president what he wanted from ukrain but didn't get? >> wellx they're continuing to try to damage rivals of the president, i suppose you could look at it that way. >> they got it beyond conservative media and conspiracy theory sites. it was put on the big stage today where it reached a broader audience. so they gave the president what he wanted initially from ukrain, but then maybe got it from today's testimony. >> i suppose that's one way to look at it but this has exploded in their faces and has revealed a pattern of conduct by t

mr. bolton, right? >> yes. >> that's not why he sent you down there to see how the meetings go. >> correct. >> i self instructed a couple times. that is the first time i was instructed to go. >> and why did he send you to report this to the lawyer? >> well, he clearly wanted to have himself on the record as not being part of what was basically an agreement to have a meeting in return for investigations. and i wanted to make sure that i and colonel vindman were also not part of this as well. remember, there was a -- not getting involved in domestic politics. >> i understand. >> did you conquer with this concern that mr. bolton had? >> i did. because july 10th is really the first time that it crystallized for me that the world's basically a different channel going on here. >> and i think -- >> policy channel and a domestic policy channel. >> and you felt it was improper what was occurring by mr. sondland in the war room? >> it was improper and inappropriate. we sthaed in real time. >> and here's my point.

whether i think it's very likely that there will be a requests by the democrats to bring mr bolton as a witness before a senate trial and i think the calculus there changes and we could well end up hearing mr bolton's testimony it will be quite dramatic in a trial before the u.s. senate but before we get to that trial in the u.s. senate there are more open hearings. this these hearings the public hearings of course will start next week just how just became changes do you think that's going to be. i think these public hearings are crucial this is the one chance that the house democrats have to make their public case for the impeachment of the president if you look at the polls right now the they generally show between 49 and 52 percent of the public supports impeachment of president trump that's. that is arguably a slim majority but in order to. really make this stick the democrats want those numbers to be up at 55556 percent then they think they might have a chance of bringing along a few republicans and this won't be seen as a purely partisan impeachment in order to do that they've g

whether i think it's very likely that there will be a requests by the democrats to bring mr bolton asa witness before a senate trial and i think the calculus there changes and we could well end up hearing mr bolton's testimony it will be quite dramatic in a trial before the u.s. senate. french president tomorrow mccraw has criticized nato calling it brain dead in an interview with the economist magazine mccrone warned european countries they can nor longer rely on the united states to defend the alliance he says the u.s. under donald trump appears to be turning its back on its commitment to nato german chancellor angela merkel says she disagrees with macros quote drastic words alternative gourds ears a former georgian deputy foreign minister he says other nato members around likely to agree with my craw. even we if we can agree on the currency analysis about the problematic issues inside nato such as the american and the man american presidents attitudes towards this organization the problems with 30 i think his. conclusions or any of the solutions he's proposing are quite radical and

mr. bolton is trying to tempt the democrats into issuing a subpoena which would then get the white houserowing the decision over to the courts in protecting donald trump from potential obstruction of justice accusations. jon: but democrats are saying we are going to subpoena him because we don't want to wait that long. if he has this vital information which his lawyer says he has why not get it to? >> if they don't they are in quite a clever position. as i say the reason john bolton hasn't testified is the white house is essentially blocked him from doing so an outside when they think about the maceo white house tried to cover things up. there are some very good reasons why they don't want of national security adviser spelling out the beans on a conversation he had with the president that there'll be plenty of people who will smell a cover-up and the democrats will be up on that. jon: the president said again today he is nothing to hide and he wants these hearings out in the open. he said he will be exonerated. listen. >> they should be public. what i said is very simple, there shouldn't

mr. bolton, mr. volt, mr. giuliani, why wouldn't those same sentiments be within their hearts to do their patriotic duty and do what you have done, sirteed, whdoesne standard apply to the president of the united states? >> i wish i could answer. suspect you can't because there is no good answer. but i do appreciate your willingness to come here today. with that, i yield back, mr. chairman. >> thank you, congressman. mr. jordan. thank you, i ask yiewp unanimous consent to enter into the record a statement from chief of staff mick mulvaney. >> we haven't seen all the statements but i presume they're accurate and no objection. >> ambassador, president trump is not a big fan of foreign aid, is that right? >> i don't know if that's a fair characterization. i think he's careful. >> he' expressed concerns about foreign aid going to kern certan countries. >> yes. he believed ukraine was corrupt. >> yes. and wanted europe to do more. definitely. and the president had a belief that ukrainian government officials, some s

mr. bolton insisted that cuba was attempting to build a biological weapon program.the national intelligence officer for latin america and the state department disagreed. in a fit of rage, mr. bolton had them reassigned. this is 2002 when he said that. this is "new york times" 2019. so making accusations would cuba is nothing new for mr. bolton. but they use that. but you know what? we are in your president's tweets. if cuban trips and militia do not immediately cease military operation, a thorough and complete embargo together with higher-level sections will be placed on the island of cuba. hopefully the soldiers will return to the island. immediately, our foreign minister says advisor bolton is a pathological liar who misinformed trump. there are not cuban troops in venezuela, nor are there any cubans taking part in military or security operations there. only medical staff and he military missions. i strongly reject trump's blockade threat. there was a lot of menace in saying blockade 60 years, what are you talking about? but this is serious. this is the president

mr. bolton and eisenberg keeping them quiet. let's bring in andrew mccabe and jim baker.ndrew mccabe former deputy director of the fbi, jim baker former general counsel of the fbi, director of national security and cyber security of the r. street institute. gentlemen, appreciate it. i put up the chart because i'm trying to simplify that a lot of people say there's something that happened here that shouldn't have happened this way and, yes, it became aware they were asking me for the biden stuff. volker says he didn't know burisma meant biden. i don't know. that's what he said. what's missing? >> what's missing, as you said before, a single witness to step forward and say i was aware of what happened, i heard what the president said, i understood what he meant by it and i think it was totally fine. >> what's missing on the side that says this is clearly impeachable? >> the witnesses they put forth aren't in a position to say that. these are fact witnesses. they are people who will say where they were, what they heard and what they got out of it. you got that today. very si

mr. bolton is refusing to cooperate and mr.ill only cooperate with certain media interviews. not our request thus far. he's welcome to come in and state his case and have it taken seriously. i want to play gordon sondland pointing the figure at giuliani. i'm curious of your view of giuliani who appears closer to indictment than anyone else. take a look. >> that issue is something that arises with every country. he holds up aid and he makes them justify it. and with the country like ukraine, where a lot of the aid is stolen, we would have been ir responsible not holding it up. >> was there a quid pro quo? the answer is yes. i followed the directions of the president. we did not want to work with mr. giuliani. simply put, we were playing the hand we were dealt. mr. giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president zelensky. >> there it is. he is the witness against both giuliani and president donald trump. he made it very clear, i was sitting five yards away from him when he did that. it was

mr. bolton knows a lot, and i think he can even draw a closer tie between the president and this, you knowgate joe biden. >> last question for you, sir. just as a retired colonel in the u.s. army reserve, vice chair of the armed services committee i want to ask you about navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher. acquitted by a military court of the majority of war crimes charges including charges of murdering a militant captive but convicted and demoted on a lesser charge of posing for a photo with this man's corpse. president trump has pushed back on the military's plan to strip him of his navy s.e.a.l. status and now saying, from the president, the navy will not be taking away war fighter and navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher's trident pin, sig nighing him being a s.e.a.l. this case handled badly from the beginning. get back to business. it appears, congressman brown, that the pentagon will follow this directive? first your thoughts on the commander in chief inserting himself here? >> sure. first of all, i think this is tantamount to unlawful command influence. the president has a right to overturn a c

mr. bolton sought to marshal the cabinet and top security advisors to convince president trump it was in best interest of the u.s. to unfreeze the funds to help defend the ukraine against russia. mr. bolton, who left the white house in september, has emerged, over weeks of interviews, as the single most important witness who has evaded house democrats as they build a case against the president and the abusive powers of the presidency by withholding vital military assistance until it delivered investigations that the president wanted. the new disclosure only making clear the significance of john bolton's potential testimony. your reaction? guest: two things that i would like to note. one is -- and i do not know why this is not dispositive -- the president of ukraine and ambassador taylor, in the three meetings with the president of ukraine, testified that this is true. never mentioned it. never knew that he was being squeezed. if you are unaware that you are being squeezed, then i think also the time one would say one is not being squeezed. that the president may have intended that is of

mr. bolton emerged with mr. trump unmoved and instructed the aid to look for new unts to get those officials in front of mr. trump. the testimony tying trump directly and seemingly unilaterally to the decision to withhold military assistance comes against the backdrop of more new testimony tying trump to the conditioning of military aid in exchange for investigations into biden. from the transcript of morrison's closed-door testimony released over the weekend about trump's reliance on e.u. by any chance gordon sondland to carry out his orders. the intel committee chairman adam schiff asks. sondland understood his responsibilities to be doing what the president asked him to do? morrison replies he related to me he was acting-he was discussing these matters with the president. schiff asks, and, in fact, every time you went to check to see whether he had in fact talked to the president, you found that he had talked to the president? morrison supplies yes, mr. chairman. and perhaps no one faces a greater risk and hi

mr. bolton. i would say, too, that he also recommended to mr. morrison, take this to the attorneys.mr. morrison went to the national security council attorneys. he went to the white house attorneys. there was clearly, in a number of circumstances, a concern about linking aid to ukraine to the investigations that the president wanted on joe biden, his son, and the 2016 election. >> the other thing that was made clear is just how important ambassador sondland's testimony is going to be tomorrow. it's certainly -- i mean i'm not sure what his approach is going to be. i don't know if he's going to, you know, say he doesn't remember stuff or if he's going to try to amend some of the testimony he's already given. i'm wondering for you, what questions do you need him to answer tomorrow? >> i think he's got to be very specific, which he has not been. there's some 200 times in which he does not recall. but he's got to have a refreshed recollection around phone calls he had with the president of the united states. i think it's hard to believe that he doesn't recall specific conversations he h

mr. bolton's ukrainian counterpart had had with mr. bolton. that conversation was very substantive up until the point where the white house meeting was raised and ambassador sondland intervened to talk about the investigations. it was at that point that ambassador bolton ceased the meeting, closed the meeting, finished the meeting and told his staff to report this meeting to the lawyers. and he also later then indicated to fiona hill, who was also a participant on nsc staff, that he, ambassador bolton, didn't want to be associated with this drug deal. the implication was it was the domestic politics that was being cooked up. >> did ambassador sondland said this in front of the ukrainian officials, to your understanding? >> ambassador sondland in the meeting where ambassador bolton was having the conversation with his counterpart raised the issue of investigations being important to come before the white house meeting that had just been raised. >> ukrainian officials were there? >> and ukrainian officials were in that meeting, yes, sir. >> aroun

mr. bolton knew enough, mr. trump and jugiuliani appear tha they know more. so this is where the republican attacks on here say and were you in the room double back to oh, bring the people who were in the room. if they have good facts to share, share them. if they knew a lot of things and didn't, mr. sondland thought he knew more than the committee and tried to outsmart them, then he learned the process knew more than him. we're getting to that very high stakes place of what cards do you hold? what do you think they know about what you know because if you know enough and did the wrong thing, you may rise to the level of criminal intent and that's why this thing b about bribery is so important. it's one of the only specif specifically defined impeachable offenses in the constitution so it may carry you farther. but number two, in new york, the prosecution office that mr. giuliani used to run is investigating these thing including him and a potential bribery conspiracy. if there's a bribe bry conspiracy and involves instruments of the federal government, other

mr. bolton as an adult and as someone who was very much acting according to the rules, according to law.ery helpful. >> if you do get his perspective, at least at this point it would be behind closed doors. there will be others who will speak openly in public hearings as adam schiff and others have talked about. we haven't seen any postings for that to figure out the timeline of when that happens. how does this inquiry not go into 2020, congressman? are you under the assumption that come january, you'll still be doing that? >> i don't know. as you know, the last couple of -- i was down in washington yesterday and we had four no-show witnesses. we probably have a couple more today, one again tomorrow. i'm not sure if that will delay the overall process. we're also still waiting on documents, even though we know what the documents say, because witnesses have described these documents to us. we still are waiting to get the official documents from the state department so we can proceed. so it could possibly kick over into 2020, but i'm not certain of that at this point. >> you just -- i beli

was told -- i want to know why bolton saw it that way, why he felt the need that this needs to be reported and what was this? this was sondland saying on a phone call that mrrrison heard if you want this aid, if you want to get the meeting, you need to give us the announcement on the investigations. significance? >> ambassador bolton knew it was inappropriate. i think that's why he told everybody around to go see the lawyers and the lawyers then had an obligation to figure out what to do. and honestly as a lawyer i think it's incumbent upon us in those kinds of situations to try to stop this. and stop what is obviously inappropriate. in an effort to protect the president, if they are there, presumably they agree with the president's agenda and want him to succeed. they need to help him by saying mr. president you can't do this, this goes too far. i think policy makers, people like mr. bolton or bam doer bolton in those kind of situations are looking for the lawyers to help them steer the client, in this case the president, in the right direction. that's what we're supposed to do. that's what i did at the fbi to try to help people like andy make tough decis

mr. bolton. >> sure. >> so it goes beyond the ideology. i want to have one more question here to the ambassador. take a look at speaker pelosi, who is someone you know from her work, from her oversight, from her time on the intelligence committee. take a look. >> the president could come right before the committee and talk -- speak all the truth 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. >> we've got about 30 seconds, ambassador. what do you see her doing there? >> invited the president to put the evidence forward, and apparently the president is willing to consider that this is an administration that has refused to let people with firsthand knowledge testify. the one who knows the most is the president, and i hope he does it. he is under investigation apparently for not telling the truth under the mueller investigation. so this is his chance to. could forward. the truth will catch up with him. the sooner he puts it out

mr. bolton telephones or not.ot i was talking to a member of the eedom caucus and they said alghdaddy was recently killed. and they still feel likey' tsa in a comfortable pitioit with the economic record. but in bue senate, one republican privately said to me it's like a horror movie because they don't know what's around the corner. how do you see the repubcans as this moves public? >> house republicanselieve that therethre a bunea of, a dozen or so that democrats control that donald tru t won and those people cannotav h impeachment hung arounddheir head and maybe their right or wrong. but that's kevinev mccarths very strong bleacle in the senate you have a more tricky situatiua in which no one is willing to defend this presidt because they don't believe he's been completely truthful about what he's done andome ported himselfse adande behindhe scenes. also, familiar a bunch of o sea up tough for republicans to keep. colorado, joanie aanst of io. and if you add impeachmente to ist, we don't know how that plays politically. >> today the president sai again that his call with the ukrainian p

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mr. bolton and his deputy, mr. cupperman? >> that case has a whole other issue which is the house has dropped the subpoena of cupperman. his lawyer wants the judge to rule on it any way to get some clarity on this issue. he knows it will hang around and he knows that bolton is hanging out there. the house has decided not to subpoena bolton. i'm not sure exactly why they did that. it will continue to delay this and mover it months and months ahead. assignments li it seems like they want to move quickly. they have scheduled things next week. they want to move this to the senate. the problem is that speed slows -- that speed moves them ahead quickly but really hurts their ability to get those people the closest to the president. that allows republicans to make this argument saying we haven't heard from anyone in current contact with the president besides sondland. the democrats are not able to pressure the republicans enough. >> neil, mike probably just described what is going on behind closed doors among democrats debating the

also chose to defy the president's request to not come here as others have liked mr milvain ian mr bolton and you have come here and you've been truthful i appreciate that and mr morse and whether you acknowledge it publicly or not i believe that you knew that what the president asked ukrainians to do was wrong and as you just described your duty. is to follow the foreign policy priorities the president but to also only follow something that is a lawful order and i don't think you believe that was a lawful order and that's why you did not follow up on those priorities mr volcker we've heard a lot today about this president being such an anti-corruption president really cared about fighting corruption is russia corrupt country. there's a we're talk about presence alinsky no president from president is russia corrupt country yes it is and president trump has met a number of times in person with president putin is that right yes a few times and he's had a number of phone calls with president putin is that right this is turkey a corrupt country yes i believe so and just last week despite thei

you have the meeting in mr bolton's office. someone says this thing about investigations bolton and the meeting photo is a follow on meeting in the ward room and you get there a little late and even man is talking to sunlight and they're already going at it about sawn lin's desire to assert that the meeting is going to happen if there's these investigations that sum and substance what's going on. and what i want to understand is is this isn't a policy disagreement right. no that's not that's correct the source of your concern is not a policy discriminants not purely a procedural disagreement either right about how i'm our excuse me i'm sorry yes it's not correct it's not it's neither policy nor is it procedure that's bothering you or for that matter. the national security adviser mr bolton right and so i send you down there to see how the meetings going correct and in fact he instructed to go to the lawyer ever been instructed to go report something to the n.s.c. lawyer before that was the 1st time i've self instructed a couple

mr. bolton and to mr. mulvaney. we do know that mr. the president did the equivalent of a drug deal, a shakedown of sorts is how i would describe it. and mr. mulvaney again went on national television and confessed. so we've already heard from them. but it's important for them to come forward. they should do so. but with that being said, what i would say based on my knowledge of the transcripts that i have read, the testimony that is coming forward, and the hearings that are scheduled this week, we already do have evidence of the president's wrongdoing of the extortion, of the criminal behavior and activity that we saw on full display. >> are you at all concerned that as you make this push to hear from mick mulvaney, john bolton, that republicans will want to hear from vice president joe biden and his son hunter as part of the impeachment investigation, and how likely that we are going to hear from him. >> well, again, i think that our republican colleagues who first asked for public hearings and now are saying that they do not want to

mr. bolton. we would like to hear from mr. eisenberg. but whether or not they are going to respect the subpoena i another question. i would like the -- to also remind your view there's we have sought information from the state department that they have not made available to us at all. there has been an effort to prevent us from accessing information that we rightfully have the ability to have under the constitution as the oversight function in article one. >> brennan: quickly, do you think the articles of impeachment will ultimately include things other than ukraine? >> i'm not sure. i mean, it could include obstruction of congress. i think that you can make a case for bridery now. i think that discussion needs to be seriously developed and considered, because there was an effort to try to get something of value from mr. zelensky, the president of ukraine. >> brennan: you're speaking us to from california. we know your home state has been just ravaged by some of these wildfires. the president tweeting about it this morning and has seemin

also chose to defy the president's request to not come here as others have like mr maule veiny and mr bolton and you have come here and you've been truthful i appreciate that mr morse and whether you acknowledge it publicly or not i believe that you knew that what the president asked ukrainians to do was wrong and as you just described your duty is to follow the foreign policy priorities the president but to also only follow something that is a lawful order and i don't think you believe that was a lawful order and that's why you did not follow up on those priorities mr volcker we've heard a lot today about this president being such an anti corruption president really cared about fighting corruption is russia corrupt country. there's a we're talk about present no president from president trump is russia corrupt country yes it is and president trump has met a number of times in person with president putin is that right yes a few times and he's had a number of phone calls with president putin is that right this is turkey a corrupt country yes and just last week despite their corruption at the w

mr. bolton, right? >> yes. >> that's not why he sent you down there to see how the meetings go. >> correct. >> i self instructed a couple times. that is the first time i was instructed to go. >> and why did he send you to report this to the lawyer? >> well, he clearly wanted to have himself on the record as not being part of what was basically an agreement to have a meeting in return for investigations. and i wanted to make sure that i and colonel vindman were also not part of this as well. remember, there was a -- not getting involved in domestic politics. >> i understand. >> did you conquer with this concern that mr. bolton had? >> i did. because july 10th is really the first time that it crystallized for me that the world's basically a different channel going on here. >> and i think -- >> policy channel and a domestic policy channel. >> and you felt it was improper what was occurring by mr. sondland in the war room? >> it was improper and inappropriate. we sthaed in real time. >> and here's my point.

mr. danylyuk was bolton's ukrainian part, national security advisor, had had with mr. bolton. that investigation was very substantive up until the point where the white house meeting was raised and mr. -- ambassador sondland intervened to talk about the investigations. it was at that point that ambassador bolton ceased the meeting, closed the meeting, finished the meeting. and told his staff to report this meeting to the lawyers and he also later then indicated to the fiona hill who was also a participant in nsc staff that ambassador bolton didn't want to be associated with this drug deal. so it was -- the implication was it was the domestic politics that was being cooked up. >> and did ambassador sondland say this in front of the ukrainian officials to your understanding? >> ambassador sondland in the meeting where ambassador bolton was having the conversation with his counterpart, raised the issue of investigations being important to come before the white house meeting that had just been raised. >> and ukrainian officials were there. >> and ukrainian officials were in that m

about this latest development is the letter from john bolton's lawyer which essentially says that mr boltons information about meetings and conversations in relation to ukraine that haven't been heard about yet in these impeachment proceedings and i jump in a century saying it's up to a judge whether here appears before these proceedings so we don't know how long the legal wrangling all that case will take but it's very interesting to hear that john bolton is essentially dangling a big carrot on a big stick meanwhile of course the democrats are focused on what will be happening in the next few days we get the 1st open court hearings but from some of the testimony we have heard we know that john bolton was said to be exasperated by the trumpet ministrations alleged attempts to withhold military aid in return for dirt on a political rival meanwhile as i said what washington d.c. what the entire nation and especially the democrats are focused on now are these open hearings begin on wednesday. meanwhile the acting white house chief of stuff has defied a subpoena ordering him to testify at the i

mr. bolton, mr. giuliani? why shouldn't those same sentiments beat within their hearts to do their patriotic duty and do what you have done, sir? indeed, why doesn't that same standard apply to the president of the united states? >> i wish i could answer. >> i suspect you can't because there is no good answer. but i do appreciate your willingness to come here today. with that, i yield back, mr. chairman. >> thank you, congressman. mr. jordan. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i ask unanimous consent to enter into record a statement from chief of staff mick mulvaney. >> without objection. we haven't seen all the statements but presume they are accurate and no objection. >> thank you. ambassador, president trump's not a big fan of foreign aid, is that right? >> i don't know if that's a fair characterization. i think he's careful. >> express concerns about foreign aid going to certain countries. fair enough. and he knew ukraine was corrupt, is that right? >> he believed ukraine was corrupt. >> yeah and he wanted europe

mr. bolton and you have come here and you've been truthful and mr. morrison, whether you acknowledge it publicly or not, i believe that you knew that what the president asked the ukrainians to do was wrong, and as you just described your duty is to follow the foreign policy priorities of the president, but to also only follow something that is a lawful order and i don't think you believe that was a lawful order and that's why you did not follow up on those priorities. mr. volker, we've heard a lot today about this president being such an anti-corruption president. he really cared about fighting corruption. is russia a corrupt country? >> we're talking about president zelensky? >> president trump. is russia a corrupt country? >> yes, it is. >> and president trump has met a number of times in person with president putin, is that right? >> yes, a few times. >> and he's had a number of phone calls with president putin, is that right? >> yes. >> is turkey a corrupt country? >> yes, i believe so. >> and just last week, despite their corruption, at the whit

mr. bolton, mr. mulvaney, mr. pompeo, and others have to say. >> melissa: and mr.liani. >> donna: mr. giuliani, my god, how can i forget? >> harris: i think we know what he's going to say. >> donna: he's the real elephant in the room. when ambassador sondland said everyone was in the loop, that is huge. i think that sticks with me more than anything else. everyone was in the loop. >> jason: are you going to believe that, or are you going to believe what gordon sondland said when he spoke with the president and he said he didn't want anything? i think the evidence is probably the most relevant. back to her point, melissa, it was earlier that nancy pelosi said that the only validity for moving forward with impeachment would be if you have bipartisan support. they don't have a single republican at this point. >> melissa: in terms of him saying everything in the loop, that was powerful. he was also asked if anyone at all, anyone on the planet, ever told him that it was this for this. that there was a quid pro quo. he said, "no one ever said that." >> katie: including t

mr. bolton the reason why mr. trump sees financial interest in turkey and he doesn't see that the kurds are going to pay off for him directly. >> when it comes to time frame how long is this going to last and what comes from there. >> i think what's scheduled is maybe another few days of hearings over the next couple of weeks so part of the issue will be one of the questions raised before us will the american people continue to watch. will it be must-see tv as we go along or not or will interest start to wayne. that's really going to be important and the quality of the witnesses going forward will be key on that issue. once we've seen some of this public testimony my understanding is that it essentially what will happen is this will get turned over at some point soon to the judiciary committee and they will be the ones who end up drafting and voting on articles of impeachment. >> thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >>> today is the last day that democratic presidential candidates can qualify for the

mr. bolton, mr. giuliani. why shouldn't those same sentiments be within their hearts to do their patriotic duty and do what you have done, sir? indeed, why doesn't that same standard apply to the president of the united states? >> i wish i could answer. >> i suspect you can't because there is no good answer but i appreciate your willingness to come here today. with that, i yelled back, mr. chairman. >> mr. jordan. >> i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a statement from mick mulvaney. >> we haven't seen all the statements but i presume they are accurate and no objections. >> ambassador, president trump is not a big fan of foreign aid. >> i don't know that's a fair characterization. i think he's careful. >> foreign aid going to certain countries. he knew ukraine was corrupt. >> he believed ukraine was corrupt. >> he wanted europe to do more. >> definitely. >> the president had a belief that ukrainian governmen governt officials supported his opponent in 2016. there was one member of parliament is th