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in july 2018 i was asked to serve at the white house national security council. at the nsc, i'm the principal adviser to the national security adviser on ukraine and other countries in my portfolio. my role at the nsc is to develop, coordinate, implement plans and policies to manage the economic national security issues of the countries in my portfolio. my core function is to coordinate policy with departments and agencies. the committee has heard from many of my colleagues about the strategic importance of ukraine against a bull work of russian aggression. our country's policy of ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity, instructing a free and democratic ukraine as a counter to russian aggression has been a consistent, bipartisan foreign policy objective and strategy across various administrations, both democratic and republican. president zelensky's election in april 2019 created aroun unprecedented opportunity to realize our strategic objectives. in the spring of 2019 i became aware of two disruptive actors, primarily ukraine's then prosecutor, lu and ru

and alexander vin min who works in the white house on the national security council he said that he was concerned by the call and he immediately reported it to national security council attorneys jennifer williams who works in the vice president's office said she thought the call was inappropriate and unusual and those characterizations of the call have earned both of these witnesses the ire of president trump was attacked both on twitter as never trumper as without offering any evidence that's particularly problematic as other republicans have come to the defense of colonel then men who served the u.s. army was a wounded veteran from iraq and who had fled persecution in the soviet union when he was a young child with his family so these are 2 individuals who democrats will try to prop up as sympathetic and compelling witnesses to tell the story to the american public however the hurdle that democrats face as they try to build this case to appease president trump is much higher they have to connect that trump they making the case that trump withheld security aid to ukraine with the purp

in july, 2018, i was asked to serve at the white house national security council. the nsc, i'm the principal adviser to the national security adviser on ukraine and other countries in my portfolio. my role at the nsc is to develop, coordinate and implement plans and policies to mansion the full range of diplomatic, informational, military and economic national security issues with the countries in my portfolio. my core function is to coordinate policy with departments and agencies. the committee has heard from many of my colleagues about the strategic importance of ukraine as a bulwark against russian aggression. it's important to know that our country's policy of supporting ukrainian sovereignty and integrity, promoting prosperity and a free ukraine as a counter to russian aggression has been a consistent, bipartisan foreign objective across various administrations but both democratic and republican. and zelensky's election in 2019 created an opportunity to realize our strategic obje objecttives. in spring of 2019, i became aware of two actors, shengco and giulian

envoy to nato kurt volker and tim morrison the former national security council advisor. and a cabinet meeting president trump continued his condemnation of the entire inquiry we had 3 what is going on is a disgrace and it's an embarrassment to our nation and given enough evidence of wrongdoing on the president's part the house dominated by democrats will vote to send the case to trial in senate this long drawn out political battle is only shifting gears. well for more we can bring in public fully in washington public the committee is still focusing on the coal from trump to the president's alinsky is this cold going to be the smoking gun in this impeachment process. hi anthony well it certainly looks like it because of course you know a lot of the session today has been basically centered around this july 25th phone call between president trump and the ukrainian president. because of course we're hearing from 2 witness who actually 2 witnesses who actually listened in to that call you know as we've seen in the report there you know lieutenant colonel alexander vin you kno

today the committee is holding two hearings starting with testimony from national security council european affairs director lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, jennifer williams and eight to vice president mike pence. later lawmakers will hear from kurt volker former u.s. special envoy to ukraine and ten morrison, national security council director for russia. watch live coverage of the impeachment inquiry hearings on c-span3 and online at c-span.org. >> earlier today at a cabinet meeting at the white house president trump talked about today's impeachment inquiry hearing and he spoke to reporters on border security and his recent hospital visit over the weekend. >> before i start i just want to say thanks to sonny perdue for allowing us to use his facilities over there at usda over the course of every wednesday when we had our cabinet bible studies. thank you for doing that. for those of you would participate in that bible study, it's been, mr. vice president, i know you've always been there in absentia because we are glad you didn't, , frankly just because you're such a

we should tell us 2 more about this idea of a national security council how is it supposed to work well she didn't go into the nitty gritty details but clearly here she is aiming for more streamlined policy geared towards german national security interests in this national security council and that would stretch from economic policy but also to international development aid this is something like that countries like the united states have been doing for decades here in germany is something of a novelty and it could meet quite a bit of resistance here in germany as well the defense minister. also outlined new priorities and a vision for the german armed forces what did she say. well she basically said that germany needs to be engaged more that it has to become more of a player strategically and she didn't which usually is what you hear from german politicians including the german chancellor angela merkel that did not exclude committing more troops to regions like this are held area where germany already has troops stationed in the country of mali but she also mentioned the indo-pacific t

the national security council is in the white house, right? e white house that's sort of an annex that people work in, but the national security council is the core sort of brain trust of foreign policy decisions that are made by presidents, not only this one but previous presidents. these are not people that are far-flung or distant, these are people in the situation room, in the white house a floor below the oval office all the time. and so the connection -- the fact that these are the people that are coming and describing these things, it's in the heart of the white house. it's -- and that, i think, is ultimately the reason why the democrats are focusing so much on these folks. >> and if they put together a compelling public karcase, the question is how do they challenge folks they know? they might take issue with their facts and their interpretations, but the president has put a tax on these people. we have reporters on this issue and we'll bring you highlights as soon as we can. >>> while we wait for that, the president offering support fo

made a report about it to his national security council attorney he thought it was a political call in nature that's exactly what jennifer williams the vice president's national security advisor on ukraine said she thought as well but you know sam there's another part that jumped out at me which was the republican ranking members attempt to out the identity or more information at least about the whistleblower yeah if you listen to that part of a new naz was asking then men who he had spoken with about this phone call outside of the white house an attempt to bait out this information then answered he had spoken with someone from the state department which we all knew about and that he had in the course of his official duties connecting with other government agencies he'd spoken with someone in the intelligence community for those of us who've been following the story we all know that can only be one person which is the whistleblower then newness asked them which agency taking that a step further you could see then mince discomfort in the silence and his hesitation to answer and that's o

sure adrian so the testimony this morning from the yonah hill who is a former member of the national security council she was the ukrainian and russian expert there she in a sense is really a stand in for her boss john bolton the former national security adviser to the president who has thus far refused to comply with any efforts to bring him forward for testimony now the hill has said previously and in the closed door hearings that have already occurred that bolton called this shadow diplomacy channel in his words a drug deal and that he was so concerned by the fact that the president had empowered his personal attorney rudy giuliani to really read that campaign that bolton said giuliani was alive hand grenade and that there were meetings at the white white house that led up to the phone call between trump and the president of ukraine in which bolton stormed out saying that because he thought it was improper when other ambassadors for the u.s. approached ukrainian officials were visiting the white house and said that there was a condition for the president of ukraine receiving an invitation to meet

hill is a former senior director for europe and russia on the national security council. she was a senior fellow at the brookings institution where she directed the center on the united states and europe. she previously worked at the national intelligence council and the john f. kennedy school of government. david holmes is the political counselor at the u.s. embassy in kyiv where he serves as the senior policy and political adviser to ambassador taylor who testified earlier in these hearings. he is a career foreign service officer. he has previously served in moscow, new dehli, kabul. he has served as a special assistant to the united states secretary of state. two final points before our witnesses are sworn. first, witness depositions as part of this inquiry were unclassified in nature, and all open hearings will also be held at the unclassified level. any information that may touch on classified information will be addressed separately. second, congress will not tolerate any reprisal, threat of reprisal or attempt to retaliate against any u.s. government official for te

and in july 2019, i was asked to serve at the white house national security council. to the national security adviser on ukraine and other countries in my portfolio. my role at the nsc is to develop, coordinate and implement plans and policies to manage the full range of d diplomatic and economic national security issues. my core function is to coordinate policy with departments and agencies. the committee has heard from many of my colleagues about the extra teenstrategic importance ukraine. promoting ukranian prosperity and instructing a free and democratic ukraine as a counter to russia aggression has been a consistent bipartisan foreign policy objective and strategy across various administrations both democratic and republican. and that president zelensky's election in april 2019 created an unprecedented opportunity to realize our strategic objectives. in the spring of 2019, i became aware of two disruptive actors primarily ukraine's then prosecutor lutsenko and former mayor rudy giuliani's promoting false narratives that undermined the united states' ukraine policy

questions about my time as senior director for european affairs at the white house and the national security council as related to ukraine and u.s. security sector assistance to that country i will provide you the most complete and accurate information i can consistent with my obligations to protect classified and privileged information whether the conduct that is the subject of this inquiry merits impeachment is a question for the u.s. house of representatives i peer here today only to provide factual information based upon my knowledge and recollection of events i will not waste time restating the details of my opening statement from my deposition on october 31 2019 which has recently been made public however i will highlight the following key points 1st as i previously stated i do not know who the whistleblower is nor do i intend to speculate as to the individual maybe 2nd i have great respect for my former colleagues from the n.s.c. and the rest of the inner agency i am not here today to question their character or integrity my recollections and judgments are my own some of my colleagues recolle

this was a meeting that we had arranged between alex to 1000000 who is the head of the national security and fence council and the national security adviser bolton. attending the meeting was also secretary perry besser saul and myself i believe fiona hill and also andre yarmuk. the purpose was really a counterpart to visit. i thought that this would be the best opportunity as the 1st high level meeting that we are having in washington with a senior u.s. official to bester bolton after presidents alinsky inauguration i thought to be a great opportunity for the ukrainians to make their case that they are the new team in town real deal about fighting corruption i was rather disappointed with the meeting. as it transpired it struck me as down in the weeds talking about reform of national security structures in ukraine and legislation that they were working on and not the big picture and not the bilateral relationship so i was a bit disappointed by that. at the at the end of the meeting i do recall having seen some of the other testimony that i believe investors all in did raise the point of the investigations

on ukraine security assistance you know has been came toward the end of a nearly 2 hour national security councilsecure video conference call which i participated in from the embassy conference room if this will said that the order had come from the president and have been conveyed to o.m.b. by mr mulvaney with no further explanation this began a week or so of efforts by various agencies to identify the rationale for the freeze to conduct a review of the assistance and to reaffirm the unanimous view of ukraine policy community of its importance. and se counterparts confirmed that there had been no change in our ukraine policy but could not determine the cause of the hold or how to lift it on july 25th president trump made a congratulatory phone phone call to president selenski after his party won a commanding majority in ukraine's parliamentary election contrary to standard procedure the embassy received no readout of that call and i was unaware of what was discussed till the transcript was released on september 25th upon reading the transcript i was deeply disappointed to see that the president

representative to ukraine as well as tim morrison who is the former russia expert on the national security council will be going before the impeachment inquiry there to testify. don't forget that both volker and morrison are witnesses who the g.o.p. requested, so the g.o.p.'s tactic over the next few hours as we watch this all on a going to be where is the evidence to impeach the president of the united states? let's just review where we stand at this hour. with about 15 minutes, going to hear from a second set of witnesses, kurt volker and tim morrison. morrison was on that july 25th phone call, let's not forget, between president trump and ukraine's president. he testified privately that he did not think that president trump did anything improper or illegal but said he did have a sinking feeling after the call that ukraine might not get its military aid, he testified that he was troubled and surprised when he saw the white house summary of that conversation. this morning, we heard from two of the witnesses who were on the call, army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, top ukraine expert on the

we are now getting a first look at the testimony of the top russia adviser of the national security council, fiona hill, and national staffer lieutenant colonel alex vindman, both testifying about everything from the president's infamous phone call with ukraine to the shadow of the president, rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney. let's go to manu raju on capitol hill. i know you've been looking over vindman's transcript right now. what are you learning so far? >> reporter: it's a significant transcript because this is a person who was on that july phone call, someone who serves on the national council and is involved with the ukranian policy but someone who has serious concerns about the direction this administration was going and what they asked him to do, to investigate his political rivals. we're getting a picture of what happened in that phone call. in here vindman reveals that the acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, was involved in this ask, coordinated the ask of the ukranians to investigate the president's political rivals in exchange with a meeting the ukranians had so

remember, morrison resigned from his position at the national security council on the eve of his closed-door testimony. he is a national security council official, former trompe l'oeil list, the reasons they were going down that line of questioning is because colonel vindman went around morrison to the national security attorneys for his concerns. i think more likely, you are going to get more questions about the whistle-blower. might've been this person who vindman briefs, stopped numerous times from hearing any more about, but remember what the republicans are trying to do. they are trying to set the whole big picture here that over the past two years has been russia, russia, russia and ended up not delivering. then you have this whistle-blower that starts another inquiry and the whistle-blowers are turning they point to in this tweet says in 201710 days after the inauguration that the coup has a gun and the impeachment will soon follow. they are trying to say this is all part of something that was planned and that's where republicans are heading. >> dana: and the control room, if you coul

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today we have scheduled depositions where the top lawyer from the national security council mister blair from omb and someone working closely with mulvaney both of them defied congressional subpoenas and refused to appear for scheduled depositions as has been the case with other witnesses who have done the same thing. this will be further evidence of an effort by the administration to obstruct the lawful and constitutional duties of congress. we expect the witnesses who have been subpoenaed also to be no-shows. this will only further add to the body of evidence on a potential of obstruction of congress charge against the president. indeed with the nixon impeachment there was an article based on the obstruction of congress that itemize each of the subpoenas that the white house had defied. today we have four additional subpoenas to add to the list with a potential charge involving the president of the united states and his obstruction of our constitutional duties. these witnesses understand they are significant based on testimony the committee has already received we know they were in the

senior director for europe on the national security council. before returning to government she was a senior fellow at the brookings institution where she directed the center on the united states and europe. she previously worked at the national intelligence count, aour asia foundation and john f. kennedy school of government. david holmes is political counselor at the u.s. embassy in kiev. he serves as under policy and political adviser to ambassador taylor, who testified earlier in these hearings. a career foreign service officer. he has previously served in boeing ta, the national security council as special assistant to the united states secretary of state. two final points before our witnesses are sworn. first, witness depositions as part of this inquiry were unclassified in nature. all open hearings will be held at the unclassified level. any information that may touch on classified information will be addressed separately. second, congress will not tolerate reprisal, threat of reprisal for testifying before congress including you or any o

two national security council lawyers and senior budget official and two aides who were requested and not subpoenas but requested didn't show up, a energy adviser and a budget aid. at a certain point do you worry this makes the white house look like they have something to hide? >> i think it exemplifies the phishing expedition. the folks listed on there have absolutely zero to do, wells griffith and some folks are far removed from any of this -- >> well one of them put the rough transcripts into the secret -- >> no that -- correct. but i'm saying the laundry list of people, it appears that -- so i don't believe there is any political blowback for them not appearing. >> what do you think? >> mulvaney obviously is not a phishing trip. >> but the list of seven or eight -- >> and we start with mulvaney and if he doesn't show up. it is a good one they should stick to with televised and he said at the time, absolutely no

experience, from my experience at the white house -- and i had the largest staff at the national security council when i served as deputy national security adviser, we pulled from the best and brightest, and largely not only the most expert in the space, but those that are committed to departments and agencies and to the mission of u.s. national security, and i saw that in colonel vindman. >> juan, it's great to have you. lets listen back in to this hearing back underway. >> my colleagues in the minority, first if i could ask you ms. williams and colonel vindman, you were asked a series of questions by the ranking member at the outset. were you aware of the fact that -- and then there was a recitation of information about burisma, the bidens, is it fair to say you have no firsthand knowledge of any of the matters that were asked in those questions? >> that's right. >> that is correct. >>. >> ms. williams you were also asked a series of questions about the vice president's schedule and whether he could have made the inauguration or was the president traveling or the trip to canada. lets be clear a

jennifer williams, aid to vice president mike pence, and director for european affairs, national security councilan. at 2:30, ambassador kurt volker, special envoy to ukraine, and national security council white house aide to morrison. on wednesday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, testimony continues with u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland. at 2:30, deputy assistant secure terry of defense for russia, eurasia on thursday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, the committee will hear testimony from fiona hill, former national security council senior director for europe and russia. watch the first two public hearings in their entirety on www.c-span.org/impeachment. you will find transcripts of witness testimony and procedures. plus, a points of interest feature that identifies key moments indicated by a star in the timeline. this week, watch live coverage of the house impeachment inquiry hearings on c-span3, c-span.org, or listen live wherever you are with the c-span radio app. host: joining us from los angeles is radio talk show host dennis prager. thanks very much for being with us on this sunday morning.

in july 2018 i was asked to serve at the white house national security council. at the nsc, i'm the principal adviser to the national security adviser on ukraine and other countries in my portfolio. my role at the nsc is to develop, coordinate and implement plans and policies to manage the full range of diplomatic informational military and economic national security issues of the countries in my portfolio. my core function is to coordinate policy with departments and agencies. the committee has heard from many of my colleagues about the strategic importance of ukraine as a bulwork. it is important to know, promoting ukraine prosperity, a free and democratic ukraine against russian has been strategy across various administrations, both democratic and republican and president zelensky's election in april 2019 created an unprecedented opportunity to realize our strategy -- a strategic objective. in the spring of 2019 i became aware of two disruptive actors, primarily ukraine's then prosecutor lutsenko and mayor rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney, promo

be more robust about representing its interests abroad and she proposed setting up a new national security council so and that's an honest and national security council of this nature would make our contributions to international crisis management faster and more effective it could also make an important contribution to how we formulate foreign policy strategy through foresighted agenda setting so. good to. see if we can find out more about what this means from the doubloons chief political editor of mccain a welcome so how would this national security council work. well we heard i'm going to come by the defense minister but also the woman who would like to follow unger machall as next chancellor here she's the c.d.u. party leader talk about strategic culture and that really is something many analysts don't see as really at the core of german security policy so she's sounding a lot more assertive than many partners are used to from germany and also more sort of the many germans are used to because any kind of military engagement is usually generally hugely unpopular here in germany so the big ques

eisenberg then suggested the national security council move records of the call to a second highly classified computer system. vindman told lawmakers, former trump national security officials said it was unheard of to store presidential calls with foreign leaders on that system but that eisenberg had moved at least one other transcript of a trump phone call there. leading off our discussion tonight our democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland. he attended part of tim morrison's deposition today. also joining us tess bridgeman, deputy legal advisor to the national security council and associate white house council in the obama administration, and ron klain, former senior aide to vice president joe biden and president obama and advisor now on joe biden's presidential campaign. congressman raskin, let me start with you. the president in this interview tonight with the washington examiner is calling tim morrison's testimony fantastic. he doesn't seem to understand that tim morrison has basically corroborated the worst evidence against the president, which of course is what he said to the p

cannot afford to be seen to be deferring to any foreign leader. >> msnbc national security analyst and former national security councilsperson ned price joins us right now to discuss just some of what we saw here as well as the rest of the week. ned, thanks for being with us. in the times that you had to present to the president, you know, those briefs, right? thin and thick, and it was about ukraine, what would that headline be? i think for most americans they were watching what was happening there in the testimony. ukraine is important to america. >> ukraine is important to america, but there is also a corollary lesson. it's also a critical deterrent to russia. i think that's the other point that some of the witnesses this week have alluded to. ukraine, of course, is a friend, it's a partner of the united states. we have a vested interest in ukraine's success. of course, our support is a critical element of that. but it's also bigger than ukraine because ukraine is a symptom of russia's expansionism, its newfound aggression under vladimir putin that we've seen especially in "the post" 2014 environment when russia fi

envoy to nato kurt volker and tim morrison the former national security council adviser. at a cabinet meeting president trump continued his condemnation of the entire inquiry we had 3 what's going on is a disgrace and it's an embarrassment to our nation given enough evidence of wrongdoing on the president's part the house dominated by democrats will vote to send the case to trial in senate this long drawn out political battle is only shifting gears. well from all we can bring in public in washington public the committee is still very much focusing on the coal from trump to ukrainian president's olinsky why the emphasis on this cool well i'm very very much part of the republicans case up until now has been that none of the witnesses actually listened in to the 25th of july phone call but of course 2 of the witnesses today actually were listening in to a famous infamous phone call now and of course they've been focusing as well on the fact that you know who this whistleblower is and there were sort of a hope amongst republicans that if they knew who that person is then they

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colonel alexander vindman of the national security council, n.s.c. earlier thi.t the this in a week that marked a new phase in impeachment... as house democrats led by the house sctelligence chairman adam ff moved to wrap up closed- door hearings, and move to public ones next week. wi>> so those open hearing be an opportunity for the american people to evaluate the witnesses for themselves. >> desjardins: as part of that 67ift, democrats released some pages of testimony given this week, from eight key witnesses, six with roles at the current and former ambassadors and foreign service officers, oud two from the national securityil. so what did we learn? inmocrats see a pattern. >> we are gean increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year, and the degree to which the prident enlisted whole departments of government in the illicitim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent, as well ra further cons theory about the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial to his reelection camign. >> desjardins: d

former deputy assistant to the president and senior director for europe and russia on the national security council. before returning to government she was a senior fellow heershe directed the center on the united states and europe. she previously worked at the national security col, eurasia foundation and the john f. kennedy school of government. david holmes is the political counsellor at the u.s. embassy in kyiv where he serves as the adviser to ambassador taylor who testified earlier in these hearings. he is a career foreign service officer. he has previously served in moscow, new delhi, kabul and bogota. he has served on the national security council as special assistant to the united states secretary of state. two final points before our witnesses are sworn. first witness depositions as part of this inquiry were unclassified in nature and all open hearings will be held at the unclassified level. any information that may touch on classified information will be addressed separately. second, congress wno reprisal or attempt to retaliate against any u.s. government official for testifying in fron

national security. i think that's what we've seen from some white house officials serving on the national security council elevating politics ahead of national security. that's really the through line that has gone throughout this whole scandal. president trump placed his own political interests ahead of our national security and that is something we've seen consistently from his defenders as well. >>> coming up, one for the books. how the republican national committee helped donald trump jr. reach the top spot on the "new york times" best seller's list. e "n yework times" best seller's list upbeat music♪ no cover-up spray here. cheaper aerosols can cover up odors in a flowery fog. but febreze air effects eliminates odors. with a 100% natural propellent. it leaves behind a pleasant scent you'll love. [ deep inhale] freshen up. don't cover up. febreze. aetto yours a health and wellness with medicare advantage plans designed for the whole you body, mind and spirit. that means aetna is helping you get ready to be the best grandmother the world has ever known. with medicare advantage plans that come with mont

guest: the national security council staff will talk to the pentagon and state department, and other cabinet officials and their staff on any issues that might come up. if it is commerce, then a business deal might be involved. if it is a trade deal might have a u.s. trade representative or the treasury. it is a big process that the security council runs, so you have a memo to the president that reflects a government approach. i assume that happened with the president with his phone call last summer. in this case there was an unusual second outside of government process run by rudy giuliani and some former russian oligarchs trying to have a second agenda to make sure that president did not follow the career memos, rather this outside effort to try and use the president's power to get the ukrainians involved in efforts to get reelected. that is where this controversy blew up. host: the transcript of the phone call, a summary of the transcript released late in the summer. when you read that, what were your thoughts? guest: it was stunning. i could not believe they had released it. it w

national security adviser robert o'brien, speaking on "face the nation" earlier this week, suggested vindman could be pushed out. >> lieutenant colonel vindman who has testify under oath is serving on the national security councilurrently. will he continue to work for you despite testifying against the president? >> one of the things i talked about is we're streamlining the national security council. >> reporter: the white house does not deny any of our reporting on how vindman is being treated. and today, these attacks extended to the president's allies. one republican senator tweeted calling vindman vindictive and linking him to the whistleblower. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, paula, thank you. today, a packed courtroom in boston heard stunning details in the case of a young woman accused of encouraging her boyfriend to take his own life. she pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter. mola lenghi reports prosecutors say the woman sent tens of thousands of abusive texts. >> and how do you plead? >> not guilty. >> reporter: inyoung you stood silently as a prosecutor read dozens of profanity-filled text messages that she said the 21- year-old sent to her boyfriend, alexander urtula. >> literally, i want t

about what you're learning here. >> this is just the latest high level departure at the national security council was a defense adviser, a senior director for defense at the national security council, and he is having his last day today, and he actually sat in on some of these key meetings, and he was in ukraine, with national security adviser john bolton, he was also in warsaw, when the vice president met with the ukrainian president zelensky and while he hasn't been called to testify, and he hasn't been wrapped up in all of this, he was there for some of those key moments, and he was also a bolton ally, and with his departure, it's, like i said, the latest in a slew of departures, and the national security adviser robert o'brien has said that he is hoping to make the national security council smaller and right now, there are no plans for any replacement for him. >> any idea on the motive here for the resignation? >> i can't talk to the motive. but like i said, it's interesting the timing with all of this, that's going on. >> meredith mcgraw, live in washington, d.c. for us, thank you very much.

in preparation for the july 25th phone call it's standard for the national security council to provide talking points is that correct correct because the words of the president carry incredible weight is that not correct that is correct so it's important to ensure that everyone has carefully considered the implications of what the president might say to a foreign leader that is correct colonel binmen you are the national security council's director for ukraine did you participate in preparing the talking points for the president's call i did i prepared them so you prepared them they were then reviewed and edited by multiple senior officers the n.s.c. and the white house is that correct that is correct. did the talking points for the president contain any discussion of investigations into the 2016 election the bidens or charisma they did not are you aware of any written product from the national security council suggesting that investigations into the 2016 election the bidens or barisan are part of the official policy of the united states no i am not some of president trumps allies have

live testimony from jennifer williams, aid to mike pence and director for european affairs national security council alexander vindman. in a 230, ambassador kirk volker the special envoy to ukraine and national security council white house aide to morrison. on wednesday 9:00 a.m. eastern, testimony continues with u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland. at 230 deputy assistant russian ukrainian or cooper under secretary of state for political affairs. and on thursday at 9:00 a.m. eastern the committee will hear testimony from fiona hill, former national security council senior director for europe and russia. watch the first two public hearings in their entirety on the website on c-span.org/impeachment. there you find transcripts of testimony and procedures for the hearings and points of interest feature that identify key moment in the hearing indicated by a start in the timeline. next week watch live coverage of the house impeachment inquiry hearing on c-span3, c-span.org or listen live wherever you are with the free c-span radio out. >> up next her campaign 2020 coverage continues as

morrison, lieutenant colonel vindman's former boss, head of the russia and europe desk and the national security councilerned about what president trump had said about the investigations to the degree that he talked to his boss, then national security advisers john bolton, and then also went to the national security council lawyers because he was concerned. >> exactly. i find it very interesting that both of these witnesses are on the republican list of who they wanted to testify. and they in some regards do much more damage, because of that credential than they would otherwise if they just appeared. but you're right. they are cooperating witnesses, and they didn't really take particularly dramatic action after either. >> one other thing that's interesting is that morrison traveled with vice president, or was present, at least, in warsaw when vice president pence met with the ukrainian president, zelensky, september 1st i believe, and then we have gordon sondland, kind of the point man in all this speaking to president trump directly according to him. go up to a zelensky aide andre yermak and come back

today we had additional scheduled depositions with the top lawyer for the national security council, as well as mr. blair from the office of management and budget. and someone who work closely with mick mulvaney. both of them defied congressional subpoenas and refused to appear for their scheduled depositions, as has been the case with other witnesses who have done the same thing. this will be further evidence of an effort by the administration to obstruct the lawful and constitutional duties of congress. i would also say and we expect the witnesses who have been subpoenaed to come in this afternoon also to be no-shows, this will only further add to the body of evidence on a potential obstruction of congress charge against the president. indeed, in the nixon impeachment, there was an article impeachment based on the obstruction of congress that itemized each of the subpoenas that the white house had defied. well, today we have four additional subpoenas to add to that list of a potential charge involving the president of the united states and his obstruction of our constitutional duti

testify by the republicans in the house we are going to hear from tim morris on a former national security council russia expert who said in his testimony behind closed doors that he thinks that there was nothing illegal about the phone call and we are also going to hear from current volcker who is one of president trump's points man on ukraine the former special involvement in ukraine who told the investigators that still wants no quid pro quo that military assistance to ukraine was not conditioned on upon investigations into presidents trumps political rivals however cool it for current could poise a problem for the republicans because several witnesses who testified cite after him and this closed door hearing provided testimony that conflicts with his story i was on the phone number in washington thank you the parents of some of the students inside a besieged hong kong university campus are appealing to authorities to make it to take us off the large most protesters that left policy at the university buildings by early tuesday girl sources of labeled the remaining students rioters a term that c

improper behavior we made every effort to ensure that the relevant decision makers at the national security council and the state department knew the important details of our efforts the suggestion that we were engaged in some irregular or rogue diplomacy is absolutely false i have now identified certain state department e-mails and messages that provide contemporaneous support for my view these e-mails show that the leadership of the state department the national security council and the white house were all informed about the ukraine efforts from may 23rd 2019 until the security aid was released on september 11th 2019 i will quote from some of those messages with you shortly. 4th as i testified previously as i testified previously mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president selenski mr giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election d.n.c. server and barry sma mr giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we knew these investigations were important to the pre

documents or information they even asked him whether he was aware that officials at the national security council were concerned about he's judgments so it will fit clear attempt to discredit this witness but i think that it was unsuccessful so far would you do the belief from 2 more witnesses today who are they what are we expecting. 2 witnesses that were called to testify by the republicans in the house we are going to hear from tim morris a former national security council russia expert who said in his testimony behind closed doors that he things that there was nothing illegal about the phone call and we are also going to hear from current volcker who is one of president trump's point man on ukraine the former special invoice in ukraine who told the investigators that there was no quid pro quo that military assistance to ukraine was not conditioned on upon investigations into presidents trumps political rivals however couth for career could poise a problem for the republicans because several witnesses who testified in cite after him in this closed door hearing provided testimony that conflicts

we have found the rats nest, it's in the national security council. the whistle-blower according to a number of reports as you have been saying here tonight comes off the national security council, an obama holdover -- a democrat. somebody who worked with biden and brennan, an obama holdover who didn't like trump, who met with one of the active figures in the ukraine efforts to undermine the president of the united states in 2016. we have two others who now were hired by schiff, obama holdovers who were in the national security council, now they work for schiff and of course schiff doesn't know anything about it. if you want to know why the president of the united states had trouble getting clearances, now you know why. because it's a rats nest. i think u.s. attorney durham and the attorney general of the united states should have an investigation of these three national security council former staffers, what role do they have in the ukraine 2016 matter interfering in the election, what role did they have pushing the russia collusion matter? with a lea