robert blair memorialized it in his column cheerle and unsocial plants that wants to dwell with epitaph sandworms with ghosts andt- visionaries beneath the cold moon as the team reports and perform domestic grounds no other mary meant treaty as buying. what fun, right? i imagine boyer writing this and shaking his fist, his face also probably aching with allergies man and nature andte eternal battle. when i see mark i feel the same overwhelming sense that i did on that sunday. the cathedral of the sky with the church and a part of something bigger here and we both feel that, we are both lost trying to stake our claims in the struggle between us and nature. nature will always win but we wrestle anyway fighting life and that our bodies throbbing after reaching out to touch beauty. that is just a little bit. [applause] i would love to answer some questions if anybody has some. i know it's a little bit of a lighthearted topic but let's go into eight balls to the wall. i don't know if i can say that on c-span. [laughter] [inaudible] >> is different for everybody and it's different for communi

friday the senior advisor to acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, robert blaire, is expected to giveition. going to talk about all of this now with cnn's chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin, dana bash and cnn political analyst and "new york times"/white house correspondent maggie haberman. what's your thoughts at the white house after this latest testimony? >> there was a fair amount of calm at the white house earlier today. i think they recognized that vindman was going to be somebody whose credibility they had to attack in a different way. we saw that in ways that were condemned by adam schiff's statement. they're looking at it as there is not a whole lot of new information as best as we can tell because we don't know what was said, but as best as we can tell from going into it, they did not anticipate up a ton new information that house investigators already had, whether that's true remains to be seen when we learn more about the transcript of today's testimony, we can find out but, look, the white house is looking at this as this is a single event. we know basically the contours

also on friday, the senior adviser to acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, robert blair, is expected to give his deposition. i want to talk about all this now with cnn's chief legal analyst and former federal prosecutor jeffrey toobin, zada bash and maggie haberman. maggie, i wonder what your sense of things is at the white house tonight after this latest testimony. >> so there was actually a fair amount of calm at the white house earlier today. i think that they recognized that vindman was going to be somebody whose credibility they had to attack in a different way, and we certainly saw that in ways that were condemned by adam schiff a second ago, but ways that questioned vindman's patriotism, ways that questioned his allegiance and what his actual goal was in testifying. they're looking at it as there is not a whole lot of new information as best as they can tell because we don't know what yet was said. but as best as they can tell from him going into it, they did not anticipate he was going to offer up a ton new information over the picture that house investigators already had. wh

scottish poet robert blair memorialized the yew writing in his poem curious and unsocial plant that loves to dwell midst skulls and coffins where light-heeled ghosts in visionary shades beneath the wan, cold moon and bodies thick perform their mystic rounds. no other merriment stole tree and vine. what a burn with, right? i imagine blair shouting this and shaking his fist at the yew, his face probably also aching with allergies -- [laughter] man and nature in an eternal battle. yew one; blair and me, zero. when i see that, i feel the same sense of mass i did on sunday. we both feel it. we are both lost in it trying to stake our claims in the struggle between us and nature. nature, we realize, will always win, but we rustle anyway. our bodies throbbing after reaching out to touch beauty. so that's just a little bit. [applause] a little lightheartedded. [applause] i, i would love to answer some questions if anybody has them. i mean, i know it's a little bit of a a lighthearted topic, but let's just go into it, like, go inalls t the wall. let's do it. oh, i don't know, can you say that on c-

. >> now on friday, wolf, one of mulvaney's deputies robert blair is scheduled to come testify behind closed doors, plenty of questions for him but at the moment still unclear whether he'll show as democrats try to get more answers about mulvaney's role in all of this. wolf. >> important questions indeed. manu raju, thank up very much. >>> let's get more on all of this. joining us now, democratic congressman cedric richmond of louisiana. thanks so much for joining us. and let me get your reaction to the breaking news. the house just scheduled a deposition with the former national security adviser john bolton for next week. how important do you think that testimony could be? >> i think it would be very important. and, look, i think that adam schiff and the committees that are doing this are doing a very serious job. they're being methodical about it and being fair about it. and i believe that as they investigate further people like john bolton and others are very vital and critical to ascertaining the facts. which ultimately they will turn over to the judiciary committee. >> the democr

the white house says that house investigators are reached out to another white house official, robert blair, an assistant to the president, senior adviser to acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney, asking him to come in and testify as well. he has not committed to that. they do not know if he's going to. but the significance here, he was another official who was on the july 25th call. this net is growing wider and they're now getting more testimony from people with direct knowledge of what occurred, guys. >> and to be clear, gordon sondland was pretty direct and definitive in his testimony. he said, if ambassador bolton, dr. hill, or others harbored any misgivings about the impropriety of what we were doing, they never shared those misgivings. he shared that definitively and under oath. now we're hearing that hill, bolton, and vindman did share those misgivings. >>> house speaker nancy pelosi is now giving republicans what they've been asking more if an official vote in the full house on the impeachment inquiry. it will force lawmakers of both parties to go on the record with thei

his national security adviser robert blair was on that july 25th call. he came up in fionna hill's testimony yesterday. hill's testimony also brought up the fact that john bolton was her boss and would have known about this. so what we're seeing is a wider and wider circle of aides from the white house being brought into this. at the same time internally there is a lot of disagreement, a lot of different factions in the white house fighting over who should control that impeachment strategy and what the messaging should be. and it is just sort of chaos. and they haven't been able to settle on a coordinated message yet. i know a lot of trump advisers outside of the white house and conservatives feel very frustrated by that, and the president meanwhile sort of is acting like he can fight this himself through twitter and through his own aggressive doubling down on it. >> danny, when you look at all of the evidence, in terms of do they have enough to make a real case for impeachment? >> they do. and there is a strong argument that they don't need to really ke

democrats are eyeing people like acting chief of staff mick mulvaney and his national security aide robert blairl other witnesses. so this is something that, you know, how they're going to pay for the legal bills is a real question of white house aides right now. >> liz, listening to everything here, how does this compare to what happened in watergate? >> well, i said it before and noose is tightening. the procedures are very methodical. we now have -- there's one difference. in watergate, the senate select committee held public hearings. john dean, president's top aides, holderman were there. the public had a chance to see that. we had nothing comparable to senate watergate committee hearing. so that's what these three committees are doing. they're kind of doing the investigation that the house judiciary committee did not do in watergate. the second source of information was the grand jury. that was completely secret. all those factors came before the house judiciary committee. all that process was secret. and then at the end, we drafted articles of impeachment and the public debate took place.

three people that they would like to see, front and center, adam schiff, mic mulvaney's assistant robert blaire house to the white house chief of staff and brian mccormick, the former chief of staff to rick perry, because they are not able to get the main players because the president said i don't want you going forward and they are going to work their way through the courts whether they have to go forward or not. steve: right. what's interesting is the reason everything is closed right now is because adam schiff has said, you know, we don't want the witnesses to be able to coordinate their testimony, right? we have heard him say that but, given the fact that every one of these witnesses, so much of their testimony leaks out and it's cherry picked. then the next witness who comes in they can actually coordinate through the questions what they ask that person. so, it will be interesting to see if anything changes in the way they do it, aside from this vote. keep in mind, the whole idea of the vote is because nancy pelosi has had a number of super progressive people in her caucus right now who s

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