sonia pruitt former chair person of the national black police association.nk you. >>> breaking news this hour. retired lieutenant colonel alexander vinman just wrote a stunning op-ed in the "washington post." he was fired by the white house and retired from the military. in the op-ed he writes i made the difficult decision to retire because a campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation by president trump and his allies forever limited the progress of my military career. joining me now is josh letterman. josh, this is a remarkable statement from a career military officer in the united states to say -- you and i don't report on these types of things typically in the united states. these are things you report on in other countries that are authoritarian. that the leadership of a country limited a military person's career because of political matters. >> that's right. alex vinman such a key witness in the impeachment testimony against president trump, talking about the phone conversation between president trump and zelensky. there was a lot of questions a