newly released transcripts revealed that former national security council tim morrisson testified thatassador sondland claimed to be acting in president trump's direction in he his dealings with ukraine. it included, according to morrisson, sondland telling the ukrainians to publicly announce investigations into the bidens, if they wanted the military aid released. it wants more push on sondland, ahead of his expected public testimony on wednesday. this on top of new testimony on friday from david holmes who described the phone call he overheard between sondland and president trump. according to a copy of his opening statement, holmes heard sondland said "president zelensky loves your ass." joining me now a member of the house intelligence committee, republican congressman mike turner of ohio. congressman, thank you so much for joining us this morning. i want to start with that testimony from david holmes, the top political advisor at the u.s. embassy of ukraine. he heard president trump ask whether zelensky was going to do the investigation and sondland made it clear that the presiden

on tuesday, national security official tim morrisson testified former national security adviser fiona hill might have coined it a gordon problem. >> i decided to keep track of what ambassador sondland was doing. i didn't necessarily always act on things gordon suggested. >> reporter: tuesday's testimony began with lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, a decorated veteran and top ukraine official on the national security council, and jennifer williams, an aide to vice president mike pence. both were on the president's phone call with ukraine, and both testified it was concerning. later former special envoy told congress that he wasn't aware that the ukraine investigations tw that were being demanded targeted the biden the aand the6 elections. >> they're not things that we should be pursuing as part of our national security strategy with ukraine. >> reporter: and while this testimony was going on yesterday, president trump at the white house attacked lieutenant colonel vindman in realtime, seeming to undermine his military service and said he'd never seen him before. megan tersargsyan,

. >> reporter: this comes as another white house official, tim morrisson, testified that military aidto ukraine was held up until their leaders committed to investigate joe biden and his son hunter. mores aresonmorrisson also said nothing illegal about the quid pro quo. democrats want to start hearings as early as mid-november. witnesses who already testified behind closed doors could do it again this time in public, which means all of this could be playing out on television very soon. megan tevrizian, abc news, new york. >>> there's no word yet on whether steph curry will need surgery on his broken hand. the warriors star posted this picture on instagram smiling and thanking fans for support and saying he'll be back soon. curry reportedly broke his second metacarpal on his left hand. larry spoke with a hand specialist about the injury. >> it depends on where the fracture is. if it's at the head, the shaft, the base. if it involves the joint, if it requires surgery or just cast treatment. all of those will go into factoring what the recovery will look like. i think on the shortest end

. >> the first white house political tim morrisson moojed that president did investigate joe biden and his son. but he also said he did not think it was illegal. it all comes down to the transcript of the call. and i will read the transcript of the call because people have to hear it. when you read it it's a straight call. >> the investigation meantime turns full as well as a former national security vidz sorry john bolton back to you guys. >>> all right. thank you. doug luzader live in washington. . . . . . >>> kamala harris. rudy giuliani has pocket dialed several news reporters. she says the claims resident various concerns that >>> the 49ers win over the cardinals. next what the players have to say about the win. they're taking on their division rival in monday night's game. you know when you're at ross and you realize you are the the hostess with the mostest. yes! yeah! that's yes for less. entertain in style all season long. it feels even better when you find it for less-at ross. yes for less. so that early retirement we planned. it's going ok? great. now i'm spending more time w

and tim morrisson that backed up bill tailor's testimony that there was a quid pro quo. that happened on the same day that we saw the first full house probe. amy stodder is joining us and jason johnson, and a senior political correspondent at the hill. now that the resolution has passed, how do they play this? >> they're going to try to avoid corey lewendowski moments. they have a simple path forward. there is a scandal act them coming forward as a whistle-blower. i don't think this will be like health care. i don't think a i think most of the democrats that voted to go forward will vote for impeachment when all said and done. >> justin amash, a foremmer republican, now independent, is calling on republicans to step up, stem out of your bubble. history will not look kindly on false defenses of this man. obviously republicans did not look to him yesterday, but could it strike a cord as this thing moves forward? >> i don't think so. i think everything is maked in the cake. you don't see any movement. you thought there was republicans. i think for the most part they will re

yesterday tim morrisson testified on sondland's role on forming the president's ukraine policy.lled it the gordon problem. >> i decided to keep track of what ambassador sondland was doing. i didn't necessarily always act on things gordon suggested. sondland is the most anticipated witness so far. abc new also carry this public impeachment hearing in a live special report. it's set to begin at 6:00 p.m. we'll stream the hearing live at abc7news.com. we are not going anywhere if you want to watch local news, weather, traffic you are welcome to. also by going to abc7news.com. we'll stream the entire show always live until 7:00 am.m. >>> we hope to learn new information including the names of the people involved in a deadly stabbing on a b.a.r.t. train yesterday. we know the victim was trying to stop the suspect from stealing when the victim was stabbed. amy hollyfield is live at the south hayward bart station with those details. >>> good morning. the good samaritan was killed in this case. the "san francisco chronicle" is reporting that he was stabbed to death with his own knife. i

pacific time embassador kirt vuker and tim morrisson white house aid will testify.t of investigations into former vice president joe biden and his son hunter came up. vinman testified he didn't think it was proper to investigate a u.s. citizen. tell jennifer williams whoever that is to read both transcripts of the presidential calls and see the just released statement from ukraine. then she should meet with the other never trumpers and work out a better presidential attack. president trump tweeted yesterday even though he did nothing prong he likes the idea of testifying himself. he says to get congress focused again strongly consider it. an idea both sides were surprised by. >> i wouldn't encourage the president at all. it would be a heck no for me. >> i think the chances that the president would actually come and testify or answer our questions and be deposed are slim and none and slim just left the room. >> tomorrow is another big day. embassador gordon somlin is one of three to testify as a witness. many conversations with the president about ukraine. ktvu fox 2

of witnesses; kurt volker, who was formerly the state departments special envoy to ukraine and tim morrissonefore his closed—door testimony last month. so, let's take a closer look at the two of them. morrison, a career diplomat, whose testimony, like volker‘s, may lean towards the republican line of defence. morrison was on thejuly 25th call. he has testified previously that he was not concerned anything illegal was discussed. but he also revealed that the eu ambassador, gordon sondland, had told him that ukrainian military aid would only be released if they announced an investigation into the bidens. and morrison said the ambassador had told him he was acting on donald trump's request. as for kurt volker, he is one of the so called "three amigos", along with gordon sondland, the eu ambassador and the energy secretary, rick perry. the democrats say they were the core of a second diplomatic channel in ukraine that was pushing for the investigations. in previous testimony, he said he was wary of donald trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani and that he believed "giuliani was interested" in inv