they are disgusting, shameful and hurting our country. >> tom friedman, thank you, tom.s full circle, our digital news show. catch it streaming live at 5 p.m. we cover a lot of stories you are wouldn't see on this program on any given night. a lot to cover. that's online. the news continues right now. i want to hand it oaf to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> friedman's fired up and i know why. he's right about the behavior. let's get after it. i'm chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." congress has finally heard from someone who was on that damning phone call between the u.s. president and ukraine's president. we're getting new word on what he disclosed. but is there any real question remaining about what happened here? we're going to ask an impeachment player and our investigators on another big night. what do you say, let's get after it. all right, lieutenant colonel

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and "new york times" columnist, tom friedman. and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's go to our congressional correspondent, sunlen serfaty. sunlen, the impeachment witness list keeps growing and growing and democrats now want to hear directly from john bolton. >> that's right, wolf. this will certainly be a potentially huge moment on capitol hill in the house democrats' impeachment probe. it's not clear at this point if john bolton will appear without a subpoena, but the house committees have officially made the request to him to appear, potentially next week. now, this comes as another key witness, tim morrison, who's a top white house official on trump's national security council, he is set to testify up here on capitol hill tomorrow, but sources now confirming to cnn that he is going to be stepping down and leaving his job soon. certainly a flurry of fast-moving developments in the impeachment probe. tonight, house investigators have extended an invitation to former national security adviser, jo

tom friedman grew up in st. louis park. the cohen brothers grew up in st. louis park. a lot of cohen brothers grew up in st. louis park. event it momentous remember was sputnik. launched the first satellite into orbit in 1957. this just freaked america out. soviets were ahead of us in space and they had nuclear weapons. so my parents marched me and my brother into the living room, sat us down and said, you boys are going to study math and science so we can beat the soviets. was a lot of that pressure to put on a six-year-old. but, we were obedient sons, so we studied math and science. we were good at it. my brother was first in our family to go to college. he went to m.i.t., majored in physics, and became a photographer. that's my brother. i went to harvard and became a comedian. but, we beat the soviets, so you are welcome. a couple good things came out of my time in college. first of all, i get to tell people that i went to harvard. wifet as good as i met my the first week of school at a that in downtown boston was 50 years ago september 19, and we have been married

franken: tom friedman grew up in st. louis park. the cohen brothers grew up in st. louis park. a lot of cohen brothers grew up in st. louis park. [laughter] mr. franken: the first momentous event i remember was sputnik. the soviets had launched the first satellite into orbit in 1957. this just freaked america out. the soviets were ahead of us in space and they had nuclear weapons. so my parents marched me and my brother into the living room, sat us down and said, you boys are going to study math and science so we can beat the soviets. and i thought that was a lot of pressure to put on a six-year-old. [laughter] mr. franken: but, we were obedient sons, so we studied math and science. we were good at it. my brother was first in our family to go to college. he went to m.i.t., majored in physics, and became a photographer. [laughter] mr. franken: that's my brother. i went to harvard and became a comedian. [laughter] mr. franken: but, we beat the soviets, so you are welcome. [laughter and applause] mr. franken: thank you. a couple good things came out of my time in college. first of

>> tom friedman, thank you, tom. don't miss full circle, our digital news show. catch it streaming live at 5 p.m. we cover a lot of stories you are wouldn't see on this program on any given night. a lot to cover. that's online. the news continues right now. i want to hand it oaf to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> friedman's fired up and i know why. he's right about the behavior. let's get after it. i'm chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." congress has finally heard from someone who was on that damning phone call between the u.s. president and ukraine's president. we're getting new word on what he disclosed. but is there any real question remaining about what happened here? we're going to ask an impeachment player and our investigators on another big night. what do you say, let's get after it. all right, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman is the man of the moment. who is he? he's national security council's top ukraine expert, he's been in service to this country for 20 years, he's a veteran, a lieutenant colonel in the army. he did ten hours of duty today bef

. >> i wanted to get your reaction to a tom friedman quote from the "new york times" yesterday. he sure can turn a phrase. "if america's worst enemies had spent years designing a plan to erode our greatest strengths, they could not have done better than what some of our fellow citizens are doing to the country every day for short-term financial or political gain. prominent figures in government, politics, and commerce are behaving in ways that are so destructive of the core institutions and norms that underpin our democracy, one can only assume that they take the country's stability as a given, that they can abuse and stress it all they want and it won't break. they are wrong. we can break america, and right now we're on our way there." rick, as a patriot, what's it been like for you to watch just the destruction of character, the character assassination? career public servants, decorated military veterans coming forward to tell the truth about what they saw. >> you know, brian, the most disappointing thing about all this is there's this sort of nihilistic take in the minds of t

. >> i can only imagine what our friends in the region are thinking about recalculating, as tom friedmanier today, about our steadfast support for these countries. finally, let's talk a little bit about your book, if i can. i want to get your thoughts about misinformation, how misinformation is at the center of what we're seeing, because even in a conflict like turkey, you look at social media. there's a big pro-turkish presence online that is pushing the turkish narrative, but disinformation has now become at the heart of what we're seeing around the world in so many ways. >> absolutely, as you well know. in the region, one of the things the turks are seeing and other people are seeing is the success of russian disinformation in the 2016 election. from which they have had no penalty. in fact, you know, the president of the united states welcomed it. and they haven't been punished. so other people are getting into the act, and they realize this is asymmetric warfare. you can't afford an f-35. you can afford a bunch of people tweeting and pretending to be other people, which is what russi

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tom friedman, noted author, columnist for "the new york times," someone who has been at this capitol any number of times has something called the trump doctrine. he says it goes something like this, barack built it, i, trump, broke it, you fix it. i want turn the trump doctrine on its head and say, no, no, no, mr. president, you've broken it and it can be fixed and you need to do the fixing. and, with that, i yield the floor, mr. president. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from virginia. mr. kaine: mr. president, i thank my colleague from delaware for his comments and i rise to continue to speak about the u.s. retreat from syria from alliance with our kurdish allies, the u.s.' hasty withdrawal from syria produced pictures of u.s. troops being pelted by stones and rotting vegetables as they left their kurdish allies. those kurdish allies who fought so valiantly with us. the trump retreat has been pitched by the president as a great victory for american foreign policy. it isn't. it's a grave failure that will ultimately make our country less safe. it's pavin