>> that was eric williams. >> reporter: eric williams? who was eric williams?ney with an office right across the street from the courthouse. in 2010, he was elected by the people of kaufman to be justice of the peace. shannon hebert worked with him said he had a sharp legal mind. in fact, he was a member of mensa, the organization for people with super-high iqs. >> he was a great judge. i liked having him in there. he would understand the law. i thought he was very fair. >> i mean, everyone respected him >> reporter: williams, married for 15 years with no kids of his own, was a strong advocate for children and specialized in child abuse cases. lt. jolie stewart often worked with him on those cases. >> how do you think he was perceived amongst his fellow colleagues, other attorneys? >> i think that he had a lot of respect with his peers. he was kind of the go-to guy for family law. >> i know he had a love for children. >> reporter: tera williams-bellemare knows that better than anyone. she's eric's sister. >> he was a good uncle to my kids. never missed their bi

william swenson. william, thank you very much, william. [applause] ronald shurer. thank you. you, ronald. thank you. [applause] walter marm. hi, walter. [applause] robert foley. thank you, robert. thank you, robert. [applause] brian thacker. thank you very much. [applause] florent groberg. thank you. thank you, florent. [applause] david bellavia. david. [applause] i heard you, maybe, are going to be running for office but someday, i know, huh? i'll tell you. boy, i'll tell you what, he has my vote. [laughter] you have a brave politician for a change, right? that's great. nice to see you, david. thank you very much. and salvatore giunta. thank you, salvatore. thank you very much. [applause] thank you. matt williams grew up in the small town of boerne, texas, a very small town. he met kate for the first time in elementary school. in college, he planned to pursue a career in law enforcement. but after 9/11, matt decided his place was on the frontlines of the war on terror. he wanted to be the best of the best. he worked so hard at it. so, after graduation, he enlisted in the arm

and williams?right, miss >> i would say that in terms of the specific relationship between nato and ukraine, that would fall to ambassador hutchinson and between the e.u. and ukraine, to ambassador sondland. >> lt. col. vindman, you would agree? >> i agree with miss williams. >> you said in your written statement that mayor rudolph giuliani promoted false information that undermined united states ukraine policy. have you ever met giuliani? oni said false narratives record this morning, but i have not met him. >> so you have never had a conversation with him or been in a meeting with him where he has spoken of ukraine? >> know, just in comments on tv and in the news. >> similarly, you have never met the president of the united states, correct? >> correct. >> so you have never advised him on ukraine? >> i advised him indirectly? >>, made preparations for the calls. >> but you never spoke with the president and told him advice on ukraine? >> correct. >> in your written statement, you said that in may,

william is still with us. having a conversation with one of our strategists in mliv yesterday. he was saying that the euro is vulnerable if german politics takes a dramatic turn in the coming weeks. how honorable is the euro with regard to german politics? william: it is a really interesting question. i would say that probably overstates the risks. from thisen generation of politicians, still formidable commitment to the continuation of the euro. one of the things that is important is that this is an opportunity -- nejra: i'm not talking about europe breakup, i'm just talking about a bit of a decline in the euro against the dollar. [laughter] william: that is a reasonable thing to say. one of the things that people are hoping for a moment, one of -- less remarked upon trends one of the big hopes for the euro and continuing integration and getting to the next stage of the construction of a plausible fiscal and political major green is a new deal, a marshall plan, but updating the infrastructure. we are not ther

miss williams, welcome.facts about your knowledge of ukraine, burisma, and the role of the bidens. >> yes, sir. >> you spend an extraordinary amount of your time on ukraine, correct? >> ukraine is one of the countries in my portfolio. i would not say an extraordinary amount of time, but certainly the vice president has engaged on ukraine policy quite a bit in my eight months. >> and it's in your portfolio? >> that's correct. >> first off, were you aware in september of 2015, then u.s. ambassador to ukraine, jeffrey piat, publicly called for an investigation into the president of burisma, were you aware of these public statements? >> no, not at the time. >> you are today, though? >> i have since heard them, yes. >> did you know of anti-trump efforts by various ukrainian officials as well as alexander calupa? >> i was not aware. >> did you know about the secretary of state deputy kent's concern about concerns about hunter biden on the board of burisma? >> i did not work on ukraine policy in that time frame, so

williams were on the july 25th call. vindman testified that due to the unequal bargaining position of the two leaders and ukraine's dependency on the u.s., the favor trump asked of zelensky was really a demand. after the call, multiple individuals including vindman were concerned enough to report it to the national security council's top lawyer. it was the second time in two weeks that vindman had raised concerns with nsc lawyers. for her part, williams also believed that asking zelensky to undertake these political investigations was inappropriate and that it might explain something else that she had become aware of, the otherwise inexplicable hold on u.s. military assistance to ukraine. both colonel vindman and ms. williams also took note of the explicit use of the word burisma by zelensky. in fact, speleft out of the cal. colonel vindman believed it was a fact that other witnesses have now confirmed. in the weeks that followed the july 25 call, colonel vindman continued to push for a release of the military aid to ukr

i asked miss williams about this about she had ever. accessed without authorization fellow employees computer system. chance or no to the question have you ever accessed anyone's computer system at the n.s.c. without authorization without their knowledge no knowledge or authorization i'm sorry knowledge or authorization you know you never accessed someone's computer without their knowledge or rock or authorization correct. sure jordan. i think the ranking member colonel i want to thank you for your service and sacrifice to our great country this afternoon your your former boss mr morris is going to sit right where you're sitting and he's going to testify and i want to give you a chance i think we're bringing you a copy i want to give you a chance to respond to some of the things mr morrison said in his deposition page 82 of the transcript from mr morse and mr morse and said this i had concerns about lieutenant colonel denman judgment among the discussions i had with dr hill in the transition was our team its strength its weaknesses and

political rival joe biden well let's take a look at the 4 officials who testified on tuesday jennifer williams a foreign service aide to vice president mike pence she's listened to president donald trump's ukraine phone call and i said it struck her as inappropriate which will be testifying alongside left and could alexander vandeman who also heard the phone call at the center of the inquiry and a little later in the day the committees will hear from could volcker that's the former u.s. special envoy for ukraine and he's denied participating in any effort to dig up political dirt on joe biden and the national security council's former official in charge of overseeing russia and europe policy will also give evidence to morrison had told investigators that he had concerns over trump allegedly withholding u.s. aid to ukraine to force an investigation into biden we'll speak to our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat shortly but 1st let's go to heidi show castrato she's joining us live from capitol hill and democrats will be hoping heidi that this quartet can flesh out the story so far. that

williams, welcome. i want to establish a few basic facts about your knowledge of ukraine, burisma and the role of the bidens. you spent an extraordinary amount of your time on ukraine, correct. >> ukraine is one of the countries in my portfolio, the vice president has engaged on ukraine policy quite a bit in my eight months. >> and it's in your portfolio? >> that's correct. >> first off, were you aware in september of 2015, then u.s. ambassador to ukraine publically called for an investigation into the president of burisma, were you aware of these public statements if. >> no, not at the time. >> you are today? >> yes, i have sense heard them. >> have you heard of anti-trump efforts as well as alexandra chalupa dnc consultant. >> no i wasn't aware. >> kent's concerns about potential conflict of interests of biden on wrist ma word. >> i -- >> in the last year or so. >> i have become aware of it through mr. kent's testimony. through this process. >> did you know that financial records show a ukrainian nati

williams?> yes, that was my understanding. >> and did the president subsequently tell the vice president not to attend the inauguration? >> i was informed by our chief staff's office, staff office that the president had told him not attend. i did not witness that conversation. >> am i correct that you learned this on may 13th, is that right? >> that's correct. >> am i also correct that the inauguration date had not been set by may 13th? >> that's correct. >> do you know what accounted for the president's decision to instruct the vice president not to attend? >> i do not. colonel vindman, you were a member of the u.s. delegation to the inauguration on may 20th, is that correct? >> yes, chairman. >> and during that are trip, did you have an opportunity to offer any advice to president zelensky? >> yes, chairman. >> what was the advice that you gave him? >> during the bilateral meeting in which the holdout delegation was meeting with president zelensky and his team, i offered two pieces of advice.

williams? >> yes. >> colonel vindman, you immediately reported this call to the lawyers. why did do you that? >> at this point i had already been tracking this initially what i would describe as alternative narrative, false narrative and i was certainly aware of the fact that it was starting to reverberate, gain traction. the fact that in the july 10th call ended up being pronounced by a public official, ambassador sondland had me alerted to this and it was subsequent to that report i was invited to follow up with any other concerns to mr. eisenberg. >> and we're going to discuss that july 10th meeting. but when you say alternative false narratives, are you referring to the investigations that president trump referenced in the call? >> yes. >> at some point did you discuss how the written summary of the call record should be handled with the nsc lawyers? >> there was -- following the report there was a discussion in the legal shop on the best way to manage transcript, yes. >> what did you under

williams? >> yes. >> colonel vindman, you immediately reported this call to the nsc lawyers. why did you do that? >> so at this point i had already been tracking this initially what i would describe as alternative, false narrative and i was certainly aware of the fact that it was starting to reverb rate and gain traction. the fact that in the july 10th call ended up being pronounced by a public official, ambassador sondland had me alerted to this and i was subsequent to that report i was invited to follow up with any other concerns to mr. eisenberg. >> we'll discuss that july 10th meeting in a moment. but when you say alternative false narratives are you referring to the two investigations that president trump referenced in the call? >> yes. >> now at some point did you also discuss how the written summary of the call record should be handled with the nsc lawyers? >> there was -- following the report there was a discussion in the legal shop on the best way to manage the transcript, yes. >> what

i emailed william. i was going to ask you about the name, specifically, what is the reason why they might not release it? part of our job as reporters, we are looking, seeing things in social media, people saying wait, we might be able to help if we knew. what is the thinking? i know he's a minor, potentially. >> that is what i was going to say. shhe is allegedly a minor. when they are under age, you have to be very, very careful about releasing the name. something you said over and ov over, paris, there needs to be a command center and it needs to be some kind of a presser to notify and keep in the community as to what is going on. we are getting it from william la jeunesse that the possible person has been neutralized. law enforcement need to come out at this stage, if that is the case and clearly let the community know that. >> harris: ted, we can report what we had been working on, if you will, and put this on the record. the suspect has been injured in some way and is being treated at a local hospi

morrison and williams. that is the transcript we just got in, jennifer williams and timothy morrison. >> i have not yet seen that testimony. i will say after a bombshell week of testimony in the public setting we saw from the three foreign service officers, dedicated foreign service officers, next week will be a lightning round. because you have eight officials that testified behind closed doors who will be testifying over the course of three days tuesday, wednesday, thursday, including alexander vindman the lieutenant colonel who was on that july 25th phone call and the two individuals you just mentioned including tim morrison. >> okay. so a lot of moving parts here. we'll just take them in and turn them up and spit them out the best way we can here. if we go to the first full screen which looks at the primary sources here, related to the zelensky call. the transcripts just released are of two of the individuals that were on this zelensky call, reportedly jennifer williams staff of the white house and timo

miss williams, let many he go you to first. for the purposes of the following questions, i'm only asking about the time period between july 25th through september 25th. >> okay. >> did you discuss the july 25th phone call between president trump and president zelenskyy or any matters associated with the phone call with any members of the press? >> no. >> to be clear, you never discussed these matters with "the new york times," "washington post," owe littlic yoe, cnn or any other media outlet? >> no, i did not. >> did you ask or encourage any individual to share the substance of the july 25th phone call or any matter associated with the call with any member of the press? >> i did not. >> do you know of any individual who discussed the substance of the july 25th phone call or matters associated with the qual any member of the press? >> no, i do not. >> colonel vindman, same questions for you. did you discuss the july 25th phone call between president trump and president zelenskyy or any matter associated with the phone call with

williams. lieutenant colonel vindman, i'll ask you the same questions to establish basic facts about your knowledge about ukraine, burisma and the role of the bidens. in september 2015, u.s. ambassador to ukraine, jeffrey pyatt called for an investigation into the president of burisma. were you aware of the public statements? >> i wasn't aware of them at the time. >> when did you become aware of them? >> during the course of the testimony and the depositions after this impeachment inquiry began. >> did you know of anti-trump efforts by various ukrainian government officials as well as alexander chalupa, a d and c consultant. >> i'm not aware of any of these interference efforts. >> did you know about deputy assistant secretary of state kent's concerns about potential conflict of interest with hunter biden sitting on the board of burisma? >> only thing i'm aware of is pertains to his deposition. >> did you know that financial records show a ukrainian natural goes company routed more than $3 mill

williams?>> i would say certainly in terms of this specific relationship between nato and the ukraine, that would fall to ambassador hutchison and for ukraithe eu, ambassador sondland. >> do you agree, lieutenant colonel vindman? >> i would agree. >> thank you. lieutenant colonel, you said in your written statement that mayor rudolph giuliani promoted false information. have you ever met jugiuliani? >> i said false narrative, just to be record, that's what i said in the record this morning. i have not met him. >> so you never had a conversation with him on ukraine or been in a meeting where he's spoken to others about ukraine? >> no, just when i saw him, his comments on tv. >> so news reports. >> and in news, yes. >> similarly, you've never met the president of the united states, right? >> that is correct. >> so you've never advised the president of the united states on ukraine? >> i advised him indirectly. i made all the preparations for his calls. >> you've never spoken to the president and t

and you have to wonder about jennifer williams testifying. one reason to do it could be that what she believes she has to say would be helpful to mike pence. that's one possibility. >> sure. >> other possibilities include she just doesn't want to deal with the kind of legal fees that she might be incurring by trying to steer her way around testifying and running up billable hours with an expensive washington law firm. i think one of the most fascinating stories we're going to get, when, i don't know a year from now, whenever. this decision, a decision by people who got with these requests and these subpoenas, that decision of do we fight it, do we go to work, and why do we go and testify? >> and the white house clearly believed and mike pompeo and the state department clearly believed and that will be enough, and faced with you're not going versus a lawful congressional subpoena that you need to go, a lot of people particularly people who are not hyper-partisans who were just doing their job, are deciding this assertion from the white house i

and now that person, jennifer williams, says she will answer the impeachment committee's questions tomorrow. i know this is a lot. this is all nuts. tomorrow will be worse. that's going to do it for us for now. we will see you again then. it's time for the "last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. and you have to wonder about jennifer williams testifying.ev one reason to do it could be that what she believes she has to say would be helpful to mike pence. that's one possibility. >> sure. >> other possibilities include she just doesn't want to deal with the kind of legal fees that she might be incurring by trying to steer her way around testifying and running up billable hours with an expensive washington law firm. h i think one of the most on fascinating stories we're going to get when, i don't know a year from now, whenever. this decision, a decision by people who got with these is requests and these subpoenas, that decision of do we fight it, do we go to work, and why do we go and testify? and why do we go and testify? >> and the white house clearly believed and mike po

miss williams lieutenant colonel than men thank you for being here and thank you both for your service as millions of americans are watching throughout the hysteria and frenzied media coverage 2 key facts have not changed that are critical to these impeachment proceedings one ukraine in fact received the aid and 2 there was no investigation into the bidens my question to both of you today will focus on the following systemic corruption in ukraine to highlighting for the public that by law aid to ukraine requires anti-corruption efforts and 3 who in our government has the decision making authority when it comes to foreign policy and national security matters so on corruption in ukraine as a battery of on a bitch testified one of the key reasons why president selenski was overwhelmingly elected by the ukrainian people was that they were finally standing up to rampant corruption in their country would you both agree with the ambassador's assessment yes yes and ms williams corruption was such a critical issue from your perspective that when you prepared the vice president for his congratul

both colonel vindman and miss williams were on the july 25th call. vindman testified due to the unequal bargaining position of the two leaders and ukraine's dependency on the u.s., the favor trump asked zelensky was really a demand. after the call, multiple individuals, including vindman, were concerned enough to report it to the national security council's top lawyer. it was the second time in two weeks that vindman raised concerns with nsc lawyers. for her part, williams also believed asking zelensky to undertake these political investigations was inappropriate. and that it might explain something else that she had become aware of, the otherwise inexplicable hold on u.s. military aid. vindman and miss williams took note of the word burisma by zelensky. a fact conspicuously left out of the call now locked away on an ultrasecure server. colonel vindman believed zelensky must have been prepped for the call to make the connection between biden and burisma, a fact other witnesses have now confirmed. in the weeks that followed the july 25th call, colonel

william: yes. eight or 10 weeks ago when we were looking at the pound and saying there are very few things ever in currencyland that look cheap on the three major valuation metrics we look at them on, and the pound is one of them. at that point, it was a decision whether we wanted to look through all the noise and say it is worth having a position in sterling just to exploit that. there are scenarios where it goes down from here, but many more where it rises a little bit. at the time, we did not go with that position. instead, we went at it with a guilt position -- with a gilt position, with the idea that there are more positive outcomes for the british economy than the bleak ones. anna: is it underweight gilt? that is interesting. how much does the conversation around spending plans, how does that factor in? there areestion is, big numbers between the spending plans, but they both plan to spend more. the big question is how much can giltsilt markets -- markets absorb? william: quite a bit. certain

>> yes. >> miss williams? >> yes. >> colonel vindman, you immediately reported this call to the lawyers. why did do you that? >> at this point i had already been tracking this initially what i would describe as alternative narrative, false narrative and i was certainly aware of the fact that it was starting to reverberate, gain traction. the fact that in the july 10th call ended up being pronounced by a public official, ambassador sondland had me alerted to this and it was subsequent to that report i was invited to follow up with any other concerns to mr. eisenberg. >> and we're going to discuss that july 10th meeting. but when you say alternative false narratives, are you referring to the investigations that president trump referenced in the call? >> yes. >> at some point did you discuss how the written summary of the call record should be handled with the nsc lawyers? >> there was -- following the report there was a discussion in the legal shop on the best way to manage transcript, yes. >> what did you under

williams? >> yes, that's correct. >> lieutenant vindman? >> yes. you know eu and nato both have offices in the ukraine and we try to advance our policy with eu and nato and you would agree that our ambassador kate hutchinson and ambassador sondland would be responsible for advancing our policy interests with ukraine at the eu and at nato, right, ms. williams? >> i would say certainly in terms of this specific relationship between nato and ukraine, that would fall to ambassador hutchison and ambassador sondland. >> lieutenant colonel vindman, you agree? >> i agree with ms. williams. >> now, lieutenant colonel, you said in your written statement that mayor rudy giuliani promoted false information that undermined the united states/ukraine policy. have you ever met giuliani? >> just to be accurate, i said false narrative just because that's what i said in the record this morning, but i have not met him. >> you never had a conversation with him about ukraine or been in a meeting with him where he ha

i shawnee williams. >> do solemnlily swear. >> shawnee williams was sworn in tuesday as vallejo's first african american police chief. >> today we begin a new journey that will be supported by strong ethical leadership, forward thinking utilizing the 21st century of police, accountability, transparency and inclusion. >> williams says he believes in accountability. >> i will serve you honorably, unselfishly, faithly and i am confident the men and women of the vallejo police department will do exactly the same. >> williams is inheriting a department coping with community fallout over deadly shootings and use of force by officers. >> sadly, the reputation of our police department had suffered. >> just sunday an off duty richmond police officer shot and killed a man over an apparent parking dispute. after the man blocked him in and brandished a gun with an extended magazine. critics say vallejo gave special treatment to the sergeant shortly after the shooting. they say he wasn't handcuffed or treated as a suspect. williams says he doesn't have enough information about incidents that happene

williams? >> yes. >> colonel vindman, you immediately reported this call to the nsc lawyers. why did you do that? >> at this point i had already been tracking this initially what i would describe as alternative narrative, false narrative. and i was certainly aware of the fact that it was starting to reverberate, gain traction. the fact that it, in the july 10 call, ended up being pronounced by a public official, ambassador sondland, had me alerted to this. and i was subsequent to that report, i was invited to follow up with any other concerns to mr. isenberg. >> and we're going to discuss that july 10 meeting in a moment. when you say alternative false narratives, are you referring to the two investigations that president trump referenced in the call? >> yes. >> now at some point did you also discuss how the written summary of the call records should be handled with the nsc lawyers? >> following the report, there was a discussion in the legal shop on the best way to manage the transcript, yes.

as williams i want to. turn to you for a moment and you testified that you believe it transcript is complete and accurate of the than one issue you mentioned yes that's the template substantively accurate yes. now did you express any concerns to anyone in your office about what you heard on the call my supervisor wasn't listening on the call as well so because he had heard the same information i did not feel a need to have a further conversation with him about it and you never had any concerns of anyone else in the vice president's office i did not discuss the call further with anyone in the vice president's office so you didn't like it for the chief of staff or or the vice president's counsel or anyone of that sort. again my and my immediate supervisor lieutenant general kellogg was in the room with me right after the gold did you and general kellogg ever discuss the contents of the call we did not order now in the run up to the meeting in warsaw of the vice president was meeting with president selenski se

william lee arrived at mount wert mount vernon in 1768. he received a delivery after a year of service. william makes another appearance in the account in june of 1771. carlin charges washington for making coat and breaches. carlin also made a waistcoat and breaches. frank was william's younger brother, who came to these in 1768. frank served the household as a butler and was furnished with washington's signature red and white deliveries. there are four men by the name of nat. this could have been a groom or artisan on the property. carlin charged washington for altering a pair of leather breaches. he also was a likely recipient of two jackets and waistcoats carlin constructed in 1771, evidenced by carlin's charge. call ends account with washington is really one of many accounts that can tell us much about the material life of alexandria's enslaved population. i have more, if you want more. we have explored the when, the where and who, but let's get back to the clothing it felt. what does it all mean? for much of the 18th century, colonist

williams. lieutenant colonel vindman, i'm going to ask you the same questions, just to establish some basic facts about yournge abo -- your knowledge about ukraine, burisma and the bidens. in september of 2015, u.s. ambassador to ukraine publicly called for an investigation into the president of burisma. were you aware of these public statements? >> i wasn't aware of them at the time. >> when did you become aware of them? >> during the course of the testimony and the depositions after this impeachment inquiry began. >> did you know of anti-trump efforts by various ukrainian government officials, as well as alexander, a dnc consultant. >> i'm not aware of any of the interference efforts. >> did you know did deputy assistant of state's concerns about potential conflict of interest with hunter biden sitting on the board of burisma? >> the only thing i'm aware of pertains to his deposition. >> did you know that financial records show a ukrainian natural gas company burisma routed more than $3 milli

williams? >> yes. >> shifting to -- lieutenant colonel vindman, you testified that congress had passed under the ukrainian assistant security initiative and a legal obligation to certify that was being addressed. >> if that is correct. you also testified it's qualified by the national defense authorization act. so for the public listening we are just a mic not just talking about president trump focusing on anticorruption and the ukraine but it is so critical and so important that hard earned tax. dollars when given to foreign nations, that by law, overwhelmingly bipartisan support requires anticorruption in the ukraine in order to get u.s. taxpayer-funded aid. lieutenant colonel vindman, you spoke extensively about legal aid to the ukraine specifically chaplains. this was in your definition. >> correct. >> you testified that the chaplain in particular because of its influence in afflicting the russian calculus for aggression, it's one of the most important tools that we have when it comes provi

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it was not part of any process by participate or not miss williams do you agree that pressing these 2 investigations was inconsistent with official u.s. ukraine policy obviously anti-corruption reforms as a big part of our policy i understand i was not in a position to determine whether these particular investigations were purposely or colonel is it true that mr president trump directed the ukrainian president on the call on july 25th to work with mr giuliani on these investigations that is correct in fact mr giuliani has made no secret of the fact that he is acting on behalf of president trump as mr giuliani told the new york times and i'm going to put this on the screen. he told them quote my only client is the present the united states he is the one i have the obligation to report to tell him and to tell him what happens he added that the investigations will be quote very very helpful to my client and may turn out to be helpful to my government in quote. colonel is it fair to say the ukrainian officials that you are on a daily basis while you're in contact with given your portfolio

williams, you are recognized for your opening statement. you are vindman recognized after for your opening statement. miss williams? chairman adam schiff and other members of the committee to provide the statement. pursuant to ay subpoena in and prepared to answer your questions to the best of my abilities. i have had the privilege of working as a foreign service officer for nearly 14 years working for three different presidential administrations. two republican and one democratic. i joined the state department in 2006 after serving the department of homeland security. it was with great pride and conviction that i swore an oath to uphold and defend the constitution administered by a personal hero of mine, condoleezza rice. as a career officer i am committed to serving the american people and advancing american interests abroad in support of the president's foreign policy objectives. i have been inspired and encouraged in that journey by the thousands of other dedicated public servants who i am proud to call colleagues. i have served oversea

let's just talk a little bit about about that and also i suppose jennifer williams as well in the type of people that we're seeing giving testimony today spoke about his father coming to the u.s. and praising his father's decision to come to the u.s. he stressed he's so those he stressed as patriotic duty in giving the evidence here today with with the attempt by donald trump and republicans to cost a witch hunt and at a campaign by the democrats to try to oust donald trump what about the caliber of the 2 people we're hearing from today the access that you had the jobs that they perform and the types of characters that. that's right in and you know these witnesses have been in a sense of bedded by democratic best to gators in the past because of course they already told their versions of the story behind closed doors and in a sense they were vetted for their credibility for their backgrounds how they may come across in a public setting like we're seeing today and it. it is no no surprise that the people selected to bring this story public are ones with impeccable reputations jennifer w

williams? >> yes, that's correct. >> colonel vindman? >> yes, that's correct. >> and you know that the nato and the eu both have offices in ukraine and we try to advance our policy with the eu and nato, and you know that ambassador sondland would be responsible for ukraine, right, ms. williams? >> i would say because of this significant relationship between the eu and ukraine, that would fall to ambassador sondland. obviously we have an ambassador in ukraine as well. >> colonel vindman, you would agree? >> i agree with ms. williams. >> lieutenant colonel, you said in your written statement that mayor rudolph giuliani defied policy. >> i said false narrative in the record this morning, but i have not met him. >> so you never had a conversation with him about ukraine or been in a meeting where he spoke to others about ukraine? >> no, just his comments on tv and the news. >> similarly, you've never met the president of the united states, sfl states, right? >> that is correct. >> so you never advis

williams.you testified what you are noted as being unusual about the call took place on july 25 president raised what appeared to be a domestic political issue. >> correct. but raising an issue even one that you thought was unusual is different than making a demand would you agree? >> yes. and as i read your deposition, it didn't sound like from your testimony that you heard what took place on the call as a demand or an investigation is that fair? >> i don't believe i'm in the position to characterize it further than the president did in terms of asking for a favor. >> you didn't hear a demand. i would refer back to the transcript itself. >> lieutenant colonel vindman, you testified and explained to us why in your mind it was a demand and you've given reasons the disparity of power between the two presidents, and because youu did feel that way, you also felt you had a duty to report what you thought was improper, is that correct? >> that is correct. >> so, two different people, too impartial ob

williams. she's here, she is also a firsthand witness to the call between donald trump and president zelensky. she says that while she listened to the call and she spoke about her concerns with her superior mr. kellogg, she did not have a conversation with the vice president. that's her testimony, right? >> right, and she put the record of the call in his briefing book. she put the transcript, the summary transcript there, too. she just doesn't know whether the vice president read them orbor not, but i think that's something we'll hear more about, right? typically if you're preparing a briefing book for your principal, the expectation is they'll know what's in there. an important call like this, how unlikely would it be that the vice president wouldn't have at least given it a once over? >> he worked for president trump who never reads anything so who knows. >> exactly. >> we are joined by my colleague ari melb ari melber. it is another example of the democrats sort of laying these bricks in or

so i feel like we're violating the williams laws or rules that are set in place by williams, which actually was part of my first time on the board. because the textbooks are not really being used in elementary schools. if they are, shame on us. so i want us to really look at this. how can we put robust, meaningful, culturally relevant books in our classrooms so that teachers can do the work that they're supposed to do and they're trained to do the in classrooms. can we put that in click -- cim aluminium? >> we are going to address that in the december 9th meeting. >> you read my mind. >> i was concerned about that as well, but i want to highlight this textbook that i keep bringing is the social studies textbook, i'm hearing that it's racist and teachers don't want to use it, but they don't have materials to supplement it. i don't think teachers should use this textbook, but this is considered as compliant and that is a concern for me. additionally, my daughter's english teacher has a place in the school and she is being asked to bring these back in. if i personally walked into schools and a

jennifer williams may be able to give us some insight.o make the same argument, she lacked access, she lacked knowledge. or they're going to attack her. donald trump, never trumper. he sent this despicable tweet calling her out a few days ago. >> the president attacked her that way. >> yes, he did. >> don't know if other republicans will take that line. kurt volker. >> kurt volker is actually on the republicans' witness list. i think they may want to think twice about this. donald trump has embraced kurt volker. he sent a thank you tweet to kurt volker quoting him accur e accurately. you asked what conversations did i have about that quid pro quo, et cetera, none because i didn't know there was a quid pro quo. but kurt volker himself sent a text in july that lays out a quid pro quo. assuming president zelensky convinces trump he will investigate get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down a visit for a date in washington. they need to be careful in embracing kurt volker. he basically says everyone on the policy side of t

williams and lt. col. vindman took note of the word by president zelensky that was taken out of the call now walked away - - locked away in a server he must have been prepped to make that connection between biden and charisma that has now beent confirmed. with a july 25 call lt. col. vindman pushed release of aid to ukraine and struggle to learn why it was being withheld to reach ukrainian officials prior to this becoming public by mid august the deputy ambassador asked why the united states was withholding aid although lt. col. vindman did not have an answer it was explicit to a meeting in warsaw that they needed to publicly a commit to these investigations if they hope to get the aid. we all saw the president's tweet about you on sunday afternoon and the insults he felt that the ambassador last friday you are here today in america people are grateful. lt. col. vindman we have seen far more scurrilous attacks in your character and watched certain personalities question your loyalty we know you are shed bl

, jennifer williams is expected to come forward and testify publicly on capitol hill. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. >> joining me now, jacob parakiles, a u.s. foreign policy consultant and an associate at lse ideas. that is a think tank at the london school of economics. thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> good morning. >> so how significant might gordon sondland's public testimony be, do you think, in light of these new details in "the wall street journal" that he apparently kept the trump administration apprised of efforts to get ukraine to investigate the bidens ahead of the president's infamous july 25th call? >> i think it's a little bit tricky to decide in advance how significant one thing or another might be. but there is some suggestion that sondland's testimony might be more significant than the testimonies we've seen so far because first of all, sondland had to revise his previous testimony given behind closed doors. he reversed his decision to not testify originally. sondland is caught in the middle of all this. he probably shouldn

his name is claude "lefty" williams. he comes from quite a town in south -- southern missouri which even though it's only got about 2,000 or 3,000 people in it even to this day, the barker, the ma barker game from the bank robbers from the 1930s came from this same small town and also a guy who shot up a synagogue in overland park in kansas city. this same town. i don't know what the chamber of commerce says about that town. but it's going to be a best of nine game world series so it's different in a lot of ways. and why is that? baseball had previously had best of seven series. but 1919 follows 1918, follows world war i. world war i really disrupts baseball because they issue what is called a work or fight order. that means if you're not involved in the war effort, either in uniform or some other way, they're going to draft you. they're going to do selective service, pull your name out of a fish bowl or something and send you over to france. so, baseball doesn't know if it's going to continue in 1919 until the armistice

>>williams nice told us that she wants him to be remembered. we also talked to one of his good friend. what happened with my uncle was not just a fight on the bart train. >>this was someone to sending someone else. >>williams was born and raised in oakland, he was a big crater span and also attack talented musician tyrone williams family they started a go fund me page to help the family out. the atf is now offering a $20,000 reward for any information in the deadly halloween night shooting in orinda 5 people were killed in what authorities are calling a shootout between rival gang members. now it happened at a halloween party at an air bnb last week 5 men were arrested for 4 of them for murder. authorities said the they would not be filing charges due to lack of evidence. well to the east right now shooters on the loose after a double shooting in richmond now this happened right along chancellor avenue thursday afternoon. 2 people were shot one went to the hospital on their own and is expected to be okay. there had to be airlifted and remains i