with mr your mac rest said that resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we have been discussing for many weeks it comes as u.s. house democrats continue an impeachment investigation into u.s. president donald trump and they allege he tried to force ukrainian president vladimir to start a corruption investigation against very small holdings where hunter biden the son of the former vice president joe biden was a board member it is claimed that trump withheld a nearly $400000000.00 in military aid to ukraine in an effort to pressure kiev to launch such a probe former cia officer ray mcgovern thinks the democrats have miscalculated over impeachment. sandlin is just aware that they're probably his messages have been compromised or that he's been monitored he's just trying to correct the record it's a big mistake this is all a political game here in washington it's a big mistake for the democrats to circumscribe their their inquiry pietschmann a tory to the you create a p

ambassador taylor recalls mr. morrison told --ing this is i swear and affirm -- i told mr. morrison and i conveyed this message. this all happens, by the way in warsaw where vice president pence meets with president zelensky. lou: they were back to that diagramming that sentence. congressman jordan trying to follow the trail of bill taylor's hearsay information. it was quite a circle of confusion. but in one sentence, that was one long complicated sentence. google just fresh from a health and human services investigation into their gathering of healthcare data from millions of americans without their approval, knowledge and in violation of their privacy. now wants access to your bank account. google will offer check accounts. their project is code named cash. it's in partnership with citigroup. former acting u.s. attorney general matthew whitaker. matt, great to have you with us tonight. >> what a day, lou. first your impressions of how this went to your mind and judgment. >> well, first i thought congressman jordan did a fantastic job like you played at the beginning. hide

mr. yermak by text and later by phone. they met in person on august 2nd, 2019. in conversations with me following that meeting, which i did not attend, mr. giuliani said that he had stressed the importance of ukraine conducting investigations into what happened in the past and mr. yermak stressed he told mr. giuliani it is the government's program to root out corruption and implement reforms and they would be conducting investigations as part of the process any way. mr. giuliani believes the ukrainian president needed to make a statement about fighting corruption and that he had discussed this with mr. yermak. i said i did not think this would be a problem since that is the government's position anyway. i followed up with mr. yermak and he said that they would indeed be prepared to make a statement. he said it would reference burisma and 2016 in a wider context of bilateral relations and rooting out corruption anyway. there was no mention of vice president biden. rather in referencing bur

embassador taylor told mr. morrison on september 1st with vice president's pence's visit to warsaw. we've got six people having four conversations with one sentence and you just told me this is where you got your clear understanding. >> tomorrow, the public phase moves testimony for marie ubonavich. >>> time fayetteville 37 here's a look at some of the top stories this morning. vice president mike pence will be at mountain view. there will be protests against the vice president's speech. protesters will also carry out a die-in to represent victims of prejudice. >>> police in maryland now have a suspect in custody related to a deadly staping at a popeye's restaurant. accused of stabbing and killing kevin davis earl where ever this month as dozens of people were waiting to get the chain's popular chicken sandwich. >> and a man from concord was handcuffed and cited for eating on a bart platform is now suing bart. steve foster and his lawyer will hold a news conference this afternoon about that incident. state law bans eating inside the gates of bart. foster says that law unequally enfo

in early may, mr. giuliani alleged that mr. zelensky was, quote, surrounded by enemies of the u.s. president and canceled a visit to ukraine. shortly thereafter we learned that vice president pence no longer planned to led the presidential delegation to the inauguration. the white house whittled down a proposed list for the official delegation from over a dozen individuals to just five. secretary perry, special representative for ukraine negotiations kurt volker, representing the state department, national security council director alex vindman, joseph pennington representing the embassy and gordon sondland. while ambassador sondland's mandate as the accredited ambassador to the european union did not cover individual member states, let alone nonmember countries like ukraine, he made clear that he had direct and frequent access to president trump and chief of staff mick mulvaney and portrayed himself as the conduit to the president and mr. mulvaney for this group. secretary perry, ambassador sondland and ambassador volker styled themselves the three amigos and made clear they would

in early may, mr. giuliani alleged that mr. zelensky was, quote, surrounded by enemies of the u.s. president and canceled a visit to ukraine. shortly thereafter we learned that vice president pence no longer planned to led the presidential delegation to the inauguration. the white house whittled down a proposed list for the official delegation from over a dozen individuals to just five. secretary perry, special representative for ukraine negotiations kurt volker, representing the state department, national security council director alex vindman, joseph pennington representing the embassy and gordon sondland. while ambassador sondland's mandate as the accredited ambassador to the european union did not cover individual member states, let alone nonmember countries like ukraine, he made clear that he had direct and frequent access to president trump and chief of staff mick mulvaney and portrayed himself as the conduit to the president and mr. mulvaney for this group. secretary perry, ambassador sondland and ambassador volker styled themselves the three amigos and made clear they would

i do now recall a conversation on september 1st in warsaw with mr. yermak," top aide to the ukrainian president. "this brief pull-aside conversation followed a larger meeting involving vice president pence and president zelensky. after that large meeting i now recall speaking individually with mr. yermak where i said that resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks." and when he says the anti-corruption statement we know from the context here, we know in part from the huge raft of text messages that were just released by the committees today that when ambassador sondland, even in his revised testimony calls it a public anti-corruption statement, we know he was well aware that what he was demanding of the ukrainian government was that they announce investigations that were specifically being demanded of them by rudy giuliani and president trump and they were investigations that were designed to help president trump's domestic political consideratio

with mr your mac rest said that resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we have been discussing for many weeks us democrats allege donald trump try to force ukraine's president to start a corruption investigation into boris more holdings ukrainian gas company with the son of democratic presidential candidate joe biden held a top position newly released e-mails the idea that the firm used biden's connections to get out of previous probe kellam open reports. briss my holdings that's the natural gas farm in ukraine that vice president joe biden's son hunter biden worked for and it's now at the center of a scandal or i guess it isn't mainstream us media insists that any claims of wrongdoing are simply a conspiracy theory that donald trump made up there is a conspiracy theory that biden conspiracy theory vice president might paint has just repeated his bosses debunked conspiracy abidin conspiracy theory the conspiracy theories continue while documents that have newly bee

with mr your mac rest said that resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we have been discussing for many weeks us democrats allege donald trump tried to force ukraine's president to start a corruption investigation into paris more holdings that's ukrainian gas company where the son of democratic presidential candidate joe biden now the top position but former cia officer mcgovern spoke to us about it he thinks the democrats have made a massive miscalculation here in trying to impeach this way. it's a big mistake this is all political game here in washington it's a big mistake for the democrats to circumscribe their their inquiry each mini tory to the you create a problem what effect is that oh well. joe biden is out of the running as far as i'm concerned there's so much dirt on joe biden i just wonder what more dirt president truck was trying to dig out so as the states become revealed it's going to be also revealed that the people talking to the democrats here have

with mr your mac said that resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we have been discussing for many weeks where this comes as u.s. house democrats continue an impeachment investigation into u.s. president donald trump they allege he tried to force ukrainian president vladimir selenski to start a corruption investigation against a brick small holdings where hunter biden the son of former vice president joe biden was a board member it is claimed that trump withheld hundreds of millions in military aid to ukraine in an effort to pressure kiev to launch such a probe. for more on this we can cross live it is former cia officer ray mcgovern ray thanks for being with us here on r.t. international. so how significant is this admission by ambassador saw and it is a significant change in fact many say it's a complete reversal does this create more problems for the white house. well not really simon is just aware that they're probably his messages have been compromised or

morse and you accompanied vice president pence to warsaw when he met with president selenski is that right i was in warsaw when the vice president was as a gated as the president's representative i was accompanying ambassador bolton understood you were at the bilateral meeting with the with the vice president and presidents a landscape correct i was and in that meeting. were the ukrainians concerned about the hold on security clearance security clearance military assistance rather. but yes what did they say it was the 1st issue that presidents and ski raised with vice president pence. they were very interested they talked about its importance to to ukraine its importance to the relationship and what was vice president pence's response to the vice president represented. that it was a priority for him and that we were working. to address and he characterized president trumps concerns about the state of corruption and ukraine and the president's priorities ation of getting the europeans to contribute more to security sector assistance and did he'd directly explain to the ukrainians that

holmes, that you wanted vice president pence to attend? >> yes, sir. we understood that that was the plan. >> now, jennifer williams from the office of the vice president testified here that on may 13th, which is the same day that president trump met with prime minister orban, that the president called off vice president pence's trip for unknown reasons, but before the inauguration date had been scheduled. dr. hill, were you aware also that during that period this was a lot of publicity and i think mr. holmes you referenced this as well, about rudy giuliani's interest in these investigations in ukraine. >> i was certainly aware, yes. >> and the -- around this time, dr. hill, you also, i believe, testified that ambassador bolton had expressed some views to you about mr. giuliani's interest in ukraine. do you recall what you said? >> yes. >> what he said to you rather? >> i do recall, yes. it was part of a conversation about the things that mr. giuliani was saying very frequently in public. we saw them often or saw him often on television making these st

holmes, that you wanted vice president pence to attend? >> yes, sir. and we understood that that was the plan. >> now, jennifer williams, from the office of the vice president, testified here that on may 13th, which is the same day that president trump met with prime minister orban, that the president called off vice president pence's trip for unknown reasons, but before the inauguration date had been scheduled. and dr. hill, were you aware also that during that period there was a lot of publicity and i think mr. holmes you referenced this in your opening statement as well, about rudy giuliani's interest in these investigations in ukraine? >> i was certainly aware, yes. >> and the -- around this time, dr. hill, you also, i believe, testified that ambassador bolton had expressed some views to you about mr. giuliani's interest in ukraine, do you recall what you said? >> yes. >> what he said to you, rather? >> i do recall, yes. it was part of a conversation about the things that mr. giuliani was saying very frequently in public. we saw them often, saw him

holmes, that you wanted vice president pence to attend? >> yes, sir. we understood that was the plan. >> now, jennifer williams, from the office of the vice president testified on may 13th, the same day that president trump met with prime minister orban, that the president called off vice president pence's trip for unknown reasons but before the inauguration date had been scheduled. dr. hill, were you aware also that during the period there was a lot of pub lis itty and i think you referenced this as well. about rude agiuliani's interest in these investigations in ukraine? >> i was certainly aware, yes. >> and around that time i believe you testified that ambassador bolton had expressed views to you about m mr. giuliani's interest in ukraine. >> i do recall, yes. it was part of a kapconversatio about the things that mr. giuliani was saying very frequently in public. we saw him often on television making these statements. and had already brought to attention mr. bolton's attention, the smear campaigns and expressed great regret about how this was unfold

morrison told investor taylor that i told mr morrison that i conveyed this message to mr yarmuk on september 1st 21000 it connects with vice president pence's visit to warsaw and a meeting with presidents lenski and if you can follow that that's the democrats' plan and why they want to impeach the president that's what we're going to hear over the next couple weeks that's what we're going to hear but no matter what they do no matter how many witnesses they bring in here for facts will not change have not change will never change the call shows no linkage between dollars in the investigation into as more the bidens president trump and president let's give both said on the call there was no linkage there was no pressure there was no pushing ukrainians didn't even know the aid was withheld at the time of the phone call and most importantly as has been pointed out ukrainians didn't take any specific action relative to investigations to get the money released now there is $1.00 witness one witness that they won't bring in front of us it won't bring in from the american people that's the guy who s

of september 1, i received a readout of the pence zelensky readout over the phone for mr. morrison during which he told me that president zelensky had opened the meeting by immediately asking vice president about the security cooperation. the vice president did not respond but said that he would talk to president trump that night. thatice president did say the president wanted the europeans to do more to support ukraine and he wanted the ukrainians to do more to fight corruption area during the same phone call with mr. morrison, he described another conversation with mr. silent. --sondlandsummerland .aid the assistance would.com i was alarmed by what he told me about that conversation and i understood that he proposed it might be sufficient for the ukrainian prosecutor general to commit to pursue the investigations as opposed to president zelensky. this was the first time that i had heard that the security assistance not just the white house meeting was conditioned on investigations. very concerned on the same day, ambassador sondland a text message. he responded asking me

mr. morrison, who goes immediately to the top lawyer and talks about how damaging it would be if this transcript came out. mr. morrison also confirms that the president of ukraine tells vice president pence or brings up the frozen military aid on september 1st so clearly something he was worried about, the president of ukraine. there's been this question about when they learned about it. he knew clearly at least by the 1st of september and was raising it to the number 2 official of the united states as a matter of concern. these are several of the takeaways from this new transcript that has just come out. >> thank you for looking through that and your analysis on that. i want to get back to that by the way. i mentioned a little bit earlier mike viqueira is poring through this right now. i described in the set up here all these words, right? potentially easier for democrats on the hill right now to reach out to those who are in the middle in america, trying to draw that narrative out so th

ambassador taylor recalls mr. morrison told ambassador taylor i told mr. morrison that i conveyed this message to mr. yar mack in connection with vice president pence's visit to warsaw. who in the heck can follow that? someone told someone that i told someone else that they knew about this in a different meeting. that's what the other people's testimony is braced on. ambassador volker, the special envoy understands exactly what happen happened. >> i want to ask you about ambassador sondland's testimony -- spreading the love over here. what do you make of the fact that he clearly -- he talked to ukrainians and said you need to do this if you want to get aid? do you think he went rogue? >> he said he was making a pre zblujs based on what? >> we'd have to go back and look at mr. sondland, based on a presumption. all i'm telling you is the facts have never changed, they will never change. those facts are consist accident. those facts are clear. ambassador volker in his testimony, as the special envoy, the guy who is the professional here, has been focused on t

in early may mr. giuliani publicly alleged that mr. zell was surrounded by enemies of the u.s. president and canceled a visit to ukraine. shortly there after we learned that vice president pence no longer planned to lead the presidential delegation to the inauguration. the white house then whittled down a proposed list for the official presidential delegation to the inauguration from over a dozen individuals to just five. secretary perry as its head. special representative for ukraine negotiations kurt volker representing the state department. national security council director alexander vindman representing the white house. joseph pennington representing the embassy and gordon sondland. while ambassador sondland's mandate for the european union, did not include member countries like ukraine he made clear he had direct and frequent access to president trump and chief of staff mick mulvaney and portrayed himself as the conduit to the president and mr. mulvaney for this group. secretary perry, ambassador sondland and ambassador volker styled themselves the three amigos and made c

holmes, that he wanted vice president pence to attend. >> yes, sir. we understood that was the plan. >> now, jennifer williams from the office of the vice president testified here that on may 13th, which is the same day that president trump met with prime minister of hungry, that the president called off the vice president pence's trip for unknown reasons but for the inauguration date had been schedule scheduled, dr. hill, were you aware that during that period there was a lot of publicity about rudy giuliani's interests in this investigations in ukraine. >> i was certainly aware, yes. >> and the around this time, dr. hill, you also, i believe testified that ambassador bolton had expressed some views to you about mr. giuliani's interests in ukraine, do you recall what you said? >> yes. >> what he said to you, rather. >> yes, i do. part of a conversation about the things that mr. giuliani was saying very frequently in public. we saw them often, saw him often on television making these statements. and i had brought to ambassador bolton's attention the a

or his son or mike pence would not attend the swearing in of the new president and the united states would freeze aid, the lawyer said. rudy giuliani says "categorically, i did not tell him to say that." >> rudy giuliani is interesting the way he decides to deny or admit things. >> indeed it is. moving to another name. nikki haley is making some eye brow raising claims in exactly that of a new book she's selling. rex tillerson and former white house chief of staff, john kelly tried to get her to undermine president trump to quote save the country. >> in stoestead of saying that , they should have said that to the president, not asking me to join their side bar plan. go tell the president what your differences are and quit and if you don't like what he's doing. to undermine a president is a very dangerous thing. >> joining us now former white house chief of staff to president george w. bush, andy carr. your first reaction to this, is nikki haley, is what she's saying true, two senior people, tillerson and john kelly willing to go to lengths like this to undermine the president, you wo

ambassadortaylor says that he recalls that i told mr. morrisonthat i conveyed this message to mr. yermakin connection with vice president pence's meeting to warsaw, and so wehave six people havingfour conversations in one sentence and you are telling me this is where you got your clear understanding.even though you had three opportunities with the president zelensky for him to tell you, you know what, we will dothe investigations and get the aid. he didn't tell you three times and he nevermakes an announcement , never tweets about it and never does ancnn interview, and ambassador, you were not in onthe call and listen in onpresident trump and zelensky's call? >> no. >> you didn't talk to chief of staff mulvaney. >> no. >> and you never met the president and had not heard of that and it didn't come up. >> no reason for it to come up. >> and president zelensky never made an announcement. >> no. >> this is the star witness and the first witness.and you are the guy basedon this and i mean, i haveseen church prayer chains thatare easier to understand than this, and he says that ambassa

not to out of fear it would destabilize the government according to the post, the author alleges the mr. trump makes racist comments behind closed doors and compares him to a 12-year-old in anhe unsubstantiated claim pence wanted to remove the president, a claim pence denies. >> i never heard any discussion in my entire tenure as vice president about the 25th amendment. >> reporter: the author wrote a "new york times" op ed touting a trump resistance within administration to guide him in the right direction but says of the president he is who he is. at the time, the president blasted the op ed. >> so if the failing "new york times" has an anonymous editorial, can you believe it anonymous. meaning gutless. a gutless editorial, we're doing a great job. >> reporter: tonight, the white house saying quote, the coward who wrote this book didn't put their name on it because it is nothing but lies lester. >> kristen welker, thank you. >>> a sheriff's deputy is out of a job after another yet violent incident at a florida school the deputy caught on camera forcefully grabbing a student by the hai

i do now recall a conversation on september 1st in warsaw with mr. yermak," top aide to the ukrainian president. "this brief pull-aside conversation followed a larger meeting involving vice president pence and president zelensky. after that large meeting i now recall speaking individually with mr. yermak where i said that resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks." and when he says the anti-corruption statement we know from the context here, we know in part from the huge raft of text messages that were just released by the committees today that when ambassador sondland, even in his revised testimony calls it a public anti-corruption statement, we know he was well aware that what he was demanding of the ukrainian government was that they announce investigations that were specifically being demanded of them by rudy giuliani and president trump and they were investigations that were designed to help president trump's domestic political consideratio

williams, vice president pence was described to our committee by mr. moyrrison, as , quote, voracious reader of his intelligence read book. after the call with president zelensky, you put a transcript of that call in the vice president's read book; is that correct? >> that's correct. >> and the vice president called president zelensky two days later, is that right? >> that's correct. >> and you told us in that deposition that he stuck pretty faithly lfully to what preside trump said, right? >> i believe he was consistent but he also spoke on other issues as well including anticorruption. >> you would describe the vice president as someone who would make followup calls to world leaders after the president, is that right? >> he has on occasion. it's not a normal practice. it depends on the situation. >> and in that case he stuck to president trump's talking points? >> i would say that i provided talking points for the april 23rd call for the vice president which included discussion of president zelensky's inauguration which president trump had also discu

. >> ambassador taylor rawlts that mr. morrison told mr. taylor that i told will morrison that it conveyed this message in' presidentr vice president pence's visit to kiev. and this is where you tell me you got your clear understanding. lou: the media tried to change the he script with more hearsay saying a second american official overheard a phone call about investigations about president trump and ambassador sondland. an anonymous person was briefed on what that official says he or she overheard. when it comes to naming an impeachable offense committed by the president. the radical dimms are left with absolutely nothing. as congressman jordan pointed out yesterday, these were their star witnesses. here is congressman john vapt cliff. >> in this impeachment hearing today where we impeach presidents for treason or bribery or high crimes. where is the impeachable offense in that call? are either of you here to assert there was an impeachable oh nerns that call. show it out. anyone? lou: president trump having some fun with that line of ques

. >> ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told ambassador taylor that i told mr. morrison that i conveyed this message to mr. yarmack, september 1, 2019 in connection with vice president pence's visit to warsaw and a meeting with president zelensky. we have six people having four conversations in one sentence and this is where you told me you got your clear understanding. >> he's the star of the whole hearing, jordan. taylor i think should have starred in one of those shampoo commercials in had the early 1980's. >> you tell two friends and they'll tell two friends and so on and so on and so on. >> i remember that shampoo. that's how bad it is. and that brings us to my third takeaway. ukraine has actually done better under trump than obama. yeah. that's undeniably true despite these ludicrous statements to the contrary. >> $400 million of bipartisan taxpayer funded military support for a nation at war. >> rules-based order was being threatened by the russians in ukraine so our security systems was designed to support ukraine. >> withholding military aid. does that

in early may, mr. giuliani publicly alleged that mr. zelensky was, quote, surrounded by enemies of the u.s. president and canceled a visit to ukraine. shortly thereafter, we learned that vice president pence no longer planned to lead the presidential delegation to the inauguration. the white house then whittled down an initial list for the official presidential delegation to the inauguration from over a dozen individuals to just five. secretary perry as its head, special representative for ukraine negotiations kurt volker, representing the state department, national security council director alex vindman, representing the white house, temporary acting charge d'affaires joseph pennington representing the embassy and ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland. ambassador sondland's mandate as the accredited ambassador to the european union did not cover individual member states, let alone nonmember countries like ukraine, he made clear that he had direct and frequent access to president trump and chief of staff mick mulvaney and portrayed hims

i contacted mr. doneeuk to let him know it was an all or nothing proposition in the sense the white house did not lift the hold prior to the end of the fiscal year september 30th, the funds would expire and ukraine would receive nothing. i was hopeful that at the bilateral meeting or shortly thereafter, the white house would lift the hold but this was not to be. on the evening of sent, if i received a readout of the zelensky meeting over the phone with mr. morrison he told me president zelensky opened the meeting immediately asking the vice president about the security cooperation. the vice president did not respond substantively but said he would talk to president trump that night. the vice president did say that president trump wanted the europeans to do more to support ukraine and that he wanted the ukrainians to do more to fight corruption. during the same phone call with mr. morrison, he described a conversation ambassador sondland had be mr. yermok in warsaw. ambassador sondland told you him th

mr. chairman, it is the intention of the committee to proceed without interruptions. >> mr. chairman, may i make a parliamentary inquirinquiry? >> you may make your inquiry. >> this is our first set of hearings under new set of rules. house rule 660 gives you the discretion to allow yourself and ranking member periods of extended questions of up to 45 minutes each before other members are allowed to ask questions. if possible, we'd like to know the rules of engagement before we get started. have you made a decision yet as to how many 45-minute rounds you will allow yourself and the ranking member? >> i have not -- as we informed minority yesterday, we will see how the first period goes and how much material we're able to get through. at that point the chair will announce the period, if there is a period of the second round, which may be up to 45 minutes, or we'll go straight to five-minute questions by members. for audience members, again, we welcome you and your interest. in turn we expe

. >> ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told ambassador taylor that i told mr. morrison that i had conveyed this message to mr. yermak on september 1, 2019, in connection with vice president pence's visit to warsaw and a meeting with president zelensky. [laughter] >> this is what i sound like when i explain the kardashians to my dad. >> martha: i love that. the comedians having a field day with the impeachment hearings. you got to laugh at least once in a while. no doubt "saturday night live" will have a field day with it, as well, with schiff and jordan paredes, perhaps. tonight, we take you to fox and famous comedians talking about work i in a hypersensitive couny and how they bring people together with a few laughs. >> impeachment, heated rhetoric, outrage culture, ugliness o online. from comedians trying to tell jokes, now it can feel like walking on egg shells or worse. >> now is like a minefield, unless you are talking about airplane food -- nobody can handle it. >> actor denis leary, well known for his irreverent comedy, he is determined to make america l

in warsaw. >> i think as i testified previously, mr. chairman, i think zelensky if i recall asked the question more open ended like when do we get our money? >> well, okay. so they understood they didn't have the money yet. it had been approved by congress. there was a hold on it. you couldn't give them any explanation, is that right >> that's right. >> you couldn't tell them why it was being withheld. >> i could not. >> if they couldn't put two and two together you put two and two together for them because you told them in warsaw they were going to need to make that public statement likely to get that aid released. >> i said i presume that might have to be done in order to get the aid rye leased. >> because we've had a lot of -- a lot of argue mentation here, well, the ukrainians didn't know the aid was withheld but the ukrainians found out and then it was made abundantly clear if they hadn't put two and two together themselves that if they wanted that aid they were going to have to make these straights, correct. >> correct. >> mr. nun

trump's political rival joe biden and his son or vice president mike pence would not attend the swearing in of the united states and the united states would freeze aid, the lawyer said. the two significant things here is number one, you have this guy saying there was an ultimatum. it's not the military aid or it's not the meeting with the president. it's a different quid pro quo. it's mike pence. but i think the bigger picture here is this guy wants to talk. >> yes. absolutely. and it's also an important reminder aside from these impeachment hearings, there is this case in new york that's investigating not only lev parnas and igor fruman but rudy giuliani. as we see these impeachment hearings, we need to know this is still going on. none of the other participants in the meeting so far have confirmed that. the ukrainian official in the meeting has said there was no discussion of security aid in the meeting. but not on the mike pence front. >> their denials are carefully worded. they don't deny there was a meeting. they denied that military aid was discussed. >> and we know that mike pence

and had described to mr. yurmak, the assistant to president zelensky, that the security assistance was also held pending announcement by president zelensky in public of these investigations. before that, i had only understood from ambassador sondland that the white house meeting was conditioned. and at this time, after i heard of this conversation, it struck me -- clear to me that security assistance was also being withheld. >> it's one thing to try to leverage a meeting in the white house. it's another thing, i thought, to leverage security assistance -- security assistance to a country at war, dependent on both the security assistance and the demonstration of support. it was much more alarming. the white house meeting was one thing, security assistance was much more alarming. >> now, ambassador taylor, in your opening statement, you outlined a very detailed timeline. in fact, we have a written copy here. and you included some phrases and words in quotations. did you take notes of this conversation on septem

mr barr refused to hold a news conference. this, as highly anticipated public impeachment hearings are due to begin next week. vice president mike pence accused the democrats of using the inquiry as a way of overturning the 2016 election result. what is going on in washington, dc today is a disgrace. behind closed doors, there is a so—called impeachment enquiry that i think the american people know is nothing more than a partisan impeachment, the latest effort by democrats to try and overturn the results of the 2016 election. our correspondent laura trevelyan has been following the impeachment inquiry closely over the last few days, and from dc gave us more details on why william barr's refusal to do what mr trump reportedly requested is significant. it is significant because, in fact, thejustice department did look at whether or not that phone call between president trump and ukraine's leader, in which he seemed to say "do us a favour" while military aid to the ukraine was being held up, and then went on to speak about inve

fox news interview, mr. trump referred to the vice pesident as "my friend," and said he has donenomenal job. a major dor to the president's 2017 inaugural will face new federal charges, iluding obstruction and failing to register as a foreign ag st. court pape the case against imaad zuberi is being filed in new york. he was already accused tax evasion, in loiolations and after two weeks of hearings, what happens next in the impeachment inquiry into president trump? the white house weighs what do on vaping. in smoke?tick, or will it up mark shields and david brooks poeak down all the week's tical news, and much more. >> woodruff: it has been a week unlike any other in recent year multiple days of impeachment testimony, from enministration officials past and pr all in public. but where does the impeachment representatives go from here? with me is our own lisa desjardins, to walk us through what the next few weeks might bring. so, lisa, it has been a long week, a lot of hearings. be hearings ended yesterday aft

meeting in warsaw with ukrainian officials and says, "i now recall speaking individually with mr. yurmac and said resumption of aid would likely not occur until decrying an anti-corruption statement we have discussed for many weeks. the important thing here, brooke, he goes on to say he doesn't recall how he came to the conclusion that this security assistance wouldn't be released until there was that public statement saying, i do not specifically recall how i learned this, but i believe that the information may have come from either mr. giuliani or from ambassador volker who may have discussed this with mr. giuliani. so what we see ambassador sondland doing here is pointing fingers directly at rudy giuliani, but one of the key things to consider is that ambassador sondland had multiple conversations with president trump. we know in one of those discussions he told lawmakers that president trump said there was no quid pro quo. but trump also told him that he wanted to see the ukrainians go to the mic and publicly say they were announcing this investigation. brooke? >> this is a lo

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what did ambassador sondland say to you that he told mr. yermak? >> that the ukrainians would have to have the prosecutor general make a statement with respect to the investigations as a condition of having the aid lifted. >> among the discussions i had with dr. hill were about ambassador sondland. i think she might have coined it the gordon problem. and i decided to keep track of what ambassador sondland was doing, i didn't necessarily always act on things gordon suggested he believes were important. >> so, sondland will also face questions over the phone conversation he had with the president while sondland was inside a ukrainian restaurant. on friday, state department official david hale told investigators behind closed doors that trump was speaking so loudly, you could hear him ask sondland about the status of the investigations that he was seeking from ukraine. we're going to get a first person account of what happened inside that restaurant when hale testifies later today. it was a marathon day of testimony in the impeachment probe yesterday,

a visit to ukraine shortly thereafter we learned that vice president pence no longer plan to lead the presidential delegation to the niger age the white house then whittled down an initial proposal list for the official presidential delegation to the not duration from over a dozen individuals to just 5 secretary perry as it's had a special representative for ukraine negotiations kurt volker representing the state department national security council director alex of indian representing the white house temporary acting chargé d'affaires joseph pennington representing the embassy and ambassador to the european union gordon song well ambassador song is mandate as a bass as the accredited ambassador to the european union did not cover individual member states let alone non member countries like ukraine he made clear that he had direct and frequent access to president trump and chief of staff mick mulvaney and portrayed himself as the conduit to the president and mr cheney for this group. secretary perry investor son lennon about a revolver later styled themselves the 3 amigos and made cl

lev parnas told a representative of the incoming government it had to announce an investigation into mr. trump's political rival joe biden and his son, or else, or else vice president mike pence would not attend the swearing in of the new president and the united states would freeze aid to ukraine." what a world we live in. right? i mean, will the vice president of the united states attend the inauguration of an important new national leader in the capital city of one of our key strategic allies? i don't know, we're going to have to run it through lev, right? lev is the guy who can broker that kind of thing. is he with igor? okay, yeah, of course, he's with igor. yeah. are they going to -- i mean, what a world. now, do we believe that -- do we believe mr. parnas in this assertion that this is what he did in kiev in may? i mean, his lawyer further tells "the new york times" that lev's message to the ukrainians, quote, was given at the direction of mr. giuliani who mr. parnas believed was acting under mr. trump's instruction. do we believe that? do we believe what mr. parnas said he was d

. >> mr. president can are you takingny action against the whistle-blower. >> the whistle-blower is not a whistle-blower he is a fake. and everybody knows -- excuse me everybody knows hoot whistle-blower is. and the whistle-blower is a political operative. these gentlemen know it he is a politically operative. and the ig shouldn't have brought this because if he would have compared what the whistle-blower said, if he would have compared it to what i said in the conversation, two conversations really and to what i said in the conversation, with the president who i think is a terrific person of ukraine, he would have said well wait a minute the whistle-blower said this and that wasn't the conversation, because we have the transcribed conversation and also shifty schiff, a dishonest -- he is a corrupt pliken when he imitated -- or tried to copy my conversation, he didn't copy it. he made up a conversation, went before congress and made up a phoney conversation just like he does every time he talk

morrison told ambassador taylor that i told mr. morrison that ito conveyed this message september 1st, 2019, in connection with vice president pence's visit to warsaw and a meeting with president zelensky. if you can follow that,re that' the f democrats plan and why th want to impeach the president. that's what we are going to hear the next couple of weeks. but no matter what they do, no matter how many witnesses they bring in here, four facts will not change. have notou changed. will never change.ha the callha shows no linkage between dollars and the investigation into burisma or the bidens. president trump and president zelensky have both said on the call there was no linkage. there was no pressure. there was no pushing. ukrainians didn't even know the aidn' was withheld at the time theth phone call and most importantly, as has been pointed out, ukrainians didn't take any specific action relative to investigations to get the money released. now, there is one witness. one witness that they won't bring in front of us. they won't br

mr. mulvaney, mr. duffy, mr. pompeo, mr. bolton, mr. giuliani. why shouldn't those same sentiments be within their hearts to do their patriotic duty and do what you have done, sir? indeed, why doesn't that same standard apply to the president of the united states? >> i wish i could answer. >> i suspect you can't because there is no good answer but i appreciate your willingness to come here today. with that, i yelled back, mr. chairman. >> mr. jordan. >> i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a statement from mick mulvaney. >> we haven't seen all the statements but i presume they are accurate and no objections. >> ambassador, president trump is not a big fan of foreign aid. >> i don't know that's a fair characterization. i think he's careful. >> foreign aid going to certain countries. he knew ukraine was corrupt. >> he believed ukraine was corrupt. >> he wanted europe to do more. >> definitely. >> the president had a belief that ukrainian governmen governt officials supported his

ambassador sondland had had meetings there and had described to mr. yermak, the assistant to president zelensky, that the security assistance was also held pending announcement by president zelensky in public of these investigations. before that, i had only understood from ambassador sondland, that the white house meeting was conditioned. at this time, after i heard of this conversation, it struck me -- it was clear to me that security assistance was also being held. >> you said previously that you were alarmed to learn this. why were you alarmed? it's one leverage a meeting in the white house. it's another thing, i thought, to leverage security assistance, security assistance to a country at war, dependent on both security assistance and the demonstration of support. it was much more alarming. the white house meeting was one thing. security assistance was much more alarming. >> now, ambassador taylor, in your opening statement, you outlined a very detailed timeline. and in fact we have a written copy here, and you included some phrases and words in q