Concerned about mr. Trumps phone call with the ukraine president. And he was so concerned about that and other things that he witnessed he twice reported his concerns to his superiors. Vindman says he reported it out of a, quote, sense of duty. In his Opening Statement that has been obtained by cnn, vindman says i did not think it was proper to demand a Foreign Government investigate a foreign citizen and i was worried about the implications for the u. S. Governments support of ukraine. As investigators hear from vindman and four other witnesses this week, Democratic Leaders now planning to hold a vote on the impeachment inquiry thursday. The vote will force lawmakers to go on the record supporting or opposing the investigation. And will lay out the rules for the next phase taking the probe public. The speakers move shuts down a key gop talking point that the inquiry is not legitimate because there never had been a formal vote. We are already seeing, though, some of the president s republican allies trying to discredit todays witness. Colonel vindman who we will note was awarded a purple heart and is an active member of the u. S. Military. Listen to what congressman sean duffy said right here on new day moments ago. Mr. Vindman, hes an adviser to the president. He is a former ukrainian. He wants to make sure taxpayer money goes in military aid im sorry. Why does it matter where he was born . Hear me saying y does it matter where he was born . He moved to the United States when he was 3 years old with his family. Hes been in the military for 20 years. Awarded the purple heart. Active duty member. Sean duffy didnt know whether colonel vindman put america first. You are starting to hear it more than just from sean duffy. Joining us, joe lockhart, abby phillip and jeffrey toobin, cnn chief legal analyst. And i do want to start with colonel vindman, what he is going to say today. And let me just read you part of what he will testify to. This is part of his Opening Statement. I was so concerned by the call, i did not think it was proper to demand a foreign invest investigate a u. S. Citizen and i was worried about the implications for the u. S. Governments support of ukraine. He was so outraged, even before the issue of quid pro quo arose. The simple act, he thought, of the president asking president zelensky of ukraine to investigate an american citizen, the political rival of the president , was so outrageous to vindman that he thought that needed to be reported up the chain of command. And this was even before the issue of, well, was american aid conditioned on this . It just shows how outrageous this was, to him, and i think many others. And so unambiguous. It wasnt tope interpretation. He was so clear on what he was hearing that it raised all of these alarm bells. Heres another piece from his Opening Statement that is interesting. In the spring of 2019, i became aware of outside influencers promoting a false narrative of ukraine inconsistent with the consensus view of the interagency. This narrative was harmful to the u. S. Government policy. While my interagency colleagues were becoming optimistic, this alternative narrative undermined u. S. Government efforts to expand cooperation with ukraine. Its interesting, abby, because he was on the call. Not hearsay. He was on the call. He was concerned about it and starting to see things around him that he was quite concerned about. See things he clearly believed were contrary to u. S. Foreign policy. And this is important because what we heard in the last hour was an attempt to imply that vindman could not possibly have u. S. Interests in mind because maybe he wasnt born in the United States or perhaps he had some preference for ukraine. But the fact of the matter is it is the United States governments policy that the u. S. Support ukraine in their fight against russia. Thats a bipartisan consensus, and thats what vindman is saying there. And if President Trump who runs the federal government wants to change that policy, he could do that with his own government. He did not. He used Rudy Giuliani and in vindmans view, used giuliani to push a view about ukraine that was political in nature. That vindman believed would undermine a biparss support, not just for aid but ukraine in general. The facts are important here. And its really important to note that President Trump could have done this a normal way. He could have used the government he runs he wanted to change the policy, and he did not do that. Ive learned from counselor toobin the phrase consciousness of guilt. When someone reports something up the chain a normal white house would look and say, thats not what the president meant and lets clear that up. But what they did was the opposite. They tried to move it. They moved the transcript to a secret server. The white house lawyers, rather than going in and saying this is running contrary to policy or something abnormal here, sought to cover this up which tells you that they knew what they were doing was wrong and they continued to do it anyway. If you were doing a real investigation, you would talk to a lot more people in the white house. But the white house has said no one is allowed to talk. And vindman is risking his career by coming in and talking not withstanding the instructions of the white House Counsel pat cipollone. Well see if others come forward in light of vindmans testimony. Risking his career. Given what former congressman duffy and other allies of the president are saying right now, hes really laying it all on the line. His choice to testify is extraordinary considering hes active duty military. Considering the attacks. The unfounded attacks that he just opened himself up to. And, you know, again, the story gets so interesting and complicated. He has an identical twin brother who was also a Lieutenant Colonel in the military and also working in the white house at this moment. So if this is some sort of ukrainian plot, it has a double barreled effort. I mean thank you for suggesting that. This fox news insanity and with all due respect to our new contributor, former congressman duffy,s in insanity and antium grant bigotry reflected in casting aspersions on vinman. He was saying hes of irish descent and may feel some affinity to ireland. Hes just spelling it out. I appreciate sean duffys candor of how he sees all of this because we are hearing it on fox tv and elsewhere and well be hearing it all day. Its worth noting, though, when you walk into the white house, most of the staff there are not the people close to the president. So im not surprised the president is saying, i dont know this guy. He should know this guy if ukraine is important to him. Hes his point person. But most of these people either are detailed from the pentagon or the cia. National security council. Or are there. It doesnt matter who the president is. And their loyalty is to the government and to the country, not to any individual politician who happens to get elected. But their job depends on the president wanting them there because he can get rid of him and it is an act of courage to come forward like this. I will say, it does seem to put some additional pressure on some of the people who have been, you know, heming and hawing about whether theyll go before Congress Like Charles Cupperman who yesterday pushed this to the courts. Here is someone who is currently working in the white house and made a determination that he is able to testify under subpoena. It really calls into question whether there whether the conflict for Charles Cupperman is he cant or simply doesnt want to because hes not willing to risk, perhaps, his reputation in the same way that Alexander Vindman has. He can walk in there today and testify. He is choosing this legal stalling tactic and well see how long it works. I want to play were talking about how republicans are justifying or dodging in some cases or choosing to comment on whats going on. I want you to watch manu raju, our senior congressional correspondent, confront a republican from nevada about some of the facts, the substance of this investigation so far and watch this incredible dance. The white house transcript that was released that had President Trump asking president zelensky to open an investigation into the bidens. Do you know if theyve even got plans to call the whistleblower . Youre not answering my questions about the i disagree with your conclusion. Its a conclusion, not a my english teacher says you have a conclusion. If you want to interview yourself, go right ahead. Why dont you want to answer the question. Is it okay for the president its not a question. Why dont you want to do an interview instead of interviewing yourself . The president asked on the white house lawn will you answer my question . I guess thats the answer. If you dont want to interview me, then interview yourself. I havent heard logic like that since second grade. I am fluent in english. I have no idea what he was talking about. There wasnt an answer in there and a mass avoidance of answering. One of the interesting things about the vote the congress is going to take on thursday is that, you know, one of the claims that republicans have made is that there hasnt been a vote authorizing this inquiry thats been a big process argument. One of the well see once this vote its going to pass with some we dont know exactly how much, but certainly nancy pelosi is going to win this vote. And the question of, will that prompt more republicans to Start Talking about the merits of the case against the president as opposed to the process. No, youve already heard it. Now theyll impugn vindmans character. You heard what he led with which is, wheres the whistleblower. I dont think ive heard from the whistleblower yet. Theyre casting about because as we heard, about the fact pattern is a tough one. They might need to talk to the president about that because President Trump wants to talk about the substance. He still thinks this call is perfect. He still is talking about how the transcript of the call vindicates him which pretty much no republican is willing to say at this point. So theyll come up against a problem here. The president wants his defenders to be more staunch in defending the substance of the call. They are clearly, based on that clip, not willing to do that. Last word, joe. Now that the champagne has opened listen, i think that pelosi has handled this masterfully. She held off this vote. The vote isnt hard for democrats. The vulnerable democrats. Theyve already said theyre for opening an impeachment. The ads are going to run against them. Im sure they probably already started. But she allowed the republicans to walk out and make all of these process arguments that shes now said im giving you a vote to give you exactly what you asked for and youll vote against it. So i think its much more about getting to a place where republicans will say, yeah, he did it. Nothing wrong with it. I agree with the president. Well see what changes today. Abby, jeffrey, joe, thank you very much. The first vote is now scheduled for thursday on the impeachment inquiry. What can we expect in the coming weeks . 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What a horrible story. This morning, an active Duty Army Officer who works in the white house will testify before the house committees leading the impeachment inquiry. Colonel vindmans Opening Statement provides some of the most direct testimony yet. House democrats will move forward with their first Impeachment Vote this week. Joining us is kathryn clark, the vice chair of the democratic caucus. Good morning, congresswoman. Good morning, alisyn. Okay. So the colonels testimony, he is a ukraine expert. He is the first person that the committees will hear from who was actually on that july 25th phone call and was disturbed by what he heard. He went to his superiors, not once, but twice. He went to Legal Counsel to talk about how disturbed he was because he was hearing a fundamental shift in the relationship between the u. S. And ukraine that involved a deal for political dirt on President Trumps opponent. Do you think that today is a game changer somehow with this testimony . I certainly think that colonel vindmans testimony as we were able to see in his Opening Statement is going to be firsthand evidence of the betrayal of this president , of his oath of office, of the pand of our National Security. S it is part of the patriots who are coming forward at great risk to them and their careers to share the truth with the American People. And i think that he corroborates the testimony that weve heard from bill taylor and fiona hill. So this is going to be very important testimony to be taken today on capitol hill. What youre starting to hear from some republicans, and we just had former congressman sean duffy of wisconsin on 20 minutes ago, as well as in some right wing media, they are beginning to cast doubt on colonel vindman. Despite the fact hes a purple heart recipient and all the credentials you lay out. He was born in ukraine but emigrated here when he was 3 years old. Theyre starting to say that perhaps he cant be trusted. Your thoughts . My thoughts are simple. Here we have a clear example of the republicans who have no excuse for the conduct of the president and who sees mounting evidence of truly a betrayal of our democracy. And so theyre approaching two tracks. One is to focus on process as we saw with the political stunt from last week storming the scif and then going in and eating pizza there. And now they are trying to assassinate the character of a purple heart winner. You know, and weve seen this playbook before from this administration. Obstruct, stonewall, and if that doesnt work, when people put their country over their own selfinterest, then you go after them and you try and attack them as immigrants. Unfortunately, this is not a new tact of this administration or the complicit republicans. Theyre also some of the republicans are also saying the vote that nancy pelosi has now scheduled for this thursday, the first vote on impeachment, is democrats caving to republican pressure. Let me play it for you what senator john kennedy said yesterday about how this is clearly gop pressure and it doesnt really matter anyway. Listen to this moment. The cow is out of the barn. Theyre only doing that because of the pressure. They dont want to do that. Any modifications that theyre making right now is just like putting paint on rotten wood. And i think they made up their mind. If theyve made up their mind then they need to go ahead and send the articles to us. Let me get you to respond to two portions of that. Is this vote on thursday a result of gop pressure . You know, the republicans continue to flounder about, looking for something that they can do to distract the American People from the truth that is emerging here. So what we have here is what weve always said. We are going to let the facts dictate the timeline and the process. And this resolution that were taking up this week is a signal that we are moving from the private interviewing that is a process that was held up by the courts as recently as friday. Republicans know that. Moving to public hearings. And it is important that we have this resolution to set out how the evidence goes from the Intelligence Committee to the judicial committee. A more public viewing of these transcripts and live witness testimony moving from a confidential, highly secure setting to one that is public. That is all that is happening here. The republicans know it. But again, when you cannot say there have not been abuses of power, when the evidence is mounting daily against this president and what hes done, the betrayal of his oath of office. The abuse of power for his own political gain, its all they have to say. Its all they have to fall back on. Congresswoman katherine clark, thank you very much for your time. We have breaking news. 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Reporter tiffany king spent more than half her life working at this gm plant in lordstown, ohio. This parking lot once filled with the cars she helped build. Now it sits completely empty. Its all gone in a blink, in an instant. Reporter this is her first time back since she helped build the last cruze six months ago. Shes held out hope this engine would start again. But that ended friday. Gm and the United Auto Workers union signed their contract with no new plan for lordstown. By that time, my mind was already made up i was going to stay here. I wanted to stay here. This is my home. My community. Reporter lordstown, the poster child for the auto industry, once a huge economic driver for this rural part of the state, not anymore. President trump took notice, came to town and promised these. Dont sellwere going to get coming back. And were going to fill up those factories or rip them down and build brandnew ones. Thats whats going to happen. Reporter but it didnt. Most workers have left town, and the city says its lost 1 million since march. These two shuttered restaurants are signs of the times. What will this area start to look like in the next couple of months, next couple of years . I would say its going to get economically, its going to get worse. Youre not going to have the engage that drove it for so many years. Bill adams heard the president s promise to save his job. And now hes helping other Union Members find new ones. Do you think it was an unrealistic promise that he made . Pretty much anything that man says is unrealistic to me. A lot of people do believe they believed that he was going to save jobs. How did that work out . It didnt. He lied. I wanted to believe him. I wanted to give him a chance. I did not vote for him, but i thought if he can do something, fine. Well take any avenue of help we can get to keep the facility opened. Doug grant worked in lordstown for nearly 20 years and doesnt plan on leaving. You hope for the best, prepare for the worst. And right now were living the worst. So what do you do now . Ive looked for some jobs. As you get older, its harder. Going to be forced into retirement. Take a retirement package. This plant represents more than just jobs. Its demise is an industry indicator. And for grant, a warning about the future. If it could happen to lordtown, again, another cliche, if it could happen here, it could happen anywhere. Reporter that economic anxiety that youre hearing is having democrats here that we spoke to looking at candidates like Elizabeth Warren and bernie sanders. Now their medicare for all plans would essentially take away their Union Health Insurance but the message about corporate greed could not resonate more, alisyn, with these workers who no long verer have a job to ret to. Vanessa, that was really illuminating. Thank you for going there and talking to those folks. Boeings ceo heads to capitol hill where hes expected to acknowledge that his company made mistakes in the wake of the safety crisis plaguing their 737 max jet. 346 people died in two crashes. Cnns rene marsh is live in washington with more. What will this mea culpa sound like . Yeah, its going to be day one of backtoback hearings on capitol hill. Today been the senators. Tomorrow the house. And boeings ceo Dennis Muhlenberg should expect to be hammered by tough questions. How the hell did this happen . Now the focus will be on the 737 max automated Flight Control system which played a major role in both of those crashes. The system relied on only one center for critical information. That made it vulnerable if the system failed. Pilots werent trained on that system that automatically pushed the planes nose down. There was no mention of it. Lawmakers who heard from boeing lawmakers are going to be focused on internal boeing emails and messages that reveal a pattern of extraordinary production pressure to keep up with the new jet from its competitor airbus. Also indicating the company was being driven by profits and not safety. We also expect, as you point out for muhlenberg to express sympathy to the families. Some of whom will be at the hearing today. Hell also admit mistakes. And we have a portion of his Opening Statement that cnn has obtained. And he says we know we made mistakes and got some things wrong. We own that, and we are fixing them. Weve developed improvements to the 737 max to ensure that accidents like these never happen again. Today is the one Year Anniversary of the first 737 max crash. The will he convince people that these planes are safe to fly again. Here is what else to watch today. As you know, weve been covering wildfires for days, and dozens of them are scorching california right now forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. We have a live report for you on what the firefighters are facing this morning. It is time for cnn business now. And just hours, our Parent Company at t will unveil a new streaming service, hbo fax. When will it launch . How much will it cost . And how would you know since you just dropped your scripts everywhere on the set. Everywhere. Its a yard sale here. Christine romans was very kind and never critical. Christine romans joins us now with the details. There are no secrets with alisyn camerota. The streaming wars are officially here. At t introducing its new streaming service, hbo max. We have to retaliate. Responding militarily makes us a combatant. When they attack your people, they pretty much made that choi choice. Hbo bringing the west wing, friends and the library of subscribers to be revealed today. 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More than 25 Million People across the state under red flag warnings. Dozens of homes have been destroyed. Thousands more are threatened. In Southern California alone, more than 20,000 have been forced to evacuate. Joining suscalfire Deputy Director mike muller. I know youre so busy. 25 Million People under a red flag warning at this hour. What does that mean . Really, its the governor as you know issued a state of emergency a few days ago. Really, this is not an event. This is a storm, a firestorm, really, across the state. So what it means for First Responders is weve leaned forward. Weve asked for additional resources, including 150 fire engines from out of the state. But were prepared. But again, mother nature, she bats last and she bats a thousand so we really have to deal with that. Do you have enough firefighters to battle this . You know, we can always use more but we have to look at whats happening, not only statewide but across the nation. We focus on areas where those red flag winds and humidities are going to be the most where well see the extreme weather portions. Thats where we focus our resources but we also have the kincade and getty fire in los angeles. We still have to make sure were on those fires because now theyll be wind tested again. Are people heeding the evacuation orders . They really are. You know, its really become a call to action for citizens in california as we have seen not just the past, you know, couple of years but really the past ten years with these mega fires at the public has become a partner. Were seeing people leave early, and it really has an impact, one, life safety and, two, to get our resources in there to protect their property. Can you give us some context of what youre seeing right now compared to other years, compared to other fire seasons there . Well, what were seeing is really youve heard the term, it really is explosive fire growth. So when we talk a traditional, the front of the fire, the head of the fire, that no longer exists with these type of weather conditions. We get what we call ember casts where an ember can be thrown over a mile ahead of the main fire which unfortunately we saw a lot november tof in the devasp fire. Then that head catches up and it becomes that mega fire. Tactics and strategies change minute by minute, hour by hour depending on weather conditions. This is not the new normal. This is the normal for at least fire conditions. Were thinking of all of you and praying for strength for the firefight tleers there. Thank you for taking the time to give us an update. Republican allies of the president this morning attacking the new star witness in the impeachment inquiry. A decorated american hero. Why . Well be right back. But when your team is always dealing with device setups, app updates, and support calls. You can never seem to get anywhere. 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An active duty member of the military will testify today apparently that he was very concerned by what he heard of President Trumps pressure on the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden. Weve heard in response from allies of the president , including former republican members of Congress Today questioning the its truly despicable. Any time weve had a Service Member that is serving and then have a war hero such as the gentleman were speaking about and for someone to trash them because they disagree or basically they think that theyre protecting is just wrong. Its just not who we are and its not how i was raised in west virginia. We dont do that. We honor our veterans and give them all the services that we can and all the accolades basically for putting themselves in harm way. This person has a legitimate concern. Thats why theyre going through an inquiry. Thats why theyre going to go to a vote. And theyre going to find out what the articles would be if they have enough evidence to go forward. Then well be given to the senate and look at the evidence. But trashing people before they should be cooperating to get the facts out so either this can be put to rest or theres merit to it. One of the things hes going to say in his Opening Statement concerns Rudy Giulianis role in controlling Foreign Policy in ukraine. Let me read you part of this testimony. In the spring of 2019, i became aware of outside influencers promoting a false narrative of ukraine inconsistent with the consensus views of the interagency. This narrative was harmful to u. S. Government policy. Whats your view . I agree with him. I think giuliani needs to be investigated. There should not be a surrogate for the executive, for the president or the administration or anybody else. Its not a part of the state department or administration or executive branch of government speak with authority fop go over there as a political hack or basically a lobbyist trying to make money and has made money and has a history of making an awful lot of money with the connections and representing one side or the other is absolutely wrong. And people have to say, how do we handle this . How do we talk to this person knowing hes representing a certain extent to the executive branch and the president and now hes trying to create policy, too. Its very confusing. Its wrong. Should not be done, and i think what giuliani was doing was hurting the country, not helping us. Do you think he could be in any kind of criminal jeopardy . Im going to make sure theres an inquiry done on that also. I would like to find out so we stop this type of behavior. And countries know exactly what our policy and from our state department and speaking with authority from the president to the executive branch and congress support. And right now we dont have that. So theres not a clear message. So, yes, he should be looked into. You are a potential juror in a senate trial, if the president is impeached in the house. So one of your colleagues, lindsey graham, has put forward a motion sort of condemning the house process. You havent signed on to that, but what is your view of the house process . The house process, the constitution is clear. It gives the house the responsibility of the impeachment process. And i have looked back and through history, i had my staff look back, john, and we have seen through the nixon impeachment process and through the clinton impeachment process that basically theres a time period when they gather the information through the inquiries and then basically they move forward or they dont move forward. In both cases, they move forward. Its about three or four months lapse between the two. Now that i have seen Speaker Pelosi is going to hold a vote, that basically says that its moving in a process that weve done before. So i would say that lindsey, if he believes that hes pushed that and accelerated that, then, so be it, thats what they believe. On the other hand, i believe the process was going to work. Ive always said there would be a vote on whether theres going to be an impeachment inquiry. Well have to see the articles of impeachment, what they think they have evidence to charge the president for impeachment and articles, then its going to come to the senate. Well evaluate those evidence and see if it warrants what theyve given us. You have been working very hard over the last few weeks, months, frankly, to protect pensions, largely of Union Members, having to do with bankruptcy issues. Talk about the legislation youre putting forth today . All pensions, anybody that pays into a pension. The workers of america, over 10. 5 million workers who pay into a pension and to where theyre putting their hardearned money and matching it with a companys nin order t have something in retirement. And to have that in jeopardy right now and the bankruptcy courts allowed to basically anyone to walk away through a bankruptcy and not fulfill that obligation. And somebody takes all that money. Where does the money go . Doesnt go to the workers. I can assure you. So ive introduced the slap act. Stop looting americas pensions. Last night, murray energy, the largest unionized mine company in the country, has gone bankrupt. And if this proceeds as it has before, our miners will be left out. They, by next year, theyll lose their pensions and the average pension for a mine worker thats retired or a widow thats receiving it is around 600. And thats a lifesustaining amount of money for them and all of thats eroded. Mitch mcconnell has had a bill. Miners american miners protection act, for over three years and he wont move on it. Makes no sense at all. Now we have an urgency. I guess it took another bankrupt. Well see what he does, and im going to be urging that for unanimous consent as quickly as possible. Weve got about 20 seconds left. You note the urgency. Part of the problem is some of these companies are going belly up and declaring bankruptcy, correct . Well, they are. They are declaring bankruptcy but they absolve themselves of it. The working person is on the back end of the line. They come in to restructure a bankruptcy and take the assets off the front end, all the liquid cash and leave them with a tremendous amount of debt. The people on the back line, their money is on the front line, they get nothing. Thats got to be reversed and it has to stop. Senator joe manchin, thanks for being with us talking about the s. L. A. P. Act. Good luck. A National Security expert who was on that july phone call with President Trump and ukraines president is set to testify in the impeachment probe this morning. More developments, next. Sarahs last tuition payment, sent off. Feeling good . Oh yeah. Now im ready to focus on my project. This is why we plan. You never cease to amaze me, maya. See how investing with a j. P. Morgan advisor can help you. Visit your local chase branch. Very good morning to you. Im jim schudiutto. Goodness, things are moving fast. It is a big day. Im poppy harlow. A white house official and active Duty Army Officer who was wounded in an ied attack and a person on the infamous call between President Trump and the president of ukraine that is not a description of a group of people. Its one man. Lieutenant colonel Alexander Vindman. And today he is an impeachment witness, one planning to tell house investigators he was so troubled by the administrations pressure on ukraine and the president s ukraine call believing it could undermine National Security that he reported those concerns to his boss twice. Dont listen to the noise. Look at that resume. See
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