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Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, and Michael Mckinley. Yovanovitch reports being concerned about her safety because of statements from the president. Mckinleys testimony suggested in bright neon flashing lights that if mike pompeo was not flat out lying in public about the dismissal of yovanovitch he is parsing language in a misleading way. You will hear efforts by the president and his key allies to the out the whistleblower. Theres a lot to get to this morning. Lets begin on capital hill with cnns suzanne malveaux. These transcripts, some are out. Some could be coming any manhattan. Absolutely. House democrats releasing these transcripts, hundreds and hundreds of pages. If you go through it, you get a chance to see republicans as well as democrats participating in this process, questioning these witnesses and piecing together this story as this process becomes public. With the first transcripts from the impeachment inquiry going public, President Trumps intensifying his attacks against the whistleblower who started it all. The whistleblower said lots of things that werent so good, folks. House investigators releasing hundreds of pages of testimony from the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. The career diplomat saying behind closed doors she was warned to watch my back because of trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his associates. Court the rough transcript of the july 25th phone call, President Trump told ukraines new president that yovanovitch was bad news and warned shes going to go through some things. Yovanovitch telling lawmakers i didnt know what it meant. I was very concerned. I still am. When asked did you feel threatened . Her answer simply yes. Obviously she was the object of a tremendous smear campaign. We want to know how deep that went. Reporter under pressure from the president s allies, yovanovitch says she sought advice from ambassador to the European Union gordon sondland. His suggestion go big or go home. You need to tweet out there you support the president. Yovanovitch at the center of Michael Mckinleys testimony, the former top aide to secretary of state mike pompeo explaining why he abruptly resigned days before his deposition. He says the state department did not support career Civil Servants caught up in the inquiry, and he was troubled by what appears to be the utilization of our ambassadors overseas to advance domestic political objectives. Mckinley says he repeatedly raised concerns according to the transcript of his testimony and asked pompeo to publicly state his support for yovanovitch. That directly contradicts pompeos account in an interview last month. I never heard him say a single thing about his concerns with respect to the decision so you were never asked not once. Reporter and also we are waiting for two more transcripts to be released later today. A former special u. S. Envoy kurt volker as well as the testimony from e. U. Ambassador gordon sondland, both who provided explosive stories behind the scenes who are waiting for more details on that. A big question on capitol hill on whether or not john bolton will testify as scheduled on thursday. Suzanne malveaux on capitol hill, thank you very much. Were going to give you the key moments from the testimony weve already seen, and were going to play you the shocking comment overnight from senator rand paul that as we said is frankly cowardly. Stick around. What if numbers tell only half the story . At t. Rowe price, hundreds of our experts go beyond the numbers to examine Investment Opportunities firsthand. Like a biotech firm that engineers a patients own cells to fight cancer. This is strategic investing. Because your investments deserve the full story. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. 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The whistleblower needs to come before congress as a material witness because he worked for joe biden at the same time hunter biden was getting money from corrupt oligarchs. I say tonight to the media, do your job and print his name. Joining us knnow joe lockhar cnn political analyst and politics and white house editor for axios. Ooh, that sneaky senator. Hes trying to get us to do his dirty work and say the name of the whistleblower, which is illegal. If he knows the name, if he thinks he knows the background, i mean, hes giving all this information that is not proven. Theres no evidence of anything hes saying. If he knows it, why doesnt he say it . Ill tell you why he doesnt say it. Dont answer that. Because its illegal, and he knows that. Hes a small man. I have to tell you what he just did there was small and cowardly right there. If hes got something to say, if he wants to break the law, do it, but to sit there on that stage and say oh, others should do it right now. Im not going to say others should do my work for me. Thats small. I think its part of a broader republican strategy, particularly this week when youve got all of this testimony coming out which really just nails down what happened with ukraine and all the different players. They are desperate every day to light a bonfire someplace to say look over here. Dont look at the substance, look over here, and that was last nights edition. I dont know what well get tod today, but that is their strategy. Their strategy is every day to take any norm, any law. Theyll do anything to make sure that we dont stay focused on whats in this testimony. Yeah. I mean, i will say margaret there are consequences, though, to this, and those consequences include the safety of the whistleblower. Those consequences include the sanctity of whistleblowers in general. Law. Going forward and the law. Yeah, john and alisyn good morning. My News Organization decided at the outset that the whistleblower has legitimate protections and we werent going to be in the business of attempting to oust this person. I think most major News Organizations do as well. Cnn does as well. There are laws protecting whistleblowers. Theres not as strong as the lawyers for whistleblowers want those laws to be. The laws are in place for a reason. The whistleblower has been found to not only have used legitimate avenues to bring these concerns forward but to have done it in an appropriate way, and the other thing i note is that the whistleblowers sort of initial raising ocing o flag has kind of been bypassed by all these other people who have come forward in these depositions skmrand some of whoo are volunteering to speak publicly as the investigation moves into the next phases. I think you can also question how crucial the whistleblowers initial complaint really was. One last bit, rand paul you heard him talking about how the whistleblower supposedly worked for joe biden. Obviously its complicated because in order to put that in context, one would have to say who the whistleblower was, but there are thousands of people who work in the federal government and many of them have worked across multiple administrations for both parties. So i think thats where we are. Who could say the whistleblower works for donald trump. The whistleblower is in the government. Well, the whistleblower works for donald trump. Clearly hes a partisan, if if you were going to make such an intellectually dishonest argument. The whistleblowers information has been corroborated seven times over. We see the transcript ourselves now, its been released of the phone call, and there are all sorts of diplomats who have come forward. The whistleblower is a red herring at this point. You dont need that whistleblower anymore. Youll remember the first Republican Action to the whistleblower was its hearsay. You cant Pay Attention to what hes saying he or she is saying because they werent firsthand and then when all the firsthand information came in and it was more devastating than they thought it could be, they all of a sudden had to go back and change their attack on the whistleblower. And you know, the laws are the laws. The intent is clear. The intent is to allow people in the government to without fear of retribution, without fear of having their lives disrupted to come forward and pass on information. Theres no doubt about that. And rand paul knows the law. He knows the law, and thats why he did, and thats why he said he was small right there because hes trying to get others to do the dirty work for him. The transcripts yesterday we poured through had really interesting developments. Marie yovanovitch was pressured to send out tweets praising the president to save his job, and Michael Mckinley who was seen as working closely with mike pompeo for a long time explained why he quit. He said he was disgusted with the politicalization of the state department, and also said that he had asked three times, three times before Marie Yovanovitch was pulled from her ambassadorship in ukraine for a statement of public support to her which flies in the face of this careful gymnastics language that mike pompeo used not under oath but in an interview about that. So listen to this. From the time that ambassador yovanovitch departed ukraine until the time that he came to tell me that he was departing, i never heard him say a single thing about his concerns with respect to the decision that was made. You were never asked not once, not once george did ambassador mckinley Say Something to me during that entire time period. You know why mike pompeo was saying during that time period . Because mckinley talked to him before that time period, and when George Stephanopoulos asked a followup, you were never asked to put out a statement in support of ambassador yovanovitch there was a word salad, margaret, right there. What we have again from pompeo right here is misleading, i think misleading statements about an episode that he clearly knows about. Why is the dismissal of yovanovitch a sensitive subject for mike pompeo . Well, thats a complicated question because in part mike pompeo would like to have a future beyond the white house, and his handling of this situation may affect that. But it is also because it is one of those sort of pivotal Building Blocks that goes to the question of what was the sort of state of mind, not just in the white house but throughout the administration as testimony continues we know increasingly that there are a number of officials who complained both to pompeo and to gordon sond lalan about her treatment, about Rudy Giulianis involvement, about the president s behavior, and were seeing emerge a picture that a lot of those concerns were sort of tamped down or said, well, you know what this is up to the president. And so this is more evidence of that. I think in mr. Sondlands case, we are also seeing some contradictions between the testimony that we believe that he gave and what others experienced, and so as that transcript comes out also theres going to be a real scrutiny to compare what has already been said from various people. I mean, and luckily people who want to read more can go online, cnn. Com, there are the top takeaways from all of this boiled down because its really important, i think, to understand that yovanovitch knew that Rudy Giuliani saw her as an impedime impediment, and she was an impediment to him getting what he wants though hes not in the state departmentme. Thank you very much. It is election day here in the u. S. Okay, not president ial election, but there are some crucial votes, and some of these races will perhaps tell us how voters are feeling heading into the 2020 race. So we have reporters in several of these pivotal states next. Danafarber Cancer Institute discovered the pdl1 pathway. Pdl1. They changed how the world fights cancer. Blocking the pdl1 protein, lets the immune system attack, attack, attack cancer. Pdl1 transformed, revolutionized, immunotherapy. Pdl1 saved my life. Saved my life. Saved my life. What we do here at danafaber, changes lives everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere. This melting pot of impacted species. Everywhere is going to get touched by climate change. It is on, election day 2019. It is here, several major contests across the country today that really will test voter enthusiasm ahead of 2020. We have reporters in mississippi, virginia, and kentucky. We want to begin with kentucky where President Trump was last night attending a rally for the states incumbent and embattled governor matt bevin. Bevin is locked in a tight race with the states attorney general. Live with a look there, evan. Reporter good morning, we sure do get up early here at cnn, dont we . Voting has begun here in kentucky, which is one of two red states voting today that trump won big in back in 2016. Here in kentucky back in may, this looked like a really close race where incumbent governor matt bevin might really struggle. Hes had a lot of nasty fights with the teachers here, hes gone after medicaid expansion, but republicans say its that tone of voice that actually makes bevin likely to win today, and its not just republican operatives saying it here, the republican president said it here last night with matt bevin at a rally. When he needs something for kentucky like money, like aid, like he wants me to call one of the many manufacturers now that are coming into kentucky, hes such a pain in the ass, but thats what you want. So i talked to a republican close to the Campaign Last night, the bevin Campaign Last night, and they said look, a lot of people say, at least the press says a lot of people say, that people want politicians to be nicer and get along better and build bridges, but hes like ive never seen that, and here in kentucky he doesnt think that thats whats going to determine the election. Basically what he says if this election is about trump, social issues and the economy, bevins got it. Democrats say, look, weve kept this pretty close, which shows we actually have some motivation as well. Polls close at 6 00, and well see which one of these strategies, democrats focus on local issues, republicans focus on National Issues wins the race. John and i have been up since 3 00 so cry us a river, okay . But great to have you. Great to have you and we really look forward to working with you. Thank you. Okay. Talk to you soon. Mississippi voters are also electing a governor today, both President Trump and Vice President pence have campaigned for the republican nominee, tate reeves. Reeves is running against the states democratic attorney general. Cnns Dianne Gallagher is live in jackson for us with more. Hi, dianne. Reporter yeah, were seeing something here in mississippi very similar to what evan described in kentucky. Republicans trying to run this National Race with democrats focus on the local and state issues. Now, look, jim hood is the only statewide elected democrat in the state of mississippi and is running for what many consider a surprisingly competitive race here in mississippi. Now, tate reeves has closely aligned himself with the president , having President Trump and Vice President pence come in in the last minutes before this election do some campaigning for him here. Theres one little issue, though, if you were jim hood and we were looking at this even though its a competitive race, mississippi does things differently. In order to win the governorship, he has to win not just the popular vote, but also the majority of state house districts, and john, republicans have every single office, the majority here in both houses and the governorship of course making that one bit more difficult for hood to overcome in this election. It makes it very difficult for a democrat. Thank you very much. The political stakes high in virginia today as well, republicans in danger of losing control of both houses of the state legislature. Cnn ryan nobles live in washington with a preview. Reporter yeah, john, these off year elections in virginia usually pretty sleepy. Not too many virginians Pay Attention. Voter turnout usually pretty low. This year could be different. Democrats came within one race that ended in a tie two years ago from taking back the house of delegates. Today every single legislative seat sup for reelection, and democrats believe they can take control of the house and senate for the first time in two deck kat decade. This purple state continues to trend blue, especially in the trump era. Democrats have also been helped by a Supreme Court decision that upheld a lower Court Decision that tossed out district maps that were much more favorable to republicans. Republicans, though, still have hope for two reasons. One, theres not a statewide race driving turnout today. Each race will have its own unique local issues that could influence the results. Second the three most prominent democrats in the state, the governor, Lieutenant Governor and attorney general have all been a part of big scandals that republicans have attempted to tie the local candidates to. Of course the republican ka candidates are being tied to President Trump, and nation. Part of the reason why youve seen several president ial candidates including bernie sanders, joe biden and Kamala Harris all make their way to virginia, polls close tonight 7 00 eastern. Very interesting, ryan. Thank you so much for the preview. Coming up, we have some breaking news for you out of syria where al baghdadis center has just been captured. An exclusive report from a cnn reporter embedded with turkish troops. Next. Anna, do you yes those plans . I just wanted to show you something ive been wor. James r. And associates. Anna speaking. James r. And associates. Anna. [phone ringing] baker architects. 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S. Backed kurdish forces. A car bomb went off in one syrian city. It killed 19 people. Ja monaca ra cha is embedded with Turkish Forces as they conduct a demining operation. Tell us whats happening. Reporter well, for more alisyn on that raid, senior turkish official is telling us that baghdadis sister was captured along with her husband and a daughterinlaw. They were captured in Northern Syria in a housing container, and now they are basically turkish authorities are interrogating them, and as you mentioned, they believe that this could potentially be an intelligence gold mine. Theyre hoping to get insights into how isis operates, its something that would help turkey and europe understand the threat that is caused by isis. Isis does remain a serious threat for turkey. Another threat, Officials Say is kurdish separatists, Syrian Kurdish fighters who up until recently were operating in this area. We as you recall this was one of the locations that saw some seriously intense fighting when that turkish offensive began on october the 9th, and its been about three weeks since major combat operations came to an end here, but still were seeing Turkish Forces who were embedded with today carrying out clearance operations. Theyre sweeping areas and sweeping them multiple times checking for explosives, for devices that have been left, and we are told by turkish officials that theyre finding explosives on a daily basis and diffusing them, anywhere between 10 to 100 devices on a daily basis according to a senior turkish official. And just a short time ago a car obama, were told, exploded in the center of the town of telabia. This coming a few days after that devastating car bomb attack took place at a marketplace, a civilian area where at least 19 people were killed in that attack on saturday. Now, no one claimed that attack, but turkey blames kurdish fighters for that attack. The Syrian Democratic forces that mainly Syrian Fighting forces have denied any responsibility for that attack. These kinds of missions are critical, especially as theyre seeing civilians starting to return to their homes. According to the United Nations more than 20,000 people have returned to the town in the past few days. So this is what makes these clearing operations very critical, john. Please stay safe and keep us posted because the livelihood of these people who are returning is so important. Thank you very much. The cowboys beat the giants on monday night football thanks to the fact the giants stink, and also they had an assist from a black cat. Really . Andy scholes has more in the bleacher report. Halloween was last week, but the black cats apparently still out at Metlife Stadium in new york, and this particular one apparently bad luck for the giants. This little guy came onto the field with the giants up 93 in the quarter. 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The decision about whether President Trump has to hand over his tax returns is now headed to the u. S. Supreme court. An Appeals Court unanimously ruled against the president rejecting his legal teams argument that he has immunity from criminal investigation while in the white house. Joining us now is cnn legal analyst, a former federal prosecutor. I guess i have three questions here. You only get one. Bottom line here is the Supreme Court may just not hear this at all, may say you know what . Theres no case here because the Appeals Court was so sweeping in its ruling, which was to say you know what . You dont really have the immunity, but we dont even have to make that decision because your case is so bad. The Supreme Court does not have to take any case it does not want to. The Supreme Court only takes a very small fraction of the cases that people try to get in front of it. Usually under 5 . Now, when the Supreme Courts decided whether to take a case theyre looking typically at a few things. First of all, is this a close call . I think the Second Circuit opinion makes clear in their view its not a close call at all. F it was a 30 decision. Four judges have said this is not a close call. Theyre also looking for is this the kind of thing that different courts around the country are disagreeing on and theres no disagreement. This is the first time this specific issue has come up. I think theres a chance the Supreme Court says no thanks. If that happens, then yesterdays decision stands and the d. A. Gets the tax returns. Thats interesting. When could all of this play out . Whats the time line for the Supreme Court deciding whether to take it or not . The Supreme Court is on its own time line. They have the luxury of doing that. I think we will know within the next two, three weeks whether they are taking it or not. And this was a case that was about is the president immune from investigations and the judges in their writing said we dont think thats the case, but our ruling isnt based on that. Our ruling is based on the fact that, what, its actually the accounting firm. One of the distinctions that the court made yesterday is this is not even a subpoena served on the president himself. This is a subpoena served on a third party, a bank, an accounting firm, and the president s trying to come in from the outside and stop it. No you cannot do that. The most pareimportant part of decision is what you said before, the court of appeals said no way to this 5th avenue defense. Youve gone too far in arguing that you cannot even be investigated while youre in office. The Second Circuit said absolutely you can be investigated and they said that evidence can be used to prosecute you, not you donald trump, but a president after youre out of office. Lets talk about these two giuliani associates, ukrainians who were arrested for basically laundering money, foreign money to influence u. S. Elections, lev parnas is one of their names. They ran a Company Called Fraud Guarantee just by the by. Cnns reporting is that lev parnas may be open to cooperating with impeachment investigators. Why . Its such an interesting development, and i tried to think about this, what if i was the attorney for lev parnas. Theres two tracks here. I would say to him if youre going to dig in and fight this case, youre not talking to anybody about anything. Youre not talking to congress. Youre not talking to the prosecutors, youre taking the 5th if you get a subpoena, and well go to trial. On the other hand if youre interested in cooperating this could be a first step in that direction. If you show the Southern District, hey, im willing to come forward with some information, its potentially valuable, and i would bank on the fact that the Southern District in congress may be coordinating here, at least to stay out of each others way. Its consistent with him taking a step towards cooperating. And it will be complicated on how the coordination between congress and the federal prosecutors work because one doesnt want to grant immunity without the other. How would you characterize whether this is good news for Rudy Giuliani . Its bad news for Rudy Giuliani, i think decisively. I would be very worried about these guys cooperating. If they do cooperate with the Southern District, thats all or nothing. You have to tell everything you know about everybody. If i have a chance to cooperate this guy as a prosecutor, i would say lets start with Rudy Giuliani and go from there. Its going to be very interesting, thank you very much for walking us through it all. 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Good morning to you, alisyn, as you can imagine no shortage of opinions here. We really got an earful. This district much like the rest of the country, people here split on how they feel about the impeachment inquiry. Picturesque small towns, affluent suburbs and overwhelmingly white, michigan 11th is a Congressional District carved out of an area just northwest of detroit. Who won the state of michigan after decades . Reporter its also a district that voted for trump in 2016, then flipped and elected a Democratic Congress won Haley Stevens in last years midterms. Its a swing district in a swing state, so no surprise voters split on the impeachment inquiry. I think its a sham. Okay . I think the president horrible. Horrible . Its horrible. Just horrible what theyre doing. The president s doing a great job. Reporter in plymouth, michigan, rita dunning, a former auto worker proudly shows her support for trump on her ford pickup truck. Women in michigan love President Trump. I saw your truck. Women quit saying women are not for trump. Reporter tell that to amy neil a marketing director who says the inquiry is long overdue. I think its heading in the right direction finally, the impeachment. I think were getting the evidence we need, and i you know, i hope he gets whats coming to him. Ups worker steven play says its the democrats who deserve to have whats coming to them. He says for undermining a president who has done so well on the economy. Look at the real estate. I mean, house goes on the market, its gone in a week. I mean, the economys just bo booming. Reporter since trumps election, the states Unemployment Rate has dropped nearly one point. He narrowly won michigan in twi2016 after obama won it twice. He needs to face consequences for his actions. She says its about more than just the bottom line. I think its important that the inquiry be going on. I also think its important that we not be distracted by it and that theres actually governance going on. 30 miles northeast of plymouth in the upscale suburb of birmingham, former marine paul kane also supports the inquiry. I wouldnt define myself as left or right wing. Im more middle of the road. Ive just been very disappointed in President Trumps behavior. Cane says hes upset over how the president and his allies have criticized decorated war veteran and white house official Lieutenant Colonel alexander vandm vindman. Reporter a Financial Adviser could not disagree more. I think that the democrats are really just trying to overturn the results from 2016, and i think its going to fail miserably. Reporter he also says his newly elected Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens will pay a political price for supporting the inquiry. So much division, but that doesnt mean those who may disagree cannot be friends. All of you 50, youve been friends, some of you since grade school, and you can all talk politics . Yes, absolutely. Even after we have a couple drinks. Reporter this group celebrating their lifelong friendship, and their differences. I think as a country weve forgotten that were all the same on some level, political divisiveness isnt what is going to further this country. We have to act on a common ground. Reporter so as you heard there, a lot of disagreement out here, john. Heres one point where both sides can agree. We found a lot of people out here who seem to be confused about how the whole impeachment inquiry works, how long it will take, and whatever the result may be if the country will end up being more divided than ever. John. Jason carroll for us in detroit. Really interesting to hear from people joining me now cnn political commentator, the former democratic governor of virginia, and dnc chair, mr. Governor thank you so much for being with us. What does it tell you that there is such division out there on the issue of impeachment, particularly in these swing states combined with what we saw yesterday from the New York Times polls, which show a razor thin margin in these battleground states. What does that all tell you . I think if you go up to virginia, today we have elections, and it looks like for the first time, john, in 26 years the democrats will take control of both the house, the senate, and have the governors mansion. And i would say that, you know, impeachments out there. People are thinking about it, but thats not whats driving people to the polls today. Democrats are going to lower Prescription Drug prices. Theyve got an economy moving forward. Were going to raise the minimum wage, were going to pass the e. R. A. I think folks in the states Pay Attention to the issues that affect them every day. What impeachment has done i can tell you here in virginia is kept people engaged in politics. Theyre paying attention, and in virginia this is a state that donald trump, you know, the white house is 1. 4 miles from virginia. Hes gone to kentucky, hes gone to mississippi, hes gone to louisiana. Were a huge election today, and he has not been able to come into this state. So it tells you something, and i think one when he did the Government Shutdown it hurt so many federal workers in this state. In addition, were a huge defense state, Largest Naval base in the world, the pentagon, quantico, they dont like what hes done with the kurds in syria, so trump is not on the ballot, but hes there because of the actions hes taken, and its reminding people that they need to get out and vote. We in 2017 lost one seat, john. We had won it on Election Night by one vote. Then an over vote got counted and then the winner got picked out of a bowl. I think people realize were changing virginia for the future today. Trump a part of it but not a big part about it. You sound very confident about the election in virginia. How confident, and what will it tell you given all these environmental advantages for democrats in virginia that you just listed . What will it tell you if somehow they dont come out victorious in both houses . I would be shocked. I personally have done about 131 events, so ive seen the crowds. Ive seen the enthusiasm. I feel confident well win the house and the senate because i mean, its the republicans who have been obstructionists. I inhere i inherited a record deficit. Its democrats who are fiscally responsible. We havent been able to raise the minimum wage. Democrats are the ones that have given the teachers pay raises and we could move forward as of tomorrow with a democratic majority. Let me ask you about your neighbor, kentucky. Its a different situation in kentucky where the president did go last night to am pacampaign matt bevin who is trying to nationalize the election. The government of kentucky has no power over the impeachment inquiry whatsoever, is bringing up impeachment. What does it tell you that a republican there might be able to save his seat by nationalizing the election on the issue of impeachment . I look at it the other way. Here is kentucky as red a state as you can have in the United States of america, and today were basically tied in that race for governor. What does that tell you . In kentucky a red, red state in mississippi, a red, red state, our democratic nominee for governor is basically tied. This is a state that they should be running away with. You look at trump in kentucky, mississippi, i mean, huge wins for him, and yet for these governors races today, these races are basically tied. I think this is a very ominous day for trump. I think hes going to take a beating at the polls. As i say, this will be the First Time Since 1993, think of that, bill clintons first year that the democrats have taken total control, and the reason is because democrats produce on those issues. Weve got about 30 seconds left, and i do want to ask one question about the president ial election. Elizabeth warren who did come out with a plan to pay for her medicare for all policies, how do you think its playing . And as you see the focus go on elizabeth warren, what do you see the other candidates doing . Listen, the other candidates are going obviously as it relates to the cost of medicare for all. Ive been on your show many times. I think the debate is how do we get those missing individuals in america to get them the health coverage. How do we reduce Prescription Drug prices . That should be the debate that the Democratic Candidates are having for president. I always say when they get in this medicare for all debate, its mind numbing for the public. Talk to the American Voters about what they deal with and experience every day, high Prescription Drug costs. Im a little concerned about the debate where its going. I want the democrats to focus on the issues that matter to them each and every cday and not get into these big shiny objects up here, which i think are confusing voters. We win on the issue of health care. President obama got us tens of millions more people coverage in this country, lets build on that. Lets not take apart what president obama was able to accomplish. Lets build it. I think that should be the debate, and the good news is this will be a debate going forward. Governor terry mckoloff, we know you have a big night ahead of you. We are following breaking news right now out of mexico. Theres a heinous murder mystery this morning. Nine members of an american family, mothers and their children have been killed. New day continues right now. Explosive comments under oath by former ambassador to ukraine and a former top aide to the secretary of state. Both of them basically said that Rudy Giuliani was running Foreign Policy in the ukraine. The details show you our own state department became a cesspool. Several years of the donald trump presidency, our policies are more supportive of the ukraine and tougher on russia. Voters will be casting ballots in races that give us a sense of where things stand heading into next year. The people of kentucky will vote to reelect your terrific republican governor. Virginias going to be a battleground, if democrats take over, it gives them total control. This is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day, and it is a big day. Republicans, they demanded transparency in the impeachment inquiry, and thats exactly what they are getting. Democrats about to release new transcripts of testimony from two key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry, former special envoy to ukraine kurt volker and u. S. Ambassador to the eu gordon sondland. Text messages place both men along with Rudy Giuliani at the center of the trump administrations efforts to get ukraine to publicly announce an investigation into the bidens. On monday investigators released the transcript of testimony from former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Michael Mckinley, he was that former top aide to secretary of state mike pompeo. Yovanovitch told investgators she was the target of a Shadow Campaign by Rudy Giuliani to get her fired because she was standing in the way of the president s plan to get dirt on the bidens. She also testified she was warned to, quote, watch her back and that