on the hill. nice to see you and good afternoon. >> good afternoon. just about six hours ago, colonel vindman arrived on capitol hill and has been in a deposition with the democratic led committees. we don't have any information about the cross-examination of vindman but we do have his prepared remarks. right out of the gate he said he was not the source of the complaint that's the foundational piece to the impeachment inquiry. that states i want the committee to know i am not the whistle blower who brought this to the cia's attention. i do not know who the whistleblower is and i would not feel comfortable to speculate to the identity of the whistleblower. vindman said he had direct or first hand knowledge of the conversation because he reports that he was sitting in the national security council situation room. he goes on to continue and states, quote, i realized that if ukraine pursued an investigation into the bidens and the ukraine energy firm