republicans would rally to their side on. and so this is something that i'm curious to watch for today, that after this white house meeting, whether we will start to see some republicans really attack democrats and some of these witnesses on the substance, which they've been hesitant to do so far. >> we will see if the president can actually not attack people like mitt romney and others after mitch mcconnell warned him not to do that. >> exactly alayna, thank you very much, live in washington for us. >> thank you. the trump administration's top expert on ukraine, alexander vindman told house investigators on tuesday that a former top aide to congressman devin nunes has misrepresented himself to president trump as an expert on the country. two people familiar with vindman's closed door depositions told "politico" that he had told lawmakers that after attending ukraine's president's inauguration in may, with the u.s. delegation, he had been looking forward to debriefing trump and giving him a positive