it is 12:00 in new york. we re following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc senior adviser fiona hill and current u.s. diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the trump administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a smear campaign against ukraine ambassador marie yovanovitch who was apparently standing in the way. the conduct of both of today s witness witnesses, they believed lives could be jeopardized in ukraine. here is some of the dramatic testimony of fiona hill and david holmes. the barrage of allegations
directed against ambassador yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything i have seen in my professional career. i heard ambassador sondland say to the president, yes, he was in ukraine, and went on t
That that has been that national security has been undermined. does it also matter in politics? the senator knows more about that than i do, but probably. it does. the things that matter in politics are things that cross-pressure your brand. and his brand, if nothing else, is big, strong strongman who has to lie about his weight, lie about how he wins elections, i think he said 13,456 lies, but who s counting, not me. there are things he s doing now that cross-pressure not the judgment that any of us not an examination of whether or not he s loyal to the rule of law, he s not. not an examination of whether or not he s credibly accused of sexual misconduct by 19 women, he dis. not an examination of whether he debases the office, in my opinion he does. his base doesn t care about any of that. but his base does care about his projection of strength.