Watch prime time reairs on cspan or stream any time on demand pot cspan. Org impeachme nt. The House Intelligence Committee just concluded its fifth open hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Lawmakers heard testimony from Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for russian, ukrainian, and eurasian affairs, laura cooper. And under secretary of state for Political Affairs david hale. We will show you that hearing now in its entirety. [silence] [inaudible background conversations] [silence] the committee will come to order. Good afternoon everyone. This is the sixth in a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. There was a quorum present. We will proceed today in the same fashion as her other hearings i will make an Opening Statement that the Ranking Member mr. Nunez will have an opportunity to make a sta
Trump is now talking about is that impeachment spectacle. Lets go back to him. He is a political operative. These gentlemen know it. And frankly the ig never shouldve brought him. If he wouldve compared with the whistleblower said to what i said in the conversation. Two conversations, really. But to what i said in the conversation with the president , who i think is a terrific person, of ukraine, he wouldve said, wait a minute, the whistleblower said this. And that wasnt the conversation, because we have the transcribed conversation. And also, shifty schiff is dishonest, a corrupt politician. When he imitated, tried to copy my conversation and his copy, he made up a conversation, went before congress, and made up a phony conversation. Just like he does every time he talks. He is a phony. He is a very dishonest, very corrupt politician. And look, the big upset, as you folks know, was when i released the transcript. Because i dont like doing that because you have to keep this very, very