I really mean it when i say i could talk to these friends for another hour. My thanks to all of them, and mostly to you for watching. Chuck todd with mtp daily starts now. Welcome to tuesday. It is meet the press daily. Good evening. Im chuck todd in washington where another round of potential bombshell testimony as the president and his allies once again struggle to defend him as democrats unveil their official road map for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry. This afternoon the house laid out a resolution that will lay out the rules and procedures that will govern the next phase
that will include public hearings and the official rollout of the impeachment. It will include an ability for President Trump to have attorneys around. Meanwhile, there was more potentially explosive testimony in the investigation itself from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. He is a purple heart recipient, a National Security official who was in on the infamous phone call with the ukraine president
huddling trying to find out what their response would be to this revolution that is laying out the parameters for this next phase of impeachment. i suspect we ll hear from the president on that before we hear from somebody specific about what we learned from alexander vindman today. hans, i m glad you brought up the impeachment resolution. it essentially gives the president president s, do they want more? they want more. they re not convinced what s being read out in tit. it lays out what they ll be offering, and officials are struggling to reconcile what they read in the evolution r.
transcript? reporter: yeah, he came back here to review his transcript yesterday. that in itself is not necessarily unordinary. other witnesses have come back to review the hour-long transcript. what s interesting, though, is that sondland s testimony looks really curious because it is undercut by vindman s testimony. sondland said at times, i don t recall, where it might set him up for perjury. they think he may have legal cover on some of those grounds, that he was not specific on things that could have gotten him in trouble. let me move over to the white house. hans nichols, the rest of the company wrote back today on kber effect phone calls. he seems to be plindside twhd
they don t want them to question the entire impeachment proceedings. hans, very quickly, is it possible this is today s relative quiet throughout the d daily is it lawmakers struggling tlup, but it seems like they were r going so far. benjamin hans nichols with important news to start us off. joining me now is virginia democratic congressman jerry conley. the house was present today at the closed door vindman deposition, congressman conley. let me just start with a simple question about what you re willing to share about the deposition. we ve obviously got the opening