All morning with your phone calls, Facebook Messages and tweet. Journal, 7 00on a. M. Eastern wednesday morning. The House Intelligence Committee has just wrapped up public testimony from kurt volker, the official envoy to ukraine and tim morrison. As part of the inquiry into President Trump. We will show that now in its entirety. The meeting will come to order. Good afternoon. This is the fourth in a series of public hear chairman schiff the chair is recess at to declare anytime. I will make an Opening Statement and the Ranking Member will make his Opening Statement. We will proceed in the same fashion. I will make Opening Statement and the Ranking Member will have opportunity to make Opening Statement. Then we turn to the witnesses for Opening Statements and then to questions. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry of Donald J Trump. This amp we will hear from two witnesses requested by the minor. The special representative for the uk
Detail of the hearing with maria yoon of began at 9 00 oclock this morning and broke about midmorning and wrapping up here will be a close door session with david holmes, and he of course is the official who overheard that come phone conversation. It got so much attention with a testimony of bill taylor. That testimony in all of our coverage by the way is available at her website at cspan. Org. We will use this opportunity to hear from you to get your reaction. And what you heard and we saw today, our phone lines are open at 202, 748 8924 democrats and 202 748 891 republicans and he also took two 748 892. A lot of attention on the tweet that came just as the hearing was getting underway at 10 00 oclock eastern time this morning. From the president tweeting and real donald trump, the president writing the following quote everywhere marie yvonne news bench wet, turn red. She started off in somalia, how did that go. Then fast forward to ukraine where the nuclear ukrainian spoke unfavorabl
Detail of the hearing with maria yoon of began at 9 00 oclock this morning and broke about midmorning and wrapping up here will be a close door session with david holmes, and he of course is the official who overheard that come phone conversation. It got so much attention with a testimony of bill taylor. That testimony in all of our coverage by the way is available at her website at cspan. Org. We will use this opportunity to hear from you to get your reaction. And what you heard and we saw today, our phone lines are open at 202, 748 8924 democrats and 202 748 891 republicans and he also took two 748 892. A lot of attention on the tweet that came just as the hearing was getting underway at 10 00 oclock eastern time this morning. From the president tweeting and real donald trump, the president writing the following quote everywhere marie yvonne news bench wet, turn red. She started off in somalia, how did that go. Then fast forward to ukraine where the nuclear ukrainian spoke unfavorabl
An Opening Statement and well turn to the witness for Opening Statement and then to questions. For audience members we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention of the committee to proceed without disruptions. As chairman ill take all necessary and appropriate steps to maintain order to ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States. In april, 2019 the United States ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was in kiev when she was called by a Senior State Department official and told to get on the next plane back to washington. Upon her return to d. C. She was informed by her superiors that although she had done nothing wrong, she could no longer serve as ambassador to ukraine because she did not ha
The marquee witnesses had not heard or seen much from the president themselves. They had few credits to offer as star witnesses, but here we go. No way out, both witnesses, Senior State Department official george kent and acting ambassador to the ukraine bill taylor left discom discomfitted. And the zeal seems dampened and displaced by obvious disappointment. I heard a staff person from the office of management and budget say there was a hold on Security Assistance to ukraine. The first i heard of the call was with a phone call with tim morrison. What i can do today is tell you what i heard from people. In this case it was what i heard from ambassador sondland. Lou what he heard and repeated all said but not heard and seen by the eyes and ears of these star witnesses from the schiff production. If the next few days performances dont improve, schiff and pelosi shouldnt expect a long run at all. Lets go to chief white house correspondent, john roberts, for the latest. Reporter in a News