example, kurt volker s advisers were up on capitol hill and we are going to be talking about that. but i was struck in the context of sullivan by chris anderson said that they prepared in november 2018 a statement condemning russia for its aggressive actions. and that was explicitly prohibited from being posted on the internet by the white house. well, let s move on to the impeachment witnesses today. we started with mr. sullivan because it s just, i think, a preview of how the public phase of this is going to be so much more damaging to donald trump. but you re right. there were two more witnesses on capitol hill in the impeachment investigation. one of them, mr. anderson, let me read a little bit about what he was expected to testify to because it brings john bolton the former national security adviser who is now in a legal scuffle, i guess, or stand-off with congress about whether or not he will appear. but his voice and his concerns are coming through loud and
watergate for dummies. but the idea that they lock down this transcript before it could be completed in any normal process is another tell. it s the cover-up around this transcript that may have created some of the smoke that led to the whistle-blower being contacted by so many west wing officials with their alarm. and i think herein lies the reason why president trump and his allies on fox and elsewhere so desperately try to denigrate the service of colonel vindman. here we have an iraq war veteran wounded in combat, earned a purple heart, is an active-duty lieutenant colonel serving on the national security council, is not a democrat, not a republican. he is an army officer. and, yet his testimony is that he was so worried about the content of the call and the way the transcript was altered that he blew the whistle. he told a lawyer and he is now telling the congress. that s why they need to tear him apart limb from limb, and they will do it unless somebody stops
they allowed staff counsel to do that first and then go to the five-minute interchange between republicans and democrats because, again, it allows a story to be told that s really coherent. i think that what i would say is that speaker pelosi has really seized this process. she understands where it needs to go. and she is trusted the leadership in particular adam schiff to help get us there. and then when the public hearings come, i think each one of these witnesses that will be called will be able to tell that story. and a lot of the president, the due process that they have complained about by allowing the president to bring witnesses to present evidence to ask questions. that is actually pretty unprecedented in terms of the level that s been given. chuck, i am sure it pains you, as it does me, to sort of compare the public reception of the mueller investigation to the public reception of impeachment.
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are highly damaging to the administration. this one is a bit more of a show. you know, what strikes me is that what held pelosi up, and correct me if i m wrong me if this is wrong, with that public opinion had swung in favor of impeachment after the mueller report came out. and then she left it to the committees that would have robert mueller and his witnesses to do the work as swaying public opinion. here she s gotten the latest quinnipiac poll. 55% of americans for the removal of donald trump from office a year before an election. she also has in a poll i saw today 65% of americans oppose any sort of stonewalling from the trump white house. she s got the wind at her back in terms of public opinion, something she never had after mueller. well, you can make the case, and this is criticism that public opinion has followed leadership, that a good chunk of the public that wasn t there initially were democrats who were following her lead. when she jumped on board, they followed her. no