mulvaney put a hold on that security assistance and said the only reason given was that the order came at the direction of the president. with me now is vermont democratic congressman peter welsh. he serves on both the house intel and oversight committees. i know you re going into that testimony right after we wrap up here. so let s get right to it. what questions do you have for ms. croft? well, it s what you said in your opening. what we re trying to do is a thorough investigation, who knew what, when. this all starts with the president s own language. his phone call and the read out of that call where he asked for a favor. and basically used his office to try to get a foreign power to assist him in the 2020 campaign. and what we re doing with these witnesses is finding out what, if any information they have to corroborate what was obviously the intention of the president according to his own words. these two this witness is a career state department official. you mentioned she h
please cupperman has filed a lawsuit. the white house has attempted to block him from testifying and the outcome of this suit could affect what other would be witnesses do, including former national security adviser john bolton who nbc news has reported has been in touch with committee staff on capitol hill. another court case to flag this morning, republicans have said the impeachment inquiry is not legitimate because it has not been put up for a vote. a federal judge says in a new 75-page ruling that it is legitimate and that decision was handed down just hours before testimony today from ambassador philip reeker. he is a career state department official who is expected to field questions from lawmakers this morning on capitol hill. the gop continuing to hit democrats with procedural complaints about how this is unfolding. the recreational marijua jim jordan writing to ambassador reeker directly to accuse democrats of restricting information about the impeachment inquiry and asking t
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opening statement that democrats said was backed up by lengthy notes and documentation. i should note, bill taylor went in to testify at 9:30 this morning and got out less than an hour ago. he testified under oath for nearly ten hours. and thanks to his testimony, there is no longer any question whatsoever that president trump s ukraine policy was a corrupt abuse of power that did center around a quid pro quo. before we get into all that, a quick introduction into bill taylor. as he says in his opening statement, he was a westpoint cadet before becoming an in infantry officer in vietnam. then a career state department official who served under both democratic and republican administrations in important locations through the decades, including afghanistan, iraq, jerusalem, and ukraine. in his opening statement, taylor explains, it did not take long to figure out that things were not righte in ukraine when he arrived in june to his new job. quote, once i arrived in kiev, i
the picture, ambassador gord on sondland telling investigators that the president made giuliani his point man on all of this saying he didn t realize what he, departmenting energy secretary rick perry, were actually working on. cnn has obtained exclusive new reporting on what else the president s tv lawyer and ukraine fixer was up to. kylie atwood got the scoop. reporter: we are learning that in his testimony behind closed doors as part of this ukraine impeachment inquiry just this week, a career state department official, george kent, told lawmakers that it was rudy giuliani who had pressed the white house and the state department to try and get a visa for viktor shokin. that is the ousted prosecutor general from ukraine. he was ousted because he did not take on corruption in his country, and there was pressure from vice president biden at the time and other countries to get rid of him. now, that visa, however, was not provided to shokin, and so the