investigators on tuesday as well as the delivery of nearly $400 million on security and military aid was contingent on ukrainian officials carrying out investigations in burisma, the bidens, the 2016 election and crowd strike nbc news has learned. colonel vindman said in his opening statement i did not think it was proper to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen, and i was worried about the implications of the u.s. government support for ukraine. according to nbc news two sources familiar with the testimony say that colonel vindman later went further than his opening statement by drawing a direct line between the deliverables for ukraine and the multiple investigations. leading off our discussion tonight are democratic congressman rajah, he attended thedes of both christopher anderson and catherine croft today. also joining us jill wine-banks,
on security and military aid was contingent on ukrainian officials carrying out investigations in burisma, the bidens, the 2016 election and crowdstrike, nbc news has learned. colonel vindman said in his opening statement i did not think it was proper to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen, and i was worried about the implications for the ukraine. according to nbc news two sources familiar with the testimony say that colonel vindman later went further than his opening statement by drawing a direct line between the deliverables for ukraine and the multiple investigations. leading off our discussion tonight are democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthi of illinois. he s a member of the house oversight committee and the house intelligence committee. he attended the depositions of both christopher anderson and catherine croft today. also joining us jill wine-banks, and evelyn farkas, a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the obama administration and a former staff
bolton that all of these witnesses including catherine croft today and christopher anderson are complying with the subpoenas and coming to testify. will the courts consider that in their consideration of kupper-mile-an-hour? instead of coming like many witnesses have, or having his lawyer write a letter as some witnesses have, saying i m not going to come, he took an unusual step. he actually went to court and said on the one hand i have the house telling me to show up and the white house tellinging me not to. i don t know what to do. i want to do what s right. court, you decide. it s unclear right now whether a court actually will get in the middle of it or just say it s not it s sort of not for courts at this point at least to decide what to do. let the executive branch and the house sort of work it out themselves. you know, i think it s sort of a move of somebody who cares, i think, about how they appear in