great to see you as always. great to see you. i m still thinking about that $900 bill she came home to. horrible. passwords were changed, let me tell you. thank you very much. an historic week ahead. public impeachment hearings set to begin. we have the latest twists. new day continues right now. open hearings on the impeachment inquiry start wednesday. i consider any impeachment in the house that doesn t allow us to know who the whistle-blower is to be invalid. the whistle-blower, he was third hand. we have colonel vinman who was actually on the call who will be in a position to testify. this is biden s third go at the presidency. he s fighting a two-front war against democratic rivals and the president. you re holding biden signs and you re still not 14ur00%? are donald trump s attacks on you helping you? yes, they are.
this is just like the russian witch hunt. lieutenant colonel alexander vinman telling lawmakers there was no ambiguity. vinman was on the called between the u.s. and ukrainian presidents which he said left no doubt that this is what was required in order to get the meeting that the ukrainians had been pushing force. mulvaney admitted to the quid pro quo last month. get over it. the decorated colonel testified that he responded that it was inappropriate and had nothing to do with national security. well, i want to thank colonel vinman for his courage in come forward, his willingness to come forward. vinman wasn t alone.
conversations with jim jordan over the years that tweet is a mere preview of the type of rhetoric that we re going to hear from him over the next weeks and months. judge pirro: thanks so much. today democrats released more transcripts from the secret impeachment hearing including the revealing testimony of nfc official and army officer alexander vinman. the biggest take away, his attorney and house intel chairman adam schiff blocking republicans from getting any real answers. here s one example. congressman jordan. the question is, who did colonel vinman talk to after the july 25th call? vindman s attorney, i m instructing him and i m allowing him to say. jordan, request are you instructing him that way, counsel? schiff: excuse me, mr. jordan. you re not recognized.
talking about. that testimony sounds a lot like what colonel vinman was talking about when they said, hold on a second, we can t weigh into diplomatic efforts, we can t have that when we have congressionally appropriated funding and diplomacy is on the line. there is one line that i thought was really important, and that is he talks about on page 9, he actually says, when bill taylor speaks to ambassador sondland, he said in that same call about being in the box, i told ambassador sondland that president trump should have more respect for another head of state and that what he descried was not in the interest of either president trump or president zelensky. so even then, he was saying, this is not in the interest of the united states of america and having zero respect in a
bush administration justice department official who went on fox and says this sounds like espionage, but later he went on cnn and said he regretted his words, he meant the ukrainians, not colonel vinman. people are attacking their own over this sr. very sensitive question of the witnesses and their motivation. all in a scramble to prejudge what the result. everybody wants to write the last story of impeachment before we ve even started the damn thing. vinman s testimony is not a matter of public record. nobody knows for sure what he said on the record except what s been leaked since after his testimony. the dark art of discrediting in the modern media with world is to start whispering about other things other than what he said, and that s what happened with vinman. howard: what explains what you call the rush to prejudge? why not cover the story one step at a time based on what we know? his opening statement was put out. leaked, to be sure. so is it that we everyone