A day. Im Anthony Howard welcome to the program we begin in washington where the u. S. President donald trump has criticized the impeachment hearings calling then a disk rice and an embarrassment is coming to senior officials who listened to trumps july funchal with these ukrainian counterpart vladimir. Expressed their concerns about the conversation the former special envoy to ukraine could volcker told the probe he should have realized the trump was holding up military aid to kiev to pressure the country to investigate political rival joe biden. 1st to testify on tuesday 2 officials who listened in on that controversial phone call newton and Connell Alexander van mann the Top White House expert on ukraine alongside Jennifer Williams an advisor to Vice President mike pence both told the panel they had concerns about the cole. I found the july 25th call unusual because in contrast to other president ial calls i had observed it involved discussion of what it appeared to be a domestic po