Run knows that he loves footnotes. And one of the footnotes in this letter said the following. Congressman Glen Ivy suggested a procedure for a hybrid process. Public Deposition Hearing with alternating rounds of questions from republicans and democrats and with similar rules, e. G. Role of cancel encrusted as done in a closeddoor deposition. For republicans voted in support of this process, perhaps that could be the basis for our discussion. As usual, the devil is in the details. The real question here is how far congress is willing to go. At some point, you look like the Dancing Bear for the biden family. They say it now we will testify but only if you do this or that with these conditions. He had a valid subpoena. He was in contempt of congress. He still is in contempt of
kayleigh mcenany is engaging with the panel, but her deposition has since been delayed. despite that, there are still a few big-name holdouts who appear to be right to slow walk the process. former justice department official jeffrey clark s deposition hearing has been delayed due to a, quote, medical condition, according to the pam and his lawyer. of course, the panel is very interested in hearing from the guy who reportedly wanted to send bogus letters to georgia election officials, from the department of justice, urging them to ignore biden s victory in the state and to name electors in favor of donald trump instead. the committee has already voted to hold him in contempt of congress for not cooperating previously, but they re giving clark another chance to testify on december 16th. clark s lawyer has already announced that when he does that, he plans to plead the fifth. another one of the ex-president s cronies intends
republicans. reporter: but republicans argument could end later today, when david holmes, a state department staffer, who overheard a phone call between trump and u.s. ambassador to the e.u., gordon sondland, appears behind closed doors. his boss, top u.s. diplomat to ukraine, bill taylor, testified his staff member, says the conversation happened one day after president trump s call with the ukrainian leader. mr. sondland told president trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. reporter: sondland will share his side of the story in public testimony next wednesday. and house democrats have high expectations. it s never too late to do the right thing. if the ambassador has some new memory, catch up, that he ll let the american public know about this phone conversation, as well. reporter: house investigators may have another closed-door deposition hearing this weekend. that is with mark sandy, with the office of management and budget. he would shed some light on how
but also told this to the tennesseen. i think the only ones who think zelensky was pressured are handful of folks in the media and a bunch of folks on capitol hill. democratic party trying to take down this president. are either of those true? not from any facts we can ascertain. the one thing that come through so far, it was a deposition hearing and that can t be made public. but the characterization of the testimony from congressman heck earlier. suggests and what we hear from republicans as well. is that this is a 30 year civil servant. a true servant of democracy. she was a classic diplomat. and nobody is really questioned her integrity or character. so it s going to be hard for the president allies to suggest as they have been trying to with everybody else this is a deep state partisan coup attempt.
only ones thapg this zelenski was pressured are a handful of folks in the media and a bunch of folks on capitol hill the democratic party who are trying to take down this president. mark, are either of those things true? not from my facts we can ascertain. the one thing that s comes through so far, it was a deposition hearing. that can t be made public. but the characterization of the testimony you heard on the don lemon show and what we hear from republicans as well is that this is a 30-year civil servant, a servant of democracy. she was a classic diplomat. and nobody is really questioning her integrity or her character. so, it s really going to be hard for the president and his allies to suggest as they have been trying to with everybody else that this is a deep state partisan coupe attempt. this is somebody trying to do