Base of the Republican Party and to me. So i believe that he was at with very few defections. That may change, but right now i least affected by those and believed those and believed they were think thats a correct negative . Assessment by the white house, believed that they were that theyve got the senate tied negative and was conveying them up in a way that will protect to the president. So was it problematic that he the president from actually being removed from office. Believed they were negative i think the two variables, views . Yes, the whole thing was ned, would, in my guess, drawing problematic. Ambassador taylor testified on my past sort of in republican that on july 2nd, you told politics, would be public ukrainians that they needed to, quote, cooperate on opinion, should you see attacks investigations, end quote. Youre now saying that you dont on colonel vindman inching this recall saying those words; is from 51 support to 53, 54, 55. That correct . I dont believe i said th
Joe biden, come on over to ukraine its never going to happen spewing all they had to do apparently was announce an investigation. Okay, that is it for us. They hearing is set to resume shortly, but now we have special report up next. Spewing that evening, welcome to washington. I am bret baier. Continuing coverage of the impeachment hearings day 3, nine hours on capitol hill as you look alive at the chairman adam schiff getting ready to gavel into the next round of questions this from the lawmakers themselves, while we wait, we will bring in our panel here. Byron york, chief Political Correspondent of the national and josh holmes, former top advisor to mitch mcconnell, now president of the Cavalry Consultants as you look there at tom morrison, tim morris and heading back in for testimony, and kurt volker right behind him. Quickly down the row, your thoughts on today so far . Today is the day that we
found out there was a difference of opinion about this trumpzelensky call, some officia
was it specifically about these investigations? you said burisma? in order to for fight corruption, you need to see what ukrainian citizens are up to. what was the purpose of that? was it because the president, you knew well, that the president wanted those investigations to be done as a condition for them to have information in the white house. first off, we have to be clear what we are talking about in terms of investigations. we are not talking about vice president biden. burisma has nothing to do with you are saying i m saying ukrainians within the company of burisma had acted in a corrupt way, that is a legitimate thing for ukraine to investigate. if they can make a statement about their intentions on fighting corruption domestically, that is helpful in order to convince
on fighting corruption domestically that is helpful in ukrainian colleague, andriy order to convince president trump ultimately that this is yermak, as well as from a u.s. person, i don t now remember with all due respect, whether it was my staffer or someone from the embassy, and the readout was that it was a ambassador volker, we heard from two witnesses this morning that good phone call, that it was a those investigations were not official u.s. policy. ambassador volker, i don t know congratulatory phone call for the president s win in the if you understand what you were parliamentary election, that getting yourself into. but sitting here today i trust president zelensky did reiterate you understand that pressuring ukraine to involve itself in his commitment to fighting corruption and advancing reform u.s. domestic policy is just in the ukraine, and that president renewed his invitation simply wrong. i yield back the allowance of my for president zelensky to come to the white ho