further i did not want to get further into this discussion at all. question, so it was you personally who heard ambassador sondland mention burisma? correct. in the ward room? correct. and mr. vindman was also there and heard it? yes. and kurt volker. oh. and then after that, in her testimony, she gives the part you probably already seen in a few headlines. she says after this, you know, crime scene she basically just witnessed in the white house, she, as instructed, went back to go talk to her boss, national security advisor john bolton. ambassador bolton asked me to go over and report this to the national security council s lawyer. to john eisenberg. he told me and this is a direct quote from ambassador bolton, you go and tell him. you go and tell eisenberg i am not part of whatever drug deal sondland and mulvaney are cooking up on this and you go and tell him what you ve heard. so this is i mean, this is already the kind of stuff that they ve got from their
analysis that has been done, and again i don t want to start getting into intelligence matters but i am very confident the ukrainian government did not interfere in our election in 2016. question, okay. but you re aware of the reporting? answer, i am aware of the rofrtirofr reporting but that doesn t mean that amounts to an operation by the ukrainian government. fiona hill quote, there is no ukrainian effort to sub vert our elections, which is comparable to anything that the russians did in 2016. if we start down this path, not discounting one one individual or a couple individuals might have done, if we start down this path ahead of our 2020 elections, we are setting ourselves up for the same kind of failures and intelligence failures that we had before. republican lawyer, okay. hill, look, i feel very strongly about this. the lawyer, evidently. hill, i m not trying to mess about here. lawyer, evidently. hill, yes and so you should too in terms of our national security. lawyer, well,
question, and did you have a concern with ambassador bolton after this meeting? answer, i did. question, describe that. answer, ambassador sondland said to ambassador kurt volker and also secretary of energy rick perry and the other people who were with him, including the ukrainians, to come down to a room in the white house, the ward room, to basically talk about next steps. that is also unusual. i mean, he meant to talk to the ukrainians about next steps about meeting? question, the white house meeting? answer, yes, the white house meeting. meaning the white house meeting between president trump and president zelensky, which gordon sondland had just blurted out could only happen that meeting could only happen if ukraine started these investigations. he just said it explicitly and said it had all been arranged already through white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. hill says quote, bolton pulled me back as i was walking out afterwards and said, go down to the ward room right now
gives lie to that. that shows that this is not at all the way that normal government interactions happen with a foreign government, particularly a government like ukraine. what the president did was both weird and shocking and objected to instantly by people, by non-partisan career folks, who know how these things are supposed to work. here s her talking about meeting at the white house on july 10th. she said quote, ambassador sondland blurted out, well, we have an agreement with the chief of staff, meaning white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, for a meeting if these investigations in the energy sector start. hill said, quote, we all kind of looked up and thought that was somewhat odd. and ambassador bolton, then national security advisor john bolton, immediately stiffened and he ended the meeting. question to fiona hill. right then, he just ended the meeting? answer, yeah, he said well it was very nice to meet you. i can t discuss a meeting at this time. she said it was quote, ver
time. plymouth has never been represented by a black mayor. and the city council has always been majority white. plymouth forever has been a mostly black town with a mostly white government. well, this week, tuesday, plymouth, north carolina, held an election like a lot of towns and states did this week. and this week on tuesday in plymouth, north carolina, elected themselves as brand new mayor. his name is shawn hawkins. he was born in plymouth and served on the plymouth city council before he decided to run this year. and he won. he ousted the current mayor who has been in the job for 18 years. as of tuesday this week shawn hawkins is the first african-american ever elected mayor in plymouth, north carolina. we talked to mayor-elect hawkins. he told us he decided to run because he wanted to try to bridge the gap between the local government and the people they represent. he told us, quote, so many people have felt left behind and excluded in what s taken place in plymouth. after the