with both the majority and minority committee staffs as he should, as was appropriate. as we would expect of ambassador taylor. congressman denny heck, you ll have a busy day, you and all your colleagues. thank you so much for joining us. we ve got a lot happening today on this important and historic day. appreciate it very much. the president is poised to release the transcript of his first conversation with the ukraine president. that occurred in april of this year. we re on standby for the transcript of that conversation. we re also staying on top of all the developments up on capitol hill. the former u.s. ambassador marie yovanovitch once again set to arrive any moment now to deliver crucial testimony in front of television cameras. once again, we re all over this. our special coverage continues right after this. (alarm beeping) welcome to our busy world. where we all want more energy.
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this public hearing begins. cnn s special live coverage of the impeachment inquiry continues with our friend wolf blitzer right now. good morning. i m wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. just minutes from from now, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, the woman who colleagues say was never hungry for the spotlight, will take center stage in the impeachment inquiry. what we already know about her testimony. called one of the best by her peers. yovanovitch said she tried to root out corruption in ukraine but was targeted by rudy giuliani and others and warned to, quote, watch her back. and even after she was removed from her post, president trump called her bad news on that now-infamous july 25th phone call with the ukrainian president. causing yovanovitch to say she felt threatened by him. also today, behind closed doors,
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much more on the truly stunning revelation from tuesday s public hearing. career u.s. diplomat david holmes says he overheard president trump ask the u.s. ambassador to the eu about the status of investigations. in hours, he testifies behind closed doors up on capitol hill. and tomorrow, there s breaking there s other breaking ranks developing. a career official over at the white house budget office is expected to tell lawmakers what he knows about why security aid for ukraine was frozen. our team is covering all of the angles in this truly important impeachment process. let s go over to capitol hill right now. our cnn senior congressional correspondent manu raju is watching all these developments. set the scene once again, day two of these public hearings. marie yovanovitch, the ousted ambassador to ukraine will detail the efforts by rudy giuliani, the president s personal attorney, to push forward on issues about ukraine, push for those investigations that could help the presiden
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bombshell and you get a chance to interview holmes later today behind closed doors. talk about that a little bit. why i characterize it as a mini bombshell is that coming in the immediate aftermath of his call with president zelensky of ukraine, it shows what it was that was really paramount and top of mind of president trump. namely, get after these investigations, these debunked conspiracy theories about ukrainian involvement in the 2016 election. and specifically focus in on an investigation of a potential rival of his. of course, former vice president biden. did you do you know whether or not holmes raised his concerns about that phone conversation earlier because we only learned about it from ambassador taylor on wednesday. right. the only thing that i know, wolf, is that ambassador taylor represented it that he had just been informed of it last friday. that it was new information to him as well and that immediately upon learning it, he shared it
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