Military aid was linked in some way to what they were trying to do in terms of leveraging an investigation with ukraine. i wouldn t be surprised if you hear over and over again in the public hearings did president trump ever tell you he held up aid for this reason? did you hear this from the president s mouth? i think we re going to see that line of questioning. that is why the inside the white house witnesses, could they get john bolton, mick mulvaney, colonel vindman? is there somebody who has this part of information who can either connect those dots or say those dots cannot be connected? here s something kurt volker the challenge here is going to be if you read one transcript, both sides can find something they like. but in the case of kurt volker, the president s special enjoy to ukraine, he did say this, you asked about what conversations did i have about that quid pro quo, et cetera. none, because i didn t know that
His side an aide who was supposed to testify in the impeachment inquiry. we talk about how central rudy giuliani is to all of this. but so the is secretary of state. the first three witnesses announced for public hearings next week state department officials. how is he handling this? there are multiple officials in the administration who are telling cnn he s not handling it well. this is from one senior administration official who s actually been defending pompeo for the last several months. he said morale in the building is always bad but this is different. i think part of it is ukraine. it is a game changer. now these transcipts coming out from senior state department officials are really sort of undermining his credibility within the building nap s certainly what we re hearing whether it s from marie yovanovitch or michael mckinley who was a senior advisor to mike pompeo, contradicted something mike pompeo said just a few
And rudy giuliani working on the sidelines and undercutting what career diplomats were attempting to do. that s what you re going to see in those first two hearings. we ll also see the full scale of that deposition released later today. based on the resolution the house passed last week before they left for recess, republicans now have 72 hours to propose their own witnesses to join those hearings. when it comes to the hearings themselves, a key wrinkle that i think is going to be very, very important to watch. based on that resolution, the first 90 minutes of each hearing are split between chairman schiff and the republicans ranking member. it will not go up and down the committee in 5-minute caps. it should make for a very
I think this will be more substantive. the important part is that the republicans are now on notice that that s the way it s going to happen, because in one of the judiciary committee hearings, the vice chairman collins said that he didn t know and they weren t prepared to be able to have staff do interviewing. now it s all out there. the way this is going to happen is out there. republicans and democrats have an opportunity to prepare for these hearings. thank you so much. carrie, laura and kylie, i appreciate it. next i ll be speaking live with a congressman who got into a shouting match with his colleague as a key witness testified in these impeachment inquiry hearings. plus, a stark moment as the president s pick for ambassador to moscow condemned president trump for asking foreign powers to investigate his rivals. and breaking in california, wind gusts have not hit hurricane force as the wildfires get closer to the reagan library. air dry channels
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