shortly, digging into what was by any measure a pivotal day of impeachment testimony. the closest person to president trump, ambassador gord sondland. right now another candidate is at dana bash s camera location in atlanta. senator kamala harris. let s go there. dana? thanks, anderson. thank you, senator, for joining me. of course. just broadly how did you feel about tonight s debate? i thought it was a good debate. you know, the challenge always is we have a minute and 15 seconds to talk about some of the most important and complicated issues impacting our country, and at stake in the election. but overall, i thought it was a good night. i want to play for you and for our viewers kind of a surprising moment. okay. a long moment with you and tulsi gabbard. okay. let s listen. i think that it s unfortunate that we have someone on the
cbc, cedric richmond and other folks, they will walk through fire for joe biden. the older african-americans love biden but the younger ones love bernie. bernie is not going anywhere. i think he s doing very well with younger voters who actually are the reverse of being inspired by biden. we re going to take a quick note. next debate thursday december 19th, live from los angeles. cnn s coverage from inside the debate hall will begin at 8:00 p.m. next tonight there is plenty more on this debate. we are expecting to talk to pete buttigieg shortly and more candidates throughout the night. we ll hear from voters in iowa and the impeachment testimony as our late 360 coverage continues. a wealth of information. a wealth of perspective.
democracies around the world. ukraine is a struggling democracy. they re very pro-american. they love our country. they have got to be mystified, dumbfounded by what we are seeing. the details matter but so does the context. well, and it s important context as we reset a little bit for anyone just joining us. the two witnesses scheduled today on the last day of public testimony in the impeachment proceedings in the house into donald j. strum just leaving that hearing room, they began right at 9:00 a.m. this morning. it s # 2 minutes past 4:00 in new york. we have been watching, as we said, today s impeachment testimony. and it s underscored the extraordinary significance of the entire inquiry and what it has turned up into donald j. trump evidence and witness after witness testifying to the evidence of a pressure campaign against ukraine for political investigations into his rivals. don t take our word for it or
the impeachment testimony has been speculation or hearsay. sean patrick maloney pointed out yesterday that those arguments were not applicable for lieutenant colonel vindman and for williams. let s do the substance, can we do that because we ve had a lot of dust kicked up. miss williams, you heard the call with your own ears, right? yes, sir. not second hand, not hearsay, you heard the president speak, you heard his voice on the call? correct. and your delusion about what he said about the bidens was in your words unusual and inappropriate, am i right? that was my testimony. mr. vindman, you were treated to a july 25th meeting in the white house where you heard sondland raising conditions on investigations that you thought were unduly political, i believe that s how you described them. and you went to nsc council and you reported it, correct? correct. later, you two were on the white house call, am i right? correct.
you don t want to miss that conversation. i don t. but i don t like how you put me in the same category as him. you said, you and i talk. i talked with john kasich. that s what i am to you, another kasich? no. he s better looking. better pedigree. better for the country. and he s a nicer person. but he doesn t buy you lunch as often, i promise you that. that s what i mean. he s smarter. have a great show. thank you very much. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. really the hits keep on coming for this president. it is the eve of a huge week of impeachment testimony. we just talked about it, and this is our breaking news right now. transcripts released just tonight from the closed-door testimony of bill taylor s aide. his name is david holmes. and state department official, another david, who s name is david hale. we re going to dig into both of them. we just got it a little while ago. chris had some of it. phil mattingly is up on capitol hill. he s going to go through