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Services did not conduct and perhaps ukraine did. Dr. Fiona hill opening her testimony by condemning claims by President Trump and some republicans that ukraine, not russia meddled in the 2016 election. The Intelligence Community has confirmed russias role. Military aid and a white house visit to pressure ukraine and the claim of ukrainian election interference. Doctor hill warned of ongoing russian meddling. We cannot combat these degrade our institutions and destroy the American People as a democracy. He overheard a phone call between embassador gordon at he asked sondland for more details. I heard President Trump ask if he was going to do the investigation venlt embassador sondland replied he would do it. I noted there was big stuff going on in ukraine like a war with russia. And embassador sondland implied he meant big stuff with the president. Both dr. Hill and homes were concerned with Rudy Giulianis role in ukrainian relations. It was his impression tied to investigations. Re
Before todays hearing, President Trump attacked house democrats. More on what we learned from todays witnesses. The president called democrats human scum. This wraps up hours of testimony for now. Both sides, digging in an making their case to the american public. Some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its Security Services did not conduct a campaign against our country, and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative. Reporter dr. Fiona hill, opening her testimony by condemning claims by President Trump and republicans that ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. At issue, the allegation that President Trump withheld military aid and a white house visit to pressure ukraine to investigate joe and hunter biden. Republicans say, they never questioned russias role. Its entirely possible for two separate countries to engage in meddling at the same time. Reporter dr. Hill noted the political chaos. This is exactly what the russia
President and not their dictator who offers commentator on how its going, note of optimism, he note that they would retaliate if the United States wants to wage a trade war, i dont know, there was a bloomberg report that lee ho, reformer, trade negotiator expressing optimism, as you said, weve been hearing this a lot for what seems many, many months, years, but maria sure has, take the tariffs off the table or we will not buy the 50 billion in ag products. The warning comes with i want to do a phase 1 deal. I think what james alluded to, this is the longest soap opera now since general hospital. [laughter] thats positive, oh, but we have to do this, i actually see the ball having not moved forward at all. I think this is just more negotiations, i hope this gets resolved in 2020, if not, here is the great thing, the markets have seemed to have been inoculated, the markets are doing great in the absence of anything happening. Dagen in absence of escalation. Yes. Dagen again, President Tr
Too bad now at diablo. So theyre coming down all these wind speeds. The low is kicking out still going to produce somerain there. Quieting down also in the sierra. Sunny there 40s, 50s on the temps highs today 60s though. 62 to 67 should cover the spread. 4 31. Anything new or just quiet so far. Its quiet so far we dont see a lot of thing. The pass is slow coming out of tracy which is not unusual. At the bay bridge toll plaza you can see traffic is getting a little bit slow on the lanes but most of the approaches are doing well. Northbound 280 and 101 and 85 are all doing very nicely. Including the trip from gilroy to the south bay. Now lets go back to the desk. The final witnesses of the week are preparing to testify today in the impeachment hearings on capitol hill. That follows what many saw as a bomb shell testimony. Doug luzader joins us live from washington d. C. With the details on where todays testimony may lead. Doug. Well two more witnesses are expected today as these hearing