He was defiant on day one of his testimony. He clashed with republicans, multiple calls to resign and tough questions from fellow democrats. Also refusing to acknowledge any short comings in the administrations handling of the afghanistan withdrawal. Placing blame for the chaotic scenes on the Trump Administration negotiations with the taliban. Lets get straight to cnn, we see secretary blinken walking in here. Again arriving as hes set to testify before the senate. Were going to go straight to Congressional Correspondent lauren fox joining us now from capitol hill. As the sect gets settled there. You know more information on what the plan is from lawmakers today in terms of questions for the secretary. Reporter well that is right, erica. Look, everyone is just entering the room preparing for this highstaking hearing on capitol hill this morning. Where this is going to be senators first opportunity to get to the bottom of what transpired in afghanistan in those waning days as the u. S.
Call for it. Not clear he has the votes to pass those. Lets begin on capitol hill with cnn congressional reporter lauren fox. Lauren, what are these deadlines today exactly calling for . Well, expect more back and forth between the white houses legal team and House Democrats today. Jim, the white house will have to file their own legal brief, then the House Democrats will respond to the white houses brief from saturday. So that is more legal back and forth as we head into the official start of the trial tomorrow. Here is a little bit about what you can expect. Tomorrow we expect the session to start at 1 00. Once again, youre going to see senators in their seats. This trial will begin and it will go six days a week, monday through saturday, with a break on sunday. You can also expect senators arent going to be able to have their electronics. They are not fog to going to beo talk to one another. This is a little bit of a wild west situation where we dont know how long is this trial goin
Crews safely pulling all of the boys and their coach from a cave just before heavy rains move in. Hear about how theyre doing now. But we begin with battle lines both here in the u. S. And the world stage. Senate democrats are gearing up to fight President Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court. Brett kavanaugh started making the rounds on capitol hill today, and President Trump arrives in brussels soon for what is expected to be a contentious nato summit. The president accusing the alliance of failing to pay its fair share when it comes to defense spending. He sounded off on that and more before leaving for brussels. Nato has not treated us fairly, but i think well work something out. We have a long, beautiful week. I have nato. I have the uk, which is in somewhat turmoil. And i have putin. Frankly, putin may be the easiest of them all. Who would think . Boris johnsons a friend of mine. Hes been very, very nice to me, very supportive. I get along with him very well, have a very good rel
Of u. S. Ukraine relationship. Including other things appear barisma and election meddle willing. Thats the Ukrainian Gas Company that put hunter biden on its board. Another text message shows a seen jer u. S. Diplomat questioning by hundreds of millions of dollars in kroushl u. S. Military assistance to ukraine was being held up at the time. Quote, are we now saying that Security Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations . Response . Call me. In other words, take it off the Text Messages. This is all happening as the president openly admits to enlisting other countries to investigate political rivals. He went on the white house lawn and asked china to do that saying china should raise should investigate the bidens. We have a lot of reporting to date gipg with cnn congressional reporter lauren fox. On the hill. The Intel Committee and Inspector General just arrived. What kind of questions can we hear and can we expect to hear how he answered Michael Atkinson