good morning, fred. yeah. so mayor giuliani has a plausible explanation but it s not one that helps his case. he s saying, look, i was asked by volcker to participate with this ukrainian official. he himself has no official capacity. mayor giuliani is not part of the government. he ee s president trump s perso lawyer, some would say his personal bag man and he knew he was doing this outside the con fins of the formal federal government diplomatic process. and, kevin, he told two russian officials he was not concerned at all about the
is kylie atwood, a cnn national security reporter, kevin listen tack, a cnn producer and also a cnn political commentator. good to see all of you. kylie, you first. secretary pompeo has missed two deadlines. his third and final chance to turn over documents is this friday. any plans he will cooperate or might he be stonewalling? well, the state department hasn t even responded to our questions about this subpoena. if they will be complying, if they won t. that s not really all that surprising because they haven t replied to any questions, requests for documents over the last few weeks from this committee on the hill. but it is important to note that they have this administration has ignored subpoenas in the past. but here it s a little bit more impactful if they do because it would then amount to evidence of
then national security adviser john bolton. kylie atwood and kevin liptak are back with me now. kylie or, kevin, let me begin with you. moments ago senate minority leader chuck schumer released a statement on president trump and the russian interference conversation saying this. if true, the reports that president trump may have told close associates of putin that he didn t mind russian interference in the u.s. elections are extremely harmful to both of national security and the integrity of our elections. it s one of the most disturbing things we have learned yet. so, kevin, what may come o this now, and might it be that adding to the list of subpoenas, even though it s a little different than the whistle report whistle-blower complaint, might john bolton see himself
and in this case and or at least reported will i think this case it s bolton, former nsa or secretary part-time yeo who would be prison or listening in on the call? yeah. traditionally there are folks at the white house listening in on the call, taking very detailed noted to come up with what is a rough or almost near exact transcript of the call and that is shared with the folks who need to know what happened on the call. that s important for the policy-making decisions and the way that the policy heads because if the president has conversations that impact what folks are doing at the state department or the pentagon, they need to know about it. so generally speaking it is circulated. what is important here as kevin was noting, it s not just as if the lockdown is happening because covert classified information was being discussed. what it appears to be at least in the case of the ukrainian
because there are no republicans currently saying they re in favor there is one republican, i think, in the house saying he s in favor of an investigation but not in favor of an impeachment necessarily. the speaker has some level of credibility because she was putting the brakes on impeachment at an earlier stage. she doesn t look like someone rushing to it, but i do believe it s going to be highly likely. all right. thank you so money to all of you. david, kevin, kylie, appreciate it. impeachment hearings are set to begin next week, but do democrats have a plan in case the white house stonewalls? i ll talk with democratic tactics, with member or i m talk about the democratic tactics with a member taking a lead on the impeachment inquiry.