Knew the ambassador. I dont know him very well. I have not spoken to him much. He is not a man i know well. Seems like a nice guy, though. In other major news this evening an annoucement from Buckingham Palace in the last hour that Prince Andrew is stepping back from public duties for the forseeable future. It follows an explosive interview with the bbc in which he was widely criticised for his lack of remorse over his friendship with the convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. Hello, and welcome. I am Christian Fraser in london, Michelle Fleury is in washington. Two major stories tonight. We are going to turn shortly to the testimony we have been hearing on capitol hill through the day. But we are going to start with the announcement in the last hour that the duke of york, Prince Andrew, is stepping back from his royal duties for the foreseeable future. In a statement from Buckingham Palace, Prince Andrew he said he deeply sympathised with epsteins victims and everyone who has been a
That ambassador saw and had raised before about investigating the bidens right or did and i want to ask you when you heard him say that was the 1st thought that went through your mind frankly i couldnt believe what i was hearing it was probably an element of shock. Joins us now from capitol hill in washington as it were the main points that emerged from these particular witnesses. Or not only did we hear from then then about his concern regarding the phone call but we also learned that he had attended a white house meeting in which aides to ukraines president were visiting the white house prior to this call and they were told explicitly by trumps own aides that there was a quid pro quo that in exchange for a meeting between saloons in trouble in person at the white house that ukraine would have to deliver the investigations into joe biden the other witness we saw on the stand this morning with Jennifer Williams she works with the Vice President s office and she had information on what
Know the identity of the whistleblower and did not fear for retaliation for his testimony lets continue to listen in to these key witnesses in the impeachment hearings on day 32019 in conversations with me following that meeting which i did not attend mr giuliani said that he had stressed the importance of ukraine conducting investigations into what happened in the past and mr year mark stressed that he told mr giuliani it is the Governments Program to root out corruption and implement reforms and they would be conducting investigations as part of this process anyway mr giuliani said he believe ukrainian president needed to make a statement about fighting corruption and that he had discussed this with mr year mark i said i did not think that this would be a problem since that is the governments position anyway i followed up with mr your mom and he said that they would indeed be prepared to make a statement. He said it would reference. And 2016 in a wider context of bilateral relations
Lets listen back in i dont and mr marson do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to participate in the delegation no. Besar volcker you testified during your deposition that it in fact does get held up from time to time for a whole assortment of reasons is that i wrote that is true and sometimes the hold ups are rooted in something you know and being sometimes is it the Defense Department sometimes just at the state department sometimes on the hill correct that is correct. And so when the aide was held up for 55 days. For ukraine it didnt in and of itself strike you as uncommon you know its something that had happened in my career in the past had seen all ups of assistance i just assumed it was part of the Decision Making process somebody had an objection and we had to overcome it and in fact. There were concerns that you know perhaps president selenski wasnt going to be the reformer that he campaigned on that that was a supposition that i made because of th
zikomo! [applause] welcome to the beat with ari melber. we have a big show for you tonight, prosecutor ronaldo murat he will join me as we look at jack smith s big coup case against donald trump, which faces a key appeal in january. how will smith draw on his past experience? that s where we begin tonight. he s a tough prosecutor with a long record. he s led difficult and victorious cases, including, the prosecution of new york police officer, justin vulpy, who tortured abner lima, a notorious case, which resulted in a 30-year prison sentence, unheard of for a prosecutor at the time. he was unknown prosecutor at the time. he went on to develop and expertise that other lawyers sometimes duck. the kind of cases that go at the powerful and government, police senators, heads of states. he developed experience for the pressures of those specific cases and something of a repetition of a prosecutor that you can pick up and call with a tough case like that. smith did a stint at the