you also tweeted that vindman s opening statement, quote, surely caused some eyes to well up among viewers. i imagine you re talking about that moment where he addressed his father. his brother was also in the room yesterday to support him. looks as if he kind of glanced at his brother as well during that moment. take me for to your reaction. yeah. that statement hit home. my father is an immigrant, as children of immigrants, one of the things that emerged, the republican strategy that lieutenant colonel vindman lacked loyalty is inappropriate. they can properly question his judgment as did mr. morrison. they said they testified in some senses they questioned his judgment really how good he might have been at his job. that is acceptable on one level, but loyalty is something else that really can t be questioned especially with somebody like a background like this. a combat background in the u.s.
questioning that chain of events with morrison. very interesting because stark contrast to lieutenant colonel vindman s reasons for reporting phone calls. morrison wasn t concerned about the substance, but he did report it and he offered explanation along the line. he was concerned about it. political fallout. pretty colitical fallout. so that gets into if you re worried o then you must be worried about the substance of the conversation? exactly. it undermined, that i wasn t worried about the substances but damaging if it got to the atmosphere. but i felt like they didn t have success in getting to the bottom of the reasons as to why he actually reported the phone call. no, as astonishing as it may sound it may not have been enough time to get to the real questions that mattered. danny cevallos thank you,
manu, thank you for the update on all things tim morrison. and harry, you first on what manu reported. the president and allies dismissed former ambassador bill taylor for relying on secondhand information, just part of that. really, the crux is, if morrison wasn t concerned about the call, why, then, this rush to put this transcript in this secure server at the white house? yeah. exactly. so, look, we have his six-page opening statement. he strongly corroboratines tayl, very bad for the white house and about giuliani shaping up and bolton, enemies two and three that he in a non-lawyer in his diplomatic mind was more worried about the effect on ukraine answer that possible impeachable offenses. i don t think that s either here nor there. he corroborates the facts. what matters most. the judgment of the facts now
falls to congress. surely, mary, i m going to ask this to you. that the president will point to the fact that tim morrison sat there and said, nope. i listened in on the call. i wasn t concerned about anything illegal. but isn t the problem bigger than this july 25th phone call? like, this was a wide, kwo coordinated effort? i think the president will use this again to repeat his refrain this was a perfect call and pint to probably parts of mr. morrison s testimony, but i think as harry pointed out sort of the actions taken within the white house and outside of the white house by people within the administration don t really support that there wasn t alarm about this. there s been reporting of course, of john bolton s own reaction, we won t know unless and until we hear from him, or about any testimony he may present. we won t know directly until then, directly how he felt about it, but certainly we know what fiona hill has said about it