feel of this scheme come that was the word, he is a habitual notetaker come he is your worst nightmare, very prepared. when you look at the testimony of taylor he said that there were irregular policy channels running contrary to long-standing goals of the u.s. policy. congressman you know that the first couple hours of this hearing are going to be crucial in the minds of the american people who are getting the first look at the questioning of these witnesses. you are right but if this is their best witness i can tell you the best witness would actually be secretary pompeo, mike pence the vice president of the united states, every time they met with president zelensky nothing happened and yet this notetaker, here s the other question we have. if he has so concerned about the president of the united states why is he still working for the president of the united states? if he has a problem with that i would say that he wouldn t still be employed. in fact is the opposite.
star witness. it s not just what he can say. he is a voracious notetaker, perhaps because he was taking notes to write his book but he carries a lot of respect in conservative circles. he will not be able to be pai painted as a deep-state actor, biased against the president. now from trump he will say he s a disgruntled employee. nobody liked him. that s the argument he can make but republican senators at the end of the day will have this president s fate in his hands, are we to get to an impeachment trial, that they ve known for a long time, like and respect and won t be able to dismiss his testimony. adrienne, how concerned should the president be? i think he should be very
cooper made that disclosure in a letter written to the house, in an effort to explain why his client needs a court order to testify before lawmakers. in that letter, bolton s lawyers stated that both bolton and his deputy charles kupperman have information concerning national security and foreign affairs adding that bolton has information that has yet to be touched on publicly. bolton had been scheduled to testify as part of the impeachment probe last thursday. but he did not appear. both he and kupperman have asked a court to determine whether they should obey house democrat s request to testify. according to axios, people around the president say they are actually worried what kind of notes bolton might have kept and when he might decide to divulge them. the sources which include current and former administration officials tell axios that bolton was the most prolific note taker at the top level of the white house. and probably has more details than any impeachment inquiry witness so
of mulvaney s press conference. i think mulvaney is trying to run out the clock for the administration. there is one foundational question that i don t know we have asked. we have seen president trump say over and over again. i would love for mick mulvaney to testify. now mick mulvaney has to join a suit that says the president have told me i am not permitted to testify and congress is telling me i must testify. i would like the court to break the tie. i mean there are so many curious angles to this that all of the sort of lies and misrepresentation are head snapping. let s talk about john bolton for a second. there are reports like he and a lot of long time government employees was an avid note taker. he was talking about 5,000
troops to venezuela. there is a lot of note taker of the white house. what s unclear is they had any sort of classifications stripped on them. that s a big subject of the last three or four years. there is still an open question. i don t think the white house is certain on this to what direction john bolton is going to go on all this whether he s going to stay loyal to the president or saw things that s troubling to him. when you read his letter or his lawyer s, what he s arguing is bolton should be privileged and all those conversations should be under some sort of executive umbrella because he knows so much. he s talking about all the things bolton knows, another way to look at it because he knows so much, he can t be compel to testify. we don t know and we can t divide his attorney s intent and motives based on the letter.