day. that s what republicans are doing. you have fox news and devin nunnu nun nunes, let s just investigate the bidens or the kennedys. no, that s not the oiissues of e table. they used their media infrastructure to create an alternative reality that their voters live in. there is a sense and welcome to the show nicole, the impeachment efforts fell in a lot of ways like it was pay back for nixon. go you got one and now we are going to get one. now there is a sense of republicans, we are going to show you that we can also use impeachment to take down a president. it felt as simple as that in a lot of ways. it was. if you thought that is the watergate impeachment was about delegitimatizing properly
but finish your thought. i just think that any attempt to try to out the whistleblower will meet with stiff resistance from the chairman who has been consistent and right in frying to end any kind of questioning to out the whistleblower. the american people created the whistleblower system so that rank and file members of the government can come forward with evidence of wrongdoing. but it relies on the system protecting those whistleblowers and if they with wish for anonymity to allow them that anonymity. in this case the whistleblower requested to continue to be anonymous even though he or she brought forward his or her complaint to the inspector general. and we have to respect their wishes. all right, congressman, thanks so much for joining us. we ll listen closely to not only your questioning but all of the questions and answers that are
department of state that is actively working to undermine the president. it is not only baseless and dismissive, it is just flat wrong. yes, can there be a history where elements of the bureaucracy don t agree with a particular president s policies and is there leaking that goes on? yes, that has always happened. but you are seeing in front of us in real time professionals in the diplomatic corps who are dedicated to policy. and bill taylor said look, if there is guys who have a direct line to the president, fine, they can do that. irregular channels are okay. it is when we get really bad and sideways with our policy that is counterproductive for national security. and it is becoming, that is an important point, that because in this letter that ron johnson, the republican senator from wisconsin, chairman of the homeland security committee writes to jim jordan and to republican members of the panel that will be questioning the
nun nunes. and then the witnesses themselves will give their own opening statements followed by a round of questioning. it will be led by schiff and his top attorney dan goldman who will engage in a 45 minute round of questioning. and that will republicwill foll republican line of questioning led by devin nunes and his top attorney stecastor. and watch them to request the aftermath of the july call. that was raced in the closed do raised in the closed door deposition. adam schiff blocked the line be of questioning because he was concerned that without the whistleblower and i m told republicans are not ruling out going that line, they say shchif should not dictate their questioning. so expect fireworks as republicans press forward and
potentially on bipartisan support for ukraine. alexander vindman also expected to note concerns that he raised directly to the ambassador to the european union gordon sondland who was pushing for investigations, those political investigations and raised concerns that he essentially was pushing a quid pro quo, pushing the ukranians to move forward on those investigations before a key meeting was held with zelensky and president trump and aid also was released. also wait for jennifer williams this morning, she is of course the vice president mike pence s one of his advisers. she also raised concerns about that call. so this is a key moment this morning in just under an hour. walk us through the format for today s questioning once again. reporter: this is going to be similar to the last two public hearings. this will begin with the chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff who will make an opening statement, followed by devin