and a possible cover-up. so let s start with the official cover-up. vindman s testimony is corroborating the claim in the whistleblower complaint that the white house locked down all records of the july 25th phone call with his ukrainian counterpart. cite be people with the testimony he wrote this, moments after president trump ended his phone call with ukraine s president on july 25th, an unsettled national security aide rushed to the office of white house lawyer john eisenberg. vindman, who told house investigators that he was alarmed after hearing trump pressure ukrainian president zelensky to investigate his political rifles told eisenberg that what the president did was wrong. and according to two people familiar with vindman s account, eisenberg then scribbled on a legal pad and, quote, proposed a step that other officials have said is at odds with
administrations. they are following yesterday s testimony from this decorated veteran, alexander vindman who told house investigators he raised a red flag immediately after hearing president trump s call with ukrainian president on july 25th and he said that looking at the white house transcript that was released and what he heard it appears parts were edited which the white house denies. congress gets ready to open the closed doors and start the public stage of this impeachment inquiry. let s begin with today s testimony. our senior congressional correspondent manu raju joins us on capitol hill. we re expected to hear the lawmakers will hear today is more concerns being raised about the role that rudy giuliai played which has been a
we re back now with our breaking news. the national security council s top ukraine expert planning to testify tomorrow that he was so troubled by the president s call with ukraine s president that he reported his concerns to the top nsc lawyer. joining me now is the former director of national intelligence, mr. james clapper. director, i appreciate you joining us. thank you so much. vindman was his name is alexander s. vindman. he was on this phone call on july 25th with the ukrainian president. in his opening statement, he says, on july 25th, 2019, the call occurred. i listened in on the call in the situation room with colleagues from the nsc and the office of the vice president excuse me. as the transcript is in public record, we are all aware of what was said. i was concerned by the call. i did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen, and i was worried about the
american dream. i have a deep appreciation for american values and ideals and the power of freedom. i am a patriot and it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend our country irrespective of party or politics. for over 20 years as an active duty u.s. military officer and diplomat, i served this country in a nonpartisan manner and done so with the utmost respect and professionalism for both republican and democratic administrations. again, lieutenant colonel vinman goes on to suggest that the president s behavior in this call with president zelensky was so alarming that he twice raised this issue internally with his superiors out of a sense of duty that what he was seeing was wrong. on july 25th, 2019, the call occurred, i listened in on the call in the situation room with colleagues from the national security council and the office of the vice president. as the transcript is in the public record, we re all well aware of what was said. i was concerned by the call. i do not thi
top advisers on the national security council. and his testimony notably marks two significant firsts here. and when we re talking about the line of witnesses who have appeared up here on capitol hill, he will be the first official from inside the white house to testify in this probe. he also will be the first person who was actually on that now-infamous call between president trump and the ukrainian president on july 25th. so potentially providing some insider accounts of what he heard on that call. his name also notably appeared 15 times in the opening statement of bill taylor. the president s top diplomat in the ukraine who testified up here earlier this week who essentially laid out the quid pro quo. and sources tell cnn that morrison is expected to corroborate a lot of those claims that bill taylor made. but he is also expected to say that he did not see anything wrong with what the administration was doing. and that important to note there also negotiations in the works