really even need to hear from the whistleblower when we know what the transcript says? steve: right, keep in mind. so many people want to know who the whistleblower heard the story from because the united states wants to unmask that person because they say that person who took these national secrets broke the law. dan bongino was with us 40 minutes ago and had this objection about mr. schiff from california. there was no quid pro quo. he did, in fact, meet his staff with people on-associated with the whistleblower. that s not true. people still have contacts, obviously based on prior professional relationships to trump s white house. people advising donald trump whose sole purpose on the national security council is to provide president trump with national security information make life or death decisions left and then went to go work for the opposition political party under adam schiff on the house intel committee. why would you do that? again, nothing illegal. i m not suggesting il
relationship a little more too. steve: wait a minute. what are you suggesting? i m suggesting that people still have contacts, obviously based on prior professional relationships to trump s white house. people advising donald trump, whose sole purpose on the national security council is to provide president trump with national security information to make life or death decisions left and went to work for the opposition political party under adam schiff on the house intel committee. why would you do that? nothing illegal. i m not suggesting illegality. i m suggesting unusual, no? why would you do that? these people still have professional contacts from where the leak we know emanated from the national security council. brian: dan, do you think in retrospect, it was wise for the president to even put rudy into the ukraine to investigate? i do and i will tell you why prominent ukrainians again their information needs to be vetted like anyone else who tried to reach out to the departme
ukraine marie yovanovitch, who was removed from her post by trump in may giving nearly ten hours of closed door testimony to house investigators. the career foreign service officer who worked under both democratic and republican administrations appeared in defiance of white house and state department direction not to appear. in her opening statement, yovanovitch warned the state department was being attacked and hollowed out from within and urged congress to take action to stop it. let s discuss now. congressman denny heck is here, who serves on the house intel committee and heard her testimony. congressman, thank you. i got to ask you, yovanovitch said that rudy giuliani played a significant role in her firing. why does she think he wanted her out? so, don, this was a deposition, and as such we re not going to comment or reveal the specifics of anything that the witness testified to understood. anything you can tell us,
former u.s. ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch, who was removed from her post by trump in may giving nearly ten hours of closed door testimony to house investigators. the career foreign service officer who worked under both democratic and republican administrations appeared in defiance of white house and state department direction not to appear. in her opening statement, yovanovitch warned the state department was being attacked and hollowed out from within and urged congress to take action to stop it. let s discuss now. congressman denny heck is here, who serves on the house intel committee and heard her testimony. congressman, thank you. i got to ask you, yovanovitch said that rudy giuliani played a significant role in her firing. why does she think he wanted her out? so, don, this was a deposition, and as such we re not going to comment or reveal the specifics of anything that the witness testified to understood. anything you can tell us,
what we learned in this last week while people fight wars over religion we pray to that one god, the dollar bill. the nba got pulled in by it and they re trying to backtrack and make sense of it. sandra: jared max, good to see you. bill: they ll have to answer questions when they get home, too. minutes from now we re waiting for the former ukraine ambassador named in the whistleblower complaint to arrive on the hill for the interview behind closed doors. the headliner is devin nunes, the ranking republican on the house intel committee. we ll put our questions to him when we continue. top of the hour, come on back.