and you feel like this. aveeno® skin relief. this morning, that never-trumpers are the only get skin healthy™ people that are coming out and testifying against him. i relayed that to a republican member as i was walking into the capital this morning, just to get his sense. is this the broader message that republicans are going to use to counter testimony that i think most people believe would be damaging to the president. and the members stopped, and i can say, was honestly, legitimately horrified to some degree that this might be the path that they were going down. and i think that s actually been reflected more and more by republicans throughout the course of this day. they will certainly disagree with what mr. vindman, colonel vindman is going to be saying today, but they don t agree with what some republican commentators have done in terms of attacking him. take a listen to what liz cheney, the number three republican and ardent defender of the president had to say just a moment
house speaker nancy pelosi defending her decision to hold a vote formalizing the impeachment inquiry process. in a letter to lawmakers she explains why she favors a vote after refusing to hold one two weeks ago writing, quote, we are taking the step to eliminating any doubt whether trump administration may withhold documents, prevent witness testimony, disregard duly authorized subpoenas or continue obstructing the house of representatives. the white house is long accused democrats of running a secret and improper investigation. steve scalise is this week s vote will do little to legitimate is the inquiry. what adam schiff has been doing in secret the last few weeks is a very tainted process
members of the house, speaker pelosi said this about the resolution. she said, this resolution establishes the procedure for hearings that are open to the american people, authorizes the disclosure of deposition transcripts, outlines procedures to transfer evidence to the judiciary committee as it considers potential articles of impeachment and sets forth due process rights for the president and his counsel. we are taking this step to eliminate any doubt as to whether the trump administration may withhold documents, prevent witness testimony, disregard duly authorized subpoenas or continue obstructing the house of representatives. congressman eric swalwell is back with us. congressman, this resolution will be a very clear set of guidelines about how the impeachment investigation proceeds from here. but is it also a political response to republicans trying to delegitimize what s been happening in the house because there has not been a vote of the
would be something like a director, the level that he was at that would review those transcripts that you were talking about, right? so he would know if that was the transcript or not. but the big question, and i think that s really revealing about what he said so far is the timeline here. as you were talking about earlier, that i think what this testimony suggests is that the phone call was just one act, was just one play, if you will, in a long, multiple month, many, many different iterations with the ukrainians. and i want to know when he knew the other things that happened before that phone call. and secondly, i would ask him about the first phone call. we haven t talked much about the that phone call, but there was allegedly a congratulatory phone call to president zelenski earlier in the year. was he on that phone call and could he testify to that phone
call as well? and josh letterman, that takes you back to your reporting. you ve done important work on the timeline reporting today. and it seems that colonel vindman s testimony is lining up with your timeline. reporter: that s right. we re learning more from this new reporting about how early these alarm bells were going off inside the national security council s, really at the top level with john bolton, the former national security adviser being briefed by fiona hill, after meeting with zelenski and his advisers as they were preparing to take office. this is the period in between when zelensky was elected and he was inaugurated. and he was already feeling the pressure from giuliani, to change up the board of nafta gas. fiona hill was told about the involvement of fruman and parnas, those two florida businessmen who were also trying to dig up dirt on the vice president s son and have also now been indicted for alleged campaign finance violations. and fiona hill at the white hous