It has become the center of these impeachment proceedings. Now, as you can see, the Committee Room in the long Worth Building is already gng toromee officials who were listening in on that call. Theyll be giving public testimony. Jennifer williams, an aide to Vice President mike pence. She described President Trumps actions on that call as, quote, unusual and inappropriate. We are also going to hear from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. Aries the top ukraine specialist on the unusual security council. He called the president s actions troubling, disturbing, and wrong. This afternoon we will hear from former National Security council official tim morrison who also listened in to that call and former ukraine envoy kurt volker who was part of communications between ukraine and the president s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. Both are witnesses the republican members of the committee asked to hear from as well. So that sets the table for us. Lets go to nancy cordes who is outside the
Colder today and you may want to wear your sweater all day long as we will have changes here. The wind is picking up. Lets see how the morning shapes up in los gatos. In the 50s throughout the day and mostly sunny skies. Red flag warning and high fire danger we will see for the bay area hills. This starts tomorrow morning and continues into thursday morning areas for the red shaded areas. Ill break it down coming up in a few minutes. Mike, you continue to track that major crash in the north bay . Right. Highway 29. Unincorporated napa county but a critical two lanes. One lane each direction, in fact, this area. A closure from an overnight crash and two ways to get there to silverado trail to avoid the crash activity. Its longer but it goes past the rumbine winery there. West 37, upper east shore freeway and highway 4. Disabled vehicle removed from 680 and same thing for the crash at telegraph but may be a fender bender approaching the bei bay bridge. Im get an update coming up. A live
President zelensky. Now, colonel vindmann advance of this phone call, did you prepare for the phone call as you did the april 21st call . Yes, i did. What were the talking points based upon . They were this is not in the Public Record and i cant comment too deeply, but what is the areas that weve consistently talked about in public, it was cooperation on supporting reform agenda, anticorruption efforts and helping president zelensky implement his plans to end russias war against ukraine. In other words, theyre based on official u. S. Policy . Correct. And is there a process to determine official u. S. Policy . Yes. That is my job is to coordinate u. S. Policy. So throughout the preceding year that i had been on staff, i had undertaken an effort to make sure we had a cohesive policy. As you listened to the call, did you observe whether President Trump was following the talking points based on the official u. S. Policy . Counsel, the president could choose to use the talking points or no
Zelensky. Colonel vindman in advance of this phone call did you prepare talking points as did you for the april 21st call . Yes, i did. What were those talking points based upon. This is not in the Public Record and i cant comment too deeply. In areas that we talked about in public was cooperation on supporting reform agenda. Anticorruption efforts and helping president zelensky implement his plans to end russias war against ukraine. In other words theyre based on official u. S. Policy . Correct. And is there a process to determine official u. S. Policy . Yes. That is my job is to coordinate u. S. Policy so throughout the preceding year that i had been on staff, i had undertaken an effort to make sure we had a cohesive, coherent and just policy. As you listened to the call, did you observe whether President Trump was following the talking points based on the official u. S. Policy . Counsel, the president could choose to use the talking points or not. Hes the president. But they were no
Im not aware of the meetings. Did you know that lawyers pressured the state department that they invoked Hunter Bidens name as a reason to intervene . Im not aware of any of the facts. Did you no he that joe biden called ukrainian president at least three times in february 2016 after the president and owner of burismas home was raided by the state Prosecutors Office . Im aware of the fact that President Biden or vice President Biden was very engaged on ukraine and had numerous engagements. Thats what im aware of. Ms. Williams and Lieutenant Colonel vindman, as you may or may not know, this committee spent three years conducting many many investigations starting with the russia collusion hoax, democratic hysteria over the lack of collusion and the Mueller Report and now this impeachment charade. One of most concerning things regarding all of these investigations is the amount of classified or otherwise Sensitive Information i read in the press that derive either from this committee or s