testimony, the freeze raising alarm at the pentagon and in kiev. worries the trump administration would change its foreign policy to suit domestic politics and concern from national security adviser, john bolton, over rudy giuliani s influence over ukraine policy. two of the officials say ukraine was aware the aid was frozen soon after it was put on hold in july. that s earlier than previous known. ukraine s imagine undercuts the argument from trump backers that the aid could not be used as leverage. we learn that military support to ukraine had been withheld before, by then-budget director mick mulvaney to avoid upsetting the russians. as for what to expect, adam schiff and devin nunes will lead the sessions. they ll have 45 minutes each to question witnesses with staff lawyers likely playing a big role here. other committee members will get five minutes each to ask questions. cnn has contained the trump
that was very impressive. the same way. i have to say, i would expect that bernie and elizabeth would the impeachment countdown ticking closer to public do the best in new hampshire. hearings tomorrow. they ve always been very kind to the neighbors. first the public will hear from top diplomat to ukraine bill even after i lost iowa, i came taylor and deputy assistant back and came second in new secretary of state george kent hampshire because i m next door wednesday. the former u.s. ambassador to and kerry won new hampshire. ukraine, marie yovanovitch i think that s a good sign for testifies friday. their testimony is expected to biden, and i have to say, not detail explosive claims alleging that i m here to pump up any particular candidate the, i was president trump pressured very surprised to see buttigieg ukraine to launch investigations in the top four in competitive. for his political benefit. i knew he was going to do it in iowa. so how will this week s hearings he s got an inc
think that s a much better way to try to get the story out to the american people and explain what it all means. members of congress usually are terrible at this kind of thing. they speechify too much. they get off on distractions and it s not the best type of format for them. they will have their chance and get their five minutes after the staff lawyers. i think the key thing that i ll be looking at is allow the staff lawyers are able to develop the narrative that the democrats want as well as the narrative that the republicans want to get out there to counter what the democrats are saying. i m focused on that. thanks very much for that analysis. we ll continue to watch all of this unfold tomorrow. just ahead, we re going to go over to the white house if more on the president s impeachment defense and his mind set on the eve of these public hearings. i love doing it. hey jay. jay? charlotte! oh hi. he helped me set up my watch lists. oh, he s terrific. excellent tennis player. bye
people what it all means. what the facts mean. it s not just enough to put these facts out there and expect the american people to watch hours of testimony and understand why it s significant for the country that the president chose this route to try to get a foreign government to investigate an american citizen and political rival in order to maintain himself in office and stay in power. the president abused his power and the democrats explain why we don t want that behavior many this country and why it s unacceptable for a president to try to do something like that. how significant of a role do you think the committee lawyers will be playing in this public hearing tomorrow because the first 45 minutes, the democrats, chairman and staff lawyer can ask questions uninterrupted and the second 45 minutes the top republican and their staff lawyer can ask questions. i was so happy when i heard that staff lawyers would start doing the questioning because i
a good prosecutor and with little emotion as possible. jim jordan, in the past, has acted very well in that role. recently, he s been very emotional defending the president. i think he has to lock up some of that emotion and put the prosecutor hat back on if he s going to take apart what democrats harris: or, kennedy, what we know is going to happen is predominately, guy, you will see staff lawyers during this period which is really going to shift that possibility of the emotion guy: the position, having an actual plan that s not fully grandstanding the cameras. by the way harris: and lengthy. 45 minutes. guy: i think both leaders have 45 minutes to delegate however they see fit, including two attorneys. also, if i m adam schiff which i m definitely not. [laughs] i have major criticism elusiv om throughout this entire process. just like pelosi shouldn t block jordan from trinity committee, schiff should allow any witness