what i wanted to say earlier, the attacks you re hearing on lieutenant colonel vindman i think are especially troubling and something i feel very personally as a fellow jewish immigrant from the former soviet union, someone who came here as a small boy in the 1970s just like lieutenant colonel vindman. when you have that kind of background, you tend to be more intensely patriotic. you believe in the ideals of this country. in his case, he fought for those ideals. he took shrapnel. he fought for our country. he bled for our country in iraq. and now you re seeing these right-wing trump acolytes defaming this american hero by claiming this dual loyalty canard. i mean that is you know, they are stooping so low to do that when clearly what he is doing is he is acting out of a sense of duty and patriotism as he explained in his opening statement because he was outraged by what was happening here and felt the need to blow the whistle because it was not a legitimate public policy he was seei
this is up . i m david gura. lawmakers will continue to hold closed door depositions this week. on tuesday, they are scheduled to question gordon sondland, ambassador to the european union, who pushed ukraine to investigate the bidens even though they are not part of the european union. depositions of two other state depositions have yet to be scheduled. before we look at the week to come as they gather steam, let s look back at the week that was. adam schiff is exactly why we need term limits in this country. i was on the phone call. i was on the phone call. . shifty schiff. we don t call him shifty schiff for nothing. a shifty, dishonest guy. this praoeuz president of the united states is stooping to a level beneath the president of
in the interest of our national security. yumpbd mining our national security undermining our national security. undermining his oath of office to defend and protect the constitution because he was overthrowing an act of congress just on his own. undermining the integrity of our elections. and that s what means something to people in their lives. they have to know their vote counts and it will be counted as cast and this president of the united states is stooping to a level that is beneath the dignity of the constitution of the united states and our founders since the chairman mentioned our founders. they put guardrails in the constitution because they knew there might be someone that would overplay his ore her power. they never thought we would have a president who would kick those guardrails over and disregard the constitution and say article 2 says that i can do whatever i feel like.
hands if they drop articles of impeachment. any effort by the secretary, by the president or anyone else to interfere with the congress ability to call before it relevant witnesses will be considered obstruction of congress. reporter: schiff appearing today in a show of force with speaker of the house nancy pelosi. this president of the united states is stooping to a level that is beneath the dignity of the constitution of the united states. reporter: as several key house committees are ready to issue subpoenas to the white house friday, for documents related to president trump s phone call with the ukrainian president and the holding up of ukrainian aid. house oversight chairman elijah cummings sending a memo today saying, quote, the white house s flagrant disregard of multiple voluntary requests for documents combined with stark and urgent warnings from the inspector general about the gravity of the allegations have left us with no choice but to issue this
house. this president of the united states is stooping to a level that is beneath the dignity of the constitution of the united states and our founders. since the chairman mentioned our founders, they put guardrails in the constitution because they knew there might be someone who would overplay his or her power. they never thought that we would have a president who would kick those guardrails over and disregard the constitution and say article ii says that i will do whatever i feel like. a busy hour ahead. we begin on capitol hill with a show of force from the house speaker nancy pelosi. you saw right there the intelligence committee chairman adam schiff standing firm in the democratic party s first off with the president of the united states. first and foremost mike pompeo. pompeo accuses democrats of bullying potential witnesses from the state department about the president s july call with ukraine. pelosi and schiff issuing a warning to both pompeo and the white house. we do p