As you may know already, we will begin open hearings in the impeachment inquiry next week. We will be beginning with testimony of ambassador taylor and ambassador kent on wednesday, and we will have testimony on friday. These will be the first of the open hearings and i think you will see throughout the course the moststimony important facts are largely not contested. We are getting increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president and listed whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent, as well as further Conspiracy Theory about the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial to his reelection campaign. Those open hearings will be an opportunity for the American People to evaluate the witnesses for themselves, to make their own determination about the credibility of the witnesses, but also to learn firsthand about the facts of the preside
Ambassador hale for being here, for obeying the law, for following the lawful subpoena that we issued. We wish others would show the same courage and dedication to the law that ambassador hale is demonstrating here today. I want to let you know as you may know already that we will begin our open hearings in the impeachment inquiry next week. We will be beginning with the testimony of ambassador taylor and ambassador kent on wednesday. And we will have ambassador yovanovitch testify on friday. These will be the first of the open hearings. And i think youll see throughout the course of the testimony, not only their testimony but many others, the most important facts are largely not contested. We are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year. And the degree to which the president enlisted whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent, as well as further Conspiracy Theo
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The Christian Science monitor, he was asked about tuesdays elections in kentucky, virginia, mississippi and new jersey as well as the impeachment inquiry. Good morning. Im linda feldman. Washington bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest is tom perez, chairman of the Democratic National committee. This is his third appearance on a monitor breakfast. Welcome, chairman perez, and congratulations on last night. For his background, chairman perez grew up in buffalo, new york, the son of immigrants from the dominican republic. He earned his bachelors degree from Brown University and a large degree from harvard. After graduating, he served in a number of government positions, wasked for a federal judge a federal prosecutor, advised senator kennedy, was in hhs under president clinton, became the first hispanic member of the perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee, which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please, no
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