when the president decides to fire then fbi director james comey. he doesn t go through the chain of command, he asks his long time personal aide to go to the fbi and deliver the letter. during the campaign, he wasn t working through the campaign apparatus whether it was lewandowski or steve bannon or kellyanne conway, he was often working through michael cohen or froent friends on the outside to get things done. you see this with rudy giuliani the acceptance of so many different aspects of behavior, questionable behavior from mr. giuliani because the president believes he s an advocate, he s a loyalist. it s a real indication of how the white house works. there is not somebody at some point saying hold on a second, why is the man who is ostensibly your personal lawyer getting involved in state department affairs and advocating for the dismissal of one of our top ambassadors. why doesn t that raise a red flag saying hang on, this is going to cause you trouble. this is not the normal
lieutenant colonel vindman lied? there is no problem with his service and we honor his service. i am saying we question his testimony. kristen: are you questioning his testimony that he knew who the was a lower is? we question his testimony. we look forward this is something, look at this. it is a difficult time for our country. people want to get the facts and they once to make certain the people who are giving testimony are giving it in a credible manner, that they are abiding by the chain of command and we know the individual has been pointed out by his supervisors as having trouble with judgment and trouble with the chain of command. kristen: he said he did not
witness could deliver, but his own opinion of things we already see that even people that worked with benjamin, lieutenant colonel inman, had questions about him, had questions about him jumping the chain of command, making his own decisions. this is a huge problem for the democrats and it s getting them right in the face. laura: so odd that someone who is so insistent about being called lieutenant colonel every single time doesn t of the chain of command. that s absolutely true and i got to tell you a number of people my husband is in the military. number of people contacted me today, military officials and just regular boots on the ground and they said he was just they were kind of stunned he said that when he said that kind of statement usually is referring to somebody who was little bit of a jerk. laura: stewart mentioned something you don t normally wear your uniform at the white house, but you re wearing it today, that s fine. it was kind of a throwaway thing there. j
own opinion of things, we already see that even people that worked with vindman, lieutenant colonel inman, had questions about him, had questions about him jumping the chain of command, making his own decisions. this is a huge problem for the democrats and it s getting them right in the face. laura: so odd that someone who is so insistent about being called lieutenant colonel every single time doesn t of the chain of command. that s absolutely true and i got to tell you a number of people my husband is in the military. number of people contacted me today, military officials and just regular boots on the ground and they said he was just they were kind of stunned he said that when he said that kind of statement usually is referring to somebody who was little bit of a jerk. laura: stewart mentioned something you don t normally wear your uniform at the white house, but you re wearing it today, that s fine. it was kind of a throwaway thing there. john, today adam schiff once aga
in public. and we ll get to this in a moment. it s important to discredit vindman as a witness because he is an expert in ukraine. that s what he was focused on. he saw this unfolding, not only did he think it was unusual, and illegal, but he spoke up about it. he went to attorneys within the normal and in his words, the chain of command. he talks about in his testimony, how important the normal chain of command is as a military officer. he did what he thought he was supposed to do to report this. i thought this was wrong and it was detrimental to u.s. security. they did this long ago, trying