It is 12 00 in new york. Were following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc Senior Adviser fiona hill and current u. S. Diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the Trump Administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a Smear Campaign against Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch who was apparently standing in the way. The conduct of both of todays witness witnesses, they believed lives could be jeopardized in ukraine. Here is some of the dramatic testimony of fiona hill and david holmes. The barrage of allegations
directed against ambassador yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything i have seen in my professional career. I heard ambassador sondland say to the president , yes, he was in ukraine, and went on to say
these ways, and how many classified documents were found pursuant to those search warrant, and they had been refused to be returned? i don t have in my head the number, and that is all on the public record, including the number of times that efforts were made to obtain through the legal process the legal documents. this whole hearing is about the weaponization of the justice department, and somehow your department is involved in the prosecution of donald trump and the state court in new york. as far as weaponization of the state department goes, did the justice department indict senator menendez? it is a matter of public record, yes. he is a democrat, right? i would assume yes. and senator cuellar?
interviews. they have done a lot of discovery with subpoenas obtaining documents and records, the case had been settled several years ago by news organizations with a number of these records, that is what the judge was deciding on last month. that s when she said the identities of 154 so john and jane does would be unsealed in the court records. they are expecting the disclosure to begin hitting the court docket on a rolling basis. some beginning later today. this is expected to be a large volume of records that could continue hitting the docket up to today, but potentially into tomorrow. a lot of the information is being unsealed because the judge acknowledged it s only in the public record. the plaintiff in the case has been public with her allegations that she was forced by epstein and maxwell.
case against donald trump and his 18 co-defendants. it will be willis first chance to enter specifics into the public record. joining us now cnn senior political analyst rearing to go, john avlon, former assistant u.s. attorney of the southern district of new york, sara c chrisoff. good morning. i m going to start with the easy question because it is 6:18 a.m. and that s what i can do at 6:18 a.m. what should we expect to happen at today s hearings? should i start with you, john? sure, why not, good morning. look, this is going to be the first sort of preview of the case that fani willis will bring and that s interesting. we haven t heard an in-court presentation by the principal making the case against donald trump and his co-defendants. that s what we can expect today
also part of a defense and effort to transfer her case to federal court. b but it also raises, by extension, a defense first offered by another former president. when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal, by definition. exactly. now, back today in another item, codefendant harrison floyd making his first court appearance by video link from jail. he is the only one who failed to reach a bond agreement this week. the judge today refused to change that. meantime, the trump campaign, which is already selling merch with the historic mug shot on it threatened legal action against anyone else doing the same. the one catch, of course, that photo was part of the public record. it is an official photo. as for the making of it, listen to the former president last night on another network. terrible experience. i came in, i was treated very nicely. but it is what it is.