putting it in the national security realm what i found interesting about the testimony, here is a decorated war hero, someone who is in the military. who originally went up the chain of command. the idea these people are rogue is ridiculous. had goes up twice to the national security counsel lawyers and clearly what they do is not satisfactory. he now has come out with testimony. the other important thing is it does show that transcript that was released originally really something was wrong with that. i don t know if it was edited or paraphrasing. the disconnect between the transcripts was bad enough. about what trump said to ukraine. and what the sort of anger and fear and concern coming out of people like hill. and vindman and taylor and who else. there s others down the pike.
to guard dormant oil fields than to protect the kurds and protect our gains against isis. so everything is upside down here, and it s quite dangerous for our security. and would we have been able to do this without our allies, without the kurds? no. it would be very difficult to have the kind of actionable intelligence we needed without the kurds. you and many in the obama administration and journalists have been on the wrong side of the president s tweets, right? he tweets about you a lot. but, listen, you along with folks on both sides of the aisle have been critical of president trump s handling of the syria. he tweeted this, calling you a disaster for obama and skeeria. in that same tweet he proclaimed that millions were killed. you responded by saying that back in 2015, trump gave you a totally gross hug and said that you were unfairly treated over benghazi. and i was doing a great job for the country. so i responded to his tweet saying, well, if that s what you thought, w
fact this is not secondhand information. he was on the call. now we know firsthand the information that we all guessed for a while that trump admitted out loud as did the chief of staff. we have somebody on the call testifying about it. it will be a difficult witness to try to impeach. they ll call an partisan or radical. like bill taylor. that dog ain t going to hunt. they run out of gas on this one. president trump continues to say his call was perfect. now he says he wants republicans to focus on that not just the process argument. with more testimony like this republicans don t want to touch the substance here, do they? they don t. i don t share your view on the this that somehow the dam is going to break. i think the arguments will shift as they have to shift. the republicans will stand with
here s the bomb shell break news a top national security facial the the white house an army officer and expert on ukraine plans to tell congress he heard president trump pressure ukraine president to investigate joe biden. vindman twice reported concerns of his sense of duty. i want to bring in two perfect guests to talk about this. so glad to have you on. when you hear vindman brought registered objections in internal objections out of quote sense of duty, that s significant certainly a message republicans on capitol hill maybe concerned about. very significant for a couple reasons. he s an active military officer who chosen to go testify. that s a big deal. maybe even a bigger deal the
isn t that what you do to people under mine the credibility of a witness? it s hard to do with this. it s what people do when they re desperate and know the evidence is mounting. new york times reports bolton drafted a memo in august that sought to restart the $391 million and the aid package. trump refused to sign it. according to documents reviewed be by the time. could we learn from vindman how the decision to with hold money was made? it sounds like he would have that information. also the importance of john bolton as a witness. clearly he knew this was going to be a big issue. he wrote a memo. he s trying to paper it up and make a record. bolton by a potentially an explosive witness against trump. juliette, here s more. i realize if ukraine pursued a an investigation it would be entrepted into a partisan play.