Two men on the run to help save lives. Its worth every ounce of pain that were experiencing. Odonnell and the virus that keeps spreading, sending tens of thousands of Children Home from school. This is the Cbs Evening News with Norah Odonnell, reporting tonight from washington. Odonnell good evening. And thank you so much for joining us. If you watched todays hearings, you saw two career Foreign Policy Officials School lawmakers on what they should really care about russia. Former white house Official Hona Hill told lawmakers she worried President Trump had fallen victim to a fictional narrative about ukraine. Hill testified, alongside Embassy Official david holmes, who says he overheard the president on the phone asking if ukraine would investigate the bidens. Slmes said today that phone call in the middle of a restaurant in kiev was unlike anything hed seen in his career. And tonight, it appears the house is on its way to impeaching the president. Hod we have late word that the white
and tonight, it appears the house is on its way to impeaching the president. hod we have late word that the white house may be ready to fight it out in a trial on the g tate floor.da developments, and we re going to egin tonight with nancy cordes at the capitol. and, nancy, that was some powerful testimony today. reporter: it was, norah. hill and holmes became the seventh and eighth witnesses to testify publicly that there was an improper scheme that put the president s personal interests .head of national security. today s testimony also featured a key piece of firsthand evidence. vo the president s voice was loud and recognizable. reporter: david holmes is a top official at the u.s. embassy in ukraine. that s how he came to be sitting at a kiev restaurant with ambassador gordon sondland when sondland placed a call to president trump. when the president came on, he sort of winced and held the phone away from his ear like this.
ep reporter: holmes says the atnversation immediately turned to the investigation president trump had just been pushing the day before in another call with the ukrainian president, an investigation into the president s campaign rival, joe biden. > so you heard president trump ask ambassador sondland, is he going to do the investigation? yes, sir. what was ambassador eondland s response? he said, oh, yeah, he s going to do it. he ll do anything you ask. reporter: democrats say it is further proof that president trump was behind the effort to uessure ukraine, using an oval office meeting and millions in rylitary aid as bait. i ve never seen anything like this in my foreign service career. dr. hsaidndiv the sameim eting.invoed in ae rrmestic political errand, and we were being involved in national security foreign policy. and those two things had just diverged. and i did say to him, ambassador
two men on the run to help save lives. it s worth every ounce of pain that we re experiencing. o donnell: and the virus that keeps spreading, sending tens of thousands of children home from school. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from washington. o donnell: good evening. and thank you so much for joining us. if you watched today s hearings, you saw two career foreign policy officials school lawmakers on what they should really care about russia. former white house official hona hill told lawmakers she worried president trump had fallen victim to a fictional narrative about ukraine. hill testified, alongside embassy official david holmes, who says he overheard the president on the phone asking if ukraine would investigate the bidens. slmes said today that phone call in the middle of a restaurant in kiev was unlike anything he d seen in his career.
sondland, gordon, i think this is all going to blow up, and here we are. er reporter: hill was the hesident s senior director for europe and russia until mid- nuly. i was born in the northeast of england. gl reporter: she and holmes said the scheme appeared to originate ath the president s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. ambassador bolton said that rudy giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow everyone ry. my recollection is ambassador sondland stated, damn it, rudy. every time rudy gets involved he goes and f s everything up. reporter: republicans were . moved. r you re going to impeach and remove a president for this. reporter: hill is a russia expert. today, she rebuked some republicans for entertaining a conspiracy theory about 2016 election interference. some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, ukraine did.