Appeared before the committee for a closed door deposition pursuant to a subpoena i would like to take this opportunity to briefly summarize my my recollection of some of the events i expect the committee may ask me about on april 21st the lenski one the ukrainian president ial election on april 23rd the Vice President called to congratulate president elect selenski during the call which i participated in the Vice President accepted an invitation to attend president elect selenski upcoming inauguration providing that the scheduling worked out the Vice President had only a narrow window of availability at the end of may and the Ukrainian Parliament would not meet to set a date for the inauguration until after may 14th as a result we did not expect to know whether the Vice President would be could attend until may 14th at the earliest and we made only preliminary trip preparations in early may. On may 13th an assistant to the Vice President s chief of staff called and informed me that Pr
Out there for the north bay mountains, east bay hills and diablo range. Any time they vindman, now serving as the ukraine now exrtdehearg mary, democrats expect that vindman is going to be their star witness. Reporter george, hes a decorated combat veteran and said he was so concerned by what he heard on that phone call between the president and the ukrainian leader that he feared it could undermine u. S. Neuratil security. He said it was not proper to ask the ukrainian president to investigate the bidens and he quickly alerted his superiors. The president has attacked vindman as a, quote, never trumper, but vindman will describe himself as a patriot. He has served for 20 years and received a purple heart. We saw him a short while ago and he is in full military uniform. Republicans though are going to go after his judgment and his loyalty to the president , and george, while republicans so far have been dismissing much of the testimony as hearsay, that argument will be difficult for th
It has become the center of these impeachment proceedings. Now, as you can see, the Committee Room in the long Worth Building is already gng toromee officials who were listening in on that call. Theyll be giving public testimony. Jennifer williams, an aide to Vice President mike pence. She described President Trumps actions on that call as, quote, unusual and inappropriate. We are also going to hear from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. Aries the top ukraine specialist on the unusual security council. He called the president s actions troubling, disturbing, and wrong. This afternoon we will hear from former National Security council official tim morrison who also listened in to that call and former ukraine envoy kurt volker who was part of communications between ukraine and the president s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. Both are witnesses the republican members of the committee asked to hear from as well. So that sets the table for us. Lets go to nancy cordes who is outside the
Colder today and you may want to wear your sweater all day long as we will have changes here. The wind is picking up. Lets see how the morning shapes up in los gatos. In the 50s throughout the day and mostly sunny skies. Red flag warning and high fire danger we will see for the bay area hills. This starts tomorrow morning and continues into thursday morning areas for the red shaded areas. Ill break it down coming up in a few minutes. Mike, you continue to track that major crash in the north bay . Right. Highway 29. Unincorporated napa county but a critical two lanes. One lane each direction, in fact, this area. A closure from an overnight crash and two ways to get there to silverado trail to avoid the crash activity. Its longer but it goes past the rumbine winery there. West 37, upper east shore freeway and highway 4. Disabled vehicle removed from 680 and same thing for the crash at telegraph but may be a fender bender approaching the bei bay bridge. Im get an update coming up. A live
This meeting will come to order. Good morning everyone. This is the third in a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. Without objection the chair is authorized to play recess of the committee at any time that there is a quorum present. I will make an Opening Statement and then Ranking Member nunez will have the opportunity to make a statement. We ask for your respect as we. Roceed as chairman i will take all necessary steps to maintain order and that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and resolution 660. I now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement into the impeachment inquiry of donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States last week, we heard from three experienced diplomats who testified by on President Trumps a scheme military aid to fight the russians. By theerable but ukrainian president zelinski to political motivated investigations that trump believed would help his