staff member overheard president trump tell gordon sondland that his personal top priority for the ukraine was to get hunter and joe biden investigated. a member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. ambassador sondland told president trump that the ukrainians were ready to move forward. ambassador sondland responded that president trump cares more about the investigations of biden which giuliani was pressing for. he wasn t there today and a lot who submitted their wish list over the weekend would like to see him there. he might not have been there in person but he was there in spirit as his name is brought up again over and over across the six hours of testimony. i have to think that tonight republicans are feeling pretty good about their decision to put jim jordan on the republican
here i am. senators were from frustrated. normally as cia director you would be here briefing senators. why isn t the cia director here herself? i was asked to be here and i m here. i was asked to be here and i m here. that s the secretary of state of united states of america. that s his response to why his predecessor the cia director wasn t there today. the cia released a statement on gina haspel s absence saying while she wasn t there they already briefed the senate intelligence committee and congressional leadership on the totality of the classified intelligence and will continue to provide updates on this important matter to policymakers. the notion that anyone told gina haspel not to attend today s briefing is false. senators heard the latest on the saudi-led war in yemen. th there is a bipartisan bill backed by two men, bernie
doing this, he said, on behalf of the white house and so you know, it s quite disturbing and if our subpoenas are to ever mean anything, the next step we should take would be to hold him in content. i want to play the sort of acting chair of your committee because devin nunes has kind of recused himself although not really. the acting chair vis-a-vis this investigation had to say. take a lis. and contempt is a big deal. i don t have unilateral control over that conversation. we have conversations about house equities as to how important our subpoenas are. do you personally feel like he should be held in contempt. i think he should answer our questions. what s your take quae away from that. they re in the majority. they have the subpoena power. and you know, hayes done an admirable job considering the circumstances he s under where devin nunes comes and goes mostly as a disruptive force. he wasn t there today. we should have moved peeledly to hold him in contempt.
and you know, hayes done an admirable job considering the circumstances he s under where devin nunes comes and goes mostly as a disruptive force. he wasn t there today. we should have moved peeledly to hold him in contempt. there s other witnesses also asserting bogus privileges from attorney general sessions to donald trump jr. to roger stone. and we are telling them, we re telegraphing we don t care that we re not going to do anything about it. i think it could have just a destructive effect in the future. there will be future investigations. and we re setting a really dangerous precedent. his behavior before this committee has been unique, right? yes. certainly though he has unified democrats and republicans in wanting to hear from him. but what concerns me is, the test is to whether the republicans are serious about taking the necessary steps toe compel his testimony. but here s what concerns me,