Does. But his aides and his campaign, the white house, they have been sending out very negative messages about Lieutenant Colonel vindman. They tried to use something morrison said behind closed doors when he said there were people that questioned vindmans judgment at nsc, specifically fiona hill that well hear from thursday. I his Opening Statement, i think he realized how much play that has got. He said he wasnt here to criticize his colleagues. Saw vindman prepared to address it as he was there to testify earlier. He brought a Performance Review from fiona hill, the official, that morrison had the conversation with, where it praised him multiple times and his performance in the job. You see tim morrison and kurt volker, beginning to walk back in. Theyll sit down and the hearing will resume. The next round will be the five minute sessions where all of the members, democrats and
republicans, they have five minutes to ask questions. It will start with the chairman, adam schiff, and dev
republicans, they have five minutes to ask questions. it will start with the chairman, adam schiff, and devin nunes, ranking member. they ll ask their questions, then it will go on presumably, mia, for at least another hour. looks interesting to see schiff s position. he is a harvard trained lawyer and he has been i think very strategic in trying to advance the case in a way nunes isn t. nunes seems to be directly talking to the president and the base. he addressed witnesses and said oh, i m sorry to break the bad news but ratings are down for this, which isn t helping build any case at all. it is sort of a talking point about what s happening. that s been really interesting to see sort of the interchange between schiff, and the lawyer, daniel goldman. here is schiff. now going to proceed to a 15 minute round by either chair majority or ranking member minority. mr. goldman, you re recognized for 15 minutes.