so no response yet from vice president mike pence s office to that, at least that we know of, but i mean, vice president pence and his role in this scheme for which president trump is now being impeached, it remains one of the still dangling threads here. he apparently is the one who went in person to europe to go meet with zelensky after the trump/zelensky phone call to reiterate to zelensky that he wasn t getting his military aid. he was briefed, according to his own advisers, on the call that happened between president trump and president zelensky in which trump made clear that zelensky wasn t going to get his military aid unless zelensky coughed up investigations of joe biden and his son and other types of politically motivated investigations that president trump thought would help him get reelected. vice president pence has said that he d be perfectly happy having his records of all his interactions with ukraine released to the public. here s a test of that, because his adviser te
person. she was an adviser to the vice president specifically on russia and europe, and at the start of her public testimony, you might remember there was a little low key drama with her lawyer, watch. ms. williams, i want to ask you about a phone call between vice president pence and president zelensky of ukraine on september 18th. were you on that call? i was. and did you take notes of the call? yes, sir. is there something about that call that you think may be relevant to our investigation? mr. chairman, as we previously discussed with the committee, the office of the vice president has taken the position that the could you could you move the microphone a little closer to you? as we ve previously discussed with majority and minority staff of the committee, the office of the vice president has taken the position that the september 18 call is classified. jennifer williams on camera there as her lawyer sort of
released by the intelligence committee earlier this week, all 300 pages of it. section 1 was titled the president s misconduct. section 2 was titled the president s obstruction of the impeachment inquiry. the whole thing is about the president s behavior. the day the report came out, you might remember us running down how the sort of sub headings of the report, they alone give you a really concise tidy kind of dramatic 78-word plot rundown of what the president s going to be impeached for. the president s request for a political favor, the president removed anticorruption champion ambassador marie yovanovitch. the president s hand picked agents began the scheme. the president froze vital military assistance. the president conditioned a white house meeting on investigations. the president pressed president zelensky to do a political favor. the president s represents ratcheted up pressure on the ukrainian president, the
trump s tax returns. under federal law, you re allowed to see anybody s tax returns including the president s. in that mountain of paper filed with the courts in this fight of whether or not richy neal is allowed to see president trump s tax returns as it says under law he can, there was one exhibit filed, exhibit q-q that has turned into an enduring source of news and mystery. that exhibit qq says this, quote, on july 29, 2019, the committee, the ways and means committee, received an unsolicited unsolicited is underlined setting forth credible allegations evidence of possible misconduct, specifically potential inappropriate efforts to influence the mandatory audi program of a president s income tax returns. chairman neal said this new information from the whistleblower that came forward
the president are still hoping and expecting that votes on the articles against president trump might in the end be slightly bipartisan. it turns out in term of the time line, there is no month of christmas exclusion rule. nbc news has just reported that lawmakers this year have been advised by house leadership that they should be available to be in washington whether for votes on articles or for other work related to the impeachment proceedings as late as the 21st and 22nd of december, this month. in the letter that was sent to the judiciary committee today by the white house counsel, the one with the gigantic signature by mr. cipollone is unlike president nixon and president clinton, president trump is apparently not going to send defense counsel to represent him and make arguments on his behalf and do things like cross examine witnesses at the impeachment hearings. both president nixon and president clinton did that.