Have the right to speak, i have freedom of speech just like other people do. They have taken away the republican rights and i watched today as certain very talented people wanted to ask questions and they werent able to ask questions. Republicans. They werent able to ask questions, it is a very sad thing. Neil the president says he has the right to speak as well. As a president ial tweet turned up the heat at todays impeachment hearing. What a day my friends welcome everyone i am milk a video and it is very clear today that the president is no fan of the former u. S. Ambassador to the ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. The president tweeting everywhere everywhere she went turned bad. In real time the ambassador firing back calling that tweet intimidating. Legally, how damaging is that . We are all over it with john roberts at the white house with more of the tweet is creating this star. And if todays testimony is actually going anyway. We begin with john at the white house. I dont know how much political damage that tweet is going to do but i think there was a lot of damage or at the white house to a collective group of four heads as people went like this is the president tweeted that out right in the middle of the hearing because if anything what it did was it really took the republicans off of the message that they were trying to put out there and took this hearing in an entirely different direction than it had been before. Thats put up the tweet for you so you can follow along with the president said. Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started out in somalia, how tobacco . Fast forward to ukraine with the new ukrainian president spoke unfavorably about her and my second phone call with him. It is a u. S. President s absolute right to appoint ambassadors. It is absolutely a u. S. President s righ right to appoit ambassadors. He can make political appointments come he can pick people who are already in the Foreign Services and put them in there. It is the president s prerogative and discretion to do it but to send out that tweet in the middle of the hearing gave adam schiff the Intelligence Committee chairman a perfect opportunity to say maybe we should consider an article of impeachment here on witness intimidation. Listen to what schiff said. This is a part of a pattern to intimidate witnesses and it is also a part of a pattern to obstruct the investigation. It was also part of the pattern to obstruct justice. We need to view the president s actions today as part of a broader and incriminating pattern of conduct. Speak of the two keywords are intimidation and obstruction. Remember its not just the potential of a quid pro quo in that call with ukraine which doesnt seem to exist according to the transcript of the call but there may be some underlying evidence to Something Else going on. There could be other articles of impeachment as well. Witness intimidation or tampering, obstruction, and dont forget schiffs talk to an awful lot about obstruction and the fact the white house will not send certain people up to capitol hill to give depositions before the house committees. Stephanie grisham the press secretary with the president s back saying the tweet was not witness intimidation, it was simply the president s opinion which he is entitled to. This is not a trial, it is a partisan political process. To put more accurately, a totally illegitimate trade stacked against the president. In the past hour you saw some of the republican members of the Committee Point to the july 25th phone call in which the ukrainian president , volodymyr zelensky, did talk about Marie Yovanovitch in not too flattering terms saying it was great that you come of the president , were the first one that told me she was about ambassador because i agree with you 100 . Her attitude towards me was far from the best and she admired the previous president that was boris janco and she was on his side. She would not accept me as a new president well enough. Next week that marquis witness will be Gordon Sondland. Hes the one who talked of the president about all of this. You create any in foreign minister last night at a statement which he said he never heard from Gordon Sondland that there was any investigation in u. S. Aid to ukraine. Southend may be asked about that. He said that and that her and him and there was impeachment. However your world with cavuto deduct ukrainian officials on september 1st to say he believed that that aid was being held up because of the investigation. Still a long way to go here and allowed to clear up. Neil put stocks hit a record . Go 401 k . It is incredible that the markets way of saying we dont think this is going to be unnerving. Maybe they could be wrong but it is interesting. Speak of the market can find a lot of reasons to go down as well. Neil absolutely. Let me do the market stuff younger man. Great job as always. John roberts at the white house. Meanwhile republicans are trying to paint the ambassador is a disgruntled Government Official with no direct knowledge of the president. The controversial second call with the ukrainian president allison hill was more on that. Alison. Democrats say that yovanovitch is the beginning of the story, not the end of it. They say that the president and people like Rudy Giuliani wanted to get her out of the way not because she was bad at her job or did anything wrong but because she was a block to their efforts to get the political investigations that President Trump wanted. Yovanovitch talked a lot about her decades of service or efforts to stop corruption in ukraine and that you talked about the efforts of people tied to the president , people like Rudy Giuliani, to hurt her reputation. I returned to the you up United States the pd sullivan said there had been a Concerted Campaign against me. The president no longer wished me to serve as ambassador to ukraine and that in fact the president had been pushing for my removal since the prior summer. As mr. Sullivan recently recounted during his Senate Confirmation hearing, neither he nor anyone else ever explained or sought to justify the president s concerns me nor did anybody in the department justify my early departure by suggesting i had done something wrong. I appreciate that mr. Sullivan publicly affirmed in his hearing that i served capably and admirably. Republicans say there is no there, the president s can end point or lead investors go as he sees fit. You have a new administration in ukraine that didnt have the same confidence in this ambassador and so it is appropriate with all the Foreign Service diplomats that we have to put someone in with a new regime in the ukraine that can actually work on the president s behalf or on the behalf of the American People. I thought we were in the public stage of the socalled impeachment inquiry but he had it in just a few minutes were going back to the bunker in the basement of the capital for another deposition that the American People wont get to s see. I am two floors above the basement room they were referring to her right now, a man by the name of david holmes is currently inside. He arrived here around 3 00 this afternoon. He is the Embassy Staffer in kiev who, according to a bassett or taylor, told him that he overheard the ambassador to the e. U. And President Trump on the phone and the yard President Trump asking the ambassador to the e. U. About the investigation. That deposition is closeddoor testimony is happening right now. It was at the start it 3 00 p. M. But it started a little bit later. Neil all right allison thank you very much. We are going to have another long day. Iin the meantime democrats claimed the president s tweet amount to real intimidation and abuse of power. An article of impeachment . For a former u. S. Attorney andrew mccarthy, what do you think what mike neil i have always been of a mind that this is an impeachment inquiry or its masquerading as an impeachment inquiry commits actually the 2020 campaign and i view it more that way. The president is not going to be impeached and removed so the issue to me is not are they making much Progress Making their impeachment case because i think if thats what youre looking at today was not a good day for the advancement of this bribery case which i think has a lot of problems. If what youre trying to ferment here is an eight factor politically speaking i think they probably did made progress as far as that is concerned. The tweet is part of that. I think to say the tweet is an Impeachable Offense is overwrought. If its to say the tweet was really in an appropriate thing to do and actually turned out to be damaging in that it gave the democrats their best moments of the day, i think thats a fair observation. Neil it just seems stupid. Why would he do that question might let the whole process go on but obviously the people around them are going to say you just sort of fed the beast here. The thing is neil when you are trying to prepare for something that is either a trial or Something Like a trial in this adversarial proceeding you want to make sure that the people who are conducting it, especially in the public setting that so many people are watching, that they have a plan and that they are able to implement a plan. If someone is dropping bombs from the sidelines that no one can empress dissipate that causes a big ruckus as far as the plan is concerned. It seems to me that the president of the toys today. At the beginning of the day he released the transcript of the first conversation with zelensky and to my mind that didnt do much, i guess you can look at it and say there was no intimidation there, but on the other hand it gave adam schiff the opportunity to talk about all of the things that they have asked for that the administration hasnt turned over so to me that was in unforced error because he was able to marshal what he calls evidence of obstruction and theyre talking about having an obstruction article of impeachment and then to drop the tweet in the middle and give schiff the chance to read it to this witness who was very impressive come who was praised by both sides, and to have her react to it in a kind of a dignified outrage. I think it was a bad moment politically for the president. It doesnt mean he will be impeached and removed, thats not going to happen, but if you think like i think that what this has always been about from day one is rendering get donald trump unelectable when they get to the stretch run of the 2020 election, or the campaign they advanced the ball today. Neil and they can see it in real time and make it an issue where it need not have been won if he stayed quiet. He had a lot of other good things like recordsetting markets to talk about. Thank you my friend. Andy mccarthy, former u. S. Attorney following all of that. This tweet by the president , didnt just make it harder for many republicans to defend him, as you will see. Ou can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one. For small prices, you can build big dreams, spend less, get way more. Shop everything home at wayfair. Com mornings were made for Better Things than Rheumatoid Arthritis or Psoriatic Arthritis. 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Ambassador to ukraine while she was still testifying. Did the president just make the democrats case for them . Brad, congressman, what do you think . I think obviously in some ways it stole the show but i have to say this, it has to be somewhat frustrating through this process, as it is for us, where we have the chairman who shuts us down when we are asking questions when we try to go through procedure. We are in a situation where we cant use the previous testimonies in these open hearings because adam schiff still has them under lock and key. Heres a president who is being impeached if you will and he has no way to defend himself. That has to be frustrating. Im not saying i would tweet necessarily, but at the same time i would imagine that that is pretty frustrating. I want to be there to talk about Impeachable Offenses and one of the things we came away with today is here we have someone who was part of the interagency, who supported legal aid and this is what this is all about. The aide i thought was what is in question in this impeachment. She was for the legal aid under previous and constriction in this administration. Congress was for the legal aid under the Previous Administration and this administration. Guess what . The previous president completely denied congress and the interagency and yet we have another president who actually delivered the age and now he is being impeached. To me that does make sense. There was another telling moment again today. Chris stewart asked is there a crime . And she said no. Neil let me ask you if you dont mind going back to the tweet because i things were going fine until the president tweeted. Leaving aside how it looks to comment on the witness on the stand and whether that could be witness intimidation as democrats charge, that might be a bit of an overreach, but it was unforced error when things were going pretty much the president s way. At least thus far reading from polls that seem to still be going his way. The markets that are certainly going his way. He didnt need to do that. Speak of the markets are going his way and i guess maybe impeachment is a good thing for the country . Wouldnt that be strange . I dont know. At the same time i dont like we got the full tweet. I havent even seen the full tweet but i understand he had a lot more to say in it. I dont think its fair as we have seen throughout this whole process neil what would you tell me congressman if other witnesses appear, should he reserve commenting on them . Some interpret that as kind of witness pressure, witness tampering. That might be a bit of a stretch but thats the perception and it feeds his enemy, doesnt that . I think people are going to say that, they also brought up a point today where they called it witness intimidation, but the only reason that the witness knew anything about what the president may have said was because adam schiff told them. They presented it as a way to intimidate her. We could go back and forth on this. Again i want to go back, what are you charging him with . If it is withholding the aide, lets talk about that. Neil what if it is withholding the eight . You thought even it if it went to that level, that in itself wouldnt be in Impeachable Offense, right . Know it would not. The president would make the case if he was allowed i believe the president would make the case that we were vetting this new government and i dont want to take american taxpayer dollars and divvied them out around the world with no idea where it is going and i want to make sure its going to the causes that we are supporting that help the United States of america and our national security. Thats the argument that president would make if he was able to make it. Neil congressman thank you for taking the time. Its always good catching up. How long does this process go . They are still getting witnesses ready. Theres one big question behind closed doors as we speak right now. 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