Well. Hes a war hero hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured. If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. Maybe she wasnt allowed to have anything to say. You tell me, but plenty of people have written that. This was a mission that was started before i got here. This was something that was, you know, just they wanted to do, and they lost ryan. I learned a lot about generals. I met some good ones, and i saw some bad ones, some that didnt have what it takes. I mean, it really is incredible that, again, hes questioned war heroes all the time. Hes attacked the greatest generals of this generation. He said that mattis did little to nothing for him. His spokesperson this past week was talking about how general john kelly a man who dedicated h his life was a great general, one of the best generals, who lost his son in combat. Couldnt understand the genius of donald trump. He talks like a tyrant when he talks about how when i took over the military, that is actually hes more like as john meacham reminded me yesterday, more like king louis the xiv. Well get into all that, for shawn duffy, for Laura Ingraham, for all these people who wanted to throw mud all over an American Hero over someone who has given literally his life, and by the way, whose three children are serving. This is incredible what played out over the past 48 hours, and it has blown back in their face, mud on their faces looking bad this morning and not serving the president well, which ask Mick Mulvaney this morning how thats going for him. Wheres mick . Trying to trump for trump. Good morning. Hold on a second. Where is mick . Where is mick . He didnt know anything about this, which, again proves you debase yourself. You sacrifice everything you believe in. Mulvaney was supposedly a deficit hawk, but you just completely debase yourself politically and then you get nothing in return. Youre left in South Carolina playing golf or whatever mulvaney was doing, and didnt know anything about it. Yeah. I wanted maybe hell end up in orange ruffles and green ruffles in dancing with the stars a couple of years from now. I wanted to talk about something your father said. Its very relevant to the Lieutenant Colonel. We were interviewing him one time, and he said that when he first walked into the white house he understood how lucky he was as a polish immigrant, and he said as he walked into the white house he said to himself im going to dedicate every moment of my life, the rest of my life will be to work, to defend and give everything i can to this country to pay back to this country what its given to me. And thats what Lieutenant Colonel vindman has done. He sacrificed in combat. His children are now in uniform. I wonder all those people who were talking the Lieutenant Colonel if theyve served in uniform. I wonder if shawn duffy east served in uniform. I know that vindman and his children have. Again, i think Laura Ingraham actually did a great disservice for the president of the United States because everybody stopped talking about el baghdadi and started talking about how heinous it was what she and others i didnt hear what duffy was on mtv. I didnt hear what the guy who was involved in the epstein case said. They were all, though, trashing all trashing vindman, and all it did was it completely redirected the talk from al baghdadi to this story. So sometimes strufwhen youre t to help the president by saying something outrageous, weve gotten to the point in the process where that may have worked in 2016 and 2017. It doesnt work anymore. Dont forget the story of america. A lot of us are children of immigrants or immigrants. Its a really good story. Albert einstein came from germany, helped us win the war. Good morning. Good story. This american story, Ronald Reagan talked about it in his farewell address to the country. He said we become a stronger country with waves and waves of immigrants coming in, well, Lieutenant Colonel vindman certainly showed that. We salute you Lieutenant Colonel vindman, and we certainly salute your children who are serving proudly in uniform. Welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday october 30th, along with joe, willie and me we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, msnbc contributor clint watts, Heidi Przybyla. Were going to get to vindman in a second. There is a lot of news. We would be remiss, willie geist if we didnt talk about one of the great world series games of our time, game six. One of the great series of our time, willie. The home team has yet to win this game, and the first time in the history of the series, First Time Since 1903. Yeah, the first time, in fact, in the history of the four major sports in a sevengame series hockey, basketball, that this has happened that the road team has won every game. Incredible game last night,. Stephen strasburg was great after the first inning, took the game into the 9th inning. There was some controversy in this game. The nationals were soto carries the bat to 1st base just like bregman. Bregman actually apologized after the game is and said he wished he hadnt done that maybe because of what soto did next. The controversy came with them up 32. Trey turner hits a little nubber, beats it out to 1st base. He goes to second. The runner ahead of him goes to third. It looks like the nats have second and third and a chance to go up big. The ump inexplicably calls runner interference, big delay, big review, trey turner is called out, but then as nats fans are dreading the worst, Anthony Rendon hits a home run. After that inning the nationals manager Dave Martinez going nuts gets run out of the game. While the crowd is singing take me out to the ball game. And then rendon hits another double 72 the nationals win. So now this is the scenario we talked about yesterday, which is if they could beat verlander in game six, if strasburg could have the game a lot of people thought he could have and he did, now you get to a game seven with one of the best pitchers of this generation, max scherzer starting for the nationals. They have a great shot as the underdog to win the world series. Oh, my goodness. Momentum in baseball lasts as long as your next nights pitcher, and strausburg, again, he has a slow start this is not the first time he had a slow start, but man, he went into the 9th inning, what an incredible job he did. And also, lets talk about the controversy last nagight. I think that may have been the worst call in any world series since remember the 85 world series, the cardinals royals. He was in the line right there. In the line. Well, heres the deal on that, joe. Its a judgment call from the umpire. They have the exact same play occur in game four of last years world series involving Cody Bellinger of the dodgers, he was the runner, same exact play and he was called safe, but all in all baseball and the concerned needed that game. We need this world series given Everything Else that were going to talk about today, baseball is such a relief. Thank god for baseball, and the idea of Stephen Strasburg performing the way he did last night, he is clearly the teams mvp no matter what happens tonight because without Stephen Strasburg last night theres no tonight. This is the last baseball game of the year for us mika, so we wont be talking about this until like pitchers and catchers report. I kind of like the nationals, i went to that game. What an exciting, great team. What a great story. Verlander one of the greatest pitchers of our generation, he just looks gassed. Hes having trouble in the fall. Chris sale is a great pitcher through like july the 3rd. Verlander is starting to look gassed now, and its just its tough, but it happens. Its a hell of a long season. Yeah, hes 06 in world series games. Like scherzer one of the greatest pitchers of any generation, but he doesnt get it done in the world series. I think they hoped hed take the ball last night and win the game. The nationals have gotten through cole, theyve gotten through verlander and now theyre to zack grin key. A great pitcher in his own right. Everything plays. This is one of the great series. Jack and i went up to see a few games. I know, good memory. This past weekend, and just great people the nationals, the whole organization. Its another late night ahead of us. Ive got to say too, and well leave after this, leave baseball after this, but you know, mike and willie, this astros team, theyre just i cant remember a team any better than this. Every one of those players, and yes, bregman carries the bat to 1st base and yeah, sometimes he seems like out there. What a great player, though. He throws himself all in it. Altuve has such a wonderful time, springer, like theyre great top to bottom. Its an incredible Houston Astros team. It is an incredible team. Its obviously the best team in baseball so far. Might not be at the end of the evening this evening, but the nationals as well, i mean, trey turn turner, their shortstop. Anthony rendon is going to be a free agent. Hes going to make hundreds of millions of dollars. If you watch this guy perform on a daytoday inning by inning basis, he absolutely shows no emotion whatsoever, no matter the circumstances, and guess what he does despite the look of lack of emotion, he performs as youre about to see right here, here it comes, Anthony Rendon moments after the controversial call at 1st base, boom, see ya later. And that was set up, joe, that play at 1st, that awful call at 1st was set up to be a black mark, maybe part of the history of the washington nationals, and he just ended the conversation with that swing and was like dont worry about this. I got it, guys. Hometown kid says hold my beer, and walks up to the plate. To the impeachment probe now and the parts of the phone call at the center of the inquiry that the white house apparently omitted from the memo. Remember the memo that they released that basically kind of explained how it all worked . The transcript. The revelations come from Lieutenant Colonel alexander vindman. The top ukraine expert on the National Security council who testified for more than ten hours yesterday. According to a lawmaker who was present for his testimony and another source familiar with it vindman told investigators that he tried to edit the white houses reconstructed transcript to reflect President Trumps mention of possible recordings of joe biden discussing ukraine corruption, and ukrainian president zelensky specific mention of the gas company burisma, which hired bidens son hunter. President trumps mention of a biden recording appears to be a reference to the widely circulated video of the former Vice President speaking at an event for the council on foreign relations. According to the New York Times, vindman testified that some of his edits made it into the reconstructed transcript, but not the ones about the tape and zelenskys burisma comment. He did not speculate as to why the mentions of joe bidenen a a burisma remained omitted. So this revelation contradicts the president s repeated claims that the white house released an exact transcript of the phone call. Here he is as recently as monday. They tried to take that conversation and make it into a big scan ddal. The problem was we had it transcribed. It was an exact transcription of the conversation. The whistleblower reported a totally different conversation than i had. I released the transcript of my conversation, an exact transcript. I thought that i would finish off the first term without the threat of people making false claims, but this one turned out to be incredible all because they didnt know that i had a transcript done by very, very talented people word for word, comma for comma, done by people that do it for a living. We had an exact transcript. Willie, the lying, the lying is so its breathtaking. Astronomical. I mean, the actual document of that, quote, exact transcript released by the white house says on page 1, caution, a memorandum of a telephone conversation is not a verbatim transcript of a discussion. The text records the notes assigned to listen and memorial a conversation in written form as the conversation takes place, not a transcript. So the president says exact transcript, word for word transcript, comma for comma, hes lying. We knew he was lying from day one, just like we knew he was lying about baghdadi that the dog when i say peispered to him baghdadi had whimpered and cried. And the story about china, china called last night. Which of like the 2 billion called . And now this exact transcript. So we knew he was lying from the beginning but now we find out that they would not put in the most damaging parts of that transcript and the Lieutenant Colonel tried to get them to do it, and they refused. Yeah, we always knew this wasnt an exact transcript. How did we know . Because of what you just showed, it was written on the top of the document this was not an exact triple transcript. No matter how many times the president sauce it doesn president says it it doesnt become true. You see a bunch of ellipse in that summary that the white house put out of the phone call. We wondered what was in those blanks and now you have mentions of joe biden, mention by president zelensky of burisma. This testimony, again, from colonel vindman, we had it yesterday morning with the Opening Statement. Now very specific testimony confirming that the white house tinkered with the document. It also explains why they had it locked up and hidden the full transcript in that classified server usually reserved for top secret material. Its remarkable because every day we learn of one more person that heard about this phone call, that knew about this phone call that when they come forward or tried to do something inside the what houite house, this col tried to bring it up to the chain of command. He tried to correct that transcript that we see is missing these key elements of information. When they get called to testify, colonel vindman is going to say the truth, right . Hes been serving this country for basically two decades. He knows what this policy is that were supposed to be pushing in ukraine. Then when you watch both the republicans and congressmen, when you watch the president immediately tear down this individuals credibility, it just sticks out like a sore thumb that there is something going on that the white house wants to hide. And mike, go ahead. I was just going to say the president s attack was that colonel vindman is a quote, never trumper. Theres no evidence for that. It almost goes without saying theres no evidence for that. I thought it was interesting we asked yesterday morning would Congressional Republicans fall in line with this line of attack on colonel vindman that he was somehow a double agent because he speaks ukrainian. I didnt see a lot of republicans going there. They went other places. They tried to distract. It was very interesting that it was almost limited to the tv talkers who had no stakes in it except to protect donald trump on television. When confronted with this, i didnt see a lot of Congressional Republicans willing to go against colonel vindman. In fact, they defended him. I also want to say a word about Something Else thats been going on over the course of the last several hours ask last night, which i think is also shameful, and that is questioning the patriotism, questioning the dedication to country of people like mr. Vindman, Lieutenant Colonel vindman who will be coming today and others who have testified. I think that we need to show that we are better than that as a nation. Their patriotism, their love of country, were talking about decorated veterans who have served this nation, who have put their lives on the line, and it is shameful to question their patriotism, their love of this nation, and we should not be involved in that process. I thank him for his service. I think his commitment to this country, but he is wrong in this. Im not going to question the patriotism of any of the people who are coming forward. Its absurd, disgusting and way off the mark. This is a decorated american soldier, and he should be given the respect that his service to our country demands. So mike barnicle, you have liz cheney talking about how shameful this was yesterday morning. Mitt romney said it was disgusting, and i thought it was very interesting what Mitch Mcconnell said and it was very important what Mitch Mcconnell said. He didnt just defend Lieutenant Colonel vindman. He said im not going to question the patriotism of any of these people coming forward. Here you had, again, donald trump and republicans trying for some time to do great violence to the Whistleblower Statutes that are supposed to keep our government, you know, talk about keeping it transparent and keeping corruption out of it, and mitch talked about how we shouldnt question the patriotism of any of these people coming forward. I thought that was very significant. Just as a side note, and mika would agree with me here, ive been unbelievably harsh. He had one of the more moving remembrances of Elijah Cummings in the capitol. Think about the message. We always talk about the message that donald trump sends across the world, the bad message. Think about the message this is sending to our allies across the world. If reminds me of a guy who came up to me several years ago and he said you americans, you americans get it wrong all the time. He said but in the end, but in the end its like a hollywood movie. You somehow right the ship and end up where youre supposed to be. Think about the message that these