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And this is on point a new week brings preparations for a new stage in the House impeachment inquiry Congress is technically on recess but House investigators have a full lineup of depositions including maybe ousted former national security adviser John Bolton the whistleblower offers to answer written questions from House Republicans but remains anonymous much to the president's deep chagrin Plus the Democratic field for 2020 narrows casualties mount in Syria and popular protests continue around the world so this our on point top reporters guide us through another big week in the news a new can join us how did the House impeachment inquiry vote last week change your thinking on the proceeding that's so far do you think this week's depositions if any of them actually happen will clarify things are you ready for the house to open the door on public hearings were 818-042-3825 extension 5 that's 80423 talk you can also join us anytime on Twitter Facebook at on point radio or on our website on point Radio dot org as well Well joining us now from Washington is Darlene Superville White House correspondent for The Associated Press Starlee Welcome back to On Point Thanks for having me on also with us from Washington as well as with Landers Washington correspondent for Vice News with us good to have you great to be joining thanks and Nick Schifrin joins us from Arlington Virginia Nick is p.b.s. News Hour foreign affairs and defense correspondent Nick it's good to have you back as well thanks very much and a little later this hour we will be hearing from Democratic Congressman Roger Krishnamurthy of Illinois but Darlene let me just 1st start with you it looks like the White House. The strategy that they're putting forth is basically no cooperation no witnesses at all is that what we have set for us this week yes that would appear to be what is on tap for this week they are. Number of witnesses that are scheduled to appear this week starting today there are 2 officials from the national security national security council on tap for today also 2 from the Office of Management and Budget. Energy secretary Rick Perry is expected or was invited to appear later this week House Democrats also want to talk to John Bolton who is the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump none of those officials are expected to appear in fact Secretary Perry office said last week that he would not participate in this John Bolton's attorney has said that he will not appear voluntarily only under if subpoenaed if ordered to appear and for officials who are on tap today are not expected to appear and one of those officials is the n.s.c. Attorney who some of the officials who have already testified approached with their concerns about. The July 25th telephone conversation that President Trump had with the leader of Ukraine and the White House has already you know weeks ago laid out that they will not cooperate with this process deeming it unfair saying that the president does doesn't have any due process so on and so forth and that is what what what you will see again this week well Linders pointing out John Eisenberg That's the White House legal advisor she was talking about who Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vin is said to have testified that Eisenberg told him just to sort of underscore Darlene said not to talk about his concerns about that phone call he's almost certainly not going to to appear as someone I mean what are the implications of that and and the complete story walling that we see here from the White House right well completely breaks with precedent and I think that we keep seeing this over. Over in many ways with this White House but they are refusing to cooperate and this is not happened before in the past I mean even in Nixon and during the Clinton years during those impeachment proceedings there were tons of documents turned over and chiefs of staff who testified So yes this is. A complete stonewalling that this White House has taken but I will say that when you talk to Democrats on the Hill they feel like even if these people do not come forward this week this n.s.c. Lawyer Robert Blair some of these people who are defined subpoenas they still feel that their case is being made to the public there are these opening testimonies that have become public we saw that from Bill Taylor and also from Vinland as well and Democrats that I've been talking to on the Hill think you know even if these other White House officials and se officials refused to come testify their case is still being built and they're still gathering the evidence that they think they need to impeach the president well Nick Schifrin we see from House Republicans this continuing assertion or insistence that this is so far been a nontransparent process I mean House minority leader Kevin McCarthy just this morning was was on Twitter saying quote Democrats voted for an impeachment inquiry that they claimed would provide transparency in due process but they're right back at it behind closed doors in the base behind closed doors in the basement of the Capitol now I mean technically there are Republicans on these committees who can attend all of these depositions but what do you make of this continuing insistence by House Republicans that the process is not transparent Well I think they've found a couple of arguments that they feel fit and work well with their base and the president is largely supportive of that or behind some of those messaging you know it's. Started as well this is only secondhand information the problem is that. Women as as was mentioned before had had 1st hand accounts and they said well no pressure was applied on Ukraine but then they released a partial transcript and obviously the president did apply a little pressure on Ukraine then they said well it was the way but not for Biden and you know every step of the way they've they've created a message thrown against the wall and it's kind of fallen off until they hit this process argument and this is the one that has hit most consistently that this is behind closed doors now what stopped that argument of course is the vote to move toward public hearings and to release the transcript but here we are on Monday morning a few days after Democrats voted to go public with this effort and we still have closed door depositions going on Democrats say this is still part of the process there are quite a few people they still want to hear from not only the people we've mentioned already but also people close to Secretary of State Mike Pompei a counselor at the State Department and the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs or both scheduled for Wednesday but Republicans say hey look you're still doing these closed door depositions this isn't a real process we deserve to have this in public and of course you see the president leading that message in which they believe is working right now Democrats seem to be saying that open hearings could begin next week we'll have to see but let's just listen to what White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said when she was on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday talking about whether the White House will cooperate at all with the impeachment inquiry and here you hear Kellyanne Conway talking about whether the president will stop former national security adviser John Bolton from testifying Well Ambassador Bolton publicly and his lawyer said he's not sure he'll appear that has nothing to do with the president he's not sure but I'm asking you what is that President I'm hearing there I'm not sure the president talked to Ambassador Bolton that. As a White House we'll continue to exert executive privilege where we feel that it is necessary but also you're going to find that the House vote doesn't make a difference in terms of a flawed process somehow becoming open and transparent and they should have done this from the beginning Darlene help us understand is Kellyanne Conway just following what Nick was saying this is what they found to be perhaps a successful line of attack here on transparency or what you know what exactly she's saying I think it strikes me as a little bit of both right you had the transparency argument everything is going on behind closed doors and then you have lawmakers do you leaking in the view of the White House portions of the testimony that amplify their part of the story the president I think it was yesterday when he was returning from a weekend in New York City was asked the question about Bolton and whether he would try to keep him from testifying and his response was that that was up to John Bolton and his attorneys that of course remains to be seen because as Kelli and Conway said in the clip that you just played the White House is still very much interested in exerting executive privilege wherever they can and Bolton was obviously a very close advisor to the president and I could certainly see the president in the White House telling Mr Bolton ambassador Bolton don't go to the Hill. Lose your thoughts on that. Well I I think that if Bolton appears before Congress which by the way it sounds like he might his his lawyer has been kind of corny but said that he might appear if he has subpoenaed Well if it turns out that basically all of these witnesses have been subpoenaed the morning of I believe today Robert Blair was subpoenaed just this morning as well he was supposed to be one of the people who is supposed to appear today so if they do get Bolton and a chair Bolton is key to all of this right I mean we saw in the Bill Taylor testimony that Bolton's name is sort of littered throughout that and you know he was very close with President Trump and it seems the way that the White House is reacting to this that they are nervous and that the president is nervous about what Bolton may reveal to Congress and it could be beyond this Ukraine call remember that I mean there are so many calls that would have been on that he may reveal something to Congress that we don't even know about well Nick we've just got about a minute here before we have to take a break you just used a couple of days ago you spoke with Adam Schiff with Congressman Adam Schiff what insight did he give you about the next steps that the House might take. So Adam Schiff told me that he would try and release transcripts through the House Intelligence Committee chairs would try to release transcripts early this week and he has since said that other reporters and his aides have said the same thing so they're on the record having to release these transcripts and just to make a quick point about the transcripts so as we see them presumably not in a full release but presumably in trips and drabs Starting Over the next couple days is that both sides will cherry pick them Democrats will obviously point to the excerpts that say that the president put pressure on new a new president Ukraine Ms Lewinsky Republicans will cite examples where they feel like the president did nothing wrong and these transfers will be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pages and so we'll have to sit sift through them and that will take quite a while well Nick Schifrin Liz lenders and Darlene Superville stand by here for a 2nd we're talking about what to expect in yet another big week in the news and we want to hear from you or at 843-8055 that's 80423 talk we'll be right back this is on point. 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News Hour and now I'd like to welcome into the conversation Representative Roger Krishnamurthy he's a Democrat from Illinois and he's a member of the House Intelligence Committee as well joining us today from Washington Congressman welcome to on point Hi Meghna So 1st of all let's just pick up where Nick Schifrin left us off before the break you can see maybe you can provide us a more up to date answer when do you expect the House Intelligence Committee to release transcripts from depositions that you've already taken. Well I think that Chairman Schiff had told various folks in the media that he planned to do it this week so I expect that to happen as you know there are a lot of witnesses that actually came forward to our surprise defying White House orders not to cooperate and gave extensive testimony sometimes upwards of 1011 hours of testimony so I see I think that the staff will have to go through and redact you know for sensitive or. Other information that should not be publicly released but otherwise I expect maximum transparency as these transcripts very shortly do you feel and as the committee feel a sense of urgency around this because as you well know Republican members of the house in the ad ministry in the ministration as well have been consistently saying that they believe this whole process has not been transparent. I think that has been a really bogus argument I'll just tell you what's happened in these closed proceedings you know more than 40 Republicans have actually been able to participate they've been able to question witnesses for the same amount of time that Democrats have. And they've been able to question them out as to any topic that they want and they've been able to offer opening statements they've taken advantage of all those things so to say that that's an unfair is really unfounded but all that being said chairmanship wants to bring maximum transparency to these proceedings we took a vote that allows for the transcripts to be released and so that's what's going to happen this week you can't yet say if it's if you believe Tuesday Wednesday or Thursday not sure I think it's more of a logistical thing right now than anything else and then do you have any further information about when we might see the beginning of public hearings I don't have a date Meghna I think that Speaker Pelosi has made it clear that it's going to happen in short order again I think that it's a matter of logistics and the calendar and making sure that witnesses are available on certain days more than anything else but I just want to say the people that you know hopefully will appear for these public proceedings the same ones that we questioned in the skiff the underground. I guess bunker beneath the Capitol are you know members of the administration they are career public servants apolitical and I would say they're really to be commended because they came forward sticking their necks on the line their careers on the line coming out expense to themselves hiring their own attorneys