i have to ask if on the committee it felt like too much as well? i tell you what, it was a long day today, but you know when you let s talk about lieutenant colonel vind man s statement this morning when he said to his dad, you know, i ll be okay basically for telling the truth. rachel. it was just a remind beer of what we re all really fighting for and working so hard for. and that s our democracy. that s the american dream. that is the safety and security of our nation. we have some powerful testimony today starting with lieutenant colonel vindman and lieutenant williams. two career service officers who have served in republican and democratic administrations who simply came in today to tell the truth and said that the call that the president made on the 25th of july, that what the
we re going to get to that draft statement which was in august. this is july 19th, before the july 25th call. do you remember whether there was abe need from any of the whe house officials or other national security officials for president zelensky to provide some assurance of what he would say to president trump before a phone call, not the meeting, but a phone call was scheduled? there was initially apparently a condition. butnt that condition was obviouy dropped, because the phone call took place and there was no such statement made.as the phone call took place, as you said, on the 25th of july. of when you say there was no such statement that took place, what do you mean? the ukrainians never made their public statement prior to the phone callta on the 25th ju. but i m not talking about a public statement. i m asking whether president zelensky needed to relay to you
today starting with lieutenant colonel vindman and ms. williams. and both two career service officers who have served in republican and democratic administrations who simply came in today to tell the truth and said that the call that the president made on the 25th of july, that what the president said was improper and inappropriate. in terms of afternoon testimony that we heard today, ambassador volker spent a lot time in his opening statement and a long time discussing it with various questioners today how his testimony has essentially evolved, how he has wanted to revise his explanations about various things that he saw or witnessed or how he turned them. i think there had been a lot of anticipation today about ambassador volker and whether or not he was essentially going to be in trouble for having described things differently in his closed door deposition a few
it was. i have to ask you if on the committee it felt like too much as well? i ll tell you what, it was a long day today. but you know, when you let s talk about lieutenant colonel vindman s statement this morning when he said to his dad, you know, i ll be okay basically for telling the truth. and rachel, it was just a reminder of what we re all really fighting for and working so hard for. and that s our democracy. that s the american dream. that is the safety and security of our nation. we had some powerful testimony today starting with lieutenant colonel vindman and ms. williams. and both two career service officers who have served in republican and democratic administrations who simply came in today to tell the truth and said that the call that the president made on the 25th of july, that what the president
committee is still focusing on the coal from trump to the president s alinsky is this cold going to be the smoking gun in this impeachment process. hi anthony well it certainly looks like it because of course you know a lot of the session today has been basically centered around this july 25th phone call between president trump and the ukrainian president. because of course we re hearing from 2 witness who actually 2 witnesses who actually listened in to that call you know as we ve seen in the report there you know lieutenant colonel alexander vin you know he s a decorated iraq war veteran he was born in ukraine he moved to the united states as a as a young child sort of the american dream someone who can be trusted he was listening into that call as i said on the 25th of july and he said that he was concerned by trump s demands and he said it was inappropriate and also weren t you re going to