And 15 minutes long. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this committee will come to rnder. Good morning, everyone. This is the first of a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the impeachment inquiry, without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at the committee of any time there is a quorum present. Here is how the committee will proceed for the hearing. I will make an Opening Statement in the Ranking Member will have opportunity to make a statement. We will go to witness statements and then to questions. For audience members, we welcome you and we respect your interest in being here. In turn we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention to proceed without disruption. Man making a polymer entry inquiry. This is our first hearing under the new set of rules, House Resolution 660 gives you the discretion to allow yourself in the Ranking Member
Youre the you are the 2 of the key officials with responsibility for ukrainian policy. I mean if the president of states is going to have a call with the leader of ukraine why what why wouldnt you ordinarily be involved with preparation sir we work for the department of state in an embassy overseas and in preparation for a president ial phone call that responsibility lies with and staff of the National Security council normally if there is enough sufficient time National Security staff can solicit information usually from the state department we can draw in the embassy but thats only Background Information and my understanding having never worked at the National Security council is that National Security staff write a memo to the president and none of us see that outside of the National Security staff ok so the the the charge a or the the u. S. Ambassador to the country wouldnt ordinarily be on a call with a foreign leader. Thats correct would not. And did colonel the men or anyone of
Messaging and the governments plan is now very tightly controlled its do or die were leaving at the end of october deal or no deal the people on the other side of the argument most of these are the m. P. s do not have that same level of discipline some of them want no breaks or together some of them want a referendum and some of them want a breaks it but they just want to avoid no deal so theyre starting point is completely different i think number 10 and the government have seen this and thought i actually this is there already so divided this is a way to completely pull the rug from underneath their feet and just to carry on with the plan that we want and so paranoid having that kind of parliamentary scrutiny. That will certainly cause issues for them and for their plans came out saying thank you so much for joining us from london we appreciate that. Yemen has recognized government has mostly reclaim control of the southern port city of a new including the airport and the president i
Towards friday we are looking at a landfall here in vietnam by the time it makes its way towards friday evening the storm is going to be dropping down to probably a tropical depression status there well here across india where you have been watching this one area of clouds and rain pushing through very heavy rain has been a problem across much of the central area as well as into the west and that will also affect parts of pakistan as we go towards thursday kharaj is going to be seeing some rain not a High Temperature maybe 29 degrees as your expected high new delhi though is out of the rain here on thursday but by the time we get to friday more sun there 35 degrees in the of high expected high but down towards the south it is going to be sri lanka with more rain in the forecast at 27. 00 degrees kolkata 32. 00 for you and here across the gulf we are looking at temperatures still very humid across much of the area particularly in the morning and the overnight hours doha is expected to b
A ripple if shock around the territory targeting the very institution that is supposed to provide internal security and right here in the heart of gaza city. The attacks are widely believed here to be the work of salafi groups with links to eisele in 2016 hamas agreed to help egypt in its fight against eisel fighters in the Sinai Peninsula restricting their Movement Across the egypt gaza border they believe that as we see further security coordination and cooperation between have asked Security Services and Egyptian Security apparatuses it seems to me that we see further tension between how the us and i so further bloodshed between have. As we so saw it last night i dont think this is going to be the last incident this month has already seen increased instability with rockets fired into israel attempts by armed men to breach the border fence israeli airstrikes and artillery fire targeting guards are now a source of in turn. Instability has been made fatally clear how mass is insisting