Base of the Republican Party and to me. So i believe that he was at with very few defections. That may change, but right now i least affected by those and believed those and believed they were think thats a correct negative . Assessment by the white house, believed that they were that theyve got the senate tied negative and was conveying them up in a way that will protect to the president. So was it problematic that he the president from actually being removed from office. Believed they were negative i think the two variables, views . Yes, the whole thing was ned, would, in my guess, drawing problematic. Ambassador taylor testified on my past sort of in republican that on july 2nd, you told politics, would be public ukrainians that they needed to, quote, cooperate on opinion, should you see attacks investigations, end quote. Youre now saying that you dont on colonel vindman inching this recall saying those words; is from 51 support to 53, 54, 55. That correct . I dont believe i said th
Joe biden, come on over to ukraine its never going to happen spewing all they had to do apparently was announce an investigation. Okay, that is it for us. They hearing is set to resume shortly, but now we have special report up next. Spewing that evening, welcome to washington. I am bret baier. Continuing coverage of the impeachment hearings day 3, nine hours on capitol hill as you look alive at the chairman adam schiff getting ready to gavel into the next round of questions this from the lawmakers themselves, while we wait, we will bring in our panel here. Byron york, chief Political Correspondent of the national and josh holmes, former top advisor to mitch mcconnell, now president of the Cavalry Consultants as you look there at tom morrison, tim morris and heading back in for testimony, and kurt volker right behind him. Quickly down the row, your thoughts on today so far . Today is the day that we
found out there was a difference of opinion about this trumpzelensky call, some officia
Does. But his aides and his campaign, the white house, they have been sending out very negative messages about Lieutenant Colonel vindman. They tried to use something morrison said behind closed doors when he said there were people that questioned vindmans judgment at nsc, specifically fiona hill that well hear from thursday. I his Opening Statement, i think he realized how much play that has got. He said he wasnt here to criticize his colleagues. Saw vindman prepared to address it as he was there to testify earlier. He brought a Performance Review from fiona hill, the official, that morrison had the conversation with, where it praised him multiple times and his performance in the job. You see tim morrison and kurt volker, beginning to walk back in. Theyll sit down and the hearing will resume. The next round will be the five minute sessions where all of the members, democrats and
republicans, they have five minutes to ask questions. It will start with the chairman, adam schiff, and dev
why didn t that happen? sir, i can t speak to that. i would generally agree that ambassadors work for secretary of state and the president. do you have, you don t have any idea, you worked for him, you don t have any idea why john bolton would characterize what the ambassador was doing as a drug deal, but not rein him in? ambassadors don t work for the national security adviser. but john bolton is national security adviser, presumably spends time with the secretary of state. i am puzzled that everybody characterizes this as the gordon problem, inappropriate, and the secretary of state does nothing. sir, i m sorry, was there a question? you don t have any insight into that? no, sir. ambassador volker, you testified you were troubled once you read the record of the president s july 25th call. you testified, quote, that asking the president of ukraine to work together with the attorney general to look into this, you can see as it happened, this becomes explosive in domesti
why did that not happen? sir, i cannot speak to that, but it would generally agree that ambassadors work for the secretary of state in the president. do you have, you don t have any idea, you work for them. you don t have any idea why he would characterize what the ambassador was doing as a drug deal? but not raining men? ambassadors don t work for the national security advisor. but john bolton is the national security advisor. i m just puzzled that everybody in the room is characterizing this as though gordon problem, or the drug deal, and the secretary of state does nothing. sir, i m sorry, was there a question? you don t have any insight? no, sir. you testified that you were troubled once you read the july 25th call, you testified that asking the president of the ukraine would work together with the attorney general to work on this, you can see that it has happen, this becomes explosive and our politics and in your new testimony, you