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it is 12:00 in new york. we re following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc senior adviser fiona hill and current u.s. diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the trump administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a smear campaign against ukraine ambassador marie yovanovitch who was apparently standing in the way. the conduct of both of today s witness witnesses, they believed lives could be jeopardized in ukraine. here is some of the dramatic testimony of fiona hill and david holmes. the barrage of allegations directed against ambassador yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything i have seen in my professional career. i heard ambassador sondland say to the president, yes, he was in ukraine, and wen ....
A step back from what you were talking about earlier particularly with jon meacham. what fiona hill said to us as a nation is, we re in trouble. it reflected very much bob mueller s closing statement, what we heard from an impassioned elijah cummings, that we re a nation whose divisions have been exploited by an adverse foreign nation state. the reason that context is important is, first, what are we going to do about it, and secondly, it paints the republican line of questioning as not just maddening but sickening in many ways, heartbreaking, that in fact perhaps russia has achieved what it was striking out to achieve, that we have one of the two major parties who is willing to engage in overlooking the truth, overlooking facts. and i think ultimately the party, and i know maya and i have talked about this in the past, you could get to the point where you say the conduct was wrong but not impeachable. ....