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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 vindman s judgment at nsc, specifically fiona hill that we ll hear from thursday. i his opening statement, i think he realized how much play that has got. he said he wasn t 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. they ll 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, ada ....
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 that s a correct negative? assessment by the white house, believed that they were that they ve 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. you re now saying that you don t on colonel vindman inching this recall saying those words; is from 51% support to 53, 54, 55. that correct? i ....
card witness. has already revised his initial testimony in the president s dealings with ukraine. sondland has arrived and will be before the committee in a moment. late yesterday we had a hearing that lasted deep into the night. we ll see how far we go today. welcome back to continuing coverage on the fox news channel. i m bill hemmer. good morning, bill. i m sandra smith. lawmakers are expected to double down on a phone call with the president. team fox coverage back with us now. chris wallace, bret baier, martha maccallum and bret baier. we ll be with you guys throughout the entire day. ken, we have an oping statement from gordon sondland. there are a lot of skipped areas in 23 pages. opening statement will last at least 10 minutes. from what you ve been able to glean off of this, in a quick speed read what do you see as critical for sondland? right. it looks as if there may be a bombshell or two in this. that s what we re looking for. let s see what he says. he could ....
return for the 2016 dnc server and burisma investigation. when you heard burisma, you didn t see it as code for biden, the bidens? i did not. when did you know that. your testimony saying that burisma included the biden s when the readout came out. my testimony wasn t specific with regards to the date. september? i don t recall the date. if i told you that the legal definition of bribery was an event of offering, giving, soliciting or receiving of any item of value and the means of influencing an action of an individual holding a public or legal duty. do you believe that not only was it quid pro quo but it was bribery. not a lawyer and i m not going to characterize what something was or wasn t legally. you also said in your opening statement that secretary perry and yourself, as well as ambassador volker worked with giuliani on the ukraine matter, and express direction of the president. is that right? you also go on to say that we did not want to work with gi ....
phoebe with ambassador taylor, was he assesssatisfied that thie was now behindti him? i don t really know, because when i responded, get ahold of the secretary, and he said i agree. i never knew i whether he reach out to the secretaryhe or not. that was sort of the end at one point in the text you said let s get on the phone, you said you re an individual that doesn t like to walk through these issues on texts when you can talk about it on the 1 telephone, correct? i say that to everybody when something becomes more substantive than a few lines of text, i say, let s talk. did you say that to ambassador taylor? i don t recall. i don t recall whether we spoke after that or whether he called the secretary. basically, mr. castor, wanted to get the notion across that i ve gone as far as i can go with this, you need to you re the ambassador, you need to pick up the ball and run with it at this point. okay. just getting back to the irregular channel, did anyone else expre ....