one of the things that we have learned in local reporting in arizona and in michigan if not in other states this week, is that verpgts from your committee have made contact with local officials in those states. arizona republic had a big long run downof all the people at government who have been contacted by convertings from your committee. also public officials in michigan have been approached and done interviews. can you tell us what the idea is behind that part of the investigation going be out and talking to individual individual officials in states that might have been pressured? well, we sent our investigators around the country to get information where we have leads that something is amiss. so, you know, mr. clark, mr. eastman are not the only individuals with information. we re checking with others. and, you know, we ve had more than 250 interviews so far.
concerns back in may about giuliani s involvement. that s months before president trump s july 25th phone call with the president of ukraine. then thursday, u.s. ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland, told convertings president trump directed him to go through giuliani for anything related to ukraine. he testified he was disappointed the president wouldn t commit to meet with the ukraine president until they saul all spoke to giuliani that was that was this beak. more testimony this we can process. bill taylor a top dplmt heed he is scheduled to testify and at the center of the text mentals where he asked are you now are we now saying that a security security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations there is all that. let s try for perspective in the midst of this. joining me now is global affairs analyst and staff year por the new yorker susan glaser. what do you think is the overall picture gnat information coming from the three witnesses this week pai
impacted his flying career and sources telling us at cnn that lubitz did, indeed pass his physical examination as recently as last summer. guard guard is jeff gardere is with me again, clip cal psychologist. explain psychosomatic illness and what types of drugs could be used to treat it. talking about psychosomatic illness, we re talking about an illness that when you evaluate the person medically you don t see particular signs of it. it is so subjective it s what the person is experiencing and it s based on the stretsz level that they may be having. so that could explain why he would pass this physical examination in 2014. exactly. he ll say i feel pain in my shoulder i feel body aches or headaches or stomach aches or even something we call a convertings disorder which is close to a psychosomatic illness, part of it not being able to see well. all of that possibly all of that comes from this