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
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
rejected the theory that vice president biden would have been influence by money paid to his son. i have known vice president bidon for 24 years. he is an honorable man. i ohohold him in the highest regard. at no point was i republicans kept insisting that hold up in the funding for ukraine was perfectly normal. my colleagues asked about well, doesn t aid get held up for all kinds of reasons? ambassador volker have you ever seen military aid held up because a president wanted his rival investigate snd no, i have not. mr. williams? mr. morrison, i m sorry? no, mr. chairman. and not a single republican on the committee was willing to admit that the president finally dropped his hold because the president got caught.
ambassador volker. in the hypothetical case, no, not appropriate. you re not sure about joe biden? i can only speak to what i understood at the time and why i acted the way i did at the time. finally, my colleagues asked about well, doesn t aid get held up for all kinds of reasons. ambassador volker, have you ever seen military aid held up because the president wanted his rival investigated? no, i have not seen that. have you ever seen that, mr. williams? mr. morrison, i m sorry? no, chairman. i yield to the ranking member. so you took two additional minutes. are you giving our side seven minutes? of course. i recognize mr. turner. thank you.
investigate ambassador volker? would that be appropriate? in those hypothetical cases, no, not appropriate. but you re not sure about joe biden? sir, again, i can only speak to what i understood at the time and why i acted the way i did at the time. finally, my colleagues asked about, well, doesn t aid get held up for all kinds of reasons. ambassador volker, have you ever seen military aid held up because the president wanted his rival investigated? no, i was not seen that. have you ever seen that, mr. williams? mr. morrison, i m sorry. no, chairman. i yield to the ranking member. so you took two additional minutes. are you giving our side seven minutes? of course. i recognize mr. turner.