discussion said that rudy giuliani was a hand grenades that was going to blow every one up. he was frequently on television making remarks about every one involved in this. he was clearly pushing forward issues and ideas that would probably come back to haunt us and i think that s where we are today. that s where we are today. said in that clipped diplomatic precision. those remarks would haunt us and they are. the hand grenade going off. also something very important. consider this as the first time we have ever gotten significant context about what bolton was concerned about in his very serious accusation that mulvaney was cook up a drug deal. specific instruction was that i had to go to the lawyers to john eisenburg to basically say you tell eisenburg that i m not
vindman. what should we look to hear from them. vindman was one the first officials to testify that top white house lawyer john eisenburg moved the record of that phone call into this top secret code word system. and in an effort essentially to restrict access to it. to conceal it. because he thought that it contained of course very politically damaging information and that the president asking for investigations into the bidens from volodymyr zelensky. and vindman has also testified that john eisenburg told him to be quiet about the phone call further adding evidence to this idea that perhaps the white house was trying to cover it up. fiona hill, a top white house official, who was present for a lot of conversations about ukraine, she can shed light on motivations behind the scenes as well. natasha, thank you. and new accusations of witness intimidation following the dramatic public testimony by the former ambassador marie
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they are. they re dealing with new defiance of multiple witnesses who refused to appear before correspondents today. what are you hearing from impeachment investigators about these witnesses and the road ahead? reporter: wolf, democrats set out an ambitious schedule this week but they re not getting much cooperation. yesterday, four white house officials defied subpoenas, including john eisenburg from the national security council and the complaints about the push to investigate the president s political rivals and the ukraine investigation complaints raised to mitchell eisenburg. he was involved in that effort to push for the transcript of the july phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine about biden. and the former national security
alexander vindman and efforts to silence him. what are you learning? reporter: that s right. they haved on capitol hill early this week, a member of the white house staff who raised significant concerns about that july phone call. he was told not to discuss that phone call according to a source familiar with his testimony. recall what he said behind closed doors. he said the president s call with president zelensky, he was worried that call could hurt national security. could undermine national security. he was so concerned about the matter that he took his concerns to the national security counsel s lawyer john eisenburg and reported the complaints. we re told he made it clear that he should not discuss this call any further.