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. Well see how far we go today. Welcome back to continuing coverage on the fox news channel. Im bill hemmer. Good morning, bill. Im 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. Well 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 youve 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. Thats what were looking for. Lets see what he says. He could revise this up to the
Wt is the full extent cleared away. Chuck rosenberg. Of the democrats prior senator mccains former coordination with the whistleblower, and who else did colleague, jeff flake, retired the whistleblower coordinate senator from arizona, surmised this effort with . That if a secret impeachment second, what is the full extent vote were held, 3035 of the of ukraines Election Meddling Senate republican members would against the Trump Campaign . Vote to impeach. And i thought how sad, how sad, and third, why did burisma hire that it takes a secret vote to hunter biden, and what did he do for them, and did his position make a courageous vote. Affect any u. S. Government actions under the obama it should be 3035 if they administration . These questions will remain believe thats the right thing to do. I know im sounding naive, but i outstanding because republicans were denied the right to call witnesses that know these remember being saddened by that. I feel the same way. Answers. What we will w
Theres a question of what point does amending a testimony become straightup lying or perjuring one self . One said that the testimony of other witnesses helped to refresh their memories and see in new light their own experiences and will be instructive to see what volcker has to say for himself on the two key questions, quid pro quo, bribery plot, and what he was doing with Rudy Giuliani. His testimony was that he Rudy Giuliani as being a nuance and more helpful to bring Rudy Giuliani in and help him understand that he was promulgating the debunked conspiracy scenarios instead of freelance out there in ukraine. Jeff bennett on capitol hill for us, thank you very much. Joining us is democrat congressman jim himes from connecticut. Congressman, your questioning of
control knell vind man was one of the more emotional moments this morning. I wonder if you could look back to that for us this morning. Yeah. Well, it was a pretty tough moment for me. We had gotten word and sort of saw on soci
elections to help hillary clinton. this is something pushed by the republicans on the committee as well as the president himself and rudy giuliani. the president, of course,eration the notion that ukraine may have interfered and that also being placed as a condition for roughly $400 million in military aid and a key meeting with between president trump and president zelensky in ukraine. asked for those investigations. several witnesses have testified it s all been part of this discussion about moving forward. but fiona hill is going to make some very serious concerns raised about the any suggestion that ukraine interfered and saying you can take the eye off the ball of russia. she s going to say this based on questions and statements i have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, you crane did. this is a fictional narrative that s been perp
to be involved. she s taking a shot saying, i m here. i m taking a risk. why aren t you and others? he s not a political appointee like gordon sondland. gave a million dollars to the inaugural committee and became ambassador to the eu. these are career officials who i don t think you can simply say they re never trumpers or anything along those lines. no, and to jeffrey s point before about where is john bolton? fiona hill is no longer in the administration. john bolton is no longer in the administration. and we have seen career official after career official come, despite the fact that they were directed not to by the white house, by the state department, and then go back to work. lieutenant colonel vindman goes back to the white house every day to work. awkward. is there a reason why do you have a good reason, jeff,