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Transcripts for CNN Impeachment Hearings 20191119 13:10:00

Will vi will lieutenant colonel vindman and also jennifer williams. they are detailed to the white house. what do you expect them to outline today? well, as you know, lieutenant colonel wind man is a purple heart awardee, he was a participant in the call on july 25th. unlike some of the others whom my colleagues on the other side say did not participate, he was a first person witness to what the president said. not only that, but he was charged with actually helping to prepare the call summary. and so he is very intimately familiar with the details of the phone call and as well as the leadup to the phone call. jennifer williams as you know was an aide to the vice president and she also knew about the hold on the military aid that was placed later. the vice president s reaction. and generally what was happening in the white house at the time of the phone call. tim morrison who will also be ....

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Transcripts for CNN Impeachment Hearings 20191119 13:29:00

Moments ago lieutenant colonel alexander vindman arriving up on capitol hill to begin preparing for his testimony. he is the top ukraine expert over at the national security council. and his testimony could potentially be very explosive this morning. we re still waiting the arrival of jennifer williams, also an official on the national kucounl working with the vice president, she was detailed over from the state department, also an expert on europe and that part of the wourl world. let me bring in our panel. jim, this is an amazing moment in american history. the president of the united states only the fourth time an american president is spacing an impeachment inquiry here in the united states and the charges are very significant. i think that we have to remember that because everything has been so lost and clouded by ....

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Transcripts for CNN Impeachment Hearings 20191119 13:57:00

Hearing room. we re watching all of this unfold very, very carefully. this is his tore unfotory unfol. manu raju is in the hearing room. give us is sense of what we re about to see. reporter: these two witnesses will come and sit down and answer questions from this committee and they will raise their serious concerns that they have with that july phone call, they were on that july phone call in which president trump urged president zelensky of ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden. they will issue different levels of concern. vindman will make it clear that he raised concerns on multiple occasions to the highest levels of the national security council that this call was not appropriate, that it would undercut national security. and we expect to hear jennifer williams, adviser to mike pence, who raised concerns that this was a political call and that it was inappropriate, but she did not report those concerns, she did provide the transcript of the phone call to vice pre ....

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Transcripts for CNN Impeachment Hearings 20191119 14:07:00

Believes he needs protection here at home. and these are also individuals currently working for the government. they are middle of their career, really at the prime of their career. when you are a national security professional and you get assigned detailed as we say over to the national security council, that is really one of the most incredible high points of your professional career. and so these are people who were really on their way into leadership positions, they would have gone back to their agencies and been well regarded in terms of their expertise and now they are potentially not only looking at security or personal considerations, but also professional consequences of them coming to testify today. and i just think that they are so brave. and here comes jennifer williams as well. she will go first. she has been detailed from the state department to work with the vice president on national security specifically russia, ukraine, other eurasia issues. ....

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Transcripts for CNN Impeachment Hearings 20191119 14:13:00

Were antagonistic to trump. three days later, the president called off the vice president s attendance at zelensky s inauguration. instead a lower level delegation was named, energy secretary rick perry, ambassadsondland and vol. the three amigos. after returning, several members of the delegation briefed president trump on their interactions with zelensky. they urnlgsed trump to meet with the ukranian president. but trump instead criticized ukraine and instructed them to work with rudy. a few weeks later, on july 10th, ambassador sondland met at the white house with a group of u.s. and ukranian officials including colonel vindman and informed the group that according to mulvaney, the white house meeting sought by the ukranian president what happenedif you ....

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