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it is 12:00 in new york. we re following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc senior adviser fiona hill and current u.s. diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the trump administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a smear campaign against ukraine ambassador marie yovanovitch who was apparently standing in the way. the conduct of both of today s witness witnesses, they believed lives could be jeopardized in ukraine. here is some of the dramatic testimony of fiona hill and david holmes. the barrage of allegations directed against ambassador yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything i have seen in my professional career. i heard ambassador sondland say to the president, yes, he was in ukraine, and wen ....
i don t understand why businesses can t run themselves, can t do their own trainings. why do we as the government need to be the thought police? this is the most authoritarian bill. should parents have a voice? yes, parents should know what their children are being taught, but at the same time, you cannot distort history. we cannot turn from the facts of the things that happened. all this legislation is going to do is promote ignorance of race-related content, content children should know about and what children should have access to. yes, we were not born then. yes, you weren t a part of what happened then, but that does not preclude us from being able to sit and have the tough conversations of what happened. no. we must talk about what that blacks were oppressed, blacks were beaten, blacks were lynched. joining us is carolyn foote. she s a library consult sul tant ....
As the least weakened elements of their defense. it s so interesting, garrett, i know you have to go, but my last question for you is, the evolution of the republican defense. last week they seemed to hang their hat on what could have been effective, that was going after the proximity or lack of proximity to the conduct under scrutiny. they said, oh, you weren t a personal witness. fiona hill invoked executive privilege this morning in a moment that had to send a shiver down the spine of anyone thinking of make that argument anymore. reporter: yeah, i thought that was interesting, executive privilege about other white house phone calls she had listened in on. the question was was this like any other phone call and she didn t want to go there, which suggests to me that it s probably not unlike other white house phone calls, which is a whole other set of problems for those defending the president. i ve thought about the republican defense as a fighting retreat, so much of the defense ....
But the republicans aren t allowed to get to that point with donald trump. what we ve seen is they re going to make the case that it s not proven, it s secondhand information, you weren t in the room, donald trump didn t explicitly ask you to do this, it was rudy doing this. the problem with that, nicolle, is it requires republicans to suggest that only donald trump speaks the truth. a man who said he was going to show us his taxes, a man who claimed he won the popular vote but illegal votes were counted, a man who said mexico was going to build the wall, a man who suggested a hurricane was going to hit alabama and used a sharpie to try to convince the nation he was telling the truth. that is the truth that republicans are having to claim to the nation as the only truth, and all of these corroborating witnesses somehow are lying. and if that is the position they take, they re affirming fiona hill s warning and bob mueller s ....
Anr way he highlighted the human rights. that s d this moment, right? even kim said there s been a lot of objeacles to get to this point. i m just saying it was expected, especially with a party that s been so consistently against meeting withen like this because of what they represent in terms of lack of freedoms, that that wouldn t be brought up at the actual summit. you weren t a little surprised by that listen, i m taking the president at his word. he was the one there one on one with his translators. this is the first time the two leaders have met and they haven t been talking about it in public. this is the beginning of a process. the core purpose of the meeting today was not to solve every problem with regard to north korea which are multiple millions, it s to make progress on the denuclearization issue which is the most important threat facing the united states ....