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Like Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman who will be testifying public by before the nation tomorrow. Hes the white houses top ukraine expert and was on the call between trump and zelensky. Vindman testifying he was so disturbed by the conversation that he reported it to lawyers twice. Trump already tried to smear vindmans reputation calling him a never trumper. What evidence do you have that vindman is a never trump per . Well be showing that to you real soon. So far the president has shown us nothing. The president claiming Jennifer Williams, a special adviser to Vice President mike pence, trump calling her a never trumper, too, even though she was hand picked by pences National Security adviser. Now williams and vindman are among nine witnesses who will be testifying publicly this week. It is a crucial week. It is make or break for democrats. If williams upcoming testimony televised is consistent with what she said under oath behind closed doors in her deposition, shell say of trumps call with the ukrainian president that i would say, quote, it struck me as unusual and inappropriate, a word that directly contradicts what trump has said again and again and again. The perfect call. And highly appropriate. Totally appropriate. Absolutely totally appropriate. Totally perfect and appropriate. Highly appropriate and perfect. All right. We have a lot to get to. I want to start with pamela brown out front live outside the white house. This is your reporting on the president wanting to send some of these people detailed to the white house away. How are the president s aides responding to this . Reporter thats right. Me and my colleague have learned that white house aides have explored moving some impeachment witnesses on loan to the white house from other agencies such as Lieutenant Colonel vindman who will be testifying tomorrow back to their home agencies ahead of schedule. One source tells me that even includes vindmans brother who was a key witness as an nsc lawyer. Trump is asking how witnesses came to work for his administration, sources say he suggested again they be dismissed. White house advisers, erin, warned that any such move could be viewed as retaliation. Im the olderly on when Administration Officials began testifying, the white house had decided it would not fire them because of those retaliation concerns, but that, of course, is being tested as of late as these public hearings breathe new life into the allegations. Over the weekend a gop talking point emerged, erin that trump was well within his rights to choose his own team. That was response to the former ambassador who testified on friday, her public recounting of the Smear Campaign orchestrated by trumps allies to push her from her post and ukraine. A day later trump himself suggested he had already fired the three state Department Employees who appeared in public impeachment hearings. He quoted conservative radio host rush limbaugh. That has not happened but the uncertainly created a thorny situation at the white house ahead of several public hearings this week involving Administration Officials, erin. Pam, in terms of what happens here, do you have any censor is this sort of everybody a wait and see what the president decides to do with his often mercurial attitude. Reporter there is a waitandsee attitude. Right now there are discussions happening at the white house about moving these nsc staffers back to their home agencies ahead of schedule. One official i spoke to said there has been pushback internally because it could look like realation, even just moving them back to their home agency. As you know the National Security adviser to the president is doing an aggressive restructuring of the nsc. That could potentially be folded into that. Pamela, thank you very much reporting live from the white house. Lets go to David Cicilline who sits on the House Judiciary Committee which will be drafting articles of impeachment. I appreciate your time. You hear this recording, that the president is considering getting rid of people detailed to the white house. That could include mr. Vindman, ms. Williams, and sending them back in those cases to the state department. Would you have a problem with the white house doing that . Of course. Look, these are extraordinary patriots who came forward, who told the truth, who described the president , his effort to essentially bribe the ukrainians to investigate his chief political rival and holding up military assistance that was approved by congress to add additional leverage to that demand. This is shocking behavior of the president. These witnesses have served their country both as military leaders, leaders in the foreign service. Theyre incredible patriots. They provide incredible and damning testimony about the president s grave misconduct. The idea that the president would be focused on trying to punish them for coming forward and telling the truth about this very, very disturbing behavior is really appalling. These individuals should be celebrated. Theyre patriots. They came forward and testified honestly about the serious misconduct of the president. The president when talking about Jennifer Williams who, of course, is detailed to Vice President pences staff, shes going to testify tomorrow. Trump tweeted about her today. Tell Jennifer Williams, whoever that is, to read both transcripts of the president ial calls and see the just released statement from ukrainian, then she should meet with the other never trumpers who i dont know and mostly never heard of and work out a better president ial attack. When ambassador yovanovitch came out and testified, he came out and disparaged her. You called that witness tampering and a crime. Do you consider what he did to Jennifer Williams today also witness tampering and a crime . This is the president of the United States clearly trying to discourage witnesses from coming forward and testifying truthf truthfully before the congress of the United States. He initially tried to prevent witnesses from complying with subpoenas at all. The dam has broken. Great patriots have come forward and responded to lawful subpoenas or requests to appear before congress and to testify. I think is a president who is very concerned about what these witnesses are saying. Theyre credible, testifying under oath, providing very clear evidence that the president of the United States pressured a foreign leader to begin an investigation, a phony investigation against his chief political rival and interfere with an american president ial election. The president s behavior is wrong. It is illegal to try to intimidate a witness from coming forward. The good news is, despite his best efforts, these great patriots are continuing to come forwa forward. When you say its illegal and its a crime, youre on the Judiciary Committee, youll be drafting articles of impeachment. Are you going to put things like this in there . Do they strengthen your case or water it down because theyre separate from the core issue with which youre concerned . We have a responsibility as members of the Judiciary Committee to take all the evidence, the evidence weve collected, the evidence collected by the Intelligence Committee as relates to the ukrainian scandal and make judgment about articles of impeachment should be fooip filed and what they should be. Youre way ahead of us. Were awaiting the final report from the Intelligence Committee. Well look at the conduct of the president , all the facts and determi make a determination. Do you suspect theyll have to give you that report concurrently with the testimony theyre hearing, once theyre done this week, they should be able to get you something fairly quickly . I hope so. This is a busy week, nine people testifying this week. Theyve been hard at work. We want of course to be thorough and careful and be complete. Theyll finish it when they finish it. The Judiciary Committee awaits that report. I also want to ask you about the other testimony, colonel vindman. He was on the call, one of the people that the president may want to obviously send back to the state department. He reported his concerns about the call and the president s dealings with ukraine at least twice to lawyers. His boss, tim morrison, the top ukraine official was also on the call. The transcript of morrisons closed door deposition was released over the weekend. I want to read you the operative line of what he said about colonel vindman. He says of vindman, quote, i had concerns about Lieutenant Colonel vindmans judgment and fiona hill and others had raised concerns about alexs judgment. Does this give you pause . Not at all. I had the opportunity to see vindman testify. The American People will have the same opportunity this week. This is a man who has served his country in extraordinary ways, a decorated military officer, someone who is credible and trustworthy, who provided very, very important evidence during the course of his deposition. The American People will see that. I think there has been an effort by some of my republican colleagues to attack this war hero. I think its disgraceful. This is a man who served his country, had the courage to come forward when he saw something that was wrong and reported it. We should remember ukraine is a kurnt under attack in an active war with the russians. Military aid from the United States was their lifeline. The president of the United States held that up until he could get a promise for a meeting and a promise to open a phonily investigation. Colonel vindman is an extraordinary witness. I think the American People will find him very credible. Thank you, congressman cicilline. Next, breaking news. The quote, shaken by a state Department Aides testimony that he heard trump directly, heard his voice asking about investigations in ukraine. That aide now scheduled to testify publicly. Plus new questions about president Trumps Health this evening. 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He said, quote, ambassador sondland went on to state that president zelensky, squoet, loves your ass. I heard President Trump asked, so hes going to do the investigation. Ambassador sondland replied, quote, hes going to do it. Adding that president zelensky will do anything you ask him to. Democrats Just Announced moments ago that holmes will testify. Out front john dean, david gangel and david urban. Jamie let me start with you. This is your reporting. Shaken is the word you are using of how some republicans field about david holmes testimony. What are you hearing . This is reporting also with my colleague kristen holmes. What were hearing is according to one congressional gop source several gop lawmakers were, quote, more shaken by david holmes testimony than they have publicly let on, that behind closed doors they expressed a lot of frustration about sondlands testimony in light of what david holmes said and that were also hearing that theyre now very worried about sondlands testimony. Weve been told by multiple sources that he was ill fitted to being a diplomat, that multiple sources in the Diplomatic Community thought that he was in over his head, and theyre really worried about what hes going to say on wednesday and how far he will go. Look, obviously sondlands testimony is now going to be crucial. David, look, some republicans you heard jamie talking about this say holmes has made the most convincing argument yet. Obviously a big part of that is that he heard trumps voice. Thats what he testified under oath, he heard trumps voice through the phone because it was so loud, that sondland had to take it away from his ear and he was clearly able to hear the president of the United States. In that case its not hearsay. That takes away that argument. How big of a deal could holmes testimony be . So, erin, id just like to lets ask what point is holmes making . This is the day after the 25th call, this is the 26th. Of july. Hes listening to one end of the call and he says he hears the president say so theyre going to do the investigations. Thats what his alleged testimony is. Im not quite sure whats so earthshattering about that. Thats been reported. He heard it in a cafe. Lets assume his hearing was correct. I still dont see whats groundbreaking about that or is the cause for all this breathless reporting. Just to make the simple point, but many republicans are saying its hearsay, no one heard the president of the United States say it. Holmes, if he heard what he says he heard, its no longer hearsay. Thats the president of the United States. So i dont know on that point but Gordon Sondland says it, too. I want to ask you about that. He is going to testify publicly. Hes changed his testimony. Originally there was no quid pro quo and now there was. In holmes testimony, he said, quote, i asked ambassador sondland if it was true that the president did not give a blank about ukraine. Sondland agreed. I asked why not and ambassador sondland stated that the president only cares about big stuff. I note there was big stuff going on in ukraine like a war with russia. He sameant big stuff that benefs the president like the biden investigation that mr. Giuliani is pushing. Holmes is going to testify to this publicly. How significant do you think this will be, that we can all hear it, not just read it . I think there are a couple of things happening. First of all, there is some significance in what he overheard. I think theres more significance in the position that places sondland, who has not been a forthcoming witness, who is now surrounded by not only holmes but others who were present for that meeting as well as holmes taking it back to the embassy and contemporaneously sharing it with others, which is further corroboration. This thrusts holmes in a position where he really is in the forefront of all of this. It could either show him not being forthcoming with congress or even being correct in his congressional testimony. We dont know it all. So i think this makes not holmes but sondland the star witness, and holmes is pushing him out there in front and putting him right at the center of all this. David, its hard to argue anything else. Everybody will be watching Gordon Sondland incredibly closely. This is the person talking to the president regularly about all this. I agree. Sondlands characterization that you just read, its just that, his characterization. His belief about what the president wanted and liked and believed in ukraine. Sondland didnt say i talked to the president directly and he told me x, y and z. Come on, he doesnt believe this is important, he only cares about the big stuff. How does he know that . What does he base that upon . Do you think ambassador sondland david, who says whenever he aukd to the president in the morning was a bad news, literally would make up the joe biden point . Thats the part that just defies reason. I think we have to watch and see what ambassador sondland testifies to. He had problems in his testimony. I think ambassador is going to be very careful and measured about what he says when he appears before congress this time. Can i just add two things . First of all, there were other people at the table and theres some reporting that they also overheard this conversation. So it may go beyond david holmes. But another thing the republicans are very concerned about that we talked to is where this call happened. It happened in a restaurant. It was on a phone that was not secure. Weve had multiple National Security experts say on our air in the last couple of days that very likely means that russia has a recording of it, ukraine has a recording of it, other Intelligence Services have a recording of it. So its not just david holmes word. Its Gordon Sondland who was on the call. Hes never admitted that call happened before. David holmes heard it. It sounds as if there was one other person at the table that heard it. We understand there may have been at least one other and there was four total. Clearly bad judgment to do a call like that in public. I think everybody can agree on that. Thank you all very much. Next President Trump making a mysterious trip to walter reid hospital. The white house saying theres no issue at all. So does it add up . A state that trump barely one. 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Click, call or visit a store today. Tonight no Public Events on President Trumps schedule for the second day in a row after his mysterious trip to walter reid hospital on saturday. The white house says trump was getting a head start on his annual physical exam which had been would be a year in february, but the trip to walter reid was not scheduled. A source says it did not follow the protocol for a routine president ial medical exam. Pamela brown is back with us from the white house. What more do you know about the president s trip to walter reid. Reporter the president s visit had a series of anomalies. For context, erin, the president had his annual physical this past february during the workweek and it was announced a hi owed time that was going to be happening. By contrast, erin, the president went to walter reid went by mode tore cade, not marine one as is Standard Practice weather permitting. Medical staff at walter reid didnt even get any advanced notice about this visit. Typically medical staff would get notice about a vip visit to the center, notifying some closures at the facilities for security protocols. Trump can get lab work done here at the white house, but a walter reid visit may indicate he needed certain testing like images. White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham is denying that this has anything to do more than just getting a partial physical exam out of the way. He was there for a couple of hours. She said he had a free day and so thats why he wanted to do it. He also said he has been working since early this morning. He looks great, feels great. We should note that following that visit he did have people over to the white house to watch a movie. But certainly all these circumstances i have just pointed out raised questions about that visit. Thank you very much, pamela. Those details are important. Dr. David shiner, president obamas former doctor. Doctor, theyre saying he wanted to get ahead of things because its going to be a busy election year. Does it sound plausible to you that this would be part of his routine physical . Absolute nonsense. You dont take a part of your physical one time and a month or two later take another part. I never heard of anything like that. His physical for the kinds of things he needs, the whole thing could have been done at the white house. No reason. Blood tests, electrocardiogram. Hes had stress tests done before. Theres no procedure other than it was part of a routine exam that could not have been done in the white house. Thats absolute balderdash. I think he had, not an emergency necessarily, but an urgency, something went wrong. Maybe he had chest pain. Maybe he had some neurologic i think he is someone who has some neurological issues which no one has ever really adressed. I think its quite possible that his physician did not feel that he could handle it himself. His physician is not an internist as is usually the case in primary care. His physician is a trained er physician. It may be he sent him to walter reid for a problem that he did not feel he could handle arizona well as was necessary. So the white house, of course, says that this is routine. Press secretary Stephanie Grish ham was on fox this weekend. Here is what she said. He is healthy as can be. I put a statement out about that. Hes got more energy than anybody in the white house. That man works from 6 00 a. M. Until, you know, very, very late at night. Hes doing just fine. You know, she pointed out, dr. Scheinor, hes going to these rallies, the guy certainly does not sleep very much. Does she have a valid point, that he has a lot of energy . He may have energy, but on the other hand, when he plays golf which is his physical exercise, he always uses a cart. So the only exercise he gets is swinging a golf club. The other thing is the cardiologist after his last physical exam said he was in the upper 20 in terms of cardiovascular risk. Hes got some real risk factors. His inability to say words sometimes worries me tremendously. He is having trouble word finding, when he said united shush instead of the United States. These are words, he cant find them. This is happening over and over again. Comedians joke about it. Its not a joking matter. I think theres a neurological issue thats not being addressed. If he had an mri of his head over there, i would be very pleased. I think he needs it. Is that something that could have happened in the twohour time that he was there . Yes, it certainly could. The worry that i have is that maybe hes having small strokes. We lad that once before in the white house when Woodrow Wilson was president. His inability to find words is peculiar and has not been explained and i think one has to think of it as a possible neurological issue. You have expressed concern about this president , but also with the ages of several of the leading candidates. A september general aaron as well as if Michael Bloomberg gets in the race, at least three others, four others that would make it on the democratic side. Does this comincern you in general . Im expert since im an octogenarian. You lose things as you get older, no question. Your creativity, your ability to handle problems, your innovative skills, yes, it worries me tremendously. Sanders even warren. Trump is 73 now. Hed finish his president if he has a seconds term at 78. Things happen and the brain does not function as well when you reach these kinds of ages. Yes, im tremendously worried about that. I appreciate your time, dr. Scheiner, thank you very much. Youre welcome. Has anything in the impeachment hearings moved the needle for voters. Well go to the allimportant swing state of wisconsin to find out. Candidate andrew yang is my guest. 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But its on the minds of voters in key swing states like wisconsin. Trump won the state by less than one point in 2016. So Miguel Marquez is there talking to voters about what impeachment is having in terms of the impact on how theyll vote. Reporter Third Generation farmer greg lore on the fence. In 2020, what are you going to do . Still undecided. Reporter dairy cows and harvesting an already late crop a bigger worry than impeachment. I think they should just forget about that and just worry about the issues at hand and try to help people. Theyre just theres going to be a new election in another year i guess. Reporter on impeachment, wisconsin northwest of madison, divided as ever. Farmland and picture postcard towns where the ringling bros. Got their start. In 2016 candidate trump won this rural county by 109 votes. Doris lore is an independent who supported hillary clinton. She dislikes the president but isnt sure theres enough to remove him from office. We need to be unified. We need to were not making progress in america. Were going downhill. Reporter the countys divisions obvious at a regular democratic protest of the president , they get support as much as thumbs down among other less polite gestures. Mike and Carrie Walker coowners of the touchdown tavern both describe themselves as moderate conservatives, both parted third party in 2016. Shes opposed to abortion rights but is considering a democrat. Can either of you see yourselves voting for a drk in 2020, and which one if so . Boy that was a pained expression. I will tell you, i love andrew yang. Obviously hes very smart. And hes funny. Reporter on impeachment they havent decided whether the president crossed the line. I dont think its a witch hunt. I dont think its a waste of taxpayer dollars. I think we need to go through this. Reporter veteran Business Owner and independent voter greg snell says he doesnt like trump, but impeachment . I believe its a pretty drastic step, whether i like the man or not is immaterial. Impeachment is thats pretty drastic. Reporter dan shea lives paycheck to paycheck. He voted for trump, now so disillusioned he switched parties. Where is sauk county now . A tossup. Hes going to come here, work his butt off and try to win the state back. So miguel, trump won wisconsin by a small margin, but there are many who believe that could be the most crucial state coming up. He won the county by where you are tonight by an even smaller margin than he won the state. How hard fought will wisconsin be . Reporter this state is the new ohio essentially. Its going to be ground zero. Both parties are going to pour everything into it. The democrats have their convention here. Republicans say its trending more conservative, so they think they can keep it in their column. The way the Electoral College stacks up and the way it could break in some of these states, ten little electoral votes here in wisconsin could make the difference of winning the white house or being out. Erin . Pretty incredible how every vote counts so much. Thank you, miguel. Next, you just heard a voter in miguels piece say she liked andrew yang. Well yang is outfront next. Forget, im not a crook, jeanne moos on what has become the most famous impeachment line. Do us a favor. Do us a favor though. Do us a favor though. T more d into the golden years. With better heart treatments, advanced brain disease research, and better ways to age gracefully. At bayer, this is why we science. A stampede unleashed 55 years ago. Built for freedom, power and rebellion. And just when you think you know where theyre going. They do something unexpected. Something that moves us all forward and holds nothing back. The allelectric mustang mache. The newest member of the family. 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Most americans agree we should be legalizing marijuana at the federal level, in part because its already legal in several states. Many americans are already using it for pain relief, and its safer than prescription opiates in most every case. We also know when we administer these marijuana laws, were deeply uneven and even racist in the way we administer these laws. Most americans agree that we should legalize marijuana. Thats where i am. I believe that joe actually will end up evolving on this issue over time if he sees the same evidence i have. On that front, there are a lot of confusing studies on pot as we all know. Youve got cannabisrelated er visits in colorado tripled since it was legalized. Another one says essentially no increase in violent crime. You can get different outcomes depending which study you look at. What makes you so sure that full legalization wont open the door to a pandoras box we may deeply regret just because theres a lot we dont know . Erin, theres a difference between legalization and complete lack of regulation. There are legal substances in this country like tobacco that there are strict rules around. For example, you cant advertise on school grounds. Marijuana is not something we should just have out there completely free and easy, but it should be legal so that we can regulate it properly, make it safer and more standard for americans and also have some of the tax revenues that can help us counteract any of the negative effects. So in addition to marijuana, you obviously are at odds with some others, different others on another issue. Senators sanders and warren are in favor of a wealth tax which you have said could be, your words, a disaster in practice. Obviously some who would be affected by it are speaking out. Theyre saying theyre being vilified which has led to these comments from senator sanders and senator warren. Here they are. I want to point i just want to point out i hurt some billionaires feelings lately. Boo hoo. So sad. So sad that they might have to pay two cents out of their bazillion dollars . Worth a hundred billion, worth 50 billion, suddenly theyre in tears. Oh, my god were going to have to pay more in taxes. How do we get by on 30 billion . Such a stress. Of course its more complicated than that. Do you think they are vilifying the wealthy . To me, erin, it is about whats going to work in practice . And it is true were in the midst of the most extreme winner take all economy in our nations history and we need big measures to help solve that. But when france, germany, denmark, and sweden all tried a wealth tax they ended up repealing it because it had massive implementation problems and it did not generate anywhere near the revenue they had hoped for. So if it hasnt worked in these other countries i think it would not work here for some of the same reasons. To me its less about the emotions of certain people who are being called out. Its more about whats going to work in practice and how we can actually rebalance this economy and rewrite the rules so it works for us. Just in wisconsin, and people here watching the program heard his show, another key state which President Trump won in 2016. Miguel was talking to them about what people there think about impeachment and he spoke to a couple who owns a tavern. They say they are moderate conservatives. They both voted for thirdparty candidates in 2016. I want to play the exchange for you. Reporter can either of you see yourselves voting for a democrat in 2020 . And which one if so . [ laughter ] reporter boy, that was a pained expression. It is pained. I will tell you, i love andrew yang. Obviously he is very smart. Oh, and hes funny. All right. So what do you do . What do you do to get people like that, moderate conservatives, again, is how they describe themselves, to support you . Well, erin, im laser focused on solving the problems that got donald trump elected. If theyre working in a Small Business theyre seeing their foot traffic might be going down. Some of the businesses around them are closing. These are the problems that got trump elected. And if we put money, buying power into the customers of that bars hands, then youre going to see more business, they might have to hire more servers. Im so glad that theyre open to my message and its not just them. I have met with individually and seen on the road hundreds even thousands of disaffected trump voters who say they are excited about me and my campaign because it seems like im Solutions Oriented and i just want to try and improve americans lives. All right. Thank you very much, andrew yang. Good to talk to you, sir. Erin, always. Thank you. See you soon. Next, on the history making moments of the impeachment investigation thus far. And tomorrow. 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Reporter now impeachment tweets end up as testimony. Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in somalia. How did that go . Its very intimidating. Trump started off in atlantic city. How did that go . Reporter some things never change. The watergate tapes were littered with expletives deleted. And now President Trump did not give a expletive about ukraine. Reporter back then we had tricky dick. Now we have shifty schiff. Shifty schiff. Shifty schiff. Reporter we may be watching history but sometimes its the Little Things that stick. Representative jackie sphere has something in her hair. Its a paper clip. Reporter Little Things like that big bottle from which a witness chugd. George kent stays hydrated. Saving democracy one gulp at a time. With all of that liquid intake, youd think he would have been less ambivalent about a break. Would you gentlemen like a brief recess . Well, lets take a faveminuive recess. Reporter were all going to need a recess from these expletive not deleted hearings. What i understand is president zelensky loves your ass. Reporter jeanne moos, cnn, new york. [ laughter ] im sorry. Thanks for joining us. You can watch outfront anytime anywhere. Ac 360 with anderson starts now. Good evening. What was already an important week in the impeachment inquiry just got that much more interesting. That is on top of new cnn reporting. Sources tell cnn President Trump has again said he wants to fire witnesses who have testified against him in the impeachment hearings prompting his aides to consider moving those witnesses, some of them out of the white house and back to their home departments within the government. Late today we learned about a new addition to the list of now nine officials and former officials going before the house Intelligence Committee on television starting tomorrow. The ninth is david holmes a seasoned diplomat and a staffer at the u. S. Embassy in kiev