Parnas that shed a lot more detail on the Pressure Campaign inside ukraine, including the potentially illegal surveillance of former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Now the Ukrainian Government says this morning theyre opening a criminal investigation into her potential surveillance. The state department, the own u. S. State department, has not replied to multiple inquiries about whether it plans to cooperate with that investigation or open its own investigation. Youd imagine the u. S. State department would want to would want to. Would be the mostbassador. All this fueling the fight over whether they should allow impeachment witnesses. Lauren fox is back with us on capitol hill this morning. So do you know if lev parnas and all of this changes the equation on witnesses . And walk us through what happens today. Well, this is a huge ceremonial day in the senate. This is really the moment where youre going to see the torch passed from House Speaker nancy pelosi to Majority
Didnt publicly announce an doesnt know what hes talking about, but he does have the investigation into the bidens. Notes. There are a few things he may and parnas says President Trump have colored beyond the lines, knew exactly what was going on. Particularly the allegation that also, very important, parnas ag barr is involved. Says hes willing to testify and we know from the dod emails that says that along with former people were looking in the email National Security adviser john chain for pence to resolve the bolton, he can, quote, fill in issue when he met with zelensky all the dots in the impeachment case. On september 1st. And the stunning interview so this does dovetail and add additional color. You see a toxic culture twisted comes at the very same time that by hyperpartisanship impacting President Trumps Senate Impeachment trial is about to begin in washington. Now do senators want to hear foreign policy, the intelligence from witnesses . Now do they want to see all of communi