base of the republican party and to me. so i believe that he was at with very few defections. that may change, but right now i least affected by those and believed those and believed they were think that s a correct negative? assessment by the white house, believed that they were that they ve got the senate tied negative and was conveying them up in a way that will protect to the president. so was it problematic that he the president from actually being removed from office. believed they were negative i think the two variables, views? yes, the whole thing was ned, would, in my guess, drawing problematic. ambassador taylor testified on my past sort of in republican that on july 2nd, you told politics, would be public ukrainians that they needed to, quote, cooperate on opinion, should you see attacks investigations, end quote. you re now saying that you don t on colonel vindman inching this recall saying those words; is from 51% support to 53, 54, 55. that correct? i do
obligation to account fully for my role in these events. did by obligation, you mean simply your legal obligation? or did you mean something bigger? well, both my legal obligation and my moral obligation. your moral obligation? i actually want to present an alternative theory. your family came here escaping the holocaust via uruguay. and your parents moved lucy and later you here where, frankly, you ve been an american success story. through dent of hard work and innovation, good idea, and knack to hire the right people and some luck, you ve built a considerable successful business. one that i know for a fact would make your parents proud. they came here because they knew
that it was here that they could have freedom that they had not enjoyed, security that they had not enjoyed, and opportunity that they had not enjoyed. and no doubt, on some level, you re grateful and it s created a sense of patriotism in you. is that fair to say? very fair. why then, sir, with your courage
phoebe with ambassador taylor, was he assesssatisfied that thie was now behindti him? i don t really know, because when i responded, get ahold of the secretary, and he said i agree. i never knew i whether he reach out to the secretaryhe or not. that was sort of the end at one point in the text you said let s get on the phone, you said you re an individual that doesn t like to walk through these issues on texts when you can talk about it on the 1 telephone, correct? i say that to everybody when something becomes more substantive than a few lines of text, i say, let s talk. did you say that to ambassador taylor? i don t recall. i don t recall whether we spoke after that or whether he called the secretary. basically, mr. castor, wanted to get the notion across that i ve gone as far as i can go with this, you need to you re the ambassador, you need to pick up the ball and run with it at this point. okay. just getting back to the irregular channel, did anyone else express
joe biden, come on over to ukraine! it s never going to happen! spewing all they had to do apparently was announce an investigation. okay, that is it for us. they hearing is set to resume shortly, but now we have special report up next. spewing that evening, welcome to washington. i am bret baier. continuing coverage of the impeachment hearings day 3, nine hours on capitol hill as you look alive at the chairman adam schiff getting ready to gavel into the next round of questions this from the lawmakers themselves, while we wait, we will bring in our panel here. byron york, chief political correspondent of the national and josh holmes, former top advisor to mitch mcconnell, now president of the cavalry consultants as you look there at tom morrison, tim morris and heading back in for testimony, and kurt volker right behind him. quickly down the row, your thoughts on today so far? today is the day that we
found out there was a difference of opinion about this trump-zelensky call
ambitions. our self-respect. our love of freedom and the rule of law. our fierce constitutional patriotism. now, it looked like president trump might get might get away with his ukraine shakedown. after all, most americans didn t know anything about it. and the few who learned of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. fr president trump could rest easy. but if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. i count 17 honorable public servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. is that right, mr. goldman? yes, there were 17. and i count a dozen career state department and national security officials who served republican and democratic presidents alike, over decades, who came to testify. in fact, four of president trump s own national security council s staffers, hill,
vindman, morrison, and mcguyer, came forward to report trump s scheme to nsc l