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Thank you both for your testimony and your service. colonel vindman, wasnt it the case that mr. eisenberg, the attorney, had said to you after the july 5th meeting that you should come to him if you have any other concerns? >> after the july 10th meeting, yes, maam, that is correct. >> and it is not going outside the chain of command to speak to a lawyer within the institution; is that correct? >> no, he is the senior between the two, certainly. >> all right. our colleagues on the other side of ...

Only white house personnel but also state department officials to not comply with subpoenas, to avoid appearing before the house intelligence committee, as they choose to, and so i do think the president will abide by what his own lawyers have told him to do, which is to treat this as though it is not a real investigation. arthel: as g.o.p. lawmakers fight to defend the president and deflect testimony that might point to potential bribery or illegal offenses, can they maintain character attacks ...

That we didnt see on that stage. do you think thats going to hold? >> i think it will hold for a bit. i do think that that debate -- the debate stage particularly the second night, wednesday night, was not democrats at their best. i think that debate only made sense to you if you were actually on that stage because they were fighting with each other over very obscure issues in order to make character attacks. its not the best way for democrats to run a campaign against trump. but you know, there...

Yourselves on those campaigns. donald trump does not follow those rules. he does not sort of stay away from personal attacks, from family attacks, from character attacks. so whomever democrats ultimately choose, rev, its going to have to be someone who can go toe to toe with donald trump. i dont know if thats joe biden, i dont know if thats kamala harris. as a republican, im not going to dictate who democrats would choose. but the best advice id say to democrats and whoever that nominee will ult...

The dossier. so there were some areas where people could -- what did you make of his testimony? >> for the most part anything with the dossier was he explicit about he had nothing to do with it. the character attacks on the president i think are pretty valid. i think youre just tuning in and you didnt know the president was man of low moral fiber. the notion that this is not dedicated entirely to self interest was the trade, i think, in a lot of a ways what are he stuck up in. said i was the man...

You had people accuse judge kavanaugh of being a rapist he says falsely. how do we pick up the pieces? what is your advice to president trump? we have a mid-term election that might be nastier. after that election, how do you pick up the pieces? >> i would say number 1, we have to recognize that sexual violence is real in this country. theres no country for creepy old men or middle aged men, but its no country at all without due process. people have the right to defend themselves. no one is guil...

Republicans. >> harris: what do you think it is about this particular subject for republicans to tighten this thing up. >> frankly, the election stopped being a referendum on donald trump where democrats were more motivated to vote them out then republicans were to defend him and became a referendum on brett kavanaugh brett kavanaugh and conservativism as a whole. they are being interpreted as character attacks on them and republicans are mad, they are fired up. and thats reflected in all the da...

Friday, and we had all known her name. we had known what she was alleging. but to have her lay it out and talk about the pornographic details, to talk about her relationship with then judge thomas and she was very steady, very convincing for her part, just as thomas was for his. but something i was speaking about when, jim, you and poppy were talking earlier about the possible reputational damage to a witness here, what those hearings dissolved into were character attacks. many of the republican...

Says about the stuff trump is saying and how it will play in places where republicans need to win if theyre going to hold control of the house and the senate. >> well, you have touched on the central problem with all of this, which is that the messages that trump -- the messages trump puts out there, very hard-line on immigration, trade, some of these other issues and also just the general, as you say, rambling kind of character attacks and fairly extreme language about the media, that is woptd ...

Believes the now released tape that michael cohen captured between himself and the president was tampered with. giuliani offering really no evidence to back that up. he also said that there are some 183 such cohen tapes, but that the one that we have now heard is the only one that the president, trump, can be heard on. really what he is doing is keeping up his rapid-fire character attacks on michael cohen. it would seep that this is all really designed to remove the sting of cohens latest assert...