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With four minutes left, i am turning to the two witnesses. thank you both for yourselves. thank you, dr. hill, for comments on the personal attacks. i wanted to ask you each fact based questions. dr. hill, you testified that you handed over your duties on the nsc to tim morrison july 15th, physically left the white house on july 19th, correct? >> that is correct, yes. >> that means by the time there was the july 25th call with president trump and president zelensky, you were no longer on the nsc...

Colleagues not a single republican member of this committee has said russia didnt meddle in the 2016 election. we published a report focused on russian active measures in 2016. we have policy recommendations how we strengthen cyber resiliency, election security to counter russia. i myself have worked with members of this very committee on this issue, but also on the house armed services committee. so to have our democratic colleagues say untruthful statements just reeks of political desperation ...

>> julie: when you mention bias, one has to think of the whistle-blower because they are known to be a democrat so there you have the bias you were talking about. i want to talk about this memo the republicans have issued laying out the strategy to defend president trump ahead of the start of impeachment hearings to the public. the fact-finding is all unclassifieds of the closed-door process is purely for information control. this arrangement has allowed chairman schiff who has already publicly ...

You are a member as well. have you come to a conclusion or not? >> i have come to the conclusion that the president should be subjected to this process. and until i hear all the witnesses and hear the cross examination of those witnesses, i dont think its fair to come to a final conclusion, but im very troubled by this. i do think though one last point id like to make, as much as there is scrutiny of democrats for coming to whatever conclusions they may have come to, i think its fair to say that...

The acting omb director, republicans have grown increasingly frustrated at the closed-door process. representative liz cheney sent a letter to nancy pelosi last night saying selective leaking in which the house intelligence committee has been engaged must end immediately and the fool and complete record must be provided to the american people to see. lawmakers want to speak with former national security adviser john bolton. s lawyers say he will not voluntarily appear and they are waiting on a s...

Appreciate it. >> thank you. leland: probably colder in michigan than in d.c. >> it not good. its cold. leland: give us the defense here of why the democrats with their rules that were passed on thursday, give the republicans so many talking points as to this being a partisan, rather than bipartisan effort. >> well, i think part of the problem with this whole thing is that its being viewed as an opportunity to create talking points. i mean, what we passed was a process, an outline of a process t...

Are you going into these impeachment proceedings with an open mind or is your mind already made up? >> well, thanks for having me, kristin. there are so many things i could respond to of what i just heard. first of all, theres nothing about this thats a fair process, theres nothing about thats bipartisan, theres nothing about this that gives the same ability that presidents nixon and clinton had. clinton had his own personal lawyer cross examining current star. the president has not had his lawy...

Think is overdue, to be fair. this will give an opportunity for both sides in a public setting to air their views on this question and ultimately the president-- >> you make an interesting point that because there is no special prosecutor, the justice department declined the refer l referral, that there need to be some type of investigation and like grand jury investigations and others, theyve done behind closed doors. >> right. leland: what assurances do the american people have that the democr...

Generations. i support this resolution because we have no choice. i yield back. >> gentleman from oklahoma. >> bill: one thing thats different and this has been hammered home and worthy of explaining, just so that our viewers are up to speed on this. the process theyre going by was not done in the late 1990s with bill clinton or even with richard nixon in the 1970s. theyre outsourcing it to various committee. theyll issue a report and give it to the judiciary committee where jerry nadler is the ...

Have pre-determined the presidents guilt. never accepted the voters choice to make them president. for 37 days and counting they have run an undemocratic and unfair investigation. this resolution today only makes it worse. ive heard members on the other side say they promise rights to the president. but only if he does what they want. thats the equivalent of saying in the first amendment you have the right to the freedom of speech but you can only say the words i agree with. thats what you call ...