That it indicated to you that he had been prepped for the call, to expect this issue to come up. What led you to that conclusion . It seemed unlikely that he would be familiar with a Single Company in the context of a call that had that was on the broader bilateral relationship, and it seemed to me that he was either tracking this issue because it was in the press or he was otherwise prepped. Mr. Goldman. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Good morning to both of you. Good morning. On july 25th at approximately 9 00 a. M. You both were sitting in the situation room, probably not too much further away than you are right now, and you were preparing for a longawaited phone call between President Trump and president zelensky. Now, Colonel Vindman, in advance
of this phone call, did you prepare Talking Points as you did for the april 21st call . Yes, i did. What were those Talking Points based upon . They were so this is not in the Public Record and i cant comment to deeply, but what is the areas tha
transcript, including colonel vindman. so the man who raises a complaint still has access to the transcript. even on the code word server, you had access to it? yes. so at no time during the course of your official duties were you denied access to this information? correct. and to your knowledge, anybody on the nsc staff that needed access to the transcript for their official duties always was able to access it, correct? people that had a need to know and a need to access it. once it was moved to the compartmentalized system? yes. yes. as mr. morrison testified, he recommended restricted access to the transcript, not that he had any concern that there was anything improper or illegal, but he was concerned about a potential leak, and as he put it, how that would play out in washington s polarized environment and would, quote,
mr. morrison testified at his deposition. we don t have that in front of us. if you can give us that, we ll take a look. i can say for myself, there were the concerns about leaks seemed valid and i wasn t particularly critical. i thought this was sensitive and i was not going to question the attorney s judgment on that. and even on the code word server, you had access to it? yes. so at no point in time during the course of your official duties were you denied access to this information, is that correct? correct. ms. williams i want to turn you for a moment, and you testified that you believe the transcript is complete and accurate other than the one issue you mentioned? substantively accurate, yes. now, did you express any
cnn national security analyst samantha, a segment we bring to you every weekend the most pressing national security issues president trump will face tomorrow. sam, morrison expected to testify publicly on tuesday. how credible is this testimony, this closed door testimony in which he said moving this transcript to this highly classified server was a mistake? the executive secretary, their job is to be meticulous. their job is to be detailed oriented, and they don t have the prerogative to move everything to a code word server. everything requires authorization in writing. and several steps would have been needed to transfer this content onto the server. he also testified gordon sondland bragged he could call the president any time he wanted. that is a quote. how significant is this? investigators would want to
the only question remaining is does it rise to the level of an impeachable offense and i would be happy to have that debate with my friends across the aisle. but we have to stop talking or arguing about whether he did it, because he did it. and also, she said looking over the note, burisma, the company in which hunter biden was on board and that it was mentioned by name in that call, and tim morrison said that he believed that the white house s memo of that call to be accurate and complete, and aren t those conflicting statements there? how do you process that? well, it would be cleared up if they would reveal the material that was sent to the codeword server which they refuse to do. and the fact of the matter is that nobody is disputing that the president has brought up with president zelensky in that phone call an effort to pursue investigations of mr. biden and