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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 approxi...

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. >...

>> mr. morrison testified at his deposition. >> we dont have that in front of us. if you can give us that, well take a look. >> i can say for myself, there were -- the concerns about leaks seemed valid and i wasnt particularly critical. i thought this was sensitive and i was not going to question the attorneys 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 info...

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 dont have the prerogative to move...

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 houses memo of that call to be accurate and complete, an...

Whether he did it. he did it. he abused the power and attempted to shakedown ukraine for personal political gain in the form of the assistance and in the 2020 election, and every witness who has come forward has corroborated that. if we needed them to, given the fact that the presidents own words in that telephone call as affirmed by nick mulvaney at a later press conference and now frankly by mr. holmes and overhearing the conversation with mr. sondland and president trump, and if there were no...

>> republicans, and congressman you have laid out what you believe is your best argument here from the democratic perspective. republicans in the memo that weve obtained this morning have laid out their best arguments and one of them includes a discussion of the presidents mindset, that you have to look at donald trumps state of mind during this call and as it relates to ukrainian military aid to assess whether he did anything wrong. do you think thats a fair point on the part of your republican...

Significant? >> well, i think what the house wants is to fill in some of these gaps. we know thattizenburg is the one who put the read out into the code word server. why did he do that? based on whose concerns? what did he think about this? what was his justification for putting it in the code word server that its clearly not classifiable at that level. i think hes important to put color and details into this. obviously we have the main outlines of what happened here because were talking about t...

Monday. what does congress need to hear from him? >> lets see if he shows up. what congress needs to hear is what he did with these concerns. typically after a head of state phone call, the director, in this case lieutenant colonel vindman, would do two things. he would review the written draft readout from the situation room but concurrently he would also give a verbal readout of the call to people who had a need to know what happened. that would be people at the state department, defense depar...

Are beyond what the rest of the folks need to follow. so this could be a real concern. not only for the witness himself. but also for the trump administration. if it is established that an order was given to essentially cover up this activity. >> melissa, one of our legal experts, joyce vance says eisenberg needed to clear things up when it came to his decision to move the call transcript in to a secret system. take a listen. >> placing this nem-con on the code word server which is not the ordin...