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Russian or ukrainian in these officials. and he says, no, they were speaking in english. and he added, i immediately reported this to my superiors. we had a laugh about it. he asked three times in a meeting and never came back to it. and made clear that he got it on the record and worked for several months with mr. fiona hill. but they were trying to impugn his loyalty to the united states of america, a man who got a purple heart serving in iraq. >> combat operations in iraq. laura coates is wit...

Statement and im happy to answer any questions. >> mr. chairman, ranking members, thank you for the opportunity to address the house permanent select committee on intention with respect to the activities in ukraine and my events involved in the investigation. i dedicated my entire professional life to the united states of america. for more than two decades, it has been my pleasure to serve as as an officer of the army, and i was deployed to iraq for combat operations. since 2008 i have specializ...

About three weeks since major combat operations came to an end here, but still were seeing turkish forces who were embedded with today carrying out clearance operations. theyre sweeping areas and sweeping them multiple times checking for explosives, for devices that have been left, and we are told by turkish officials that theyre finding explosives on a daily basis and diffusing them, anywhere between 10 to 100 devices on a daily basis according to a senior turkish official. and just a short tim...

This is what he starts off. he says, i have dedicated my entire professional life to the united states of america for more than two decades, chris, he says, it has been my honor to serve as an officer in the united states army. as an infantry officer i served multiple overseas tours including south korea and germany and a deployment to iraq for combat operations. in iraq, i was wounded in an ied and was awarded with a purple heart. he goes on to talk about all the embassies around the world hes ...

Crossed, but of course if hes anywhere near what he is sold as, hell certainly be in any future hearings that the house will have. quick plus-minus for me. he heard the call. forget about hearsay. hes got ridiculous credentials. forget about him being a nobody. >> can i just read this when you say that? youve been reading a lot of what hes going to say. he says, i have dedicated my entire professional life to the united states of america for more than two decades, chris, he says, it has been my ...

Governments support of ukraine. following the call, i again reported membership concerns to nscs lead counsel," that would be john eisenberg. colonel vindman stresses that he personally has had no direct contact or communication with president trump. and he also says he is not the whistle-blower. he says, "i want the committees to know i am not the whistle-blower who brought this issue to the cia and the committees attention. i do not know who the whistle-blower is and i would not feel comfortab...

What is -- again, im just looking at this for the first time. let me read you a little bit of what is here. this has just been handed to me. "mr. chairman and ranking members, thank you for the opportunity to address the committees, ukraine and my role and my events under investigation. i dedicated my entire professional life to the united states of america. for more than two decades, its been my honor to serve as an officer in the u.s. army. as an infantry officer, i served tours including sout...

Professional life to the united states of america. for more than two decades, its been my honor to serve as an officer in the u.s. army. as an infantry officer, i served tours including south korea and germany and deployment to iraq for combat operations. in iraq i was wounded in an ied attack and awarded a purple heart. since 2008, ive been a foreign area officer specializing in euras eurasia. i served in the u.s. embassies in kiev and moscow and washington, d.c. i was a politico military affai...

Colonel vindman begins his opening statement with some basic biographical information. he says, "i have dedicated my entire professional life to the united states of america. for more than two decades, it has been my honor to serve as an officer in the united states army. as an infantry officer, i served multiple overseas tours, including south korea and germany, and a deployment to iraq for combat operations in iraq. i was wounded in an ied attack and awarded a purple heart. since 2008, i have ...

Occupation force. if the serbs strike again, well bomb the serbs. >> richard had to actually go and sit down with all of those involved to try to make sure that they would be willing to do this and it wasnt easy and then youve got wes clark working to make sure we can get these individuals to come to the table. >> meanwhile, the serbs had taken the occasion of a market day to fire a mortar shell and kill 32 people. and so this was the trigger point that nato needed to start the bombing. >> so wh...