Congress Deems News Today

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Spoke to something everyone in the room understood, that open defiance can become obstruction and sondland described he didnt like that or being held back from full cooperation with evidence. >> i have not had access to all of my phone records, state department e-mails and many, many other state department documents. my lawyers and i have made multiple requests to the state department and the white house for these materials. yet, these materials were not provided to me. >> i believe that those w...

Appear and to tell you what i know. >> i believe that those who have information that the congress deems relevant have a legal and a moral obligation to provide it. >> john bolton doesnt believe that. john bolton should have been in that hearing room today, but he does not believe that those who have information that the congress deems relevant have a legal and a moral obligation to provide it. john bolton has provided that information for money to a new york book publisher that is paying him $2...

Everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. to secretary pompeo, secretary perry. chief of staff mulvaney and mr. mulvaneys senior adviser rob blair. a lot of senior officials. >> i believe that those who have information that the congress deems relevant have a legal and a moral obligation to provide it. >> fiona hills obvious sense of duty, more obligation to appear. a sentiment evidently not shared by some of the key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. democrats are relying on testimony from...

Choice of tell ing a very important truth or saying nothing? what will you choose? for some people that actually doesnt feel like a choice at all. for those people it feels like an obligation. a moral obligation. >> since you determined that i may have something of value to these proceedings and issued a subpoena, it is my obligation to appear and to tell you what i know. >> i believe that those who have information that the congress deems relevant have a legal and a moral obligation to provide ...

>> in one of the lines in her opening statement, she writes -- she says this. i believe that those who have information that the congress deems relevant have a legal and moral obligation to provide it. that seems like a slight against john bolton, her former boss, the national security adviser who they want to come and testify. so far he has not done so. >> what we know of john boltons position -- >> by the way, theyre arriving. there you see david holmes. hes getting ready to walk into the hear...

The example we set here of democracy and the rule of law. thank you. >> thank you, mr. holmes. dr. hill. >> thank you, mr. chairman. do i need to adjust the microphone? >> perfect. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee. thank you for inviting me to testify before you today. i have a short opening statement. i appreciate the importance of congresss impeachment inquiry and i am appearing today as a fact witness. as i did during my deposition on october 14th. in order to answer your question...

Partners. ukrainians and freedom loving people everywhere are watching the example we set here of democracy and the rule of law. thank you. >> thank you m holmes. dr. helm. >> thank you, mr. chairman. do i need to adjust the microphone? >> is thedj microphone on? >> i believe it is now. correct? >> perfect. thank you, again, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, ranking member nunes and members of the committee thank you for inviting me to testify before you today. i have a short opening statement. i appr...

And whether or not it would come to a grinding halt if the president were to shut down the government. could that possibly and feasibly be a tactic of the president to do anything he can to slow this thing down? >> i think it is actually more like the case that he would introduce a shutdown or not really cooperate in terms of funding the government, to create a diversion. so there is an alternative story line that the media can cover, and then congress will have to fix eventually, and to try to ...

Six-year term. these are policy suggestions. he says with regard to the investigation that congress should pass a law that would stop the president from -- >> thats an important distinction. >> i think whats important is in jones v clinton, the supreme court said the same thing. they said were going to give the president protection. were not going to give the president blanket protection from being sued in a civil case. well give him the deference in scheduling and then the court says if the con...