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Vice president pence was in on the call, too. vindman said, i was concerned by the call. i did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen. now president trump will question the character and credibility of witnesses giving damning testimony, like bill taylor. >> does bill taylor, william taylor, have credibility as far as youre concerned? >> are you referring to william taylors testimony? >> his testimony as far as we know. >> we cant really count on t...

Themselves from the white house, potentially giving damning information. yes, he does speak another language. a lot of people on the national security council speaks another langua language. its part of their job when theyre in there as a foreign leader and theyre the ones listening to the calls alongside a translator. this is not surprising. this is the white house distancing themselves from people like alex vindman, and this is someone who was on the call. even though the president says he doe...

Testimony saying he seems to be protecting himself rather than giving the full details that he could have. >> if he needs to defend what he said, if hes telling truth, hell come back and say that. its important to note, alex vindman, fiona hill, john volker. all of them saying this was crossing the line. this almost guarantees a vote for impeachment inquiry. then it moves to the senate, along with liz cheney saying dont attack these heroes. and nancy pelosi calls for exactly what we were askin...

The course of the last several hours and last night, which i think is shamable. that is questioning the patriotism, questioning the word of someone like corporal vindman who will be coming today and others who have testified. i think we need to show were better than that as a nation. its shameful to question their patriotism, their love of this nation and we should not be involved in that process. >> when youre at a crossroads, you have to make a choice. this is a crossroads day, when you get te...

Last night -- >> heres a hero from the iraq war. bill taylor served on the bush administration when his dad was president. john bolton,cuty adviser, serve. they wanted the democrats to take this public. they wanted the democrats to go forward. youre going to get witnesses and youre going to have to clear up things like this. alex vindman today talks about gordon sondland and says he started to speak about ukraine, delivering specific organizations in order to secure the meeting with the presiden...

Burning up twitter for the last 24 hours, after baseball fans at last nights world series fans chanted "lock him up" when president trump appeared at the game, apparently thinking everyone there would be thrilled to see him. at the end of this hour, we will show you that video and answer that question, what is the difference? and that video will probably be the last time that donald trump ever appears before a crowd that he cannot control. we begin tonight, of course, with the breaking news abou...

Ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, who knows lieutenant colonel vindman. evelyn farkas. and jonathan alter is with us, a columnist for the daily beast. ambassador mcfaul, let me start with you. what should we know about lieutenant colonel alexander vindman? >> well, we served together in moscow. when i was the ambassador, he was part of the military attache there. you read a lot of it already. and i was always struck, as i always am, the people that go to serve overseas in those embassies, es...

Whistle-blower, doesnt know who the whistle-blower is, but it is possible that colonel vindman might be one of the people who shared his concerns about the situation with the person who turned out that decided to become the whistle-blower. >> it sounds highly likely, lawrence, because he is describing exactly what happened -- he describes that he heard the phone call, he was alarmed, he spoke to people about his alarm, he likely spoke to the whistle-blower. he probably has a sense of who the whi...

That join the u.s. government and serve in the military. they are even more committed to the cause. you know, hes a lawyer patriot. i have no idea if hes a democrat or a republican. and there would be no reason that that would ever come up. and another thing. i also worked at the white house, i want to underscore. i was senior director there for three years. and i had people like colonel vindman that worked for me. remember, theyre also the best and the brightest that get detailed to work at the...

Kind of evidence as hearsay. but colonel vindman is not a hearsay witness. he literally was on the phone call and he also had his own direct conversations with gordon sondland. gordon sondland is now the person in most jeopardy in terms of whats happened in the investigation, in the committee so far. he is the one person who may be close to a perjury charge. and colonel vindmans opening statement says, ambassador sondland started to speak about ukraine, delivering specific investigations in orde...