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Has taken down. and i just want your viewers to know, lawrence, that its not just the ambassador whos able to review those transcripts. every member on the republican side, up to about 50 of them, are able to also review those transcripts and participate in these hearings, despite all of the attacks theyve made on their lack of access. >> ambassador mcfall, if you could suggest a question to colonel vindman tomorrow, what would you suggest the committee, knowing what his job is and knowing the t...

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...

Links up why this is related to our national security. and the reason is, the reason that ukraine did not want to be put in this position is that if their aid was politicized, if it became a democrat versus republican thing, because, say, the democrats thought, well, you know, ukraine is investigating joe biden on a bogus charge, then it would be less likely that they would get aid in the future. less likely that they would be able to defend themselves against russia. that is very much in our na...

As you were talking about earlier, that i think what this testimony suggests is that the phone call was just one act, was just one play, if you will, in a long, multiple month, many, many different iterations with the ukrainians. and i want to know when he knew, the other things that happened before that phone call. and secondly, i would ask him about the first phone call. we havent talked much about that phone call, but there was a congratulatory phone call to president zelensky earlier in the ...

To me in reading that statement tonight, lawrence, was the fact that he says that he began to understand as early as the spring that what he described as outside influencers were getting involved in ukraine policy in a way that was contrary to u.s. national security interests. that links up very well with what we are reporting at nbc news tonight, which is that as early as mid-may, long before had previously been known, fiona hill, a top official at the white house had been notified that preside...

Forwa forward, doing their constitutional duty. these are our heros now and i think they will be seen as such, when the history of impeachment is written. and in this case, you have somebody who was not only on the call, but was in the military, you know. ambassador taylor was in vietnam. he was in iraq and he got a purple heart, vindman did, after being wounded in iraq. its going to be very hard for donald trump to rip him apart, when he testifies in public, which is coming, if not next week, t...

Course, that was a special element that he had. you know, the other thing about him, i think, as a military officer, he stresses over and over again, this duty that he has to speak out and report up the chain, if he sees something awry. and its something that we dont drill into civilians regularly. but in the military, youre not really required or youre not expected to resign, youre expected to follow orders, but youre also expected to speak out and evaluate concerns up the chain. >> jonathan al...

Security, and that such investigations were not something the nsc was going to get involved in or pushed. dr. fiona hill then entered the room and asserted to ambassador sondland that his statements were inappropriate. following the debriefing meeting, i reported my concerns to the nscs lead counsel. dr. hill also reported the incident to the nscs lead counsel. and ambassador mcfall, this is the kind of scene that im sure does not surprise you at all, except for the sondland part. but the part w...

Deposition tomorrow. but it is now a public statement. and this will be the first witness who you will have, who actually listened to the presidents phone call. >> good evening, lawrence. i very much look forward tomorrow morning to thanking lieutenant colonel vindman for his service to our country. this soviet-born immigrant, this wounded warrior, this patriot who i have not seen officially the opening statement, but from what i have read, which has been released, of course based on his service...

Deposition is -- theres 48 republican members of the house who have a right to be in that deposition, listen to ever word, and ask every question they might want to ask of colonel vindman. there are republican staff members in that room. and so this is their chance to talk -- their first chance, to talk to someone who actually listened to the trump phone call. >> and i dont think theyre going to do anything to knock him down. theres no indication that the republicans have laid a glove on any of ...