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Trumps long held view of ukraine as a corrupt country. former advisor, chris anderson will be testifying as well. "i want to reiterate that my colleagues and i in the foreign service are non mf partis-parti. i will take that commitment as well as my oath to defend the constitution seriously." alexander vindman claims the white houses memo detailing the phone call between trump and skelet zelensky was not so accurate at all. anna palmer is joining us now. >> what do you expect for the kmi committ...

Admission that they withheld foreign aid in order to insist on investigations taking place. you have the text messages from ambassador taylor with ambassador sondland, and today the more corroborating testimony. so i think the republicans are honestly beginning to panic. they are losing on the substance, and so theyre going after the process. and then today they tried to do everything they could to really fill in the blanks through the back door by asking lieutenant lieutenant colonel vindman na...

Were going to talk about all of that, talk about your book. im so happy to have you here. i really am. >> its great to be with you, don. its been too long. >> you can offer great perspective. absolutely. i want to get your reaction to the opening statement of colonel vindman tonight. im sure youve been hearing about it on the news. he says he heard trump ask ukraine to investigate the bidens. how damaging is this to the president? >> well, this is one in a series of corroborating testimony that,...

About what was going on. we heard from bill taylor, his courageous testimony with corroborating notes that talked about he was deeply concerned about a shadow foreig policy being performed by rudy giuliani of all people. and that things were contingent upon president zelensky making sure he opened up an investigation into biden and burisma and also that he publicly made a statement about that. weve seen this pattern of behavior before by this president. we read the exact same pattern in the muel...

Investigate joe biden. he was so disturbed by what he heard and so concerned that it was damaging to u.s. interests that he reported it twice. so lets discuss now. the perfect guest, im so happy to have the former ambassador to the u.n. here, national security adviser to president barack obama susan rice. she is the author of "tough love: my story of the things worth fighting for." were going to talk about all of that, talk about your book. im so happy to have you here. i really am. >> its great...

President and his defenders. its been unsurprisingly, but disappointingly, attacks on lieutenant colonel vindman that weve seen. last night on the laura ingrahams program, accused of espionage. john duffy talked about dual loyalty to ukraine. this mans story is the ultimate immigration story. its one we should all be praising. he is a patriot, he has served our nation for 20 years, and the fact the presidents supporters feel comfortable going out there and tearing him down and talking about hear...

Know it was explosive. a purple heart recipient wounded in iraq, corroborating others who have testified this was a quid pro quo bribery plot. his first-hand knowledge reverberating tonight in the capitol. >> republicans have complained that there wasnt anyone who had first-hand knowledge of the call. he was on that call. >> a person who has dedicated his life to the national security of this country. >> first-hand evidence of the betrayal of this president, of his oath of office. >> now, is the...

That? should congress speak with this whistleblower? >> at this point, we have the written complaint of the whistleblower which has now been corroborated by actual people who were either participants on the call. observed things before or after. we have the transcript of the call itself. the need for the whistleblower is not there anymore and the anonymity of the whistleblower is especially important. we dont want to chill future whistleblowers from coming forward if they expect, if they come fo...

Hour six more or less right now hes been behind closed doors? >> yeah. weve just begun our sixth. its a longer day than we anticipated. we were told he would wrap up around 2:00 or 3:00, but sounds like reeker has a lot to say. republicans and democrats keep going back and forth asking him questions. one democratic congressman representative lynch from massachusetts emerged from these closed-door depositions saying reek certify a quote reservoir of information. hes corroborating what a lot of pr...

Yovanovitch was ousted and recalled back to the united states. and they are the shadow state department that was starting to run ukraine policy for the united states. so as we are hearing a little bit of these details, were also hearing kind of what republicans and democrats think about whats being said. now, both republicans and democrats are saying that he is really corroborating evidence of what previous people who have come behind these closed doors have said. that weve heard from other witn...