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And house committees have released the deposition transcript of president trumps top ukraine expert on the national security council army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. vindman when was on trumps call with the ukrainian president testified that there was no doubt trump was seeking nfg investigations from ukraine involving the 2016 election as well as former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. according to the transcript of his october closed door testimony released friday, vindma...

Opinion? >> i think its gigantic. i know we live in the world of cnn, and there are people that are glued to every nuance of whats happening, but theres a lot of the public that just knows, hey, theres something going on with the ukraine. the polls show -- most americans are favoring the impeachment inquiry, but they dont really know what really transpired. and i think just getting to hear the voice, not just reading a deposition transcript or something, but getting to see who is ambassador mari...

Role michael cohen once filled. he is trumps fixer and his bag man but for free. and that is why giuliani is at the center of this whole thing. he was running point on the trump scheme to extort ukraine and get them to dig up and manufacture dirt on the presidents political rival. if there are two themes that constantly come through in every single impeachment investigation transcript that we get its that number one, there was a sprawling energetic corrupt attempt and two rudy giuliani was runni...

Investigations. answer, quote, the investigations that were being suggested were the ones that rudy giuliani had been tweeting about, meaning biden, burisma, and 2016. thats from the transcript of the testimony from deputy assistant secretary of state george kent. that deposition transcript was released today. george kent will be on the stand at the first public impeachment hearing of the president which will be wednesday of next week. thats all today. a lot going on. were also going to be talki...

Politically motivated investigations. answer, quote, the investigations that were being suggested were the ones that rudy giuliani had been tweeting about, meaning biden, burisma, and 2016. thats from the transcript of the testimony from deputy assistant secretary of state george kent. that deposition transcript was released today. george kent will be on the stand at the first public impeachment hearing of the president which will be wednesday of next week. thats all today. a lot going on. were ...

Man but for free. and that is why giuliani is at the strf of this whole thing. he was running point on the trump scheme to extort ukraine and get them to dig up and manufacture dirt on the presidents political rival. if there are two themes that constantly come through in every single impeachment investigation transcript we get, number one there was a sprawling energetic corrupt attempt and two rudy giuliani was running that corrupt extortion attempt. today we got our latest example of that in t...

Hearings, republicans will not be fighting with ambassador taylor. his deposition transcript shows its impossible for republicans to try to do that.s but they will need to create a diversion in the hearing room to try to shift the attention from the devastating testimony about what donald trump had rudy giuliani and gordon sondland were doing with ukraine. a so you can expect jim jordan if hes there will be yelling at democrats in that hearing. yelling about the procedures being followed by the ...

Of the national security council. that was what jim jordan tried to accomplish. ambassador taylor said that he thinks he initiated the phone call, but he couldnt be absolutely sure. that was all jim jordan had. thats all he tried to do in that deposition was ask about who placed the call, who received the call. no republican in that room tried even the slightest attack on the ambassador taylor whos a west point graduate and served in every administration republican and democrat since ronald reag...

Chris, thank you. >> give us -- talk a little bit about this democratic strategy for opening these hearings, like why start with ambassador taylor? whats the story you think is critical for americans to take away? >> sure. everybody probably has heard of mr. taylor who has been paying attention to whats been going on with the ukraine affair, but ambassador taylor is a west point graduate and vietnam veteran and served this country for 50 years as a career public servant, apolitical, and he came ...

Political opponent as well as further conspiracy theory of the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial to his re-election campaign so those open hearings will be an opportunity for the american people to evaluate the witnesses for themselves, to make their own determinations about the credibility of the witnesses, but also to learn first hand about the facts of the presidents misconduct. along those lines, today we will be releasing the deposition transcript of ambassador taylor, so p...