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It is 12 00 in new york. Were following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc Senior Adviser fiona hill and current u. S. Diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the Trump Administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a Smear Campaig...

Mr. Richmond votes no. Mr. Jeffries votes no. Mr. Cicilliny votes no. Thank you for joining us tonight. This is Roll Call Vote under way right now. Were watching this historic impeachment proceeding under way in congress. If youve been watching today and into tonight you know that in technical terms this is what tay call a markup which means the Judiciary Committee is there to change or fine tune the articles of impeachment against President Trump before a final vote. In reality what todays proc...

>> there are two things that stand out. the first thing is the court, like when its proper to recuse is supposed to consider the appearance of bias and impropriority. you may have your excuses what you meant, but if youre attentive to public concern, the appearance of bias has been met by flying that flag over your house while youre ruling on maga and insurrection-related cases. the second thing is weve had to count on the actual description of what took place of justice alito, which appears to ...

6 unless something happens, unless there was a senate conviction of said president. thats never happened, so the trigger doesnt exist. if youre out assassinating american rivals in the judges hypothetical, that includes members of the u.s. senate, thats one of a hundred problems with this. your thoughts, tim, on whether this fact finding process where people are seeing what the president and his team say they can do whether that affects people in our society as they decide how to vote? >> im wit...

Actions. doesnt mean he is a target but theres a fact finding process going on and some point merrick garland there have to make a decision if he hasnt already about the policy of what to do here with this? is there enough to bring a charge? do they want to potentially charge a former president for actions he took while in office? >> so much pressure on garland about this investigation. a lot we dont know about where this investigation is. listen to these senators. >> the mounting evidence indic...

That we had today, which i participated in, will be very useful for the committee and for a fact finding process. that doesnt mean that were going to uncritically except everything or anything that in particular witnesses to say. but often, witnesses lead to very valuable evidence. sometimes when they intend to and sometimes when they dont. so i found today, we had four witnesses before the committee today to be a very important date in terms of our fact finding process. >> there is also some of...

His cooperation is sufficient and being done in good faith. take a listen. >> i was the person who came up with the january 6th idea with congressman gosar, congressman mo brooks, and congressman andy biggs. we four schemed up putting maximum pressure on congress while they were voting so that who we couldnt lobby, we could change the hearts and the minds of republicans who were in that body, hearing our loud roar from outside. >> slight correction. thats not today. that was much earlier as he d...

Uncritically accept everything or anything that a particular witness has to say. but often witnesses lead to very valuable evidence, sometimes when they intend to and sometimes when they dont. so i found today -- and we had four witnesses before the committee today -- to be a very important date in terms of our fact-finding process. >> theres also some of the documents that meadows turned over are coming out now, which appear to show, including a 38-slide powerpoint, just a very explicit like pl...

And backs and fourth of the past few years. >> its incredible and again because so much of this is new to the public right now. because nobody knew this to happen. what can you tell us about the burglary itself? was this believed at the time to have been a run-of-the-mill property crime that had nothing to do with them is bidens family relations, or is this something that they thought from the beginning might have been a politically motivated effort. do they know anything about the initial crime...

A lot about this office, as she worked there. one of the things that really stuck out to me was the -- one of the reporters asking the sheriff, you keep referring to this person as a victim, and he said, right now, hes read the ags report and he said hes comfortable saying she is a victim, saying its the hardest thing shes done in her life to make an allegation against the governor. what else did we learn that tells us about the process moving forward? >> reporter: well, lindsey, it sounds like,...