Decades who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security counsel staffers, hill, vindman, morrison and mcguire came forward to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as soon as they learned of it, didnt they, mr. Goldman . Morrison and vindman went to the lawyers as soon as they learned it, yes. That moved me a lot because my father was a staffer on the National Security council under president kennedy and he said the most important thing you can bring to work with you every day is your conscience. He devoted his career to the idea that people must speak truth to power when power becomes a clear and present danger to democracy and to the people. So i want to talk about two of the many honorable government witnesses who went under oath and stood up for the truth. Mr. Goldman, who is dr. Fiona hill. She was the senior director for the europe and russia directorate at the National Security council until july of this year. And she was President Trumps Senior Advise
Do you recall mr. Morrisons reaction . Mr. Morrison said that he was shocked, i think, and that sinking feeling . Sinking feeling, correct, and then he went and talked to the lawyers at the direction of ambassador bolton. Correct. And mr. Goldman, ambassador taylor also testified that he concluded that the military aid was conditioned on zelensky announcing the investigations and he testified that this was illogic illogical, crazy and wrong, is that right . Thats what ambassador taylor testified to, yes. My colleagues have also pointed out that on september 9 a text message from sondland reflecting that the president has been Crystal Clear that there is no quid pro quo. Mr. Goldman, am i correct that ambassador sondland has now testified that prior to sending his texts, he himself came too believe th believe that the aid was conditioned on the announcement of investigations . Yes. Ambassador sondlands subsequent public testimony revealed at least two things that were precisely false, t
You very much mister chairman that the Ranking Member Mister Collins relative to the Telephone Company subpoenas to include certain information in the majority report from the Intelligence Community. There are two issues involved in one is not involved in word it is fully authorized under the law and procedures but where i do have a problem is ace fact that somebody made a decision to attach the metadata to the subpoena of phone numbers of journalists and members of congress that is the beginning of the absolutely outrageous with the freedom act of 2013. Had chairman schiff decided to man up rather than hiding behind Mister Goldman and his team of investigators we couldve gotten to the bottom of this to make sure that this never happens again. I do not want to see members of congress with their subpoena power without any type of cause and then to go the next step to publish the results in a report that is an abuse of power here we see a clear abuse of power on the part of the people th
Anna welcome to countdown. Im anna edwards. Ryan im ryan chilcote. Anna at 6 00 lets have a look at the tech sector. Lets start with apple, because i have a chart here that shows the afterhours move we saw this was even after the Company Reported a record thirdquarter profit number. Revenues were disappointing. Ryan this threatens to remove again that apple saw that huge rally of almost 10 . It could be one of the biggest losses ever. Anna more generally, this was the biggest tech rally since october. Will that change in the session today . We have lots to talk about. Apple was just one of a few tech giants that reported in yesterdays session. That came afterhours. Lets get Caroline Hyde and paul sweeney. Great pleasure to have you. Lets continue the conversation with apple and what it is. Caroline its phenomenal when you put it in perspective we could see 66 billion dollars worth of its market cap erased. In perspective, that is more than bmws entire market cap. It is a record thirdqu
All three major averages down with the nasdaq leading, now down by mother 1 . It all has to do with concern over global growth. And to rotation of the fed minutes. The upside is that maybe with dovish representation of the fed minutes. The averages are now may be giving up their gains or getting closer to it. The yen has really been the big market story of the day. It continues to push higher to its level since october 2014 versus the u. S. Dollar. 1. 0 108. We have to look at options trading on the end. We have the highest level of in optionsf volume that we have seen since february. This is something that definitely has picked up. We have also seen a lot of folks who has been saying that the yen rally will not last. They have been giving up on that view as they have been forced into it. Alix this is the third day the s p has swung 1 . Weve havent we havent seen that since february. And gold is a beneficiary of that. Julie indeed. We have seen gold do well with once again. In terms of