official to testify in the probe. three others from that agency have defied subpoenas. this comes as russia and numerous other countries likely intercepted the ambassador gordon sondland s reported phone call from a restaurant in ukraine. that s the phone call where bill taylor testified that an aide overheard trump discussing a potential probe of the bidens with sondland and you may remember trump says he does not remember that call. out front now, cnn political correspondent, abby philip and republican state senator in nevada, greg brower, joe lockhart who was president clinton s secretary during the impeachment investigation and laura coates. laura, let me start with you with the news omb. three others from the omb designed to do so, it s that the order according to the testimony that we have from transcripts to withhold the aid came from the omb and they said it came from mick mulvaney and directly from the president of the united states. so sandy could be very
president is innocent. this concludes this portion of the hearing. so if you can show me that, i might change my mind. independents we spoke with said that they were glad to see this public hearing, that they can watch it live and direct without any sort of filter. they said that they were looking forward to seeing it again tomorrow, but erin, we should also point out i spoke with a lot of other independents who said they didn t have the interest or the time to sit there all day and watch the hearings. erin? kyung, thank you very much. look, this is obviously important from the perspective of independents and republicans, obviously, democrats, you know where they are. greg, one woman was moved to tears in kyung s piece saying she did not recognize the republican party anymore. you re a republican and former state senator. do you relate with voters and the gop? and that lady was moved to
i want to go out front now to the former assistant fbi director greg brower. gop committee counsel sophia nelson and our chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news, isikoff, and rick santorum who voted to remove clinton from office during the mock trial. president trump has repeatedly discussed firing his own pick, his own hand-picked ig for the intelligence committee michael atkinson because atkinson determined the whistle-blower s complaint was credible and urgent. the president apparently believes he s disloyal and trying to sabotage his presidency. what does this tell you? well, it concerns me greatly, erin, as a former federal inspector general myself. this inspector general like all inspector generals was doing his
should he go testify? and executive privilege, and you work for me, so basically going to a court was thumbing his nose at trump, that s sure what it looked like and the washington post sais reporting that there a growing rift over who is in charge with the impeachment testimony. with a team like that on the eve of your biggest day you re going to score some big goals. all joke aside, everyone s back with me. greg, look, this is the eve of the first public hearings and this is this important night ask a day of import possibly weeks away from the vote in the house to impeach the president of the united states and yet in the white house you have a chief of staff who was in the lawsuit against his boss and now jumping out of that and now in a fight with the general counsel. it does seem chaotic. it does, erin, and it s you know, it s hard to know exactly what s going on in the white house unless you re trul oat inside, but from all outward
the house oversight committee during the clinton impeachment and former assistant director for the fbi greg brower and former republican state senator in nevada. michael, okay. you see mckinley s testimony. and then pompeo is specifying a certain date, certain period during which he says this conversation did not occur. and then when george stephanopolus says did it ever occur he says i don t want to talk about may conversations. was pompeo less than forthcoming in that interview? you can t get a sharper contradiction between what ambassador mckinley testified under oath and what secretary pompeo was saying on tv to george stephanopolus. i think this is going to make it pretty difficult for pompeo to avoid saying more, including if not testifying before the house committee, it s pretty clear that no administration, senior administration officials are