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Conversations with the president and sondland talking about withholding ukraine aid minus investigations. and whats important for the white house is tim morrison is someone who is seen as a supporter of president trump, he is seen as a conservative hawk, so previously the white house had gone after alex vindman with the president saying hes a never trumper -- >> that has no basis in fact. >> exactly, that has no basis in fact, but the point is, theyve tried to go after these previous witnesses, ...

Guy, hard core hard core hard core national security conservative and in particular a real hawk on nuclear issues. he served until today as the senior director for europe and russia at the national security council. npr was the first to report his resignation today. and i want to underscore today, according to the report, morrison is expected to leave his postimminently meaning he is gone which is important because his scheduled testimony for the impeachment proceedings is tomorrow morning. so, ...

Kupperman and bolton are saying, we have two competing directives here which could be of equal weight, federal judge, you decide.l >> and donna edwards, john bolton is an unlikely hero for democrats, a hard line conservative, a hawk against the iran agreement. but he,, t according to other witnesses,g taylor, fiona hill and others, was arguing against the shadow diplomacy of rudy giuliani and the pressure on ukraine as being improper. >> i mean, heres the thing. we have witnesses all around john...

Remind us, what does bolton testimony get you? how big a fish is he considered in all of this considering how much is already in there on the record? >> well, considering what we already know about what has been testified to behind closed doors is that john bolton was a witness to these efforts, these shadow efforts by trump-aligned associates and consultants to try to implement a shadow foreign policy that was inconsistent with the foreign policy that the u.s. diplomatic and national security a...

He quit his job on a friday apparently to free him up in some way so he could testify to the impeachment proceedings early the following week. since then weve seen one of the top officials at the state department michael mckinically also resign his position at the trump administration. he stepped down after more than three decades in the state department ahead of his own testimony to the impeachment proceedings. well, now today theres another senior trump administration official stepping down be...

He had a big showdown, it would appear, from reporting over the taliban being at camp david. it turns out we are learning that these questions, and as you describe it, and i take your word and your reporting for it, a power struggle over ukraine policy, it was a very, very complicated relationship by the end, wasnt it? >> it certainly was. and this is a hawk who came into a noninterventionist populist administration and never fit. hes someone who worked for reagan for president george w. bush, w...

House reporter for nbc news digital. mieke eoyang, attorney, former staffer for both house intel and armed services committees. and andrew desiderio, congressional reporter for politico. good evening. welcome to you all. andrew, id like to begin with o you and your beat.d just to remind us, what does bolton testimony get you? how big a fish is he considered in all of this considering how much is already in there on the record? >> well, considering what we already know about what has been testifi...

How big a fish is he considered in all of this considering how much is already in there on the record?is >> well, considering what we already know about what has been testified to behind closed doorn is that john bolton was a witness to these efforts, these shadow efforts by trump-aligned associates and consultants to try to implement a shadow foreign policy that was inconsistent with the foreign policy that the u.s. diplomatic and national security apparatusa was pushing. obviously john bolton,...

Son hunter. the white house did not outright deny it omitted another reference to biden and because chairman schiff has kept the sham hearings secret and excludedet counsel from the roo we cannot confirm whether lieutenant colonel vindman made any false claim. what we can confirm he never suggested filling any words at any points where elip cease appeared in the transcript. and tim morrison, known as a conservative hawk is set to testify in theco impeachment inquiry later today. accordingin to...

Investigation. a senior administration official tells a nbc news that morrison s decided to pursue other opportunities, and has been considering doingop so for some time. we wish him well. multiple sources tell npr that andrew, a deputy assistant secretary of state for iraq and iranse will replace morrison. >>an joining us now from washington, white house reporter for axios, good morning to you, you heard tim morrison being described as a conservative hawk there. he is stepping down from his rol...