A public or legal duty do you believe that not only was it quid pro quo but it was bribery im not a lawyer and im not going to characterize what something was or wasnt legally. You also said in your Opening Statement that secretary perry and your yourself as well as ambassador volcker worked with giuliani on the ukraine matter as an express or direction of the president is that right thats correct you also go on to say that we did not want to work with giuliani simply put we played the hand that we were dealt what did you mean by that and more importantly what did you think would happen if you did not play that hand i think what youre asking me is. Well you asked it i did as well what would happen if we didnt. It was very fragile with ukraine at the time there was no new ambassador the old master had left there was a new president we thought it was very very important to shore up the relationship in fact you actually said you go on to say we all understood that if we were fused to work
Schiff could be sworn in as a witness. How will all this play out to the race in the white house, jeff is here one of two democrats who voted to oppose the impeachment inquiry. The investigation impact on 2020, all that and a lot more as we look ahead on sunday morning features. In the public hearing in the impeachment inquiry will continue this upcoming week with eight officials are scheduled to testify. Including u. S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland whose name is come up so far. They heard testimony from William Taylor and george kent, the dippy assistant secretary of state for europe and eastern europe. Neither could answer this key question from john macklin. In this impeachment hearing today for treason or bribery and other high crimes, where is the impeachable offensive not call her either of you here today to assert there was an Impeachable Offense . Shouted out, anyone and raining right now ratcliff how intel Homeland Security and also former federal prosecuto
Investigators. According to one lawmaker the state Department Official whose make is david holmes spoke about overhearing a telephone conversation in which President Trump allegedly asked about whether ukraine was going to move ford with an investigation in the democrat joe biden. The sixhour deposition from holmes came after an eventful public hearing featuring testimony from the former ambassador to ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. She testified that she felt threatened by a Smear Campaign led by the president and his personal attorney rudy giuliani. Smack in the middle of that public testimony, President Trump slammed yovanovitch again. This time on twitter leading democrats to raise concerns about potential witness intimidation. We have Team Coverage beginning with Kyra Phillips on capitol hill. Good morning, kyra. Reporter good morning, you guys. Boy, it was quite a day yesterday. Both witnesses making news. As you just mentioned, david holmes behind closed doors testifying that he ove
That ambassador saw and had raised before about investigating the bidens right or did and i want to ask you when you heard him say that was the 1st thought that went through your mind frankly i couldnt believe what i was hearing it was probably an element of shock. Joins us now from capitol hill in washington as it were the main points that emerged from these particular witnesses. Or not only did we hear from then then about his concern regarding the phone call but we also learned that he had attended a white house meeting in which aides to ukraines president were visiting the white house prior to this call and they were told explicitly by trumps own aides that there was a quid pro quo that in exchange for a meeting between saloons in trouble in person at the white house that ukraine would have to deliver the investigations into joe biden the other witness we saw on the stand this morning with Jennifer Williams she works with the Vice President s office and she had information on what
Later, dayton, mass shooting. Weve had some of the worst Mass Shootings in the history and not a darn thing is being done in washington, d. C. , not a darn thing. The governor called out President Trump and senator mill asking them to take and push back against the powerful gun lobby. At some point, these School Shootings will decrease, but at this rate not any time soon. This marks the 85th instance of gun violence on School Grounds this year. Several organizations keep track of the statistics, including every town for gun safety. Heres what they found. All the red dots here, you can see across the country from the bay area all the way to the east coast and down in the south, all the red dots represent where a shooting happened where someone died. 13 of those dark red dots. The lighter red dots, the pink dots that you s wounded. Thats 30 of them there. The white dots represent instances where a firearm was shot, but no one injured. This is a developing story so well keep following it