President zelensky. Now, colonel vindmann advance of this phone call, did you prepare for the phone call as you did the april 21st call . Yes, i did. What were the talking points based upon . They were this is not in the Public Record and i cant comment too deeply, but what is the areas that weve consistently talked about in public, it was cooperation on supporting reform agenda, anticorruption efforts and helping president zelensky implement his plans to end russias war against ukraine. In other words, theyre based on official u. S. Policy . Correct. And is there a process to determine official u. S. Policy . Yes. That is my job is to coordinate u. S. Policy. So throughout the preceding year that i had been on staff, i had undertaken an effort to make sure we had a cohesive policy. As you listened to the call, did you observe whether President Trump was following the talking points based on the official u. S. Policy . Counsel, the president could choose to use the talking points or no
Points based upon . They were so this is not in the Public Record and i cant comment too deeply but what is the areas that weve consistently talked to talked about in public is cooperation on supporting a reform agenda, anticorruption efforts and helping president zelensky implement his plans to end russias war against ukraine. In other words, theyre based on official u. S. Policy . Correct. And is there a process to determine official u. S. Policy . Yes. My job is to coordinate u. S. Policy so throughout the preceding year that i had been on staff i had undertaken an effort to make sure we had a cohesive and coherent u. S. Policy. As you listened to the call did you observe whether President Trump was following the talking points based on the official u. S. Policy . Counsel, the president could choose to use the talking points or not. Hes the president , but they were not consistent with what i provided, yes. Lets take a look at a couple of excerpts from this call. Right after preside
Its thursday, 29th of february. Our main story. A group of mps have urged ministers to consider the implications for the uk, if assisted dying is legalised in the isle of man and jersey. The Health Select committee has published a report, which it hopes will provide evidence for future debates about the law. Opponents say the current legislation prevents people from coming under pressure to end their lives. Heres our medical editor, fergus walsh. The mps dont Make Recommendations for or against assisted dying. Rather, the aim of their report is to serve as a basis for debate on what they call this difficult, sensitive, yet crucial subject. More and more countries in europe have legalised assisted dying in some form, along with new zealand, australia, canada and ten states in the us. The mps say they saw no evidence that palliative and end of life care had deteriorated as a result, and in some instances it had improved. The Committee Calls for more money for hospices in england, which o
totally. have a good show. i ll see you soon. thank you. thanks to nicole, and thanks to you for joinings. this is the beat. i m ari melber. we re tracking several stories. the january 6th committee dropped new evidence today. you might be thinking, wait, why wouldn t they include it in the hearing? but they had so much stuff, like what you see on the screen, that didn t make the hearing. this is a draft of trump s speech the day after. because he was crossing out any reference to prosecuting those blatant lawbreakers. and then there s this new testimony. do you recognize what this is? it looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day. do you recognize the handwriting? it looks like my father s handwriting. it looks like here he crossed out that he was directing the department of justice to ensure all law breaks are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, we must send a clear message, not with mercy, but with justice. legal consequences must be
I didnt think about it with the tie. Do you have an orange tie . I do own an orange tie. But you never wear it. I never wear it. Are those pumpkins from last year . No. Those are not. Okay. Can you imagine we had things made exactly like us. I have pictures of those. Those arent actually us, are they, andrew . Remember in the past our face has been on them. Our face has been on them. But not these. I apologize, we are going to talk about the markets. We have breaking news the tell you about, we talked about it a little on friday, but now its official. General electric and baker hughes are merging their operations. Now there was a lot of conversation about whether ge was effectively going to be selling its business. We talked about whether this was all happening at the wrong time. This is now what is happening. They are merging the oil and gas operations into a new company that both companies will effectively own. They are looking to get 1. 6 billion in synergies annually out of this tr