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Russia, tim morrison, is tonight the second person who was on that fateful july call between president trump and ukraines president to testify before house investigators. adding more intense scrutiny to every word that was said on that call. one of morrisons deputies, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman testified tuesday that there were at least two places that he tried to make corrections to the rough transcript of the call. a source familiar with the matter tells cnn. but the changes to the t...

It comes as we are learning new revelations from a combat veteran who worked on the national security council drawing a direct line between military aid to ukraine and the presidents push for political help lieutenant colonel alexander vindman describing the money as contingent on the investigations into the presidents political rivals according to two sources familiar with vindmans closed-door testimony. vindman also told lawmakers he tried to add back to the white horo of the july call between...

Ukrainian president is going to raise a lot of questions. now based on the reporting so far, these omissions do not change the fundamental understanding of this transcript. however, that raises the question even further of why they were left out of the transcript. something that is done from software by people in the room. and the white house has -- in the transcript, maintained it wasnt the exact thing, even though the president has said over a dozen times, yes, this is an exact transcript. tho...

Burisma. also, there is an omission of a reference to tapes that president trump talked about, recordings of president, former vice president joe biden. so on multiple occasions there were references to biden that were omitted. overall, though, we are told from sources that vindman relayed the call tron script was mostly correct. there were those omissions. but that undercuts what the white house has been saying for some time that this is perfectly illustrative of exactly of what happened on the...

Something was taken out there. tuned get ahead of the story, if theres a tape of it the american public should hear it. >> nancy pelosi says this white house is engaged in a cover-up. put on your prosecutor cap. you see omissions in the transcript combined with the president ins assistance that this was accurate, do you think that that is an issue? >> it is. i think that you have a linear thing here which is, first the narrative that we started to show. the president using powers of his office q...

That several serious omissions were made and if it was a transcript, a phone call that was so beautiful and perfect according to president trump, then why did it have to be edited, senator baldwin, and put on a secret server? >> those are the answers that the house of representatives in their investigatory committees are asking right now and getting answers to. according to news reports colonel vindman yesterday said he tried to make the record complete and more accurate. some suggestions were t...

Alexander vinman testified there were omissions in the summary of this phone call with the president and the president of ukraine. the presidents mention of the biden tapes was taken out. the company as it was called that hunter biden was on the board of. if the white house omitted parts of the call from the transcript, is that significant to you? >> what is significant to us is the presidents conduct. so if any omissions occurred at the direction of the president or his agents like mick mulvane...

As he tweeted, to go with substance and close it out. but top gop lawmakers are still quarreling with the process, complaining that the upcoming vote on the house impeachment inquiry is too little, too late. >> no due process now. maybe some later, but only if we feel like it is not a standard that should ever be applied to any american, and it should not applied here to the president of the united states. >> democrats say they want to talk substance. >> the president was pressuring a foreign go...

Ideal first witness, as they move to the next phase of this investigation, wolf, the public phase. wolf? >> all right, sunlen, thank you. sunlen serfaty on capitol hill, as democrats are urging john bolton to testify, president trump is on the attack. jim, theres a new white house response to lieutenant colonel vindmans testimony about omissions in the rough transcript of the presidents ukraine phone call. >> reporter: thats right, wolf. the president shifted his attacks today from the whistle-b...

Correct and there was some omissions from that transcript and materially change the import of that conversation in a meaningful way, this is all trump and the republicans have been saying. i released it. theres no quid pro quo. something comes out that it was altered in a meaningful way, that could be a problem for the white house and for the president. >> bret: for the longest time, chuck, seemed like speaker pelosi didnt want to have this impeachment inquiry vote because she didnt want democra...