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good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 1,033 of the trump administration as a new week is under way, another dangerous week for this presidency, courtesy of the house democrats running the impeachment inquiry. the next round of live, televised hearings set to start just hours from now. there are nine more witnesses scheduled to appear just this coming week. late tonight, two more witness transcripts were released. more on that in a moment. tomorrow, the hearings resume with two officials who were listening in on the july 25 call with the new president of ukraine, pence adviser jennifer williams and national security staffer lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. "washington post" reporting vindman is expected to testify about his alarm over trump's request to investigate his political opponents. we get a preview of williams' testimony over the weekend when the transcript of her november 7th deposition was released.
from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 1,033 of the trump administration as a new week is under way, another dangerous week for this presidency courtesy of the house democrats running the impeachment inquiry. theru next round of live televid hearings set to start just hours from now. there are nine more witnesses scheduled to appear just this coming week. late tonight, two more witness transcripts were, released. more on that in a moment. tomorrow the hearings resume with two officials who were listening in on the july 25 call with the new president of ukraine. pence adviser jennifer williams and national security staffer lieutenant colonel alexander vindm vindman. "washington post" reporting vindman is expected to testify about hi alarm over trump's request to investigate his political opponents. we get a preview of williams' testimony over the weekend when a transcript of her november 7th deposition was released. she told investigators she took
was going on. because the white house is not cooperating in this, they do not have a lawyer in the hearing room and the white house lawyers cannot exchange any information at all with the witnesses who are going forward. >> shannon, what an excellent point. and going into another day tomorrow, they again don't know exactly what it is we'll be reporting on 24 hours from now. hey, andrew, since we've been on the air three other guests on this broadcast, carol len ig, don hamburger, and greg miller over at the "washington post" have broken this. here's the headline. "white house lawyer moved transcript of trump call to classified server." where have we heard that expression before? "after ukraine adviser raised alarms." so we all know the broad outlines of this story. lieutenant colonel vindman testified yesterday he hears the president on the phone with the president of ukraine. and in places later replaced but ellips ellipses, three dots, he hears the president talking about things that weren't reflected on
the transcript, or the summary that we saw. this now alleges that the lawyer at the nsc is the one who made the call to put it in a more secure place. does this by your reading, andrew, imply any guilt or innocence or any conclusion? >> well, my first thought is that it corroborates the whistle-blower's complaint even further. you'll recall that the third most central point that the whistle-blower complaint was making was that there was an effort to shield the contents of the president's conversation with president zelensky by putting it onto a classified server, that usually those transcripts do not go on. and yesterday of course we learned late last night, rather, after vindman testified for more than ten hours behind closed doors that he was trying to sort of get a more correct version of the transcript out there in terms of the one that was released publicly including adding references to burisma, of course the ukrainian energy company where hunter biden served on the board of. and he was trying to essentially make it more accurate so that the public could get an accurate reading of it. but he was essentially -- he was
onetime u.s. ambassador to ukraine, maria yovanovitch, calling her, quote, an obama holdover. we're also learning more about what lieutenant colonel alexander vindman told members of congress during his testimony yesterday. nbc news reports he testified that a white house meeting between trump and the president of ukraine as well as that military aid package was contingent on ukrainian officials carrying out multiple investigations. politico reporting vindman also said an associate of republican congressman devin nunes misrepresented himself to trump in an attempt to influence ukraine policy. some of the key aspects of the impeachment inquiry specifically, who knew about what, also emerged today during a senate foreign relations e committee hearing. under oath was this man, number two guy at the state department under pompeo, john sullivan. he is hoping to be confirmed as the next u.s. ambassador to russia.
of ukraine as well as that military aid package was ne contingent on ukrainian officials carrying out multiplet investigations. politico reporting vindman also said an associate of republican congressman devin nunes misrepresented himself to trump in an attempt to influence ukraine policy. some of the key aspects of the impeachment inquiry specifically, who knew about what, also emerged today during a senate foreign relations committee hearing. under oath was this man, numberh two guy at the state department under pompeo, john sullivan. he is hoping to be confirmed as the next u.s. ambassador to russia. >> do you think it's ever appropriate for the president to use his office to solicit investigations into a domestic political opponent? >> soliciting investigations into a domestic political opponent, i don't think that would be in accord with our values. >> you were aware that there were individuals and forces outside of the state department seeking to smear ambassador
this now alleges that the lawyer at the nsc is the one who made the call to put it in a more secure place. does this, by your reading, andrew, imply any guilty or innocence or any conclusion? >> well, my first thought is that it corroborates the whistle-blower's complaint even further. you'll recall that the third most central point that the whistle-blower complaint was making was that there was an effort to shield the contents of the president's conversation o with president zelensky by putting it onto a classified server that usually these transcripts do not go on. and yesterday of course we learned late last night, rather, after vindman testified for mora than ten hours behind closed nd doors, that he was trying to sort of get a more correct version of the transcript out there in terms of the one that was released publicly, including addingli references to burisma,f course, the ukrainian energy company where hunter biden served on the board of. and he was trying to essentially make it more accurate so that as the public could get an accurato reading of it. but he was essentially -- he was voted down in that respect.
cannot exchange any information at all with the witnesses who are going forward.it >> shannon, what an excellent point. and going into another day tomorrow, they again don't know exactly what it is we'll be reporting on 24 hours from now.h hey, andrew, since we've been on the air, three other guests on this broadcast, carol leonnig, tom hamburger, and greg miller over at "the washington post" have broken this.nd here's the headline. "white house lawyer moved transcript of trump call to expression before? "after ukraine adviser raised alarms." so we all know the broad outlines of this story.l lieutenant colonel vindman testified yesterday he hears the president on the phone with the president of ukraine. and in places later replaced by ellipses, three dots, he hears the president talking about things that weren't reflected on the transcript or the summary that besaw.
yesterday. nbc news reports he testified that a white house meeting between trump and the president of ukraine as well as that military aid package was contingent on ukrainian officials carrying out multiple investigations. politico reporting vindman also said an associate of republican congressman devin nunes misrepresented himself to trump in an attempt to influence ukraine policy. some of the key aspects of the impeachment inquiry specifically, who knew about what, also emerged today during a senate foreign relations committee hearing. under oath was this man, number two guy at the state department under pompeo john sullivan. he is hoping to be confirmed as the next u.s. ambassador to russia. >> do you think it's ever appropriate for the president to use his office to solicit investigations into a domestic political opponent? >> soliciting investigations into a domestic political opponent, i don't think that would be in accord with our
special ukraine adviser catherine kroft will describe a meeting one week before president trump's phone call with the ukrainian president where she learned that an informal hold was put on ukrainian security assistance. this is money. this is the money everyone has been talking about and she says she was told that the order came at the direction of president trump. >> we are also learning more about lieutenant colonel alexander vindman's testimony which lasted for ten hours on tuesday. "the new york times" reporting vindman tried to correct certain details in the white house's rough transcript of the ukraine call, noting two key changes, though, were never made. one of the edits was where vindman says president trump was discussing biden, his account actually contradicts the white house account of the a lip sees which the white house said any a lipsees indicated there were tauss, they did not indicate missing words or phrases. all of this, of course, comes ahead of the first vote on impeachment in the house. that is tomorrow. >> joining us now cnn chief