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Truth as to what happened on january 6th and to make sure that it never happens again, which means making recommendations to the full congress on steps that we can take from a security perspective to ensure that we have appropriate guardrails and safeguards to guard our constitutional republic. that is what the commission is about. it is modeled after the 9/11 commission which was a bipartisan commission that did tremendous work after the 9/11 attack. as you know, as you just played it, ultimate...

Erica, this was not about policy, this was about politics. if it was about policy it would have worked through the embassy process. >> when we talk about the policy, the president certainly as we know had the power to change, to set policy. whats fascinating what sam just touched on here. we have ambassador sondland who had one policy. you hear from bill taylor, you hear from volker who saw something different, who saw perhaps a completely different channel. from a security perspective how conce...

All right. the july 26th phone call. thats something youll hear a lot about starting in less than two hours. lawmakers are going to have the chance to ask the u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondland about this now-notorious conversation that day with president trump himself on a mobile phone in a restaurant in the middle of the ukrainian capital. on an unsecured line. the city crawling with russian intel agents. thats a problem called a gordon problem in quotes. now is it going to stay that wa...

And getting the president of the united states on the phone and getting instructions from him, which is remarkable from a security perspective. but the fact that anyone can get the president on the cell phone is remarkable as well. so sondland is going to be important. lets not forget tuesday well hear from colonel vindman. on thursday were going to get fiona hill testifying as well. thats an important one because fiona hill was in the meetings that sondland had with ukrainian officials where sh...

Testimony. sondland actually picking up the phone in a restaurant in kiev and getting the president of the united states on the phone and getting instructions from him, which is remarkable from a security perspective. but the fact that anyone could actually get the president on the phone on a cell phone is also remarkable, as well. and so sondlands going to be important. but lets not forget tuesday were going to hear from colonel vindman, as well, and then on thursday were going to get fiona hil...

Actually heard the presidents own voice say that he was demanding an investigation of joe biden. now along comes this career foreign service officer, a professional, david holmes and he says, no, i did hear the presidents own voice and i heard it on july 26th. i was working in ukraine, in the embassy and i was with ambassador gordon sondland when he spoke to the president by phone. the president was speaking loud enough so people in the restaurant could hear from gordon sondlands cell phone. he ...

State, all agree the foreign aid was really important. had to go to ukraine. the hold unusual, holding it back unusual and no reason ever given why. so right there, whether it was ever communicated over to the ukrainians or not, and phil pointed out seemingly it was, there was an effort to withhold it. >> all this detail coming out. big picture this to me. fast-forward some weeks. public testimony. how does this play out? why does this matter in terms of potential impeachment of the president? >...

Discussing a time line for impeachment hearings they are saying could happen before thanksgiving. is that timetable important for them? >> from a security perspective they arent cost free. just to date our enemies have learned intimate details about the innermost workings of the u.s. government including who listens to phone calls, information about various classified servers. that helps intelligence services prioritize where to focus their efforts. if deposition transcripts are released and pub...

Not appear hes listening to them in terms of how to manage the aftermath. >> at the same time his speech and answers were inspiring to many, tens of millions of americans who want to hear their president talk in visceral terms about the life and death consequences. >> sure. but you can do that, and paint a picture of how damaging bagdadi was from a security perspective, without going into the level of operational detail that president trump did in terms of what actually happened on the ground, t...

Operators in jeopardy as they advance on the site. a small circle is important. that said, during the osama bin laden raid, i can confirm that congressional leaders were properly notified in advance. there was consultation. i dont know how much detail there was, but it definitely happened and it was bipartisan in nature. it wasnt just democrats on the hill that were notified. >> john boehner has said as much. hes talked about how he knew about that in advance. >> exactly. it was properly done. t...