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They will make opening statements. then we will have 45 minutes went away. of extensive questioning for each side. they elected his number two guy, instead after republican school majority first, minority second. something interesting is teacher. that is who they elected in that we expect both schiff and nunes to defer many south bend. >> from south bend to questions to their chief south carolina what is going on counsel. these are seasoned lawyers. with the polls with then, all the members on t...

Tomorrow? >> well, i think what were going to hear is abuse of power. i think were going to hear a deliberate scheme to shakedown a foreign leader led by rudy giuliani whos not a member of the united states government in creating a parallel shadow policy with respect to ukraine in order, as i said, to get political dirt on a prospective political opponent. i think were going to hear that loud and clear. and as jim referenced earlier, were going to hear patriotic americans who are expressing deep...

Was there anything ever given to this president or the american people on behalf of any connection to releasing that aid and the answer is no. >> reporter: the aid was released on september 11th. only after the hold had been reported and the white house faced criticism from republican senators. it was just two days before president zelensky planned to announce investigations that trump wanted. those arguments will be on full display on wednesday when the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine and his boss...

About the bribery, says, you know, you are going to get a white house meeting if you go ahead and do these investigations that were requesting. and bolton ends the meeting right there. he is so disturbed by this. he says basically we gotta go. get out of the room. we are out of here. its in front of our friend who needs our help. we are trying to essentially bribe them with a white house visit. >> so thats important what you said. joyce, i want to bring you into this here and for the audience. t...

Yovanovitch. also saying it was wrong of giuliani to conduct this shadow policy, that giulianis efforts undermined the u.s. policy in ukraine and, quote, after giuliani attacked me as well as ambassador yovanovitch and the entire ambassador in his late may interview i was told by an official to keep my head down and lower my profile in ukraine. the testimony is nearly 400 pages long. one of the dynamics that comes out clearly, divisions of people on the trump team pushing ukraine to announce inv...

Presidents office for his own political gain instead of diplomacy and peace around the world. >> rudy guiliani told our own dana bash he does not have security clearances yet he was in charge of whats described as this shadow policy. what does that say to you? >> i cannot understand putting him in charge of that in any way. he is a personal attorney to the president. he has other clients and other business interests that could be in serious conflict, certainly would be in serious conflict with a...

Are probing this is part of the foreign shadow policy to hijack diplomacy for trumps reelection. fox news itself has rebuked handy his appearance at a trump rally which makes him look less like an independent reporter and more like a trump surrogate. keep all that on mind when you go become to march on hannitys show which doesnt normally delve into the names of individual ambassadors around the world, but on that show they went in and name-checked this one, yovanovitch. and that looked especiall...

I think it will come down to they might all agree what happened on these meetings that happened. bolton was in some of these meetings and concerned about it but not necessarily the degree to which it was terrible, right? that seems to be where the division lies. and that will be where republicans have to come down, too, right? does it rise to the level of impeachment? sure, it might be wrong. but does it rise to the level of impeachment? >> morrison said he was advised to stay as far way from ru...

Where i am. here shortly tim morrison the nsc director for russian affairs who is leaving his job, expected to testify today. and we have learned that next week john bolton, the former national security advisor expected to be summoned. his attorney, charles cooper giving fox news a statement saying bolton is not willing to appear voluntarily. i stand ready at all times to accept service of a subpoena on his behalf. so, it doesnt end this week. its going to be more drama next week as well. but a ...

>> reporter: the president has denied there was quid pro quo during his july phone call with ukraines leader. >> there was no quid pro quo there was no quid pro quo at all. >> reporter: today mulvaney said the delay in military aid was not related to the presidents other request, for ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son hunter. >> the money held up had absolutely nothing to do with biden. >> reporter: still, its all at the heart of the impeachment inquiry which brought another dramatic d...