two visits to the oval office, period. the day articles of impeachment were unveiled against president trump today and his previous visit, may 2017, the day after trump fired the fbi director. and in that last oval if you want to understand how these two sort of these two tent poles function here in the trump presidency i mean think about what he learned about that last oval office meeting. remember there was like this cascade of revelations about what happened that day in the oval office the last time the russian foreign minister was there in the oval. first there was the surprise news of that meeting itself. this is one of it many interactions president trump has had with the russian government since he s been president that we the american people had to learn about from the russian government. our own white house, our own government didn t say anything but russian state media and the russian government announced it was going to happen. this was also a meeting where the white hou
but then immediately after that, the impeachment committees, not just the intelligence committee, but also foreign affairs and oversight, they went back behind closed doors at the secure conference room at the capitol to take a close door deposition from david holmes. now, david holmes is a career foreign service officer. we heard about him for the first time, though not by name, at the first public impeachment hearing that happened this week when ambassador bill taylor broke this surprise news. last friday, a member of my staff told me of events that occurred on july 26th. in the presence of my staff at a restaurant, ambassador sondland called president trump and told him of his meetings in kyiv. the member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. ambassador sondland told president trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. following the call with president trump, the member of my staff asked ambassador
basically going back behind closed doors to take initial closed door depositions from these new witnesses before deciding whether they too will go onto be part of any public proceedings. so, yovanovitch wrapped today at this public hearing. but immediately after the committees, foreign affairs and oversight, they went behind closed doors at the secure room at the capitol to take a closed door deposition from david holmes. now, david holmes is a career foreign service officer. we heard about him for the first time though not by name at the first public impeachment hearing that happened this week when ambassador bill taylor broke this surprise news. last friday a member of my staff told me of events that occurred on july 26th in the presence of my staff at a restaurant, ambassador sondland called president trump and told him of his meetings in kyiv.
proceedings. so you yovanovitch wrapped today at this hear but also foreign affairs and oversight, they went behind closed doors to take a closed door deposition from david holmes. now, david holmes is a career foreign service officer. we heard about him for the first time though not by name at the first public impeachment hearing that happened this week when ambassador bill taylor broke this surprise news. last friday a member of my staff told me of events that occurred on july 26th in the presence of my staff at a restaurant. ambassador sondland called president trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. the member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. ambassador sondland told president trump that ukrainians were ready to move forward. following the call with president trump, the member of
want to be want to come forward. he would not come forward. he would not obey a subpoena, i believe, if one were issued. and as it turns out, since all of those who reported to him have, in fact, told us what they know, he would be icing on the cake, but that s icing we don t need to begin to eat the cake. okay. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton, thank you very much for being here. pleasure. surprise news on the campaign trail. another billionaire is thinking about entering the race. how michael bloomberg would change the game, especially for one contender in particular. you re live in the cnn newsroom. turn on my tv and boom, it s got all my favorite shows right there. i wish my trading platform worked like that. well have you tried thinkorswim? this is totally customizable, so you focus only on what you want. okay, it s got screeners and watchlists. and you can even see how your predictions might affect the value of the stocks you re interested in. now this is what i m talk