envoy to ukraine volker. perry attended that meeting with ukrainian officials but denied the bidens were ever mentioned. i probably have had as expandive a relationshipry ukraine as any in the administration. certainly at the cabinet level. not once, as god is my witness, not once was biden named. not the former vice president or son. never once. if corruption, it was talked about in the country, always a relatively vague term of the oligarchs and this and that and what have you. reporter: when it kucomes to perry, reported by axios the president told house republicans he only made that july 25th phone call that sparked this whole impeachment inquiry as the urge of the rick perry. perry in ant interview this week with fox news said he never heard the worse barisma, possibly code for bidens, come
members could be here as well. so if you re having a phone call with the president very loud and in english. there s a chance that zelensky staff members could have been hearing what was going on as well. a nice restaurant. not necessarily the place for a sensitive conversation. thank you so much. the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine volker set to testify publicly tomorrow. new york times reporting he plans to say he was out of the loop at key moments during trumps pressure campaign on ukraine. as jones reports, volker will have a will the of explaining to do. another big week in the impeachment inquiry. with public testimony from nine current or former administration officials. come to order. among them. former u.s. special envoy to ukraine volker who resigned shortly after the release of the whistleblower report. about efforts by trump, giuliani
strike killing a senior islamic jihad leader a move that could reignite tensions among the border. good to have you with us. in the run off to public hearings in the u.s. impeachment inquiry, more transcripts of closed door testimony have been released that u detail the concern of diplomats and security officials about the ukraine policy. senior pentagon official told investigators the delay of the military aid to ukraine created confusion and raised legal questions. two former deputies to ukraine volker testified as well. kroft says she was nervous about
taking the job fearing the whout would change policy to suit domestic politics. and volker told him president trump s personal attorney rudy giuliani wouldn t move off pressuring ukraine to launch investigations into the president s political rival joe biden. the public hearings begin wednesday. with appearances by three diplomats who have already testified behind closed doors. we have details on what s ahead. lawmakers will arrive in washington that in 24 hours they will have one of the biggest hearings that happened in years. the first official impeachment laering related to trump. two witnesses testifying state department officials including william taylor. diplomat to ukraine. who has given expelolosive
biden. he told a top ukrainian official they needed to start investigating burisma in order to get the military aid. now add lieutenant colonel alexander vindman on the july call between president trump and zelensky. he said there was no doubt what president trump was asking for. investigate the bidens to get a meeting at the white house. vindman said he went to nsa lawyers, so did fiona hill, the top russia expect on the nsc. she said the call and the president s demand were her worst nigh matyor, to basically turn a white house meeting into an asset. behind it all according to witness testimony was grrudy giuliani. he was mentioned 480 times alone by sondland and by former special envoy to ukraine volker. sondland said giuliani was swirling around somewhere. volker said he believed giuliani was interested in vice president biden s son and that the allegations giuliani peddled