The marquee witnesses had not heard or seen much from the president themselves. They had few credits to offer as star witnesses, but here we go. No way out, both witnesses, Senior State Department official george kent and acting ambassador to the ukraine bill taylor left discom discomfitted. And the zeal seems dampened and displaced by obvious disappointment. I heard a staff person from the office of management and budget say there was a hold on Security Assistance to ukraine. The first i heard of the call was with a phone call with tim morrison. What i can do today is tell you what i heard from people. In this case it was what i heard from ambassador sondland. Lou what he heard and repeated all said but not heard and seen by the eyes and ears of these star witnesses from the schiff production. If the next few days performances dont improve, schiff and pelosi shouldnt expect a long run at all. Lets go to chief white house correspondent, john roberts, for the latest. Reporter in a News Conference this afternoon with turkish president erdogan the president said he knew nothing about the july 26 telephone call that bill taylor reviewed in this testimony today. President trump i know nothing about that. The first time i heard it. The first thing i have seen that sondland said is that he did speak to me for a brief moment and i said no quid pro quo under any circumstances. And thats true. I never heard this. This is more secondhand information but i never heard it. Reporter the white house dismissed the testimony as hearsay of hearsay with no evidence of a quid pro quo. Pointing out the president mentioned the investigations in his july 26 phone call. The message from the white house, the democrats based this entire sham on what amounts to a game of telephone. The president didnt see much if any of the hearings. President trump i didnt watch. Im too busy to watch it. Reporter the administration was pushing back against every piece of evidence extracted from the witnesses. Criticizing taylor for relying on hearsay and conjecture insisting george kent contradicted the democrats assertion there was a quid pro quo. At the News Conference this afternoon President Trump announced tomorrow he will release the memorandum of his first telephone call with president zelensky on march 21. Lieutenant colonel Alexander Vindman who works at the National Security council said he found nothing wrong with that call. Lou john roberts from the white house. Our first guest tonight was in the hearing room with a ringside seat. He was witness to the dimms charade. Republican congressman louie gohmert, congressman, great to have you here. I think i made it fairly clear at the open of this broadcast what i thought of it. A lot of political theater, and far more comedy than drama. What did you think . I thought it was great to hear from the Department Assistant gossip monger, mr. Taylor. I thought jim jordan had the best yes to him when he said, this is sondlands testimony. Ambassador day lower that i told mr. Morrison that i conveyed this message on september 1, 2019 in connection with Vice President pences visit to warsaw. Jim said we have six people and four conversations. You just tell me this is where you got your clear understanding and you are their star witness. It is outrageous that the democrats would try to eliminate an elected president based on quadruple hearsay. And it wasnt even accurate. Taylor even said in his written testimony he read that he thought it was unfair of the president to ask about investigation into corruption. Are you kidding me . Lou we are not kidding you and i know you are not kidding us. Great minds think alike. The sentence you have chosen is the sentence id heard, and it took me back to the 6th grade and my english teacher teaching us to diagram sentences. Folks at home. Here we go with with congressman gohmert was talking about. Reconstructing four different folks within a sentence. See if you can diagram it. Here it is. You were on the call, were you . You didnt flins on the call. I did not. You never spoke with mulvaney. Thats correct. You are their star witness, you are their first witness. I dont consider myself a star witness. My understanding is only coming from people that i talk to. Lou people that he talks to. Thats their star witness. My teacher might have bench rapping me over the knuckles. It was clear why the republicans wanted congressman jordan on that committee today. He sparkled. As did the minority counsel. I have to give him credit. He was as sharp and clever as any attorney. I have got to tell you, congressman. The minority counsel can represent me in anything any time. He was i thought a star today. What did you think . Yes, he was quite good. I thought every one of our republican members on the committee, they each had their approach and i thought they were all superb in bringing out what a farce this is. It would have been mr. Ellis in my 9th grade class in addition to my mother who was big on diagramming, too. Its outrageous these guys dividing the country with the democrats being their willing allies. They dont have any direct information. All of the direct testimony money, all the direct information says the president didnt do anything wrong. This is from democrats who have been screaming for months, gee, we cant believe that the republicans are not more upset about a foreign country trying to influence our election. Well, the president is trying to get to the bottom of that. And there were ukrainians who tried to influence our election. Even taylor and kent made clear they believed zelensky is an honest, honorable person trying to reform things, why wouldnt we want to know about ukrainians who were corruptly trying to affect our election. Its what a good president should want to know. Lou and what a good president did want to know. We are giving thanks to a lot of Good Journalism and leg work from a lot of people working for the president. We are getting a clear picture of the extent of corruption in ukraine and the relationship to the Democratic Party and to others as we go forward. We are confident revealed. Long connecticu congressman , great to have you here. The never trumpers are outing themselves. Once we get beyond this well clean house and have a government of the people, for the people and by the people. Lou get rid of the rascals first and thats what well have left anyway. We have good people if we can get them better company. Louie gohmert deserves better company. It was a recordsetting day on squall street. The dow closing up 92 points. The s p up 2 points. And its 20th record close of the year. And the 100th record close under President Trump. How do you think hes doing . Hes sitting here watching these fill in the blanks, try to impeach him, for crying out loud. How is he doing . Its extraordinary. While they play at this nonsense, hes work. The nasdaq down 4 points. You cant win everything every day. The fed chair Jerome Powell on capitol hill saying the fed will likely keep Interest Rates steady for a while unless the economy were to deteriorate or new risks were to emerge. None of that has shown its ugly head yet. A reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. Up next, the national leftwing media all too eager to have these first public hearings and to watch and watch carefully. This going to be a courtroom drama tomorrow with star witnesses, people like bill taylor and kent and later on yovanovich will stand up there to the pressure of the other side. Im told by a democratic source familiar. If americans tune into the first hour. The first hour is dee signed to be a blockbuster. This story in the house, the impeachment inquiry holds its first public hearing what Donald Trumps presidency on the line. Witnesses facing the cameras and the country with the presidency in the balance. Lou the presidency is pretty balanced and its the leftwing National Media and the radical dimms who seem to be a little off balance. Well, more than a little off balance. The media cant be too excited after what they watched today. Leading attorneys Victoria Toensing and joe digenova are here next. Liberty mutual customizes your Car Insurance, so you only pay for what you need. I wish i could shake your hand. Granted. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. 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President trumps personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani in a wall street open said dispelling the phoney claims about a quid pro quo writing this, mr. Trump offered nothing to you a crane in return tore cleaning up nothing to ukraine for cleaning up corruption. If you doubt me, read the transcript. I have and hes right. A report that i. G. Michael horowitz is getting ready to release his report on the russia interest force investigation. If it is released it would conclude a 20month long process. Acting ambassador to ukraine William Taylor today seemed at times dismayed when discussing special envoy to ukraine kurt volkers allegiance to the United States. We have ambassador koa am, a man of unquestioned integrity. That correct. Somebody with Incredible Knowledge of the region. Very good knowledge. And the best interests of the United States. Im sure thats right. And the best interests of ukraine. His First Priority is clearly the United States, and to the extent ukraine has an implication for that, yes. Lou obviously a little concerned about mr. Volker being more concerned beautiful s. Interests than ukraines. But there you have. Joining us tonight Victoria Toensing, former Department Assistant attorney general, joe digenova, Founding Partners of digenova and toensing law firm. Great to have you both with us. Victoria, i happen to think castor, the minority counsel turned in a terrific performance today. I wanted your professional view of that . Dont put me on the spot. You are only supposed to ask one question at a time when you ask questions. He was asking two or three questions at a time. But the members were terrific. Lou you disagreed with me. My turn. You know the history. The republicans in the past, i have had two whistleblowers. As soon as they come out, the democrats start attacking them. So much for their worshiping whistleblowers. They just worship theirs. Then the republicans start to back off. Because they wouldnt make false statements about people. Today they stuck together and they were great. Lou and they didnt make false statements. No. You dont have to do that to win. I was very impressed with the members. But the hearing itself for the democrats was a cadaver. This was a robert muellertype hearing. There was no john dean, no ollie north, no sparks, they were boring and uninformed witnesses. Witnesses with no firsthand knowledge. This was an embarrassment for the democrats. They went away from the hearing with their tails between their legs. This was a bad a bad day for the democrats and a great day for the president. Lou and a great day for castor. He did a great job. Lou lets go to ukraine. Rudy giuliani, i love the fact hes defending the president in an oped. All the work he has done. I hear all the testimony today at least from those who want to quiet him and quiet the president , and try to state that they think this is outrageous that people should have truth and justice in far away places like sue crane. Crane places like ukraine. What do you think, victoria . That what Rudy Giuliani has been doing since he has begun representing the president. He called me earlier this year to tell me what he discovered about ukraine. He was told that these people in ukraine were working to frame the president. You. Our sweet ambassador told everyone not to talk to us, and so did george kernt. Kernt george kent. He flew into kiev to do that. Lou as i watch and im thinking, i am going to give them credit for being well intentioned public servants. But for all the world it was because they werent in the special super duper irregular chain and no one patted them on the back or had a sip of tea with them. Thats what they seemed upset about. It was outrageous to me that they have this sort of petty reaction to not being in the regular chain as well as the irregular chain. And it didnt seem either were too disturbed by it. George kent is a separate issue. His motives seem peculiar to me. John solomon reported in march that george kent pressured ukrainian investigators to back off an investigation from the Anticorruption Center that George Soros Group sponsored. This is a complicated deal here. And it seems he wanted to keep an investigation of ukrainian corruption with limits on it, even as he answered questions today. There is no doubt that george soros controls a large part of the Foreign Service part of the state department and the activities of fbi agents overseas who work with ngos. That was very effort in ukraine. Kent was part of that. He was a big protector of soros. His testimony today shows his stern kind of discomfort with not being included in certain discussions. But george soros had a daily opportunity to tell the state department through victoria newland what to do in the ukraine. Soros ran it. He corrupted fbi officials and Foreign Service officers. George soros wants to run ukraine and hes doing everything he can to use every lever of the United States government for business purposes. His organization is anticompetitive. It goes after people who compete with george soros in the name of anticorruption. Lou it was quite a moment in which he walked right up to the boundary but wouldnt say this should be a comprehensive investigation of these activities that of course is precisely what the president of the United States made clear to president zelensky that he wanted, bringing in the u. S. Justice department to work with the ukrainian authorities and government. Victoria and joe, great to see you. Ill be glad to mediate any discussion of counsel castors performance today. Next week in d. C. 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