Its wednesday, october 30th, im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian. We beginhy with the impeachment probe and parts of the phone call at theent of the inquiry that the white house admitted from the memo. The revelations coming from Alexander Vindman, a tupe ukraine expert on the National Security council who testified ten hours yesterday. According to a lawmaker present for the testimony and another source, vindman told investigators that he tried to edit the transcript to reflect President Trumps mention of the ukrainian president and the gas company burismo. It appears to be speaking at an event. According to the new york times, vindman testified that some of his edits made it into the reconstructed transcript. He did not specify why the mentions of joe biden and burisma were admitted. And this contradicts the repeated claims that the white house released an exact transcript of the phonee call. Here he is as recently as monday. They tried to take that conversation and make it into a big scandal. The problem was, we had it transcribed. It was an exact transcription of the conversation. The whistleblower recorded a totally different conversation than i had. I released a transcript of my conversation. An exact transcript. I thought that i would finish off the first term without the threat of people making false claims. But this one turned out to be incredible. All because they didnt know that i had a transcript done by very, very talented people. Word foren word. Comma for comma, done by people who do it for a living. We had an exact transcript. To be clear, it was not an exact transcript. In n fact, it was a memo and it saysmo here on the actual documt released by the white house, paige 1, caution of a memorandum of a telephone conversation is not a verbatim transcript of the discussion. The text in this document records the notes and recollections of situation room Duty Officers and msc policy staff designed to memorialize the conversation in written form as the conversationwr takes pla. Ta so President Trump yesterd criticized Lieutenant ColonelAlexander Vindman as he prepared to testify. Trump called vindman a quote, nevertrumper, questioned his july 25th phone q call with the president. And accused the purple heart recipient of participating in a wit witch hunt against him. And then questioned his loyalty on cnn saying this. It seems very clear that he is incorrectly concerned about ukraine an defense. I dont know if hes concerned about american policy. But his main mission was to make sure that the ukraine got that reference. I understand that we all have an affinity to our homeland. We also know he was born in the soviet union. He tends to feel simpatico with the ukraine. In a tweet, the president s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani accused vindman of being confused because hes been advising twoe governments. House democrats have released testimony of the impeachment inqui inquiry. The eightpage resolution which the house is expected to vote on tomorrow lays out the general formatth for the impeachment investigation. It i calls for public hearings d would also allow the president or his counsel to participate in proceedings held by the house Judiciary Committee. Thedi Judiciary Committee will ultimately decide whether to report articles of impeachment to the full house. Democrats say if the president refuses to cooperate unlawfully with congressional requests, the chair will have discretion to impose appropriate remedies which include denying specific requests by the president or by his counsel. So the Top Republicans on three committees handling the impeachment probe sent a letter to the House Rules Committee before the resolution was released. Devin nunes, jim jordan and Michael Mccall said they were disappointed that democrats are racing to break house rules to directly illegitimatize the inquiry. And it confirms that the House Democratic impeachment has been an illegitimate chant. And it continues to scam by allow i allowing due process. Danny, im going to start with you on this one, if the president refuses to cooperate Going Forward with the impeachment inquiry, the chair of the Judiciary Committee may impose, quote, appropriate remedies. What do those remedies or what could thosedi remedies look lik . I think this is such a clever move by s democrats to give the president cr some form of due process, butue to leave wide op the discretion to punish him if he doesnt engage in essentially discovery, if you want to make analogy to a court process. Theyre giving him an opportunity to get discovery. To question witnesses to be involved. But they are giving a lot of power to the committee to sanction him, if he doesnt engage. Do and let me get you in on this conversation foru a moment. President trumps push for republicans on the hill to defend him as weve seen over the past couple of days during the house impeachment inquiry create a conflict in an already fractured caucus. Do you thing that the Republican Caucus is unified behind the way that they should be defending this president . Well, certainly not 89 that fi. Theres been kind of an emerging strategies from housegi republicans. Its interesting to see how the strategies actually shifted yesterday after the president he wanted them to defend not only on the process but also on the merits. House republicans said they werent comfortable with the process. The president said he also wanted them to defend him against whats in the allegations. So, we did see a bit of a shift and defense from the most lawyer followers in house republicans. And incredible the way he and his surrogates have gone after Alexander Vindman. I think liz cheney was defensive of him. Liz cheney got up there and defended vindman in front of people. Danny three Top Republicans calling the investigation an illegal sham because it, quote, lacks any properly authorization. Is there any merit to this argument whatsoever . Republicans are wrong on this front. The constitution gives the house the sole power to impeach, not the senate, not any other branch of government, but the house. To that end, when they conduct investigations, not post impeachment, im talking about before theres an actual impeachment, they have considerable latitude to conduct those investigations. And while republicans can argue that maybe they should put it to a vote, theres no explicit requirement that they have to vote to conduct the impeachment inquiry. And an analogy would be the criminal process prior to an indictment, a criminal defense attorney has noim right to be ia grand jury room. No right to be involved or participate in the prosecutions process for bringing an indictment or criminal charges. So, this, even though theres very littleev precedent, there , in a sense, precedent in the judicial process. Anna, do you think the testimony in Lieutenant Colonel vindman will encourage others who are hesitant to cooperate with the impeachment probe . Could we see others just come forward on their own will . Yeah, there are two ways to kind of think about this. On the one hand if you have a career Public Servant who doesnt necessarily want to be a household name it might be a little intimidating. No one knew who Alexander Vindman was before this week and now hes a wellknown person whose testimony was quite the bombshell. On thes other hand if you have Public Servants who love their country andva worried about the institution, especially from the diplomatic t corps, this is the chance to say these are the facts. And it gives a chance to lay out what has happened in this white house and try to make sure they protect the institution that they care deeply about. Do you think as we move forward, all of this is only speeding up thef release of so of this testimony publicly . Well, thats one thing the resolution ison about. In the resolution, they also promised to release documents and call back some of these witnesses for public hearings. So, we are going to move in the public phase of this. One of the complaints we heard from republicans they only had leaked opening statements. Were about to get a much more complete picture of what these people have said and how they corroborate each others stories orch not. Danny, to that point, give me your legal perspective on this. Does the longer this part of the process drag on, does that work in the advantage of investigators, the democrats in this case who d wanted to push forward with impeachment . Or does it raise questions as to whether theres a there there. You often think in a criminal case, if they have evidence very quickly you see them move forward to indict in a trial. If it drags on, defense have to face to say what theyre gathering, whether its valid or not. On the one hand, the longer the evidence drags on theres always an opportunity togs uncor more medicine. But politically, from a pr standpoint, the longer the investigation drags on, the public may start thinking about what is this all about. Especially in a case like this where the core facts are really driving this case fromac the beginning. And so far, the facts that have been uncovered have supported those core facts that initiated this impeachment inquiry. Butch theres always the chance that they could dig and uncover something brandnew. And we have to say that this investigation ends if they move forward with the impeachment. They can still come back and discover more things in the trial phase, right . Theoreticalltheoretically, s. Its possible. Thank you both. Well talk to you again in just a little bit. Still ahead, all of the highlights from the game six in the world series. The nationals top the astros, forcing a game seven tonight. Plus in california, residents in high alert as wildfires tear across that state. Well have those stories and a check on weather when we come right back. Ri paneras new warm grain bowls are full of good. Full of flavor. Color. Full of. Woo full of good. So you can be too. Try our new warm grain bowls today. Order now on doordash. Try our new warm listening and observing for scientists at 3m. One of the products i helped develop was a softer, more secure diaper closure. As a mom, i knew it had to work. There were babies involved. And they werent saying much. I envisioned what its like for babies to have diapers around them. Thats what we do at 3m, we listen to people, even those who dont have a voice. 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Thats all houston would muster as washington starter Stephen Strasburg allows five hits striking out seven in a little over eight innings of work. Solo home runs by adam eden and juan soto. It puts the nationals up for good. But the game did not conclude without controversy as you can imagine in the seventh where with two runners on base and nobody out, umpires ruled that washingtons trea turner interfered with a play by running inside the line and obstructing the throw. The call is rendered moot moments later. Still fuelling over the turner call, nationals manager Dave Martinez begins his tirade between innings. He is ultimately ejected. The bench coach picks up his duties. And then another two rbis with a tally to two off the ball in deep right field. Thats all, folks, the nats hold off houston from a 72 victory. As we mentioned game seven tonight. Its probably going to be the quietest night in washington. Everyone is going to be at home or a bar watching the game. California residents are under new warnings as Power Outages threaten. And residents were warned that they may need to leave at a moments notice as the potential could cause more fires and cause the rapid growth of new blazes. So far, the kincade fire has burned 70,000 acres and just 15 contained. Meanwhile, the National Weather service issued its first ever extreme red flag warning. The getti fire in los angeles has burned 650 acres and 16 contained. Lets check on the weather. Scary images. Just incredible images. Amazing, driving down the highways and seeing stuff like that. I was wondering if the highway was still operational. Yeah, right down the 405. Its terrifying to live in that area. Oh, yeah, their scared. 1 million plus dont have power because of power lines down. Good morning, everyone, overnight, things so far so good in california. Northern california had the highest winds overnight, 60mileperhour winds, but the kincade fire has stayed within its containment lines. Northern california can wake up and breathe a sigh relief. Now, the focus is on southern california. Strong winds starting now. Theyre just beginning to ramp up. Ive seen a couple reports of 50mileperhour winds. And its going to be extremely windy today and into halloween morning. This area of pink is under extreme risk. Thats the mountainous areas outside of l. A. And southern california. Heres the red flag warnings. As i mentioned its still bone dry in the north but its not going to be as windy during the day today. All of the major problems where we have this very rare extreme red flag warning is from los angeles all the way down to the southern border with mexico. And the concern is for fires that we have out there to reignite. Ambers from them to start new spot fires. And those fires once they form to make runs. Thats the concern, in the dry conditions, low humidity and high winds. 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But according to the daily beast, republican resistance is something Top Democrats including members of the intelligence and Judiciary Committees have been heavily preparing for. Two sources claim yesterday that in a meeting yesterday morning, House Speaker nancy pelosi discussed how to handle gop efforts to reveal the whistleblowers identity amid the impeachment inquiry. And the house of representatives took several actions that are bound to escalate the tensions betwe