Page 48 - 7 25 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Books. >> so just wondering if the concerns were so significant, how come nobody on the vice president's staff at least alerted him to the issue that president zelensky might be on edge about something that had been mentioned on the 7/25 call? >> again, my supervisor had been in the call with me, and i ensured that the vice president had access to the transcript, in the moment, on that day. as we were preparing for the september meeting with president zelensky, the more immediate issue at hand was two days prior, the news had broken about the hold on the security assistance. so we were much mo...

Essentially to say not even that he could say which intelligence agency. that person was from. a couple of quick things. one is these two witnesses have direct knowledge of being on that call. jennifer williams said she found it highly unusual. however, she doesn't express that until 9/25. the call is on 7/25. she doesn't brief the vice president prior to his meeting with president zelensky of ukraine. and she says it's highly unusual after the initial reports about it come out. lieutenant colonel vindman expresses concern about the call. a lot of concern. but he characterizes it as his impres...

Significant, how come nobody on the vice president's staff alerted him to the issue that president zelensky might be on edge about something that had been mentioned on the 7/25 call? >> again, my supervisor had been in the call with me and i insured that the vice president had access to the transcript in the moment on that day. as we were preparing for the september meeting with president zelensky, the more immediate issue at hand was two days prior the news had broken about the hold on the security assistance so we were much more focused on the discussion that was likely to occur about the ho...

Here. as an army colonel who served in iraq, i thank you for your service and i know the environment. in your deposition you emphasize the importance of chain of command. you were a direct report to dr. hill and mr. morrison and they were your seniors; is that correct? >> that is correct. >> when you had concerns about the 7/25 call, you didn't go to mr. morrison about that, did you? >> i immediately went to john eisenberg, the legal counsel. >> that doesn't seem like chain of command. >> that's not -- >> in the deposition -- >> i'm sorry, can i answer the question? >> congressman, please allo...

Previous calls in trip briefing books. >> so just wondering if the concerns were so significant, how come nobody on the vice president's staff at least alerted him to the issue that president zelensky might be on edge about something that had been mentioned on the 7/25 call? >> again, my supervisor had been in the call with me, and i ensured that the vice president had access to the transcript in the moment on that day. as we were preparing for the september meeting with president zelensky, the more immediate issue at hand was two days prior the news had broken about the hold on the security a...