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Here's the bomb shell break news a top national security facial the the white house an army officer and expert on ukraine plans to tell congress he heard president trump pressure ukraine president to investigate joe biden. vindman twice reported concerns of his sense of duty. i want to bring in two perfect guests to talk about this. so glad to have you on. when you hear vindman brought registered objections in internal objections out of quote sense of duty, that's significant certainly a message republicans on capitol hill maybe concerned about. >> very significant for a couple reasons. he's a...

Lieutenant colonel alexander vindman twice reported his concerns out of his sense of duty. so let's discuss now. congressman gerry connolly is here. he's a virginia democrat who will be hearing the colonel's testimony tomorrow. so we're happy to have you here. thank you so much. >> great to be with you, don. >> so cnn obtained a copy of the lieutenant colonel vindman's opening statement. he was on this phone call with trump and zelensky. when you hear that he twice reported concerns about trump's pressure on ukraine, what did you think about that? he said he did it out of a sense of duty. how ...

United states in exchange for digging up political dirt on a prospective political opponent. that's extortion. and obviously a number of officials who were aware of that or witnessed it were bothered enough to come forward and give testimony or report it to legal authorities like this lieutenant colonel. >> are you going to have sondland come back to clarify his testimony, and how about getting rick perry in? >> i would say yes to both. i don't speak for the committee of inquiry. i am a member of two of the three committees. and speaking for myself, i think that would be -- i think sondland ha...

We're going to talk about all of that, talk about your book. i'm so happy to have you here. i really am. >> it's great to be with you, don. it's been too long. >> you can offer great perspective. absolutely. i want to get your reaction to the opening statement of colonel vindman tonight. i'm sure you've been hearing about it on the news. he says he heard trump ask ukraine to investigate the bidens. how damaging is this to the president? >> well, this is one in a series of corroborating testimony that, taken together, is quite damning. the interesting insight about colonel vindman is that he wa...

Apparently he listened in on the phone call, which is quite logical given his position on the national security council. so all the narratives criticizing the whistle-blower as having reported hearsay, well, that's not the case here. and the other point, of course, is once again this story has been further reinforced and, in my view n an unassailable way. >> does this comport with what the president says was a perfect call when you hear this testimony? >> well, obviously not. i mean that's a narrative that the president would like people to believe, that it was a harmless -- a perfect call, bu...