Does. But his aides and his campaign, the white house, they have been sending out very negative messages about Lieutenant Colonel vindman. They tried to use something morrison said behind closed doors when he said there were people that questioned vindmans judgment at nsc, specifically fiona hill that well hear from thursday. I his Opening Statement, i think he realized how much play that has got. He said he wasnt here to criticize his colleagues. Saw vindman prepared to address it as he was there to testify earlier. He brought a Performance Review from fiona hill, the official, that morrison had the conversation with, where it praised him multiple times and his performance in the job. You see tim morrison and kurt volker, beginning to walk back in. Theyll sit down and the hearing will resume. The next round will be the five minute sessions where all of the members, democrats and
republicans, they have five minutes to ask questions. It will start with the chairman, adam schiff, and dev
republicans, they have five minutes to ask questions. it will start with the chairman, adam schiff, and devin nunes, ranking member. they ll ask their questions, then it will go on presumably, mia, for at least another hour. looks interesting to see schiff s position. he is a harvard trained lawyer and he has been i think very strategic in trying to advance the case in a way nunes isn t. nunes seems to be directly talking to the president and the base. he addressed witnesses and said oh, i m sorry to break the bad news but ratings are down for this, which isn t helping build any case at all. it is sort of a talking point about what s happening. that s been really interesting to see sort of the interchange between schiff, and the lawyer, daniel goldman. here is schiff. now going to proceed to a 15 minute round by either chair majority or ranking member minority. mr. goldman, you re recognized for 15 minutes.
members who are already vulnerable to take a vote before finding out how vulnerable their seats are going to be. they re going to be sitting around wondering why nancy pelosi is sworn in as speaker of the house on january 4th, 2019. there s one of two options if they go forward with this, whether it becomes law or not, as you said. one is they sell the country on the fact that this is better for them than the affordable care act, if they can do it, which is going to be a challenge. or two, they lose hair majority but they feel good because they got rid of the affordable care act. those are their choices. i think a lot of members are willing to lose to fulfill this promise, but they have not produced a bill they can understand or sell today. they ve got to pass it today or they ll never pass it. they ve got to pass it today or else find out how bad the bill is if they actually read it. then their constituents won t let them pass the bill. that is political day trading and it s stupi