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Morrison. let me put up slide 9 of mr. morrison s testimony on page 38 of his testimony. mr. morrison said, or the question was, question by mr. goldman: you heard the call, you recognized that president trump was not discussing the talking points that the nsc had prepared based on official u.s. policy and was instead talking about the investigations that fiona hill had warned you about. then you reported it immediately to the nsc legal adviser. is that the correcting. before i ask you plrks droos. earlier in the presentation we showed the testimony of what president trump is trying to do which is running a domestic political errand. ....
Trying to figure out whether they were obligated to turn the complaint over to congress. cnn has learned the first official move to with hold aid came the evening of july 25th call t same day president trump and the president of ukraine had the phone call that spawned the initial complaint. a transcript of mark sandy s closed door testimony was just released and he says he told his boss withholding aid might violate federal law that. was before his boss took over responsibility for the ukraine money. according to the testimony, two people left their job at the budget office at least partly because of the ukraine mess. the house judiciary committee has now announced a new impeachment hearing. there s one difference this time. president trump has been invited to attend. more from manu raju on capitol hill. good morning. they re opening up a new phase ....
In a kyiv restaurant. he told lawmakers he was stunned by that call. he d never seen anything like it he said. a source tells cnn serl republicans were shaken by what holmes had to say. all of this as cnn learns that mr. trump has considered dismissing aides who testified against him. suzanne malveaux is live on capitol hill with our top story. reporter: good morning, alisyn. at this very moment capitol police are huddled inside that room as they get ready for a security sweep. we are three hours away from those four witnesses testifying, key witnesses, all of this following late last night when new transcripts release damning testimony, new testimony that poke major holes in trump and his allies arguments. four key witnesses will take the stand today starting with lieutenant colonel alexander vindman and jennifer williams who both listened in on the july 25th phone call between ....
Ago. they did it last night. they re starting to question whether or not his foreign policy goals were different than president trump s, and then ron johnson, the senator who s been involved with ukraine policy and involved with this whole situationi situation wrote a letter to the house where he said a significant number of burkts have never accepted president trump as legit maimate and resed his style. americans did not elect president trump knowing that he s an expert on ukraine foreign policy or russian foreign policy as well. you have advisers there to help guide you. this happens in every single administration. what doesn t make sense from johnson s letter is listen, if the president has a different view of foreign policy on ukraine, if he doesn t care about ukraine as we heard from some of the testimony, let him come out and say that to the american public. let him say, listen, i don t think we should give them that aid. i think it would benefit us if ....
Ukraine, so that defeats the republican s narrative that he was just so interest instead corruption overall in general, and he was skeptical about ukraine s past history with corruption, and he wanted to make sure they did away with it before this money went through. you hear it loud and clear as many others did at this restaurant, that the president cared about one thing and one thing only. and cnn s reporting, joe, is that republicans were shaken by this closed door testimony. so it s no surprise that democrats scheduled david holmes to go public on thursday, but why do you think republicans were shaken by this? because one of their major arguments was no one could tie this directly to the president. nobody who was going to testify ever heard the president say anything beyond the transcript or the rough transcript of that phone call, and this is, you know, the simple fact that the president took the call early in the morning, it s not easy for a diplomat to get through to the pre ....