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adams before going to the rose garden today. quite the treat for those turkeys. thank you for inviting us into your home today. that is for special report. fair, balanced, unafraid. the story with ed henry starts right now. ed: breaking this hour, any minute president trump will take the stage and sunrise, florida. the president bolted new york s high taxes and proclaimed the sunshine state is now his permanent presence. on a day the dow scores the close, he will no doubt fire up the supporters and the advisor from a city warning, traffic will be snarled around the arena since it s drawing into thousands. you see the arrived hours before hand. they are at odds with the public impeachment efforts ramping up on capitol hill. you will take you to the rally live as it gets under way. good evening, i am ed henry and for martha maccallum. this is the story. democrats appeared to be celebrating their efforts, announcing they will hold their first public hearing next week. the ....
today s proceedings. i would like to recap my recognition of the timeline in which these events played out. i testified about all of this at length in my deposition. in july, i became aware of a hold being an obligation of the state department s foreign military financing and dod s usai funds. in a series of interagency meetings, i heard that the president had directed the office of of management and budget to hold the funds becausf his concerns about corruption in ukraine. let me say at the outset that i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter. at a senior level meeting i attended on july 26, chaired by national security council leadership, as at all other interagency meetings on this topic of which i was aware, the national security community expressed unanimous support for resuming the funding as in the u.s. national security interest. at the july 26 meeting, there was a discussion of how ukrainian ....
this brings me to the topic of today s proceedings. i would like to recap my recollection of the timeline in which these events played out. i testified about all of this at length in my deposition. in july, i became aware of a hold being placed on obligation of the state department s military financing or fmf and dod s usai fund. in meetings i heard the president directed the office of management and budget to hold the funds because of his concern for corruption in ukraine. let me say at the outset i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter. at a senior level meeting i attended july 26th chaired by national council security leadership as in all other interagency meetings on this topic of which i was wear, the national security community expressed unanimous support for resuming funding in the u.s. national security interests. at the july 26th meeting there was also a discussion how ukrainian anti-corrup ....
that was the only person i could think of. prior to working for the yurt council worked for ranking member nunes, is that right? i only found that out after the fact. i wondered why i was being asked about him, so i looked it up. you cautioned us on dangers that members of this committee pedaling any conspiracy theories that could benefit russia, i want to ask if you heard the nameless parness who was questioning rudy giuliani about the conspiracy theories. are you aware he was indicted october 10 for making foreign contributions to republicans in u.s. elections? i am aware of the reports, yes. are you aware of yesterday s daily beast story reporting the indicted ukranian parn as is working with nunes on his overseas investigations? i am not aware of that. i ask unanimous consent to put in the daily beast story from yesterday. first two paragraphs reading lev parnas, indicted associate, helped arrange calls. nunes aid derek harvey participated in meetings ....
statements. the whistle-blower got caught with chairman schiff. remember chairman schiff, the person that the democrats instead of the house judiciary committee which spent a full week on this, that s not who s been in charge. the person they put in charge was the person that got caught with the whistle-blower. have you spoken directly with the whistle-blower? no, we have not. we d like to. that wasn t true. the person that said he had evidence of the first fake impeachment scam, collusion with russia, had evidence of that collusion and didn t have it. the person who in the course of that read into the record the steele dossier because the people needed to know the truth about what happened. well, we heard about the truth about the steele dossier this week when the inspector general told us it was all garbage, rubbish, all made up, yeah, that chairman schiff, and now he got caught not being truthful about a whistle-blower who as i said you the other day didn t tell the truth v ....