Joe biden, come on over to ukraine its never going to happen spewing all they had to do apparently was announce an investigation. Okay, that is it for us. They hearing is set to resume shortly, but now we have special report up next. Spewing that evening, welcome to washington. I am bret baier. Continuing coverage of the impeachment hearings day 3, nine hours on capitol hill as you look alive at the chairman adam schiff getting ready to gavel into the next round of questions this from the lawmakers themselves, while we wait, we will bring in our panel here. Byron york, chief Political Correspondent of the national and josh holmes, former top advisor to mitch mcconnell, now president of the Cavalry Consultants as you look there at tom morrison, tim morris and heading back in for testimony, and kurt volker right behind him. Quickly down the row, your thoughts on today so far . Today is the day that we
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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
he ever raise it, but he did not raise it at the time of the 25 july phone call. switching gears a little bit, you strike me as a process guy. and it is nagging at me because you characterized the ambassador sondland linking in whatever way it happened of aid to an investigation as the gordon problem. you said it caused you to roll your eyes, ambassador volker said it was everybody in the july 10th meeting thought it was inappropriate, john bolton characterized this as the drug deal. so seems like everybody in the room understands there s a huge problem here. my understanding is it would be normal course of business when you have an ambassador out there going rogue as apparently there was consensus ambassador sondland was doing that either the national security adviser john bolton or the secretary of state might rein them in.
general assembly. so i struggle to stay if he ever raised it, but not at the time of the 25 july phone call. i m switching gears a little bit. you strike me as a process guy. and it is nagging at me, because you characterized the ambassador sondland linking in whatever way it happened of aid to an investigation as the gordon problem. you said it caused you to roll your eyes. ambassador volker said it was everybody in the july 10th meeting felt it was inappropriate. john bolton characterizes it as the drug deal, so it seems like everybody in the room understands that there is a huge problem here. my understanding is that it would been normal course of business when you have in abbasid are out there going rogue as apparently there was consensus ambassador sondland was doing. that either john bolton or the secretary of state might bring them in.