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it is 12:00 in new york. we re following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc senior adviser fiona hill and current u.s. diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the trump administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a smear campaign against ukraine ambassador marie yovanovitch who was apparently standing in the way. the conduct of both of today s witness witnesses, they believed lives could be jeopardized in ukraine. here is some of the dramatic testimony of fiona hill and david holmes. the barrage of allegations directed against ambassador yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything i have seen in my professional career. i heard ambassador sondland say to the president, yes, he was in ukraine, and wen ....
Suck up to power and disregard let s just say the constitution of the united states time and time again. in this country s greatest hour of need since the civil war. yeah, yeah. what s interesting, the characters that are emerging at least in my mind, right. there are those folks who are holding the line as we talked about, the folks committed to the constitutional principles. then there s incompetence, folks running around who don t know anything. right. and then folks whose souls have been distorted by political power. and that combination of incompetence and those folks who are just sker sidesing the will to power, right, created a firestorm. to mix my metaphors. imdeed. and you know what we re seeing also only display here is the difference between leadership and character. leadership is how you influence others. it s a big door that swings. but that big door swings on a ....
A lot of perennial forces in american life, xenophobia, nativism, isolationism, the will to power, all those forces, raci racism, all those forces are perennial, they ebb and flow in american life. right now they re flowing, we need to get to a place where they re ebbing. what is new is this different conversation and this freelance diplomacy which has scrambled our essential vision of what matters in the world. and that s really what s at stake here. can i just say, i was in red square that day. nbc asked president reagan when he was standing with gorbachev, do you still think it s the evil empire. and he said no. remarkable. that was another day, another era. exactly. the coverage doesn t start until jon meacham and andrea mitchell guys, i was riveted, ....