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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 w ....
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. ....
The 2016 election, no? yes. that s what i understand. right. on that call, when ambassador sondland raised the investigation, he did that in response to a question from the ukranians about a white house meeting, isn t that right? can you repeat the question? i didn t catch that. you said ambassador sondland mentioned the specific investigations at the july 10th meeting in ambassador s office. didn t he make that comment in response to a question from the ukranian officials about when they could schedule the white house meeting? that i am not sure about. i remember the meeting being essentially over and ambassador sondland bringing that up. in the july 2nd or 3rd meeting in toronto you had with president zelensky, you also mentioned investigations to him, right? yes. again, you were referring to burisma and the 2016 ....
Went from listening to a presidential call to the national security lawyer, is it not? yes, that s correct. and i think you said your concern was not that it was unlawful but that it might leak, is that right? that is correct. now, the part with leaking is that what would be leaking is a president asking a foreign head of state to investigate mr. biden. isn t that the problem? well, i believe i stated there are three concerns about what the impact of call leaking might be. there was a perfect call, would you have had concern of it leaking? no. i would say a concern about leak zblg would you say it was appropriate if president trump asked zelensky to investigate john kasich or to investigate nancy pelosi, or to investigate ....