anderson: ok. mr. o'rourke: we don't go door to door to do anything in this country to enforce the law. i expect republicans, democrats, gun-owners, non-gun-owners alike to respect and follow the law. anderson: congressman, just to follow up, your expectations aside, your website says you will fine people who don't give up their weapons. that doesn't take those weapons off the street. so, to be clear, exactly how are you going to take away weapons from people who do not want to give them up and you don't know where they are? mr. o'rourke: if someone does not turn in an ar-15 or an ak-47, one of these weapons of war, or brings it out in public and brandishes it in an attempt to intimidate, as we saw when we were at kent state recently, then that weapon will be taken from them. if they persist, there will be other consequences from law enforcement. but the expectation is that americans will follow the law. i believe in this country. i believe in my fellow americans. i believe that they will do the right

>> reporter: they do, anderson. i just talked to a source close to the impeachment deliberations inside the white house, and the president's legal team, who says that the president's legal team is prepared to take this battle to the courts, that, quote, all options are on the table. they're declining to describe this at this point as a war in terms of the letter that was fired off to the house speaker nancy pelosi earlier today. but the source did agree that this is an escalating skirmish. anderson, we are now approaching the way life was during the bill clinton impeachment saga and watergate. remember during watergate, a federal judge forced the nixon administration to cooperate with that investigation. we're nearing that kind of constitutional crisis at this point. >> if in fact the full house does vote on authorizing the impeachment inquiry, is there any reason to think the white house would cooperate, because the letter from the white house counsel calls on house democrats to, quote, abandon the entire thing? >>

remember, anderson, when we already have a great deal. we have two whistle-blowers whose -- whose comments have been seen by -- by the i.g. as credible. and yet we're trying to abide by the process, trying to give the president every opportunity during the investigation. but he can't stop the investigation by refusing to cooperate with the investigation. >> congressman, the white house is daring the speaker to open an impeachment inquiry. if that's what they say the sticking point is would that make a difference? or do you think they will come up with something else. >> they would come up with something else. i don't think we should take directions from them as to how to investigate the actions of this president. that letter that you referred to started out with a very faulty premise. on the second page of the letter it claims that this phone call that happened on july 25th between president trump and president zelensky of ukraine was, quote, unquote, completely appropriate. that's not what the majority of americans think. and that's why

mike: the andersons. you know, vacation every year in the mountains for snowing, up north for water skiing. john: we don't vacation anymore together. we don't do a lot of things because it's just too -- lemonis: as a family. john: yeah, because it's too painful. mike: our family just, like, broke apart. this back area is a little too cramped. lemonis: because you're trying to run two businesses out of 'em. mike: exactly. john: so this is the office. lemonis: hi, there. val: hi. lemonis: i'm marcus. val: val. nice to meet you. lemonis: val, nice to meet you. what do you do? val: i'm the office manager, and i take care of finances for tankfarm. i do -- lemonis: the stores? val: the stores. i do, like, the deposits at the banks. i do payroll. lemonis: and are you guys all paid through anderson? val: correct. lemonis: okay. john: this is amy. amy: i'm the production manager for anderson and tankfarm. lemonis: okay. amy: and then i do finances for anderson, as well, too. lemonis: are you on anderson's payroll,

one other thing we should point out, anderson. during this conference call with reporters -- ask this has been a huge concern not only in washington but in europe -- administration officials were asked whether or not any isis fighters who had been detained have been released. and according to senior administration officials talking to reporters just a short while ago, there is good evidence that some of those detainees have been released and are now at large, anderson. >> jim, thanks very much. sounds very much like the president has painted himself into a corner. joining me is cnn senior political commentator david axelrod, nia-malika henderson, gloria borger, and david chalian. david axelrod, the idea coming from the administration right now that the president didn't green-light this turkish incursion against the kurds is -- >> absurd. >> it's absurd. >> yeah. >> it was that phone call, and he took out the special forces troops, who had been essentially protecting the kurds from the turks all this time. >> either he didn't know

>> reporter: yes, more than ten hours, anderson. i just saw fiona hill leave capitol hill and one thing we have learned in the last few minutes is basically she was telling lawmakers about her concerns with rudy giuliani's sort of shadow foreign policy. that is one of her top concerns that she raised today. we also know that she raised concerns after marie yovonovich, the former ambassador from the ukraine was reassigned. we also learned while she was not on the july 25th phone call, she did prepare for that call. she helped with preparations for it. those are just a few top line numbers that we're hearing today. >> this was a long testimony and a longer week ahead on capitol hill i understand. >> i understand. house republicans really some of them were not happy that they issued a subpoena for fiona hill today. why was the committee so intend on getting rev to testify? >> one of the concerns democrats have always said is they get to the not before the depositions or closed door testimonies and then someone in the state department o

>> anderson, this is something we had spent weeks. you're taking a president who if you think back to july, very real in the role. background in national security. secretary of state mattis, tillerson and gary cohn wanted to give him an in depth briefing. we centered this around return on investment capital. you get great return on your investment when you have 1,000 troops over seas but you have the host nation with tens, hundreds of thousands working in partnership with us. to have put that much time and effort into a briefing to have president trump walk in with a scowl on his face, to sit down with his arms crossed, he refuses to look at tillerson, refuses to look at mattis. it was something that you just sense in a room that he was not pleased with what he knew he was going to hear. we were briefing about issues of national, international importance. he starts bringing up that there had been a leak in the washington post and he spent ten minutes about how that reporter should be sued and the washington post should be sued. it was

>> no, it doesn't, anderson. it just show the lengths to which this administration will go to try to discredit the entire russian meddling, i guess. i recall early on in this presidency when president trump alleged that, you know, the obama administration was surveilling trump tower, which is ridiculous, or that president obama had asked the brits to monitor him, which was ridiculous. in fact, it prompted a rare public statement by gchq, which is the british equivalent of our nsa, national security agency, to completely rebut the president's allegation. so i don't know what the expectation here is because this reporting was done in good faith by foreign service officers or law enforcement or intelligence officials who thought we should know about, you know, these activities. so do they expect now that because there are political leaders who he thinks are more in tune with him, that somehow they're going to say, oh, april fool, you know, we were just kidding before, three-plus years ago. so i don't see the point o

and, anderson, that is a grave crime. you can argue about the meaning of treason, what constitutes it, what doesn't. sedition is very clear cut. you can ask your lawyers. but to me, this is as bald and plain as it could be. but also i have to say that there's not going to be a civil war. knock that off. i've been hearing people on the extreme right saying it for years. >> even if we were in a situation where the president of the united states is invoking the notion of a civil war if he -- if he is not -- if he's impeached or if he is not re-elected or whatever the parameters he believes this might happen or this might break out, anybody who even not even going back in u.s. history, in modern times has seen civil wars in countries around the world up close, there is no responsible leader who would ever kind of raise that, especially in a tweet. it's -- it is a horrific thing to witness countryman turning against countryman. >> well, indeed. the irony of a draft dodger talking up war. yes, there have been horrible civil war

anderson was supposed to be the replacement for picket division that is widely gave long streak anderson's division, because picket was not in the field yet. so free mental account on the second day where he talks about where lee was located on the second day, with hill and the third core confederate third court is extremely important, to allow us to question why didn't anderson division full engage until i second? why didn't lee, hill or anderson put forth all five brigades of just instead of just three? >> a gettysburg headlong street ever ever been question as far as obeying orders or his integrity or anything like, that in any previous battles? >> not during the war itself. not during the war itself. other issues came up in the post war years. second mass comes to mind when some post war writers alleged that long street held off too long in coming to the aid stonewall jackson. but no, not during the war no. none of his actions really came up. subsequent to gettysburg, there was a controversy over the east tennessee campaign, and some disputes between lock street and lafayette my clause

>> reporter: they're not signaling a whole lot of cooperation to come, anderson. i will tell you talking to some sources, republican sources up on capitol hill and close to the white house, essentially saying this was their objective all along to force the house speaker nancy pelosi to have this vote later on this week. according to one republican source i talked to earlier this evening, this does not mean that all of a sudden there's going to be all of this cooperation. this one republican source referred to pelosi's resolution that will be up for a vote on thursday as being largely symbolic. and the white house press secretary i think signaled this pretty clearly earlier this evening, anderson, putting out a very lengthy statement, calling this process irreversibly illegitimate. that is an indication that the white house is likely to take the posture, anderson, that although nancy pelosi is now trying to create a process that will be voted on in the house, that that doesn't all of a sudden put the impeachment toothpaste back in the tube. >> and the legal team, h

>> no joke, anderson. it was no joke. >> yeah. >> we're going to take a look tonight at what's going on with turkey and syria in two different ways. one is militarily in terms of the political calculations and why so many on the right and left are upset about that. then we're going to try to slip into why that doesn't transfer, that sense of righteous indignation and putting policy in front of policy in front of what they have to know what this president did with ukraine. they know it was wrong. why aren't more people saying that? impeach or not is a different conversation. the idea that it isn't wrong, so we have the president's attorney on tonight, jay sec law. he wants to talk about taxes. he wants to take us on about asking for the president's taxes. we'll do it now. >> see you ten minutes from now. >>> still to come, i'll talk to beto o'rourke why he believes some may favor president trump's impeachment. we'll be right back. s happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol

>> anderson, i believe it does. i think she is setting an example of courage and integrity under great pressure and, you know, that example is if there is a legally binding subpoena, then you have a duty to show up. this is -- you know, we are a rule of law country, and i think one of the great things about ambassador yovanovitch, she spent 30 years representing us around the world, fighting for the rule of law, and she came back home, and she is abiding by the rule of law right here in the united states. and i think there are a lot of folks at the state department, the nsc, throughout the u.s. government who will see this as an example, a good example to follow. it can be done. >> just finally, i'm not sure. you may have still been in the meeting. you may not have heard the president's latest comments. but the president said he doesn't know her, that maybe she's a great woman, but that the ukrainian president in his phone conversation said negative things about her, which is just a complete lie. we know from the tr

anderson starts now. >>> good evening. we have new reporting tonight on when the public will get to see public impeachment hearings on who may testify as well as the drafting of articles of impeachment against the president. and in the face of that, there are new signs tonight that his defenders still have few good answers on the actual substance of the ukraine affair, even though behind the scenes they are reportedly troubled by it. cnn's jamie gangel citing republican sources saying senior diplomat william taylor's testimony this week was, quote, a game changer, unquote, that is still reverberating within their ranks. privately, that that is. publicly, these republicans for the second straight day avoided directly confronting or discussing the evidence he gave. instead, they objected to the way the hearings are being conducted and the way ambassador taylor came to know what he knew. anything it seems but the actual details from this career nonpartisan civil servant and west point graduate and vietnam war vet who detailed

you're right, anderson, there is only so much that i can say. but even in his opening statement, and it was true during his testimony as well, it's clear that he affirms that rudy giuliani had a direct role in acting for the president and dealing with the ukrainians, and from what we know of the whistle-blower complaint, the transcript of the phone call between the president and the ukrainian president carrying out the orders of president trump, when you combine that with what mick mulvaney said today, he basically went up to the water's edge and said yes, politics played a role in how we were dealing with ukraine. the case for impeachment got a lot stronger today. >> the ambassador in his opening statement also seemed to indicate that he didn't know about the biden component of this, about the giuliani searching for dirt and the president wanting dirt on democrats until some time later, much later. some of your colleagues have cast doubt on parts of his testimony saying that it was, quote, a lot of cya, which cover your you know what, and that

>> there has been quite a reaction, anderson. after the president boldly called on china to investigate the biden allegations, we're told that chinese officials were basically sent into scramble mode. one of them, a diplomat saying this is quite chaotic. we do not want to get into the middle of u.s. politics. now one trump ally outside the white house described receiving a message from chinese government officials asking hey, is president trump serious when he suggested china open an investigation into biden? the response, investigating corruption is an easy way to earn goodwill with trump. now the chinese did not immediately clarify if they would be launching an investigation or if they would make it public this they do. there is no evidence, we should note, anderson, that the former vice president received money from china. and last week one of hunter biden's lawyers told "the washington post" that he hadn't received any return or compensation on the account of the investment or his position on the board of directors. so his la

and, anderson, that is a grave crime. you can argue about the meaning of treason, what constitutes it, what doesn't. sedition is very clear can uut. you can ask your lawyers. also i have to say there's not going to be a civil war. knock that off. i've been hearing people on the extreme sayiright saying it for years. >> and the president of the united states invoking the notion of a civil war if he is impeached or if he is not re-elected or whatever the parameters he believes this might happen or this might break out, i mean, anybody who even not even going back in u.s. history in modern times has seen civil wars in countries around the world up close, there's no responsible leader who would ever kind of raise that, especially in a tweet, it's -- i mean, it is a horrific thing to witness, this countryman turning against countryman. >> indeed. he had the irony of a draft dodger talking up war. yes, there have been horrible civil wars. some are ongoing right now around the world and they are utterly horrible and very, very c

>> there has been quite a reaction, anderson. after the president boldly called on china to investigate the biden allegations, we're told that chinese officials were basically sent into scramble mode. one of them, a diplomat, saying, this is quite chaotic. we do not want to get into the middle of u.s. politics. now, one trump ally outside the white house described receiving a message from chinese government officials asking, hey, is president trump serious when he suggested china open an investigation into biden? the response, investigating corruption is an easy way to earn goodwill with trump. now, the chinese did not immediately clarify if they would be launching an investigation or if they would make it public if they do. there is no evidence, we should note, anderson, that the former vice president received money from china. and last week, one of hunter biden's lawyers told "the washington post" that he hadn't received any return or compensation on the account of the investment or his position on the board of directors. so hi

i think one other thing, anderson. in terms of people coming out who are heavyweights, it was important that colin powell came out and told republicans they need to get a grip, his party. they need to get a grip on all of this. and then the peter baker story in "the new york times" today where he went back and interviewed ten past chiefs of staff for presidents stretching back to reagan. every single one said they would never have ever done anything like this. they rejected these kind of calls when they occasionally came up. >> carl, now that the second whistle-blower has apparently come forward, ihas some direct knowledge that some of the things the first whistle-blower only had secondhand knowledge of, do you see that changing anything? >> i think it's going to be both dramatic, and he is going to have apparently firsthand knowledge of what transpired here. i think that what all of this becomes more and more is considerable evidence building that we have a fundamentally corrupt president who is a danger to the nation

but of course, anderson, that is more cleanup on aisle 1600. as you just pointed out a few moments ago, not only was mick mulvaney saying there was a quid pro quo, he almost seemed proud of it. >> right. >> and he sounded professorial during this briefing, teaching all of us school kids this is how things work in the big leagues. we do this all the time. and then, of course, he had to come out later on and release that statement. one interesting thing to know, and if you go through that statement line by line, anderson, the one issued by the acting chief of staff this evening, it featured some of the same talking points that the president has been using over the last several weeks in saying there was no quid pro quo, this was about rooting out corruption and so on. it sounds like they had to go back and rework that statement. >> well, i don't understand how mulvaney could also in that same press conference, stand there and say that the dirt on the biden, that had nothing to do, that that was not part of the quid pro quo. >> right. >> even thoug

>> very closely, anderson. on the day of their arrest, sources are telling cnn they were on their way to vienna where they were going to meet rudy giuliani, and all of them were going to be involved in facilitating an interview between sean hannity at fox news and a former ukrainian prosecutor who was going to go on tv and support this conspiracy theory that the president has about the bidens and corruption and ukraine. obviously that didn't happen, and again we have no comment from either of these men's attorneys on that. >> and, again, the fact that one of their attorneys is now claiming or talking about claiming executive privilege, what exactly would he base a claim of executive privilege on? >> well, honestly that attorney didn't really know. i think he was fishing about this. but here's the theory. the theory is these guys share an attorney with the president, and they were working for the president's attorney in a role that the president wanted that attorney to fulfill. so if you put that all together, y

>> i haven't read the article, anderson, so i can't tell you what the article says. but i will tell you that i'm very proud of our team, and we have accomplished a great amount of work thus far, which makes me a top tier candidate and by many accounts, within the top four, maybe five, but top four in a field of over 20 people. and so something's been going right, and we're going to continue moving ahead. >> senator harris, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. thank you. >>> coming up, is the whistle-blower's life in danger? i'm going to ask former white house chief of staff, defense secretary, and cia director hlen panetta. >>> later, our legal team weighs in on the potential legal now ahead for rudy giuliani. i had always heard stories about my great grandfather, but family can only tell you so much... about your history. i found some incredible records about samuel silberman... passenger manifests, census information, even wwi draft registration cards. the records exist... they're there, they're facts. that made it so real for me, it wasn't just a story

>> reporter: i do think that's a real question, anderson. we were talking to a number of sources today. i talked to a couple who have said that mulvaney has been on thin ice. he's been on shaky ground for several months now. the president from time to time has sounded out the idea of whether or not he should keep mulvaney around. but i talked to one source close to the president earlier this evening who said there might be some difficulty in giving mulvaney the boot because of what he knows in terms of this ukraine investigation. but, anderson, i will tell you one thing that we should point out, mulvaney will be at camp david this weekend according to a white house official, meeting with gop lawmakers on a range of issues. that is an indication that perhaps he's not in immediate jeopardy. but i wanted to just share a quote i got from a source close to the white house, a trump adviser earlier this evening, who is defending mulvaney and saying, we all get turned into a pretzel defending trump. that's the sad reality. anderson, at the end of th

anderson, this is the problem with the president. he doesn't understand we live in a constitutional democracy where the rule of law matters more than any individual. and that's what we're losing in this country. >> i feel like -- i remember you know over the years you know newscasts have played videos of politician in south korea fighting and/or in some eastern european country battling each other. and it seemed like a joke. can you believe that that would happen there? i mean, this is like one step toward that. i mean, who knows where we'll be a few months from tu now. congressman -- >> it was sad. i don't want to reveal who but i was in the elevator going back to the offs and you had members of congress yelling at each other today which i've never seen before. usually people are civil. but there is a tension now that is really undermining the hauls of congress. and it's sad to see. >> well maybe that person didn't get enough pizza. congressman khanna. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> it's interesting how eveninger some are to

anderson, the last time our count country endured a civil war was over america's original sin. slavery. and if donald trump thinks that this is a moment where he's actually being held accountable for his failures as president and his failure to uphold the oath to protect the constitution of the united states and our democracy, if he's equating that with a war that took place between american people over slavery, i mean, it is yet again evidence of the fact that he is delusional in that he has a very outsized sense of himself as compared to the history of our country. and all that we have been through and all that we are capable of. so, you know, i just think what's most important is we not indulge his delusions and that we bring him back to reality. i think the impeachment process will do that. >> there are a lot of supporters, though, of the president out there who are good people who work hard and voted for him in good faith and believe in him -- >> sure. >> -- to this day. look at him, just, democrats can't get him out of it by the ballot box, now they're just trying to do i

that, anderson, is a "this for that," in other words, a quid pro quo. a white house meeting to the ukrainians was of paramount importance. again, there's other evidence, though, in our investigation that it wasn't on a white house meeting. as ambassador sondland told ambassador taylor, everything is on the table, not just the meeting, but also the security assistance. >> i also want to ask you about this reporting today that democrats accused republicans of trying to out the whistle-blower during vindman's deposition, which apparently, according to the reporting, let to you and your republican colleague, congressman mark meadows, getting into a heated exchange. can you say what happened? >> yeah. well, out of respect for my republican colleague, i'm not going to say which colleague that was. i will say i got pretty fired up when i saw republicans attempting to get the identity of the whistle-blower after repeatedly being told that that was not appropriate and hearing that the witness did not want to do that as he identified in his opening statement. we'

anderson starts now. >>> good evening, we begin with breaking news. more damaging testimony in the ukraine affair. another indication of how badly president trump's personal attorney wanted to obtain dirt on the president's political rivals. the news follows two weeks of other testimony that taken together lays out the parties parts and pieces of what is a wide ranging sustained intense i havive campaign to get a foreign government to do the president's personal political bidding in exchange for badly needed military assistance. and of course this comes at the end of a day of damage control after the president's own acting chief of staff conceded yesterday that, yes, there was a quid pro quo with ukraine. >> but to be clear what you just transcribed is a quid pro quo. it's funding will not flow unless the investigation into the -- into the democratic server happened as well. >> we do -- we do that all the time. with foreign policy. i have news for everybody. get over it. >> he put out a statement just hours later trying to say that he never said that

>> hard to know, anderson. i'm not current on all the conversations occurring with respect to john bolton. i would just point out that the watching public may think that a subpoena is something that's used to drag people in. often times a subpoena is just used because in a very polarized and political moment, the one we live in today, a witness who may want to come testify may also want to be compelled to do so, for whatever reason. who knows? certainly people who have sort of future aspirations to work in washington, they want to be able to say in the future, i didn't cooperate. i didn't voluntarily go in, but i was forced to by the congress. i wouldn't read too much into this question of subpoena or no subpoena. >> do you think tomorrow the ruling, when a judge decides whether or not bolton's top aides or one of his top aides has to comply with the subpoena? if the court rules the white house can block their people from appearing, what might that mean for the investigation moving forward? >> i would be shocke

>> well, hard to know, anderson. and i'm not current on all of the conversations that are occurring with respect to john bolton. but i would just point out that the watching public may think that a subpoena is something that is used to drag people in. oftentimes a subpoena is just used because in a very polarized and political moment, the one that we live in today, a witness who may want to come testify may also want to be compelled to do so for whatever reason. and who knows? certainly people who have sort of future aspirations to work in washington, they may want to be able to say in the future that, look, i didn't cooperate. i didn't voluntarily go in, but i was forced to by the congress. so i wouldn't read too much into this question of subpoena or no subpoena. >> do you think, then, tomorrow the ruling when a judge decides whether or not bolton's top aides or one of his top aides has to comply with the subpoena? i mean if the court rules the white house can block their people from appearing, what might that mean

anderson starts now. >>> good evening, we begin with breaking news. new indications of just how seriously president trump is now taking the peaimpeachment inqui and pushing republican senators, potential jurors, in line. cnn's evan perez is breaking the news and joins us now. what you have learned? >> reporter: one of the things we've learned is that the president is so consumed with this impeachment inquiry that he's now calling senator mcconnell as many as three times a day. now this is something that the majority leader has had to deal with before at the height of the mueller inquiry. the president was so exercised that he was doing the same thing. now the president is worrying about is keeping senators in line. he is worried about disloyal senators, something he's tarted tweeting about in recent days and said some senators are not being loyal enough and they should be holding the line. now this is something that mcconnell will have to deal with for the loe for the long-term to make sure senators that are the jurors should nancy pelosi and the demo

>> thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo, and welcome to "primetime." so many see this as a very dark day for the president. maybe, but that's not my perspective. we have finally see the light of truth. we know what happened, and that light shown brightly today from an unlikely source, team trump. the top u.s. diplomat to ukraine says a quid pro quo was clearly in play. the president was orchestrating a shadow effort to manipulate ukraine to get dirt on the dnc and the bidens. people with power to decide the president's fate are here tonight to answer the real only question that remains, what should the consequence be? it's a big day. there are big questions. let'

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let's start with anderson. what is he expected to say? >> reporter: yeah, so christopher anderson served as a special assistant to curt volker from 2017 to 2019. so essentially he is the person who really knew everything that curt volker was doing. and what he does in his opening statement is paint a picture of just how involved rudy guiliani became. now, this is no shocker to us, kate. we have heard this again and again from each person's testimony, but the important thing here is to note the specific conversations that were happening about rudy guiliani and his involvement and chris anderson points to one specific case in june where there was a meeting with himself and curt volker the special assistant to ukraine who has already testified be every the committee and then national security adviser john bolton. and i want to read to you his description of how john bolton described guiliani's efforts that were at play with u.s.-ukraine policy at that moment. and this is what christopher anderson is expected to tell lawmakers today, vote, vo

that kind of thing. >> commissioner anderson: have those fully been expended yet? >> not all of them. we do have still a soft cost reserve that we are hopefully we won't need to expend that. >> commissioner anderson: i thought it might be interesting to let people know it's really expensive to build anything in the city. and right now, the price tag for this bathroom is $1.7 million. i'm flabbergasted by that. and not because i don't believe in the great value that we get. i know we get great value, but you know, there is no reporters here, but man, if i were a reporter i'd be asking a question about why is a bathroom $1.7 million and that's the reality we deal with in rec and park and any other department. i'm amenable to moving forward on the project so it doesn't get to be more. >> commissioner harrison: yeah, the project is great. and i would normally support it, but because of the prefabricated restroom, i will be unable to support this. for a lot of reasons. but anyway, just want to put that out there. >> commissioner mcdonnell: quickly, another math question

>> well, i don't want to overstate it, anderson. i think a lot of people don't quite know what to say to me. but i was on a plane -- i'm here in san francisco, and i stood outside waiting for my colleague to get off the plane. and i had a number of people come up and thank me. they say, we want to thank you for what you've been doing for our country. and it wasn't just one. it was a number. and i don't know if it just has to do with what i've said about impeachment or the fact that i've tried to say that we ought to have people come together and all this fighting and everything, this doesn't make any sense, and we all need to be participating in healing this country. but people are very, very kind, very generous. now, i was on a radio show on friday night, and we had a lot of calls. and they were all attacking me, but that comes with the territory depending on the show. but i would say overall, people have been very kind to me, and i appreciate it very much. >> how hard a decision was that for you, a, to come to, and, b, to be publi

anderson will train at the club's etihad campus as he hopes to be fit to play in england's winter tours. great britian‘s men finished 5th in the team final at gymnastics' world championships in stuttgart. max whitlock was the last member of the team to go on the pommel. the olympic champion knew the team couldn't improve on 5th, but attempting a really difficult routine, he fell off mid—way through. he managed to finish, though, with a score of 111.133. russia won the gold for the first time since the breakup of the soviet union, overtaking china — the top men's gymnastics nation for the last 20 years — on the final rotation. japan took bronze. the usjust missed out on a podium place. next to what's been described by fifa as "a moment for real change". football's world governing body say that it will "stand firm" in ensuring that women have access to all football matches in iran. it follows the death of an activist, sahar kho—day—ari, who set herself on fire after being arrested for trying to watch a match. she later died. iran have agreed to let women attend their world cup

. >> thanks so much for joining us, anderson starts now. >>> good evening. it's entirely possible that this day may turn out to be one of the most sequential days in the impeachment inquiry as well as possibly the presidency. testimony on capitol hill behind closed doors is being called that significant by some who heard it. the country's top diplomat in ukraine told congress -- told congress -- by the way a west point graduate a vietnam vet who served for 50 years. he revealed in great detail and no uncertain teams that presiden trump pushed his people to fush for a quid pro quo with the president of ukraine. military aide and white house visit in exchange for investigating the firm tide to joe biden's son hunter and conspiracy theory about the 10i6r 2016 election. >> william taylor described efforts outside diplomatic channels by which the lawyer rudy giuliani by which gordon sondland, rick perry and others sought an arrangement with the ukraine president zelensky. in are the sthort taylor's testimony which wrapped up describes the very thing the president

. >> former special adviser anderson will say they warned top officials of the influence rudy giuliani had on ukraine. anderson will also say they blocked a statement back in november 20618. >> the current special adviser katherine kroft will talk about pressure from giuliani's allies to outside government to oust vetted ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. kroft will also outline a video conference where a trump business official discussed a military hold on you cain. the only reason given, kroft will say, is at the order of the president. >>> after weeks of closed door testimony, house democrats began seth up their formal public impeachment process starting this afternoon. they's discuss the scope as rules on the next stoechs the impeachment inquiry ahead of a full house vote on thursday. it will mark the first time i'm house democrat will have to go on the record in an attempt to oust the president. more from lauren fox on capitol hill. >> basically what it does is sets up the rules for the next steps of the impeachment inquiry. it announces that the intelligence committee will

brett anderson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. lovely to be here. you've just written your second memoir which takes us right through your music career. and throughout it you appear to be almost painfully aware of the danger of being some sort of rock cliche. would you say that is fair? yeah, i mean, very much the starting point for writing the book was to sort of subvert the tired cliche of the sort of well—trodden story that we're aware of. i think every rock career is basically the same story. it's a story of struggle, success, excess and disintegration, and then if you're lucky, you kind of arrive at a point of some sort of self reflection or awareness of what you've been through. but i wanted to write a story about — that wasn't about the cliches, that was more about the kind of, an investigation into the kind of machinery, the fame machine, the success machine, and what that does to people and what they did to me, especially. are you doing it out of a spirit of sort of regret, even resentment at that machinery and the way it used you? no,

brett anderson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. a pleasure to be here. you've just thank you very much. a pleasure to be here. you'vejust written thank you very much. a pleasure to be here. you've just written your second memoir which takes us right through your music career. and throughout it you appear to be almost painfully aware of the danger of being some sort of rock cliche. would you say that is fair? yeah, very much the starting point from the book was to sort of subvert the tired cliche of the sort of well travelled story we are aware of. i think every rock career is basically the same story. it's a story of struggle, success, access and disintegration, and then if you are lucky, you kind of arrive at a point of some sort of self reflection or awareness at what you've been through. but i wanted to write a story about good as that wasn't about the cliches, that was more about the cliches, that was more about the cliches, that was more about the kind of, an investigation into the machinery, the fame machine, the success machine, and what that does

christopher anderson was followed in that job by catherine croft. christopher anderson, according to his opening statement, told house investigators that rudy giuliani prevented the trump administration from strengthening cooperation with ukraine. christopher anderson described a meeting he had with john bolton on the topic of having senior white house officials engage more with ukraine. john bolton identified an obstacle to better engagement with ukraine. he cautioned that mr. giuliani was a key voice with the president on ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased white house engagement. according to catherine croft's opening statement she first learned of the trump white house's plan to hold up ukrainian -- military assistance to ukraine during a july 18th office of budget and management meeting and she listened in by videoconference. an omb official told the group that white house chief of staff mick mulvaney has placed what she called an informal hold on the aid to ukraine. catherine croft testified that the reason given then for the hold

christopher anderson was followed in that job by catherine croft. mr. anderson told house impeachment investigators that rudy giuliani prevented the trump administration from strengthsing cooperation with ukraine. christopher anderson described a meeting he had with john bolton on the topic of having senior white house officials engage more with ukraine. john bolton identified an obstacle to better engagement with ukraine. he cautioned that mr. giuliani was a key voice with the president on ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased white house engagement. according to athren croft's opening statement she first learned of the trump white house's plan to hold up ukrainian -- military assistance to ukraine during a july 18th office of budget and management meeting and she listened in by videoconference. told the group that white house chief of staff mick mulvaney had placed what she called an informal hold on the aid to ukraine. catherine croft testified that the reason given then for the hold on ukraine, the hold on ukraine aide was that the order c

one was chris anderson. they are both career foreign service officers, people who have served democratic and republican administrations. they even took pains to say the testimony that they work for the united states of america advancing our interest abroad. what they saw what they witnessed and testified today was the irregular policy channel that ambassador to kiev bill taylor had talked about in his very detailed testimony last week. in that irregular channel, rudy giuliani was exerting pressure. and john bolton was expressing concern. that's why i think it's relevant because when somebody like gordon sondland who was the ambassador to the e.u. said i never heard any concern. that's clearly not true. we now know from these witnesses that john bolton himself was so concerned and that they went to the white house lawyers about the concern. >> it also annihilates this sort of construct that the white house would like to push out that it's donald trump against the deep state figures. garrett haake, i am told y

that kind of thing. >> commissioner anderson: have those fully been expended yet? >> not all of them. we do have still a soft cost reserve that we are hopefully we won't need to expend that. >> commissioner anderson: i thought it might be interesting to let people know it's really expensive to build anything in the city. and right now, the price tag for this bathroom is $1.7 million. i'm flabbergasted by that. and not because i don't believe

. >> my name is sherri anderson. my dad was a farmer who worked more than 5,000 acres of potatoes, beer barley and sugar beets, but his real bumper crop was growing inside his barns. >> sherri. >> hey.>> i'm jamie. >> nice to meet you.to savannah. >> oh, it's gorgeous and so great to meet you. inside, sherri shows me some old photos that tell the story of her father's 20-plus years restoring cars and trucks in his barns near paul, idaho. what variety. >> absolutely. he had cars dating from 1919 up to 1982. he got a 1968 mustang, which was mom's cruising car, a 1928 rolls-royce. >> this looks special. >> the 1950 bentley, my personal favorite, too. >> the restoration wizard, callan "cal" phillips, born 1925. he spends his childhood working on the family wheat and potato farm in south-central idaho. cal serves in the pacific in world war ii, returns home to work on the family farm, gets married and raises six children, then gets divorced in the late 1960s. he remarries to marilyn hanshew, who has three children of her

anderson? >> thank you very much. appreciate it. congressm congressman, thanks so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> good to be with you. >> i want to get to your trip in ukraine in just a moment because the timing of it could not be more important. i do want to ask you about the ambassador's testimony. i'm wondering what you make of what we have learned so farther, concerted campaign against her, according to her testimony. >> well, first of all, she's an extraordinary woman, obviously skilled as a diplomat but obviously very, very, very courageous, willing to speak to power and not be put down by the president but rather to carry out her constitutional and her oath of office, that is to obey the constitution and to come forward with whatever information she has. with regard to her testimony, the deposition process is one of gathering data and information. there will undoubtedly be hearings, perhaps she'll be coming back. this is a process that's extremely important, understanding the details, the timelines, the various even