-- he reported to tim morrison. he was a detainee and he should have been testifying in public today. >> vindman did have knowledge. he didn't interact with the president like a tim morrison did, but vindman did. >> remember, this is about the president, right? if you -- if you have ambassador kurt volker and tim morrison at the national security council and you have the president of the united states and the president of ukraine and we're all getting their statements and testimony. those who were on the outside who have heard from others, who have had conversations with people about what they think or believe or might feel really aren't important. >> and i know that that is something that the white house officials speak to that hone in on the second-hand information and it's hearsay and you have the president who continues to say that it was the perfect phone call. in fact, he just said it today in a radio interview and here's what he said. >> the transcript of the -- of the call that i have with the ukrainian pres

the national security council in charge russia, tim more o -- tim morrison. this comes on the eve of his scheduled testimony before the house committee. for the latest we turn to john roberts. reporter: a new development in the impeachment inquiry. tim morrison who is the top russia expert at the national security council will be leaving his position. sources tell fox news it's been expected for some time. but the timing is significant because morrison is scheduled to testify tomorrow. according to the ambassador, morrison believed military aid to ukraine was contingent on ukrainian officials opening an investigation into hunter and joe biden. president trump kept up his

chris cillizza, we heard from tim morrison, the top russia adviser. he made it clear that he basically agreed with what the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, bill taylor, had testified about and disagreed with the strategy of ambassador gordon sondland, ambassador to the eu, a political appointee. >> first of all ierk think phil mentioned this. i think public hearings will do everyone a world of good to the extent you can get a decent chunk of these people who appeared behind closed doors, simply because it won't be a series of leaks designed to frame it in the best possible light. if you choose to, you could watch the whole thing. what i will say, based on what we know of these various conversations with people they've brought in from bill taylor to vindman to today, there is a consistency with the exception of gordon sondland, there is a consistency of story, of sequence of events that is consistent with the whistle-blower complaint that if i was the president or one of his allies, would give me some level of pause. is it possible all of these people co

what do you want to hear from tim morrison? >> i want to hear exactly what he knows about what the president said to the president of ukraine. we have a transcript. it's important that we go through the process of hearing from the witnesses who were actually there and listened in on the phone call. you all know as part of the committee, i can't get into the specific testimony of what i've heard but i can say that my impression after hearing many of these witnesses is that there was -- that the president did try to use the leverage of the united states government for political favors, for political purposes. and perhaps that's what we'll hear again today. i'm anxious to hear his testimony. >> you know what's interesting is that some of our sources say that what tim morrison may say is that, y es, he was on that call, but he didn't think anything untorrid happened. could it change your impression if that's the case? >> that would be an interesting perspective or take from a witness, but certainly there's been a lot of concern exp

why will tim morrison's testimony be important? >> first of all, it's important because it exists at all. remember the white house counsel has said we don't want anyone corporating. but morrison will be the first white house official to break ranks and agree to testify. but what makes him important is that morrison offered the most direct testimony yet that there was widespread understanding within the executive branch that the aid to ukraine was conditioned on the provision of dirt on joe biden. >> bill taylor. >> yes. >> and tim morrison is part of what he heard and how he knows that. >> correct. and ambassador sondland was much more vague about what went on. and there is some conflict, not total conflict between sondland and taylor. it would be significant if morrison corroborated taylor that this quid pro quo was wide withly known and acted upon on the branch. >> so from the opening remarks where tim morrison played a role. during the same phone call i had with tim morrison, he went on to describe a conversation he had with mr.

morrison's testimony is very damaging to the democrat narrative. that's why you haven't seen any leaks from my democrat colleagues today. >> wolf, as this impeachment inquiry moves forward, democratic leaders have been reluctant to put a timeline on it. every time we meet with someone behind closed doors we find we need more information about what we were told. that said, there will be at least one more week of scheduled closed door depositions and shortly after that, public hearings will start from the public hearings it will move to the judiciary committee where articles of impeachment will be drafted. they'll move those through and then another house vote. if they get to that point. and then to the united states senate for a trial where at this point the united states senators watching, waiting, mostly holding their fire. wolf? >> phil mattingly on capitol hill, thank you. >>> more breaking news on new legal tests of white house stonewalling. federal judges are reviewing whether the courts can force witnesses close to the president to testify in

at 8:00 a.m., the top russia expert, tim morrison testifies. he will be the second witness that listened in on the call, july 25th, between president trump and the leader of ukraine. cnn has learned that morrison will corroborate key elements of bill taylor's account. taylor is the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine and testified mr. trump pressed ukraine to publicly announce an investigation into the bidens in exchange for security assistance. >> cnn has learned that morrison is leaving his job soon, raising expectations he will speak more freely in his deposition. >>> also this morning, the first house floor vote of impeachment around 10:30 eastern time. it allows for public hearings and release of deposition transcripts. it also outlines the role of democrats and limited rights for republicans and the white house. house speaker nancy pelosi, sounding optimistic. >> mr. clyburn, our whip, has given me a very good report about our vote tomorrow. he's the vote counter. thank you, mr. clyburn. >>> one big remaining question, will john bolton testify?

this is national security adviser matthew morrison. >> we expect tim morrison will cooperate and will appear before house investigators next week. he is asking for a subpoena. he will get a subpoena undoubtedly and he will testify. what we are told, our team is told from multiple sources that he is expected to corroborate a key elements of bill taylor's testimony from earlier this week when the top diplomat from ukraine had testified that the president had withheld vital military aid in exchange for pushing for an investigation or for the ukrainians to publicly announce an investigation into the bidens. morrison's name is important, because he is cited about 15 times throughout that opening statement from bill taylor. and bill taylor had referenced multiple conversations that they had about why the aid had been withheld, concerns that the diplomats had, that taylor had about the aid being withheld. at one point in one of the conversation, morrison told taylor about a conversation that the president had with his top ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland, in which the presid

morrison told me about the sondland-yermak conversation. mr. morrison was key. i would assume his boss, mr. bolton, would be even more key. >> bjojohn cornyn looked at us yesterday and said, i don't know bill taylor from adam. that's their defense. we don't know who he is, some career guy, some career diplomat who lives overseas. they know john bolton really well. this is someone they've worked with for 20 years in foreign policy. if john bolton testifies corroborating all these things, this is somebody that they can't just deny, like, i don't know who he is. they've worked with him going back to the george w. bush administration. that's why he is so key to these senate republican voices. >> this whole i don't know this guy defense is straight out of the donald trump playbook. i don't remember seeing that on the hill before this presidency and that is what donald trump has typically done when anybody who has been close to him is critical. michael cohen, paul manafort, the list goes on where suddenly they were with me for a short period, they handled specific mat

his name is tim morrison. he just told house lawmakers he was worried that releasing that transcript of president trump's call with the ukrainian president would have negative consequences. talk about that ahead. >>> also reality check from outside of washington. why voters in the key battleground state of pennsylvania are not all onboard with impeachment. >>> and congresswoman katie hill blames what she calls a double it standard for her resignation after revenge porn photos of her were posted online. you will hear her final emotional speech on the house floor. >>> you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. i'll be right back. but when s dealing with device setups, app updates, and support calls... you can never seem to get anywhere. that's why dell technologies created unified workspace, powered by vmware. ♪ a revolutionary solution that lets you deploy, manage, support and secure all your devices from the cloud. so you can stop going in circles, and start moving forward. doprevagen is the number oneild memp

morrison told me. this was the first time i had heard that the security assistance not just the white house meating was conditioned on the investigations. that seems to be the pivotal moment. tim morrison is obviously part of that moment. if he doesn't think there was anything wrong, it matters what congress and what the law thinks is wrong. >> and there were gasps in the room reportedly after taylor delivered his testimony. morrison replaced fiona hill as the president's top russia adviser. he came into this picture a bit later than bill taylor did who replaced yovanovitch. i will say regardless of how morrison felt about it, another vital person they want to hear from at some point and that is john bolton was the one who ultimately told bill taylor he should send a memo to his boss, secretary of state mike pompeo. there were enough people here concerned about the chain of events and how at least things appeared to be taking place. connect that to the fact we do know that zelensky and the ukrainians u

that's something according to taylor's testimony that morrison had some concerns about. we do expect there to be some corroboration of taylor's testimony. we are also told he does not believe that the administration necessarily had done anything wrong with all of this, and we believe that his testimony, from what we are told, will have some nuance about whether there was any quid pro quo or not, so he may not raise as many alarms as taylor. we'll ultimately wait and have to see. we do expect -- we are told he's taken notes about his past conversations and those notes will also provide a basis of his testimony. but of course this comes at a key time as the impeachment investigators are trying to figure out exactly what happened here. here's an individual who is a key person in the white house currently serving in the white house who will testify about all these matters. the question though ultimately that republicans will raise is whether or not he has firsthand knowledge of any of this. they're already pushing back on bill taylor's testimony saying he didn't have firstha

they bring in tim morrison. we are hearing that tim morrison who resigned his postal the white house was absolutely supportive of the president and candid about his judgment of that phone call. >> tim has a lot of credibility. he is a friend of mine. he served with former senator jon kyl as his aide. i don't know why he resigned. it might have been conflicting advice and whether he should or should not testify. but the result was not what the democrats hoped for. unlike a lot of these deep state cry babies saying donald trump cut us on the process with ukraine. tim was actually on the phone call. one of the few people in this mix who were and he said there was nothing illegal in that call. of course we already know that from the transcript. but it's nice to have a first-hand witness affirm that. lou: we just learned that tim morrison's last day on the job will be tomorrow, chris. let's turn to this colonel vindman. he's an interesting fellow. he talked about the interagency and the consensus of the interagency a

morrison, tim morrison told me about the sondland conversation. this was the first time i had heard that the security assistance not just the white house meeting was conditioned on investigations. so morrison was the one who told taylor the facts about what taylor believed was a quid pro quo. interesting in and of itself. also interesting that tim morrison, who works inside the white house, maggie is going to testify and corroborate some of this. >> i think that's exactly right in terms of him going ahead. look, we have seen the white house has tried to put a blanket, nobody should cooperate with this message out. and you have seen not everyone, but a number of people still going up to the hill under subpoena and testifying anyway. i think they might be being careful about certain things they can't talk about because of possible executive privilege. they're not adopting the stance of we're just not going to take part in this. i do think -- the cnn report was terrific on tim morrison. i do wonder whether he's going to say that he saw a problem with

morrison: my pleasure. laura: as you watch brexit unfolding and all hinging on this relationshep between no ireland and irish republic, what do you make of that? mr. morrison: first of all, i think it is great that people unyrstood that the good fri agreement is something special and that the lack of a border on ireland is real progress and raace is really important. it has become cebecause it is essential. nura:ac but theis that now fyou have the democratic unionists who want to stay in the u.k. they are so worried about thra ement that they cannot support the new brexit plan. why is the border so a motive in northern ireland? mr. morrison: i don't think it is that the dup wants a border. e it is that they cannot square the circle about northern ireland being treated speciaecy. it is being treated specially in a favorable way, not an unfavorable way. they have gotten guarantees about continued membership in the u.k. i think they are missing the chance to be the peacemakers here, but they are good at missin

tim morrison is his name. he's a russia and europe adviser on the national security council set to testify next week. he was named 15 times in taylor's opening statement. so joining me now is democratic congressman ted lieu, a member of the foreign affairs committee. i'm so glad that you're here. thank you, congressman. i really appreciate it. >> thank you, don. >> this is very significant because not only is morrison expected to corroborate taylor's testimony, he also listened to that july 25th phone call. what do you want to know from him? >> thank you, don, for your question. let me first say that impeachment is one of the gravest powers of congress, second only to the power to declare war. it must always be our last option, reserved for these rare instances where we can't wait until the next election. we might be at one of those instances now. bill taylor's testimony was devastating to the president. we expect morrison to corroborate parts of it. and bill taylor essentially laid out a quid pro quo between

tim morrison, who is testifying today, is the second. and still to come, john eisenberg is the deputy counsel to president trump. he can appear on monday. then john bolton, the former security adviser to the president, who was invited but says he will only appear under subpoena. i want to bring here john meeks. he is a democrat on the foreign affairs committee, one of the committees involved in the depositions. sir, thank you so much for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> you voted yes on the house impeachment resolution today, setting up the process for public hearings. when you see these names, you know the folks who have testified behind closed doors. who do you think it's imperative that the american people hear from in the public phase of these hearings? >> i think most of them. look, i've been in the skiff. i've been listening to some of the testimony. i think the move we're making so that the american public will get an opportunity to hear them will be very beneficial. then you can get rid of the some of the chatter you hear c

how damaging is this for trump that morrison would back this? >> very. as if ambassador taylor's statement and testimony wasn't clear enough, morrison clearly was in the middle of this and will be able to connect whatever dots are not clearly connected already and of course, you know, getting back to the president's comment about taylor, was there no mistake. ambassador taylor has served his country with distinction for 50 years. he has done an outstanding job as most recently as acting ambassador to ukraine, and last i checked, he's still the acting ambassador. so clearly, the secretary of state does not think it was a mistake to put him in that position, and so there's a huge disconnect, it seems to me, between the president and the secretary of state and that's really not sustainable. something's got to break there. >> what do you make of that, senator santorum? here's the reality. mike pompeo is taking taylor's side. the president keeps trying to demean bill taylor and act as what he's saying is not true because he's a never trumper. what do you make

we expect morrison to corroborate it. he laid out a quid pro quo between the president and the ukrainian president. >> it was pretty ominous. do you think you have enough evidence to impeach the testimony? >> a lot of the damming evidence came out. that call record, we don't need morrison to tell us what was on it because we have it. the white house released a summarized transcript right after the ukrainian leader donald trump says i have a favor to ask of you and he lists two favors, investigate the dnc, investigate the bidens. we have text messages from volker and bill taylor's opening statement. this is all very damaging. >> so then the question that people at home are saying, what are you waiting for? >> i'm a former prosecutor. you want to make sure as long as witnesses are coming in, you keep entering the information. we'll have public hearings in a while. >> so we hear from bill taylor's opening statement, right? we're hearing from some folks that this is very damaging. it's very damaging. then you get republicans

but morrison is actually in the white house. and he is coordinating and talking to all of these people and putting the meetings together, probably putting together the talking points for the phone call, so he's a very valuable witness here. even if he says i didn't really have a problem with the president what he did. that's not, i don't think that is a big problem for the investigation. and again, cnn's initial reporting on this is he will corroborate bill taylor's testimony here and taylor's testimony has been among the most explosive so far. >> that's right. i think that that's why his testimony today is so significant. i mean if you remember back to bill taylor, he was the first state department official, the acting ambassador to ukraine, who actually said there was a quid pro quo for military aid. now, granted he doesn't use the phrase "quid pro quo" but he described what his understanding, was that the white house, the president wanted that $400 billion in military aid to ukraine to be held up, until president zelensky of

morrison was a very good witness. i think it just goes to prove our point that we want all of these transcripts released. we want as much information out to the general public as soon as possible so the american people can decide what's going on down in the bunker. >> it sounds like you're for public hearings. so in some ways, you're glad this process is going to become a more public thing. why is that? >> as somebody who sits on both the judiciary committee and has dealt with this impeachment farce since the first day i got into congress and has sat through almost all of the oversight depots, i haven't heard a single thing down there -- practiced criminal law for almost my entire adult life. there are procedures and things that go in place and as we get here, just public hearings isn't enough. i'm not sure you can undo the damage that has already been done. i mean, this is about credibility, and due process. but yes, i want public hearings. i want them as quickly and as fairly as possible. >> one of the things that t

was much too close to us president still morrison was in the us on a state visit last week one state he was on stage with the us president what looked like a campaign rally in ohio so already a lot of disquiet here in australia that scott morrison is much too close to the trunk and this only feeds into that. the inquiry inquiry has to do with russian and to ference into the 2016 election so why is this cheney being asked about it. good question well in a sense it all began with an australian diplomat alex to down a list alexander downer who was a former foreign minister of australia but by 2016 was a strain is essentially ambassador he was the high commissioner to the united kingdom he was in london and got invited to a meeting at a wine ball with george puppet openness so at the time was working on the trump campaign trump hadn't won the nomination of the republican party but he was close to it and over drinks in this london wine bar papadopoulos said to alex on the down but he expects a trump to win the election in part because he knew the russians had some on hillary clinton and t

morrison: my pleasure. laura:s you watch brexit unfolding and all hinging on this relationship between northern ireland and irish orepublic, what do you ma that? mr. morrison: first of all, i think it is great that people understood ttht the good friday agreement is something special and at the lack of border on ireland is repe progress and e is really important. it has become central because it is essential. laura: b the fact is that now you have the democratic unionists who want to stay in the u.k. they are so worried about the arrangement that they cannot support the n brexit plan. motive he border so a northern ireland? mr. mrison: i don't think it is that the dup wants a border. it is that they cannot square the circle about northern ireland being treated specially. it is being treated speciallin a favorabl way, not an unfavorable way. they have gotten guarantees about continued membership in the u.k. i think they are missing the chance to be the peacemakers here, but they are good at milaing chances.

morrison reportedly said that australia was ready to help the white house has restricted access to the calls trask's. let's go to sydney now for more on the story with journalist roger maynard good morning roger what do we know about the phone call between donald trump and the australian prime minister scott morrison or not a lot of a few sentences for only a problem and this is the official spokesman here he said that morrison was asked to help president trying to escape the origins of what he called this damning report about russian interference in the 26000 election and other spokesmen camera said the government had always been ready to assist and call crate with efforts to help shape further light only matters under investigation and the plan is to confirm this region is once again in this conversation this phone call with the president this will expand it now this admission follows a report in new york times another american media which claims to trump us mr morris and to work with the u.s. attorney general william bought together information which might discredit special counsel

mentions morrison's name more than 15 times. the other person who is emerging as a star witness here is john bolton. every single witness that is going in is talking about bolton's role. bolton's role in expressing concerns, being really worried, objecting to what was going on. really undercutting the notion that this was some sort of legitimate national security or white house policy that was going to be pursued. again, if john bolton decides he wants to testify, there is almost nothing the white house can do to actually stop him. >> can i just add -- >> jeffrey, as you know, there's a lot of speculation that bolton could turn out to be like john dean. >> well, bolton, i think, is of enormous, enormous significance. because one of the objections that republicans have made, particularly to ambassador taylor, is that his information is hearsay. he didn't have direct conversations with president trump. john bolton saw donald trump every day. that's what the national security adviser's job is. and so, if bolton testifies in detail

but it also, as you said, cited tim morrison 15 times. and i think, you know, assuming that tim morrison gets on the stand and corroborates what ambassador taylor said, republicans are going to be running out of excuses, because previously they had been saying, well, this was improper but no quid pro quo. now you've got the quid pro quo, so let's hear the next excuse from the republicans as to why they refuse to hold the president accountable for his high crimes and misdemeanors. >> so, we're also learning, sources telling cnn that he will say he didn't see a problem in the call between the president and zelensky, but we heard from manu that there will be some nuance as to what morrison has to say. in terms of nuance, doug, it's not really about, as we know going into this, looking at the testimony, it's not how somebody felt about it, it's the facts of the situation. >> yeah. look, absolutely. this is where the white house finds itself in real trouble is whatever the president says seems to be contradicted not only by testimony but by wi

morrison was in the white house situation room. morrison told the three house committees today "i want to be clear, i was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed." morrison said the memo released by the white house is accurate and he doesn't know the identity of the whistle-blower. a republican who sat in on the session talked about morrison. >> i felt that this witness today was a credible witness. he came across very sincere, very matter of fact. he was very professional in his demeanor. you know, throughout this whole process, what we have seen is we're getting opinions from people and not necessarily a lot of facts. >> while republicans continue attacking this happening behind closed doors, the chairman of the house intelligence committee is defending his approach. >> during the depositions that we've conducted thus far, we've used a format that we believe very conducive to the fact-finding process. those procedures will be incorporated in the open hearings in which staff counsel will be permitted for lengthy periods

chloe anthony morrison also known as tony. enriched us all in measurably and my dear friend, rita dove come herself of course a right of no small talbot will now say a few words in remembrance of our beloved toni morrison. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome rita dove. [applause] >> good evening. >> good evening. >> when i was a graduate student in iowa city, i watered the universities library stacks one afternoon. and there behind my left shoulder, a book was looking for me. right at eye level was the bluest eye. i pulled it from the shelf, read the first pages, and do that i was home. since that discovery over four decades ago, no words can fully express what toni morrison has meant to me as a writer, a woman, a black woman, and yes, a fellow ohio when from lorraine just 50 miles from my home town of akron, and less than 30 miles from here, as you all know, where we have gathered here tonight. at a time when i come the only african-american student in the iowa writers workshop could've easily been consumed by bitterness, sh

but tim morrison is right there in the white house. and tim morrison is a bolton guy. either the president who either resigned or fired -- you'd have to think that tim morrison shares some of that. >> exactly right. aaron, your thoughts. >> we were all waiting for bill taylor's testimony for weeks. we knew this was going to be a big one because of the text messages we saw. the next big one is tim morrison because he can corroborate this testimony. but i also think it's important to remember what senator ron johnson said about this. he said pretty similar to what bill taylor testified to, which was that he had heard from gordon sondland that that military assistance was in fact tied to these investigations that he wasn't comfortable with it. we basically have two sources who are attesting to that. gordon sondland was involved in this. we have sondland saying he doesn't remember making such request to ukraine. but if we get a third source here and it's tim morrison, that's going to be a very significant set of circumstances. >> i want to read from peter baker a friend of

this is tim morrison arriving on capitol hill. until today for the last several months he's been the president's top adviser in the national security council on russia matters. he'll testify behind closed doors in the impeachment investigation. cnn has learned he's expected to corroborate much of the witness testimony until this time describing a quid pro quo in terms of ukraine. joining me to discuss is sean patrick maloney, a member of the intelligence committee who will question morrison this morning. i know we have only a brief time with you because you have to get inside the room where morrison is headed. what do you want to hear from him? what can he provide to the committee? >> i'm not trying to be flip but what we want is truthful testimony. i give him credit for coming, responding to a subpoena at some professional risk. that makes him the latest in a series of white house, department of defense, and state department professionals who have taken seriously their responsibilities and their duties that are larger than any on

testimony, quote, morrison said that he alerted taylor to a push by trump and his deputies to withhold both security aid and the white house visit for the ukrainian president until ukraine agreed to investigate the bidens and interference in the 2016 presidential election. that is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. from "the washington post," national political reporter robert costa. former chief spokesman for the department of justice matt miller. with us at the table, nick confess ori, political reporter for the "new york times." a.b. stoddard, associated editor for real clear politics. and jason johnson. bob costa, let me start with you. tim morrison, who under no upside down alice and wonderland down the rabbit hole even under trump's most delusional frame, this could not be depicted with anything resembling a deep state resume, corroborating the most damning piece of evidence that donald trump put in place a quid pro quo with the leader of ukraine. >> exactly right. this is a republican that even republicans who are close to the president acknowl

what he said of vindman, who -- morrison was like vindman's direct report, if you will. he said that at the time of the call he expressed concern about how it might impact bipartisan support for ukraine. he also expressed concern about the accuracy or the fidelity of the transcript. morrison said he did not express concern about any kind of inappropriate or improper in demand. finally, on vindman, morrison said -- and i think this may be significant going down the road -- that he was warned about vindman judgment. i don't have more on that but he was -- vindman went outside the chain of command, and this would conflict or undercut vindman's opening statement about always respecting the chain of command, especially on these issues like ukraine, harris. >> harris: catherine herridge, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> harris: that read out of morrison's deposition is big news i will talk about with my guest. a republican congressman brad wenstrup of ohio, who sits on the house intelligence committee, and who was at parts of the hearing with former white house advis

morrison apparently found out about it in september. others found out about it a little bit earlier whether they were on that call or not. and i think what you're seeing is very dedicated public career servants of political parties, knowing right from wrong. and they know that it is not right to hold up aid. and i think president trump, by the way, deserves credit for increasing the aid to ukraine. and we saw just over the last few days the russians basically attacking ukrainian vessels in the sea. they're ramping up their military intimidation of this country. and ukraine needs the united states to help them defend from very clear russian aggression. >> ambassador, good to see you. thank you for joining me again. former ambassador nancy soderburg is former white house deputy advisor. >> my pleasure. >>> chicago, where the city's school students will head back to class tomorrow after the city and teachers union agreed to a new contract and ended an 11-day strike. nbc's ron mott joins now from chicago. ron. >> hey, ali. we were beginning

. >> plus, a top russia adviser on the national security counsel, timur morrison, is leaving his b at the white house. he is set to testify in the house impeachment probe later today. >> and a celebration continues in washington, d.c., today, and the nationals beat the houston astros in game seven ofst the world series last night in historic fashion. giving thehi team its first championship title. >>> i know you stayed up late last night watching the end. >> i couldn't do it. because they beat my dodgers. >> so you're upset about that. >> still bitter. >>> a lot more about that. good morning, everyone. it is halloween. we beginit with the latest testimony in the impeachment inquiry, corroborating a claim in thent whistle-blower complai that the white house locked down all recordsat of the july 25th phone call with the ukrainian counterpart. it is the latest revelation from the testimony of decorated war hero and top white house ukrainian adviser lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. he told the house investigators that he was alarmed after hearing president trump pressure ukrainian pr

so morrison is a conduit of information. he's someone who if indeed his testimony alliance with everything that taylor said he was told by morrison, moves all of thesemo accusations one step closer to the president. i'm trying to keep the 30,000-foot view on all these depositions. i know the names and whatnot can get very confusing to people who are trying to followsi this. but morrison removes one level of hearsay, if you will. so many of these witnesses in the early stages were reporting back things they heard from others about the president's behavior, about decisions that were getting made in the white house. as young move to morrison and se of these other nsc officials including john bolton who may or may not actually show up to testifyho next week, you're reducing levels of the game of telephone in the white house and getting closer to what the president was thinking and saying and what other white house decisionmakers were thinking and saying, and that will be so important as we move into open hearings, in trying to c

morrison, i was preparing to do so." taylor also says at this point he sent a direct cable, a "first-person cable to secretary of state mike pompeo dire" dire relaying his concerns about what was going on with this military aid, calling it folly what the u.s. was doing holding up this military assistance. taylor says he received no response from pompeo to that memo. just days later on september 1st, there's vice president pence in warsaw. sent to meet with president zelensky of ukraine in the place of president trump who said he had to stay home to monitor the hurricane response. but he did seem to spend most of that weekend playing golf. during that warsaw trip, tim morrison from the national security council again called bill taylor to brief him on what was going on at the warsaw meeting. "during this phone call i had with mr. morrison, he described a conversation that ambassador gordon sondland had with an assistant to president zelensky in warsaw. ambassador sondland told him that the security assistance money for uk

let's see what morrison says. come back. let's talk about it. >> sounds good. >> always appreciate it. thank you for making the case on my show. >> good to be here. >> the president's own aides, this is what fred and i are talking about, i get questions about the whistle-blower, i get questions about anonymous sources, i'm a journalist, i rely on them heavily, but these are the president's aides. and they have been confirming what is at the heart of this impeachment investigation. another one is about to do that. so if it can't just be about the process, you heard that argument, i'm going to lay out next what this needs to be about and why. next. t-mobile's newest signal reaches farther than ever before... with more engineers, more towers, more coverage. it's a network that gives you... with coverage from big cities, to small towns. introducing t-mobile's 600mhz signal. no signal reaches farther or is more reliable. and it's built 5g ready. my moderate to severe i ulcerative colitis.ing but i realized something was missing..

let's see what morrison says. come back. let's talk about it. >> sounds good. >> always appreciate it. thank you for making the case on my show. >> good to be here. >> the president's own aides, this is what fred and i are talking about, i get questions about the whistle-blower, i get questions about anonymous sources, i'm a journalist, i rely on them heavily, but these are the president's aides. and they have been confirming what is at the heart of this impeachment investigation. another one is about to do that. so if it can't just be about the process, you heard that argument, i'm going to lay out next what this needs to be about and why. next. t-mobile's newest signal reaches farther than ever before... with more engineers, more towers, more coverage. it's a network that gives you... with coverage from big cities, to small towns. introducing t-mobile's 600mhz signal. no signal reaches farther or is more reliable. and it's built 5g ready. (alarm beeping) welcome to our busy world. where we all want more energy. but with le

so -- >> it is based on sondland and volker and morrison. >> morrison is very important to hear what he said. cnn is reporting, right, that two sources say that morrison will say he didn't see anything wrong with what happened on the phone call. that he told taylor, he didn't see anything wrong with it. so that is what is interesting to see, what he testifies when he gets up there. >> does that matter? because morrison's testimony is important. does his opinion on this matter? presumably it would. >> right. the just kidding defense or oh, no big deal, ignorance is not a defense in the eyes of the law. it is wrong, it is wrong. and if it is about a quid pro quo, meaning that the united states is holding up something that is a vital of national security interest to itself and another country for a presidential personal favor that is a problem. usually in diplomacy and national security, you use the tools as leverage to get behavior from another country and advancing another political issue. >> and trump's adviser said in her deposition that john bolton then the national security advise

this time it's tim morrison, a senior official on the national security counsel under john bolton. he was seen as a john bolton guy. he's been known throughout his career as a hard core hard core hard core national security conservative and in particular a real hawk on nuclear issues. he served until today as the senior director for europe and russia at the national security counsel. npr was the first to report his resignation today. and i do want to underscore today per npr's report, quote, morrison is expected to leave his post imminently. meaning he's gone, which is important because his scheduled testimony for the impeachment proceedings is tomorrow morning. so tim morrison, a senior director at the national security council with spaubt for europe and russia tonight resigning in advance of his testimony tomorrow morning. now, john bolton himself recently fired donald trump's national security advisor. it's always seemed interesting to me that bolton was ousted as national security advisor basically the same time donald trump was forced to relent and let that military aid finall

tim morrison has been lined up to appear at some point on capitol hill next week. and he really is a key player on this. he's one of president trump's top advisers on the national security council. and his testimony notably marks two significant firsts here. and when we're talking about the line of witnesses who have appeared up here on capitol hill, he will be the first official from inside the white house to testify in this probe. he also will be the first person who was actually on that now-infamous call between president trump and the ukrainian president on july 25th. so potentially providing some insider accounts of what he heard on that call. his name also notably appeared 15 times in the opening statement of bill taylor. the president's top diplomat in the ukraine who testified up here earlier this week who essentially laid out the quid pro quo. and sources tell cnn that morrison is expected to corroborate a lot of those claims that bill taylor made. but he is also expected to say that he did not see anything wrong with what the administration was doing. and

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. >> reporter: tim morrison, president trump's top russia adviser on the national security council, will face lawmakers. phil taylor, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, testified that morrison told him the president doesn't want to provide any assistance at all to ukraine. investigators also want to speak to the president's former national security adviser, john bolton. other witnesses have testified that boaton was fewer -- bolton was furious over attempts to pressure crane into investigating joe biden and his son, even going so far as to to compared it to, quote, a drug deal. >> laura podesta in new york. thank you. >>> cbs news will broadcast a special report of that formeral vote when it happens later today. "cbs evening news" anchor a leading the coverage from washington. >>> well, more than 6,000 firefighters are battling wildfires across californrnia. powerful santa ana winds caused the fires to multiply yesterday. the so-called easyire dangerously close to the ronald reagan presidential library. the complex was evacuated along with roughly 7,000 homes in the area. people living ne

today was important because this morrison guy can confirm there was a quid pro quo. remember he wasn't there until july 15th. the key witness, the entire arc of this conspiracy was way before he got there. they had this meeting which sondland has been lying about. >> right. >> and now they have not just three, they have the transcript, they have mulvaney, they have giuliani's statements waving his phone around saying everything he did was for the state department. they have taylor. they have vindman, and then they all this tangental people. >> that's a great reporters question, eli. republicans watching this have been bluffing i think saying once we get past arguing about procedure and all, we're going to argue about the merits of this case. are they ready to make a case against the merits? >> some are starting to. the president obviously wants republicans to stop arguing about process and start defending him on the merits. the facts of the case piling up are thought favorable for the president. they're difficult to defend, and perhaps that will become even more the

this time it's tim morrison, a senior official on the national security council under john bolton. he was seen as a john bolton guy, hard core hard core hard core national security conservative and in particular a real hawk on nuclear issues. he served until today as the senior director for europe and russia at the national security council. npr was the first to report his resignation today. and i want to underscore today, according to the report, morrison is expected to leave his postimminently meaning he is gone which is important because his scheduled testimony for the impeachment proceedings is tomorrow morning. so, tim morrison, a senior director at the national security council with responsibility for europe and russia tonight resigning in advance of his testimony tomorrow morning. now, john bolton himself recently fired as donald trump's national security adviser -- it's always seemed interesting to me that he was ousted at the same time that president trump was forced to finally relent and let that ukrainian military aid go through. that all happened around september 11, 12

morrison is going to be able to reveal? >> well, again, it's just another piece of the puzzle, the picture of which we already know is very clear, right? morrison would be able to verify a number of statements taylor made here. he was in the witness on those phone calls and meetings, so he'll be able to verify exactly what the president and other white house officials were talking about here. but i also think it's important to take a little bit of a step back, if i could, and connect this to the impeachment proceedings about the doj trying to investigate the investigators. if you don't get the answer you want from the inspector general report that's supposed to come out soon that was investigating the russia investigation and the senate intelligence committee report, which was released after three years of work here, and the work done by the intelligence agencies in 2016 and 2017, right, try and try again. and i think what's so dangerous about this right now is that the president is using all levers of government to go afte

morrison, i was prepared to do so. taylor also says at this point he sent a direct cable, a first-person cable to secretary of state mike pompeo directly relay his concerns about what was going on with this military aid, calling it folly what the u.s. was doing holding up this military assistance. taylor says he received no response from pompeo to that memo. just days later on september 1st, there's vice president pence in warsaw. sent to meet with president zelensky of ukraine in the place of trump who had to stay home to monitor the hurricane response. but he did spend that weekend playing golf. during that warsaw trip, tim morrison from the national security council again called bill taylor to brief him on what was going on at the warsaw meeting. during this phone call i had with mr. morrison, he described a conversation that ambassador gordon sondland had with an assistant to president zelensky in warsaw. ambassador sondland told him that the security assistance money for ukraine would not come until president zele

his name is tim morrison. he is a close ally of former national security adviser john bolton and soon will be leaving his job at the top russia adviser to the president's national security council. moments ago he told lawmakers he was worried if the transcript of trump's call with ukraine leaked it could hurt morrison's efforts to bolster relations with ukraine according to multiple sources who added morrison was involve ared in discussions how to handle that phone transcript which ultimately ended up you know in that secret serve r. morrison is also now the second person who actually listened in on that phone call to take part in these hearings. the first was earlier this week. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. the white house ukraine expert and decorated war veteran. with me now, democratic congressman from florida, a member of the house foreign affairs ethics and judiciary committees. congressman, good to see you again. >> likewise. thanks for having me. >> despite his concerns morrison believes the whi

he mentioned morrison's name many times. the democrats will finish out the impeachment probe. the republicans will push back. there's concerns by republicans on capitol hill. you can learn things in the first hand. that could be one area that the republicans decide to push back. we'll have to see what he decides to say. guys? >> manu, thanks. >>> democrats are discussing the scope and scale of articles of impeachment and more explosive testimony could be on the way. attorneys for national security adviser john bolton is working on a date for him to appear behind closed doors. all of the closed-door testimony is making republicans angry, even though it is not unusual. >> as frustrating as it may be to have the hearings go on behind closed doors, the hearings for which congressman schiff is providing. in january of 2015. who sane e signed them? john boehner. and who signed them? a republican majority. >> lindsey graham criticizing the impeachment process and call for a house vote to initiate a former inquiry. >> the process you're engaging in of the questioned impeachment of pre

that's right just on the eve of his testimony to morrison who is the russian expert on the national security council just last night announced his impending resignation he's still at the moment technically a white house employee but he has defined the white house order by appearing right now behind closed doors to the pietschmann inquiry panel and investigators have been have been looking forward to questioning morrison because he was named by previous witnesses as a primary source of information on the inside thinking of president trump as he was withholding this military aid for ukraine while his surrogates were undergoing this were carrying out this shadow campaign to get ukraine to open investigations on trump's rivals in fact morrison was said to say that he had a sinking feeling when he heard trump deny that there was a probe but at the same time request that the president of ukraine go to a microphone and publicly announced that there were investigations that were about to be launched so morrison again is testifying now behind closed doors and concurrently of course the other thing we