Schiff releases procedures for public impeachment hearings
Intel Chairman Adam Schiff releasing procedures for the public impeachment hearings would start tomorrow making it clear that protecting whistleblowers identity will be paramount chief White House correspondent John Roberts is live from the North line fourth item Julie Morishita still a while ago Adam Schiff surety of Chuck committee released the six-page memo detailing how things will unfold tomorrow's productive the screen for use of the you can follow along first of all there will be opening statements but only by the chairmanship in the ranking member Devin Nunes the witnesses of course as always will be under out there will be 90 minutes of initial questioning by the chairman and the ranking member that will be split evenly 45 minutes apiece those people can yield time to the committee councils to ask questions but they cannot yield time to other members of for example Devin Nunes could not yield time the Jim Jordan and after all of that is done then the remaining members like Jim Jordan motive five minutes of questioning each ship also made it clear as you pointed out the top of the intensity intervene in any line of questioning that may go to the identity of the whistleblower and will not tolerate any inquiries that seek to shed light on who filed the complaint against the president in the first place issue going on here is another transcript should be coming out sometime later on this week it is a transcript of Pres. Trump's very first all with Ukrainian Pres. Vladimir Zelinski this took place on April 21 right after Zelinski had been elected president we thought that this was going to come out today the White House plan initially seem to be to put it out as a counterweight to tomorrow's first public impeachment hearing now looking like later on this week the president first talked about this nearly 2 months ago said that he would be glad to make it available of anybody asked weeks ago the Democrats said they wanted to see it but this week is when the president will put out the Sirois said a joint base Andrews on Saturday they asked for and I gladly gave it so you only the second glad you'll tell me you think there's anything wrong with it but never mastery has anybody gone through this is the way John never happened to another president `always been described to me by a multiple White House officials as innocuous even Lt. Col. Alexander Vietminh said that there was nothing concerning about it in his testimony to the House committee said" April 21 was complementary positive you repeat this is the president repeatedly praise Pres. Zelinski for the significant landslide victory he had achieved that in general I think there was you know probably a little bit of humor exchanged as you may know Pres. Zaleski is a comedian so he tries to put in a couple I guess lighter lines in there to help it build rapport it's unclear whether releasing the transcript I could change the narrative at all Arizona Congressman into big things that the Democrats of already made up your mind I like to you that phone call to the transcript I think for me it would clear up some loose ends maybe for the public but not for the Democrats I don't think anything's going to try will derail them from the impeachment effort that there on Van just because every second here the White House something new is coming along that motivated the acting Chief of Staff they filed a motion with the federal District Court here in Washington DC saying that he will not seek a court opinion on the enforceability of the subpoena that the house committee said it he said that he will simply rely on the guidance of the president for his no-show of their not complying with the subpoena because I guess Julie's yesterday he was voted dichotomies lawsuit that he was go to file his own suit but there's always the chance that you could loops area.