Alex Vindman, Army vet who testified against Trump, enters Florida Senate race

Alex Vindman, a key figure in President Trump's first impeachment, is running for the U.S. Senate in Florida as a Democrat.

• Jan 27

Day 3, Part 15: Final round for Volker, Morrison

Committee members continued their five-minute rounds of questioning, which they could yield to colleagues. They posed questions to Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, and Tim Morrison, the outgoing senior director of European and Russian affairs at the National Security Council and a deputy assistant to the president.

• Nov 19, 2019

Vindman & Williams impeachment hearing highlights

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council expert on Ukraine, and Jennifer Williams, an aide to Vice President Pence, testified Tuesday in the Trump impeachment inquiry.

• Nov 19, 2019

Day 3, Part 7: Committee members' questioning

The third day of public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry included five-minute rounds of questioning by Intelligence Committee members, which they could yield to colleagues. Watch this portion of Jennifer Williams' and Alexander Vindman's testimony.

• Nov 19, 2019

Day 3, Part 8: Nunes' & Schiff's closing remarks

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and ranking Republican Devin Nunes made closing remarks Tuesday following the testimony of Jennifer Williams and Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who were on the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukraine's president.

• Nov 19, 2019

Day 3, Part 4: Vindman's opening statement

Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who is an expert on Ukraine on the National Security Council, said in his opening statement Tuesday in the third day of public impeachment hearings that he found the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "improper." Watch his opening statement.

• Nov 19, 2019

W.H. adviser was "concerned" by Ukraine call

For the first time, House impeachment investigators are hearing testimony from someone who was on the call between President Trump and Ukraine's president. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the White House's top national security expert on Ukraine, says he told his superiors twice that military aid was being improperly tied to politics. Nancy Cordes reports.

• Oct 29, 2019

Questions about Trump Ukraine call summary

The House impeachment inquiry hears from two more witnesses Wednesday before the full House takes a key vote Thursday. A National Security Council official, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, told investigators Tuesday that the official summary of a phone call that led to the impeachment probe is missing some information. Nancy Cordes reports.

• Oct 30, 2019

Vindman: U.S. mistakes incited war in Ukraine

In his new book, "The Folly of Realism," Ret. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman argues that mistakes made by the U.S. emboldened Russia to invade Ukraine in 2022. Vindman joins "America Decides" to explain his position.

• Mar 3, 2025

Alexander Vindman on Russia-Ukraine crisis

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, former director for European affairs for the U.S. National Security Council, joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the Biden administration's response to the Russian invasion.

• Feb 28, 2022

Lt. Col. Vindman: West must not bend to Putin's "nuclear saber-rattling"

The Russia expert tells "CBS Mornings" that the Russian president is facing opposition from the West unlike anything he's faced before, but adds that "He's not a madman. He's not suicidal."

• Feb 28, 2022

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• Feb 7, 2020

Vindman on Trump call with Ukraine's leader

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman is revealing more details about that now-infamous phone call between former President Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Vindman, the former director for European affairs for the U.S. National Security Council, joined CBSN's Tanya Rivero to talk about his new book, "Here, Right Matters."

• Aug 4, 2021

Alexander Vindman on truth and its consequences

Twin brothers Alexander and Eugene Vindman, brought to America by their Ukrainian father, had stellar military careers in their adopted country, until Alexander filed a complaint against President Trump for impropriety in his phone call with the Ukrainian president, and later testified at Trump's first impeachment hearing. Correspondent David Martin talked with the Vindmans about duty and the firestorm that ensnared them both when Alexander spoke out, as retold in his memoir, "Here, Right Matters"; and with their father, Semyon, about the meaning of freedom for Soviet émigrés coming to America.

• Aug 1, 2021

Alexander Vindman on truth and its consequences

The retired Lt. Col. who filed a complaint against Trump over his phone call with the Ukrainian president talks about duty and the firestorm that ensnared him for speaking out, as retold in his memoir, "Here, Right Matters."

• Aug 1, 2021

Vindman brother files whistleblower complaint alleging retaliation

The Democratic leaders of three House Committees are also asking the Defense Department's acting inspector general to investigate whether he was retaliated against.

• Aug 27, 2020

Key impeachment inquiry witness says nation's values threatened under Trump

"At no point in my career or life have I felt our nation's values under greater threat and in more peril than at this moment," Alexander Vindman wrote in an op-ed.

• Aug 1, 2020

Iowa Democratic Party chair didn't use app

CBS News campaign reporter Adam Brewster joined CBSN from Des Moines for an update on the push to recanvass in the Iowa caucuses.

• Feb 7, 2020

Impeachment inquiry witness Alexander Vindman to retire from Army

Vindman, who was the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, was a key witness in President Trump's impeachment inquiry.

• Jul 8, 2020

Democratic senator blocks 1,123 military promotions over impeachment witness

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who was an expert of Ukraine at the National Security Council, is expected to be promoted to full colonel.

• Jul 2, 2020

This week's impeachment headlines

CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett and chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes join CBSN to recap the recent developments in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump.

• Nov 1, 2019

House releases more impeachment transcripts

CBS News intelligence and national security reporter Olivia Gazis, Associated Press White House reporter Zeke Miller, and CBS News White House correspondent Paula Reid joined CBSN to discuss what we've learned from the latest transcripts of testimony by Alexander Vindman and Fiona Hill, which have now been released in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump.

• Nov 8, 2019

Vindman reported concerns out of "sense of duty"

Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who is the top expert on Ukraine on the National Security Council, said what he heard on the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was "inappropriate." He said he reported his concerns to the top lawyer at the NSC "out of a sense of duty," believing there were "significant national security implications for our country."

• Nov 19, 2019

Vindman: Sondland talked about "deliverable"

Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the top expert on Ukraine on the National Security Council, said U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland said the Ukrainians would have to provide a "deliverable" in order to get a White House meeting, "which is investigations, specific investigations."

• Nov 19, 2019

​Vindman discusses July 25 call summary

Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the top expert on Ukraine on the National Security Council, discussed Tuesday how the summary of the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukraine's President was handled.

• Nov 19, 2019

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