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.
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Alex Vindman, a key figure in President Trump's first impeachment, is running for the U.S. Senate in Florida as a Democrat.
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.
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.
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."
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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."
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.
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."
The Democratic leaders of three House Committees are also asking the Defense Department's acting inspector general to investigate whether he was retaliated against.
"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.
CBS News campaign reporter Adam Brewster joined CBSN from Des Moines for an update on the push to recanvass in the Iowa caucuses.
Vindman, who was the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, was a key witness in President Trump's impeachment inquiry.
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who was an expert of Ukraine at the National Security Council, is expected to be promoted to full colonel.
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.
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.
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."
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."
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.
During a discussion about the whistleblower at Tuesday's hearing, California Congressman Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, called Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman "Mr. Vindman" while questioning him in the third day of public impeachment hearings. "Ranking member, it's Lt. Col. Vindman, please," he responded.
Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman said Tuesday during a public impeachment hearing that a Ukrainian official offered him the position of defense minister three times. He said he dismissed the offers and notified his chain of command. "The whole notion is rather comical," he said.
Congressman Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, asked Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman on Tuesday to identify intelligence community officials with whom he discussed President Trump's July 25 call. Chairman Adam Schiff interrupted Nunes' questioning to curtail the apparent attempt to get Vindman to name the whistleblower.
Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman was asked Tuesday by Congressman Jim Himes why he was wearing a Purple Heart. He described how, in 2014, his vehicle in Iraq was hit by an IED and he was injured. "I, sir, thank you for your service," Himes said.
During the public impeachment inquiry hearing Tuesday, Democratic Representative Jim Himes asked White House aide Jennifer Williams if she considers herself a "never-Trumper." She said she would not describe herself that way. Himes posed the same question to Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who said: "I'd call myself never-partisan."
Republican Representative Chris Stewart asked Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman on Tuesday about a moment earlier in the hearing in which he reminded Devin Nunes to call him "lieutenant colonel" rather than "mister," and asked if he always insists civilians call him by his rank.
Representative Sean Maloney highlighted Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman's service to the country, as well as the fact that Vindman and White House aide Jennifer Williams were firsthand witnesses who were on the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukraine's president. Vindman said he "couldn't believe" what he heard on the call. The exchange was met with a round of applause.