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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Special coverage of Day 3 of public hearings in the U.S. House impeachment inquiry of Donald J. Trump. We go to air between two sets of witnesses, focusing today on Tuesday's morning session featuring Lt. Col Alexander Vindman, the Ukraine expert on Donald Trump's National Security Council, and Jennifer Williams, Vice President Mike Pence's Ukraine expert. Both witnesses have served for years as government officials. Both officials were listening in during Donald Trump's infamous July 25 call in which he pressured Ukraine's new President Volodmyr Zelensky for the "favor" of investigations into the Biden family, and the Russia-backed theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. President election, in exchange for receiving Congressionally-appropriated military aid. Williams described the President's phone call as "inappropriate", as did Vindman, who was so "shocked" by the attempt at strong-arming Ukraine for Trump's personal political benefit that he brought his concerns to the NSC's top legal counsel on two separate occasions. We're joined once again by our special 'BradCast' Impeachment Correspondent Heather 'Digby' Parton of Salon and Hullabaloo to discuss today's proceedings, including how Vindman's testimony blew up the Trump/GOP claim that his pressure campaign was meant to combat corruption in Ukraine; what Democrats hope Americans take away from today's testimony; how Republicans are responding in their alternate reality world; and, yes, what was Donald Trump doing in that mysterious trip to Walter Reed Hospital over the weekend?\\xa0 Plus, Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report', on climate change-fueled flooding in the historic city of Venice, Ford's new all-electric Mustang SUV, and a landmark, bi-partisan law in New Zealand to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050..."