Duffey emailed mccusker there was a clear direction from potus to continue the freeze. Mccusker continued to warn that the freeze was having the on dod to spend the military aid and the impact would keep growing if the freeze continued. According to recent reports around september 9, after the president s scheme had been exposed and the house had launched its investigations, duffey responded to mccuskers warnings with a formal and length think email he asserted it would be dods fault, not ombs, if dod was unable to spend funds in time. Deputy undersecretary of defense Elaine Mccusker reportedly responded, i am speechless. We now know that dods concerns were well founded. The president s freeze on security aid was illegal. Duffey should be called to testify about why dods repeated warnings went unheeded. What prompted his email that attempted to shift blame to dod and about the fact that the president released the aid only after his scheme was exposed. Senators, make no mistake. We have
For the rest of their lives. If the house brings the impeachment proceedings before us, we will deal with them. Subpoena the people who were mentioned in that report and bring them forward. I believe congress should take the steps towards impeachment. I think hes made it pretty clear that he deserves impeachment. Im also a leader to the house and senate to figure that out. Our team is here with that story and the many others we are bringing you over the next 60 minutes. I want to bring kick it off with hans nichols. A level of nonchalant but on his twitter a different story. I dont think its studied indifference. What we have from the president is a conist isnt mant message, number of tweets per minute seem to be picking up. 12 this morning. What youre hearing from the white house is this tension on whether or not they want to welcome in impeachment or they think this is completely unfair. As your reporting indicates, the president thinks impeachment may help him. The tension inside th
Watergate. If i get elected and were not able to transform this country, then i will have failed. I think people want to see us demonstrate that we can succeed. Under fire. The president threatens to withhold aid for combatting wildfires in california blaming the states new governor. The governor doesnt know. Hes like a child. He doesnt know what hes doing. And ive been telling him this for two years. Theyve got to take care of it. Every year its always california. Its rarely somebody else. And good day, everyone. President trump is fighting against the impeachment battle on multiple fronts after attending a real fight this weekend at Madison Square garden and taking in a few violent ufc matches before firing off his own verbal haymakers targeting colonel vindman as a never trumper without any evidence and demanding that the whistleblower be outed despite Legal Protections for all whistleblowers identities. Then slamming the whistleblowers offer to answer written questions even though
But democrats say its the secretary of state whos the bully here. They say he is trying to intimidate officials to keep them from cooperating with the impeachment inquiry. House democrats are trying to schedule depositions with five current and former state Department Officials. Thus far, just two of them have agreed. The first deposition is set for tomorrow. Meanwhile, we could learn more about ukraine later today when the state departments Inspector General meets with staff from multiple house and senate committees. It has been described as an urgent request by the ig and is apparently related to state department documents regarding ukraine. I want to start there, because ive got Kristen Welker at the white house and Geoff Bennett on capitol hill. I hope both of you had a good nights sleep, a large cup of coffee, and you are stretched out, because youre going to have a long run today. Geoff, tell me more about the briefing. What do we know . Reporter hey, steph, good morning. Were le
And then why did you leave . Why did you go when you went, yes. Both of those things are, are fascinating. Yes. And hes got a story to tell. Well, im going to ive got my source, nimy sneaky sour. Im going to try t. Thank you, rachel. The breaking news of the hour is, big surprise, it was giuliani. Rudy giuliani told cnn tonight that the very strange package of information that the state department and Inspector General rushed over to Congress Today was originally sent to the secretary of state by Rudy Giuliani himself. A written statement by three house chairmen tonight came very close to accusing Rudy Giuliani of that, and a couple of hours later, Rudy Giuliani just confessed. Rudy giuliani and donald trump are now in a very close contest for the title of most out of control person in trump world. Today donald trump attacked the Intelligence Community whistleblower and made it clear that donald trump does not care that he is endangering the life of the whistleblower. Bradley moss, a N