Trumps not being impeached over. And i sit down with legendary Journalist Bill moyers on the dangers of so much dishonesty. All in starts right now. Hello. Hey, everybody. How are you . Good evening. Thank you for being here. Thank you, thank you. Its great to have you all here back at our special studio in 30 rock. Its been another crazy, overwhelming and ultimately historic week. Were going to get into all the details. We saw three marathon days of testimony in the impeachment of donald j. Trump this week. Weve now seen public testimony from 12 different witnesses including three that were requested by the republicans on the committee. Though youd never notice by the way they treated them. You know, if you were pressed for time this, and i get it if you were, it was a crazy week, and you want a sort of top line take away from all this testimony and hearings this week, its he did it. Thats basically the top line takeaway. One thing that we have seen over the last two weeks is that the
Nature of the request, i appreciate you keeping that information closely held to those who need to know. Now that frozen aid is at the center of the impeachment case, and now democrats say these new emails highlight the need for more evidence and more witnesses. This email is explosive. A Top Administration official, one that we requested as saying stop the aid 91 minutes after trump called zelensky and said keep it hushhush. From whom did duffy get the order and why did he do it . What more do you need to request a witness . So today the Top Republican in the Senate Mitch Mcconnell saying theyll decide on witnesses after the trial starts. What we need to do is to listen to the arguments, have a written questioning period and then decide whether we need witnesses or not. And new tonight, a possible curveball for trump. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee telling a federal court that they want former White House Counsel Don Mcgahn to testify so they can decide, quote, whether to
About the allegations more than a week before the formal referral. Theyve known about this person and that others spoke to this person for some time. Key context when you hear the president seeming to muse that people speaking to the whistleblower that people should be executed. Is this is threat to keep potential witnesses silent. I want to know whos the person who gave the whistleblower whos the person that gave the whistleblower the information . Because thats close to a spy. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right . With spies and treason, right . We used to handle them dumpbtly than we do now. There was more than one person speaking to that whistleblower. Other key outstanding questions, who ordered the transcript of the president s call to be moved to a separate classified system and why . The Washington Post reports a senior white house official must make a formal written request to make a call to that, an action that could be an acknowledgment that
Official yet to come to give us a bottle of water or to see what is going on. Announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good sunday morning to you. Our top stories this morning, call it off and what would be have unprecedented move. President donald trump has scrapped a secret meeting with taliban leader after the group took credit for attack in kabul that killed a u. S. Soldier. Thousands of people in the bahamas displaced and living in conditions at this particular time that are rapidly deteriorating. We are one week out from this, people. And these folks are still in these horrible conditions. Our reporters are on the scene to witness the rescue and the Recovery Efforts that are ongoing. But think about it. We are in day six, seven much this. People have been living through this hurricane, after this hurricane, and they are Walking Around in areas that and to quote reporters there smell like death. The food and the medical supplies, other supplies tha
Housekeeping to set the rules for that vote. Democrats clearly have the numbers, including a growing number of members from districts that the president won. More and more of them are coming forward overnight saying they will vote to impeach. America americans, koraccording to the polls evenly split on the matter. 45 believe the president should be impeached and removed from office. 47 now say they do not. Also breaking overnight, Rudy Giulianis stunning new interviews. The president s personal lawyer confirming that he briefed President Trump, quote, a couple of times earlier this year about removing then Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. Giuliani says she was impeding his ability to look into these things for President Trump. In a separate interview, giuliani said he needed to get yovanovitch, quote, out of the way because she was going to make investigations into the president s political rivals difficult for everybody. Cant have that. I appreciate the candor. Joining us now are