It is 4 00 a. M. Here on the u. S. East coast. Thanks for being with us this day. The u. S. President donald trump, his phone call with ukraines leader. The storm clouds of questions around what he said and how it was handled appear to be taking a toll on senior white house staff specifically. Mick mulvaney. Hes on shaky ground for not containing the backlash after details of the call were made public. The white house denies hes in trouble. We have learned Mitch Mcconnell pushed the white house to release the rough transcript of the call thinking that it would exonerate the president. And sources tell cnn former u. S. Special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker, plans to appear before his deposition on thursday. He resigned his post. Jeremy diamond reports from the white house. Reporter with democrats moving quickly towards impeachment, President Donald Trump on saturday, ever a day of golf, going on the counter offensive. In a series of twists, he insists he should not be impeached because
Listened in on the president s july 25th phone call, the call. Telling investigators that that call was, quote, unusual and inappropriate and it shed light on other possible motivations to hold Security Assistance. Also transcripts just released frod white house adviser tim morrison. He confirms the testimony of ambassador bill taylor telling investigators that the ukrainians were told that military assistance, not just the white house meeting, was conditioned on a public announcement of political investigations that the president wanted. Now, that news breaking even as a saturday deposition was just wrapping up. Office of management and budget official mark sandy you see there, defying white house orders to testify, speaking with congressional investigators for roughly 5 1 2 hours. The omb is at the center of this investigation, this inquiry that actually held up because it is agency that actually paused and stopped the military aid being paid to ukraine. Were going to start with msnb
And that begins today. Or so it would seem. The chairman of the judiciary committee, congressman jerry nadler, tells the president he has 24 hours to meet a deadline and six days to meet a second deadline. In a letter, nadler asked President Trump to let his committee know by sunday, tomorrow, if he plans to attend the hearings or to bring counsel. He also set a deadline for friday, december 6th, for the president to decide if he wants to call his own witnesses. In addition, nadler laid out, in this letter, the hearings agenda. It will have historical and constitutional basis of impeachment. That will be in the agenda. The framework through which the house will look at the evidence and whether the president s actions warrant drafting articles of impeachment. Now, the nadler letter comes as reporting from the Washington Post suggests that there is little to know evidence to back up Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondlands claim that he spoke with President Trump on the nowfamous september 9th cal
Do you know who paid Christopher Steele to do to generate the steele dossiers . O plus the inside scoop on the steele dossier from the people who commissioned it. There was no democratic conspiracy to frame donald trump. And just who is the constituency for the newest candidate in the 2020 race . Im going to make my case and let the voters who are plenty smart make their choice. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We have some breaking news tonight. The New York Times just reporting that donald trump had already been briefed about the whistleblower complaint when he finally released that aid to ukraine. Its further evidence for House Democrats contention that the reason the aid was released wase simply because trump and his cronies got caught. Now, that news comes as the impeachment process is continuing to move forward rather quickly. En just hours ago democrats released a final set of closed door deposition transcripts, which included get this te
Hour gets under way on this tuesday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,034 of the Trump Administration, and the latest round of public impeachment hearings wrapped up just a short time ago actually. It was a marathon day. The question was relentless today. It will be again tomorrow. Four witnesses testified for nearly ten hours before the House Intel Committee about what they knew about President Trumps request to ukraines president to investigate Democratic Political rivals. The day was divided into two sessions. The first set of witnesses saw jennifer williams, a state Department Employee detailed to Vice President pences office on eurasia matters, and Lieutenant Colonel alexander vindman, the lead ukraine expert on the White House National security council. The afternoon session heard from two officials the republican side called as witnesses, kurt volker, former u. S. Special envoy for ukraine and the peace talks there, and t