sondland, the former trump donor, testify that trump told him and other officials to talk to rudy when it came to dealing with ukraine. secretary perry, ambassador volker, and i worked with mr. rudy giuliani on ukraine matters at the express direction of the president of the united states. this evening the house intelligence committeeen releas the closed-door transcripts from two more impeachment witnesses. philip ssreeker, an assistant secretary of state who testified october 26thcr, and mark sandy,n official at the white house office of management and budget, who spoke to lawmakers on november 16. sandy told them two staffers left the omb after expressing frus tral frustration over the old placed on aidld to ukraine. meanwhile the house judiciary committee has announced it will hold its first public hearings
little bit of inflation so we ve got something like tral and a half new gdp growth in a calendar year and this al ago gates to something like 10% of that. so it s a negative that flows down growth, but it doesn t turn the economy over, it doesn t create disaster. people tend to be making mountains out of a molehill here. a reasonable molehill, but a molehill. and i said i don t think it s that bad that that is partly a real game and it s partly a political game and it s hard to disentangle that always and part of this will be settled next year as both the chinese decide, do they think president trump gets reelected or not. neil: right. and how much should they play with him versus stalling off for a potential democrat alternative. and then at the same time, how much does president trump decide he wants to get a small victory
growing number of migrant families are being caught and separated at the border under the trump administration s zero tolerance policy. many of them are seeking asylum after escaping domestic violence, and gangs at ho nbc s gadi schwartz talked to one such family and joins me from san diego. gadi what did you find out? reporter: well, craig it is difficult to convey how big these implications are going to be thereare about 700,000 cas that are pending right now in the immigration system for asylum. this will affect so many of those cases. in fact, it s going to affect basically any case where somebody comes to the united states seeking asylum because they are escaping gang violence. accept tral to their case, this will play central to what the judge decides. the difficult to really understand this system. it gets very, very complicated and unless you know somebody going through it, i want to troduce to you awoma we met
we didn t understand. we didn t understand the type of threat and the, the things that the russians might do to in fill tral infiltrate. it was an opportunity to take this very seriously do something about it. but as the the article states, donald trump takes any conversation about russian interference in the 2016 election, as, as an attack on the election. you are right. this is true that european allies have been telling us for years now that, we should feerk the russians, this is not a new problem, this goes back several years, to when the russians disrupted estonia, took down the, their entire essentially internet. did a cyberhack on else stonian. joining nato. very upset about the baltic states.