powell, especially closely advising then president trump about what they thought were methods to void the election results and going out in public fighting it. giuliani testifying in front of state legislatures. he had that infamous press conference at a garden supply store in pennsylvania. these were very out there folks. they were also attorneys and they re all at least according to rudy giuliani s attorney planning to use that attorney/client privilege to not answer these questions. giuliani s attorney put out a statement calling this a grand stand political ploy and saying do you really think that four attorneys will come talk to you about all this? the committee is in for another potentially protracted battle here, if they really want to secure the testimony from these four witnesses. i also understand that the national archives is going to be handing over some papers from the trump white house. do we know much about that? no, that s about as much as we know right now. we
gun. what are you hearing? reporter: democrats see this as yet another example of a witness testifying about a quid pro quo. whether it s about linking the military aid to this public statement from ukraine, demanding these investigations into the biden, into the 2016 campaign, also this push by the zelensky administration of ukraine, for this meeting at the white house, having this linked. they are saying this is another example of republicans are contending that sondland s revision to his testimony is only his opinion, that coming from one congressman scott perry, who told reporters that on his way into this closed door deposition today. but one witness was not happy with the testimony from good morning sondland. that s fiona hill, whose attorney put out a statement this morning saying that he had fabricated communications with dr. hill, none of which took over coffee. he says that sondland, what she told lawmakers was a lack of
delegates joins us live later in the show. we ve also got our team of reporters and analyst all over the top stories of the day. i want to start with geoff bennett and peter alexander over at the white house. we ve got a couple of developments, not just david hale who has shown up for the closed-door deposition, but also an accusation from fiona hill s attorney against gordon sondland. reporter: let me explain that. because gordon sondland in his testimony which we got yesterday, the transcript of that was shared by house investigators. he describes a meeting in which he says he met with fiona hill and he says that hill, when he encountered her, was railing against trump, bolton and the disorder. he also says that her anger resonated with him because he had never seen anyone so upset. well, today fiona hill s attorney put out a tweet and he said sondland has fabricated communications with dr. hill, none of which were over coffee.
possibly over, if you believe some of the democrats. possibly over at that point in time. exactly. my question is, is he going to be in an advisory role until january 23rd? it speaks to the fact that they re bracing, chuck, potentially, for this to be drawn out, to extend beyond january 3rd. and as you and i have been reporting on throughout the week, the white house sending out that letter saying, effectively, they re refusing to cooperate. so it is possible that this process gets dragged out. that they are anticipating that. and that that is why they re okay with the timeline. but certainly, you would think it would complicate his ability to beef up his legal team, chuck. now, today, before the president spoke about these two gentlemen that were arrested today, jay sekulow, the president s attorney put out a statement. i want to put it up, because it was an interesting way he worded it. he said, as the indictment states, neither the president nor the campaign were aware. nothin
there should be. requiring presidential candidates to do what all of them have done voluntarily for decades, and which donald trump, as a candidate, said initially that he would do. but there s another law on the books that dates back well into the beginning of the last century that gives the ways and means committee, on which i serve as the tax policy ranking member, to request returns from the treasury department and that s exactly what i ve tried to do on seven times, and that s exactly what the ways and mean committee republicans have blocked. they have covered up those returns. there is so much to be learned from the russian investigation, right up to the changes that were made in the new tax law that i think were directly benefitting the trump family. donald trump s attorney put out a statement and in the statement calls the allegations and the report 100% false and also says that when it comes to