2020 candidate. We expect President Trump will address the impeachment inquiry and the memo of his july phone call with the president of ukraine. Thank you for watching. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace begins right now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york where we are moments away from the first president ial press Conference Since House Speaker Nancy Pelosis announcement that she would begin Impeachment Proceedings into donald trump. And, donald trump, if youre listening, everything you say may be used against you in the court of public opinion. Donald trump manifesting his own destiny in terms of the Impeachment Proceedings now underway in congress by attempting to run a political Hit Job Operation on joe biden and his son by asking a foreign leader to investigate them. The white house revealing in notes today from the president s call with the president of ukraine that trump pushed the leader of a foreign country to work with his personal attorney
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It is 12 00 in new york. Were following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc Senior Adviser fiona hill and current u. S. Diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the Trump Administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a Smear Campaign against Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch who was apparently standing in the way. The conduct of both of todays witness witnesses, they believed lives could be jeopardized in ukraine. Here is some of the dramatic testimony of fiona hill and david holmes. The barrage of allegations
directed against ambassador yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything i have seen in my professional career. I heard ambassador sondland say to the president , yes, he was in ukraine, and went on to say
only hearsay witnesses, folks who weren t on the call, we already had the schedule that there were witnesses who were listening to the call who would be coming to testify in the next few days. so you have seen and you could see it coming down the line, this evolution of talking points and evolution of the republican defense. that s why i mentioned the other pillars. the only one i didn t mention would be the throw rudy under the bus defense. gordon sondland made it very clear he wasn t going to go down alone. if republicans decide that the last defensible position here is that rudy was ordering this and the president didn t know, maybe that will be the final defensive talking point here. but we haven t reached that barricade yet. all right, garrett haake, we re so lucky to have you up there for us, come back out whenever you can, we ll always break in and want to hear what you are learning. thank you, my friend. reporter: thanks, nicolle. go ahead, claire. i was going to say,
congressman, as we hit here right now, russia is still attacking our democracy. the next day he picked up the phone and made that call at the heart of his own impeachment. this is exactly what the russian government was hoping for. one quick point on this because chuck is the most fair minded, elegant, and balanced man i know, and i would say that is the most generous reading and we have evidence that donald trump understood quite well and that giuliani on may 9th saying i m donald trump s defense attorney, and we re going and digging this up in ukraine. it played on fox news, we can t pretend he didn t hear it, but i think that while it is true that we don t have all of the direct evidence, we have plenty of evidence we know that even though he
loves your bleep, ew. who would make that up? it s very bleepable. if you remember the complaints about hillary clinton using an email server, i m certainly not justifying that, but here you have a call on a cellphone, lots of discussions about sending emails and texts, but this is one where you ve heard from everyone who is in ukraine, you worry about everything being tapped. so one of the interesting things going through my mind is, why isn t the president and ambassador sondland worried about the fact that you know that call is going to be monitored by the russians. right. why would you i mean, you re there asking for an investigation into the bidens. do you care about the russians