Impeachment. Hostility and stonewalling, very thin attempts to invoke executive privilege for someone who never worked in the executive branch is exhibit a of Donald Trumps lawlessness. Obstruction laid out in the Mueller Report has not stopped. You showed the American Public in real time that the Trump Administration will do anything and everything in its power to obstruct the work of the congress. Nadler pointing out obstructing congress has also been grounds for impeaching a president before. Mr. Lewandowski, when you refuse to answer these questions, you are obstructing the work of our committee. You are also proving our point for the American People to see. The president is intent on obstructing our legitimate oversight. You are aiding him in that obstruction. And i will remind you that article iii of the impeachment against president nixon was based on obstruction of congress. That is true, but it doesnt mean its a slam dunk argument for democrats in this context. In fact, when y
Tonight. Yeah, the fact that he said he made some suggestions in terms of improving that transcript and some of them were taken and some of them were not is at least according to this New York Times reporting today about his testimony, that is just ned price is going to join us in a minute, and its the value of having staff here. He has restudied the transcript of the phone call tonight, the white house transcript, as we all have. And hes found something in it that indicates real corroboration for what the colonel testified to today. Were going to get to that in the next hour. Thank you, rachel. Well, tomorrow the House Rules Committee will vote on a resolution establishing the rules for public hearings in the impeachment investigation of donald trump, and they are rules like we have never seen before because these rules anticipate obstructionist tactics by the president and by the president s lawyers. And these rules provide very specific, very immediate penalties that the president s
Escalating battle over diversity in the democratic field and the former spokesperson for president obama is going to join me with his take. But first to, the breaking news on the deadly mass shooting at the naval station in pensacola and in fact, any minute now we are expecting a News Conference from the fbi, and they will be updating the investigation and we will bring it to you lye when it is under way. And new word a short time ago secretary of defense mark esper that some Saudi Nationals were contained on the base but he would not confirm in the charge was terrorism. They were detained some of his friends were on the base as i understand it, and i was told that some one or two were filming it, and what is unclear if they were filming it before it began or picked it up when it was folding and this is maybe a distinction with or without the difference, but that is why we will let the investigation play out. The shooter is a Saudi National training on the base opening up fire on a cla
Overheard. The lead writer of the story standing by for us. Plus, with the iran matter swirling we need trumps Fourth National security adviser, by all accounts appointed in the nick of time. And one of our guests tonight believes the democrats are headed for big trouble if they ever let what happened yesterday happen again. All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 972 of this trump administration. And as we said, we have a big story in the Washington Post tonight. It involves a whistleblower complaint from inside the administration that the intelligence Inspector General considers credible and urgent. Tonight the post puts it this way, saying this whistleblower complaint involves president Trumps Communications with a foreign leader. According to two former u. S. Officials familiar with the matter, they go on to write trumps ipt interaction with the foreign leader included a promi
With lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel. Well be covering whatever is new in the netanyahu race later this hour. There probably wont be too much more coming in tonightbut wel get to it this hour. Thank you, lawrence thank you, rachel there was much mustsee tv in the Corwin Lewandowski hearing. Unfortunate unfortunately, it was hours after people stopped watching the hearing. But well show you the best parts of what happened in that hearing room today also, the fallout about new reporting on the fbi investigation or lack of fbi investigation into allegations of Sexual Misconduct by Brett Kavanaugh during the confirmation process for the Supreme Court. President ial candidate Amy Klobuchar will join us tonight to discuss what she thinks congress should do now and we have breaking news on two major stories in the middle east tonight the Trump Administration is considering how to respond to an attack on Saudi Arabian Oil Facilities secretary of state mike pompeo is on his way to saudi