Msnbc. Com now, the msnbc app and apple tv. And you can find me on social media, twitter, facebook, instagram, snapchat, linked in, all that stuff. Thank you for watching. Have a great weekend. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace begins right now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Donald trump today resorting to a familiar tactic spreading lies and smears on one of his favorite cable news programs in the wake of the House Democrats public hearings this week providing irrefutable evidence that donald trump conditioned refused military aid could tukt informations. The New York Times writes, quote, President Trump unleashed a series of falsehoods on friday on an effort to invalidate the Impeachment Inquiry and counter sworn testimony from officials in his own administration. After a week of damaging public
hearings. And while divisions in our politics endure, its beyond debate that the democrats fact witnesses, the majority of them, trump appointees and career diplomats, painted a
had animosity for the system. they don t seem troubled by it. so what we see happening i think especially in the wake of dr. hill s testimony and the reporting today that the senate has been briefed by the intelligence community on the fact that moscow has been running since at least 2017 an effort to push this ukrainian narrative that it was ukraine not moscow that was responsible for interference in the 2016 election. the shift that will have to come is that the american public will have to look at that piece of the puzzle and sort of back up from all of the evidence all of the trees and look at the whole forest and say the soviet union may have lost the cold war but putin has extracted a hell of a payback on us trying to tear us apart trying to manipulate us. and it s only at the point where public opinion shifts and says we won t stand for this and conveys that to their legislators, to their republican senators that there s really any chance that there is real
when she talked when she admonished the lawmakers about partisanship and how that is not just making it difficult to get things done in washington but it s eroding american faith in democracy. it really let you know that there was there out of a sense of duty and certainly not out of a sense of helping one side or the other. you know, tim, i thought a subplot in the last two weeks was sort of the intersection of donald trump s attack on immigrants, legal and illegal. i mean, the smears against colonel vindman. you know, basically accusing him of espionage on fox news. the smears against him this week. i thought one of her most eloquent and underplayed comments was her defense of americans by choice. yeah. well, i got to do a disclaimer. i m such a big fiona hill fan, i m ready to amend the constitution to a foreigner can run the government. no, i agree with you. she had this earnestness of an immigrant, right? there is the zeal of the
based on the public testimony of 12 of trump s own current and former administration officials is that there was, without question, a quid pro quo with ukraine. a pursuit trump s former senior aide fiona hill rebranded this week as, quote, political errands we have also learned that the ukrainians knew full well that their military aid was in jeopardy as early as the day of the july 25th phone call when trump asked zelensky for a favor though. investigations into the bidens and that when it came to the day-to-day machinations of the pressure campaign, the president wi everyone was in the loop. mr. giuliani s requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president zelensky. was there a quid pro quo? the answer is yes. what did ambassador sondland
totally happy and at peace and at rest, would never, ever, ever having to go in behind his deputies who have been krusified and vilified by donald trump s allies in congress, people like colonel vindman, people whose voracity of their account like fiona hill have been questioned. might his lawyer have just kept his mouth shut? you reported on that letter his lawyer wrote. i think it was two weeks ago today. mr. cooper who wrote a letter saying john witnessed a lot of stuff. why did he do that? that s a great question. it s kind of a tease. he teased us back again on twitter saying i m back on twitter, i m not going to be silent anymore. but he is not going to say anything about ukraine. he decided he won t talk unless a court tells him to. but i think he s ready to testify. i don t think he would have any philosophical problem explaining his role in all this, explaining his opposition to what happened.