Good evening, once again from our nbc news headquarters, day 39 of the Trump Administration. It brings a new development tonight in the president s attempts to overhaul the leadership of the nations 17 intelligence agencies it goes without saying this comes at a critical time this week when domestic terrorism is top of mind. Tonight, trump confirmed that sue gordon, the career professional deputy to the outgoing dni, director of national intelligence, dan coats is stepping down. Tonight and somewhat tellingly, she released a handwritten later on top of her official letter of resignation. It was a letter to the president and it reads quote, mr. President , i offer this letter as an act of respect and patriotism, not reference. You should have your team, god speed, sue. Now, both gordon and her boss are leaving august 15th, a week from today, and they take their institutional history with them, of course. Trump also used social media tonight to say the new acting dni is joseph mcguire, t
Behind the impeachment effort on the hill, all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a thursday night. Well, good evening once again, and tonight happens to find us here in london, but all the news, of course, is back home where this was day 980 of the Trump Administration, and the case for impeachment has just in the course of this one day escalated quickly and on Live Television with the release of that whistleblower complaint focusing on trumps july 25th phone call with the president of ukraine. Put simply, this document, this whistleblower is accusing the president of abusing his power and further accuses the National Security structure around him in the white house of trying to cover it up. The complaint directed to the heads of the house and Senate Intelligence committees was filed august 12, about two weeks after trumps phone call. Quote, i have received information from multiple u. S. Government officials that the president of the United States is using the power of his offi
Good evening, once again from our nbc news headquarters, day 39 of the Trump Administration. It brings a new development tonight in the president s attempts to overhaul the leadership of the nations 17 intelligence agencies it goes without saying this comes at a critical time this week when domestic terrorism is top of mind. Tonight, trump confirmed that sue gordon, the career professional deputy to the outgoing dni, director of national intelligence, dan coats is stepping down. Tonight and somewhat tellingly, she released a handwritten later on top of her official letter of resignation. It was a letter to the president and it reads quote, mr. President , i offer this letter as an act of respect and patriotism, not reference. You should have your team, god speed, sue. Now, both gordon and her boss are leaving august 15th, a week from today, and they take their institutional history with them, of course. Trump also used social media tonight to say the new acting dni is joseph mcguire, t
Good evening, once again from our nbc news headquarters, day 39 of the Trump Administration. It brings a new development tonight in the president s attempts to overhaul the leadership of the nations 17 intelligence agencies it goes without saying this comes at a critical time this week when domestic terrorism is top of mind. Tonight, trump confirmed that sue gordon, the career professional deputy to the outgoing dni, director of national intelligence, dan coats is stepping down. Tonight and somewhat tellingly, she released a handwritten later on top of her official letter of resignation. It was a letter to the president and it reads quote, mr. President , i offer this letter as an act of respect and patriotism, not reference. You should have your team, god speed, sue. Now, both gordon and her boss are leaving august 15th, a week from today, and they take their institutional history with them, of course. Trump also used social media tonight to say the new acting dni is joseph mcguire, t
Behind the impeachment effort on the hill, all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a thursday night. Well, good evening once again, and tonight happens to find us here in london, but all the news, of course, is back home where this was day 980 of the Trump Administration, and the case for impeachment has just in the course of this one day escalated quickly and on Live Television with the release of that whistleblower complaint focusing on trumps july 25th phone call with the president of ukraine. Put simply, this document, this whistleblower is accusing the president of abusing his power and further accuses the National Security structure around him in the white house of trying to cover it up. The complaint directed to the heads of the house and Senate Intelligence committees was filed august 12, about two weeks after trumps phone call. Quote, i have received information from multiple u. S. Government officials that the president of the United States is using the power of his offi