Were going to start with the Breaking News. House intelligence chair adam schiff acc obstruction. Its the latest in the ongoing impeachment saga after a key witness today acting on orders from the white house refused to be deposed. Also President Trump is about to speak in chicago this hour after teasing the potential release of footage of the takedown of the most wanted terrorist ps. But hes under fire this morning for are revealing classified details about the raid that killed isis leader baghdabu bak baghdadi and the other major story were watching is california in flames right now. Mandatory Evacuation Orders are in place. 200,000 people have been told to get out so far including hospital patients, jail inmate, College Students as well. Well go to california in a bit. We start with that Breaking News on capitol hill right now. A key witness has refused to show up to a scheduled deposition this morning and democrats are now preparing to hold it in contempt of congress. We move forwa
impeachment. you re not hopeful for anymore? in a prior case out of this particular circuit, they said well, you know, it s hard to you have to comply with say what other senior officials congressional subpoenas, trump will do. i m sure they ll get like with respect to a legislative instructions from the white inquiry, impeachment is slightly house, and if they do and they fail to appear, they will be different, but that s a little hump that nancy pelosi could get over if that is one of the building a very powerful case caveats that the court comes up with. so the first word would be a against the president for federal judge in the d.c. obstruction. district. an article of impeachment based if that judge rules either way, on obstruction. each time the white house steps is there a possibility of appeal in to obstruct congress from by either side? yes. getting documents diminishing and of course we know now there so this action by this witness are a number of very important against
somebody other witnesses said believe would corroborate the allegations of misconduct that had objections to what was going other witnesses have made, but on with ukraine. this implies he will take a we move forward and we will obviously consider as we inform similar path as kupperman and the dr. kupperman s counsel his there are real questions as to failure to appear as evidence what that means goingd. that may warrant a contempt proceeding against him. in terms of where we are, we thanks so much. former federal prosecutor kim have had a full schedule up until this point. we have a full schedule from wailey worked on the whitewater this point. investigation of the clintons. i think we can infer from the white house opposition to dr. kupperman s testimony that the white house tried to block other administration officials they believe that his testimony from testifying. would be incriminating of the sonder land among them. president. it is also i think very plain a, you have a new t
mattis reports trump personally got involved in who would win the contract and last year actually directed mattis to screw amazon out of a chance to bid on the contract. this is according to website task and purpose. mattis declined, but in june, trump did say, kate, that his administration would review the contract plan because competitors claimed amazon had an unfair advantage. billions of dollars at stake here. thank you all so much for joining me today. inside politics with john king starts right now. thank you, kate, and welcome to inside politics. i m john containing. thank y john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. a national security aide defies a subpoena, telling congress he will not testify unless a judge decides if the impeachment proceedings are legitimate. plus congresswoman katie hill is resigning amid
sometime soon, and then phase 2 begins, whether they pursue impeachment of the president. john? manu raju looifr on tive on . appreciate that. with us abby phillip, michael bender with the wall street journal, melanie with poliltico and also with time. they re telling the associated press that congress is not following their own rules and precedent with that, and until they do that, i i don t want to be a participant in what i consider to be not only illegal but improper. they need to have a vote. now as they try to go up the food chain, they re having issues with higher level officials. how long are they willing to fight in court? up until this point we have