The House Intelligence Committee taking a break in their hearing due to house votes happening now on the floor. Theyve been hearing from the former National Security Council Analyst on russia fiona hill and david holmes political counselor at the u. S. Embassy in ukraine. We will have live coverage when the hearing resumes. Well get to your calls and comments. Democrats 2027488920, 2027488921, others 2027488922. Nancy pelosi has been talking about the hearings going on. Please let us know. Yes, sir. Before you fully embrace the impeachment inquiry, you said one of the reasons you were cautious about it because you said the process would be long, arduous and divisive. It turns out you were right. It seems as if were in this position. But in the sense that both sides are dug in and impeachment has sort of taken on the tenor of being just like any other partisan dispute. I dont subscribe to that. I cant answer your question predicated on that. Theres not bipartisan support. If the republi
The whole entire riverbed started taking fire from the high ground. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. President trump continues his assault on the process thats led to an impeachment inquiry against him. The president again demanded to know the name of the whistleblower, whose complaint about his controversial call to the leader of ukraine started the whole investigation. Democrats in the house have not called the whistleblower to give a deposition, fearing for his or her safety, but the whistleblower has now agreed to answer questions from House Republicans in writing. Here is natalie brand. The whistleblower should be revealed. Reporter President Trump sunday intensified his calls for the whistleblower to be identified some five weeks after their complaint triggered the impeachment inquiry. It was like a big antitrump person, hated trump, and they said terrible things. Reporter but the whistleblowers identity remains protected
Held a hearing to examine congresses internal Sexual Harassment policy Committee Member Jackie Speier spoke. This is an hour and 40 minutes. For purposes of todays hearing titled preventing Sexual Harassment in the workplace. The hearing record will remain open for five legislative days so members may submit any materials they wish to be included. A quorum is present so we may proceed. At the outset i asked for unanimous consent that committee on ethics chairwoman susan brooks and ranking matter ted sit on the dais in question today. Without objection that is approved. I also asked unanimous consent that representatives Jackie Speier be sitting on a panel of witnesses. Without objection so ordered. I would like to thank all of our witnesses taking time out of their busy scheduled to be with us on this very serious issue. I commend speaker ryan for bringing this important issue to the forefront and for tasking this committee to undertake a comprehensive review. Todays hearing is a criti
Later, a bombshell interview you will only see here, the president s former lawyer speaking first to nbc news. What Michael Cohen is saying about his former boss behavior behind closed doors. I describe mr. Trump as a cult leader and i was in this cult, the actions that i was performing for my boss were morally wrong. Lester holt joins us live in a minute with that as we start off on this Tuesday Morning in washington. Im Hallie Jackson with Josh Letterman in jupiter, florida, Shannon Pettypiece outside the white house and mike memoli in washington covering the Biden Campaign. Josh, let me start with you, the president spent his weekend here at home, hes ready to get on the road. Sources say hes eager to get out there and do some traveling in the last two months before the election. Reporter thats right, hallie. Two battleground states in one day as we enter the final two month stretch between labor day and the general election. The president will start off with what is being billed as
Consideration to unilaterally rescind the conventions. He says he received several panicky calls from u. S. Government officials who told them they had been directed to develop a sanctions lifting package and imploring him please my god, cant you stop this. It was apparently stopped in large part thanks to pushback from veterans at the state department. But there is a Michael Flynn connection here, too, as Michael Isikoff told chris hayes earlier tonight. February 13th, Michael Flynn resigns. He resigns because of the blowup about his secret meetings with kislyak and misrepresenting the fact that he was talking about easing sanctions. On this issue. On this very issue. So it became politically toxic. I talked to a senior white house official today about this, making clear there is still an ongoing policy review about sanctions. Right. These options are still on table. The state department veteran named in that report, dan freed, also appeared on this Network Earlier tonight. A number o