Through the president s private attorney and apparent bag man Rudy Giuliani, the same giuliani whose name came up 480 times in the transcripts that we saw yesterday. 480 times. He is all over the testimony again tonight. And in a twist, giuliani today said he was acting solely in the interest of his client, the president , setting the stage, some legal experts believe, for claiming attorneyclient privilege rather than answering what could be some very serious questions, questions which will no doubt come up a second time when ambassador taylor testifies again next week in public, on camera, in person. Congressman adam schiff made that announcement this morning. Taylor will testify wednesday along with Top State Department official george kent, Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to ukraine forced out will testify two days later on friday. We are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year, and the degree to which the president enl
Who think its naive to think we have to work together. And the art of the deal ghost writer Tony Schwartz on the president s coughing fit. Lets do that over again. Hes coughing in the middle of my answer. If youre going to cough, please leave the room. All in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We have breaking news at this hour. Katie porter, a freshman california democrat, has Just Announced her support for an impeachment inquire yeah into donald trump. Porter says he made the decision after weeks of deliberation, conversation with voters, and that while she did not come to congress to impeach the president , when faced with a crisis of this magnitude, i cannot with a clean conscience ignore my duty to defend the constitution. I cant claim to be committed to rooting out corruption and putting people over politics and then not apply those same principles and standards in all of the work i do. Porter is an interesting case. She defeated an incumbent republican in he
Say rodney reed is innocent. Well meet a wrestling superstar who is bodyslamming stereotypes. Judge me for who i am as a person and what i do in this ring. Odonnell and a new study tonight reveals the one thing you can do at least once a week to lengthen your life. Ng you can do at least once a week to this is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell. Odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us. Its official. Historic, televised impeachment hearings begin a week from today, and it promises to be mustsee tv. The democrats plan to start with their star witness a west point grad with 50 years of public service, acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine bill taylor will testify wednesday alongside Deputy Assistant secretary of state george kent. Then on friday, former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch will testify. House democrats say thats just the beginning. Today democrats released more transcripts from those closed door depositions, and nancy cordes says they offer a previe
Wtness testimony. And in a significant blow to the impeachment defense, the ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland has reversed, changed his testimony on a really important matter. He now says it was a quid pro quo with ukraine. Joining us now, david gregory, chris cillizza, and bianna golodryga. Jim acosta says a source close to the white house who speaks to trump regularly offered this. Totally bad. Kentucky and virginia are signals to gop. They are underestimating voter intensity against trump. And it could be terrible for them next year. So how do you see this . The implications of these Election Results . I think kentucky is a really good state to look at. You had an unpopular governor. Republicans did well elsewhere in the state down the ballot. Which is important to point out. But this is a big trump state. And a couple of things stuck out to me. One, in those more progressive areas, they had big turnout. Which shows you the trump factor impeachment. The fact that its
The 11th hour on a wednesday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. Im ali velshi in for brian williams, whos under the weather tonight. Hes hoping to return to the lineup soon. In it is day 1,021 of the Trump Administration. The president is back on the campaign trail in louisiana tonight. Th one night after bruising Election Results for republicans and hours after House Democrats announced the impeachment effort is about to go public. Open hearings get under way exactly one week from today. R tonight in the state he twice called louisiana, trump again lashed out at the democrats. Democrats are becomingly increasingly totalitarian, suppressing dissent, defaming the innocent, eliminating due ef process, staging show trials, and trying to overthrow american democracy to impose their socialist agenda. Tonight the Washington Post is reporting that trump wanted attorney general william barr to hold a News Conference declaring that he had broke