than she does. but ultimately, the leverage may not be there. what they need to find is they need four members of the senate who are republicans who will demand a fair trial so to speak for the american people. they need to be looking at folks like mitt romney and susan collins. see if they can get to see if they can really get them to pull some leverage here. but ultimately, everything is about the election, which is less than a year away, and that s going to be the ultimate check on the power of mitch mcconnell, the white house. political accountability. mara, leah, thank you so much. stick around for us. one more block. coming up, a top white house aide still pushing putin s propaganda about 2016. also, rudy giuliani s expanding conspiracy theories. even some republicans are now sounding skeptical, believe it or not. and the trump administration under its saudi arabia policy
did you order the murder of jamal khashoggi? translator: absolutely not. the cia has concluded with medium to high confidence that you personally targeted khashoggi and you probably ordered his death. translator: i hope this information to be brought forward. if there is any such information that charges me, i hope it is brought forward publicly. obviously the trial was done in secret, no one knows what evidence was presented in it. is that denial credible do you think? reporter: i mean, look, the intelligence community, i trust those analysts, believe he was responsible. if you want to be charitable, i suppose you can say that he wanted jamal problem, he was criticizing the crown prince taking care of, and some of his aides thought this was the way to do it, but look, there s a lot of evidence that clearly must have not been presented in
interesting, what s significant about it is not necessarily the timing of it but the notion as we were saying at the top of the show, the direct alternative the pentagon official to keep this quiet on a need to know basis. what does that tidbit of information tell you about what may have been or alleged to have been a cover-up? this gives you the context in which these white house officials were operating. they knew something was wrong. they knew it was wrong. they did it anyway. it is i won t go into the legal side of things. i m not a lawyer. but from a political point of view and a common sense point of view, it really tells you a little bit about their intent, and it tells you about their mind-set when they were actually involved in this alleged cover-up. and i think ultimately the democrats have a constitutional obligation as public servants to get as much information about what has occurred to the american people as possible. and it s also a trial in front of the american
nature of the request, i appreciate you keeping that information closely held to those who need to know. now that frozen aid is at the center of the impeachment case, and now democrats say these new emails highlight the need for more evidence and more witnesses. this email is explosive. a top administration official, one that we requested as saying stop the aid 91 minutes after trump called zelensky and said keep it hush-hush. from whom did duffy get the order and why did he do it? what more do you need to request a witness? so today the top republican in the senate mitch mcconnell saying they ll decide on witnesses after the trial starts. what we need to do is to listen to the arguments, have a written questioning period and then decide whether we need witnesses or not. and new tonight, a possible
that s all for tonight. we ll be back tomorrow with more meet the press daily. the beat with ayman mohyeldin in foreari start rights now. hello, everyone, i m ayman mohyeldin in for ari melber. welcome to the beat on this monday evening. tonight democrats ramping up the pressure for impeachment witnesses after new ukraine revelations. also, neal katyal on why mitch mcconnell is wrong about the senate trial. s are also, a new court filing showi ining democrats are still thinking about more articles of impeachment against the president. we start with new demands for witnesses in the trial of donald trump. those calls getting louder after release of emails sent 90 minutes after trump s infamous ukraine phone call. white house officials ordering the pentagon to stay quiet about the frozen military aid at the heart of this plot. a budget official writing, quote, given the sensitive