i m scared. for my family. i m scared for my town. i grew up here. we went to the creeks and there are crews with black and white hoses all over the creeks. they re not telling us why. the this is daily. i m driving my children to school and pass this and they re asking me questions that i don t have answers to. and they need the answers. so many, many questions. good morning, everyone. anger, fear, and many questions in east palestine ohio. two weeks after a train packed with hazardous chemicals derailed. we re going to do a deep dive into the company behind the bill and one of the dangerous chemical that was onboard there, vinyl chloride. how long will it be a threat? and is it putting residents at risk of cancer. plus, did former president trump break the law when he tried to overturn election results in georgia? we ll find out new details today when the judge leases part of the grand jury s report. also, the gunman who killed students at michigan state university
Were complaining the lack of direct testimony that democrats were bringing, Rudy Giuliani would be the ultimate direct witness. He certainly would. Joy vance, thank you for joining us. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight the late warning of another Government Employee breaks the silence on the Impeachment Inquiry as we are hours away from a veteran former ambassador who says she felt threatened by her own government while working for the u. S. Overseas. What words were they talking about . Cameras capture the conversation between the president and his Attorney General despite waiting for the helicopter in the backyard. The speaker compares the president to nixon and spells out the crimes she believes hes
guilty of. All of it as The 11th Hour gets underway on a thursday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,029 of the trump administration. A day between this weeks public impeachmentme hearings. The president flew to louis
counsel s investigation into january 6 and the role that trump played that day. i m told that special counsel jack smith is seeking both testimony and documents from meadows. he got the subpoena back in january. it matters. meadows, as you know, firsthand knowledge of trump s actions o several fronts. he was in and out of the office on that day. he was on that phone call that happened in december between trump and the georgia secretary of state where trump was pleading with him find him more votes. meadows was also in that bananas december 2020 white house meeting about election fraud claims. he also visited a georgia audit site. he sent e-mails to justice department officials about unsubstantiated fraud claims. his attorney and the justice department did not comment to cnn when we asked. it s unclear how he s going to respond to the subpoena. it will likely set up a clash over executive privilege given he was one of trump s most senior aides.
only two people, trump and pence. thus far the select committee has not tried to get either of those two men to come in and answer questions from our knowledge. what we do know from reporting and materials that emerged, from people listening in that phone call with trump, they said it started amicable and then went south. people were shocked because it was the first time in the entire trump presidency that they recognized, became aware that mike pence was putting his foot down and saying no to trump. it hasn t happened before and that episode left a huge impression. it stood out to me when raskin said it last night when i read it in your reporting, here s the line from your reporting that stands out to me, it is unlikely the committee will attempt to force pence to testify, there are imposing legal obstacles for subpoenaing
know why this issue sometimes is hard to communicate, but memories are short, people don t pay attention to politics. but to me, this was all about for the first impeachment of donald trump was all about holding up aid to ukraine. that s why he was impeached. he did that in exchange for a aid an extra helping hand with regard to trying to steal the 2020 election. it was all consistent. it was consistent from the beginning through january 6th and the efforts to kind of promote this big lie that trump lost the election. he did. but he this was a continuing enterprise from the beginning. so in my opening statement i actually explicitly stated the fears of how this corrupt scheme was going to embolden russia, precipitate this kind of confrontation. i couldn t imagine the scale but something on that order of