Was pushed out because of what she called a concert the campaign against her led by giuliani and quote that the department had been under pressure from the president to remove her since the summer of 2018. F fiona hill is the first person who actually worked inside the white house to be deposed by investigators. Issued a subpoena to compel her to testify after the white house made clear it would not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry and would not allow its staff to do so either. Now, following that testimony on the hill is msnbcs garrett and from the white house hanz nickels. Garrett, im going to start with you because you are with the are action is at. What information are lawmakers hoping to draw from hills deposition today . Remember, hill showing up and note worthy. She becomes the first former white house official to do so despite opposition from the administration from having anyone connected to them whatsoever come testify. Now, hill had already left her post by the time of
ground. we will guarantee your position. and on the back of that deal, the kurds removed their heavy artillery from the border with turkey, which is now being run over by the turks and by their allies from syria. and they basically through in their entire lot with the u.s. and it was only a couple months later that president trump made that fateful decision just a week ago to withdrawal all of the u.s. assets from northern turkey and to allow for the turks to make that. and that s why there s so many the kurds feel such an incredible sense of betrayal by the u.s. yeah. that foreign policy article you were just mentioning, the headline is startling. if we choose between compromise and genocide, we choose our people. which is the position that the kurds find themselves in right now, which is just incredible to even think about. matt bradley. thank you. appreciate reporting, my friend. want to bring in adjunct senior fellow. she s also the author of the untold story of a team of w
about the 2016 election and about joe biden that formed sort of the basis of what he was bringing to the president. so you can kind of see this is a narrative that begins with these two men, then goes to rudy giuliani, and then goes to the president resulting ultimately in the phone call in july that has become so central to all of this. why were these men able to capitalize on that moment back in october of 2016 just around the time the access hollywood tape came out? yeah. that s a really interesting question. so these two men are both american citizens but were both born in former soviet republics. and did not have a history of involvement with republican politics. but all of a sudden, in this sort of dark moment of the trump campaign in 2016 after access hollywood, when a lot of major donors were spooked by the campaign, lev parnas, one of the men shows up in florida with a $50,000 check. and basically, that started
executive privilege, right? we don t know how cooperative sondland s going to be. he s indicating he wants to be cooperative. he s also indicated he won t hand over text messages or e-mails and direct conversations with the president. if he does have state department counsel with him, they may prevent him from answering that question. and remember, the red line of the white house has always put down is for these testimony to take place, they want to have counsel present. now, we don t know if that s true with fiona hill. fiona is of course a former. still haven t gotten to whether mar marie how wide does executive privilege here, as both hans and garrett brought up, how wide does it apply to both sondland s testimony along with fiona hill s that s going on now? it s up to the president to do so but it s not absolute. you know, as we learned in the supreme court decision involving president nixon, executive privilege cannot be used as a
to settle on some sort of broader strategy. will they be able to bring in any sort of legal backing? and that s what s that s what s on the agenda here. we had some audio problems so i m going to put my ear piece in here in two seconds. but i won t be able to hear you. in thanks so much. garrett hans going to stick around for me. ambassador sondland s testimony. he s also scheduled this week. there have been a lot of questions about his relationship and possible collaboration with trump. now, a lot of those questions surround private encrypted communications involving three key u.s. diplomats that you see right there including sondland, who trump s request to push ukraine to investigate trump s political rival. joe biden and his son hunter biden. just to refresh your memory for why sondland is such a key witness, i want to go back to september 9th on a call sondland held with the president. on that day, u.s. ambassador the message to the ukrainians and russians.