outwork, outorganize and outlast anyone. and that includes donald trump, mike pence or whoever the republicans get stuck with. all right. switching over to the topic of impeachment, george p. kent, the senior state department official with the ukraine policy faced inquiry on the impeachment inquiry. telling nbc news that acting chief of staff mick mulvaney oversaw a may 23rd meeting where he tapped three appointees, rick perry, european ambassador gordon sondland and special envoy kurt volker. according to conconnollie, the three called themselves the three amigos and elbowed all other official. out of the way. and kent testified after the
look at axios a.m. jonathan swan, what is the one big thing? it better not be the nats winning the alcs. it s definitely not that. i follow cricket. the president of rudy giuliani, have been the thread in the closed door testimony of the house impeachment inquiry. senior administration officials are also trying to piece together the broader picture of what rudy giuliani has been up to over the last two and a half years. national security officials describe it as a, quote, shadow foreign policy, and it touches multiple countries. they re trying to figure out the nexus, if any exists between personal financial gain and official trump administration policy. we re not just talking about ukraine here. you ve got the washington post report about giuliani lobbying trump to extradite one of erdogan, the turkish leader s
felt sidelined by the president and by his close circle of advisers. so, he and others at the state department, were replaced by rudy giuliani, the president s personal attorney, out of the white house, by energy secretary rick perry. by others who really had no business conducting any type of foreign policy or diplomatic policy with ukraine, things that should have been left to state department officials like mr. kent, were instead taken over by giuliani and others. and the president allowed that. and oversaw it. and in some cases encouraged it. so, i do think this is really a key moment. the more that we hear from officials like mr. kent who can say this is not just a one-off experience, is this experience, this is a routine and deliberate attempt to sideline white house officials like myself, the more it builds a significant case that democrats can use in their impeachment inquiry. all right, thanks.
people around him. the people around him feel like they re not, you know, looped in on important things, that they re deliberately stiff armed on matters that they should have, you know, visibility on. and so it s a very toxic environment at times within the white house. the new national security adviser robert o brien is saying he s going to cut the staff of the national security council rather dramatically. he said that s a matter of good efficiency. they grew too much. a lot of other people would agree with that. it also strikes some people as a way of getting rid of the career officials who have been problematic in the eyes of the president who talks about his war with a deep state. so george p. kent, a senior state department official in charge of ukraine policy faced questioning yesterday as part of the impeachment inquiry. democratic congressman jerry ko connolly of virginia who was present for yesterday s closed door deposition tells nbc news that kent testified that acting w
him leave. yeah. i don t know how to really assess there. i get he is part of the judiciary committee. that committee will be pivotal when it comes to sending impeachment articles to the senate. if someone wants to participate, let him in. he is a member of congress. sandra: george kent is scheduled to appear today, another witness will be before lawmakers and they ll have an opportunity to ask him questions. the question continues to be witness after witness, time goes by, we know democrats don t want this to drag on forever. are you seeing that they are making any progress with this? what i see is they re filling the media with the narrative that justifies what they are doing. so you have individuals like representative schiff and others that are pushing out there as fast as they can statements that support their position on it.