And the Justice Department said thats okay because he has complete immunity from any kind of congressional subpoena. He points out that memo from the Justice Department isnt really citing case law so much as citing itself. Citing memos from that legal office over the decades. And chairman nadler points out that one of the Justice Department rules that is completely ignored in that memo is he says the Justice Departments own be longstanding policy is that executive privilege should not be invoked to conceal evidence of wrongdoing or criminality on the part of executive officers. Amazing how that would have been left out of that memo today. Well, and you know, for the white house to be asserting that people should defy subpoenas in the abstract because the white house believes or they can get the office of Legal Counsel to state or the president s lawyers aver something is true is one thing. But when the subpoena goes to an individual loss no longer a Government Official and that individ
And thats according to two people familiar with vindmans testimony. To draw a direct line between the hold up of military aid and trumps demand of political assistance from a foreign power. This comes as the impeachment committees today heard from two Foreign Service officers with information about the Shadow Campaign there was waged to influence policy towards ukraine. House investigators are also summoned former National Security advisor john bolton among others to testify next week. Boltons lawyers said he would not appear voluntarily, but added, i stand ready at all times to accept service of a subpoena on his behalf. Amid all of this were also getting new details about the democrats plan forward on impeachment with a momentous vote scheduled for tomorrow. When it comes to Lieutenant Colonel vindman theres also new reporting today he shed new light on trumps infamous july 25th call with ukrainian president zelensky. Nbc news confirms that vindman told congress that certain details
We might have heard more from Amy Klobuchar tonight than in the debate because there are so many people up there. Everybody is going to try to maximize their word count. Then all the interruptions and all of that. Julian castro will join us in this hour. He might just get more time here than at the debate, but its fascinating to see even with the constraints that Julian Castro and others have been able to have their moment and the spot where they pop in the debates and the pressure is all the greater. Even with just the first debate, we have already seen the impact that that debate can have on the fortunes of individual candidates. The stakes couldnt be higher. Two weeks away. Thank you, rachel. President ial candidate Julian Castro will join us tonight. This week he has given the strongest and clearest statement ever made by a president ial candidate about police use of force. Now, i have been write being this subject since the 1980s called deadly force. I can tell you that most presi
In his opening statement, taylor says ambassador sondland told me that President Trump had told him that he wants president zelensky to state publicly that ukraine will investigate burisma and alleged ukrainian interference in the 2016 u. S. Election. Ambassador sondland also told me that he now recognized that he had made a mistake by earlier telling the ukrainian officials that a white house meeting with president zelensky was dependent on a public announcement of investigations. In fact, ambassador sondland said everything was dependent on such an announcement, including security assistance. Well, the white house, no surprise, released a statement, calling that hearsay and again insisted there was no quid pro quo, but the administration also went further, calling the inquiry a, quote, Smear Campaign involving radical, unelected bureaucrats. And Vice President pence strongly suggested that bill taylors testimony was politically motivated. Theres no question that when President Trump
Including this new report that the trump doj wants to silence muellers deputies from testifying it at all even in closed session and now giuliani joining trump allies to blast these hearings before they begin. A bunch of unethical disgraceful prosecutors which is what they are and all this lionizing of mueller is disgraceful. He was a hit man. When it comes to mr. Muellers testimony, a lot of questions about bias and why he flipped the expectation that americans are innocent till proven guilty. I think hes going to have a tough time wednesday. Its not going to go the way the media thinks. I doubt it. It will be very interesting to see if he does another stumbling and bumblinging. Another stumbling and bumbling. Rudy giuliani himself has been criticizes for bumbling legal presentations. Hes opening another attack on muell muellers demeanor. Others about muellers team and their independence. Its not just a pr battle. The story i mentioned is important. Privately trumps doj has been expos