another defendant in the guiliani associates case is in federal custody today. david correia was arrested after flying to new york city to turn himself in. he was named in last week s indictment of the machine accused of violating campaign finance laws. joining me nbc news correspondent for investigations tom winter and former federal prosecutor doug burns. gentleman, good to see you. tom, what happened today? so, katy, basically all the other people involved in this case are the two people that we have been speaking most about because they re the ones associated with rudy guiliani and they re people that rudy is their attorney or at least they are a client of rudy guiliani as he puts it.
impeachment inquiry. she says the constitution doesn t make that clear. there was a question why she doesn t call republican s bluff on it and make a vote. she says this isn t about calming a blue. this isn t a game here. this is deadly serious work. when is this going to break out into the open? i put that question to adam schiff yesterday. we have some of his response which we can hear now. maybe we don t have it. we do anticipate a time when we will be releasing transcripts and we do anticipate there will be a time when we may call b win session and we may call witnesses in open session that we haven t called in closed session. reporter: so his, the main take away there is, yes, this process will be made public at some point. he says that this fact finding process that s happening right now, it s important that remains behind closed doors. he doesn t want witnesses tipped off by prior testimony. he certainly doesn t want the white house to know the case
keep track of. mckinley had been up until friday mike pompeo s defacto chief of staff. he resigned amid the morale. he is painting a pressure of political bullying inside trump s state department. i am told he was particularly appalled by, galled by the ouster, the unceremonious ouster of former ambassador to you crane marie yovanovitch. according to a source in the room, we are told when these concerns were brought up to secretary of state mike pompeo, that pompeo went radio silent. he didn t offer any reasonable explanation as to why it was that yovanovitch was recalled from her post. so if you add this to all of the existing testimony, the reported testimony of which we are aware, you get to see, because you start to see the contours of the case that democrats are building. it s not j you the call. this july 25th interaction between presidents trump and
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there today? reporter: so, we speak to kurdish commanders. they say they are witnessing ethnic cleansing right now. so when president trump says the kurds are safer now than they were before, that is absolutely not the case. the kurds are running for their lives. they are in a fight against turkey. they are in a fight against turkish-backed militias, radical militias, that include former members of isis and al qaeda, according to multiple officials. so the kurds are being pushed off of their land. they are being killed. there have been atrocities already carried out by these turkish-backed militias that have pulled people by the side of the road and executed them on the spot. that is happening now and that is happening as u.s. troops are still in this country. still close by to these atrocities, close by to this offensive but ordered not to intervene. this is a major moment for the