he had been sidelined. october 17, sondland. president trump has not only honored me with the job of being the abs but given me other special assignments including ukraine. sondland who initially was blocked from testifying. did appear on october 17. we were not expecting him necessarily to throw the president under the bus, in a way he kind of did. the fact he did raise concerns about the president s push back on the effort to strengthen the alliance. to get the meeting with zelensky and trump. a public donor and close to the president. i was just trying to do my job and get a meeting. didn t know what giuliani was up to. the most jaw dropping testimony was still to come. october 22, bill taylor. called out of retirement to help
capitol hill with our senior congressional correspondent manu raju. good morning to you. bill taylor about to walk in. or is he there? we expect him to come some time soon. this will be is a highly anticipated moment in this investigation because of text messages that have already been released showing that bill tay lorks the top diplomat in ukraine, had raised concerns about why that military aid that had been approved by congress had not been turned over to ukraine and concerned that potentially this could have to do with the president s push to investigate his political rivals. as you noted, he referred to that as a crazy, if that were true. so the questions for the members here is exactly what he knew about why that military aid was withheld. what conversations he had with the president, with the administration, with secretary of state mike pompeo and the like. what democrats have been able to glean so far in this investigation is the role the president and rudy giuliani played
we wish him only the very, very best. so tonight, for howard moss, i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, the breg news, death and suffering in the bahamas. survivors telling us there are bodies everywhere after hurricane dorian ravaged the island. the country s minister of tourism joins us. plus the bipartisan outrage growing over president trump s decision to use military funds for the border wall, how is the white house responding? and democrats now looking into the president s push to host the g-7 summit at his resort and mike pence s stay at a trump hotel in ireland. did trump break the law? let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, the breaking news, a humanitarian crisis tonight, the hurricane ravaged bahamas bracing itself tonight for what officials warn will be a horrific road ahead. the death toll officially stands
what next that promise of an appeal means this isn t over. however it plays out in oklahoma, it seems to be a resounding victory for all those other towns and municipalityies and state suesing drugmakers a judge in ohio is going to start to hear those cases in october and some say this may influence the drug companies in settling. kristen dahlgren, thank you. president trump is returning home from the g7 summit on a hopeful note, saying he s open to possible nuclear talks with iran and signaling a possible breakthrough in the trade war with china nbc s hallie jackson is in france with more reporter: the summit closing with an open door as president trump indicates he d consider the french president s push to set up a meeting with iranian leader hassan rouhani. if the circumstances were correct or right, i would certainly agree to that. but in the meantime, they have to be good players you understand what that means
president trump: do you know what this is? he will be a very good prime minister. we are on the same page. i think as long as he s prime minister and i m president, i think we are owes and the same page. we should save the congratulations for when they vote. but hopefully that will be put to a vote. mike: president trump meeting with his counterparts. it marked g2 of the summit in france. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour. if you are just joining us, president trump insists he s getting along well with other world leaders. the escalating trade war with china and the president s push