Witness. How will all this play out to the race in the white house, jeff is here one of two democrats who voted to oppose the impeachment inquiry. The investigation impact on 2020, all that and a lot more as we look ahead on sunday morning features. In the public hearing in the impeachment inquiry will continue this upcoming week with eight officials are scheduled to testify. Including u. S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland whose name is come up so far. They heard testimony from William Taylor and george kent, the dippy assistant secretary of state for europe and eastern europe. Neither could answer this key question from john macklin. In this impeachment hearing today for treason or bribery and other high crimes, where is the impeachable offensive not call her either of you here today to assert there was an Impeachable Offense . Shouted out, anyone and raining right now ratcliff how intel Homeland Security and also former federal prosecutor. Its always a pleasure to se
Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell who seems willing to wait out pelosi. Mcconnell has a more pressing problem with his own caucus where more independent members like alaskas Lisa Murkowski are less than enthusiastic about his comments about being in complete coordination with the white house for the impeachment trial. In fairness, when i heard that, i was disturbed. If we are tasked as the full senate to do impartial justice under the constitution and the law, to me it means that we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense. And so i heard what leader mcconnell had said. I happen to think that that has further confused the process. Lets bring in our panel, nbcs hans nichols covering the president in west palm beach. Msnbc contributor jill winebanks, former assistant Watergate Special prosecutor. Msnbc little analyst glenn kirchner, a former federal prosecutor, and republican strategist sarah chamberlain. Thanks for joining us, all of you, on the Holiday
Witnesses. Also, the first hearing is now set for a week from tomorrow. The chairman jerry nadler is inviting President Trump and his lawyer to take part and a Senior Administration official tells cnn the proposal is under consideration and will likely be discussed with the president as he spends the holiday week in palm beach, florida. Well talk about that and more with a congresswoman and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, to capitol hill. Manu is join iing us. We now have the transcripts of the impeachment testimony by a Key State Department official and a key office of management and budget official, mark sandy. Tell us about that. Yeah, mark sandy, the lone office of management and budget official to go behind closed doors an testify before house impeachment investigators details what he knew and didnt about why the security aid for ukraine had been withheld. Nearly 400 million that the president was pushing for investigations into his political foes and
A state which i am sure you are aware does not border mexico. And this is unbelievable. Remember when thencandidate trump said he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and not lose any votes . Well, now one of the president s attorneys arguing in court that he could kill somebody and not be charged. Weve got more on that. Plus, new questions about the president s trip to his golf resort this summer and who picked up the tab. But we are going to begin with the anger in washington. And republicans storming a closeddoor deposition today. Heres what they were saying just before it all went down. It should be the people of this country who decide whos going to be the President Trump, not nancy pelosi and not adam schiff behind closed doors. The millions of americans that want to see this Congress Working for them and not obsessed with the attacking of the president who we believe has not done anything to deserve impeachment. It is a sham and its time for it to end. What is happening here is n
America and rogers professor, the presidency of vaernd built university, hes an nbc news and msnbc contribute by thetor jon meacham. Karine will be with us in a moment as will mark. I couldnt help think of you this hol siday season as one of the wealthiest men in prison was using his get out and vote campaign. I mean, well, your wit, i mean, a profile has to be im not has to be coming up there. But, i mean, its straight out of a charles dykens novel, isnt it . Yeah, it was a great well, this happens what . I guess the day before christmas and who broke the story . Was it the intercept that Mike Bloomberg or his campaign or some contractor affiliated with the campaign was enlisting prison labor to make some kind of phone call related to the campaign and the campaign quickly was publicly horrified and said that they discontinued the relationship. Yeah, i mean, its exactly the kind of story that you love to see the day before christmas. But looks like didnt it didnt blow up the campaign,