and choose them carefully and not get off into eliminating private insurance and things like that. charlie cook gets tonight s last word. thanks for joining us. appreciate it. thank you, lawrence. that is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. tonight, new revelations from the book from an anonymous warning of a cruel, dangerous president and a so-called steady state of administration staffers struggling to keep the wheels from falling off. the white house calls it a work of fiction. impeachment evidence against this president is piling up. today s new testimony warns of rudy s campaign of lies in ukraine. mike bloomberg s people say he s hedging his bets, today s surprise views threatens to shake up the democratic race and the president calls him his biggest mistake. tonight, jeff sessions jumped back into politics. the 11th hour on a very busy thursday night begins right now.
investigation in part that s i going on in the southern district of new york, to try ani understand why that ambassador was removed. if you remember, that was mentioned in the indictment of the two associates of giuliani just several weeks ago, and it s something that they are trying to understand. this is an action that the st president ended up taking that doesn t really have a real answer to it.re melanie, starting tomorrow, what are the democrats up to and what s the rollout strategy on this case? well, they have been releasing this transcripts bit t by bit instead of an entire batch. the one advantage of that for democrats isad they can keep thr momentum going. especially they really hit a wall iny their quest for more impeachment evidence. as you mentioned earlier, a bunch of the witnesses stopped showing up today. we re not expecting any more witnesses to show up in the coming days. so i do suspect that every day u we ll probably see a few more transcripts.ob tomorrow there
melanie, starting tomorrow, what are the democrats up to and what s the roll-out strategy on this case? well, they have been releasing this transcripts bit by bit instead of an entire batch. the one advantage for democrats is they can keep their momentum going, especially as they really hit a wall in their quest for more impeachment evidence. as you mentioned earlier, a bunch of the witnesses stopped showing up today. we re not expecting any more witnesses to show up in the coming days. so i do suspect that every day we ll probably see a few more transcripts. tomorrow there are two big one, kurt volker as well as gordon sondland, two of these u.s. diplomats who were involved in this pressure campaign. beyond, that democrats are going to have figure out who do they want to testify. who do they think can make the best case to the public that the president has to be impeached. she did come off as sympathetic witness. she talked about her security
just several weeks ago, and it s something that they are trying to understand. this is an action that the president ended up taking that doesn t really have a real answer to it. melanie, starting tomorrow, what are the democrats up to and what s the roll-out strategy on this case? well, they have been releasing this transcripts bit by bit instead of an entire batch. the one advantage for democrats is they can keep their momentum going, especially as they really hit a wall in their quest for more impeachment evidence. as you mentioned earlier, a bunch of the witnesses stopped showing up today. we re not expecting any more witnesses to show up in the coming days. so i do suspect that every day we ll probably see a few more transcripts. tomorrow there are two big one, kurt volker as well as gordon sondland, two of these u.s. diplomats who were involved in this pressure campaign. beyond, that democrats are going to have figure out who do they want to testify.
are very best way for the house of representatives to discover impeachment evidence. depositions will determine whether or not we go forward with hearings. the very smart thing to do is depose these people and find out what they ve got to say, not drag this thing out unnecessarily. that was 21 years ago. since then, lindsey graham has learned to tie a neck tie and today he was saying exactly the opposite and lying while he s at it. they ve created a process into intel committee that s behind closed doors, doesn t provide access to the president s accuser, shuts republicans out for all practical purposes and is an unworthy substitute for the way you need to do it. is at its core unamerican. lindsey graham continued to push the republican lie that republicans are, as he put it, shut out of the closed door depositions in the house of representatives.