Consequences of elections. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday t night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,029 of the trump administration. A day between this weeks public impeachment hearings, the president flew to the friendly confines of a trump rally tonight in louisiana, while there is word of a new witness ready to break ranks and go against the white house order to remain silent and defy congressional subpoenas in this impeachment inquiry. The Washington Post reports that mark sandy, a career employee over at the office of management and budget, will appear in a closed door session with lawmakers on saturday if subpoenaed. This has been confirmed by nbc news. B the post writes that he would be the first omb employee to testify in the inquiry after omb acting director russell t. Vogt and two other political appointees at the agency defied congressional subpoenas to appear. Sandy could provide insight into the process
rick, the president said tonight republicans have never been more united. is that what you saw watching the hearing yesterday? well, look, i think what i saw watching the hearing yesterday was republicans who were in a state of edgy panic, and they were trying to talk faster and louder in hopes of trying to allied past the fact that those two witnesses sat there and laid out a timeline, a calendar, additional facts, additional witnesses. this was not a good day for those folks. and no matter how many times, you know, jimbo baggins gets up there and dances around like a crazy little leprechaun, it s not going to shake the fact that the facts are against donald trump and the timeline is against donald trump and the witnesses are against donald trump, and that was day one. they had a bad day on day one. i don t think it s going to get much better as we go forward. jason, the democrats with day one in the books, we have learned they can schedule witnesses and conduct questioning. y