Dozens of hours of closed door and new testimony from a former congressional testimony that trumps phone call was just one Trump Campaign official seems to moment in a far reaching contradict the president on operation involving the president s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, two Giuliani Associates who have since been indicted partially for their role in the scheme. White house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, the attorney general, the secretary of energy, the secretary of state, the Vice President of the United States, and of course President Trump himself. Tomorrow two opening witnesses are expected to describe the scope of the scheme to extort ukraine. That includes bill taylor who was the acting u. S. Ambassador of ukraine at this very moment. West point grad who was awarded the bronze star for service in vietnam. Hes a career diplomat and worked in republican and democratic administrations since all the way back in 1985. He served in afghanistan shortly after the u. S. Invaded that
Controversial about whether that should happen. We will have his story for you. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im natalie allen. This is cnn newsroom. Republican lawmakers in the United States congress are getting a clear message from the democrats. Their latest request regarding the impeachment inquiry pretty much nonstarters. Cnns Jeremy Diamond looks at what they want and how the democrat leading the investigation is responding. Reporter House Republicans on saturday putting forward a list of witnesses they would like to see come forward as the house impeachment inquiry moves into its public phase. The list of witnesses seems mostly an attempt by republicans to divert attention from the allegations that President Trump is facing over his handling of ukraine as well as to bolster the president s case as he mounts his case in the face of impeachment. The list includes hunter biden, former Vice President s son, as well as that anonymous intellige
Trump Campaign Official seems to contradict the president on wikileaks. I know nothing about wikileaks. Its not my thing. When all in starts right now. Good evening from chicago. Im chris hayes. And we are now less than 14 hours away from public impeachment hearings of the president of the United States for just the fourth time in all of american history. Those hearings will be broadcast live across every major broadcast and Cable News Network for americans to watch. That coverage starts right here on msnbc at 9 00 in the morning. But even before the hearings we have known from the getgo, from the very first piece of publicly released evidence, the notes of President Trumps call with the president of ukraine, the president tried to coerce the leader of a foreign occupied country to manufacture dirt on a political opponent. The ukrainian president told President Trump he was ready to buy more american weapons he responded infamously, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. He
you have a black male who is convicted of sexually assaulting murdering a woman who s white who also is the fiance of a member of law enforcement. he was convicted right out the gate like in the court of public opinion. you know, like, he must have done it. what role does race continue to play in this case? you have texas justice is one thing, but texas justice for a black man in a small town, that s a whole different animal altogether. rodney s guilt is medically and scientifically impossible. we have credible witnesses about the relationship. we have mounting evidence pointing towards jimmy finnell. what s left to believe that rodney reed is actually guilty? to go forward with this execution, absent real evidence of guilt, you ve got to wonder why would they do that? jimmy finnell s lawyer maintains that his client is
going to be charged and murdered for a crime he didn t commit. reporter: when rodney reed was convicted 21 years ago of the rape and murder of stacey stites, the prosecution s entire case rested on two main pillars. first a time line provided by her fiance, jimmy finnell. second the traces of rodney reed s semen found in her body. reed was sentenced to death. he s now scheduled for execution november 20th. but reed s family and his legal team say he s innocent and that they have the compelling evidence and witnesses to prove it. every aspect of this case has been disproven and new evidence continues to come out. reporter: the innocent project took up rodney reed s case in 2012 and successfully won a stay of execution three years later. among the evidence they presented, new witnesses who said rodney reed and stacey stites were in a consensual,