way between secretary of state pompeo and rudy giuliani. associate of giuliani says he s willing to testify about secret meetings between congressman devin nunes, and ukrainian prosecutor that former vice president joe biden pushed to have fired. we re going to get into all of it with a team of reporters and analysts following the latest this hour. we start with the breaking news from overnight. state department documents showing efforts to facilitate a smear campaign against former ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, joining mes in nbc legal analyst, danny cevallo. what s in the documents that s potentially damaging? the potential allegations against hunter biden and now i guess generally not believed or generally debunked, allegations that hunter biden and others were involved in corrupt acts. and this is the critical link
that president trump has refused to rule out in the past. but since the verdict, no comment on that possibility from the white house. garrett haake, thank you for bringing us us to speed. more on the impeachment hearings and a key witness reportedly confirming he overheard the president asking about the ukraine investigation. his closed-door testimony wrapping last night. this after a compelling day of testimony from former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, joining mes in nbc national security analyst jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the c.i.a. and department of defense. we re going to start with the new private testimony from u.s. embassy official david holmes. he has described first-hand knowledge of that call between the president and eu ambassador gordon sondland. how damaging is this development for the president and his defenders? one thing important to note is that the president s defenders have repeatedly said that this is all hearsay. this is all second-h