Says needs to resign now. Live from studio 6a in rockefeller plaza, all in starts right now. Hello, everybody. Hello. Good evening. Good evening. Thanks to everybody for being here. Its great to be back here at 3 rock with all of you here. Good god, today has been ten days and this week has been ten weeks. And there are a million things happening at once. Just in the past couple of hours, for instance, we just got this incredibly incriminating and damning behind closed doors testimony from a u. S. Foreign Service Officer that was still supposed to be kind of like the b story today, the sideshow. Its a guy who works in the u. S. Embassy in ukraine, a guy named david holmes. He testified behind closed doors that he could hear President Trump talking on the phone to the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union who was an inaugural donor, and they were in a restaurant in kiev and the president was shouting so loudly on the phone that sondland had to hold the phone away from his ear because i
Superhumanity, how is the white house explaining why he went to the hospital . Well, good morning, joy. Let me explain what we know, why its different and causing some concern or raising some questions. The president and his top advisers say that he had phase one or a portion of his annual physical exam on saturday. And that everything is good. And that he is in good condition, good health. Why that is unusual is that for this president and others, its typically announced in advanced, part of his public schedule. Usually of longer duration with a complete lab work, multiple tests, multiple physicians involved. Historically weve also seen with this president there were photos of him meeting the doctors. Its all done very much in advance, in part because the health of this president , any president of any party at any time, is a National Security concern. Its not just one individuals personal health. There are implications. If you do it differently than its been done before, that can rai
Want to read you exactly what happened behind closed doors. He asks are you aware that quid pro quo literal lirr means this for that. And taylor says i am. These exchanges are part of what rocked washington when these first occurred. We didnt have the transcript on that day, just video of lawmakers walking out gasping and saying things like this. In my ten short months in congress, its not even noon, right, and this is my most disturbing day in congress so far. Very troubling. Very troubling. Now were reading the lines, the exact exchanges that so moved them. And theres one other key thing i want to show you tonight, taylor was diplomat who called out the bribery plot in realtime in the now famous text going back and forth with trump ally Gordon Sondland. There was trump and sondland claiming no bribery. Sondland even typing that out, typing trumps denial in that text to taylor when he had objected. Then of course you have this whistleblower come forward alleging bribery blowing this t
Depositions that those officials gave behind closed doors in the initial phase of this impeachment inquiry, which took place behind closed doors. And weve talked a little bit on the show this week about the strength of taylor and kents testimony, the basic claims that taylor and kent are able to attest to as witnesses. Because weve seen their deposition transcripts, we fully expect that their testimony is going to be strong and dramatic and will sort of set the broad frame for what the president is being impeached for. But after that first hearing on wednesday, theres going to be a second hearing on friday. That one will have as a witness the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, marie Marie Yovanovitch whose firing as our ambassador in that country appears to have been part of the scheme that President Trump was trying to carry out in ukraine. Pressuring that country to gin up investigations that he hoped could help him in his reelection effort against the democrats. And we dont yet know who t
Them. The first one was in washington state. The senate there flipped from republican control to democratic control. And then all on one night, election night, 2018, the Colorado Senate flipped, the maine senate flipped, the minnesota house flipped, the New Hampshire house flipped, the Connecticut Senate flipped and the new york senate all flipped, and all of them flipped from republican control to democratic control. And then last night the first call we got from the Associated Press at 9 29 eastern time was that the Virginia Senate would also flip, also from republican control to democratic control. And then after i got off the air for the first iteration of our show last night, the ap made the call not just for the Virginia Senate but the Virginia House as well. And so what that means is since donald trump has been president in all in eight different states the house or the senate in the state legislator, ten state legislative houses overall have flipped party control. Since trump h