Gordon sond land. Those were the two men on the Text Exchange in follows the release of two other transcri s transcripts. One with mike mckinley. They provided many details about rudy jewgiulianis efforts to ur mine her work and get her fired. Mckinley testified that secretary of state mike pompeo stood by and let it happen. I want to bring in hans nichols and garrett haake. Tell me about the strategy to release these transcripts. There has been no sign of him mean guidance yet from any committees as to whether or not he will show. If you look at the schedule for the rest of the week, mr. Hale tomorrow, he was mentioned in mike mckinleys deposition. He might appear. We have seen more independence from state department employees. I think the rest of the week is likely to be a wash. In the public were learning quite a bit more information. Todays depositions should be fascinating, kirk volker is someone they have been calling for and they think it could be exculpatory for President Trump
What is new . What do you mean what is new, rudy . Im being impeached announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Nick mulvaney we are told that is he in trouble with the boss. White house denies mulvaney is in any trouble. We have learned that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell actually encouraged the white house to release the rough transcript of the call with the president with the ukrainian leader. Why . The special envoy to ukraine stepped down from his post on friday. A lot to talk about here. Our coverage kicks off with Kristen Holmes in washington. What are sources saying is their frustration in the white house, that there was no plan as we understand it, to deal with the transcript once it was released and that is why President Trump and part of the administration is so frustrated . Good morning. Reporter keep in mind this a lot of white house aides who did not want this transcript to be released. Many argued against. The fact there was a lack
Race yet. Theres still roughly 400,000 democrats running for president if we round up to the nearest 400,000. And i am sorry i forgot until you. So here goes, ohio democrat congressman tim ryan no longer as a democratic candidate for president. And so we get to three, two, one, poof. There he goes. What is even more embarrassing for me the only reason i remembered today that i needed to poof tim ryan and i had forgotten to is because today yet another democratic candidate has dropped out of the race. You have probably by now already seen this evenings headlines former texas congressman beto orourke who made a Huge National splash with a strong challenge to cruz last year, a race that gave him not only a National Profile but a real head of steam as he entered the democratic president ial race in march, tonight beto orourke has announced he is leaving the president ial race, so we will have to poof him off our list of canned dds th cannedts this evening. It was not clear whether or not h
Taylor and Deputy Assistant secretary of state george kent will testify followed by former ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch on friday. Republicans and democrats have already begun to lay out their plans for making a case to the american public. And one democratic aide told nbc news the first three to testify are, quote, all strong character witnesses. All three bring credibility to the impeachment inquiry. The aide added that ambassador taylor, quote, is going to lay everything out tomorrow and you von vch is going to, quote, tug at americas heartstrings on friday. According to an internal memo, republicans will try to focus on President Trumps state of mind. But one indication recently of trumps state of mind was the latest evidence he just tried to cover up. The New York Times reports hes discussed firing Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson who he blames for reporting the whistleblower complaint to congress that ultimately touched off the inquiry. And lik
Refused. Mark sandys appearance followed that explosive day of testimony that saw top u. S. Diplomats support accusations that the president not only knew about but orchestrated communications with others in another country to hurt his political rivals. The former ambassador to ukraine testified. Something happened during the former ambassadors testimony yesterday, something unprecedented. President trump tweeted a personal and professional attack on the ambassador while she was speaking to the house intelligence committee. The proceedings were interrupted to address this attack, which ambassador Marie Yovanovitch described as intimidating. The president later said he was just exercising his right to free speech. Lauren fox joins us now from capitol hill. Lauren, lets talk more about what happened there today. Mark sandy, he was there to talk about what he knows about that 400 million aid package to ukraine that was frozen over the summer. What did he say . What do you know about his t