Job as u. S. Ambassador in that country after a bizarre Smear Campaign against her that was led by people like the president s lawyer, rudy giuliani, and the president s eldest son. Why was he involved in the campaign against Masha Yovanovitch as Ukraine Ambassador . Why was he involved . It also involved the president s indict indicted friends who he insists he definitely never met, definitely doesnt know these guys, has never encountered them, wouldnt know them. But these guys are now charged under our federal indictment that among other things lays out their role in this weird Smear Campaign to oust the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. So well have more on that coming up later on in the show this hour. And of course well all get to hear from Marie Yovanovitch tomorrow at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. I have thought all week that tomorrows hearing was at 10 00. Its not. Its at 9 00. If the reaction to the first day of the hearings is anything to go by, i think we should expect t
Shocked. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Damning evidence of both the president s direct involvement and his intent to extort ukraine was presented yesterday to the nation. Nearly 14 Million People watched acting ambassador ukraine bill taylor and Deputy Assistant secretary of state george kent testify before the house intelligence committee. Taylor described how trumps Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland spelled out that President Trump made it clear ukraine would not get military assistance unless their president announced publicly investigations into the bidens. He also revealed an amazing new detail. We knew about President Trumps infamous phone call with ukraines president july 25th when trump said i would like you to do us a favor though and brought up joe biden and his son saying, quote, a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do. Bill taylor testified that the very next day Gordon Sondland met with an important ukraini
He went on to accuse House Democrats of bullying house officials to testify about the ukraine scandal, but pom peay owe w pompeo was not the only one defending tweets. President trump demanded an opportunity to interview the whistleblower and people who spoke to the whistleblower. This all comes as a new Monmouth University poll shows that 44 of americans feel that the president should be impeached and removed from office. That is up from 35 in august. And a new cnbc poll shows that the president s Approval Rating has dropped to 37 . That is the lowest level of his presidency in that survey. Now, as President Trump and his allies fight back against the house impeachment inquiry, were learning more just how far this administration is willing to goed a finding information aimed at discrediting the russian investigation. Its been confirmed he asked the british Prime Minister for his help. This is getting to be a lot of the keep track of, but fortunately ive got hans nichols to help me at
9 00 a. M. , not 10 00. So you probably need to reset your alarm or replan your morning around when youre telling people you will not be available to answer the phone. Tomorrow 9 00 a. M. Tomorrows witness is going to be marie Masha Yovanovitch. She was a casualty of President Trumps scheme in ukraine in that she was pulled out of her job as u. S. Ambassador in that country after a bizarre Smear Campaign against her that was led by people like the president s lawyer, rudy giuliani, and the president s eldest son. Why was he involved in the campaign against Masha Yovanovitch as Ukraine Ambassador . Why was he involved . It also involved the president s indicted friends who he insists he definitely never met, definitely never had anything to do with, he definitely doesnt know these guys, has never encountered them, wouldnt know them. But these guys are now charged under our federal indictment that among other things lays out their role in this weird Smear Campaign to oust the u. S. Ambas