All those youll be happy to know are now gone from the area and our skies are mostly clear. I can see orions belt over the sky early this morning as i was driving in. 52 at national airport. 50 in ashburn, virginia. 43 manassas and bristow. 47 waldorf and la plata. 48 in the panhandle of virginia. There it is on radar. Ground clutter close to us. First showers out across parts of ohio but i dont think theyll make it over the mountains. Clouds will but rain drops not too likely. Were off to a nice, clear start this morning. Well have what i like to call selfdestructive sunshine today. More sun we get the more clouds well hook up. Well start sunny and end cloudy. Well talk more about the rest of the weekend coming up. New information this morning about a deadly crash in Prince Georges County involving a metro bus. Police now say a street race caused a car to crash into the back of a bus on silver lane and sea pleasant. 9 30 last night Police Say Two drivers each in a mercedesbenz were dr
She went to Gordon Sondland and asked for advice. His advice was go big or go home. Essentially, what he argued, was perhaps she should tweet support for the president , say the rumors werent true. Michael mckinleys transcript was released today. Hes a former top aide to mike pompeo. He said he left the state department because the career diplomats were being used to advance the political agenda, something he did not support. But more testimony and transcript expected to be released this week, including that of curt volker and Gordon Sondland. Thank you for that. In his statement, Michael Mckinney gave a statement why he stepped down from mike pompeo. One that contradicts his boss version of events. He told the lawmakers he felt the department, and especially pompeo, were not defending yovanovitch against that Smear Campaign. He said, quote, there were numerous media articles appearing about yovanovitch and i did grow concerned that we needed to Say Something forceful on her behalf. Ho
There should be some ramifications for whomever suggested this on the campaign. Shoutout to simone because she proudly told him not to. Its clear to me weve got a lot more to discuss about this. You all are coming back later in the broadcast. You want us back . Were following big new developments in the impeachment inquiry, new day continues right now. All right, we want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. Democrats on capitol hill moving forward with an impeachment investigation that seems to be widening by the hour. A full week of depositions lies ahead. Today three Congressional Committees will hear from george kent, a Career Foreign Service officer and the Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for ukraine. That follows ten hours of marathon testimony monday from fiona hill, the president s former top russia adviser. She testified she saw wrongdoing in the administrations ukraine policy and tried to report it to white hous
1 00 a. M. In california. We know what some of the w witnesses in the impeachment inquiry said behind closed doors. Mike pompeo was silent as Rudy Giuliani planned to oust Maria Yovanovitch. Was Maria Yovanovitch part of a Smear Campaign . If you look at the president of the ukraine was not a fan of hers. A look at the transcript, shows zelensky criticized the ambassador after trump called her bad news. Lauren fox has more on the transcripts from capitol hill. Reporter a significant day on capitol hill, as we saw the release of the first transcripts from these closeddoor depositions that have been going on for the last month on capitol hill. Its a big opportunity for lawmakers who havent been in the room over the last several weeks to see what was been occurring. One of the transcripts is from Maria Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to ukraine, who was concerned that the reputation was being damaged and the president was losing faith in her. There was rumors she was not supportive of