Taylor. The news was first reported by the Washington Post which reports that sondlands language in the text was relayed to him directly by trump in a phone call, according to a person familiar with his testimony. For the Washington Post, he also plans to testify that he has no knowledge of whether the president was telling him the truth. That at that moment, its only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth. Well, joining me now to discuss, david corn, msnbc political analyst and coauthor of russian roulette. Cynthia oxney and paul butler, both former federal prosecutors and legal analysts. David . Well your thoughts . This is a classic case of someone jumping off the ship before he believes the ship goes down because hes out there saying the president told me something. I dont know if it was true, and it makes it look like theres a conspiracy and im kind of didnt really know what was going on. Theres a lot of what he says that can be contradicted by facts. Hes still
Terms of this favor, and he is being described as john said as this, you know, straight shooter, this wellrespected within diplomatic circles. He had been the Ukrainian Ambassador for years and was asked to come back in. How is all of this playing in the white house, and what do we expect . What we expect is were going to hear what bill taylor will have to say and we assume we will hear something out of the committees because this is closed door testimony. How this is playing overall in the white house is there is growing concern that the impeachment inquiry is going to turn something up that will make it harder for republicans to stand by the president. That doesnt mean they expect that is necessarily where its going. I think as the president has sort of thrashed around and you saw it last week when they announced the selection of the doral to host the g7, which the president walked back, the white house is aware that they are doing things that are making this harder on themselves. Th
Checks . How about the worlds greatest memory air check . Have an excellent afternoon. You warned us. See you later. Thursday, january 9th. New information emerging of what may have caused a ukrainian airliner to crash minutes after takeoff from teherans airport. Multiple officials have told nbc news that u. S. Intelligence officials have evidence that suggest that the Ukrainian International Airlines Plane was shot down by an Iranian Missile. Iranian Officials Say the boeing 737 aircraft had a sudden emergency and it was trying to return to the airport when it crashed. The crew, however, made no call for help. Video emerged that appears to show the plane on fire and zigzagging across the sky moments before it went down killing all 176 people on board. The plane crashed hours after iran fired a number of missiles at bases in iraq which housed u. S. Troops in retaliation for the killing of general Qassem Soleimani. It is still not clear whether or not these incidents are related. Presid
But first, breaking news off the top of this monday afternoon, and is she a secret agent or just obsessed with all things trump . Either way, the woman who infiltrated the winter white house is moments away from learning her fate just one day before President Trump heads to maralago, the very scene of the breach last spring. I am Trace Gallagher today from los angeles and the news starts now. Any moment now, a judge will send a chinese businesswoman the feds say talk her way into President Trumps resort claiming she was there to use the pool but when secret Service Agent stopped her inside, they discovered she had for cell phones, laptop, and an external hard drive. She says she did nothing wrong. Phil keating reporting live for us from south florida. This is quite the bizarre story all along. First, she had several stories as to why she was at President Trumps winter white house and the first place, then when it came to the judiciary process for her, she basically fired her defenders,
The predictable reactions to Donald Trump's conviction for falsifying business records missed the crucial point: Trump's actions reflect poor character and impulsiveness, traits unsuitable for the presidency.