for the national security council from 2017 to 2018 worked for ranking member nunes. right? i actually only found that out after the fact. i wondered why i was asked about him so i went and looked this up. dr. hill, you cautioned us on the dangers of members of this committee perhaps peddling any ukrainian conspiracy theories that could benefit russia and i want to ask you if you heard the name lev parnas of ukraine, someone in this investigation who was influencing president trump and rudy giuliani about some of the debunked conspiracy theories referenced earlier? i heard his name. and are you aware he was indicted october 10 for making foreign contributions to republicans in u.s. elections? aware of those reports, yes. are you aware of yesterday s daily beast story reporting the indicted ukrainian lev parnas has been working with ranking member devin nunes on mr. nunes overseas investigation? i m not aware of that. mr. chairman i ask unanimous
working at the security counsel 2017-2018 worked for ranking member nunes, right. i actually only found that out after the fact. i wondered why i was being asked about him so i went and looked this up. dr. hill, you cautioned us on the dangers of members of this committee perhaps peddling any ukrainian conspiracy theories that could benefit russia. and i want to ask you if you have heard the name le parnes someone influencing president trump and president rudy giuliani about. so debunked conspiracy theories you referenced earlier. i have heard his name, yes. are you aware that mr. parness was indicted on october 10 for making contributions to republicans. i m aware, yes. are you aware of yesterday s daily beast story reporting the indicted ukrainian lev parness has been working with ranking member devin nunes on mr. nunes overseas investigations. i m not aware of that. mr. chairman i ask unanimous consent to put in the record the daily beast
that will bring our wednesday night broadcast to a close. thank you for being here with us and good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. this morning, turkey says ground forces are working against kurdish fighters in northern syria days after president trump agreed to let the operation proceed. donald trump is down playing the alliance with the kurds saying they didn t help us in the sediment worcond world war. all this with record support of impeaching the president, 51% say president trump should be impeached and removed from office. good thursday morning, everybody. it is october 10. i m yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin.
seven fbi agents looking for money, so clearly when i was detained i thought it was about this money. i thought it was a setup, and i m hopefully this money is going to be looked into very soon, because i think it might lead to directly to the treasury maria: wow so you think those bills are marked, the bills are still with your lawyer, and so you never accepted the $10,000, you gave it to the lawyer and that s where the money is right now? yes, that s absolutely right maria: george good to have you on the program thanks so much. an extraordinary story george papadopoulos. thank you. maria: thank you so much we ll see you soon george. meanwhile china, how is it eying this impeachment inquiry, here at home, the meeting of between the chinese and u.s. officials october 10, we re going to talk with jonathan ward an expert on china next.
maria: welcome back president trump asking china to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son, over their business dealings in china, after hunter biden received $1.5 billion from the chinese government. how is beijing eying all of these developments amid the ukraine controversy and impeachment inquiry joining me is jonathan ward the founder of the atlas organization, author of the book china s vision of victory and jonathan good to have you thanks for joining us. thank you. maria: what do we have like a week and a half before the important trade meeting happening between the u.s. and chinese officials on october 10, how do you think china is viewing all that s gone on this past week, in the u.s. about impeachment around this president? sure, i think there s no question that beijing likes to see the united states struggling internally, i think it s incredibly critical that we maintain bipartisan unity on the china issue and there is a bipartisan awakening happening in t