Consequences of elections. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday t night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,029 of the trump administration. A day between this weeks public impeachment hearings, the president flew to the friendly confines of a trump rally tonight in louisiana, while there is word of a new witness ready to break ranks and go against the white house order to remain silent and defy congressional subpoenas in this impeachment inquiry. The Washington Post reports that mark sandy, a career employee over at the office of management and budget, will appear in a closed door session with lawmakers on saturday if subpoenaed. This has been confirmed by nbc news. B the post writes that he would be the first omb employee to testify in the inquiry after omb acting director russell t. Vogt and two other political appointees at the agency defied congressional subpoenas to appear. Sandy could provide insight into the process
Transcripts have been released. Mr. President , was Marie Yovanovitch the target of a Smear Campaign by your allies . Tonight what we learned from Marie Yovanovitch about igor and live and rudy and hadntity . As the white house blocks more key witnesses. We have seen a series of shifting, everchanging rationales for this campaign of obstruction. Plus the mutating republican logic defending the president. If there was a quid pro quo, it certainly wasnt a very effective one. And making sense of new battleground polling that shows 2020 could look a lot like 2016. Youre reading the wrong polls. When all in starts right now. Let me just tell you, i have the real polls. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. We are starting to see the actual testimony from the depositions in the impeachment inquiry so far, the transcripts, and they are as damning as expected for the president and his allies. Republicans whined for weeks and weeks about the fact depositions were being held behind closed
Bradleys stuff. We learned stuff from them the hard way. Bill bradley was i was working for the chairman of the committee. I look at duality, one in particular for him as a senator then for his staff. Bill bradley is going to join us tonight. Oh. Because when he was in his first term in the United States senate, one of the people he hired for his staff was William Taylor, who became yesterday, possibly, the star witness in the case against donald trump. Wow we will get bill bradleys view of the Young William taylor who came to work for him. A, thats a fascinating backstory and b, i am already riveted. Stay with us rachel. I will. Rick wilson will join us at the end of this hour. It will take him that long to compose his thoughts to respond only the way a phrase maker like rick wilson can to donald trump accusing him and never trump republicans today of being, these are Donald Trumps words here, these two words, human scum. The rest of this hours discussion will take place on a decidedl
Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. Weve got very big breaking news tonight. On the eve of the house vote to send president Donald Trumps articles of impeachment over to the senate the house Intelligence Committee, that would be, of course, the economy that held the impeachment inquiry and interviewed the witnesses, that Committee Just released an incredibly incriminating cache of documents from Rudy Giulianis indicted associate, lev parnas and told you yesterday the documents were transmitted over to the house and tonight just in the past couple hours really we got a small group of them and weve been going through them and digesting just how explosive and wild the stuff in there is. They include the following. Handwritten notes from lev parnas on a Ritzcarlton Hotel note pad from vienna, the first of which reads, not making this up, get zelensky to announce the biden case will be investigated. Those are presumably directions he got from someone or his agenda was remarkably sim
The committee is expected to vote to approve the report tomorrow along party lines. Then on wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearing. The hearing will feature legal scholars rather than actual witnesses to the ukraine scandal. To focus on the constitutional grounds for impeaching the president. Politico writes for the week of december 16th, if the dems want to impeach before the end of the year, wed have to see articles of impeachment this week. Remember, it took the Judiciary Committee only three days in 1998 to draft the articles of impeachment. Joining me now from capitol hill is msnbcs garrett haake. Garrett, whats the feeling on capitol hill about what this weeks going to look like . I think its another buckle your seatbelt week, ali. We got members just starting to come back into town. Tonight, well have the release of that report. Sometime tomorrow night after members approve it. Then the hearing wednesday. Theres potential to go either way. I could s