Dpooeng fr good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One pie one sometimes hour pie hour the president s defenses just keep collapsing. Heres how things have gone as the president and his allies have tried to defend the indefensible. First they stake out a position and that position falls out from under their feet and they retreat a step. And then that position falls out and it goes over and over again. It started with that infamous phone call between trump and the ukrainian president where he asks for military assistance and trump responds, quote, i would leak you to do us a favor, though. At first trump and company argued it was perfectly appropriate for a president to coerce a besieged foreign epntiy into investigating their rivals, as long as there was no quid pro quo, that was their line. Ukraine would only get the desperately needed military aid if the ukrainians agreed to manufacture dirt on trumps political rival in a televised interview and provide ammo for the president s b
Backed up the whistleblowers account. Now theyre labeled as crooks the man who, through Rudy Giuliani, helped stoke the giuliani ukraine obsession. What it tells us about the company Rudy Giuliani keeps and how it factors into the impeachment case against the president. Just this is headsnapping. The president s own Justice Department indicting clients of his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. Those clients were arrested at Dulles Airport outside of washington yesterday. Spent the night in jail. Are due in federal court later today. They are accused of violating Campaign Laws by laundering foreign money through a u. S. Entity and illegally into american campaigns. They are accused of violation in ukraine. Now the Justice Department alleges they are criminals. Rudy giuliani telling cnn today he cannot comment at this point. Kaitlan collins is live at the white house. Shocking. Whats the word at 1600 . Reporter they have not said a word on this so far. Weve asked them for comment. Nothing
Chastise the chairman for making up a parody of the president s called his ukrainian counterpart and reading it during a congressional hearing at more secret interviews. Polls are closed in canada with Justin Trudeau facing a threat of being knocked from power after just one term. If it happened it would be historic. Multiple instances of blackface taking a political told tonight, we take you to canada for the latest. We have Fox Team Coverage tonight. Katherine herridge standing by with a look at what to expect behind closed doors in the impeachment push but we begin with Garrett Tenney and tonights wideranging interview with donald trump. To view the democrats impeachment effort in a wideranging interview defending his phone call with ukraines president. When im talking to somebody, almost anybody i assume state department, mike pompeo was on, many people were on do you think im going to Say Something wrong when i feel 25 or 30 or 10 or something but a lot of people on these calls .
At least eight current and former officials are set to testify, each one tells a key part of the story. The most anticipated appearance comes on wednesday when the ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, is set to appear. Newly released transcripts reveal that sondland had multiple conversations with the president , he could pick up his cell phone and call him about efforts to get the ukrainians to investigate joe biden. Sondland revised or reversed his original testimony and admitted he made clear to the ukrainians they would not get any aid unless they launch and investigations. The wall street journal reports sondland kept several top officials updated on that quest for investigations. The report is based on a review of emails which means that a paper trail exists tying the scandal directly to the white house. And most significantly there are Big Questions this morning about president Trumps Health after an unscheduled visit to Walter Reed Hospital over the weekend that c
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 doors despite many of the fact many of them were attending those very same hearings. The president tried to get out ahead of the release for the wordforword transcripts saying they would be faked and republicans should release their own, indicating that he was clearly not happy with what was about to come out. Well, today we got the