Abruptly quits. What does it mean as democrats seek his testimony . Meantime, new information about a timeline for impeachment. The state of house voting to impeach the preltsident is the g question. And Amy Klobuchar joins me in a few minutes. We have a lot to get to in the white house whistleblower firestorm this hour. The New York Times now reports the white house classified Computer System is used to hold transcripts of not only trumps conversations with ukraine also with Vladimir Putin and the saudi royal family and the Washington Post reports President Trump told top russian officials he wasnt concerned about moscows interference in the u. S. Election. This as the first subpoenas in the tendayold whistleblower scandal are now issued to none other than than secretary mike pompeo. The number of house representatives supporting from form of impeachment inquiry continues to grow. The latest tally from nbc news now 226. Joining me now to unpack this is nbcs White House Correspondent k
Reuters. Were says away from a momentous moment. A full vote in the house of representatives on two articles of impeachment. He charged President Trump with committing high crimes and misdemeanors. Those articles are abuse of power and obstruction of justice but the heart of this is the ukraine scandal and the president using his office to pressure ukraines government to investigate his political rivals. The first article says the president abused the powers of the presidency by ignoring and injuring National Security and other National Interests to obtain improper personal political benefit. It continues, he abused his high office to corrupt democratic elections. The second article outlines how President Trump concealed that from congress undermining the constitution separation of powers by seeking the right to determine the scope and nature of an impeachment inquiry into his own conduct as well as the prerogative to deny any and all information to the house. Both of the articles made
Tul si gabbard and her remarks. Later today, the Prime Minister na rrinda modi and als we will talk about a phone call that he said about a phone call with the Vice President s son. And this is some say a confirmation of the Vice President. We had a great conversation. The conversation i had was largely congratulatory, and largely corruption, and all of the corruption taking place. Largely that we dont want people like Vice President biden and his son already contributing to the corruption in ukraine. This week the spotlight is to intensify, because the president is to meet with the ukrainian counterpart. And then acting director of National Intelligence is set to testify in an open hearing in front of the house Intelligence Committee. That chairman is down playing the impeachment, but he said it may be a turning point for him. I have been reluctant to go down the path of impeachment, but if the president is withholding military aid at the same time that he is trying to brow beat a for
Blatant and obvious that mr. Trump was demanding investigations into his political rivals. Those investigations are what vindman refers to as a deliverable in his testimony. In this first exchange, vindman is asked, quote, you were listening in realtime to this call along with president zelensky when President Trump was speaking. Vindman says correct. Then hes asked and was there any doubt in your mind as to what the president , our president , was asking for as a deliverable . There is that reference to the investigations. Vindmans answer, there was no doubt. Vindman adds that the stature and the importance of the office of the presidency raised the stakes of the president s request such that ukraine was not left with much of any choice. The power disparity, vindman says, between the president of the United States and the president of ukraine is vast. And in the president asking for something, it became for a white house meeting because thats what this was about, vindman testifies. He
Former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified that giuliani jues shadow diplomacy in ukraine cut the ground out from underneath us. The former. He saw it as the use of American Foreign policy to advance domestic political objectives. Not fighting ukraine. It adds up. The two transcripts released adds up to a stinging indictment who said very little about the transcripts. However, can he speak at a Campaign Rally in lexington, kentucky. So what did the president say about the impeachment inquiry . And did he mention the transcripts . Well, tonight here at this rally in kentucky, he focused primarily on the whistleblower continuing to poke at the whistleblower hes pushed for whistleblower to be unmasked. As you know, the whistleblower wants to remain anonymous. He was legally allowed to remain anonymous. Its the law. Right. Its the law. The whistleblower filed the complain and wants to remain anonymous. But yet despite this, the president continues to lash out. The testimony that