Funifu funnier than you did. A quiet day for President Trump so far, but there is hope for democrats wanting to evict him from the white house. Paying a brief visit to the mlk memorial here in washington. Good morning, everybody. Its a great day. Its a beautiful day. Thank you for being here. Appreciate it. The activity among democrats included a new and important entry into the 2020 white house race. Democratic senator Kamala Harris making her announcement first in a Campaign Video and on good morning america. I am running for president of the United States. And im very excited about it. Im very excited about it. Harris joins a crowd of quickly growing democratic field, the third woman from the u. S. Senate to take steps toward an official bid joining Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand. There are now a total of nine official contenders and many, many, many more flirting with the run th. This day to share my insights, lets start with our california correspondent here. Its
Caldwell. And with me onset, josh letterman. Well start with you, hans. Does the white house plan to send a representative to this Judiciary Committee hearing . Theyre reviewing nadlers letter. They need to make a decision on whether or not they want to focus on process or substance. Theres a bit of a hint from the white house that they think the process argument is cutting in their favor. In that statement we have, grisham refers to it as a i illegitimate sham process. Theyre looking at some of the public polling out there, some of the private polling. Theyre insisting theyre winning this argument in the states that actually matter. You saw the president give a fullthroated defense of himself at his rally in florida. Officials close to the campaign, they think florida is still in their column, no longer a battleground state. They see that in a lot of the places they think they need to win to be reelected in 2020. So theyve got the deadline is sunday that nadler has given them. So to m
The whistleblower is a big step closer to go under oath. The man or woman filed that complaint of President Trump into digging up political dirt of joe biden and his son. The exact date we dont know yet or the name of the whistleblowers where he or she works. His attorney tweeted a short time ago discussions continue and protecting the whistleblowers identity is their top priority. Adam schiff says the testimony will happen very soon. All that will needs to be done at this point is to make sure that the attorney represents the whistleblower and get the clearances they need to be able to accompany the whistleblower to testimony and we figure out the logistics to make sure we protect the identity of the whistleblower. Thats a paramount concern here. This whistleblower is doing a service exposing the most serious of wrong doing of the president and endangering our security of the country. The president is issuing threats like he did the other day. The security concern schiff is talking ab
From the whistleblower . Very soon. You know, it will depend probably more on how quickly the director of National Intelligence can cleat the security clearance process for the whistleblowers lawyers. But were ready to hear from the whistleblower as soon as that is done. As soon as thats done. This matters because unlike the Mueller Probe, where key witnesses such as don mcgahn were fighting to ever speak to congress, here you have a person heading in, ready to tell all. And meanwhile, there are also these new details emerging about Donald Trumps secret effort to pressure ukraine into targeting his political rivals. Fox news reporting trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was not acting alone in these efforts to get dirt on biden and saying trump knew about it. Two high profile washington lawyers, joe degeneva, who has been a fierce critic of the democratic investigation and his wife Victoria Toensing were working. The only person who knows what they were doing is President Trump. Thats quite a b
New this morning, today marks day 20 of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Were one day away from the start of another busy week of depositions and deadlines where democrats investigative efforts. At the center of everything is whats expected to be explosive testimony from trumps former top aide on russia and europe fiona hill. U. S. Ambassador to the eu gordon sondland. A person with knowledge of sondlands testimony tells nbc that he will Tell Congress he did not know why the u. S. Military assistance to ukraine was held up nor who ordered it. Sondland will say that he relied on the president s assurances in good faith and passed these along when he tested bill taylor that there was no quid pro quo with ukraine. And if all this is about to unfold, representative ted nbc the latest look at the timeline moving forward for democrats. If were to proceed with impeachment i believe it has to be done before the end of the year. We would love to fill in additional blanks. Theres en