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we start in the nation s capital. the big day ahead in the democrats impeachment inquiry prompted by a whistle-blower s accusation that president trump pressured ukraine to dig up dirt on the biden family in exchange for military aid. in just a few hours the u.s. ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland, will testify behind closed doors to three house committees intelligence, foreign affairs, oversight. sondland was mentioned in the whistle-blow whistle-blower s complaint and game attention in text messages released by the house democrats. in the texts sondland asked bill taylor to talk to ukraine s president and soond land suggested that would lead to a meeting between president trump and the president of ukraine. sondland rejected taylor s characterization of that arrangement as a quid pro quo. senior congressional reporter manu raju. good morning, dave and christine. another key witness in the ukraine scandal coming to capitol hill, gordon sondland,
ed request from the state department inspector general who brief key congressional committees on a, quote, urgent matter relating to ukraine. the ig put in this request yesterday afternoon. this morning just hours before this briefing is set to take place, secretary of state mike pompeo publicly admitted he was on the call with president trump and the president of ukraine making is subject of this briefing all the more curious. let s go to cnn senior congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill for us. what do we know? reporter: the request for this urgent briefing came soon after mike pompeo sent a letter to capitol hill and said essentially that the state department would not be complying with what the democrats have been asking for, documents about the ukraine matter. there was a subpoena issued last week. pompeo pushed back rather aggressively on that as well as the democrats efforts to schedule depositions with current and former state department officials, people who
hicks said afterwards on air force one the media felt the comment was extremely inappropriate. mr. trump gave her the expression the remark was, quote, a little bit tongue in chief and a joke. within five hours of that remark russian military intelligence targeted hillary clinton s office for the first time. senior congressional reporter sarah murray, hope hicks teefd bon behalf hieptd closed doors. it was newell ul hau she wouldn t be rekwierpd to testifying. she did shed some light on a couple of different instances. at one point the mueller report lays out the instance in the
political and national security analyst, and national security con respondent for the new york times. and david drugger, senior congressional correspondent for the washington examiner. and also with us, cnn s will ripley, just back from north korea. so to the davids, to my right, good to see both of you guys. before we get to it, i think it is really important to talk through some of what nikki hailey and general mcmaster said at the briefing. first, just on the missile itself and the trajectory, right? i believe the math is 200 miles farther than say guam. the inference being, it s not just a message from pyongyang to its allies, but also the u.s. territory. not allies, our allies. well, i think that kim jong-un is trying to make clear, number one, that he s very ca capable of using the weapons, but he has no intention of getting rid of them. if you look at this from his