concern and what, if any, additional steps he took to raise flags about what he saw going on inside the country, both with rudy giuliani and others operating on behalf of the president outside of the normal state department protocols as we ve heard from some of the other witnesses. hans, let s talk about the impeachment inquiry and how it s impacting the president of the united states. a lot of people watched a rambling one-hour back and forth with the press yesterday and said you can feel the pressure that he must understand that he s under. today he invoked a word that frankly has already brought a big backlash and is causing a lot of people to raise questions, including frankly, already some of his own party who have had like kevin mccarthy, i would not have used that word. the word is lynching. that s what the president is comparing to what s happening to him, making an ugly comparison. chris, i think we ll find out shortly whether or not the white house thinks this is defensib
giuliani s involvement too, it seems like with every day that passes, there s another example of giuliani kind of running and being licensed by the president to run a shadow foreign policy, circumvent state department protocols, and it s not only for the president s benefit, but giuliani also has business interests in the region. i mean he s got business interests in ukraine that go back years. he s got business interests, i understand, in turkey as well. so it s not clear exactly who he s working for. he s working for the president, but he s also working for himself. well, you re right, anderson. and this is part of this is part of the character of this administration as a whole. there are many people in donald trump s administration who i think, you know, have questionable priorities. and whether those priorities are, in fact, on behalf of the people of the united states or on behalf of their special interests based on former relationships in the private sector or what they antic
i think there are a number of questions to be asked. once the facts are transparent and have been available for congress at the very beginning to see i think we ll know the laws that have been broke sfwloon what s interesting about giuliani s involvement it seems with every day passing theres another example of giuliani kind of running and being licensed by the president to run a shadow foreign policy, circumvent state department protocols and it s not only for the president president s benefit but giuliani has business interests in the region. he has business interests in ukraine going back years. that s right. he has business interests i understand in turkey as well. so it s not clear exactly who he is working for. he is working for the president but also working for himself. well, you re right, anderson. and this is part of this is part of the character of in administration as a whole. there are many people in donald trump s administration who i think are, you know, have que
our reporting is going to make the point they were doing this outside the state department protocols even circumventing john bolton who at the time was the national security adviser. now hill left the white house, left the nfc before this july 25th th call in question happened. you can certainly tell house investigators about the motivations of those involved and get a sense of what happened leading up to it. and hill is an interesting person or was an interesting person in the trump orbit, because she was a well-known russia hawk. she was a putin skeptic. she at times found herself at odds against the president s stated desire to make nice with vladimir putin. and so what s really interesting here is that her testimony, her reported testimony, at least, matches up with what kurt volker told the committees. apparently much of what others told that rudy giuliani was working outside the normal channels at president trump s behest, it appears.
there. reporter: signaling the end of some very long waits. i m bored. very. and hungry! reporter: overnight another semi tractor trailer jackknifed in that same area but the kentucky state plips say it was quickly cleared and the highway back open an moving again. jose? john yang thank you. just getting started on this friday edition of the rundown. straight ahead the hillary clinton e-mail flap that s not going away anytime soon. did she violate state department protocols by using her private account? we ll talk with meet the press moderator chuck todd. plus a massive fire ball that could be seen for miles after another train derailment. this time in the midwest. details on that. and it s been 50 years since bloody sunday in selma, alabama, when peaceful protesters were beaten trying to bring an end to discrimination. take a look at its impact in 2015 and some events planned for this weekend.