welcome back. tonight, we re learning that the full house will vote on impeachment procedures on thursday. that is the same day national security council official tim morrison will be on capitol hill to testify in the impeachment inquiry. he is expected to be the most blockbuster appearance this week. this morning, a former advisor to john bolton was scheduled to be deposed. but he was a no-show. instead, asking a judge if he is required to comply with the subpoena from house dems. nbc news correspondent leanne caldwell is on capitol hill. leanne, what should we expect from moreson s testimony on thursday? and is there anything more to the timing of that vote being taken and morrison testifying? well, i don t think that the vote timing and morrison s testimony are necessarily linked. the reason for the vote is because democrats are saying that they re now ready. they re getting ready, i should say, to move to the next phase
whether there was quid pro quo. he said, after speaking with the president, that there was not. the washington post has now revealed that he is expected to say that that line, that there was no quid pro quo, came from the president. so, how worried should the white house be about sondland s testimony on thursday? oh, i think very worried. i mean, this goes to the heart of the advisers around president trump who are essentially saying, we didn t know what was actually true. we just know that the president was telling us to say these things, and you re seeing, you know, with sondland, with yovanovitch, you re seeing the potential, at least setting the stage for democrats to be able to say, we need to hear from rudy giuliani on this, we need to put him under oath, we need to ask him hard questions about the degree to which president trump s personal lawyer, personal lawyer was going beyond even, you know, state department officials in putting pressure, bringing pressure to bear on
agreeing to go before the senate intelligence committee, just one week after the blockbuster testimony of former fbi director james comey. i m julie banderas. good evening everybody. this is the fox report. the attorney general set to go to the hill on tuesday. the very same day that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein goes before the appropriations committee. it is going to be another big week for politics, folks. garrett tenney has the latest. we begin in washington with our coverage. garrett, do we know why sessions has decided to testify? reporter: well, julie, you remember a lot of the big questions during james comey s testimony on thursday, think resolved on revolved around his one-on-one meeting with the president where he was allegedly asked to drop the fbi investigation into michael flynn and comey also asked why it is he never told anyone about that request, according to comey, jeff sessions played a big role in both. the former fbi director testified that sessions left
hill. the president accusing comey of lying to congress about their private conversations, and he s willing to go under oath to prove it. kristin fisher is live in branchburg, new jersey w the very latest. kristin? reporter: yeah, well, all of washington is really focused on comey s testimony on thursday and what the president said yesterday. the president is dealing with the situation in afghanistan. he has been briefed by his national security counsel, so has the vice president, and he spoke about that just a few hours ago in wisconsin. he also said in wisconsin that he repeated his pledge to end obamacare even though the senate is still struggling to come up with its own replacement plan. meanwhile here in new jersey, the president, he s preparing to roll back more obama-era policies. he s planning on heading to miami next friday to unveil his administration s new cuba policy. well, as i said, all of washington really remakes
at the white house. now we re going to have one person said it under oath. the other who has said he will say it under oath. this is one man s word versus another. that s right. it s a he said-he said situation. both say the other is lying. the difference is james comey delivered his testimony under oath already knowing what the penalty would be if he lied. now president trump says he s willing to do the same. no collusion, no obstruction, he s a leaker. a defiant president trump says he s willing to testify under oath about his conversations with james comey. so he said those things under oath, would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of 100%. reporter: after restraining himself during comey s testimony on thursday, today trump is going on offense. frankly, james comey confirmed a hot of what i said and some of the things that he said just weren t true.