Last week Mick Mulvaney did not show up for a closed door hearing. Now he wants to join a lawsuit against his boss. The acting chief of staff wants to decide if he is obligated to answer questions on capitol hill. President trump teases he may release information on another phone call between him and his counterpart. She flipped off President Trump, lost her job and got a set that was republican. Her revenge run in virginia. A. Scott boulden a criminal defense attorney and former cher of the association. And spokesperson for the House Oversight committee. Deny and convert. Those are the tactics and his president allies are relying on ahead of televised impeachment hearings. Three will sit before cameras on capitol hill. Two targeted by President Trump. Republicans are now calling for hunter biden to testify. The Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee devin nunes asked for the whistleblower and biden toe testify. Democrats ultimately will decide who will appear before the co
Says the decision to delay that aid to ukraine was highly irregular. A former colleague will join us in a minute. It is becoming increasingly clear how pivotal it would be if john bolton were to testify. Pete buttigieg breaks out in iowa with 78 days to the iowa caucuses, three days to the next debate here on msnbc. And kal penn on his new show sunnyside takes on daca. Up me this morning, shermichael singleton. Law professor at nyu. From washington is a White House Correspondent for the New York Times. Shes also an msnbc contributor. New details emerging overnight after the House Intelligence Committee released hundreds of pages of testimony from two key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. Closed door testimony from tim morison paints a picture of john bolton working feverishly during a secret august meeting trying to convince him to release the 391 million in security aid to ukraine. Investigators say u. S. Ambassadors to the eu says he believes he was acting in President Trumps dir
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to withhold hundreds of millions of funds in exchange for political investigations. but, again, we saw more details, more flesh put on the bone here. for instance, pence s aide for the first time explained in detail by tby the vice presiden told her that trump specifically said he didn t want pence to go any more. with morison, we see the importance of firsthand witnesses. we see the importance of john bolton. the democrats need to see people who interacted directly with trump to push this case along to make it different from what we have seen so far. that s why gordon sondland s testimony on wednesday, we see how important that is going to be. that is potentially the most important thing this week. he is someone we have seen over and over had direct conversations with the president
and could underline the republican argument that none of these witnesses have a firsthand account. let s sort of pull back and talk about the atmosphere surrounding this, withholding the aid. it is a clear example of an effort within the white house to release that aid, get the aid released. it s part of this larger story that you had folks in any number of agencies, be the defense department, folks on capitol hill, wondering why it hadn t been released. from tim morison s testimony, there was no clearly articulated answer to that. it comes back to this is a white house where the traditional protocols don t hold sway. someone like john bolton, incredibly partisan but incredibly by the book is having a hard time. he is trying to push the president. why is the aid not being released? he is not getting a good answer. you get more of a context for why he leaves in such