As taylor tells lawmakers why he sent that text, democrats are working to protect the identity of the person who sparked the ukraine investigation, anonymous whistleblower. President trump says hes not sure that whistleblower should be protected and all of this happens as the new cnn poll this morning Shows Growing support for the impeachment inquiry. 50 of those asked say they think the president should be impeached and removed from office. And then in a disturbing tweet this morning, the president is now comparing the lawful impeachment probe to a lynching. A word, of course, that invokes racial terror, recalling the way thousands of black people were murdered in one of the darkest periods in American History. Manu raju is on capital hill. Kylie atwood joins us from washington. Kylie, you have an understanding of what it is that sondland excuse me. Sondland was about a week ago. Bill taylor is telling lawmakers behind closed doors, in particular, about his Text Messages with ambassad
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 971 now of the Trump Administration this president , who is very fond of saying well see what happens, is quickly running up against some hard realities. Which may not wait for him today he was in california where hes expected to raise 15 million for his Reelection Campaign meanwhile the most pressing issues he is facing, like iran and the tension his own twitter account has caused, are not going away u. S. Intel, as you may know, is making it known they believe that this attack on saudi arabias main oil facility, a strike that was so large the smoke plume was visible from space originated in iran it instantly cut the worlds Available Oil supply by 5 to 6 nbc news reporting u. S. Intelligence indicates cruise missiles fired at the oil facility came from at least one location, they say, in western Iran White House reportedly weighing a range of retaliatory actions against iran from cyber all the way to ki
Ainsley it comes as secretary of state mike pompeo who you see there is pushing back against the congressional subpoenas. Steve Griff Jenkins is live in washington, d. C. Ahead of an urgent meeting that the Inspector General from the department of state is going to have with some people in one of those super street rooms up on capitol hill, griff . Griff thats right. A lot happening especially with secretary of state pompeo overcease. Accusing him of blocking congressional access. Pompeo is pushing hard against. Issuing this stern letter saying im concerned with aspects of the committees request that can be stood only as an attempt to intimidate, bully and treat them improperly the distinguished professionals including several career and Foreign Service officers. The democrats wasted no time respond fog that writing to deputy secretary of state John Sullivan claiming pompeo has a conflict of interest for reportedly participating in that ukraine call and trying to cover up Illicit Activ
Tuesday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york day 971 of the Trump Administration this president who is very fond of saying well see what happens is quickly running up against some hard realities, which may not wait for him today he was in california where hes expected to raise 15 million for his Reelection Campaign meanwhile, the most pressing issues he is facing, like iran and the tension his own twitter account has caused, are not going away u. S. Intel, as you may know, is making it known they believe this attack on saudi arabias main oil facility, a strike that was so large the smoke plume was visible from space, originated in iran. It instantly cut the worlds Available Oil supply by 5 to 6 nbc news reporting u. S. Intelligence indicates cruise missiles fired at the oil facility came from at least one location they say in western Iran White House reportedly weighing a range of retaliatory reactions against iran from sicyberall the way to kin et
Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome back to the lead. Live in westerville, ohio, where in just a matter of hours, 12 democratic president ial candidates will take the stage behind me for the debate here only on cnn. Im jake tapper. We start this afternoon, however, with breaking news in the politics lead. Cnn is learning moments ago that President Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani will defy a congressional subpoena for documents. I want to get right to cnn justice correspondent evan perez. What is the reasoning here from the giuliani legal team. Reporter jake, it is classic giuliani bluster. He said this is an unconstitutional and baseless and illegitimate impeachment inquiry and the request por information from these plea committees that are leading the inquiry was overbroad and it goes into Attorney Client privilege information and essentially taking the protection that the white house has been offering which is theyre not going to comply with any subpoena because they