Thank you. Ms. Divine. Thank you, mr. Maguire, for being here. We appreciate your life of Public Service. My question relates to prior to the transmission on august 26 from the ig to the dni, were there any conversations that you had with the ig prior to august 26 related to this matter . Congresswoman, theres been a lot thats happened in the last several weeks. As far as the timeline is concerned, i think that id like to get back to you and give you a full chronology if i may on the actual timeline of events. That would be very helpful to this committee in terms of, if there were any preliminary conversation, what was discussed and if there was any action taken as a result of those conversations. I want to turn to the complaint itself which is made public for the American Public to read. Let me preface this by saying i greatly appreciate your statement that you believe the whistleblower is operating in
good faith. I think thats very important for americans to hear. But on page one, an
And check out the modern ruhles podcast. Third episode drops today. Were talking feminism. Right now, our dear friend, katy tur. Im here. You know i have a Bernie Sanders Campaign Manager and im going to talk to them about how they feel about the surge. Shes peeling away the voters. Im going to guess theyre not that into it. Well see. Well see. They are, theyre proposing bigger and broader and deeper plans compared to what the other democrats are doing on everything from the wealth tax to the climates. Housing. Is that the way theyre going to make a difference. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Im katy tur. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. In the east and today, the dam is breaking on impeachment. At 2 30, joe biden will make his strongest statement yet on the trump ukraine controversy. Hell tell reporters if the president doesnt comply with investigatio investigations, congress has no choice but to impeach. At 4 00 p. M. , nancy pelosi is leading a mee meeting with her entir
That wraps up this important hour. Im stephanie ruhle. Ill see you at 1 00. Here comes hallie jackson. An extraordinary morning and weve got special coverage of it for the next hour live from new york which is where my job covering the president is bringing us as he brings his brand of America First in the world stage in just a matter of moments. But his political future may not hang on what eats about to address, iran, north korea. Instead its ukraine with the ground shifting back home on impeachment. Some democrats now calling this a Tipping Point, including one lawmaker live with us in just a minute. Furious that the president appeared to be asking a foreign power for help, investigating a political rival. Heres the president arriving at the u. N. Just a minute ago. That was a perfect call. So what is different . What makes today unlike all the
other days that democrats have been mad . The new twist, a new tone from the most powerful woman in politics with our nbc news reporting, Ho
And yet all of this is a distraction, an attempt to get us away from it. Whats also interesting to me, hallie, the president of the United States takes a lot of time trying to take down joe biden. That suggests to me that he believes biden is the strongest possible opponent. Weve had 70 headtohead matchups in polls. Biden has won every single one of them. In that sense its not a surprise the president is spending the time, using the power of his office to try to take down his number one opponent. Tony, thanks for being on. Im way out of town. I have to hand it over to craig melvin on what has been a very, very busy morning. Indeed, a Story Changing by the moment. Craig melvin here at Msnbc Headquarters in new york city. We pick up the breaking news. Huge implications for this president , the administration, the Justice Department, perhaps for the system of checks and balances in our country. The Trump Administration just releasing that memo detailing that controversial conversation bet
It is 12 00 in new york. Were following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc Senior Adviser fiona hill and current u. S. Diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the Trump Administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a Smear Campaign against Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch who was apparently standing in the way. The conduct of both of todays witness witnesses, they believed lives could be jeopardized in ukraine. Here is some of the dramatic testimony of fiona hill and david holmes. The barrage of allegations
directed against ambassador yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything i have seen in my professional career. I heard ambassador sondland say to the president , yes, he was in ukraine, and went on to say