I kneeneed a trophy. Thank you, i appreciate it and happy friday. We start with the final fare wells to a giant of the House Of Representatives, Elijah Cummings. Funeral services are starting as we speak in his beloved baltimore. The church is so packed theyre having to turn some people away. You will see speeches live from Hillary Clinton and nancy pelosi this hour and later today from former president S Barack Obama and bill clinton. They have halted congressional action on the Impeachment Inquiry today, but there are still two big developments this morning. A top source is telling nbc news that investigation into the russia investigation is now a criminal one. Were going to explain what that means legally, the extra power the doj now has, and why democrats are livid. And just in the last couple of minutes, nbc news Learning Lawyers for ousted National Security adviser john bolton are in talks for a possible private deposition in the impeachment
investigation. Why thats explosive. Bu
Were complaining the lack of direct testimony that democrats were bringing, Rudy Giuliani would be the ultimate direct witness. He certainly would. Joy vance, thank you for joining us. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight the late warning of another Government Employee breaks the silence on the Impeachment Inquiry as we are hours away from a veteran former ambassador who says she felt threatened by her own government while working for the u. S. Overseas. What words were they talking about . Cameras capture the conversation between the president and his Attorney General despite waiting for the helicopter in the backyard. The speaker compares the president to nixon and spells out the crimes she believes hes
guilty of. All of it as The 11th Hour gets underway on a thursday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,029 of the trump administration. A day between this weeks public impeachmentme hearings. The president flew to louis
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To members about this vote, it vindman not saying, court, size of san francisco. Decide, you tell me what to do, nearly 200,000 people under says this. We are taking the step to evacuation orders in california hes Behind Closed Doors right eliminate any doubt as to now. Wine country. Theres a different just the the fire there just 15 whet the Trump Administration may withhold documents, prevent different application already contained. Witness testimony, disregard that were seeing. So we are already seeing the theyve got a long way to go. Well keep a very close eye duly authorized subpoenas or move clearly doesnt satisfy the on. Were thinking of everything continue obstructing the house president s allies on the hill. Dealing with that in california. Of representatives. Thanks for being with us. Well see you back here tomorrow basically, you heard from jim i read that in short, maybe thats what theyre maybe morning. Im poppy harlow. Jordan, that this is essentially thats what they will
Another hour but were out of time. My thanks to steve schmidt, most of all, thanks to you for watching. Mtp daily with chuck todd starts right now. Welcome to thursday. It is meet the press daily. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in a big curly w washington. Lchl exactly a year after the president ial election, todays been another hectic day in the Nations Capital from capitol hill to the courts to the white house. House backed an Impeachment Inquiry into the president and historic symbolic action that moves us one step closer to public hearings. And Behind Closed Doors, it was another bomb shell day as the National Security council top russia expert tim morrison
confirmed much of the substance of the damning testimony by the administrations top diplomat to ukraine, bill taylor, what he testified to is that military aid was contingent on investigations into the president s political rivals. This is according to a review of morrisons opening statement. Now, morrison also testified that