after six women of asian descent were among eight people killed in a rampage at three spas in the atlanta area. joining me now nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett in atlanta, nbc news correspondent dr. john torres and heidi presblea. tell us more about the visit to the cdc and the vice president and president s visit meeting with asian-american leaders this hour. the visit to the cdc officials told us that was the president and vice president s opportunity to get a briefing from their medical and health teams about this ongoing fight against the pandemic. but based on what we saw from the president in his own words that was his opportunity to thank the scientists, to thank those career staffers who have been working around the clock at the cdc. he said science is back. he thanked those career staffers he said for changing the psyche of a nation. since then the president has made the short trip from the cdc over to emery university where he s meeting privately w
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
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
going out there and communicating the new guidance. as she did recently when they changed that isolation period. if you ve tested positive for covid-19. that is something that generated a lot of criticism, not just from people who are confused by it, jake, but also from doctors who said, yes, it did need a testing component to it. and so the other thing that we ve heard, jake, is this criticism is not just coming from outside the cdc. it s also coming from inside the cdc where it s a lot of career staffers who some of them have worked at the agency their entire lives. and they don t feel like sometimes when she is crafting the guidance here that she s really reaching out to enough people. they say it s too small of a circle of advisers that she s talking to. maybe they re not getting enough input for someone to say this isn t so reasonable or this may be a better way to implement this idea. this has been the issues we ve heard from sources, from officials within the cdc about this. whe
billion worth of loans over the course of a year. we re talking about $350 billion over a week with completely different rules. and the biggest banks or any of the banks, excuse me, didn t even get the guidelines until 7:00 last night. so, yes. this thing is has the best of intentions and hopefully will get to the right places but there are serious logistics issues. remember, under steve mnuchin there are many open positions still in the treasury. i ve been talking to banks all week saying, those banks saying there just haven t been enough bodies to help them do this. you have the ceo of bank america two nights ago going through this thing line by line with the treasury secretary himself. it s not just the treasury department. every agency under this administration has been gutted and people have not been replaced as part of the goal of this administration was to cut out a number of career staffers from government. stephanie ruhle, got to leave it right there. we appreciate your ti