Msnbc. Com now, the msnbc app and apple tv. And you can find me on social media, twitter, facebook, instagram, snapchat, linked in, all that stuff. Thank you for watching. Have a great weekend. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace begins right now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Donald trump today resorting to a familiar tactic spreading lies and smears on one of his favorite cable news programs in the wake of the House Democrats public hearings this week providing irrefutable evidence that donald trump conditioned refused military aid could tukt informations. The New York Times writes, quote, President Trump unleashed a series of falsehoods on friday on an effort to invalidate the Impeachment Inquiry and counter sworn testimony from officials in his own administration. After a week of damaging public
hearings. And while divisions in our politics endure, its beyond debate that the democrats fact witnesses, the majority of them, trump appointees and career diplomats, painted a
spoke to something everyone in the room understood, that open defiance can become obstruction and sondland described he didn t like that or being held back from full cooperation with evidence. i have not had access to all of my phone records, state department e-mails and many, many other state department documents. my lawyers and i have made multiple requests to the state department and the white house for these materials. yet, these materials were not provided to me. i believe that those who have information that the congress deems relevant have a legal and a moral obligation to provide it. a legal obligation. the president hasn t been doing that. instead he s been doing talking points. these notes went viral this week. it is literally donald trump writing down what he did sondland after they got caught and quoting himself as a kind of defense. he has every right to plead not guilty, but pleading not guilty is not evidence. it s just words.
appear and to tell you what i know. i believe that those who have information that the congress deems relevant have a legal and a moral obligation to provide it. john bolton doesn t believe that. john bolton should have been in that hearing room today, but he does not believe that those who have information that the congress deems relevant have a legal and a moral obligation to provide it. john bolton has provided that information for money to a new york book publisher that is paying him $2 million for a book that will include the information that he is refusing to tell congress. john bolton is in exactly the same position as fiona hill who used to work for john bolton in the white house. john bolton and fiona hill are both ex-white house employees, now private citizens, who were asked to testify to the impeachment inquiry. president trump, who has absolutely no power over them as private citizens now, told them both not to testify. so they had a choice to make. fiona hill chose to
everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. to secretary pompeo, secretary perry. chief of staff mulvaney and mr. mulvaney s senior adviser rob blair. a lot of senior officials. i believe that those who have information that the congress deems relevant have a legal and a moral obligation to provide it. fiona hill s obvious sense of duty, more obligation to appear. a sentiment evidently not shared by some of the key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. democrats are relying on testimony from some of the supporting characters in the ukraine saga because many of the major players, the officials who allegedly participated in the scheme have so far refused to testify. namely donald trump, rick perry, rudy giuliani, mike pence, mike
choice of tell ing a very important truth or saying nothing? what will you choose? for some people that actually doesn t feel like a choice at all. for those people it feels like an obligation. a moral obligation. since you determined that i may have something of value to these proceedings and issued a subpoena, it is my obligation to appear and to tell you what i know. i believe that those who have information that the congress deems relevant have a legal and a moral obligation to provide this. john bolton doesn t believe that. john bolton should have been in that hearing room today, but he does not believe that those who have information hat the congress deems relevant have a legal and a moral obligation to provide it. john bolton has provided that information for money to a new york book publisher that is paying him $2 million for a book that will include the information that he is refusing to tell congress. john bolton is in exactly the