A year the United States has seen to it that deadliest white supremacist attacks in its recent history were born far out from the pentagon in october of 2018 a gunman murdered 11 jewish worshipers at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh pennsylvania. Talking about. Then in august 22 people were shot dead in an attempt to kill as many latinos as possible in El Paso Texas. Just 9 months apart these attacks were connected to the ideology of White Supremacy and only read gradually and i think we all come to realize how extensive this underground network is of people who have bought into this hateful belief system. Those things are being nurtured by our president in his language and actually stoked against license to people like the shooter to do violence against communities. To pittsburgh suspect was critical of donald trump and theyll pass so shooter distance himself from the president in his manifesto. But both men frame their actions as responses to crises real or imagined that the
State departments ranking official david hale is talking to lawmakers in private. The Associated Press says he plans to testify about the former ambassador to the ukraine, Marie Jovanovich is removal from office. We start off with john roberts reporting live from the north one but for us we go to mike emanuel reporting live from capitol hill. Still reading two hours of investor bill taylors testimony but we were able to pick up some highlights along the way. Taylor was the diplomat who is able to raise the possibility about military aid to being held for digging up dirt. Some sources are noting that bill taylor and testimonies that he never spoke with President Trump, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney or the president s intern. He said what i know is what ambassadors sondland was able to tell me about those investigations and ambassador volker it. So where was this condition coming from if you are not sure it was coming from the president . I think it was coming from mr. Rudy giulian
Were already on edge before this news. So lets do a roundup of how its playing. Lets begin on capitol hill. Cnns senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju. What else are we expecting from sondland . We expect Gordon Sondland to throw Rudy Giuliani under the bus. But the question is, will he throw the president under the bus as well . Thats going to be a big question today because according to witness testimony after witness testimony, Gordon Sondland had direct interactions with the president and then sondland later told other witnesses that the president himself had essentially linked military aid to ukraine in exchange for this public declaration by the ukrainians to announce investigations into the president s political rivals. Now the question is will sondland confirm those accounts or will he say as he did in his closed door deposition, he did not recall some of those key accounts. Already amend his testimony saying he later remembered in september he had a conversation with a