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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 they re having to turn some people away. you will see speeches live from hillary clinton and nancy pelosi this hour and later today from former presidents 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. we re 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 that s ....
about fighting corruption, we should also say specifically, burisma in 2016. mr. yermak provided me a statement. i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to president trump and solve this problem that i had observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. the problem being that he is getting a bad set of information, a statement like this could potentially correct that. was mr. guiliani satisfied with the statement? no, he was not. he believed it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, would not mean anything. so in fact, mr. guiliani wanted a statement that referenced burisma and the 2016 elections explicitly. one that would benefit, essentially, president trump. it is to invest or come here is the text you sent to the ukrainian official on august august 13th. let s put that up on the screen. ....
but, shazam, last week, you come forward with supposedly this new information? there is nothing different in there than what we had on the transcript. maybe that s the reason their star witness, their first witness didn t bring it up. but they had to have something. so you are their closing witness because you overheard the president talking to ambassador sondland. sir, if i can answer. i see four seconds left on the clock. mr. holmes, you may take as long as you need. thank you, sir. i believe that ambassador taylor did already know when i briefed him when i returned from vacation on the 6th. it was not news to him that the president was pressing for a bide investigation. that s not what i asked. i asked why he didn t share with us. mr. jordan, please do not interrupt the witness any further. mr. holmes your time expired yours has not. you may answer the question. it s exactly my point. i briefed the call in detail deputy chief commission. come back, referred to the c ....
there s a question of what point does amending a testimony become straight-up lying or perjuring one self? one said that the testimony of other witnesses helped to refresh their memories and see in new light their own experiences and will be instructive to see what volcker has to say for himself on the two key questions, quid pro quo, bribery plot, and what he was doing with rudy giuliani. his testimony was that he rudy giuliani as being a nuance and more helpful to bring rudy giuliani in and help him understand that he was promulgating the debunked conspiracy scenarios instead of freelance out there in ukraine. jeff bennett on capitol hill for us, thank you very much. joining us is democrat congressman jim himes from connecticut. congressman, your questioning of control knell vind man was one of the more emotional moments this morning. i wonder if you could look back to that for us this morning. yeah. well, it was a pretty tough moment for me. we had gotten word and sort ....
the transcript had been out for two months. maybe the ambassador thought there is nothing new here. but, shazam, last week you come forward with supposed this new information and nothing different in there than what we had on the transcript. maybe that s the reason their star witness, first witness didn t bring it up. you re their closing witness because you overheard the president overtalking to ambassador sondland. i see four seconds left on the clock. you may take as long as you need. thank you, sir. i believe that ambassador taylor already knew when i briefed him when i returned from vacation on the 6th. it was not news for him that the president was pressing for a biden investigation. i asked why he didn t share with us. please do not interrupt the witness any further. you may answer the question. it s exactly my point. i briefed the call and when we come back and i referred to the call and everyone is nodding. of course, that s what s going on. of course the ....