university stepping up security after a series of disturbing racist incidents breaking a passenger partially sucked out of the plane and killed the major safety fix the ntsb is demanding. our one-on-one with bernie sanders on the eve of the next debate the 2020 candidate taking aim at multibillion dollar drugmakers of course that s what they say. they lied. how he would tackle the deadly opioid crisis announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening on the busiest day yet of the impeachment hearings, a parade of diplomatic and national security witnesses testified into the dinner hour four witnesses in all today, including the army combat veteran and ukraine expert who was on that infamous july phone call between president trump and ukraine s president, describing his alarm at mr. trump s requests for politically helpful investigations and why he reported the call to white house lawyers.
i personally think that if the president believes firmly, as he does, that he did nothing wrong and this is a perfect call, then join the issue on the merits and let the witnesses testify and let mulvaney and let bolton and let all of these people who have substantive direct knowledge of what went on testify. then the american people can determine who is right. can i ask you real quick, michael? the second call which is actually the first call apparently if you look at the time line. do we know anything about it and what we expect? will there be anything significant? a phone call to the president of ukraine that got us where we are. right. as i understand it, this was a call in april. it was more of a congratulatory call than a substantive call so i don t think there is much ins the july call. we have to see. it won t be a transcript. it will be a summary and hopefully, the summary will be complete where the july summary
you might recall this 2012 tweet from donald trump after bin laden s death. stop congratulating obama for killing bin laden. the navy s.e.a.l.s killed bin laden. it s not slowing the pace of house democrats impeachment probe. the testimony set from a half-dozen national security and state department officials. much of the intrigue hovering over whether today s witness will even show up. charles cupperman was the national security adviser for john bolton. he listened in on the july call where president trump wanted ukraine to investigate joe biden. the democrats are standing by the subpoena requiring cup kuppn to testify. zach wolf in washington.
deputy to national security adviser for john bolton. he listened in on the july call where president trump wanted ukraine to investigate joe biden. the democrats are standing by the subpoena requiring kupperman to testify. zach wolf in washington. u.s. diplomat william taylor told investigators the president withheld military aid and refused to meet with ukraine s president. listen to the vice president evade giving a yes or no when he was asked if he had knowledge of the president s efforts. i can only tell you what i know. and what i know is that the transcript of the president s call with president zelensky, showed there was no quid pro quo and he did nothing wrong. were you aware of the deal
will even show up. charles kupperman was the deputy to national security adviser for john bolton. he listened in on the july call where president trump wanted ukraine to investigate joe biden. the democrats are standing by the subpoena requiring kupperman to testify. california has entered a statewide emergency as wind whips fires across the state and keep spreading. it s forced almost 200,000 people to flee. in northern california s wine country, the kincaid fire has expanded to 50,000 acres and is only 10% contained. two firefighters suffered burn injuries. a winery dating back to 1869, engulfed in flames. it s hot. it s hot.