ukraine. it is 5 pm. it s been nearly one year since russia s unprovoked invasion of this country. i was in ukraine last spring, in lviv, in the west of the country. i am back now to see what s changed, what s stayed the same, and what is next for this war and for this country, and for the global fight for democracy. the ukrainians what the rest of the world to know it s a critical part of this fight. one thing that remains the same as russia continues to rain terror from the skies in the form of missiles, rockets, airstrikes, and drones, both near the battlefield in the east and in places far from the front. in places like lviv, and right here in the capital, kyiv. it is something that is very evident. the air raid sirens have become a part of everyday life here. there have been multiple air raid sirens each day, and while most ukrainians have come to live with them, they hear, they acknowledge, them and they largely continue on with their day. for my team and me on the grou
also military analyst retired general mark hertling. and philip mudd. good evening gentlemen. appreciate you joining us. let s start with alex. what are you learning tonight about this mission and how it went down? well don, this was a remarkable and complex mission. we ve got a lot of the details from a senior administration official who spoke to reporters shortly before president biden spoke with the nation. now this was months in the making. it was back in april when president biden s first briefed on the fact that the war was believed to be, not just in afghanistan, but in the afghan capital of kabul. in that city. living there he was told that members, his wife, his daughter, his grandchildren. now the intelligence community believes that he never left the house. that it was only as family members who went out. that is wife and daughter use what this administration called a terrorism trade craft to make sure that they weren t tracked or detect it. now they failed on
Horrible Car Tax Thing but that would be motivated selfinterest. So instead, let me ask you, youve been watching this hearing, do you believe that an Impeachment Inquiry at this point is legitimate . Its the congressional job of oversight and investigation and they should continue to investigate and they got to follow the facts and my strong advice is following the money. The money will tell you where the end treasure pot is. And this is at the front end of i think a Fact Finding Mission that congress should be doing and they need to be doing this job and they should just continue to follow those facts. Sandra governor, sandra here in new york. Thanks so much for joining us. Hey, sandra, great to be with you. Sandra can i get you to play in broadly what we have seen with the Impeachment Inquiry . Broadly speaking, ill repeat a little of what i just commented on, which is the congressional role of oversight is so important and i think that what we have seen here out of this Important Co
Murray, thanks to both of you. Thanks for watching our msnbc special. Find me on weeknights. Its the beet, 6 00 p. M. Eastern. It started as a 30minute phone call between two president s. It erupted into a fullscale scandal that now threatens to bring down donald trump. Today im announcing the house of representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. Our president sacrificed our National Security and our constitution for his personal political benefit. Theyve been trying to impeach me from the day i got elected. And you know what . They failed. Youve seen the headlines. Tonight well dive deep into the part of the story you havent heard. And key players will reveal for the first time what really happened. As we go on assignment. The conversation just after 9 00 a. M. On july 25th started out friendly. President donald j. Trump calling his newly elected counterpart, ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. This is from the official notes of the phone call released b
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. Lets put that up on the screen. You said, hi,