congress. a key figure in the impeachment inquiry. gordon sonland who owns and mansion hotels all over the world, donated a cool million dollars to trump s inauguration fund. nbc news can now confirm that the focus of his testimony will be on the text messages he exchanged with bill taylor, the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine. remember, sonland is the official who insists in those messages that the president wasn t asking for a quid pro quo. but the washington post predicts that sonland will quote blow a hole in that defense, unquote. he is expectsed to tell lawmakers he was only relaying trump s message and has no idea if it was actually true a new
unprecedented. reporter: twitter is where the president goes to take the pulse of his base, analysts say, before he makes a decision. it s also a vehicle to validate his viewpoints, illustrated by his frenzy binges of re-tweeting others. he has all the power that comes with the office and, yet, he s insecure. he s so insecure that he s going to his twitter feed to pump himself up. reporter: sometimes, the sources from which the president retweets have questionable credibility or are downright dangerous, like his 2017 re-tweet of three videos from a british anti-muslim twitter account. what does his twitter dependence say about trump s view of reality? a president who spends most of his time either watching tv or tapping out tweets on his phone is going to have a warped sense of reality. he s not in the everyday existence that the rest of us share. the president on friday touted his use of twitter as a way to circumvent traditional
that he would be doing something, or someone associated with him, because it is not clear he directed the conduct. right. but someone associated with him would be trying to undermine the rule of law and influence the testimony or cooperation of someone like michael flynn is really shocking. yet, it doesn t appear that flynn gave mueller anything tangible to implicate the president. trump obviously didn t charged with anything. why so much concern from the trump administration officials and people connected to congress over flynn s cooperation? it does raise the question about what michael flynn knows. i think you said it correctly when we started this interview, which is, has michael flynn really been cooperating 100% with the special counsel and the fbi with respect to this investigation? is there information about donald trump that he has not revealed, which donald trump knows, which has his team and has him on edge? i think when we see the kind of outreach from michael flynn
president trump inherited an economy from obama/biden administration. that was given to him, just like he inherited everything else in his life. now, biden also pushed back on those who argue that he may be naive in saying that the country needs to return to consensus. he said that he s willing to take on republicans at times, but he also knows how to make government work because he s actually been there in office. you heard him multiple times, pointing back to his collaboration, his partnership with president obama. that s something that biden has been stressing throughout this campaign so far. really, biden was trying to project that message of unity, saying that the country needs to stop fighting and start working, and that the priority will be defeating president trump. ana? let s talk a little bit more about the location of this big launch and the final rally of his kick-off. just how crucial is pennsylvania
refused to comply with a congressional subpoena for trump s tax returns. boris, how are house democrats responding? what s next? reporter: well, the chairman of the house ways and means committee, richard neal, who had been leading this effort to get six years of the president s tax returns said he wants to see it end in court. he is not taking a route that other democrats, like jerry nadler had before, in holding administration officials in contempt of congress. he says he doesn t want to do that with the treasury secretary. instead, he wants to see this wind up in a courtroom. there are two ways to get there. essenti essentially, neal could have the house vote on potential litigation, or he could have the bipartisan legal action group, essentially the top five leaders in the house, vote on this. democrats hold a majority in both, ana. this is just a formality. this will wind up being another front in fact legal battles between congressional democrats and the white house. boris sa