Intelligence committee continues another week of public hearings. You can join the conversation by phone or send us a comment on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is thursday, november 21, day 5 of the impeachment hearings. Explicit quid pro quo done at President Trumps direction. 10 leading president ial primary candidates took to the stage in atlanta for the fifth debate of the 2020 election cycle. You can join us by giving us a call. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also send us a text this morning. That number, 2027488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. You can start calling now and we will begin by showing you the front page banner headline of usa today. Everyone was in the loop. Yes, there was a quid pro quo. I followed the directions of the president. [vide
the trump russia probe. he found not much, but we ll tell you about the brand-new reporting later in the program. we re also waiting to see the police body cam video from the horrific attack on paul pelosi, the husband of speaker nancy pelosi last year as well as the audio from the 911 call he made. a judge ordered that evidence to be made public in response to requests from multiple news organizations. that includes nbc news. and we ll bring you that footage as soon as it is released and we re able to turn it around for you. we begin with breaking news, the tragedy out of memphis. criminal charges have just been announced in the case of police brutality that stunned the nation and the world in just the past hour, the shelby county district attorney announced the fire officers involved in the fatal beating of 29-year-old memphis resident tyre nichols have been charged with second degree murder. here is that announcement. earlier today, the grand jury returned indictments ag
Impeachment inquiry into donald trump was marched off the white house grounds, oddly, as was his twin brother, one who had nothing to do with the impeachment inquiry. He did apparently commit the crime of being born a few seconds after alexander vinldman as his twin brother, apparently that is enough. Within hours of them being marched off the white house grounds, there was word that Gordon Sondland was also fired. Sondland gave incredibly damaging testimony about the president s behavior during the impeachment inquiry. As of tonight, he has suddenly been recalled from his post. His lawyer, Robert Luskin says he was not just reassigned, he was summarily fired. And we dont know if this is the full list tonight or if there are more long knives out for people who testified in the impeachment inquiry or are related to that scandal or literally are famill lally related. What feels like a historical parallel to nixon at the heart of the of watergate crisis, i dont think its unfair to say thi
Trial in june. Yes, we are relieved that the fact that oscar got bail today, but at the same time we are in mourning for the death of reeva with her family. And breaking news right now about disgraced cycling star Lance Armstrong. Now the u. S. Government is on his case. And one week left medical the budget ax falls. Today it is transportation secretary ray la hoods turn to warn about the sec kwsters deep impact. This is going to happen sfwloosh clarify why its the matter of mileage between because were going to reduce the number of controllers which will reduce their ability to guide planes in and out of airports. Republicans say thats just scare tactics. The president is making stuff up. He puts Law Enforcement he puts firemen and policemen who 98 of them are being paid for with your local taxes and says youre going to lose your local policeman because of this. Its not true. And countdown to the oscars. Well talk to the man behind the mom natured documentary five broken cameras about
Performance. That charge brought strong denials from armstrong at the time. Hes got no proof. Its his word versus ours. Reporter but in 2011, another teammate, tyler hamilon, told 60 minutes armstrong did used banned substances, including the blood doping agent e. P. O. He took what we call all took. Really no difference between Lance Armstrong and, say the majority of the team. There was e. P. O. , there was testosterone. And i did see a transfusion, a blood transfusion. Reporter last month armstrong admitted the doping in an interview with oprah winfrey. I view this situation as one big lie that i repeated a lot of times. Reporter despite the admission, armstrongs lawyer says the lawsuit is without merit. In a statement, attorney Robert Luskin claimed the Postal Service actually profited from armstrongs victories. Reporter armstrong and his attorneys tried to keep the government out of the case by offering a multimillion Dollar Settlement but the Justice Department turned down that d