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1 00 a. M. In california. We know what some of the w witnesses in the impeachment inquiry said behind closed doors. Mike pompeo was silent as Rudy Giuliani planned to oust Maria Yovanovitch. Was Maria Yovanovitch part of a Smear Campaign . If you look at the president of the ukraine was not a fan of hers. A look at the transcript, shows zelensky criticized the ambassador after trump called her bad news. Lauren fox has more on the transcripts from capitol hill. Reporter a significant day on capit...

Knew that military aid was part of the quid pro quo. And whether anyone involved in these talks raised alarm to the ambassador in real time. Plus a short time ago the Justice Department is weighing in on another aspect of all of this tchl. Issuing a new memo to say that witnesses called to congress that currently work for the Administration Must be allowed to bring a government attorney along. What does that mean for the list of officials who are refusing to appear before congress this week . Ag...

Diplomacy with ukraine. Lets go first to phil mattingly, he is on capitol hill. So you have that, were waiting for those. And two depositions that were scheduled for today does not appear again just like the four yesterday like those will happen, is that right . Reporter yeah, a little bit of a split screen here. You have the public aspect of things as things start to spill out, another two transcripts today, soon public hearings. But you still have the scheduled closed door depositions. And yes...

Discomfort as President Trump pushed them to Rudy Giuliani and giuliani pushed them to get the ukrainians to announce an investigation into joe and hunter biden. As sondland put it, quote, it kept getting more insidious as the time line went on. That is the word that President Trumps own ambassador that he appointed used. Insidious. The deposition transcript was released today and he was forced to revisit his testimony from october 17th and amond amend and he said he informed a top agent of the ...

Very shortly. Just looking at these pictures right now. Theyre horrifying. Well begin with the impeachment inquiry. Maggie haberman is the White House Correspondent for the new york times. And cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. Maggie, republicans have been calling on democrats to release the transcripts of the testimony of the impeachment inquiry. Well, they got some now. And what story do these transcripts tell so far . I am having trouble finding information that bolsters republicans cas...

This is a hoax, a hoax, a phony witch hunt. And we have action on the hill. Lawmakers are hearing from philip reeker, he is expected to shine light on a Smear Campaign against Marie Ivanovic ousted after giuliani complained she got in the way of him digging up dirt on joe biden. And the investigation into President Trumps personal attorney is also escalating. A source telling cnn investigators had to literally blow the door off a safe while conducting raids on giulianis associates. That brings u...

One of the first things that we will get to is this discussion. Over the weekend, on friday democrats learned that their vote to begin in the impeachment inquiry against the president is that they really only had no republicans at all with him. Unable to convince the colleagues in this process that this is something they will go for it. So now they have to tried to convince the American Public on both sides of the aisle in the country. And if they succeed at that, they began the process with rel...

Testify. Plus mike pompeo is lying. Watch for 2020 clues, and the one watching the closest is the president. Hello, kentucky. Youre about to reelect Kentucky Governor matt bevin. Hes such a pain in the ass, but thats what you want. Back to election day a bit later. We begin the hour waiting on the House Intelligence Committee and the release of testimony transcripts from two Trump Administration diplomats who are critical impeachment witnesses. Kurt volker was the white house special envoy to uk...

Volker revealing the existence of Text Messages that talked about quid pro quo and withholding military aid to ukraine withholding opponent investigations. Gordon sondland was one of the men leading diplomatic efforts there, and he testified that the president told him to involve Rudy Giuliani and that giulianis efforts in ukraine had secretary of states mike pompeos blessing. Manu raju, tell us what youre hearing and what youre hearing about Mick Mulvaney. Democrats want to hear from Mick Mulva...

Somewhere. Question, i mean causing serious issues in the u. S. Relationship with ukraine. Were you raise those with sondland . Listen the state department was fully aware and little they could do about it if the president decided he wanted his lawyer involved. Question, does that include secretary pompeo and his counselor . Sondland, my speculation is yes, they hit a brick wall when it came to getting ready of mr. Giuliani. First to manu raju up on drill, senior congressional correspondent. You...