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That mike piem pompeo involved in the ukraine story may be headed home to kansas to sent him to senate instead. all of this as "the 11th hour" gets underway this friday night. ♪ good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. day 1,037 of the trump administration. at least four now. weve heard directly from 12 current and former government officials, over 35 hours. the facts are no longer in dispute. they testified the president was in effect pressuring ukraine into announcing investig...

And the quid pro quo was for interference in our election, which is blatantly an abuse of power by the president but also undermined our national security interest in ukraines resistance to the russian attack and a professional diplomat. hes a real professional. i want to hear from him what he thought the consequences would be of continuing that extortian against the ukrainian president. >> you believe that it is extortion, sir? >> well, mick mulvaney said there was a quid pro quo. donald trump ...

We want to be transparent. >> they released a summation. >> thats all there is for every call. im sure under the obama administration it was the same way. we want transparency, lets investigate this, and then if theres something here, then you go to a formal impeachment proceedings. >> laurie, let me go to you on this. they say that the summation was all that we need to release. but then there were text messages that were released that have u.s. diplomats in effect pressuring the ukraine officia...

Be a thank the troops call on thanksgiving bring up a whole host of political issues and put those military officers in a different position. he brought up the 9th circuit. he brought up the border wall. he brought up trade deals in effect pressuring them to some degree to comment on domestic political issues. is that a proper thing for the u.s. president to be doing? >> well, no. i mean, one of the wonderful things about our military is it always has been a political. it has something that has ...