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That if they want a meeting with the white house, there needs to be a hunter biden investigation. well see when we convene on the floor tonight whether the republicans view has changed. >> its hard for them to dispute someone like fiona hill, known as someone who was a very solid russia hawk and the greatest putin expert in the white house, certainly. >> and the question is, why have a democracy if a president can get away with marrying together the official powers of his office with his reelect...

Thank you for taking the time. appreciate it. >> thank you very having me. >> that wraps up this hour for me. can always find me on twitter @chrisjansing. thanks for watching. "deadline: white house" starts right now. hi, everyone, its 4:00 in new york. turns out the whistle-blower had plenty of company in his concern about donald trump asking the leader of ukraine to dig up dirt on the bidens. from none other than conservative fixture and former national security adviser for donald trump john...

Formal, normal processes and procedures. not working in the national interest but working in their own self-interest at the behest of president trump. im also told shes gone a step further to defend the work and the reputation of marie yovanovitch, the former ambassador to ukraine, who was ousted at least in some part having to do with the disinformation campaign that rudy giuliani set about. trying to -- trying to smear her because remember she was one of those officials who raised concerns abo...

Our reporting is going to make the point they were doing this outside the state department protocols even circumventing john bolton who at the time was the national security adviser. now hill left the white house, left the nfc before this july 25th th call in question happened. you can certainly tell house investigators about the motivations of those involved and get a sense of what happened leading up to it. and hill is an interesting person or was an interesting person in the trump orbit, beca...

And investigators conducting this deposition. lawmakers can be in the room, right? >> reporter: right. they can, and in fact they are. and we actually heard from some of the republicans in the room who came out to brief us reporters. ill get to that in a second. i can tell you that nbc news has learned that congressional house democrats served fiona hill a subpoena this morning to compel her testimony. and we should mention that this is testimony that she was already agreeing to give. so its per...

>> i think shes a courageous example for others, and i think all the members were extraordinarily impressed with her testimony today. we will continue with other witnesses, not withstanding the administrations consistent efforts to obstruct our investigation. >> now, more diplomats are going to be heading to capitol hill next week to testify in the impeachment inquiry. fiona hill considered a hawk. she is scheduled to be there on monday. and trump donor gordon sondland who was rewarded for his e...

Donated thousands of dollars to trumps inaugural committee, and he is an ally of the president, and so that is backdrop here. so what we are seeing here is a little daylight or attempt of him to cover his own self and so he is saying that, you know, he just passed on what the president was saying. that is a very interesting statement. it makes, and you wonder what else he is going to say. and the other thing that we know is that fiona hill who was president trumps director of russian and europea...

All the members were extraordinarily impressed with her testimony today. we will continue with other witnesses, not withstanding the administrations consistent efforts to obstruct our investigation. >> now, more diplomats are going to be heading to capitol hill next week to testify in the impeachment inquiry. fiona hill considered a hawk. she is scheduled to be there on monday. and trump donor gordon sondland who was rewarded with his efforts to title ambassador to the eu says hes going to testi...

Praised the ambassador tonight. >> i think shes a courageous example for others, and i think all the members were extraordinarily impressed with her testimony today. we will continue with other witnesses, not withstanding the administrations consistent efforts to obstruct our investigation. >> now, more diplomats are going to be heading to capitol hill next week to testify in the impeachment inquiry. f fiona hill considered a hawk. she is scheduled to be there on monday. and trump donor gordon s...

Russia hawk and expert and she knows a lot. she was there, she knows everything that happened up to that fun to call and she knows not only just about ukraine, mika, but she knows a ton about russia. she was there for everything that the president was doing with russia until she left this summer. >> so, kurt, what do you make of this? what stands out to you and also what else do you expect the committee to get out of people like rick perry if they ever can get them to talk? >> well, i think what...