Insisting he did nothing improper. U. S. Forces are angry at President Trump, accusing him of betraying the kurds. A lot has changed since the last faceoff. An impeachment inquiry, a new frontrunner and a heart attack. The hill is alive now with the sound of investigations todayment congress is back in full session today, both the house and the Senate Getting back to work. The three house committees did not observe the break as they worked on the impeachment investigation. The house intelligence, Foreign Affairs and oversight committees heard testimony yesterday from fiona hill. Shes a former top adviser to the president on russia. Today another diplomat is testifying. George kent. He is the deputy of assistant secretary of Foreign Affairs. He prevented on you crane from being ousted by Rudy Giuliani, among other trump associates. Kent testified today that he warned associates back in march about a Rudy Giuliani Disinformation Campaign in ukraine. These committees are also watching the
These are the big five headlines were going to cover in the hour. Sources telling cnn the state Department Inspector general requested an urgent briefing with Congress Tomorrow after the secretary of state pushed back on demands by democrats for documents about ukraine and testimony by current and former department officials. Rudy giuliani lawyers up. The President Trump lawyer personal attorney hiring a former assistant water gate prosecutor to represent him in the expanding investigation into his role in the ukraine scandal. The president ramping up attacks on the whistleblower. Is that persons safety in jeopardy . Ill talk to a member of the house intelligence committee. Also tonight, Fact Checking President Trump tweet about a map reporting to show the result of 2016 election along with the words try to impeach this. A lot of red. Its both misleading and inaccurate. Well explain. Plus Hillary Clinton on a media tour promoting a new book and revealing the gutsiest things shes ever d
Makes its way northwest through the caribbean toward florida. All signs showing dorian could now become a monster category 4 hurricane by the time it makes landfall again in the United States sunday evening. At this hour dorian is moving through the atlantic with maximum sustained winds of 85 Miles Per Hour and is expected to strengthen over the next few days. Florida governor Rhonda Sanchez declaring a state of emergency for 26 counties in the possible path of the hurricane leaving floridians preparing for the worst. Earlier, Southwest Airlines warning flights in and out of florida and the caribbean islands could be disrupted through next wednesday. Joining me with the latest on the storm path and potential destruction is msnbc meteorologist michelle grossman. Where is the storm now, where is it headed, how bad could it get . Hi there. I love talking to you about these storms because i know youve covered a lot of them. This is a storm that has been unexpected from day one. It has done
Subpoena. Hill left her job on the National Security council before the president s infamous call with the ukrainian president a source says she plans to testify she didnt know about the aspects of the ukraine scan distal. Her appearance today kicks off a pivotal week of testimony. The wlus stopped sunderland from testifying last week. Lets go straight to our Senior Congress Ap Correspondent manu raju keeping a close eye on that closed door. She came to testify voluntarily, why the subpoena . Democrats say this was necessary because the white house has moved to limit testimony from witnesses on a number of other occasions. Theyre doing this to compel her testimony. Republicans say this is not a necessary move, saying she was willing to do so voluntarily. When i asked for information, why the white house blocked her testimony. They referred to hills lawyer who is also behind closed doors right now, we have not gotten clarity on that. This is a bit of a rocky start, one republican congre
Would be nice. And those two spent two years talking about me going to jail for being a liar and leaker, ask yourselves why you still trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president . The choice thats were under scrutiny included sharing a memo comey wrote about his bizarre interactions with donald trump n one of those memos, comey wrote about being asked to take a loyalty oath to donald trump. Comey also detailed the president asking him to see to it to let disgraced National Security adviser mike flynn go. The substance of those memos about comeys interactions with the president would ult splitly become fodder for congressional testimony shortly after comeys firing. I hope, this is the president speaking, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, letting flynn go. He is a did guy. I hope you can let this go. Those are his exact words, is that correct . I took it as a direction. This is the president of the United States saying me alone, i hope this