Were already on edge before this news. So lets do a roundup of how its playing. Lets begin on capitol hill. Cnns senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju. What else are we expecting from sondland . We expect Gordon Sondland to throw Rudy Giuliani under the bus. But the question is, will he throw the president under the bus as well . Thats going to be a big question today because according to witness testimony after witness testimony, Gordon Sondland had direct interactions with the president and then sondland later told other witnesses that the president himself had essentially linked military aid to ukraine in exchange for this public declaration by the ukrainians to announce investigations into the president s political rivals. Now the question is will sondland confirm those accounts or will he say as he did in his closed door deposition, he did not recall some of those key accounts. Already amend his testimony saying he later remembered in september he had a conversation with a
This is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world to this special edition of new day and of cnns coverage of the impeachment hearings. Just two hours from now, we will hear public testimony from the former ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Here is a look right now live inside the hearing room as people prepare for this big day. So ambassador Marie Yovanovitch claims she was the target of a Smear Campaign allegedly targeted by giuliani. George kent told lawmakers about this very thing on live tv wednesday. I became alarmed as they bore fruit. To establish rapport. So stay tuned to all of that. House investigators will go behind who reportedly overheard President Trump ask Ambassador Gordon Sondland about investigations in a loud cell phone call in the middle of a restaurant in ukraine. And if you listen closely this morning, you didnt have to listen that closely. You will hear just how carefully democrat
Threat towards anyone who helped the whistleblower at the center of the fire storm. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, the spies and treason, we used to handle it a little different than we do now. And good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell. A big day here in washington. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi zeroing in on the president s xwak interactions with ukraine. I think we have to stay focused as far as the public is concerned on the fact that the president of the United States used taxpayer dollars to shake down the leader of another country for his own political gain. And the president is firing back against the democrats on twitter. His angry also revealed when he addressed u. S. Diplomats thursday. Diplomats gathered with their children and referred to the officials who talked to the whistleblower as spies committing treason. Joining me now, nbc White House Correspondent kristen welker, nbc political analyst phil rucker, msnbc contributor joyce vance, a for
Associates and a neverbeforeknown connection to President Trump, putting them at the heart of this ukraine scheme. Why did an indicted man with a shady past think he was on a James Bondstyle mission for our president . What do you say . Lets get after it. Look, it happened just this weekend. Its been so long. Just this evening we got firsthand testimony showing President Trump knew about the push for investigations and was monitoring the Pressure Campaign on ukraine. How do we know . A state Department Aide who says he and two others, okay, thats called corroboration, that they heard President Trump on a call with ambassador sondland the day after the july 25th call between the two president s. I then heard President Trump ask, so hes going to do the investigation . Ambassador sondland implied that hes gonna do it, adding that president zelensky will do anything you ask him to. After the call ended, david holmes, the state Department Aide, said he asked sondland, is it true the preside
A friday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,030 of the Trump Administration brings brandnew testimony from critical impeachment witnesses, none of it good for the president. Marie yovanovitch, Longtime Foreign Service officer, now former ambassador to ukraine, told congress and the viewing audience watching at home how trump and his people worked to drive her from her job. More on that in a moment. The other witness, state Department Official david holmes, stationed at the u. S. Embassy in ukraine, appeared behind closed doors, testifying about an incident we first learned about on wednesday on Live Television during testimony from the former top diplomat in ukraine, ambassador william taylor, about how holmes heard a phone call between trump and ambassador to the eu Gordon Sondland in which the president asked sondland if ukraine would investigate the bidens. This conversation took place one day after the Infamous Trump phone call wit