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Official released just a little while ago. Much more on that a little later. But the big news of the day is that House Democrats are taking the next big step on impeachment. The chairman of the Judiciary Committee jerry nadler announced today his committee will begin action on impeachment with its first big hearing next wednesday. That came in a letter nadler sent to the president inviting trump to defend himself in hearings with his counsel present. It comes as the president s men, all of whom ...

That is a lot of dough. 2020 democrats are accusing him of trying to buy the nomination. But could it work . Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of the union is looking ahead. House democrats are moving forward in the impeachment inquiry after two weeks of historic public testimony on capitol hill. The clear picture that has emerged, the Trump Administration was pushing ukraine for political investigations while holding up military aid and a white house meeting that ukraine wante...

Says the decision to delay that aid to ukraine was highly irregular. A former colleague will join us in a minute. It is becoming increasingly clear how pivotal it would be if john bolton were to testify. Pete buttigieg breaks out in iowa with 78 days to the iowa caucuses, three days to the next debate here on msnbc. And kal penn on his new show sunnyside takes on daca. Up me this morning, shermichael singleton. Law professor at nyu. From washington is a White House Correspondent for the New York...

9 00 a. M. , not 10 00. So you probably need to reset your alarm or replan your morning around when youre telling people you will not be available to answer the phone. Tomorrow 9 00 a. M. Tomorrows witness is going to be marie Masha Yovanovitch. She was a casualty of President Trumps scheme in ukraine in that she was pulled out of her job as u. S. Ambassador in that country after a bizarre Smear Campaign against her that was led by people like the president s lawyer, rudy giuliani, and the presi...

Committee wrapped and the Intelligence Committee writing up their report now on what their investigation determined, theyre planning to hand that over to the judiciary committee. So judiciary is preparing to receive that report. They have now announced the start of their own scheduled public hearings. All of that toward their ultimate end, which is to draw up the articles of impeachment against the president and put those on the floor of the house for a vote. I mean, eas that is all moving forwa...

Night that went until about 10 00 after that lengthy hearing with the former ambassador to ukraine, Maria Yovanovitch. They started a little late. And thats why the deposition went so late last night. Now, the witness today, mark sandy, he started to raise some questions about why they were holding up the aid to ukraine. You know, and people are going back and recalibrating that hearing yesterday with Maria Yovanovitch. Republicans are struggling somewhat to kind of curate their own narrative. I...

That hell testify behind closed doors on saturday if he is subpoenaed. Breaking ranks with the acting director and two others who have refused to testify. This is all new information. And this is a big deal. Let me tell you why, because omb is responsible for releasing that 400 million in aid for ukraine. Aid that multiple Officials Say was held up to pressure ukraine into giving the president investigations that would benefit him politically here at home. That as he is holding a rally in alabam...

Coming forward. We also have a brand new cnn National Poll that shows joe biden maintaining a double digit lead atop the democratic field. Also pete booth jenl on tuttigi. Were going to begin with the weather on this busy and frustrating travel day. Ryan young in snowy minneapolis. Reporter good morning, john. Look. You went to sleep last night, there was no snow on the ground. You add a couple hours to this and you can see almost a foot so far. We know nine inches fell overnight. No matter wher...

Now in the impeachment inquiry. Whether that will still be true one week from tonight after the first round of public hearings remains to be seen. This evening, we are getting a look at more transcripts from behind closed doors testimony, but we are not getting is any testimony from some of the yet. Dent his top advisors. Chief correspondent john roberts starts us off on the north lawn. The previous couple of days, President Trump has not taken any questions on the media on the whirlwind of acti...

Bomb shell new report from the New York Times, President Trump knew about concerning of dealings with ukraine when he chose to released aid to ukraine, lawyers from the white house briefed the president about the complaint in late august. The timeline is important. That means that President Trump knew about the whistleblowers complaint at two key moments, when he decided to release 391 million Security Assistance to ukraine and when he spoke to Gordon Sondland, telling him he didnt want any quid...