The Deputy Assistant secretary of state. This is what nbc news has learned from an official working on the impeachment inquiry. Kent is a Deputy Assistant secretary of state, as i said. Who worked on ukraine and five other countries. He told lawmakers he was to told to lay low after raising concerns about Rudy Giulianis involvement in ukraine. George kent is going to be one of the first people to testify in open hearings. He is scheduled to testify before congress on november 13th. Joining me now from capitol hill, msnbcs Garrett Haake. Garrett, i imagine weve just received this in the time that i was walking to the studio. So i dont know what, if anything, youve had a chance to look at yet. But what do we know so far about george kent . Yeah. Ali, this is becoming a regular feature here with me and you these afternoons. Kents testimony, as far as ive been able to skim through the summary here, does a couple things for democrats. Kent is angry. Thats clear. He talks about a Smear Campa
Call with ambassador Gordon Sondland, david holmes, who testified behind closed doors late today. That closeddoor deposition of david holmes that started this afternoon just ended about six hours after it started. Going late into the night tonight. David holmes Opening Statement has been obtained by nbc news and it has rocked washington. In just hours, mark sandy, a longtime career employee at the White House Office of management and budget is expected to break ranks and appear on capitol hill for a rare closeddoor deposition. We have a team of reporters and analysts following the latest. The first big headline as we reported. Another witness claiming he overheard the president on a phone call asking the u. S. Ambassador to the eu, Gordon Sondland, about ukraine investigations were talking about david holmes who worked at the u. S. Embassy in ukraine and gave a deposition last night. Heres how Intel Committee member Democrat Eric swalwell describes the importance of the testimony. What
Actual takeaways on the first election in the impeachment era. You cant let that happen to me. Live from studio 6a in rockefeller plaza, all in starts right now. Hello. Hey, everybody. How are we doing . Welcome back. Welcome, everybody. To 30 rock. Thank you. Its great to have you here. It is great to be back in our 4a studios. It was a crazy, crazy week. We learned the impeachment hearings of the president will be televised next week. One thing we learned this week. We also got hundreds and hundreds of pages of impeachment deposition transcripts released including two key ones today. We are going to be talking about those in just a bit. And we also had the First National election in the impeachment era. We will talk about that with Steve Kornacki. And the white house wants the Supreme Court to rule on the president s tax returns. We just found out that today. Were going to get to that as well. But i think its useful to remember this entire scandal starts and revolves around the notes