impeachment inquiry on capitol sam stein, thank you so much. hill, as you pointed out, a key witness, bill taylor, testifying yamiche, keep listening and behind closed doors today. watching, this is about one of your mentors, good news president trump clearly wants delivered first class, yamiche s the focus to be on his tweet, on friend and mentor, our friend, this conversation. the u.s. post office announcing and yet we know that that today it s honoring esteemed testimony is ongoing and will undoubtedly yield some revelations that will add to the journalist gwen ifill with her broader scope of the ukraine matter that we ve all been witnessing. now, my colleague peter alexander pressed hogan gidley, very own forever stamp. gwen, who would have been 64 the principal deputy press years old on september 29th, died three years ago of cancer but she lives on in our hearts secretary at the white house about the use of the word and minds forever, now on a stamp as well. coming up, quid p
of crystaline of abuse of power he told george stephanopoulos that this really presents. that byrnes was auditioning to anyone can understand quid pro be elizabeth warren s secretary quo or not that he was using tax of state, which set off rocket payer money that was supposed to be for the security interests of the united states and using it flares across washington. for his personal petty political they see themselves as interests to get ukraine to nonpartisan professionals, like deliver dirt on a political opponent. that is really what happened soldiers. now they see themselves being here. that will be the focus of the accused as partisan somehow and dems. they take offense at that and i think that the legal because they ve served under nicety of no quid pro quo, if different presidents. anybody even understands it, bill taylor served for decades. including the republicans, won t yovanovitch served for decades. have much purchase. they faeel under siege, that they re under some sor
of diplomats and officials from telling their stories to investigators. today, michael mckinley, former top aide to secretary of state mike pompeo, is set to testify. and tomorrow, it will be u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondland, who will speak to investigators, despite the fact that the state department initially blocked his testimony. nbc s garrett haake is on capitol hill to help us make some sense of this big picture. what is the narrative that these witnesses are putting forward and what do we expect to learn this week? reporter: stephanie, these witnesses are describing a white house that has set aside the typical tools of diplomacy and foreign affairs when it comes to its dealings with ukraine, things like the state department, the national security council, even the pentagon essentially sidelined in favor of political appointees loyal to the president or outsiders like rudy giuliani running their own show in ukraine. yesterday we learned from a state department official
your place of worship is now allowed unless your church specifically bans it. and in the event of a disaster, a national emergency or emergency of any kind, open and carry is essentially allowed. you will not be prosecuted for taking your gun with you regardless of the licensing of it as you are leaving a store. and changing and loosening the rules on how guns must be stored in foster homes. now guns and their ammunition can be stored together in foster homes licensed by the state. the governor of texas made the argument that these laws are intended to improve public safety. which would allow more armed r marshalls in texas school. guns in the hands of whomever, do they make us more or less safe? texas apparently has an answer that they are willing to try at least for now. all right. nbc s garrett haake. thank you so much, garrett, joining us from odessa, texas. up next, more than 30 people
the shooting including this video that we re about to play. and i warn you, this is really hard to watch. h. who s shooting? it s okay. it s okay. hey, are you okay? i got you. that video my goodness, the suspect used an ar-type assault rifle. but officials say he failed a background check and shouldn t have been able to own a gun in the first place. this comes as a series of new gun laws went into effect yesterday loosening gun restrictions in the state of texas. nbc s garrett haake has the latest. all right, garrett, let s start with what have we learned today about the gunman? reporter: well, stephanie, we learned that it appears the proximate cause, the immediate cause of this shooting may have had something to do with the suspect s firing earlier in the