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Welcome back to hardball. following testimony from marie yavanovitch, another key player is expected to testify on monday. thats the presidents former top aide, fiona hill. sources tell nbc that hill plans to give a stunning account of how the white house tried to purr ssue a shadow foreign poli on ukraine. her appearance has stoked fear among people close to president given her central role overseeing russia and ukraine policy throughout her time working for the administration. shes expected to...

And everything else from the trump administration. but like other whistleblowers and other officials, there is clearly something to tell us tonight. late this afternoon, we also learned that miss yovanovitch had to be scene thattaed to even get that stark sassment out to the public. shes balancing between the orders she got from the government and another part of the government. the house chair is here said the state department at the direction of the trump white house direct her not to appear a...

Could this get? i mean, what kind of information are we expecting to hear from her? >> it could be explosive. fiona hill was the top russia and europe official at the white house for almost the entirety of the trump administration so far. so, she had a front row seat to the presidents interactions with president putin and with the ukrainians and others, and a source familiar with her testimony early next week on capitol hill tells nbc news that fiona hill plans to tell lawmakers that rudy giulia...

A campaign of sabotage directed at her. anybody who basically wasnt going to play ball and subordinate their professional commitment to the president was going to be targeted by them. and they did it. but weve got to remember this, chris, this isnt exactly mystery at this point. we know what happened. were trying to fill in -- >> basically -- >> were just filling in the details at this point. >> the crime was admitted to in the first page of this. were just in flashback mode of how did we actual...

59 days to take that one small town. theyre now proposing to take a zone thats 20 miles deep and 300 miles long. i think its safe to assume, amin, that this will take days, not days or weeks, but months, so this has a long, long way to go. >> nbc news chief global correspondent bill neely, bill, thank you very much for that report. >> thank you, bill. president trumps former top aide on russia and europe is set to go before congress where she is expected to give revealing testimony, on rudy gi...

To the secretary of state mike pompeo is out. hes resigned, largely over pompeos failure to support personnel ensnared in the ukraine controversy. and theres more. nbc news reporting it this way tonight. fiona hill, who was until recently president donald trumps top aide on russia and europe plans to tell congress that rudy giuliani and eu ambassador gordon sondland circumvented the national security council and the normal white house process to pursue a shadow policy on ukraine. fiona hill is e...

Development in the story. i mentioned today was the deadline for rudy giuliani to hand over documents. it is actually tuesday. tuesday is the deadline for giuliani to hand over documents. now, yovanovitch said that no one attempted to prevent her being deposed by lawmakers in todays closed door session. two key players are scheduled to appear next week. president trumps former top aide on russia and europe, fiona hill, will appear before congress. thats stoking fear among people close to the pre...

Ambassador gordon sondland circumvented the national nd security council and the normal white house process to pursue a shadow policy on ukraine. fiona hill is expected to testify before congress on fi monday.on more on that in just a bit. earlier tonight at his minneapolis rally, trump railed against the ukraine controversyu and blasted the democrats inquiry. >> so theyre pursuing the insane impeachment witch-hunt. my phone call, as an example, with the president of ukraine was perfect. everybo...

An agatha christie mystery at this point. we know what happened. were trying to fill in -- >> basically -- >> were just filling in the details at this point. >> the crime was admitted to in the first page of this. were just in flashback mode of how did we actually get there. okay, theres more breaking news at this hour. two big stories coming up. nbc news is now reporting exclusively tonight one of the former trump administration official slated to testify next week is going to reveal rudy giuli...

Complaint and the impeachment inquiry of the president." thats saying a lot. "the post" is also reporting tonight that michael mckinley, career diplomat, senior adviser to the secretary of state mike pompeo is out. hes resigned, largely over pompeos failure to support personnel ensnared in the ukraine controversy. and theres more. nbc news reporting it this way tonight. fiona hill, who was until recently president donald trumps top aide on russia and europe plans to tell congress that rudy giuli...