Angeles area as a growing wildfire burns through neighborhoods. Right now, behind closed doors as we mentioned a minute ago, its all happening on capitol hill, a key player in the crumb ukrainian impeachment investigation is giving a highstakes deposition to members of congress. Its former ambassador to the ukraine mariian kna yoef know v. He was initially blocked by the Trump Administration for meeting with congressional investigators. The other you may remember is Gordon Sondland, the president s ambassador to the European Union. He was the one who exchanged Text Messages about the president , ukraine and joe biden. He now says that hes in for a meeting for investigators. That is scheduled to lap sometime next week. Lets go right to the center of action in washington, d. C. Nbcs Garrett Haake is live on capitol hill. Nbcs hans nichols is at the white house for us. Garrett, let me begin with you. Within the last hour or so. We saw marie yoef vich arrive. Putting the clamp down on ever
The whistleblower reports things that were incorrect as you know and probably now have figured it out, the statement i made to the president of ukraine, a good man, nice man, was perfect. It was perfect. But the whistleblower reported a totally different statement, like the statement that was not even made. As the president airs his complaints, his personal attorney, Rudy Guiliani, says he is not doing anything unhinged and claims he has evidence to prove former Vice President joe biden engaged in corruption in ukraine. The reason they want me silent is not because i am unhinged, because ive got facts and because hes guilty and he knows it, and he knows i have a lot more facts. I have a new one today. Another affidavit. I have a lot of affidavits, a lot of statements. Even video tapes. It appears Public Opinion may be turning against trump. An average of four recent online polls find 46 of americans now support an impeachment inquiry, while 42 are opposed. The surveys were conducted pa
Do i would just like the truth. So would i. And the sunday talk show is providing a roadmap of how the gop plans to defend the president. This past ten days has been painful for members of the house on both sides of the committee. Oh, my gosh, these guys are giddy over this, and it is not the last ten days, it is the last three years. The times and the dates and the texts, and new takes on what we have learned so far and what we expect to find out from the testimony in the coming week. But, we have this breaking news in the impeachment inquiry, and the second whistleblower is said to have come forward, and the attorney representing the first whistleblower says it is representing another whistleblower with firsthand knowledge that supports the complaint at the center of the ukraine scandal, and i can confirm that my firm and my team represent multiple whistleblowers in relation to the alleged complaint. And now, take a listen to the chair of the house judiciary committee. It does not ma
The preceding was a paid program for luminess silk, sponsored by luminess air. Captioning sponsored by cbs odonnell breaking news tonight the president disrupts the impeachment hearing with a tweet. Is it witness intimidation . As we sit here testifying, the president is attacking you on twitter. Its very intimidating. I have the right to speak. I have freedom of speech, just as other people do. Odonnell House Speaker nancy pelosi speaks exclusively with Margaret Brennan. Guilty on all charges why roger stone, the president s longtime friend and self described dirty trickster is facing up to 50 years. Assault on the field the n. F. L. Cracks down tonight after an ugly brawl. Thats one of the worst thing ive ever seen on a professional sports field. Odonnell britains Prince Andrew gives his firstever interview about his relationship with sex offender jeffrey epstein. It is not something that was becoming of a member of our family hey, hey, hey odonnell bad blood theyre taylor swifts son
President in august that would have committed ukraine to pursuing investigations sought by mr. Trump into his political rifl rivals, according to three people briefed on the effort. The drafting of the statement marks new evidence of how mr. Trumps fixation with ukraine began driving senior diplomats to bend American Foreign policy to the president s political agenda in the weeks after the july 25th call between the two leaders. So just backing up for a minute here, july 25th is when President Trump has his phone call with ukraines new president. And according to the white houses own notes on the call, the ukrainian leader brought up military aid that his country was expecting from the u. S. , military aid that donald trump had put on hold. Donald trump said to him on that call, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. He asked the ukrainian president help cast doubt on russias responsibility for attacking the 2016 u. S. Election. Then he asked him for help ginning up dirt on