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Lisa Schwarzbaum reviews a selection of books that also includes Wil Haygood’s “Colorization,” which qualifies as “an invaluable national memoir.”

Then we have the question of why these two witnesses. i think there are different rationals. annie donaldsons notes are very important. they back up don mcgahn. they are not interested in her testimony. shes been subpoenaed for a deposition. her note ks be us can be used wr witnesses. its hope hick who is is the blockbuster witness who can appear, tell the story, convey to the american public whats in mueller report with a birds eye view and that clip from representative swalwell is very telling...

Weve got steve ckornacki with a look at how two dozen democrats are dividing up the poll numbers and the march toward 2020. the 11th hour is under way. all of it on a tuesday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 852 of this trump administration. two things are happening in equal amounts this evening. while theres more talk of impeachment among rank and file democrat, the president is stepping up his attacks on their efforts. more on all that in a mo...

Been. we have boat, plane, security cameras. we have helicopters. we can maintain its security but we dont need to separate little children from their parents. we dont need to put children in capables. we dont need to have five children die in a few months under our watch. we can do better than that. s >> thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thanks a lot. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. >> tonight after don mcgahns no show, the house democrats fire off new subpoenas. ...

We will not allow the president to block congressional subpoenas putting himself and his allies above the law. >> chairman nadler is challenging the president. he issued subpoenas to former white house communications hope hicks, former deputy counsel mcgahn deputy, annie donaldson. they want both women to produce documents by next month. they want hicks to testify at a public hearing. donaldson has been asked to give a deposition instead. hick, one of trumps closest aides throughout the campaign...

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Treating anything very differently here when the house investigations keep ongoing. theres no reason to believe they are turning over documents or telling people that they should testify. theyre not even really negotiating on some of these documents. weve seen them say that they are trying to do that on a few occasions but mostly they have been steadfast for the last few months and not giving much of anything. s >> joyce to this washington post story. a one time secret letter within the irs leak...

Obama knew about moscow of cyber-attack. kristin fisher live, good afternoon, kristin. >> hey, jillian. president trump has been reluctant that russia did meddle in 2016 last night, he also placed the blame squarely on predecessor, the tweet reads like this, just out, the obama administration knew far in advance about election meddling by russia, did nothing about it, why -- what hes referring to is washington post that came out yesterday three months before election president obama received evi...

Degree he is. he knew that obama would probably do nothing. putin knew he was going to get caught. he knows we have good forensics and knows that obama would likely do nothing. thats exactly what happened here. >> thank you for the strategic picture, general, its helpful for viewers with u.s.-russia relationship is for-fing to the media on a daily basis. according to the washington post, to be believed, we have confidence that putin regime interfered in u.s. election in tangible covert way. can ...

Administration official told the washington post that he felt like he sort of choked in the administrations response to russian meddling. julian. >> wow, thanks for that kristin. so did president obama drop the ball on his handling of russia cyber-attack during an appearance on "fox & friends" congressman jason chaffetz blasted the former president for not responding forcibly. >> the democrats keep kicking dirt and trying to create more and more smoke out there. this happened during obamas watch...