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We are faced with a parade of testifying witnesses. each with revelations more damaging than the next. the white house and its allies are looking to jam up the entire process. today is day 23 of the impeachment inquiry and here is what is happening. michael mckinley, who served as senior adviser to mike pompeo until his res ig nation is testifying. a source familiar with his planned testimony tells nbc news that mckinley will paint a picture of political pressure being applied to diplomats inside the state department under the trump administration and that he was outraged by the firing of ukra...

By telling democrats how he tried to sound the alarm on fake news driven smear campaign orchestrated by rudy giuliani and his associates to out the former ambassador. kent is following fiona hill who testified for ten hours yesterday. the former senior director at the nfc also pointed to giuliani. she said he and gordon sondland made an end run around the nfc to pursue u a shadow pressure campaign to ukraine. revelation so alarming, john bolton told her to report it to white house u lawyers. "the new york times" said he told her quote, he's not part of any drug deal they're cooking up and call...

Basically everything that was happening in the lead-up to this call.s and so she is prepared to testify before congress, according to people we spoke to, that, you know, she saw -- witnessed rudy giuliani and gordon sondland basically do an end run around the foreign policy process that's traditionally done within the ce white house, specifically on it ukraine, and more importantly that they were doing that and had a direct line to the president. so they were cutting out people like fiona hill, like john bolton, who is the national security adviser and essentially running a sort of shadow fore...

She saw a lot and certainly knows everything in the run-up to this phone call in july with president zelensky and purcharet trump. her testimony is significant because the person familiar with her testimony told us she plans to basically say that rudy giuliani and sondland, the eu ambassador, were running a short of shadow foreign policy, an end run around the national foreign affairs process, and cutting out national security adviser john bolton, which is significant. her testimony and how that plays out is significant because it could be a signal for how these other former officials will be ...

Ambassador gordon sondland and rudy giuliani essentially pulled an end run around the normal white house policymaking process on ukraine and were running a shadow foreign policy that circumvented security official and pacely they had a direct line into trump to do a ukraine policy that differed from the normal process that's used across the government to come up with policy on foreign relations. >> hill had been there i think from the very beginning, right? she's a russia expert. she left in the summer, is that right? >> she started wipeding down her role there over the summer. she was no long...