messageea is do things for me a you get things. can you assure folks that the taylors and yovanovitches and hills are all still out there in their posts around the world? there are many of them but fewer than there were three years ago and fewer of them than there were three months ago. i mean, this is an effort by these individuals, these remarkable patriots who by the way are people who disagreed werear dimensions of barack o a obama s policy. this is not a partisan thing. this is a viewno that we have a responsibility as the united states to stand with countries being subjected to the kind of aggression that russia has perpetrated against ukraine. and they are out there. and they will continue to be out there.ue but we will need a major renovation job for our diplomatic corps in the wake of the trump administration. and not just there. of course you also in our
that s the russian foreign minister, standing in the oval office today, an honor that ukraine s president never got. all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on this tuesday night. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 1,055 of the trump administration. this morning democrats in the house unveiled two articles against the president, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. tomorrow night, judiciary committee announced they will start the mark-up phase, the debate over the language in the articles, the two articles are tightly focused on just one subject, trump s actions to pressure ukraine for political investigations. and the reasoning is made clear in the language. and we quote from the articles. president trump by such conduct
sticking with the percentage it is, same question to you, is it worth the risk? sure. i mean there s a risk going the other way, too, right? sit there and do nothing. the speaker was reluctant to do this. i was more inclined to take the mueller report to impeachment. she declined that. some of the younger democrats, some of the first-term democrats in swing districts, especially the veterans who had that letter that really broke it open. i think they ve done it in a careful way. they ve got two solid articles of impeachment, i think. by going ahead on the mexico canada trade deal. i think she has handled it quite well.
learn a lot of details in internal investigations. what s different this time around, though, is you have people contemporaneously. gordon sondland is not an obama holdover. he was the president s choice. he arrived as a major multiple millionaire donor. you have the president s voice from various people, including that official who was in a restaurant talking to gordon sondland talk to the president where the president said are they going to investigate them? in a way it s not exactly the same. this time we do have the president s voice as we did not in the case of the mueller investigatio investigation. mike, another dramatic reading tonight in his own voice. he slanderred them bypassing along a rumor in his own way. do you reckon those texts and
nonmeddling, you suggested to simply read the mueller report. we read it. there was no proof of any collusion. those responses, of course, are right out of the russian response playbook. for his part, the president called it a very good meeting he had today. back with us, jason johnson and bill kristol. bill, you re still a lifelong republican. let s talk about senator john, no relation, kennedy. ted cruz of texas with chuck todd and then i heard former republican congressman charlie dent say about cruz, you would think he would have more self respect. what s go iing on when elected republicans pass along russian disinformation about ukraine? i mean, it s terrible. it s a way of deflecting, having