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I'm going to see you back here at 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> i'll be back here tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. right now, katy tur back in ncc. >> good afternoon. i'm katy tur. the it's 11:00 a.m. out west and 2:00 p.m. in washington where new nbc news reporting connects the president himself with back door efforts to get ukraine to investigate his political rivals and then coffver it up. it is day 15 of the impeachment inquiry and here's what we know. nbc reports that ambassador gordon sondland spoke to the president in that mysterious five hour window between these two text messages. after diplomat bill ta...

He wanted to figure this out. pelosi said tell your people to follow the law, three sources tell nbc news. you know, what i think is interesting is that the president thought that ron did nothing wrong. he's talking about pardoning him because all he did was sell the former president's senate seat for a political game he was playing. here's the president tonight down-playing his unfreezing military aid to ukraine to get what he wanted. it seems to be pretty parallel. >> and remember this happened a day after mueller testified and said i'm exonerated, no culugds and then he gets on the phone an...

Potentially a corruption of the office and abuse of authority as president. just because you can with hold aid in some circumstances doesn't mean you can do it when you're trying to investigate your political rival. >> one thing that frustrates me about this congress it's been getting into the weeds. and you ought to be able to see like pornography, if you can see it, you can see it. if you don't see it as corruption, this misuse of power by a president, if you don't have more hearings on it, make more document demands but all it time i'm hoping we're hearing they're going to move quickly on t...

Wrong and called his attack shameful. he also said in a statement, quote, the president's message attacking california and threatening to with hold aid to the victims is ill-informed, ill-timed and demeaning to those who are suffering as well as to the men and women on the front lines. the president followed up with other tweets, today tweeting out a thank you to firefighters, fema and first responders. of course his latest tweet tonight making a disaster declaration has echoed that tone. first of all, i guess when you first heard about the comments from the president about withholding funding...

Place. just utter devastation. still an evacuation zone but your heartbreaks for folks worried about their homes, pets and everything they have and what kind of destruction they will be coming home too. >> it's incredible how far the embers can be picked up and moved by the wind and deposited elsewhere. the president's tweet varied. his initiate tweet not focusing on the victims. he said there's no reason for these massive and deadly forest fires except that forest management is so poor. million offens of dollars given year. remedy now or no more federal payments. the president's attack was ca...