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insult insulted as you did today essentially blaming you for somalia. as if this is another step by the president to intimidate witnesses. he didn t intimidate you. you re here. you ve endured. but there are other people out there that can expect the trump treatment if they come forward. that s a question for us. now, you also indicated that the president has a prerogative to appoint a non-career person and to be candid, republican presidents and democratic presidents have done that. the mr. sondland s transcript is out and he was someone who indicated that everything hinged, this the white house meeting and the release of the vital defensive aid. everything hinged on the president, president zelensky, being willing to do that investigation that would benefit the trump campaign. you re aware of that? yes. and you ve indicated that s something that you would not agree to do. yes. and sondland was quite willing to do. apparently, so. i thank you for your professi ....
were complaining the lack of direct testimony that democrats were bringing, rudy giuliani would be the ultimate direct witness. he certainly would. joy vance, thank you for joining us. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. tonight the late warning of another government employee breaks the silence on the impeachment inquiry as we are hours away from a veteran former ambassador who says she felt threatened by her own government while working for the u.s. overseas. what words were they talking about? cameras capture the conversation between the president and his attorney general despite waiting for the helicopter in the backyard. the speaker compares the president to nixon and spells out the crimes she believes he s guilty of. all of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 1,029 of the trump administration. a day between this week s public impeachmentme hearings. the pres ....
it is 12:00 in new york. we re following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc senior adviser fiona hill and current u.s. diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the trump administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a smear campaign against ukraine ambassador marie yovanovitch who was apparently standing in the way. the conduct of both of today s witness witnesses, they believed lives could be jeopardized in ukraine. here is some of the dramatic testimony of fiona hill and david holmes. the barrage of allegations directed against ambassador yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything i have seen in my professional career. i heard ambassador sondland say to the president, yes, he was in ukraine, and wen ....
to exclude from trial? therefore, from the american public evidence. i mean, we re prosecutors, we are used to evidence. that s how we measure our cases, measure our progress. and if senator mcconnell has decided in coordination with the white house that it s going to be run in a particular way to exclude facts and evidence and witnesses an documents what does that make the senate? it is just an amazing point for you to be making. america s history is being an advocate around the world for the i think it is fair to call that a banana court, a banana republic, a kangaroo court. we used to be a country that helped bring the rule of law to other countries. so impeachment wasn t designed to be a trial like in an article 3 court but it was designed to be a process and a high mined one in which facts mattered. right? the framers had this fascinating trial. you could have put an impeachment trial in the judiciary. they didn t want to. theoretically, the house, the house had the ....
there s a question of what point does amending a testimony become straight-up lying or perjuring one self? one said that the testimony of other witnesses helped to refresh their memories and see in new light their own experiences and will be instructive to see what volcker has to say for himself on the two key questions, quid pro quo, bribery plot, and what he was doing with rudy giuliani. his testimony was that he rudy giuliani as being a nuance and more helpful to bring rudy giuliani in and help him understand that he was promulgating the debunked conspiracy scenarios instead of freelance out there in ukraine. jeff bennett on capitol hill for us, thank you very much. joining us is democrat congressman jim himes from connecticut. congressman, your questioning of control knell vind man was one of the more emotional moments this morning. i wonder if you could look back to that for us this morning. yeah. well, it was a pretty tough moment for me. we had gotten word and sort ....