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Gain. Now its firsthand evidence. Text messages released to house investigators last night that show an effort to get ukraine to announce investigations that would benefit the president , including investigations connected to joe biden, including an explicit quid pro quo for ukraine, you do this for us, and we will give you something you want. The players did it some eagerly, others reluctantly as the president was withholding military aid. Carrots and sticks. The Intelligence Community Inspector General testified in private today. Sources tell us he gave the House Intelligence Committee docum...

That comes as his top diplomat bristles at a demand from house lawmakers. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is with us tonight. Good evening john bates its because good evening to you. Outside Rudy Giuliani has not decided yet whether to comply with the congressional subpoena for documents. Neither has the secretary of state but mike pompeo is taking steps to try to Keep State Department staffers well away from capitol hill. Speak of the secretary of state fired back today against a house demand to in a letter to Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman eliot engel mike pompeo saying that...

The former white house aide painting trump clueless about north koreas paranoia. It remains unacceptable for north korea to have deliverable nuclear weapons. So is socalled romance diplomacy the best way to get to that point . Im not going to comment on that. Okay. Then nice try. Okay. Back to that story a little bit later, but President Trump today very much aware it is a big week ahead in the house impeachment inquiry. On twitter a tome of president ial complaints, many of them wandering far from the facts, going after the bidens, the whistleblower and house chairman adam schiff. The preside...

Thing as the 11th hour gets underway this tuesd tuesday night. Good evening once again from our nbc headquarters in new york. Day 1,027 of the Trump Administration. Were hours away from the impeachment hearings in a generation. The nation has been here three times in our history and the modern era with nixon and clinton. If impeachment touches your president ti, it goes to the top of your obituary and stay theres forever. A president using military aid to secure investigation of his political rival. Tomorrows witnesses will be deputy w assistant secretary of state george kentis and acting amba...

If you we were first told about it a week and a half ago. And we were told very specifically that the whistleblower did not want to get any of this information out, they didnt want it to leak out. So there were only a few potential groups of people that would have known about this complaint. You and your people within your office. Yes, sir. The people within the Inspector Generals Office and the whistleblower and whoever that whistleblower gave this information to. So what im trying to ascertain is how would it run in all the Mainstream Media outlets . Even though they got a lot of it wrong, b...