. >> reporter: artist mary white knew she wanted a native american to represent south dakota when she 50 states. >> this is ed from north carolina. he says mary, i had 17 great years in the military and one really bad day.ic >> this is winston scott who served in the navy for over 25 years as a captain, and later at nasa did three spacewalks. hirohoow deceased bomb and was turned away. >> reporter: because? >> because he is japanese-american. but then a year later he was allowed to enlist. >> reporter: different war, different backgrounds. the veterans pictured are as diverse as the nation they served. mary white's intention when she began the project she called "we the people." >> i thought what if i painted all of america? i do believe our veterans are our greatest patriots. and anyone willing to lay down their life for our country, that's what truly makes a person most american. >> reporter: she traveled the country at her own expense. the paintings took her seven years to complete. they were unveiled two weeks ago in charleston, south carolina, where white lives. >> it is so beaut

mary. >>> internal white house emails show an effort to justify the present decision to withhold money to help ukraine after the decision house chief of staff mick mulvaney asked the office of management and budget for legal justification to withhold the eight in august after the president ordered the hold and after his july 25 phone call with ukraine present in which he asked the president to investigate joe biden and hunter biden and they said there was a legal consensus every step of the way that the money could be withheld in order to connect the policy review. investigators have also obtained photographs, audio, and video recordings from an associate of president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani. lab partners has turned over the evidence and he worked with rudy giuliani to push ukraine to launch investigations into the bidens. >>> a dispute between president trump and return the ship took a turn over the weekend adding with the firing of the navy top official and here is the latest from washington. >>> mark esper says president trump gave him a direct order to allow a navy sea

read it on the white house website. mary is joining us from louisiana. thank you for taking my call. i am so disgusted with this. i'm 78 years old, i have never out ofch discussed democrats. >> disgusting because? -- workingve a president his but off for us. he's done more than any president has since reagan. this is an independent speaking. they are people. if this congress doesn't get off of their cans and do the jobs they were hired to do, they have done nothing. >> a couple of comments on our facebook page. follow us on facebook at c-span.org/facebook. this is great. republicans wanted transparency and they got it. what i find funny is they voted against what they had been pushing for. time for we the people to see and hear it all. the president will be traveling to mississippi tomorrow evening. we will have live coverage of his rally tomorrow evening at 8:00 eastern time. that will be live on c-span2. be live in we will des moines, iowa for the democratic party dinner. it will include as many as 18 democratic candidates. that's at 7:30 a.m. eastern

mary bruce is at the white house with the very latest on all this. orning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, cecilia. rudy giuliani in his campaign to pressure ukraine has been at the center and the president has called him a great corruption fighter but now the president says he doesn't know what giuliani was doing in ukraine and he didn't send him there on his behalf. this morning, president trump is trying to distance himself from his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, telling bill o'reilly he didn't know what giuliani was up to in ukraine. >> what was rudy giuliani doing in ukraine on your behalf? >> well, you have to ask that to rudy but rudy -- i don't even know. >> so you didn't direct him to go to ukraine to do anything. >> no, i didn't direct him. but he is a warrior. rudy's a warrior. >> reporter: but the president himself repeatedly mentioned giuliani in the july phone call that sparked this impeachment inquiry telling the ukrainian n him to call you. rudy very much knows what's happening and he is a very capable guy. if you could speak to him,

documents, revealing the white house acted as a go-between for the president's personal lawyer rudy giuliani and secretary of state mike pompeo. at issue, former u.s. ambassador marieanovitch, who last year accused giuliani of orchestrating a smear campaign ahead of her removal. >> i do wonder why it was necessary to smear my reputation. >> reporter: as the white house intelligence committee puts the hours of testimony into a single impeachment report, the president claiming political momentum is on his side. >> we had a tremendous week with the great hoax, the impeachment hoax. >> reporter: and suggested he would welcome a trial in the senate if the house does vote to impeach. >> we want to call the whistleblower. >> reporter: the president also resurrecting a debunked conspiracy theory about the hacked dnc server in 2016. >> the fbi has never gotten that server. that's a big part of this whole thing. why did they give it to a ukrainian company. >> are you sure they did that? are you sure they gave it to ukrai ukraine? >> that's what the word was. >> reporter: that theory was propaganda. >> this is a fictional narrative that is being propagated by the authorities

mary bruce, abc news, the white house. >> our thanks to mary. >>> gordon sondland, the u.s.chment hearings, is facing allegations of sexual misconduct. >> three women detailed their accusations in a report jointly published by propublica and "the portland monthly." they say sondland retaliated against him when they rejected his advances which allegedly included forcibly kissing them and exposing himself. the alleged incidents took place between 2003 and 2010. sondland has denied the claims and suggests that they're politically motivated. >>> police in virginia have made a major break in a tri-state manhunt for a marine who'd gone awol and on the run. 22-year-old michael brown was captured and arrested at the same virginia home where he's accused of murdering his mother's boyfriend. he deserted his post at camp lejeune in north carolina last month. brown has now been charged with second-degree murder, but this morning his motive is still unclear. >>> the oldest person in america has died. alelia murphy was 114 years old. she was born in north carolina in 1905. teddy roosevelt

today when he holds a news conference with turkey's president during his visit to the white house today. anne-marie? >> natalie brand on capitol hill. thank you so much, natalie. >>> "cbs evening news" anchor and managing editor norah o'donnell will have a special report from washington during today's hearing and again for friday's hearing. you can also watch continuing team coverage to our 24-hour streaming network, cbsn. >>> the eastern two-thirds of the u.s. remains in a deep freeze this morning. arctic cold is giving millions of americans an early taste of winter. snow fell from the great lakes to new england. the entire state of michigan saw snowy weather this week. the national weather service said some areas reported 30 inches of snow. the snow and ice made for treacherous travel conditions. yesterday, slick roads caused a 50-car pileup near youngstown, ohio. two people were critically injured. the arctic cold surge is expected to shatter hundreds of mid-november records. chief meteorologist kate bylow of our philadelphia station, kyw, will tell us how long this cold snap will last. >>> in t

a white house official raised questions about the next witness to appear at a public hearing. that's the former ukraine ambassador, marie yovanovitch, noting, this white house official said that the diplomat was not on president trump's july 25th phone call with the leader of ukraine and this official arguing that she could not lend any validity to any allegations of a quid pro quo. that's the line coming out of the white house. and aides to the president are anticipating that yovanovitch will tell lawmakers about an alleged smear campaign against her. that was in her closed testimony that was held behind closed doors, but officials here are asking how that could quladd wet to the impeachment inquiry. is that an impeachable offense? one official asked, adding, ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president. as for that overheard phone call between president trump and the eu ambassador, gordon sondland, aides are throwing cold water on that call, as well. on the revelation that came out of yesterday's testimony, as well, with one official exclaiming to me over the phone earlier today, stop the presses. so they're not

white house and back to their home departments. several witnesses, including colonel vindman and marie yovanovit yovanovitch. they are on loan to the white house. president trump has repeatedly suggested dismissing them, even as advisers warn that firing witnesses could be viewed as retaliation. >>> an accounting firm was under orders by a lower court to turn over eight years of personal and business records tomorrow. in an unrelated major ruling on monday, a federal judge ordered a two-week grace president if house democrats request the president's tax returns under a new york law. this is one of four federal courts seeking the documents. >>> an unschedule checkup at walter reed hospital was routine and planned. the hospital visit did not follow protocol. the doctor's letter said it was handled because of scheduling uncerta uncertainties. the president does not have chest pain and was not treated for acute for. >>> the latest quinnipiac poll in south carolina shows zero support for pete buttigieg among black voters. he spoke at morehouse college. >> try not to get too caught up in poll numbers. a small major

white house is preparing for tomorrow? >> anderson, they are sizing up some of these upcoming witnesses. for example, marie yovanovitch, who was the former ukraine ambassador. i'm told by a white house official that they're already sending out their talking points, already talking about whether or not she is going to be that great of a witness for the democrats. this white house official said essentially, what does marie yovanovitch know about the july 25th phone call that the president had with the leader of ukraine? she doesn't know anything about it because she wasn't on that phone call and she wasn't the ukrainian ambassador at that point. they're sort of looking at who is coming up and sizing up each of these witnesses. i will tell you that the official that i spoke with also talked about this overheard conversation that bill taylor testified to yesterday about how the president and the eu ambassador gordon sondland had this phone call that was overheard by at least one official who heard the president say the word "investigations." according to this white house official, that is no reason to stop the

marie yovanovitch's testimony. there are no republicans or white house officials who are happy with the president doing this but that doesn't mean they're publicly rating it. >> no. >> we look at where the phone call between gordon sondland and trump was overheard. >>> and plus whether president trump lied in a separate investigation. about what? that's next. if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines and if you're pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. (count) time for o

white house' key defense. >> committee will come to order. >> as marie novembyovanovitch's hearing was gavelled many, the whitee call which nunes read live on television. >> when you're settled in and ready, i'd like to invite you to the white house. we'll have a lot of things to talk about. >> the transcript immediately raising questions because it made no mention of corruption. that contradicts a readout published by the white house months ago which claims the two leaders discussed ways to root out corruption during their first call. the white house has insisted fighting corruption was the primary reason trump held up the military aid to ukraine and officials didn't explain discrepancy when cnn asked for comment. today, the press secretary said he would only watch nunes' opening statement, but for the rest of the day, he will be working hard for the american people. though trump later admitted he had been paying close attention! i've been watching today for the first time. i started watching. >> everywhere yovanovitch turned bad, trump tweeted. started off in somalia, how did that go, then transferred to ukr

. >> mary bruce live from the hill tonight, and mary, republicans say they're not struggling, but tonight, the white house is beefing up its team to handle the impeachment inquiry? >> reporter: the white house may be dismissing these hearings, but they know they need a better strategy to push back against them. so, the white house is adding two people to their team, who the president personally knows and trusts to defend him. it's something that republicans here on the hill have been asking for. david? >> all right, mary bruce on the hill leading us off. mary, thank you. >>> there is late reporting after that horrific ambush of american families in mexico. three mothers and six of their children were all killed. family members returning to the scene today. one of the cars there riddled with bullets and burned. inside the vehicle, a mother and her four children were killed. and tonight here, we learn more about another mother who left her infant in the car to put her hands in the air to show that they were innocent. she did not survive. the baby did. abc's tom llamas from mexico tonight. >> reporter:

on capitol hill with the latest. >> melissa, the white house is now responding to democrats calling president trump's sweet tweets about that witness marie yovanovitch witness intimidation nbc news reporting that a white house spokes woman said the tweet was not witness intimidation, it was simply the president's opinion, which he is entitled to. this is not a trial. it is a partisan political process. now, for democrats, yovanovitch's removal from her position was a catalyst that led to the events that ultimately culminat culminated in that july 25th phone call but during the hearing today, republicans try to show that she had no firsthand knowledge of that call or of the relationship between the trump administration and ukraine after she left her post in the spring >> were you involved in the proposed trump/zelensky, later pence/zelensky meetings in warsaw, poland on september 1st? >> no, i was not. >> did you ever talk to president trump in 2019? >> no, i have not. >> mick mulvaney >> no, i have not. >> now, committee members each have five minutes to continuing questioning yovanovitch. after that, they are going to hear in closed ses

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white house probably thought would help the president. for details on that, here's cnn's kaitlan collins. >> the hearing will come to order. >> reporter: as marieovitch was gavelled in today, the white house released the transcript of the first call. which devin nunes read. >> when you're settled in and ready. i'd like to invite to you the white house. we'll have a lot of things to talk about. >> reporter: the transcript immediately raising questions because it made no mention of corruption. that convicts a readout published by the white house months ago which claims the two leaders discussed ways to root out corruption during their first call. the white house has insisted fighting corruption was the primary reason trump held up the military aid to ukraine. and officials didn't explain the discrepancy when cnn asked for comment. today, the press secretary said trump would only watch nunes' opening statement, but for the rest of the day he will be working hard for the american people. though trump later admitted he'd been paying close attention. >> i've been watching for the first time, i started watching. >> reporter: everywhere marie yovanovit

"it all comes as four white witnesses were no-shows today, and abc's mary bruce on the hill. >> reporter: after weeks behind closed doors, tonight, the first witness transcript is out. former ukranian ambassador marie yovanovitch describing a shadow campaign to oust her, led by the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani. she says ukrainian officials told her giuliani and his associates "had plans, and that they were going to, you know, do things, including to me." adding one ukrainian official "told me i really needed to watch my back." today, president trump tried to distance himself from yovanovitch's testimony. >> i'm sure she's a very fine woman. i just don't know much about her. >> reporter: hoping to save her job, yovanovitch said she say peeled to the president's point-man on ukraine, the ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland. sondland's advice? he said, "you know, you need to go big or go home. tweet out there that you support the president. you know, the sorts of things that he likes. you know, go out there battling aggressively and, you know, praise him or support him." yo

. >> i'm joined now by democratic congresswoman mary gay scanlen, jeff bennett, white house correspondent for nbc news, michael mcfall, former u.s. ambassador to russia. congresswoman, your faith in television, how is it going right now? do you believe the fact when you're going to see people like bill taylor and vindman and the rest of them all trooping before cameras in hours of testimony publicly before -- we don't know how many networks are going to be covering this. is it going to change the voter? are they going to open their eyes to the significance of this scandal? >> i certainly hope so, and i would think that they would. this has been an investigation we haven't been able to put before the american people up until now. but we finally have the patriotic public servants who have been willing to come forward and talk about what has been happening whereas you said the president has been using -- abusing his power to impact our national security for his own private reasons. >> what's the difference between people readsing as they have the last several weeks about this damning testimo

ambassador, marie yovanovitch, and friday, marie yovanovitch herself, who defied white house orders to go forward and testify, saying that she felt intimidated and afraid as she is warned by ukraine officials to get out of the country, there was a campaign by the president and rudy giuliani and others to actually get her out of that position. >> suzanning as you look at this gop wish list, some of them to be expected, hunter booeiden, others from a hall of fame of gop targets, are any of these witnesses likely to see the light of day? >> well, we certainly know the intelligence chair adam schiff says that hunter biden nor the anonymous whistleblower will go forward, that that is just providing more support for what schiff calls a sham investigation that has since been debunked. what it does show you, jim, is there is an effort to relitigate, if you will, the fact that the theory that ukraine was involved in the election and not russia. schiff says they're not going down that rabbit hole. >> it's pretty amazing that mick mulvaney, the president's acting chief of staff, has joined this l

the third highest ranked official at the state department, hale testifed about the white house efforts to remove marieh as us ambassador to ukraine. < david holmes, to ukraine. us ambassador yovanovitch as us ambassador to ukraine. < david holmes, the member of taylors' staff that overheard the call between sondland and the president is set to testify on thursday. > (áboxesá) thanks kellie. ( james ) and we will be streaming the hearings live from start to finish on our kron on app. you can watch the hearings uninterrupted. all you have to do is go to the app store to download the app. breaking news we are following out of the south bay... one man is dead after a hit-and-run accident in san jose. kron 4's will tran is on the scene with the latest. wil? thanks will. thanks will. ( james ) still ahead on the kron 4 morning news... a local civil rights attorney is reacting after the decision to not file charges against men arrested in the deadly orinda shooting. ( james ) plus... one man is dead.. another in custody after a stabbing on a bart train. latest details on the investigation. (james) and then..

>>the white house's press mary defense today hhs been that there was nothing new presented. >>there is nothing new yesterday you're calling that evidence respectfully. >>but that defense is undermined by the new revelation from the top us diplomat in ukraine who tied the president directly to the pressure campaign. >>the member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone bill taylor's aid heard trump presses ambassador about the status of the investigations. >>he wanted into the bidens and that aid is expected to testify behind closed doors. yet republicans are holding firm in their defense. as the former attorneys general tries to get his old senate seat back in alabama is a strong-willed person. jeff sessions is also trying to get back in his former boss is good graces. >>it looks like before the evidence comes in the boat, so supposedly lined up an economy driven through to produce an impeachment. >>hearing trump was hosting turkish president irwin at the white house erdogan says during the visit. >>he returned trump's letter warning him not to be a tough guy. >>w

he may have ascended to the white house without chappaquiddick with mary jo watching the events unfolduickly forgotten when discussing what did it, the death of young woman tied to the actions of a powerful united states senator. calls of injustice still echo in the halls of the courthouse wf capital mme two era. kennedy escaping charges now seems unthinkable. to this day, many questions remain unanswered. admitted a squirrel of conspiracy theory and the passage of time, they will likely remain that way. for some chappaquiddick will always be a simple car accident. for others it's the event that ended the kennedy dynasty but for many it remains scandalous. it will never tell the story of the lonely star

the white house is down from sweet on marie your benefits was not intimidation but simply his opinion the u. s. preresident accused of witness intimidation in real time. as a former us ambassador to ukraine testifies in. seventy five year old mom and society agrees to be put forward as lebanon's next prime minister this off the protests are pushed aside to o re re out of a job. at the end of october. time for our business update next with uncle- good evening aka hey tawana your starting out where all of a factory left off over in hong kong which has slipped into recession due to this ongoing protests. that's right the protest movement is like hitting a peak right now we've been talking a lot about the economic effects on hong kong. and the government is now confirming that the chinese run business hubs economy is strong for a second quarter in a row. now that is the technical definition of a recession it's hong kong's first recession in a decade andnd analysts warning that this recession could easily be more damaging than the financial crisis off two ththousand eight. andnd the sars e

yovanovitch is someone who is a tough woman, i praise her service so the white house is on an island by itself with president trump attacking marie yovanovitch. robert: dan, you came to washington in 1972 to report on this town and politics. you've seen an impeachment proceeding with president nixon, anxtmarital affair lead to trial in 1999 and impeachment in the house forsi pnt clinton. what do you make of today and what it tells us about this moment and the instituons in this country? dan: we've used the word "extraordinary" around thisr table he past three years it's a justifiable word again this week. y to s -- t what the president did in the middle of this hearing i think caught everybod by surprisend after he did that, republicans weren many ways set back. one after another ended up praising the former ambassador in wayshat were a little bit surprising given that they are trying to dve a wedge into this proceeding. so i think that we are at a stage in this where the lines lyare cle drawn and yet the capability to kind of up-end the table. and it puts republicans in a very diffilt spot and given testimony that we've heard, t

white house tonight. jon, thank you and to mary and our entire team on the air all day today. >>> but we move on tonight, to the other major headlines this thursday night. the frightening takeoff from los angeles airport. flames seen shooting from an engine on the boeing 777. inside the plane, a father recording his little girl, seated next to the window. a flash then catching his eye, look at this, pointing out the window and flames seen just under the wing there. the pilot declaring an emergency, turning back to the airport. fire trucks and screw crews on tarmac. and abc's will carr is at l.a.x. tonight. >> reporter: tonight, a terrifying moment. this little girl onboard with jet with her family, hears what some passengers initially thought were gunshots. you can see flames shooting out from the engine. >> we were on the air and it was shooting fire balls. >> i've never seen that before. >> reporter: this father panning over to look out the window of the cabin as the engine misfired. >> i was watching a movie. i thought it was something from the movie. it was a pop, pop, pop. and the flight started sha

white house she'll play a very, very important role. no question. trish: that sounds like to me, that sounds like desperation. bernie sanders in a last-minute hail maryhead of elizabeth warren and joe biden is dangling the prospect of 28-year-old alexandria ocasio-cortez in the white house. we are trying to think of what he could possibly mean. she couldn't be vice president because you need to be 35 years old to be vice president. but imagine what would happen if he tapped her to be his treasury secretary. >> once you get to the tippy top stop your 10 millionth dollar, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60% to 70%. capitalism has not sales existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. trish: imagine what our foreign policy would look like for a person who refuses to denounce socialist dictator nicolas maduro in venezuela. >> i think this is a complex issue. i think this is important to approach carefully. i'm concerned about u.s. interventionism in venezuela and i oppose it. trish: how about the head' homeland security? >> i think abolishing i.c.e. is a call to action on several levels. one is the literal interpretation. i don't n

now the white house is preparing for a senate trial should this process move forward. it's set to be a pretty eventful couple of weeks here down in d.c., anne-marie. >> all right. skyler henry on capitol hill. thank you so much. >>> last night several republican senators and senior white house officials did meet to discuss the strategy for a senate trial in the impeachment proceedings. the "washington post" reports that they are considering limiting the trial to two weeks. ben tracy has more from the white house. >> reporter: cbs news has learned if democrats do impeach the president in the house, republican leaders in the white house plan to put on a full trial in the senate. they want the president to mount a public defense rather than force a quick vote to dismiss the charges. even so, the president hedged his bets hosting several gop senators at the white house for lunch and to talk impeachment. among them, utah's mitt romney and maine's susan collins, both critical of the president, and he doesn't want any defections if it comes to a senate trial. >> this remains deeply troubling. >> reporter: last month, romney's critiques prompted the pres

and the former ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, will testify tomorrow. >> kaitlan collins at the white>>> if you look past the red rick and fury around impeachment, there's a reason why the aid to ukraine is important in its own right. the aid represents nearly 10% of ukraine's 2019 military budget. and there's no dispute that helping ukraine fight off russian aggression in crimea is vital not only for ukraine, but for u.s. national security. fred pleitgen, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dave. we keep talking about the anti-tank millsssiles. those javelins are not okayed under the obama administration. they did not green light the sale of those javelins. the trump administration did. one of the things that has hurt the ukrainians was the fact that the aid was held up. you look at the ukrainian military, they have improved a great deal since 2014. but the things they need from the u.s. are the high-tech weapons, that high-tech gear. not just the javelins but other things that the aid buys, is night division goggles. its sniper rifles, as well. a lot of high-tech things that th

white house. >> i'll read part of one of his tweets. everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad.tarted off in somalia, how did that go? what would you like to respond to the president's attack that everywhere you went turned bad? >> i, i mean i, i don't think i have such powers. i'm not in mogadishu, somalia and other places. i actually think that where i've served over the years i and others have demonstrably made things better. >> anytime women challenge the president of the united states, it seems to strike a nerve in him and get a reaction that's a bit more visceral. >> and now the president in real time is attacking you. what effect do you think that has on other witnesses' willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> it's very intimidating. >> designed to intimidate, is it not? >> i mean, i can't speak to what the president is trying to do, but i think the effect is to be intimidating. >> well, i want to let you know, ambassador, that some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously. >>ive abeen watching today for the first time. >> reporter: a few ho

white house meeting? the answer is yes. everyone was in the loop. >> this came after marie yovanovitch testified they intercepted d a smear campaign from giuliani befofore being recalled from m her post. alexander vendor been called the dealings with volodymyr zelensky and proper. >> sydni is expected to clear soon, but dozens of bushfires continue to rage it ross the country. no rain in the forecast anytime soon. julia reports. wind and bone dry coconditioions stoking the flams ravaging the state of victoria. the gust have caused this, an entire town cloaked in red dust. declared itsice most severe warning, a code red. >> we have more than 60 fires. atat this point, wewe have a log way to go. wales, sydneyuth was enveloped in smoke. it is the second time in three days. thisis year flameses are unprecedented. scientists believe global warming is a major factor. australia suffocates. d dodgedrison had questions about the e role of climate change. he wrote his silence thursday. it does not bear up to credible scientitific evidenenc. >> fossil fuel emissions may be low, but they are the largest exporter of coal. this month, he announ

here is reaction to my open, white house press secretary stephanie grisham. i want to begin with marieovanovich's testimony. the president tweeted during the hearings about what he called her poor performance as ambassador. and the democrats are talking about new articles of impeachment for witness intimidation. what's the white house take on that? >> i would say what adam schiff did to congresswoman stefanik can be intimidation. what a cable network did to one of our senior advisors, kellyanne conway, could be intimidation. the president was expressing why he didn't have faith in yovanovich. he deserves to have people he believes in. he was going around the dems on his twitter which made them angry. we started with the word quid pro quo, now we moved to bribery, now intimidation. i realize the dems are polling which wowrds hit us the hardest. judge jeanine: today there was testimony released involving two individuals that say that it could be very damaging to the president, taylor -- not taylor, i believe the individuals williams and morrison. have you heard about that? >> i have. i t

keep happening over the next few days as the president is waiting for marie yovanovitch's testimony on friday. people in the whitecerned about bill taylor and the president has been bringing up the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine more often and that is something that they'll be keeping an eye on as they're waiting to see how these developments go and what happens next. >> thank you very much, kaitlan. everyone is back with me. david, publicly, you know, you hear the president dismissing the hearings and others in the white house are also publicly saying the hearings were boring. they were. trump said he didn't watch a single minute. is this the right message to send? >> well, i think it's a better message than him live tweeting it which is what a lot of people anticipated that he would do, but clearly, they have to be concerned about it. i mean, the storyline is a terrible fact pattern for him and you could tell it was a terrible fact pattern by watching the arguments that the republicans were putting out that were not going to the main point which was that the president had this call, that the aid was held up

white house allegedly operate. onu have fox news men more than a dozen times, twitter mentioned more than a ndo times and marie yovanovitchrmer ambassa ukraine, said first she was encouraged by gordon sondland, e.u. ambassador, to praise president trump via twitter. she was also told she needed to leave raine because president trump might tweet about her. so we talk a lot about presid but this is really twitter sitting at the center of our foreign policy. theyou also have the president allegedly being on the phone call with a president uoaine talking about our u.s. ambassador essentiallyaying she's not someone who can be trusted and the president of ukra se ising you're the person encouraging me not to look hat this ambassador in a positive way. then you have the president allegedly getting on the phone with his personalney rudy giuliani and mixing foreign policy with his own personal interests, alleged, and democrats say this is an unorthodox and unfair way for the white house to operate. president trump, of course, thinks he did nothing wrong. >> nawaz: that's our white house correspondent yamiche alcindor joining us fr

white house tonight. jon, thank you. >>> and friday morning, another key witness, the former ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, who was removed from her post, she will testify before the american people, friday morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern, right here on abc. >>> but we do move on tonight, to other news, and the record-breaking cold, and the horror that played out in massachusetts. a devastating fire in the middle of all of this. the heartbreaking toll tonight. a firefighter was killed just after he saved two other firefighters as they fought the flames amid this bitter cold. abc's gio benitez tonight from worcester, massachusetts. >> reporter: tonight, that deadly fire breaking out in freezing weather. firefighters in worcester, massachusetts, rushing in to battle a four-alarm blaze. >> people still inside and also a baby on the third floor. >> reporter: record cold temperatures dropping into the teens, wind chills below zero. heavy fire conditions trapping members of ladder five. four firefighters taken to the hospital. tragically, lieutenant jason menard did not survive. >> lieutenant menard he

the ambassador certainly did not carry any water for the white house or fort mary giuliani today in histhing back. i have developed over the may and as well as the other individuals mentioned all had to be thinking about, notjust mentioned all had to be thinking about, not just now, mentioned all had to be thinking about, notjust now, what is the collective defence for the president, but what is their personal exposure closer? have they fio personal exposure closer? have they no about things, did they have an obligation to speak out, to resign? i think all of those questions must be high on that mind right now, and i'm sure they are all getting lawyers as we speak. thank you for bringing us up to speed. let's return to capitol hill and that hearing, we can listen into the ongoing testimony from ambassador sondland. i never testified that we we re sondland. i never testified that we were pushing anyone to investigate the bidens, i said burisma. you were involved in ukrainian policy?” the bidens, i said burisma. you were involved in ukrainian policy? i told you which my role was, which wa

and it must must have been weird for bright white jesus to be bored of middle eastern parents. no wonder mary claims you don't know who the father was. anyway i'm going to go ahead and put truth publishers down as persecuted next up journalist who actually revealed the truth mags blumenthal is a bestselling author and creator. creator of independent media outlet the gray zone but of course the most important thing he's done in his entire career was appear on my show. he and his colleagues have revealed a lot about the u.s. creative coup against venezuela and the american government's lies about syria and as i reported last week blumenthal was recently arrested on 5 month old false charges in a swat style raid at his home here in d.c. he was kept in jail for 2 days and not allowed to call his lawyer or anyone else and last week even the national lawyers guild strongly condemned the arrest of blumenthal so i would say journalist telling the truth oh or you have persecuted perjury. if you're appealing the reality about your war machine then the authorities said to police up your but meanwhile a

as the president was leaving the white house earlier in the evening, anderson, he was going after marie yovanovitch, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. and at one point he was asked whether or not there was a smear campaign orchestrated against her. he did not deny that. and keep in mind this is the former ambassador who said in this transcript of her testimony that she felt threatened personally threatened by the president and the president, all he had to say about yovanovitch is the president of ukraine did not have kind things to say about her as well. >> in the transcript of the actual phone call, it was actually, if memory serves me correct, it was actually president trump who brought up yovanovitch. >> reporter: that's right. >> saying not great things about her. >> reporter: exactly. >> and saying she was going to go through some stuff, and i'm paraphrasing. i don't have the exact quote. >> reporter: that's right. >> he weighed in about the transcripts last night before they were released. his line has been, you know, that adam schiff is somehow going to doctor the transcript

mary bruce, thank you. i want to bring in abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl, because jon, president trump said he was watching from the white house. and that he's happy with what he's seeing. take a look. >> and yet, i just got to watch and the republicans are absolutely killing it. they are doing so well, because it's a scam. it's a big scam. >> jon, you were on the air with us today when the official white house account actually tweeted out criticism of lieutenant colonel vidman, the decorated iraq veteran testifying in uniform there. the white house account actually used to take aim at one of the witnesses? >> reporter: that is for sure, david. they went after vindman in two ways. first, quoting tim morrison, they questioned his judgment, and then, on twitter, they questioned vindman's loyalty to the united states, raising the fact that he had been offered the job of defense minister for ukraine. it was an offer that he rejected and immediately reported it to his supervisors. these were extraordinary attacks for several reasons, especially because, for more than a year, vindman has com

marie yovanovitch's testimony. cnn's jeremy diamond is at the white house for us. latest target, jennifer williams. why? >> that's right, fredricka, the answer to that is unclear. we don't know why exactly the president is going after this employee, but it does fit a pattern that we have seen, fredricka, of the president attacking members of his own administration who have gone forward to testify in this impeachment inquiry, branding them without any evidence as never trumpers. let's read the tweet first from the president. he said, tell jennifer williams, whoever that is, to read both transcripts of the presidential calls and see the just released statement from ukraine. then she should meet with the other never trumpers, who i don't know and mostly never even heard of, and work out a better presidential attack. the diplomat as well as the top official in ukraine, bill taylor, find that startling. this is startling that the president wants to go after a member of his own administration. vice president pence's assistant karen walterman, i asked her about her attack

white house. with those credentials i very much welcome you. i know that you've met marieh, as you watched this, what struck but the way she handled this very awkward position in which she was put? >> well thanks for having me. i think ambassador yovanovitch epitomizes the best of our foreign service. who get up every day, do a job and defend the constitution and what you're seeing is this parade of career patriots, really. stating the facts as they see them. they're refusing to fall into this false narrative being put forward by the president and his supporters. and they're just stating the facts. and i think the republicans are going to have to decide are they going to continue to try and obfuscate, or are they going to just eventually have to say, it was okay for the president of the united states to try and bribe the ukrainians for his personal and political gain. and it's ultimately going to come down to that question. and they're going to have to vote on it. i think our hats go off and we all are grateful to ambassador yovanovitch, we're going to hear today from a ve

conviction and the testimony, the powerful testimony of marie yovanovitch today, the key to this afternoon and the republicans on the trump white house trying to bring this kind of back a little bit is whether they are able to confront -- and i don't know the answer to this -- but whether they are able to confront marie yovanovitch with facts. the two things that are the main allegations against her in the alleged smear campaign by rudy giuliani and others where, one, that she was about nothing the president. two, for all of her talk about being an anticorruption fighter in ukraine, that in fact she was stopping some of the anticorruption efforts in ukraine. there was not a lot of very persuasive testimony back and forth about that when she spoke for hours behind closed doors and was asked by republicans, including the republican counsel who we are going to hear from, steve castor, there was not a lot of credible testimony. maybe they have something in their back pocket that we will hear. if they are not able to shake the argument that she wasn't this pure, just, follow-foreign-policy diplomat, if they aren't able to shake that

white house meeting. >> if you watch that, that was a big wednesday. then friday came along. former ukraine ambassador marie yovanovitch. she was ousted from her post for reasons still that remain unclear to her. the history making surprise came in that testimony at the very moment she was testifying about her treatment by the white house, by the president, the president, himself, took to twitter to attack her professional character while she was giving testimony. >> now the president realtime is attacking you. what effect do you think that has on other witnesses' willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, it's very intimidating. >> but there was more. into the wee hours in d.c. an important closed door deposition in the skiff yesterday. it was david holmes answering questions and then leaving the building or leaving the very skiff, itself, at 10:00 p.m. he is the political counselor at the u.s. embassy in kiev. now, he's important because he could be a primary source to what the president said or did not say about ukraine. holmes confirms he heard first hand that phone call involving presi