other witnesses this was the practice for the current members of the people like mom pompeo and nick mulvaney all participated in depositions of senior agency officials without presence of counsel if they joined the president's objections they do so in a fashion that is directly contradictory from their practices in the majority. today we also begin a process to release transcripts of our depositions of ambassador mckinley and i will leave you all to review those transcripts some things are clear and contrary to the claims of the president and his acolytes on the hill that this is what republicans could not be present or asked questions in fact they were present for all of the depositions and they had equal opportunity to ask questions and you will see they took full advantage of those opportunitie opportunities. you will see with the ambassadors testimony what a dedicated public servant she is. someone who served the country for decades. someone who was also one of the first witnesses to this irregular back channel the president established with rudy giuliani and the damage it was doing to a

of course we would like to have nick mulvaney into the congress to say what i think we know.ou will learn in the testimony that it was nick mulvaney driving the decision and pushing the decision to suspend aid and everyone that saw it happen will say we had no idea where this is coming from and unanimously opposed. it would be good to have him come in and explain his conversations with the president but remember, chuck, his conversations with the president unlike the other claims of privilege, that is actually probably covered by executive privilege but the american people need to decide did nick mulvaney go home and think this up? i'll suspend $400 million in military aid to ukraine or perhaps get some kind of suggestion or order from the president of the united states. >> is there a distinction since he is still a confirmed head of a cabinet level agency, office of management and budget, does that at all impact his claims of executive privilege? >> that's a good question. i can tell you for certain the white house would say that the conversations that nick mulvaney as chief

there is also new reporting about acting white house chief of staff nick mulvaney's role. and linking to associates and apparently now his company. plus, what the lawyer for one of the associates says that could implicate devin nunes, top republican on the intelligence community, in effort to get dirt on jbd. and the president fires his navy secretary and the navy secretary fires back. we begin the court ruling and jim acosta live for us at the white house. what has the white house reaction been so far? >> reporter: well, john, this ruling applies to the former white house counsel don mcgahn. it might as well apply to nick mulvaney and john bolton. the white house is saying not so fast. there was a statement in the last couple minutes saying this decision contradicts longstanding precedent established by administrations on both political parties. we will appeal and are confident that it will be vindicated. this constitutional principle the administration is advancing is that they can say no to anybody testifying up on capitol hill. and what the judge said in that ruling is

nick mulvaney's name comes up and i'd love to hear those folks testify. >> you can argue the white housebstructed by presenting those witnesses, you and i spoke earlier this month at the time you said you'd expect them to 50 opinions on this cnn's numbers are down during that time period. does that tern you? >> no, we have to do our jobs. we can't let the polls dictate how we approach this. our job is to do oversight as members of congress. that's in our checks and balances, that's in our constitution. we have to see where they lead. but we have to hold this president accountable. >> this is some talk about outside the robert mule ear's findings with regards to the mueller probe. do you believe that that should be included as a separate article of impeachment or keep it focused on the ukraine issue? >> yeah, i would keep it narrowly focused? you had compelling witnesses coming forward, you know, the case was laid out fairly well. we have to be a country of rules and laws. remember, there will be a democratic president coming after this at some point and what we're doing right now is sett

. >> during a closed door deposition, nick mulvaney laid out the deliverable that president trump was looking for from ukraine. there would be no white house meeting with ukraine's president unless he launched investigations into joe biden and his son. >> there's going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> he showed up for his own deposition that was scheduled today. >>> the field of democratic presidential untiles into started to then, but may go up by one, bloomberg may run. >> michael bloomberg will spend a lot of money. he has big issues and personal problems. >> and elizabeth warren is welcoming him to the race. >> bernie sanders sent out a tweet. he said he could enter the race as soon as monday. he has acven clate thnew admin looking to raise the minimum age to buy e-cigarettes. they're looking at the age of 21 or so. you have to be 18 to buy e- cigarettes. they'll release the restrictions to combat vaping next week. >>> it's been 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall. how people are commemorating the historic event. >>> we'll hear from young bay area in enervato

more details appear, including the white house's own rough transcript, acting chief of staff nick mulvaneyte. >> let's be clear what you described is a quid pro quo. >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. i have news for everybody, get over it. >> mulvaney almost immediately walked those comments back. as more testimony emerged, sworn testimony, republicans took a new approach, attack the process. they stormed a closed door hearing where a key witness was about to testify. >> it is a sham and it's time for it to end. >> what is happening here is not fair. >> the next tactic, discrediting key witnesses. the president's allies attacked a decorated leiutenant. leiutenantal zandtered vindman, also a white house official questioning his allegiance, vindman was awarded a purple heart to this country. the president launched attacks against a top diplomat to ukraine bill taylor calling him a never trumper in a tweet, to evidence taylor is a never trumper. >>> then the message took another turn this weekend when the senior counsellor kellyanne conway said she didn't know if this was aid he

. >> reporter: he heard acting chief of staff nick mulvaney was part of the coordination as he defied a subpoena this morning. >> i'd love to have nick go up i think he'd do great. i'd love to have the people go up except one thing, it validates a corrupt investigation. >> reporter: although fellow republicans have demanded transparency. >> they shouldn't be having public hearings it's a hoax. >> reporter: what do you make of that >> the american people need to be part of the process and understand the issues and that as ny public hearings as possible. >> reporter: the impeachment inquiry, the backdrop to the 2020 campaign with ivanka trump asked about it today in a rare interview. >> since the election, this has been the experience that our administration and our family has been having the interest in overturning the results of the 2016 election. >> reporter: and now, new attacks from the president on a possible new opponent come 2020. fellow new yorker michael bloomberg. >> i know michael, he became a nothing there is nobody i'd rather run against than little michael. that i can tel

crescendoing with witnesses john bolton asked for thursday, former national security advisor, nick mulvaney, acting chief of staff which would be a very big fish, what they typically do is they go forth and call them and say we expect you to come and such and such a date and issue a subpoena sometimes that morning. you had been talking to gillian about whether or not they have a subpoena. they might be doing that that morning. that might be why we might be graduating to public hearings soon and i scheduled a senior source before we came on the air if there would be transcripts tomorrow. they have had a couple of dozen witnesses and they don't know, brit. >> i understand there were a couple more witnesses who didn't come today. is that right? >> that's right. that's right. you had two witnesses who were invited. michael duffy, an o.m.b. official and wells griffith who dealt with international aid with the n.s.c., with the resistance of witnesses like mulvaney or griffith or duffy democrats are trying to build the case of obstruction of congress and saying we asked for these people to come an

when nick mulvaney was asked publicly about it, his answer was breath taking. we do that all the time with foreign policy, he said. i have news for everybody, get over it. there's going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> that is going to happen. the video of that confession is plain for all to see. some have argued in the president's defense the aid was ultimately released. and that is true. but only after congress began an investigation. only after the president's lawyers learned of a whistleblower complaint and only after members of congress began asking uncomfortable questions about quid pro quos. a scheme to condition official acts or taxpayer funding to obtain a personal political benefit does not become less odious because it is discovered before it is fully consummated. in fact, the security assistance had been delayed so long, it would take another act of congress to ensure that it can still go out. and that oval office meeting that zelensky desperately sought, it still hasn't happened. although we have learned a great deal about these even

they've heardthrom taylor, vindman, and nick mulvaney who got on television and said, yes, there was a connection between holding back the aid and an investigation and they t tri e it back. there's no real dispute about the facts right now. it's how you characterize them and unless some of thens with -- bns are so dramatic and would change public opinion, i don d see why that would change american minds. robert: could this lead to a speedy process if all the facts are here in the depositions? yes, and i think that's what democrats would like because they're being characterized by the republicans as a party that cares about impeachment but nothing else. if they can keep things moving, they feel that publicentiment has shifted and they don't wan to take the chance of it shifting back song they're g to try to move shiftly. every house memberke i've t to is eager to get this done by the end of the year. robert: the white house continues to contest the wholep hment process. noifpbles asked hou judiciary cheap member jerrybo nadler this on thursday. to impose appropriate remedies f you det

. >> "the washington post" looked into this and found nick mulvaney have been involved in e-mail exchangeshether they can hold up the aid. >>s who idea was it to get the dirt? >> it's been clear on testimony that it's president trump's decision. >> but who, was it guiliani came up with the idea? who came up with the idea to squeeze, let's shake them down? >> well, there has been an ongoing effort in month, from guiliani in particular, the president was listening, he had nick mulvaney the acting chief of staff follow through. >> i think hadman got nixon in trouble. saying the cia's got the case. that was all on hadman, he took it. nixon did it. is guiliani the perpetrator here or the agent? >> we looked at a lot of people in the white house who said repeatedly, we need to get guiliani out of his ear on this. she feeding him conspiracy theories, ukraine of one, that guiliani talks to the president about and then the president gets these ideas and chooses to act on them. i don't think we know at this point the full story of exactly how it came to be. >> a bombshell report, reuters knew reveal

white house chief of staff nick mulvaney and as i subsequented learned, mr. guiliani. i was clearly in the regular channel but i was also in the irregular one to the extent that ambassadors volker and sondland, included me in certain conversations. although this irregular channel was well connected in washington, it operated mostly outside of official state department channels. the regular channel began when ambassador volker, ambassador sondland, secretary perry and senator ron johnson briefed president trump on may 23rd upon their return from president zelensky's inauguration. the delegation was as enthusiastic as i would soon become about the new ukrainian president and urge president trump to meet with him early on to cement the u.s.-ukraine relationship. but from what i understood from the participants, president trump meeting with president zelensky. when i arrived in kiev, the actions of both the regular and the irregular channels of foreign policy appeared to steve the same goal. a strong u.s.-ukraine partnership. but it became to me, it became clear to me by a

several key witnesses including acting chief of staff nick mulvaney and former national security advisor john bolton have refused to comply with congressional subpoenas. >>> former south carolina governor mark stanford has dropped out of the presidential race. sanford was hoping to win a republican nomination, he told reporters today the attention around the impeachment inquiry is diverting too much attention from the 2020 debate. vice president mike pence is scheduled to arrive in the bay area tomorrow evening. he is set to touch down at moffett field in mountain view. thursday the vice president is scheduled to tour the nasa ames research center and speak to more than 200 nasa employees. the bay visit comes after a brief fundraising stop tomorrow in monterey. >>> a sleeping fan on vaping and vaping related products goes into effect monday and on operated areas in contra costa county. this after unanimous vote by a board of supervisors this morning. the move comes amid a mysterious nationwide epidemic of respiratory illness linked to the vaping that has made more than 2000 people sick a

. >> nick mulvaney? >> all of them, should go over there. when you tell the truth you can keep yourself square because you're telling the truth, and you tell them the truth and the truth is the truth. >> all, right even in, florida the two witnesses who testified today, laura, cooper again, from the department of defense and david hail from the state department, just a snapshot of some of the reporting on the hearing today. is from the hill, and the headline on the testimony, defense official testifies that ukraine was aware issues with aid in july, laura, cooper today rights be deputy system secretary of defense for russia and ukraine told the house intelligence committee had her staff received emails on july 25 in which the state department said ukrainian embassy and house foreign affairs committee, quote, were asking about security assistance. you can read more of the hill .com. we go next to steve in jolt, in tennessee. welcome.. >> you u.s., i think that the republicans don't want to listen to what's being said. they don't want to hear

ukraine , including secretary of state mike pompeo, vice president mike pence and chief of staff nick mulvaney along with former national security advisor john bolton. president trump defended himself saying he wanted nothing from ukraine. >>> new information on the man who believes they stabbed another man to death on a bart train yesterday. authorities said the suspect was on a psychiatric hold at a hospital walked away before the deadly stabbing. the suspect had a criminal history. >> reporter: bart police are collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses about tuesday nights stabbing. >> our detectives are reviewing video from south hayward platform, tried to track the movement. >> reporter: police stepped up patrols wednesday, the road trains and were visible on the platforms. passengers were happy to see the increased presence. >> i'm sorry for what did happen yesterday, it is unfortunate. however, i think they should have stepped up their game a long time ago. >> i have authorized additional overtime the first warrant officers and for cso's to be out in the system on nights and weekend

nick mulvaney the white house seasonal staff, the secretary of state mike pompeo possibly among them.perhaps lead to more junior white house aides and staffers perhaps deciding to come forward and testify of their own volition. but also it could bolster any case that health democrats were thinking of ringing against president trump and his administration in regards to obstruction of congress. don mcgahn is somebody who served for nearly two years is somebody who served for nearly two yea rs in is somebody who served for nearly two years in the trump administration and knows a great deal about it. he told robert mueller‘s enquiry into russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election that he was told by president trump on several occasions to get rid of mr mueller, and when that story leaked out in was also commanded to hold a press conference and deny that it ever happened. don mcgahn declined to do both of those things. but clearly, he has a lot to say to congress. if he gets the chance to do so, given that the white house is now appealing this federaljudge's ruling. david willis th

hill, i'd like to talk a little more indepth about chief of staff nick mulvaney's role in the events under investigation. you testified, ma'am, that mr. mulvaney and ambassador sondland were both involved with a letter president trump sent to the ukrainian president on may 29th congratulating him on his inauguration. do you recall that, ma'am? >> ah, i did, yes. >> and towards the end of that letter, president trump closed with, quote, i would like to invite you to meet me at the white house in washington, d.c. as soon as we can find a mutually convenient time. end quote. dr. hymn, was this congratulatory letter drafted through the normal procedures at the nsc, that the nsc uses to send letters to foreign heads of state? >> the first part of it was, except the last paragraph. >> you also testified that ambassador sondland told you that he had dictateed that line to the president and that mr mr. vulva mr. aslt mulvaneyv mr to add that to the letter. >> that is correct. >> why were you nervous, dr. hill? >> us a at this juncture it hadr quite apparent he wasn't keen with mr. zelensky fo

to all three of you to help us kick off the very busy thursday night. >>> this chief of staff, nick mulvaney faces a subpoena to answer questions when "the 11th hour" continues. make fitness routine with pure protein. high protein. low sugar. tastes great! high protein. low sugar. so good! high protein. low sugar. mmmm, birthday cake! pure protein. the best combination for every fitness routine. the amount of student loan debt i have, i'm embarrassed to even say. we just decided we didn't want debt any longer. ♪ i didn't realize how easy investing could be. i'm picking companies that i believe in. ♪ i think sofi money is amazing. ♪ thank you sofi. sofi thank you, we love you. ♪ >>> the acting white house chief of staff to testify hours prom now. they want to ask about trump's pressure campaign against ukraine in an effort to smear joe biden. mulvaney admitted to it all on live tv last month. >> so the demand for an investigation into the democrats was part of the reason that he -- >> it was on to with hold funding to ukraine. >> the look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of th

. >> and so he told you that the reghoquest to the ukrainians wi the acting chief of staff nick mulvaney al -- mick vul -- mick mulvaney and did he get back to you? >> he said he would follow up, and i can't recall exactly. >> and you said, quote, there is no doubt, end quote, that president trump asked for investigations into the 2016 election and vice president's son in return for a white house meeting. within an hour of that call, you reported that to mr. eisenberg, did you not? >> i did. >> and went back to what was appropriate? >> yes, it is less of a suggestion and more of the instruction. >> did you tell the lawyers that president trump asked president zelensky to speak to mr. giuliani? >> yes. >> and the lawyers, and it was at that point they told you not to talk to anyone else? >> that is not a correct with regards to timing. they did not -- >> they did not? >> they did not circle back around and what ended up happening is that in the coordination role i spoke to state, and a member of the intelligence community, and the general counsel from one of the intelligence bodies notifi

. >> nick mulvaney? >> no i have not. >> thank you, ambassador. i'm not exactlydoing here today. this is the house intelligence committee that has now turned into the house impeachment committee. >> reporter: moments before today's hearing the president released a summary of an april call with zelensky, congratulating him on his his election. the president calling the call more important, likely trying to suggest he only had good intentions. republicans continue to call the inquiry a farce. >> it's unfortunate that today and for most of next week we will continue engaging in the democrats daylong tv spectacles. >> reporter: marie yovanovitch responded to the president's comments on the july call that she was bad news and would go through some things. >> is going to go through something, it didn't sound good. it sounded like a threat.iend a roger stone is facing deck is behind bars. a jury found him guilty today with seven counts of lying to congress and witness tampering. the jury reached the verdict in the second day of deliberations. prosecutors indicted stone as part of specia

. >> nick mulvaney? >> no i have not. >> i'm not sure what the ambassador is doing here today. >> moments before the president released a summary of in april call with president volodymyr zelensky grad congratulating him on his election. they continued to call the inquiry a farce. >> it's unfortunate that today and most next week we will continue engaging in the democrats daylong tv spectacles. >> the president commented on the july call that she was bad news. >> she's going to go through some things. it doesn't sound good. it sounded like a threat. >> we will have much more on the impeachment hearings and what took place on capitol hill today coming up at 4:30 today. we will sit down with constitutional law expe, david living. >>> the san mateo county jury has reached decision in the high-profile case. it ended in a split verdict. >> jurists found defendant tiffany li not guilty of murder . there was a hung jury of her codefendant. >> reporter: good afternoon. san mateo county da weighing his legal opti

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the president has the opportunity to send over nick mulvaney, john bolton and millions of documents he has blocked the state department and white house from coming over. because he blocked lawful subpoenas we can consider it is only a reflection of his own guilt. >> he is considering the speaker's suggestions he provide written answers to the questions in your inquiry. do you agree? >> well, wolf, he hasn't turned over his taxes despite saying he would do that and didn't show up in person with bob mueller despite saying he would do that and giving written statements to the mueller team. we would like the witnesses we subpoenaed to come to congress. he's not serious in this process and i don't think it's worth our time engaging with him on this other than to say we have a lot of evidence right now and we shouldn't allow him to dictate the terms for this investigation. >> on this front, she says she would like him to answer questions. he says he would do it maybe in writing. do you disagree with the speaker? >> i disagree the president is serious about it. i don't think any of us believe

notable who did not so e up tod, john bolton, and another within not expected to surface friday, nick mulvaneyall eyes are now on hus house republicans as they decide who to call for next week's open hearings. jackie: chad thank you. >> joining me now, former federal prosecutor, andrew trukowski, let's start with today's events to recap. bolton a no show. that was expected, your thoughts to what it will take to get him there? >> certainly sounds like he is more open than previously heard if he gets a court order that essentially says he has to be involved. i think that will take a opinion from the court he would have to be subpoenaed, i think this is a valid legislative purpose. jackie: same with mulvaney? >> i think so. now we have not seen is the use of the executive privilege. in an impeachment setting has not been tested in recent years, something i am not sure how the courts will rifle through. in terms of whether a subpoena on its face, not considers privilege issue, i think that subpoenas will have power. jackie: also release of transcript. that are coming out slowly by surely. so far t

about the pressure on ukraine, including mike pompeo, vice president mike pence, chief of staff nick mulvaney, and former national security adviser, john bolton. >> everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. >> reporter: this morning, president trump defended himself, recanting what he said in a september call with sondland about ukraine. >> i want nothing! i want nothing! i want no quid pro quo! tell zelensky to do the right thing! >> worth noting, ambassador sondland was appointed by president trump. he also gave $1 million to the president's inauguration before that. >> how damaging was that? >> i think it depends where you sit on the aisle. when you look at the hearing today, certainly sondland had some major things to say that are certainly damning for the president. the republicans are saying this guy didn't keep notes. president trump's lawyer said at the end of testimony, today was a draw. >> is it fair to say, are there credibility issues with gordon sondland? he said he's not a note taker. he doesn't keep records. the president said there was no quid pro quo, but he also said it wa

white house career professionals became concerned that president trump with the chief of staff nick mulvaney and rudy giuliani pushing a policy that was at odds with national interest. this morning we hear from two national security professionals that were aware of those efforts. lt. col. vindman whose family fled oppression in the soviet union as a toddler a career army officer and iraq war veteran awarded a purple heart and jul july 2018 detailed to the white house to coordinatee policy with ukraine. jennifer williams is a career foreign service officer detailed to the office of the vice president responsible for europe and eurasia related issues following the phone call with president zelensky on april 21st, the president asked t 14 to represent him at the upcoming inauguration. and he would be a coveted attendee second in significance only to the president and would send an important signal ofki support to the new ukrainian president. in early may rudy giuliani was planning to go to ukraine to have the biden's investigated but it had to be called off aftero became public he blamed people

. >> and then there's the nick mulvaney factor. the white house acting chief of staff is attempting a lawsuit, testing white house subpoena power over white house witnesses. if allowed, it will effectively keep him from having to testify until a federal court decides the case. mulvaney came under intense scrutiny about his role in the ukraine scandal following this moment in the white house briefing room just last month. >> what you just described is a quid pro quo. it is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened as well. >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. i have news for everybody. get over it. there is going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> and finally, there is this wild card. ohio congressman jim jordan. house majority leader has assigned jordan a staunch public defender to the house committee. that matters because it's the house intelligence committee that will be conducting the public hearings this week, giving jordan a chance to publicly question witnesses

. >> also did fight two weeks of public testimony, chief of staff nick mulvaney and national security advisor john not complied with congressional subpoenas. a battle that has now gone to the courts. >> elections are coming up. >> i think they should try to understand what should go on. i think there should be patience and trying to get what it takes. >> late thursday the widows indicated it agrees with some republican leaders the impeachment to the senate, there should be a trial. senator lindsey graham said the idea they would dismiss the child before they presented the cases is a nonstarter. you will not get a motion to dismiss. republicans control the senate with 53 seats to democrats, 47. it's unlikely, but not entirely possible ve him from office. >> things could tip the other way. if a critical mass of republicans can become convinced the president is worse for the chances holding the senate. >> pfizer sheckler says that kind of shakeup could happen if someone such as john bolton decides to testify. one big difference being proved to the judiciary committee is there hearings wo

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house know about the pressure on ukraine, including vice president mike pence and chief of staff nick mulvaney. ambassador sondland said there was a quid pro quo when it came to ukraine in the investigation into joe biden and his son, but president trump wanted it. there were also new revelations about when ukraine learned crucial military aid was being withheld. >> gordon sondland's testimony had been much anticipated after ambassador bill taylor testified someone told his staff are president trump only cares about an investigation into the bidens. someone appears to have given democrats exactly what they wanted. >> was there a quid pro quo? the answer is yes. >> eu ambassador gordon sondland believes it was a white house meeting between trump and zelensky. sondland also testified he didn't know why military aid was being held up and he concluded it must be for the same reasons. >> i later came to believe the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine admitting to the investigations. >> reporter: president trump say he never demanded anything. i

officials like former national security adviser john bolton and okay acting chief of staff nick mulvaney, despite those possibilities, democrats are moving full speed ahead right now on capitol hill, let's get to it. cnn's boris sanchez is at the white house, boris, the president is not being quiet this morning, talking about all of this, rather writing about all of this, what is he saying? >> yeah, kate, the president tweeting out moments ago a response to this decision regarding mcgahn and his requirement to testify before congress, the decision by this judge that he should be forced to compel to testify before congress. look at what the president tweeted. the dc world and fake news media are reading far too much into people forced to testify before congress. i'm fighting for future presidents and the office of president. other than that, i would like people to testify. the president goes on to mention some people he'd like to testify, don mcgahn, john bolton. he mentioned john bolton, pompeo, and many other. he continues to say it's a democrat scam adding that whatever happened to me

tomorrow the presidents acting chief of staff nick mulvaney is scheduled to appear before congress, butclear it has no intention of letting him do so. >>> a judge in new york today ordered president trump's foundation to pay $2 million to other charities. the ruling is the result of a lawsuit accusing the foundation of misusing funds to further the presidents campaign and business interests. the term foundation called the lawsuit politically motivated in the foundations of it will now make the required donations to several charities, including the u.s. holocaust memorial museum and the united [null] college fund. >>> former new york mayor michael bloomberg is reportedly considering getting into the race for president. bloomberg announced earlier this year he would not seek the democratic nomination, but in a statement this afternoon one of his advisors said bloomberg is worried the current democratic candidates are not well- positioned to defeat president trump. bloomberg is expected to file paperwork in alabama, which is the early filing deadline of tomorrow. >>> on wall street, new ho

former national security advisor, don bolton and the magic - acting white house chief of staff, nick mulvaney. how does he still have a job. so far bolton said he won't testify. you know what, i believe him. he's a stubborn old patch. this will be like him. the white house hinted they don't want mulvaney talking either but the one thing your bloody wants to talk about is the whistleblower. at the center of this legal parking. the president said he wants to face his accuser. and some gop lawmakers including rand paul, claiming to already know the whistleblower identity. rand. >> we also now know the name of the whistleblower. the whistleblower needs to come before congress is the material witness and i see to the media, do your job and print his name. >> so sweet and napoleonic. others including utah senator nick romney says we have to protect whistleblowers and amenity. >> my view is that that whistleblowers, particularly those who are blowing whistles on actually within the government should be allowed to remain confidential. >> in the whistleblowers attorney says the president must keep his

the white house is going to come out in a little while with a statement about the invitation for nick mulvaneybout the impeachment articles against the president, the white house thinking about putting out a statement saying he's not going to show but something more colorful than that may come down the line, neil, i think the white house wants tow stand its ground and show the flag of this idea of executive privilege before the congress. neil. >> neil: it sounds like what we've seen r dwo -- what we've gotten, is it really moving the needle either way? >> i don't know. i think what probably happened, if you look at the original sondland transcript is full of a lot of i don't know and i can't recall and the democrats who put together that compilation of excerpts were very specific to put all of that in and i think sondland thought maybe they're laying a trap for me so he went back in and said after talking to a couple of people, i do recall now telling ambassador william taylor and tim morrison and the ukrainians that i think that aid was conditioned on the idea of a corruption investigation so

. >> and nick mulvaney was to arrange an office meeting between president trump and the ukranian president. >> he said he had an agreement with chief of staff mulvaney in return for investigations this meeting would get scheduled. >> she recalled how john bolton then the national security advisor told her to report it. >> the specific instruction was i had go to the lawyers for john eisenberg. i was senior counsel for the national security counsel. he said you tell eisenburg ambassador told me i am not part of what they are cooking up. >> there were sharp words. >> i refuse to be part of a narrative the ukrainian government is the adversary and ukraine attacked us in 2016. these are harmful even if for purely political purposes. this is a fictional narrative being perpetrated and propagated by the russian security services themselves. >> why would it be to vladamir putin's change to promote this theory of ukraine interference? >> first of all, to deflect from the allegations of russian interference. second of all, drive a wedge between united states and ukraine. >> holmes left lawmakers wi

acting chief of staff nick mulvaney said he will not comply with the congressional subpoena, joining secretary of state mike pompeo and john bolton. >> ktvu will have uninterrupted, live coverage of the hearings on ktvu plus tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock. we will bring you live updates on mornings on 2. >>> new information tonight on the shooting in orinda the left five people dead. call logs released to ktvu confirm orinda's only two patrol officers were in oakland at the time of the shooting on halloween night. they were assisting lafayette police with a violent home invasion robbery and that investigation ultimately led officers to a and. the shooting on halloween night happened just before 11 at a party at an air b&b rental home in orinda . according to the logs at that time there were no officers in the city and police didn't get to the scene until 10 minutes after the shooting. >>> in san francisco's chinatown come violent attacks on three elderly men sparked outrage and fear, prompting the chinese community and city leaders to say they are working together to try to prevent mo

before i go, i want to mention breaking this hour also, fox news is confirming that nick mulvaney has been summoned here november 8th, friday. not a lot of hope he's going to show up, but we want to make you aware of that. >> dana: thank you very much. let's bring in bret baier. right now, bret, democrats yesterday did two transcripts. they did two transcripts. seems their method of trying to keep this in the news and now they have their attention. it does seem that sondland did substantially change his comments from the first round. >> that's right, dana. they are feeling the void here. they have witnesses who are not showing up for testimony and depositions and they're putting out these transcripts. being focused on them, there is news in them. you are right, ambassador sondland basically said he had discussed this linkage of aid and corruption and making sure that it was public on the ukrainian side with vladamir zelensky's main aide in this meeting. it goes on in this q and a -- by the way, ten hours of testimony that sondland essentially said that he communicated that the aid pro

yet still, nick mulvaney's outside council informed democratic investigators that he would not be showing up because the white house believes, as is stated with other top officials, that he has absolute immunity. let me explain why mulvaney is not that important. first and foremost, his not showing up doesn't mean he's out of the game on this one. his name will likely appear in an article of impeachment. anybody who doesn't show up will be in an article of impeachment. there is a hole in the investigation in the sense that nobody has been able to tie the president to the alleged quid pro quo. and the reason why is there is such a small number of people around the president delivering these orders. why did that happen? how did that happen? it's still unclear. that is why mulvaney's testimony, if it ever comes, and that seems unlikely right now, is important. george each testimony yesterday, a career diplomate largely lining up with what we've heard from a lot of other career diplomates, as well. rogue elements and actors helping to undercut through a campaign of lies, the standing u.s. amb

those potential witnesses include secretary of state mike pompeo and chief of staff nick mulvaney and former national security advisor john bolton. jonathan schaub, a former attorney in the justice department's office of legal counsel told "the washington post" this ruling could quote cover for other witnesses especially former employees who are inclined to testify but feel compelled by the white house's direction not to. house intelligence committee char man adam schiff said the democrats are moving forward with the impeachment inquiry while leaving the door open for more witnesses to come forward. tonight, chairman schiff had this message refusing to testify. quote, to all those witnesses who hide behind fallacious claims of inmun mmunity, this c shows how meritless it is. they will have to decide whether their duty is to the country or to a president who believes that he is above the law. leading off our discussion tonight, former staff member for the house intelligence committee and an msnbc contributor currently vice president of the national security program at third way. a form

case and risk loo losing the chance to hear from possible key witnesses, like mike pompeo,$0ñ nick mulvaneye pence who might change public opinion. @s$er words, after all we have absorbed these last two weeks, what now? >> the president has used his office for his own personal gain. >> for two weeks a dozen current and former official versus laid out a clear case testifying that president trump used the promise of a white house meeting and a freeze on hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to pressure ukraine's new president to announce an investigation into a 2020 opponent joe biden and biden's son. running the shadow foreign policy through the president's personal attorney rudy guiliani. >> mr. guiliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing the investigations. mr. guiliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states. >> president trump making that quid pro quo explicit in a july 25th phone call with ukraine's president zelensky. >> i was concerned by the call. it is improper for the president of the united states demand a foreperson governm

know the answer because a lot of the top aides that are closest to the president, rudy giuliani, nick mulvaneystaff, john bolton, people that talk directly to the president haven't testified, haven't gone to has democrats to tell them what they know. there is a bit of something unclear which is how much the president himself was involved. thank you forjoining us another thing to throw into all of these insiders accounts, nikki haley the former us ambassador to the un, who has a book out, is saying specifically that she was repeated byjohn kelly and rex tillerson to keep the president in check. it's astonishing. it's amazing. you've got the former us ambassador to the united nations basically promoting her book and she recounts an exchange between rex tillerson and john kelly, trying to recruit her to stop president trump from what they described as making bad decisions and being for the benefit of america. she went on tv over the weekend saying that is what happened, but she didn't understand why these individuals didn't go to the president and express their concerns directly. basically, she s

the same time we are hearing from mccarthy and steve scalise, no quid pro quo whatsoever, and nick mulvaney got hammered for admitting a quid pro quo and had to walk it back. so i don't know, pull back the curtain here, jake, and tell us what you are hearing and seeing? >> well, it is a good illustration of an adm administration without a strategy and everybody is saying something different and individual senators are saying one thing, and individual house members another, and it is a big cloud of smoke, and no one knows what the white house wants them to say and i'm not sure to be honest from the conversations that the white house knows what it wants to say on this issue, and what position it wants to take on the day-to-day and week-to-week basis, but the general consensus if there is one, and the general consensus is this that all of the testimonies, the individually and put together is just people with opinions who took away different opinions from a complex situation. and so what cole said, it is not a quid pro quo, because it was not effective, and the government engages in all sorts o

announced marker that it's going into this public phase, does that mean that the desire to have nick mulvaneyhn bolton testify, does that now all go away when they move into public testimony? that's unclear, but this is definitely moving into a very important next phase. >> yeah. and i would not expect any of that pressure to go away. the democrats have made pretty clear that they, this new phase will exist on two tracks. it will begin, the public testimony while continuing to try to take deposition or talk with people behind the scenes, but there is a couple things i would flag, number 1, this will be the first big test of whether putting some of these people on camera can permeate american consciousness outside the beltway and make this issue more understandable. >> freight point. >> or something of -- >> great point. >> or something across the country. to republicans critical of the democrat's process until now, have been saying, let's have this out in the open. this shouldn't be happening behind closed doors. they will get what they asked for. i'm not sure what they want. schiff and pelos

however, ambassador bolton and nick mulvaney both spoke directly to president trump and unlike you, they have refused to honor our request for them to be a part of these proceedings. nonetheless, we do know how acting chief of staff mick mulvaney feels about aid because on octoberid 17 at a press conference, hess discussed the hold on security assistance for ukraine andis ambassador taylori would like you to listen to what he said. i'll read it for you. in response to a question what you just sdibed is a quid pro quo. funding will not flow in. in response to that question mr. mulvaney said, mr. taylor, we do that all the time with foreign policy. my question ambassador taylor, the president conditioning security assistance on an investigation into his political opponent prior to this administration is this something we would do all the time? >> no, sir. >> why not? >> we conditioned assistance on issues that will improve our foreign policy, serve our foreign policy, ensure that taxpayers' money is well spent and those conditions are either coming from the congress or from policy decision

of energy rick perry as well chief of staff nick mick mulvaney that is former national security advisor john bolton current volcker who also testified former special envoy to the ukraine he testified yesterday and he implied that at some point bice president mike pence also became aware so let's go ahead and play just a bit of the testimony of an ambassador horns on let's listen this is not my 1st time cooperating with this committee as you know i've already provided 10 hours of deposition testimony and i did so despite directives from the white house and the state department that i refused to appear as many others have done i agreed to testify because i respect. the gravity of the moment and i believe i have an obligation to account fully for my role in these events to let everyone know what things stand right now this is just a quick 5 minute break before the republicans get a chance to to question the ambassador kimberly helping us following the developments outside of the white house we're going to speak to kimberly in just a moment birth is going to castro is just outside the chamb