my name is rick hills. almost like your former commissioner. we're both former planning commissioners. i served on this board from 199 1997to 1999 under the great wile brown and i add measur admire y. i am -- i know the project response o he is one of the best buildings in the city. he does terrific work. he lives in the neighborhood. and he has gone through the most important exercise of working with the neighbors to come back with a more user-friendly building. i totally support it. i think however valid the opponents believe in their points of view, i see it as a case of death by knit picking that only drags things out longer and it's more expensive and only aggravates the problem with a lack of housing in the city so i recommend approval of the project as planned. >> thank you, mr. hill. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is mark norton and i didn't get to speak at the last hearing because i had to go to work. i lived directly across the street. practically. i've been there for 35 years. this fourth floor they showed you the floor floor is

rick hall from hill. a member of the cultural action network and president of liveable california, speaking for myself and for the mission district, where we work to oppose anti-gentrification that's going on. we speak about supply and demand. and we never addressed the demand side. but we know we're overbuilt on market-rate housing. and way underbuilt on moderate and low-income housing. you know, we're essentially in a hole. and we do not need to -- the mayor's initiative to accelerate office development and exacerbate all of our city problems. office -- the people put prop min place. now it's just about to kick in, the mayor is undercutting it to accelerate high-end office production. no matter what it says about, well, it's going to do this for the little people, this, that and the other thing. the bottom line is we do not need accelerated office production in this city at this time. we have too many other problems to take care of, with regard to affordable housing, our gentrification issues, our trans

ambassador volker and sondland and secretary rick perry also attended the meeting i attended with dr. hill. we fully anticipated the ukrainians would raise the issue of a meeting between the presidents. ambassador bolton cut the meeting short when ambassador sondland started to speak about the requirement that ukraine deliver specific investigations in order to secure the meeting with president trump. following this meeting, there was a short debriefing during which ambassador sondland emphasized the importance of ukraine delivering the investigations into the 2016 elections, the bidens and burisma. i stated to ambassador sondland that this was inappropriate and had nothing to do with national security. dr. hill also asserted his comments when property. following the meeting we agreed to report the innocentthe incid the lead counsel. the ncs proposed that president trump call president zelensky to congratulate him. on july 25th, 2019, the call occurred, i listened in on the call with white house colleagues. i was concerned by the call. what i heard was inappropriate. and i reported my conc

witnesses scheduled to testify this week are not going to be appearing on capitol hill that includes energy secretary rick perry, office of management and budget acting director russell vote and former security advisor john bolton. so lots to take place this week. lots behind closed doors, and this public phase of this impeachment inquiry. frances, back to you >> all right, thank you, craig >> all right domestic terror attack averted in colorado. the fbi says it broke up acoloro allegedly planned to temple pueblo. under cover agents brought him what were supposed to be two pipe bombs with dynamite nbc's pete williams has more on the operation. >> reporter: the fbi said this was the intended target, temple emmanuel, used by three dozen families in pueblo, colorado prosecutors say 27-year-old richard holzer was arrested over the weekend after he was handed what he thought were real pipe bombs that he wanted to use to blow it up >> mr. holzer also stated that he was not concerned about any loss of life from the attack because such victims would be jews >> reporter: court documents say holz era tracted the fb

that will be made public hearings, these three will not be up on the hill, rick perry, russ volk for testimony. we're hearing moments ago from adam schiff, the bill taylor testimony will be released to the public. the opening initial statement i have right here has a lot of questions that this white house will have to answer to. so china impeachment talk, it has been a busy 15 minutes, neil. neil: to put it mildly but you wrapped it up beautifully as all. thank you my friend. all three journal at large gerry baker host. thank you for taking the time. first on the china thing if this isn't yet another reminder how much that dictates, trading this is it. >> i agree. i'm a little, my suspicious mind is racing a little bit here when they talk about the difficulty of finding a place to meet and a time to meet. i tend to agree what stuart varney said before you came on air, it won't really matter. if there is a deal ready to be done, which will settle some big headlines issues, they can do it whenever they want. i wonder if this is a little bit of a head fake. they're saying might mean the

ambassador volker and son learn about sort of volcker and simon and secretary rick perry also attend the meeting i attended with dr hill we fully anticipated that ukrainians would raise the issue of meeting a meeting between the presidents ambassador bolton cut the meeting sure what about sort of sunland start to speak about the requirement that ukraine deliver specific investigations in order to secure the meeting with president trump following this meeting there was a short debriefing during which about sort of someone emphasized the importance of ukraine delivering the investigations into the 2016 elections the bidens and i stated to ambassador someone that this was inappropriate and had nothing to do with national security dr hill also asserted that his comments were improper following the meeting dr hill and i agreed to report the incident so that and i seize lead counsel mr john eisenberg on july 21st 200-1000 present zelinsky one a parliamentary election in another landslide victory then as he proposes that president trump call president is alinsky to congratulate him. on july 25th 2900 the college heard i liste

. >> stephen: hill explained that she attended a meeting with ambassador bolton, rick perry, and ambassadoruly 10, where sondland brought up the conditions for zelensky to get a meeting with trump. after the meeting, bolton was so freaked out that he told hill to go immediately to n.s.c. lawyer john eisenberg. >> "you tell eisenberg," ambassador bolton told me, "that i am not part of this whatever drug deal that mulvaney and sondland are cooking up." >> stephen: yes, sondland and mulvaney were cooking up a drug deal. it's all in the new drama, "breaking bald." ( laughter ) a prestige drama. ( applause ) then dr. hill told the committee exactly how she felt about gordon sondland promoting the president's political agenda in ukraine. >> it struck me when, yesterday, when you put up on the screen ambassador sondland's emails and who was on emails, and he said these are the people that need to know, that he was absolutely right. because he was being involved in a domestic political errand, and we were being involved in national security foreign policy. i said to him, "ambassador sondland, gordo

the second link of public impeachment hearings rick democrats inviting president trump to defend himself. nikole killion has the latest from capitol hill. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi allowing a new witness to testify in the impeachment inquiry.it at thepr come before the committee and speak the truth he wants. >> you do not expect him to do that. >> you don't expect them to do it. >> he could and writing. >> reporter: president trump responded even though i don't like didn't do anything wrong adult like giving credibility, i like the idea and will in order to get focused congress focused again, strongly considered. >> you should not tweet. he succumbed to the committee and to testify under oath, and he should allow those around him to come to the committee and testify under oath. >> reporter: republican to the impeachment panel want to hear from wisconsin senator ron johnson who attended the inauguration of ukrainian president latimer zelinski. intelligence committee ranking member, devin nunes and congressman jim jordan sent a letter to the senator saying we reluctantly write a request to any first-hand information about p

subpoenas, with at least four administration officials, including energy secretary rick perry, expected to be no-shows on capitol hill this week. house democrats leading the impeachment inquiry unmoved. >> we are not going to delay our work that would merely allow these witnesses and the white house to succeed with their goal, which is to delay, deny, obstruct. >> reporter: the investigation into why the president held up military aid to ukraine while pushing for political help now inching into a new more public phase with the release of two key interview transcripts expected today two others shared monday in one, the ousted u.s. ambassador to ukraine said she believed she was the target of a smear campaign by the president's allies, felt threatened by the president's comments about her, and was told by another u.s. ambassador that she should tweet positive things about president trump to help save her job >> i'm sure she's a very fine woman. i just don't know much about her. >> reporter: but the president called marie yovanovitch, bad news in that july call with the ukrainian leader, some yovanovitch says shocked he

. >> ambassadors volker and sondland and secretary rick perry also attended a meeting i attended with dr. hill. we have not completed the agenda items and we still had time for the meeting and ambassador bolton abruptly ended the meeting. >> he said i am not part of whatever drug deal that mulvaney and sondland are cooking up. he then said that rudy giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow everyone up. >> my recollection is that ambassador sondland stated, quote, damn it, rudy, every single time rudy gets involved he goes and effs everything up. he said, quote, damn it, every time rudy gets involved, he effs everything up. >> one of those key figures being discussed, john bolton, and he has gone public in a way, kind of. he made clear being back on twitter this week via a twitter post. he claims the white house had kept him off the platform. let's bring in our panel. joyce vance, natasha bertrand, andrew carny and david jolly, former republican congressman from florida. all are msnbc contributors. joyce, we played some of the best hits, if you will, that happened this past week. what

learned today that three additional trump associates including outgoing secretary rick perry will defy requests to appear on the hill. it does fit a larger pattern of republican defenses of the president, witnesses defying subpoenas. senators who called for transparency now saying they haven't even read the transcriptingtranscrip transcrip transcripts. lindsey graham is refusing to engage with the process at all. >> i'm not going to read these transcripts. the whole process is a joke. i find the whole process to be a sham and i'm not going to legitimize it. i've looked at the phone call. show me there was a quid pro quo. the president of ukraine says there was no not. the whole thing is manufactured. >> joining me jeff bennett, jonathan la mere, "washington post" senior political reporter aaron blake and former deputy national security advisor nancy sodderberg. is there anything that sticks out to you in these early minutes? you literally have only had minutes to take a look at this. >> reporter: you spoke to ambassador bill taylor's unpeachabunpeac unimpeachable background. he also learn that he had exhaustive note

ambassadors volker and sondland and secretary rick perry also attended the meeting i attended with dr. hill. we fully anticipated the ukrainians would raise the issue of a meeting between the presidents. ambassador bolton cut the meeting short when ambassador sondland started to speak about the requirement that ukraine deliver specific investigations in order to secure the meeting with president trump. >> let's talk about all of this, and back with us tonight is barbara mcquade, veteran federal prosecutor, former u.s. attorney for the eastern drikistrict of michigan. thanks for never throwing your phone into lake michigan when we call. we call you a lot and we depend on you on nights like this. i'd like to start with sondland and then go to bolton, and i'm afraid i have a three-parter for you. what's the chance he takes the fifth tomorrow morning? remind our audience why people take the fifth. and is immunity the work-around when people take the fifth? >>. >> so i think there is a very high probability that gordon sondland is thinking about taking the fifth amendment. the fifth amendment is

ambassador volker, sondland, and secretary rick perry also attended the meeting i attended with dr. hill. we fully anticipated the ukrainians would raise the issue of a meeting between the presidents. ambassador bolton cut the meeting short when ambassador sondland started to speak about the requirement that ukraine deliver specific investigations in order to secure the meeting with president trump. following this meeting, there was a short debriefing during which ambassador sondland emphasized the importance of ukraine delivering investigations into the 2016 elections, the bidens and burisma. i stated to ambassador sondland that this was inappropriate and had nothing to do with national security. dr. hill also asserted his comments when proper. following the meeting dr. hill and i agreed to report the incident to the nsc's lead counsel, mr. johnizen berg. on july 21, 2019, president zelensky won another land slide victory. the nsc proposed that president trump call president zelensky to congratulate him. on july 25, 2019 the call occurred. i listened in on the call in the situation room

. >> ambassadors volker and sondland and secretary rick perry also attended the meeting. i attended with dr. hill. we had not completed all the agenda items and we still had time for the meeting and ambassador bolton abruptly ended the meeting. >> you tell eisenberg, ambassador bolton told me, that i am not part of the -- this whatever drug deal that mulvaney and sondland are cooking up. i knew then in the course of that discussion said that rudy giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow everyone up. >> my recollection is that ambassador sondland stated quote, damn it, rudy, every time rudy gets involved, he goes and fs everything up. my recollection is that ambassador sondland stated quote, damn it, rudy, every time rudy gets involved, he goes and fs everything up. >> one of those key figures being discussed, john bolton. and he did -- he has gone public in a way. kind of. he made clear of being back on twitter this week via a twitter post. he claims the white house had kept him off the platform. let's bring in our panel to discuss. joyce vance, former u.s. attorney. natasha, political

rick perry. kent and yovanovitch are among the witnesses who will testify in public hearings next week on capitol hill. also set to appear, william taylor, the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine who alleged in his testimony there was a quid pro quo with president trump holding up military aid to pressure ukraine. nikole killion, cbs news, capitol hill. >>> jeff sessions has officially announced that he wants to reclaim his old alabama senate seat. the 72-year-old former u.s. attorney general made the announcement yesterday. he said if he returns to the senate, quote, no senator in the senate would be more effective in advancing president trump's agenda than i would. as attorney general, sessions recused himself from the russia investigation, and that put him at odds with the president. >>> more funerals will be held in the coming days for the americans killed in a violent ambush in mexico. yesterday about 1,000 people gathered for the first funerals for the nine women and children killed in monday's massacre. a mother and her two sons were laid to rest. manuel bojorquez reports. >> reporter: the first

hill, along with ukraine policy in may when he was lead by secretary rick perry to president zelensky's nomination. alexander vindman also attended the inauguration. and in a meeting with president zelensky took the opportunity to advise the ukraine lead tore stayai out of u.s. domestic politics. anotherti concern that rose for dr. hill was the discovery of a nsc back channel on ukraine. and forn her may have been providing ukraine related information to president trump that dr.re hill was not made awe of. according to holmes following the zelensky inauguration, they took a role in formulating priorities for the new administration andew personally reaching out to president zelensky and his team. it also concerned dr. hill who enjoyed a kor -- corgile relationship. and i said who put you in charge of it, and he said, the president. on july 10th, dr. hill was part of a meeting at the white house with u.s. and ukrainian officials including bolton, sondland, and energy secretary perry. the s meeting was intended to ge the ukrainians an opportunity to convey they were anxious to set up a mee

hill have been wasting no time pushing their goals. correspondent kelli meyer explains. >>we'll be ready to take back this house georgia congressman rick allen says republicans are pushing to return to power in the currently democratic controlled house of representatives and they're using the impeachment inquiry to do it. >>the democrats him i offered more subpoenas night passed bills, georgia congressman buddy carter argues democrats are more focused on the impeachment inquiry that solving america's problems that's something the republican national committee plans to highlight the american people are not for impeachment they're not for the partisan games, rick gorka with the rnc says they have launched an anti impeachment effort focusing especially on key swing districts, where they're done. >>to inflict as much pain as possible on target democrats that want to go down this road. >>but democrats in the house believe they have a strong case for impeaching the president and it's a message. the democratic national committee is spreading across the country. >>we've got organizers on the ground right now who are talking to voters today abo

hill to testify. the question is will any show up. energy secretary rick perry was asked to appear but his spokesperson says he will not if it's not public. john bolton is due to testify although it's unclear if he will show. mark zabe a lawyer for the whistle blower who raised alarms about the president's dealings with ukraine says his client is willing to answer written questions submitted by house republicans. but that may not be enough for gop leaders. representative jim jordan of ohio says, the whistle blowershould appear in person to answer questions before congress. >> this is about overturning what 63 million americans voted for just three years ago. and they are talking about doing it less than year before the next election. so, we think we should be able to ask questions. >> reporter: house intelligence committee chairman will start releasing transcripts of many of the closed-door witness depositions. >> a transcript are going to start to be released next week and that's going to give the american people an eye on what we have heard. and what we

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hill. just some of the people house democrats want to hear from, including energy secretary rick perry. perry says he won't testify in private, although he would consider doing so in public. there is also a former national security advisor, john bolton, who says he will not show up without a subpoena. but kicking things off on monday is top national security council lawyer john eisenberg. he helped move the transcript of president trump's call with ukraine -- with the ukrainian president zelensky to a more secure server. now cnn has learned that eisenberg told white house ukraine expert lieutenant colonel alexander vindman who listened in on the call and expressed concerns about what he heard not to discuss it with anyone. kevin liptak is a cnn white house producer. kevin, good to see you. what more do we know about what vindman told lawmakers about that call? >> what vindman did was really flesh out and provide a fuller picture of that scramble behind the scenes in the white house after this call took place between president trump and president zelensky. remember, vindman -- lieutenant

and we are ricking at temperatures still pretty school and very drive droi in the upper elevations in the hills. that doesn't look like it's changing a lot. as we get to later today a weak on shore flow will continue into sunday. that's going to bring up the relative humidity a bit. looking at highs today, check it out, 80 degrees up in the north bay. about 10 degrees above the average. 76 in fremont. so a little hazy here. 72 san francisco. 75 in oakland. certainly milder than it should be for this time of year. with the dry air masses cools off quickly. warms up quickly as well. you know by 3:00 be, 4:00 in the afternoon it's feeling pretty good. 78 in san jose. 80 in morgan hill. how about half moon bay? once again, in the low 70s. it would be nice if we could get rain in here overnight tonight. another chilly one with the clear sky. temperatures in the 40s. so a little bit more moderation here perhaps we won't have the fras frost advisory again tonight. but looking ahead the accuweather seven-day forecast, 60s coast mid-70s around the bay. mid-80s inland pap cold start. set the clocks back

every aspect is down rick is right, hopefully we're over the hill on that, but there may be some recity looked at was the year over year change in exports and their contribution to gdp. exports have continuously added to gdp over the past year or so they have had this steady decline which means as rick suggests there is up side if we can solve this trade issue and get back to where we are. >> hey, rick, you eluded to this what traders want to see is getting some phase one agreement put in place that's why yesterday you saw the futures picking up or you saw futures picking up as it looked like even if we undo some of those tariffs put on in september, the good news is that means we're more likely to get some sort of at least detante? >> reporter: yeah, i'll tell you what we all have our opinions of this administration, but one thing that i think is hard to dispute, they understand the word compromise this president and his men out in the field and women out in the field that are trying to put this whole deal together do understand compromise may be coming and i do think that some of thes

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hill next week democrats once again will question trumpet ministration officials behind closed doors while some officials have already appeared others are refusing to show up the latest energy secretary rick perry who says there was nothing wrong with trump's call to zelinsky yeah i want to present my phone call because i thought it was important. if you brace which i do everything to do with back to the point that the united states has the ability to give ukraine a alternative to russian gas legislators could issue a subpoena forcing perry to appear or risk being arrested and we will make america great again they can resuscitate. raising the ante and the pressure on a president who says he will fight what he calls illegal effort to undermine his rule russell and jordan al-jazeera washington. well as president trump hits the campaign trail and u.s. democratic presidential hopeful that iraq has ended his campaign has been seen as a promising new force in the posse after narrowly losing a senate spots in texas that's a state that's not me is sleep republicans addressing support as iraq said his campaign does not have the means to me for end but he said he would stay active in the fight to d

hill. the fallout from the inquiry has spread throughout the administration. after a senior aide to energy secretary rickto answer our questions. >> secretary perry will you be willing to testify publicly? did you hear any mention of burisma? >> reporter: the president and his allies continued to insist it is all a ploy by democrats to take him down. >> the reality and the process will vindicate him and hurt people in the middle. >> reporter: now, jake, williams, that top aide to vice president pence did travel with him to poland where he met with ukrainian president zelensky a trip that trump was supposed to go on and stayed back to monitor a hurricane. she's hired a attorney not responding to request for comment and if she does go on capitol hill and testifies, she'll be the third official who listened in on that call to do so. >> kaitlan collins at the white house. thanks so much. >>> let's discuss. sunlen, in the letter request mick mulvaney's testimony, the democratic chairman write the evidence and public reporting suggest you played a central role in president trump's attempt to coerce ukraine int

. >> ambassadors volker and sondland and secretary rick perry also attended a meeting i attended with dr. hill. we had not completed all of the agenda items and we still had time for the meeting and ambassador bolton abruptly ended the meeting. >> ambassador bolton told me i am not part of this whatever drug deal that mulvaney and sondland are cooking up. then in the course of that discussion said, that rod blagojevich -- rudy giuliani was a hand grenade that's going to blame everything up. >> every time rudy gets involved he goes and -- everything up. >> colorful language. here's the deal. these key figures not expected to testify without a court battle and seems democrats don't want to wait. joining me now, daniel lipman, political reporter, covering white house and washington, d.c. today appears he's covering san diego harbor. you have your sources there in the house. do you get a sense they plan to wage the court battle to get at least bolton to testify? >> well, i think the timing does not work out for bolton to testify because courts take a long time to resolve these matters and democrat

ambassador volker and sondland and secretary rick perry also attended the meeting i attended with dr. hill. we fully anticipated the ukrainians would raise the issue of a meeting between the presidents. ambassador bolton cut the meeting short when ambassador sondland started to speak about the requirement that ukraine deliver specific investigations in order to secure the meeting with president trump. following this meeting, there was a short debriefing during which ambassador sondland emphasized the importance of ukraine delivering the investigations into the 2016 elections, the bidens and burisma. i stated to ambassador sondland that this was inappropriate and had nothing to do with national security. dr. hill also asserted his comments when property. following the meeting we agreed to report the innocentthe incid the lead counsel. the ncs proposed that president trump call president zelensky to congratulate him. on july 25th, 2019, the call occurred, i listened in on the call with white house colleagues. i was concerned by the call. what i heard was inappropriate. and i reported my conc

hill next week democrats once again will question trumpet ministration officials behind closed doors while some officials have already appeared others are refusing to show up the latest energy secretary rick perry who says there was nothing wrong with trump's call to zelinsky yeah i want to present my own cause i thought it was important. if you raise which i do 'd every thing to do is back to the point that the united states has the ability to give ukraine a alternative to russia yes legislators could issue a subpoena forcing perry to appear or risk being arrested and we will make america great again thank you mr. raising the ante and the pressure on a president who says he will fight what he calls illegal effort to undermine his rule rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington. well the u.s. democratic presidential hopeful beto over or because announce he's ending his campaign or work was urged to run for president by many democrats they were energized by his narrow senate lost last year in texas and reliably republican states addressing supporters in iowa he said his campaign did not have the means to move forward but did say that he would stay active in the fight to defeat president donald

communications with secretary of state pompeo, his counselor ol' rick bruck bull, lisa kenna and communications with ambassador bolton, dr. hillw what we were doing and why. everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. everyone was informed via email days before the presidential call. >> so what's next for mike pompeo? proud kansas plans plant like mike pompeo, there was no place like him. he is considering moving back to kansas to run for senate. meanwhile, another one of the president's men, attorney general bill barr under fire for his defense of president trump. one of them former solicitor. conservative is respect for the rule of law, respect for tradition. people who claim their conservatives today are demanding loyalty to this ignorant, foul-mouthed president. let's start with bill barr and make our way to mike pompeo if we could. there was this extraordinary speech by the attorney general, the federalist society a few days ago. received a lot of coverage and criticism. this was the attorney general going beyond what past attorney generals have said. another one he delivered at notre dame, religious liberty, which he was

hill. you see a number of people. outgoing energy secretary rick perry and former adviser of defense john bolton. perry said not going to happen, bolton hasn't said. congress is technically off this week. busy agenda. don't you think? here to temperature us break it all down, peter milbank and attorney katie barlow host of podcast words matter. welcome. dana, start with you. any signs or indication whether bolton and any of the others we listed there will skip out? >> well, it's likely that most people from the white house will obey the counsel's orders and not participate in this. the question with bolton is interesting, because he has the same lawyer as his deputy, charles kupperman, the one who brought things to a lawsuit. now waiting for the courts to rule on whether he has to speak or not. it wouldn't be surprising for bolton to take the same approach there. interesting is now that we're pivoting into public hearings, do the administration, the white house officials, continue to say that they are not going to appear? now it's not just a matter

hill next week democrats once again will question trumpet ministration officials behind closed doors while some officials have already appeared others are refusing to show up the latest energy secretary rick perry who says there was nothing wrong with trump's call to zelinsky yeah i want to present my phone call because i thought it was important if you brace which i do everything to do it is back to the point that the united states has the ability to give ukraine a alternative to russian gas legislators could issue a subpoena forcing perry to appear or risk being arrested and we will make america great again thank you mr. raising the ante and the pressure on a president who says he will fight what he calls an illegal effort to undermine his rule rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington well the u.s. democratic presidential hopeful beto o'rourke has ended his campaign has been seen as promising a promising new force in the party after narrowly losing a senate spot in texas a state that's normally fair sleep program publican addressing supporters or warrick said his campaign did not have the means to move forward but he said he would stay active in the fight to defeat donald trump. tens of th

hill next week democrats once again will question trumpet ministration officials behind closed doors while some officials have already appeared others are refusing to show up the latest energy secretary rickperry who says there was nothing wrong with trump's call to zelinsky yeah i want a president make a phone call because i thought it was important. if you brace which i do everything to do with this back to the point that the united states has the ability to give ukraine a alternative to russian gas legislators could issue a subpoena forcing perry to appear or risk being arrested and we will make america great again thank you mr. raising the ante and the pressure on a president who says he will fight what he calls illegal effort to undermine his rule rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. where every year the u.n. sets aside today that's november the 2nd is a day to draw attention to the low global conviction rate for murders and violent crimes committed against journalists that is thought that between 20062018 more than a 1000 reporters and other media workers were killed around the world unesco says almost all murders involving media go unpunished syria is one of the most dangerous cou

hill next week democrats once again will question trumpet ministration officials behind closed doors while some officials have already appeared others are refusing to show up the latest energy secretary rick perry who says there was nothing wrong with trump's call to zelinsky yeah i want to present my own course i thought it was important. it if you brace which i do 'd everything to do with this back to the point that the united states has the ability to give ukraine a alternative to russian gas legislators could issue a subpoena forcing perry to appear or risk being arrested and we will make america great again thank you mr. raising the ante and the pressure on a president who says he will fight what he calls an illegal effort to undermine his rule rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. or let's say could look at how we got here it began in july with a phone call between president trump and ukrainian president voted me as selenski a whistleblower said trump used the call to pressure the craning government to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son a month later the whistleblower 5 a secret complaint to the office of the inspector general of the intelligence community for 6

rick perry. both mulvaney and perry refused to testify. coming wednesday, testimony from laura cooper, the pentagon's assistant secretary for ukraine and eurasia. david hale, the white house expert, fiona hillounds out the testimony on thursday. we will see hill. and one of the things they want to talk about is the conversation he had with sondland after talking to the president after which he said the president doesn't so much care about ukraine but the big things like the investigation into the bidens. >> clearly significant. sara murray, thank you for that report. let's bring in our analyst and correspondent. let's talk a little bit about these nine witnesses we will hear from starting tomorrow morning. house speaker nancy pelosi raised the possibility of the president himself testifying. watch what she said on sunday. >> the president could come right before the committee and speak all the truth that he wants. >> you don't expect him. >> if he wants to take the oath of office. or he could do it in writing. he has every opportunity to present his case. >> the president tweeted he's seriously thinking about that. what do you think? >> he has done a lot of this in writing and that is his t

rick perry. the reason for making that phone call is he wanted to refresh his memory with regard to a july 10th meeting at the white house. fiona hill russia top adviser to president trump described that meeting to lawmakers as a pretty tumultuous one in which the ukrainians were having discussions and bolton cut the decisions short and that's because during that discussion there was a mention of the investigations and biden brought up during those meetings, and bolton then after that meeting told fiona hill he did not want to be a part of this drug deal that was going down and being orchestrated by chief of staff mick mulvaney and by the u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondland. now, in his testimony, sondland says he doesn't remember it that way and tells lawmakers, "he thought it was a great meeting and we all left happy." now, the bottom line here, brooke, there is other elements of what went down in that july 10th meeting at the white house that are a little complicated. we also heard from alex vindman, a white house official, tell lawmakers just last week he cull h actually told sondland it was inappropriate to mention these

questioning, maria, is scheduled up on capitol hill here for today and tomorrow, tomorrow on the schedule calls for the energy secretary, outgoing energy secretary rickbolton, the president's former national security adviser to go through a deposition on thursday, subpoena, maria, will likely be needed in the case of bolton to ensure that testimony should it happen, maria. maria: all right, blake, thank you, blake berman with the latest there, the author of to plea or not to plea, great to see you that morning, thank you so much for joining us. >> very early in san diego. maria: i know that. i want to get to the book, let me get your take on what's happening in washington right now where democrats want to subpoena, i'm sorry, the republicans want to subpoena adam schiff, chairman of the committee to testify amidst impeachment inquiry. >> well, i think it's such a polarized atmosphere, adam schiff is definitely, not hiding his opinions or emojis but not really behaving as somebody trying to get the truth, i don't think anybody disputes that, right? >> it's very political, no doubt about it, so in your book to plea or not to plea you write about the st

hill -- >> well let me interrupt to say the entire intelligence community said it was russia. >> right. but it could also be ukraine. >> reporter: prominent conservatives like energy secretary rick perry are putting their faith in mr. trump entertaining the notion he may have been chosen by god to be president. >> i said mr. president, i know you say you were the chosen one and i said you were. i said if you're a believing christian you understand god's plan for the people who rule and judge over us on this planet in our government. >> reporter: the president isn't spending much time second guessing his decision to block disciplinary action taken against navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher. mr. trump defended his actions that resulted in the firing of the secretary of the navy who wrote a letter saying he could not follow the president's orders. >> i think i'm sticking up for our armed forces. i will stick up for the warriors. >> reporter: a white house source tells cnn rudy giuliani is on the president's legal team and reiterated he was only joking about having an insurance policy but a reminder of what happened with michael cohen who went to prison because he was involved in a schem

hill next week democrats once again will question trumpet ministration officials behind closed doors while some officials have already appeared others are refusing to show up the latest energy secretary rick perry who says there was nothing wrong with trump's call to zelinsky yeah i want the president make phone calls because i thought it was important. if you base which i do everything to do it is back to the point that the united states has the ability to give ukraine a alternative to russian gas legislators could issue a subpoena forcing perry to appear or risk being arrested and we will make america great again thank you mr. raising the ante and the pressure on a president who says he will fight what he calls an illegal effort to undermine his rule. 0 washington. the u.s. democratic presidential hopeful beto rakhine announced he is ending his campaign oric was urged to run for president by many democrats who are energized by his narrow senate last year in texas a reliably republican states addressing his supporters in iowa said his campaign did not have the means to move forward but he vows to stay active in the fight to defeat president donald trump at least 53 soldiers have been kil

rick tyler, thank you. >>> house democrats announcing when the first public hearing will be happening. msnbc's garrett haake is standing by on the hill. garrett, what do we know? when is it happening? >> reporter: set your alarm, your dvr for wednesday. that's when we'll see the first public hearing in the impeachment inquiry. two very interesting witnesses. bill taylor, the current acting ambassador to ukraine and george kent, a top state department official will appear side by side in the first intel committee open hearing on wednesday. to refresh your memory, ambassador taylor was on the ground in ukraine over the summer, said he was starting to put the pieces together about the $400 million in aid to ukraine being tied to the investigations into buries ma and the bidens. he's the witness who so impressed this committee behind closed doors with his meticulous note taking. he brought receipts. he had backup for everything he said, every meeting he was in, every phone call he took. we know that yesterday, and some of the transcripts that were released yesterday, he expressed concerns going back even earlier than that. by taking this