trump: ok. thank you will take a look at it. >> this is a serious issue to discuss, thank you for hosting us after the discussion. i am honored to be a part of it and look forward to engaging with everyone in the room. did you know it was going to be so controversial? >> yes m i'm happy to be here. fromm a pediatrician georgia and president of the american academy of pediatrics. >> the children are counting on us. pres. trump: thank you very much. >> christopher butler, americans for tax reform. thank you for having aspirin we are concerned about the public-policy applications for adult vapers. and view it as a prerequisite for keeping people and the liberty coalition for doing everything we care so much about. i am gary rady, ceo of the american cancer society and american cancer action network and i want to thank you for making this [inaudible] pres. trump: important position you have, what is your stance on vaping, e-cigarettes? have you taken a stance? >> yes we have and we are totally align

>> the difference between bevin and trump is trump won that state by 30 points. bevin just lost. bevin was behind by ten points a few weeks ago. the fact he lost by a few thousand points shows that the -- votes. it the visit did help. he rallied the troops. it's not a good look for a president that won state in double digits to drag the state. it's not good. we said several times this evening bevin suffered from self-inflicted wounds. battling the teachers union, fighting against med cad expansion. fighting against republicans in his state house was not helpful and at the same time besheer is a popular candidate. he had has a legacy in the state. and what he said in his election acceptance speech tonight was what he's been saying all along throughout the campaign he will work for the lost and lonely and those left mind. that's an important message. that resonated with people there. the fact he is popular and bevin is unpopular. that's the big factor. the reality is trump was not on the ticket. and bevin was. and that is what lost here. i don't see this specific r

trump. the testimony tying trump directly and seemingly unilaterally to the decision to withhold military assistance comes against the backdrop of more new testimony tying trump to the conditioning of military aid in exchange for investigations into biden. from the transcript of morrison's closed-door testimony released over the weekend about trump's reliance on e.u. by any chance gordon sondland to carry out his orders. the intel committee chairman adam schiff asks. sondland understood his responsibilities to be doing what the president asked him to do? morrison replies he related to me he was acting-he was discussing these matters with the president. schiff asks, and, in fact, every time you went to check to see whether he had in fact talked to the president, you found that he had talked to the president? morrison supplies yes, mr. chairman. and perhaps no one faces a greater risk and higher scrutiny an e.u. ambassador gordon sondland when he testifies this week. it'll be on wednesday. bra

trump had a diabolical plan to build a trump tower in moscow. trump changed the republican national committee platform to hurt ukraine and benefit russia. the russians laundered money through the nra to the trump campaign. trump's son-in-law lied about his russian contact while obtaining his security clearance. it is a long list of charges. all false. i could go on and on. i will spare you. clearly, these ludicrous accusations do not reflect committee members honestly searching for the truth. they are the actions of partisan extremists who hijacked the intelligence committee, transformed it into the impeachment committee, abandoned its oversight functions and turned it into a beachhead for ousting an elected president from office. you have to keep that history in mind as you consider the democrats latest catalog of suppose it trump outrages. granted, a friendly call with ukrainian president would not seem to rise to the same level as being a russian agent, but the democrats were running out of time. if they waited any longer, there impeachment c

trump had that speech, trump coming into kentucky. these were exactly the kind of places he thought he was going to fire up. bevin needed to do better in coal country. >> steve, thank you very much. we're going to go live now to nbc news vaughn hilliard at beshear headquarters in louisville. vaughn, what's the reaction there? >> reporter: yeah, steve said it. throughout the night all of a sudden as these numbers were coming in, they were slowly something in there, i was talking with steve and the campaign was saying eastern iowa may be saving us right now. these are largely small counties so incremental numbers. when you're looking at places where trump by 24%, if you look at the 2015 numbers, for the 2019 numbers bevin lost maybe 4 percentage points. but what that said about that is the fact essentially those areas did not turn out in higher numbers. the voter turn out increase did not surge in the same way it did in places like those northern kentucky suburbs, over in boone, over in kenton, and look at those counties. essentially th

they were all for trump. they all said i voted for trump but i won't do it again.id, who is voting for trump? 10 hands. it's incredible what's happening. they actually said, and i shouldn't say this because they will bring it up, we have the greatest base in the history of politics. you're the smartest. they don't like to say that. i went to great colleges, you went to great schools or colleges. you people are successful as hell. they like to try to demean. we're winning, you're smarter, you're better looking, you're sharper. they call themselves elite. if they're elite, then we're the super elite. it's true. they talk about these people that are elite that are running. have you been watching these debates? what's elite about that? there's nothing elite. we're doing great. we're going to have a tremendous victory. when i have a perfect call -- think of it, what they get away with. forget.and -- and with no -- don't forget. i came to washington having been here only a few times. i'm writing in washington and i say to the first lady, who is doing a fantastic job, i t

trump, president trump the most.y put them up there. everybody has been absolutely fine. i don't even know most of these people. many of these people i never even heard of. so crooked schiff is a corrupt politician. he looks all over. tries to find people who don't like trump and he puts them up. we are winning so big. >> the democrats aren't alone in their hatred of the president. the left-wing media has been undermining the' populist america first agenda. the president slamming the media for their strition behavior. -- for their vicious behavior. president trump: from the day i came in here i have had problems with phoney stuff. like a phoney dossier. like false investigations. so a lot of my behavior was shaped by the fake news and by the other side. gregg: despite the efforts of the left wing the president is fostering a soaring economy, standing up to the chinese' years of theft and making the military and the station stronger. president trump: this is a crooked deal. it's like the fake dossier. these are crooke

how much money is the trump family and the trump organization receiving in payments from that trump tower in istanbul? is it zero, $1 million, $10 million? what percentage of their income comes from those towers? no one knows the answers. maybe it's nothing. maybe it's important, we don't know. meanwhile, the president is making decisions now is trying to put his hotel in washington on the market for $500 million, much more than anybody thinks it's worth. why is it why does he even have such a hotel? those are the kinds of things that are disturbing about our country but let me take on another point that i think is we talk about immigration amnesty and what we are going to do. there's something like 12 million people illegally present in the united states. maybe more. you're right, we don't know the exact number, but the usual guess is about 12 million, it may be more, it may be less. apparently about half of that population has been here for more than 10 years so it's very unlikely that they're ever returning home. the peak period for illegal entry into the united states was the 1990s so

[cheers and applause] -- ident trump: and [cheers and applause] president trump: true.ot be more popular in florida than me. i'm never going to [inaudible] but here's a quick one. here's a quick one. [cheers and applause] president trump: true. here's a quick story. i shouldn't say it. but what the hell? ron has been a friend of mine for a long time. he was a congressman the didn incredible job, always protecting me from the russia witchhunt and beyond. matt ande guys, with everybody. he would be on there. and i always thought ron was a little heavy, right? i thought he was a little overweight. that's ok, we all have our problems. it did not matter. but people liked him. but he ran an incredible race. that was incredible race. and then he ran against a democrat who was supposed to be unbeatable. he got beaten badly. now this is one of the most popular governors. but i always thought ron was a little bit heavy. and then one day i'm with him and i pat him on the shoulder. i go wow, that's a lot of muscle there. my hand didn't sink in like it does with a lot of people. and

trump and mr.ou say it's actually the journalists who are the l lia lia liars. >> almost everything "the washington post" does is fake. >> then you say you have the best spectacle and the best platform because you're the president of the country. >> reporter: could trump's attacks influence other leaders and other countries? a libyan tv station in 2017 seized on a trump fake news tweet to discredit a cnn investigative report on slavery in libya. >> others around the world have gotten the message. they won't pay a price federal budget they behave badly in this realm and we're no longer setting an example that individuals around the world want to emulate. >> the president's weapon choice for spreading falsehoods is twitt twitter. >> the breadth and speed to which his comments travel is very different than anything we've ever seen in presidential history. when we analyze all of the true and false verified news that was spread on twitter, what we found was that false news diffused farther, faster, deep

other people who, by the way, are trump people, trump appointees, trump loyalists, you know, where did they get this idea that they were supposed to make this demand of the ukraine? i know where they got the idea. from rudy giuliani, who trump told everyone to talk to. so this idea that trump knew nothing about this quid pro quo, plus he saidew it in his phone call, but i mean they're trying to make it seem confusing. it's not, and adam schiff is exactly right to say the facts are largely uncontested here. >> sam, we've got about 400 pages almost of testimony from bill taylor today and one of tho things he did make clear is whao mimi just said.e the messaging came from rudy giuliani. he fully believed rudy giuliani was acting on behalf of the president, but rudy giuliani remains central to this operation.ud how is that going to play out because rudy giuliani's got his own problems.to he's now hired a new lawyer. he's generally been pretty silent although today he tweeted that the investigation i conducted concerning 2016 ukrainian collusion and corruption was done solely as a defense a

in trump for some strange reason opted to construct trump tower out of poor concrete.in constructing trump tower, he poured concrete and had to deal mobsters. he had to deal with the president john cody whose girlfriend got for apartments and trump tower even though she had no visible means of support. during the time of construction, the whole thing is a story, you read a book just about the construction of trump tower. during the time of construction there was a citywide strike and there was no construction going on because no one could get past the picket lines except one place, that was trump tower. where the poured concrete flowed into the construction of the building. so trump's ties to the mob and later in atlantic city run deep and i going to them in the book and they were all very interesting. >> there has been a bit of a renaissance in just a few weeks ago your wonderful spouse had a premier event for the documentary" the husband attributed to trump and we certainly seen a number of lawyers attempt to fill a role for trump. michael, rudy giuliani and both men

know who signed ivanka trump, donald trump, jr., eric trump, and donald trump senior. the only thing that has changed is donald trump's cynical conclusion that by becoming a climate change denier, that is the way to succeed in the republican party. and he is helping us, pushing us along the path of destruction. no one seems to buy that argument because they said it was a policy difference -- i don't think so. i think it is putting humanity in peril. if you can prove that, that is impeachable. host: i will let you chat with as many colors as we can get in. john, jupiter, florida, independent. good morning. caller: yes. i would suggest not interviewing a person who is just another new york liberal professor. guest: i live in bethesda, maryland, not in new york. caller: you probably were indoctrinated in new york, because you are from there. was 16, soft when i it must have been a strange indoctrination. go ahead. caller: i have been watching this show for the last hour and a half and it is so biased it is unbelievable. [laughter] caller: i would hope c-span would get som

trump had a diabolical plan to build a trump tower in moscow. trump changed the republican national committee platform to hurt ukraine and benefit russia. the russians laundered money. trump's son-in-law lied about russian contacts while obtaining security clearance am. it's a long list of charges. all fall. i could go on and on and on. bill spare you for these moments. clearly, these ludicrous accusations don't reflect committee members who are honestly searching for the truth. they're the actions of partisan transformed it into the impeachment committee. abandoned the core oversight functions and turned it into a beachhead for ousting an elected president from office. you have to keep that history in mind as you consider the democrats' latest catalog of supposed trump out rages. granted, a friendly call with the ukrainian president wouldn't seem to rise to the same level as being a russian agent. but the democrats were running out of time. if they waited any longer, their impeachment circus would intervene with their own candidate's 2020 campa

trump. >> all right. on monday it was all about trump. you could hear him. he said it's all on me. you can't do this to me. you can't do this to me, and then, oh, my goodness, they did it, and don jr. says it has nothing to do with donald trump, the president. really? okay. good morning, and welcome to "morning joe." it is wednesday, november 6th. along with joe, willie and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc and author of "the red and the blue" steve kornacki with the maps today. columnist and associate editor for "the washington post," david ignatius joins us and nbc news correspondent heidi przybyla joins us now. >> they're two stories that for people who are just stupid enough to like watching dogs chase their tails. do we have two stories for you? you saw the first. don jr. saying this had nothing to do with donald trump, and donald trump the night before saying you have to do this for me, basically saying this is all abou

president trump directed it.oining us now is political correspondent abby phillip and elie. yes, there was a quid pro quo, abby, he said it unequivocally. and, yes, everyone knew. everyone was in the loop. yes, it was directed by president trump. those were really the last outstanding questions. >> exactly. and he threw everyone under the bus, which seemed to say that i was not going rogue. this was not something that was irregular because everyone was in on it. i was talking to rick perry about it. i was talking to the secretary of state about it. i was talking to mick mulvaney, the chief of staff, about it. and he brought everyone into the alleged conspiracy about what they were doing leading up to that phone call. and i think he did a lot to damage his own credibility in the process. i think it seemed he was going out of his way to make it clear, that he could not rely on his own memory for a lot of the information, which made him a frustrating witness. but on the key points, he was pretty clear this was somet

trump and mr. putin is the basic pattern of lying.e yourself. >> why is it only the united states putting up the money? let me do that again. >> then you say it's actually the journalists who are the liars. >> well obviously it's fake because almost everything "the washington post" does is fake. >> then you try to thrive in the confusion by the fact that you have the best spectacle and you have the best platform because you're the president of the country. >> could trump's persistent attacks on the press influence other leaders, other countries? >> our contacts are telling us -- >> in november 2017, a libyan tv station seized on a trump fake news tweet to try to discredit a cnn investigative report on slavery in libya. >> others around the world have gotten the message. they won't pay a price if they behave badly in this realm, and we're no longer setting an example that individuals around the world want to emulate. >> the president's weapon of choice for spreading falsehoods is twitter. >> the breadth and speed with which his comment

but trump isn't corrupt, my colleague wrote, trump isn't corrupt and late-stage trumpism and totallyrump and trump is everywhere really corrupts absolutely. >> kennedy comes after rand paul, a similar podium in kentucky and called for a crime essentially for the whistle-blower to be outed. and this is something -- he has advocated for whistle-blower protection in the past. the absolute reversal, turning yourself inside out in order to impress the president and i assume just to be close to power, right, and to not have his ire. >> very quickly, jeff sessions plans to enter the race. we talked about him a second ago, for his old alabama senate seat. this is one year after he was fired. "new york times" maggie haberman saying trump warned sessions through allies he would publicly attack him if he ran. and here is vice president pence, asked if he will campaign for sessions in 2020. there is expected to be a primary in alabama. take a listen. >> obviously, we -- we'll let the people of alabama make that decision. >> we'll let the people of alabama make that decision. not exactly a strong

this home to someone who loves trump. >> hates trump. >> lovers. >> hates. >> we didn't have time torgue, we had to show this place to real couples looking to buy their first home. >> okay. >> okay, so as you can see it is a very traditional style, four bedroom, great space in the backyard. >> what is your first reaction. >> um, well, the open space is good. the trump memorabilia is definitely bumming me out a little bit. >> it's everywhere, trump is everywhere in this room. >> donald trump is definitely not my person. >> he doesn't live here any more. >> any more? there sts childhood home of president donald trump. >> that's weird, man. >> that say little weird. >> totally. >> in eye bad way. >> it can feel anxious because st new, it is big, you are feeling a lot but i think there is a lot of excitement there that you could work with. >> we tried to help these couples to feel the love clearly missing from trump's childhood but got hung up on the little things. >> everything about it makes me uncomfortable. i really don't like, like the idea of living in his house. >> who would want

spoke with president trump. also on july 20th, i had a phone conversation with alexander done lop, president zelensky's national security adviser who emphasized that president zelensky did not want to be used as an instrument in a u.s. re-election campaign. the next day i texted both ambassadors volker and sondland about president zelensky's concern. on july 25th, president trump and president zelensky had the long-awaited phone conversation. even though i was acting ambassador and was scheduled to meet the following day, i received no readout of the call from the white house t. ukrainian government issued a short, cryptic summary. during a previously planned july 26th meeting, president zelensky told ambassador volker and me that he was happy with the call but ndid not lap rate. president zelensky asked about the face-to-face meeting in the oval office as promised in the may 29th letter from president trump. we could give him no firm answer. after our meeting with president zelensky, ambassador volker and i tra

so do eric and donald trump, jr.embers of the trump organization who are, in fact, working still for the president in his private capacity because he continues to own the trump organization. remember how absolutely extraordinary this situation of past presidents have divested their similar private interests, they've sold them, they've bought bonds which raise no conflicts of interests. and donald trump is the extraordinary exception to that rule. and his conflict of interest is more than a little one as he put it very boastfully. >> and we know that donald trump denied the president of ukraine, which is our ally, a country we've long been in support of in their attempts to free themselves from russia. he denied that president a white house meeting. he gave one to president erdogan despite the brutality that turkey has inflicted on the kurds who are our allies. what did you make of that, sir, for him to invite erdogan to the white house? >> the invitation to erdogan, the avoidance of any sanctions for erdogan buying r

president trump was talking to ambassador gordon sondland.pleitgen joins me live outside of the restaurant in kiev, ukraine. and we're not just showing off that we have reporters all over the world, what is interesting is that the setup doesn't seem ideal for a sensitive call with an american president. >> reporter: you're absolutely right, jake. it is a beautiful restaurant but for a sensitive call it might not be the best place. it is basically two levels of very open spaces and when we walked in you could hear the chatter at certain tables. there is no separation walls so everybody could hear you if you are inside of the restaurant having a loud phone call in english. but i want to show you something else if you could come with me. one of the places that apparently gordon sondland was as he was inside of the restaurant was right here, this is the terrace area sitting with three of his associates from the embassy and that is closed right now because it is winter. but that terrace is also right next to a road that you could see right here. s

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that's not how trump operates. to change the story and everybody's going to look foolish. so everybody's afraid. you have a dysfunctional coms system, so there's no message. the consistency of the testimony that's been given is remarkable. the inconsistency of the argument against impeachment by the republicans has been abysmal. >> lindsey graham, for example, the guy -- he's been around for a long time. i used to think he wanted to be one of those classic southern senators, serve their whole life and end up having a building named after you. you know the history of those guys. richard russell and all those guys, and now he just looks like he's working for trump, not for history. >> that's the point i want to make. the communication strategy is pretty simple right now. it's an audience of one. you are talking to one and one person only and that's president trump. so if he says what he wants you to say and/or he hears what you're saying, then check that mark for communication strategy. you only have one person to po

really be trump unplugged.s not worried about reelection. what would he do? we know his sensibility is the true america-first isolationist. the second i would say is definitely more tongue and cheek. he said will possibly be more efor jared and ivanka. they could convince the president to make a very unconventional supreme court justice pick. he might choose someone super liberal. and i know that sounds to you totally bananas. >> 23 i may, come on. >> sister, please, i get it. and the whole idea is if they convince the president of something like that, then they could return to the new york social circles and then be able to say to everyone see, behind the scenes for all these years we were doing all that work. >> the final question, which is something we all look at, the wrangling among these people. you talk about the -- sometimes called the javonka fashion. and removing mulvaney now could be perilous he played this integral role in these issues. do you wantx shall we say talking mess inside or outside? >> th

trump had a diabolical plan to build a trump tower in moscow. trump changed the republican national committee platform to hurt ukraine and benefit russia. the russians launderred money through the nra for the trump campaign. trump's son-in-law lied about his russian contacts while obtaining his security clearance. it's a long list of charges, all false. and i could go on and on and on, but i'll spare you from these moments. clearly, these ludicrous accusations don't reflect committee members who are honestly searching for the truth. they are the actions of partisan extremists, who hijacked the intelligence committee, transformed it into the impeachment committee, abandoned its core oversight functions and turned into a beachhead for ousting an elected president from office. you have to keep that history in mind as you consider the democrats' latest catalog of supposed trump outrages. granted a friendly call with the ukrainian president wouldn't seem to rise to the same level as being a russian agent, but the democrats were running out of time. i

hill is president trump's former russia adviser. we expect to hear a lot during the testimony today. we'll have a full recap but it starts right now. stephanopoulos. >>> good morning, and welcome to our special coverage of the impeachment of president donald trump. 1100 house longworth building is where they have been holding these hearings. this is what could be the fifth and final public hearing in the house intelligence committee in the committee on capitol hill. today two witnesses, dr. fiona hill and david holmes. hill, the chief russia expert, and holmes, you overheard sondland talking to the president about these investigations. mary bruce is up on capitol hill this morning, and dr. fiona hill expected to deliver a blistering -- a blistering attack on those who question whether it was russia who interfered in our 2016 elections. instead suggesting it's ukraine. >> reporter: george, straight off the bat, fiona hill is going to be chastising the republicans on this committee. it's a bold and rare move. she has this warning that

flooded the air waves. >> it was designed to help donald trump and hurt clinton. >> donald trumps response> russia if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails. >> donald trump wins the presidency. >> in november 2016, trump's victory was a political earthquake in the u.s. in moscow, it sparked joyous celebration. in washington president trump was meeting out going president obama. and obama gave his a piece of advice. do not hire michael flynn. trump did it anyway. the new national security adviser lasted 24 days. flynn had lied about russia. specifically about a conversation with then ambassador kiz yak. they discussed what putin hated most. u.s. sanctions on russia. >> they want the sanctions lifted. they made no secret of it. >> soon donald trump started talking down the sanctions. he told the "wall street journal" if we get along, why would anybody need them. >> united states of america needs to send a strong message to vladimir putin. >> congress however was having none of it. in august of 2017, a tough sanctions bill passed. overwhelmingly. >> wouldn't it be a

trump and mr. putin is the basic pattern of lying.me yourself. >> why is it only the united states putting up the money? >> let me do that again. >> then you say it's actually the journalists who are the liars. >> well, obviously it's fake because almost everything the washington post does is fake. >> then you try to thrive in confusion by the fact that you have the best spectacle, the best platform because you're president of the country. >> could trump's persistent attacks on the press influence other leaders, other countries? >> our contacts are telling us -- >> in november 2017 a libyan television station seized on a fake news tweet on slavery in libya. >> others around the world have gotten the message. >> the president's weapon of choice for spreading falsehoods is twitter. >> the breadth and speed with which his comments travel is very different than anything we've seen in history. when we analyze all of the true and false verified news that was spread on twitter, what we found was that false news diffused farther, faster, more

trump. we'll have more on both of those important stories later in this hour. >>> but first tonight we are now one week away from the first public hearing in the impeachment investigation of president donald j. trump. the acting ambassador to ukraine, william taylor, will make history next wednesday as the first witness to testify publicly in what will become the fourth impeachment investigation of a president in american history. a transcript of ambassador taylor's deposition to the impeachment inquiry was released today. it shows ambassador taylor testified that he threatened to quit if president trump continued to with hold military aid to ukraine. ambassador taylor said that the trump position was that the president of ukraine would be granted a white house meeting with the president of the united states, and ukraine would receive military assistance mandated by congress only if ukraine helped the trump re-election campaign by investigating joe biden. chairman adam schiff pointed out tha

lackey, a trump donor trying to do everything that trump wants him to do. you have a respected diplomat that was called out of retirement by the secretary of state to come in and handle duties in ukraine, and he is the one saying, whoa, hold on. this is really wrong, and really what happened here is pretty simple. sondland got a lawyer. sondland lawyered up, and that lawyer did a good job of explaining you can either stick with the story you've given, or you can do a clean up on aisle 5 and maybe escape criminal and other consequences down the line when it becomes obvious you were not telling the truth the first go-around. >> when you read sondland's transcript, you know, side by side with some of these other ones, i mean, it's just astonishing the amount of contradictions, and it's not just him contradicting one person, it's him contradicting three or four people, people with kind of impeccable national security credentials. you know, and one of the sub threads of this whole scandal is that we do have these clownish figures, you know, sondland and even mor

giuliani/president trump. as i recall my mistake was someone came back through volker otherwise and said, no, it's not going to do if the prosecutor makes these statements. the president wants to hear it from zelenskiy directly. that's the mistake i think i made. >> do you have any reason to question ambassador taylor's testimony based on his meticulous and contemporaneous notes? >> i'm not going to question but i'm going to tell you what i believe -- that i was referring to. >> let me fast forward and show you another text exchange which may help prefresh your recollection. on september 8th you sent a text to ambassador taylor and ambassador volker. can you read what you wrote there? >> multiple convos with zelenskiy and potus, let's talk. >> this was 11:20 in the morning. and mr. taylor responds immediately now is fine with me. if we could go to the next exchange. ambassador taylor then 15 minutes later says gordon and i just spoke or 20 minutes later, rather, i can brief you if you and gordon don't connect.

[ laughter ] trump yelled so loud everyone could hear him honestly it would have been easier if trumpt held a conference call and let everyone dial in. >> president trump has joined the conference call. >> hello, everybody, thank you very much for being here ukraine should investigate the bidens and i'm guilty >> this conference call has ended. [ laughter ] >> seth: so a witness literally overheard trump yelling about his crime on a phone call with one of his key henchmen. and just in case it wasn't already incredibly clear what had happened on that call, we found out on friday from that witness what happened next the witness, a state department official named david holmes, testified that after sondland hung up with trump he basically admitted everything on the spot. >> following the call with president trump the member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what president trump thought about ukraine. ambassador sondland responded that president trump cares more about the investigations of biden which guiliani was pressing for >> i want to a read a section from holmes' sworn testimony,

donald trump, jr.nd raisers and even ben carson up in northern kentucky. even when you have a candidate like matt bevin who is so unpopular and his policies have failed the state for so long, you try to do what you have to do to win. >> when you saw the president of the united states coming into your state the night before the election, there's two ways to look at that. one, you could be worried that he's going to help the republican, but you could also expect that he -- that this president of the united states would help turn out, help energize turnout on the democratic side. is that possibly what happened with the president's visit? >> i think that's absolutely possible. i mean, if you look at where he showed up in lexington, the margins from this race versus those in 2015 were not even comparable. i think it was over three times -- the vote difference was three times greater than it was in 2015. so you absolutely saw democrats fired up in kentucky. and, you know, as a campaigner, the other thing i s

trump ambassador gordon sondland, he is a trump donor who has been defending donald trump and echoing trump's denials even after the impeachment probe launched. now sondland rattling trump world, striking at the heart of trump's impeachment defense and that's not all. this is a very simple and damning development for trump tonight. i'm about to show you a few simple highlights from the new testimony. but before we even do that, here is the incriminating context, and this is something anybody can understand, even somebody with an open mind about whether or not trump did a bribery plot. mr. sondland is not just pointing a finger at the white house right now, he's doing so in the guiltiest possible way, by walking back and revising his past testimony that was initially more friendly to trump. democratic investigators already saying this shows a consciousness of a cover-up because sondland is changing or reversing the past testimony that was defending trump. where he played down why the crucial money for ukraine was ever frozen. something that as we reported at the time was contradicted b

he meaning trump.rump wanted ukraine to clear him of the robert mueller investigation reports and he wanted ukraine to smear biden. those are two things he desperately wanted. amy: liz holtzman, i would to go back to nixon. the articles of impeachment that clear,ed on -- let's be nixon was not impeached because he quit before he would -- butely be impeached were for cover-up of the water break-in --ergate >> and there was a third one, stymieing, refusing to turn over information to the house judiciary committee and trying to stymie the impeachment investigation. amy: i i w want to ask wheththes impeachment proceeding will only be limited to come as nancy forsi said, ukraine? example, could he go to issues of children dying on the border? the reason i ask this is, the house judiciary committee under nixon did right of articles of impeachment, didn't i? against nixon for the secret bombing of cambodia. >> i drafted that. that was rejected. of the articles of impeachment about abuse of power went through

and the biggest challenge yet to donald trump's presidency they want to prove he abused his power also coming up turkey's president gets a warm the white house welcome but tensions between the nato allies are high and there's little sign of a breakthrough. i'm called asman welcome to the program we begin in the u.s. where the impeachment inquiry against donald trump has entered a new phase lawmakers have begun public hearings the 1st in 20 years or wednesday they heard testimony from 2 top diplomats trump has called the process a witch hunt. a historic day for the united states hours of testimony played out on television screens across the country we will come to order. morning everyone. the inquiry centers on an alleged pressure campaign aimed at forcing ukraine to investigate the u.s. president's political rival joe biden and on wednesday one of the diplomats who testified linked donald trump more directly to those efforts the acting ambassador to kiev said a member of his staff overheard a conversation in which trump asked e.u. ambassador gordon somnolent if he'd successfully pushed

for the trump campaign trump son in law lying about his russian contacts while attaining his security clearance it's a long list of charges all false and i could go on and on and on. very you for these moments clearly these little chris accusations don't reflect committee members who are honestly searching for the truth they are the actions of partisan extremists who hijacked the intelligence committee transformed it into the impeachment committee abandoned its core oversight functions and turned it into a beachhead for ousting an elected president from office you have to keep that history in mind as you consider the democrats' latest catalog of suppose and trump outrageous granted a friendly call with the ukrainian president wouldn't seem to rise to the same level as being a russian agent but the democrats were running out of time if they waited in the longer their impeachment circus would intervene with their own candidates 2020 campaigns so you have to give them points for creativity and selling this absurdity as an impeachable offense all this explains why the democrats have gathe

trump: the last time washington, d.c. home to the world series champs, the president was a gentleman named calvin coolidge. that's a long time ago. nearly a century later, the nationals have brought back the trophy to america's capital, and you've won it. this is the first world series in franchise history, and it's going to be, really, the first of many, i predict. [applause] pres. trump: i want to congratulate the terrific owners of the team. your principal owner, mark lerner, ted lerner. great people. the lerner family. [applause] pres. trump: a man who's become very famous. i think he's much more famous than me right now, general manager mike rizzo. you have become very famous, huh? [applause] thank you, sir. a manager, and you watch all the mistakes made in baseball and other sports, and then you watch what this man did as manager. he didn't make any. he didn't many any. dave martinez. [applause] pres. trump: and all of the incredible coaches and players, they're all here. and we really just want to thank you, and i

we heard president trump or we saw, i should say president trump tweeting about marie yovanovitch lasttifying. we saw the president going after jennifer williams over the weekend, and we've heard the allegations from democrats that this constitutes witness intimidation. you don't see it quite like that. why? >> i don't think that the president's intent, and it's hard to get into his head but from the sidelines, i don't think that his intent is to deter or to influence these witnesses to discourage them from coming forward. i think instead it's to discredit them. i think that he views this as he's got a first amendment right, and he needs to defend himself and that's what he's seeking to do, and john, he doesn't just treat his impeachment opponents that way. he treats every opponent that way. it's totally in character for him to constantly be on the attack, so i don't think that's where he's coming from. of course it's impossible to know for sure. >> what are you watching for today, michael? >> well, i want to get in on the david holmes' conversation that you've been having because what

a trump campaign source telling cnn that bloomberg entering the race could pose a threat to trump, who is not likely to be happy that there's another billionaire, a real billionaire, on the scene. and more closed door testimony released today, this time it's from a top state department official, his name is george kent. he's telling congress about what he calls rudy giuliani's campaign of lies against former ambassador marie yovanovitch, trying to smear her as disloyal to president trump. and i quote here, it says, mr. giuliani had been carrying on a campaign for several months full of lies and incorrect information about ambassador yovanovitch. so this was a continuation of his campaign of lies. and then going on to testify that giuliani was in cahoots with the former ukraine prosecutor general, testifying, quote, that it seemed to be a classic you scratch my back, i scratch yours issue. and that the president's interests were, in his own quote, partisan interests. now, impeachment is the president's biggest problem right now. but it's not his only problem. and any one of this preside

trump is, can we keep it? and i recognize representative marks. >>> following the mueller report, the democrats made a last-ditch effort to convince the american people that president trump was corrupt. after the spectacular implosion of the russia hoax on july 24th in which they spent years denouncing any republican who ever shook hands with a russian, on july 25th, they turned on a dime and now claim the real malfeasance is republicans' dealings with ukraine. in the blink of an eye, we're asked to simply forget about democrats on this committee, falsely claiming they had more than circumstantial evidence of collusion between president trump and russians. we should forget about them reading fabrications of trump/russia collusion from the steele dossier into the congressional record. we should also forget about them trying to obtain nude pictures of trump from russian pranksters who pretended to be ukranian officials. we should forget about them leaking a false story to cnn while he was still testifying to our

rapport with president trump. that is obvious given all the flattering language. ♪ >> before being elected president earlier this year, volodymyr zelensky was an actor and comedian. his most notable role was playing a president on tv. he won office in a landslide with a campaign promise to fight corruption and to end ukraine's war with its vastly more powerful neighbor, russia. zelensky knows u.s. military aid is vital to his country, and he's eager for it to continue. i would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. we are ready to continue to cooperate for the next stages. specifically, we are almost ready to buy more javelins from the united states for defense purposes, he says. javelins are shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles ukraine's army needs to fight off russian-backed forces. so far, so normal. talks of bilateral relations and defense. but this is president trump. his response to the request for javelin missiles is personal. one white house official reportedly called it crazy.

the one where zelensky asked trump for military aid and trump said said do us a favor, though.fficial appeared on capitol hill today to give testimony on the impeachment proceedings, she's the first person from the president's office to do so. but i want to point out one other thing, also at that september 1st meeting was the man we spot shadowed here. this was the senior director on the national security council who was involved in ukrainian negotiations. today while jennifer williams was testifying behind closed doors in the impeachment proceedings that other guy who was also there at that meeting quit his job. today he quit his job at the white house, his resignation is effective tomorrow. so we get in quick succession, very quick succession this week we get gordon sondland revising his testimony about that meeting to say actually at that meeting that's where i delivered the definite specific quid pro quo demand that you're not getting your military aid unless you investigate the bidens. then we get pence's aide from that meeting, surprise, agreeing to testify behind closed

that includes the most high-ranking trump official who initially backed donald trump's ukraine plot. ambassador gordon sondland. he faces the impeachment probe after famously revising his testimony to ultimately be more incriminating against his boss, president trump. well, tonight i have a special report that we've been working on with everything you need to know about the man who might be the most pivotal witness in these whole hearings. that's coming up tonight. also new developments on how impeachment investigators are going after trump for allegedly lying under oath. but our top story now on this eve of the next round of impeachment hearings is how congress is so quickly grinding forward in the impeachment probe. consider where congress is just tonight, balanced between those three witnesses who spoke last week -- you probably caught some of their testimony. it was also caught by over 13 million americans. and then look at the witnesses this week starting tomorrow. eight of them. now in a typical congressional schedule, these kind of investigative hearings could easily take over