on july 10 at the white house. on july 19 during a call between zelensky and ambassador sondland and then on july 25 to call with the two leaders. so before that fateful call on july 25 president zelensky understood exactly what needed to be done, a quid pro quo. the evidence of president trump's grave grave misconduct does grave misconduct does not end with the july 25 call. from that point on president zelensky was on notice that it was president trump himself who demanded those two phony political investigations. after the july 25 call the ukrainians bottled up with president trump's direction and began to talk with rudy giuliani the president's political bagman. acting on the presence orders u.s. diplomat including ambassador sondland and ambassador volker worked with mr. giuliani to continue pressuring ukraine to announce the phony investigation that president trump sought in exchange for that oval office meeting. this is corruption and abuse of power in its purest form. over the next two weeks mr. giuliani di

it is just the white house and his election campaign and the history of his first year in the white house. host: what does it mean to be authorized? and thehat they say ok, president says who do you want to talk to? initially sitting with sarah huckabee sanders and bill shine when the book started, and the president, i said i want everybody. everybody in the cabinet. everyone said good, you can have them all. interviewing the family members i couldn't get out of the family. it was too rich and too interesting. host: how did you get into that room in the first place? guest: it was a year of debate. i had a meeting with the ivanka trump, and i said into hundred years when you are gone and all your children are gone, they will still be writing books about the trump family and theatrical performances. whether your family is viewed with hatred like that med like thecelebrated kennedys or the rockefellers is sources. it is what you say and your father says that history will be written, and i would like to write that book. they debated it for a year. i am the guy who tape-recorded george bush. g

what you see is an emphasis on black and white together. the march was about 3 quarters african-americans one quarter white but if you look at the coverage you would think it was almost $5050.00 so one way that television news was framing this monumental phenomenon is of blacks and whites coming together each see images of marchers and the emphasis is always on dignity so you see these framed portraits of marchers. you now the t.v. cameras are always looking for well dressed marchers an and that this was part of the organizing of the march where your best close right you're going to be seen by the nation so the impulse seems to be on the day of the march to portray there's for in television viewers as non-threatening ans you know this is the ideal this is what integration looks like the jimmy was i was like a picnic it had all those like a picnic like at was fewer to iow of this like totally unimpressed and although i was you know i had already accepted brother malcolm interpretation to be good from listen to have speak but but a to me it w

i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house.hen the break-in occurred, i said, oh, no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house consultant. >> we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> earl silva read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees of the committee to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >> he tries to build a little like maf

heard from white house. assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, quote, get to the bottom of what happened, unquote, in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to washington. good luck. see you tomorrow. kurt. well, those words couldn't be much clearer. assuming president z convinces trump, he will investigate, get hef wha in 2016. we'll nail down the visit to washington. that's a text 30 minutes before that call. counsel for the president would like you to think, this is just about that call. you don't get to look outside the four corners of that call. they don't want to you look at the months that went into preparing for that call or the months of pressure that followed it. but you can just look at the right now what happened 30 minutes before that call. in this text message. heard from white house. assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016. if you are wondering how it seemed that president zelensky was aware of what he would be ask

henry dexter white. white was the polar opposite of keynes, short, jewish with a round face and glasses, and known to be so rude and abrasive that the future secretary of state, d matches and, later said thatan acheson, later said when white was accused of being a communist, he himself had crawled much worse names at white. , whitefore pearl harbor began working on his own vision of a postwar monetary order. the particulars in his plan generally tracked key nes'own ideas. one difference however, white's vision of a monetary clearinghouse which he called the international monetary fund, or ims would perform the functions of a central bankerf, by controlling capital flows within the international system. his vision sought to eliminate what had previously been recognized as a gold standard system but cap the u.s. dollar at the center of the system. -- that kept the u.s. dollar at the center of the system. by contrast, keynes envisioned the creation of a new international currency to facilitate currency exch

and white nationalists. the founder called it adolf hitler's revenge on america. yeah, hitler is dead sure but he's winning his nazi race war against us because people still immigrate to america and obviously that's terrible. >> the founding ethos is that the united states is explicitly a white nation. quote, the racial identity of america is legitimate and defensible. diversity is not strength but a vulnerability is their mission statement. and in that e-mail where steven miller flags and sends along that article as something worth paying attention to because of what he expects to be a secret part by barrack obama to import mexicans to america. i mean, that was sent by steven miller when he was a staffer working for then alabama republican senator jeff sessions. ultimately of course both sessions and steven miller would go to work for donald trump. and to the reporter that's just one in a big stack during that time period. e-mails that were obtained and published by the southern poverty law center. in total

but it is not just the white house. following president trump's orders, the office of the vice president, the office of management and budget, the department of state, the department of energy and the department of defense all continued to refuse to produce a single document of record in response to 71 specific requests including five subpoenas. additionally following president trump's order, 12 currents or former administration officials continued to refuse to testify as part of the house's impeachment inquiry. not only current administration officials, but former administration officials as well. nine of those witnesses including senior officials with district first hand knowledge of the president's actions continue to defy subpoenas for testimony because of the president's order. yet despite president trump's obstruction as you have heard and seen throughout the house manager's presentation, the house gathered overwhelming ed of his misconduct from courageous public servants who were willing to follow the law, comply

great white sharks very rarely attack people. the one that killed a swimmer named arthur medici just off this beach last september was the first fatal attack on cape cod since 1936. but it triggered a fear of attacks that can hardly be measured. scary warning signs on every beach. "stop-bleed kits" at lifeguard stands. a phone app called "sharktivity" that reports sightings in real- time, with local news doing much the same, and community meetings packed with frightened citizens. >> woman: no sharks or seals are worth a young man's life. they're just not. ( applause ) >> whitaker: you're the scientist, but you also live here, and, you know, people are afraid. >> skomal: we can't bury our heads in the sand when it comes to shark attacks. and so, that's in my face every day now. and then it always falls back on the-- you know, the question of, "well, what do you tell your kids to do?" you know? >> whitaker: what do you tell your kids to do? >> skomal: you know, i-- i tell my kids, don't go out past waist-deep. >> whitaker: that's c

white in self-defense. she died instantly. white was shot and survived. all day yesterday, searched for a key piece of poce evidence. the gun whe is itafternoon, the und a gun matching the description. white is now facing a number of lony crges including rst-deee mder and is being held without bail. the ex-boyfriend was not hurt and is not being charged. this is dublin's first homicide since 2009. detectives are now trying to determine the motive behind this deadly confrontation.

that the white house has been building its case so solidly around a theory that is so widely rejected. >> o'donnell: that there has to be a crime. >> thatx crime. >> o'donnell: you testified not only in the trump impeachment hearings but in the clinton impeachment hearings that a president can can impeached for a noncriminal act. >> that's right. >> o'donnell: that's widely agreed to except for alan dershowitz. you two are the legal experts but that's my -- >> did he make repeated reference to noncriminal conduct that could result in impeachment. also in the english impeachment historically they were often based on noncriminal conduct. framers were trying to apply a narrower standard, but they never said that indictable is synonymous with impeachable. people goes beyond the criminal yesterday. >> o'donnell: listening to the legal underpinnings for abuse of power today what struck u? >> well, i think the question really is, what's the line between abuse of power and business as usual. a good faith disagreement between the president and congress, between the president and other people i

even though the manuscript had been submitted to the white house the white house never informed anybody within the senate republican conference, which was a major problem. however, mcconnell made clear to his members in a closed door lunch before the proceedings even began to quote take a deep breath. his point, don't makeically rash decisions whether or not to vote for witnesses until you've heard the entire white house presentation, until you've had an opportunity to ask questions of both sides, something that will occur after the white house presentation concludes. still, there aren't many days to go and still a lot of questions left. and as for the actual present eggs themselves only one person even mentioned the bolton rev lags. that was alan dershowitz when he said this. >> nothing in the bolton rev lagsla revilations even if true would rise to the level of abuse of power or impeachable offense. >> the big question is did it resonate with republicans and with enough that democrats wouldn't have the votes to move forward on witnesses. we won't have the answer to that question at le

document request around the white house. morrison is senior director at the national security council remembered seeing a copy of this letter. he also recalled that the three committees ukraine investigation would discuss at a meeting of senior level nrc staff soon after was publicly announced. lieutenant colonel vindman recalls discussions among the nsc staff members that the investigation here's a quote might have the effect of releasing the hold on ukraine military assistance because you'd be quote potentially politically challenging for the administration to justify that hold to congress. later that same day on september 9 the inspector general informed the house and senate intelligence committees he determined that the whistleblower complaint that had been submitted on august 12 the pier to be credible, matt good urging concerned that the statute and yes he reported that for the first time ever the acting director of national intelligence was withholding this whistleblower complaint from congress. that violated the law

fantasy of white genocide.s fantasy that white people and other people can't coexist, it's a fight to the death and white people must wage war on everyone that's not white or they'll go extinct. that's camp of the saints. stephen miller wants this real world development to be reported along side it's parallels to the plot of camp of the saints. in other e-mails stephen miller repeatedly praises president calvin coolidge not because he likes coolidge generally as a president, no he likes him specifically for signing a radically restrictionist anti-immigration law in the 1920s, a law that was heavily influenced by the feugenics movement at the time, based on the idea the gene pool has to be cleansed of the bad types of genes by deliberately controlling breeding. calvin coolidge himself embraced the racist argument that immigrants from the eastern part of the world in particular his thinking even from eastern europe were genetically inferior to immigrants from more western parts of the world. i mean, calvin coolid

white house meeting. senators witness testimony text messages e-mails and the call record itself confirm a corrupt quid pro quo for the white house meeting an official act available only to the present united states in exchange for the announcement of political investigations the president and his allies have offered no explanation for this effort except the president can abuse his office all he likes and there's nothing you can do about it can't indict him can't impeach and that is because they cannot seriously dispute the president trump corruptly used an official white house visit for a foreign leader to compel the ukrainian president into helping him cheat in the next election the white house meeting of course was not the only official act that president trump conditioned on the announcement investigations into biden and the conspiracy theory meant to exonerate president trump from russians interference on his behalf in the last election in a far more draconian step as we have discussed the president

the former white house press secretary. i wonder what the white house is thinking. there is some suggestion that they feel good about the fact that they are finally getting their side of the story heard in this process today. the president is in dabo switzerland. >> i think the absolute we have to feel pretty good about how the members of their legal team have conducted themselves so far. i feel that lofgren had an assignment that i would not have wanted. she is basically not going to win over any converts in the senate by telling the senate that they need to do their job when even some of the moderate senators on the g.o.p. side have so that the house and at them incomplete. i think senator schumer has a very interesting decision to make right now. you have a limited amount of attention span. not just in the room and what they are doing, but for america. who is paying attention? if they want to go down all of these movements that they know are going to fail, we know that it is unlikely for any republicans to break. he has to make a decision. as he want to go throug

document request around the white house. tim mormorrison, a senior direc at the national security council remembered seeing a copy of this letter. he also recalled the three committees ukraine yags was discussed at a meeting of the senior level and stuff soon after it was publicly announced. lieutenant colonel vindman recalled discussions among nsc staff members that the investigation -- here is a quote -- might have the effect of releasing the hold on ukraine military assistance because it would be, quote, potentially politically challenging for the administration to justify that hold to congress. later that same day on september 9thth, the inning specter genuine formed the house and senate cleanse committees he'd determined that the whistle-blower complaint that had been submitted on august 12th appeared to be credible, met the definition of urgent concern under the statute and yet he reported that for the first time ever the acting director of national intelligence was withholding this whistle-blower complaint from congre

but i remember one -- >> black and white? >> both black and white. although i don't know how many of these white people are actually from philips county, which is another thing, because i know quite a few of these people are coming from -- come from somewhere else. so i think it really depends on how you talk to, because i do know that there are people who wish this would just, you know, disappear, it's ancient history, why is it relevant, so on and so forth. i don't know how you can alive at that conclusion considering most people didn't know anything about this at all. but yeah, so people are of mixed minds about it. >> i'm convinced that the planning of this event will become a case study in shared memory and public space. because of the way it was handled. there were largely three groups. there was elaine legacy group, which is elaine and its -- elaine is one of the poorer communities in the united states. then there was the memorial foundation, which was in helena, and it was largely funded by a very wealthy plantation-owning family. the emphasi

they are promised a white house meeting. they want a white house meeting. they need a white house meeting. they are going into negotiations with putin. they want to show strength. they can't get in the door. they see the russian foreign minister get in the door of the white house. we see the photos of the president and the russian foreign minister, the ambassador, what a great time they're having but no, the president of ukraine, our ally, can't get in the door. they are not stupid. they know what's going on. they're not stupid. that conversation i referenced yesterday when the ukrainians threw it right back in our face, when ambassador volker said to his ukrainian counterpart, you shouldn't investigate the former president, shouldn't engage in those political investigations, the ukrainian response was you mean like the one you want us to do of the bidens and the clintons? they are not stupid. by the end of august, there was still no explanation for the hold despite efforts by numerous people to seek the release of the funding. the leverage hadn't succeeded

my mother is white. he was really unhappy when my parents got together and so they eventually moved up to oregon and washington state and then denver. my fathers job kept taking him east, until 1981 when i was born in new jersey. >> host: okay. and the job in new jersey, what was he doing? >> guest: by the time that i was born my father was running s.a.t. preparation. he was tutoring students but, to the house to study privately with them for the s.a.t., lsat, math and science, and he was really, that's how you supporting the family. my brother and i became catlike captive live-in students in this house that was just very small, very modest one-story ranch house but it was packed from wall to wall with books. he has about 15,000 books. we with him on the weekends and in the evenings and through our summer breaks. that's basically what made up for the kind of mediocre in a parochial catholics that we -- >> host: why did you go to catholic school? >> guest: for a variety of reasons. i think by far the blue

house to speak to a senior white house official. left a message. then had a four-minute call with that official later that night. we don't know from the call records who that official was but recall that giuliani has publicly stated that when he spoke to the white house, he usually spoke to president trump, his client. also on august 8th, yermak text volker that he had some news. ambassador volker replies that he could talk then and ambassador volker updates giuliani in a text the next day. volker said to giuliani in the text, hi, mr. mayor, had a good chat with yermak last night and he was pleased with your phone call. mentioned, he's referring to president zelensky here, making a statement. can we all get on the phone to make sure i advise -- here he's referring to president zelensky -- correct lip as to what he should be saying. want to make sure we get this done right. so here, august 9th, there is an effort by volker to make sure that -- to get the statement right about the investigations. because if they can't get the statemen

i might as well check out the white women's bathroom so i went in the white women's bathroom and i was discovered by the owner of the store and when i came out a group of men were waiting . they had pushed me around and started beating me up. one thing that my dad had told me in the south as a black boy, you've got to learn how to run and on that case it served me well because i could outrun these guys and my whole life was reshaped from that one incident. until that point my goal was to grow up, moved to new york , anywhere outside of the south . i just knew i didn't want to be in the south but my life changed in such a way that after that experience i committed to myself that i would never, ever leave the south and i would stay and do whatever i could to make sure that i gained ownership of my home area and the second promise i made to myself is that i would never try to take the system had on again. i would be smart enough to go around and tackle problems i felt needed to be dealt with without being confronted in the process of doing it so that was the beginning i think of what ulti

word of the committee's investigation spread quickly through the white house to the nsc. morrison recalled seeing and discussing the letter withnsc staff. lieutenant colonelin members about the investigation. the same day there were efforts me for the president's hold on security assistance away from the white house. duffey sent an email to elaine mccusker that contradicted months of email exchanges, stating falsely that omb authorized dod to proceed with all process necessary to obligate funds. duffey was attempting to shift all the responsibility for the delay onto the pentagon. mccusker replied, and i quote, you can't be serious. i am speechless. now all of this, including omb's efforts to shift blame to the pentagon, the white house's effort to create a cover story for the hold on security cover-up. it started with the white house's lawyers' failure to stop the scheme after the july 10th meeting was reported to them, continued with attempts to hide the july 25th call summary, and escalated with the white house's illegal concealment of the whistle-blower complaint from

on october 8 before the white house documents were due, the white house counsel sent a letter to speakerosi stating that president trump and his administration cannot participate in this partisan inquiry under these circumstances. the president simply declared that he will not participate in an investigation that he didn't like. ten days later, on october 18, the white house counsel sent a letter to the house confirming that it would continue to stone wall. the white house counsel again stated the president refused to participate. well, the constitution, article 1 section 2 set the house will have the sole power of impeachment just as in article 1, section 3, the senate has a sole power to try. participation in a duly authorized congressional investigation is not option. it's not up to the president to decide whether to participate or not. the constitution gives the house the sole power of impeachment. it gives the senate the sole power to trial impeachments. the president may not like being impeach. but it's the president, not the -- it's the president, not the congress decides when imp

house released to the white house. he is a clip of that. >> both of you recall president zelensky conversation, raising the issue or mentioning charisma, do you not? >> correct. >> yet, charisma does not appear anywhere. >> correct. >> why do you need documents after the calls and meetings? would shed light on how these events would proceed in the white house and what actions would take in moving forward. national security advisor, john bolton wasn't on the 25th call but he was apparently informed about the content of the call "afterwards". his reaction, once he was informed would be helpful to understand the extent to which president trump's actions deviated from american policy in american citizens. is another set of documents, they relate to the political investigation that president trump to announce. the documents in efforts to pressure ukraine to announce investigation and that decision that plays both on military aid to ukraine. ambassador bolton was the first witness to president trump's abuse of power. he repo

this is all their communications to the trump white house, to omb, to the white house chief of staff. hey, what's going on here? this isn't right. i need to get an explanation here. this isn't right. this is bad for the united states. i need an explanation. but it's not just those republicans within those few days in august from which we have those documents. within a couple of weeks of those letters to omb, here's more. here's republican senator rob portman and republican senator ron johnson. this is september 3rd, writing with a bunch of democratic senate cleolleagues to mick mulvaney. we write our concern of the administration not obligating security assistance for 2019. quote, we have worked hard in a bipartisan manner in the senate to provide funding for security assistance program for ukraine that is effective and transparent and fiscally responsible. we strongly urge you to direct the defense department to obligate these funds immediately. two days after that, september 5th, another republican, congressman mike mccaul, top republican on the foreign affairs committee writes to m

>> black-and-white? >> yes, both black and white. i do not know how many of these white people are from philips county, which is another thing. i know many of these families come from somewhere else. i think it's depends on who you talk to, because i know there are people who wish this would just disappear, tainted history, why is this relevant, so on and so forth. i cannot understand how you arrive at that in conclusion that conclusion, but people are of mixed minds about it. >> i'm convinced that the planning of this event will become a case study in shared memory in public space, because of the way it was handled. there were largely three groups. there was the elaine legacy group, elaine is one of the four communities in the united states. then there was the memorial foundation, which was in helena, and it was largely funded by a very wealthy plantation owning family. the emphasis that each group took was very different. the helena group wanted reconciliation without actually talking very much about the individuals and their roles

eight, the white house buried the call. ninth, presidenton trump confirmed he wanted ukraine to conductnd investigations in his siown words and finally president trump did not care about anticorruption efforts in ukraine. first perhaps the most simple way we know president trump one of the investigations done solely for his personal political interest he wanted a public announcement of the investigations not the assurance they would actually be d done if there was a desire to truly assist the anticorruption efforts are because he was worried of the larger issues of corruption in ukraine somebody actually investigating the facts underlying the investigation would have been most important. but he did not care about the facts or the issues. he just wanted the political benefit of the announcement of the investigation h to use to damages political opponent to boost his own standing prickle ambassador sondland at the center of the scheme made this clear in his testimony. >> so from mister giuliani at this point you understood in

officers, paid less than white troops, subjected to discrimination, often used to clear brush for white northern troops. the men of the u.s. colored troops, as they were known, still had to prove themselves to critics who asked would they really fight. placed in command of army operations for the expedition was a 29-year-old west pointer, general godfrey wetzel. but as the troop ships prepared to steam southward, the unexpected occurred. general wetzel's superior officer, the head of the army of the james, exercised the privilege of rank and announced that he would accompany the expedition, which meant he would really be in command. the army commander was general benjamin f. butler and his decision to involve himself in the fort fisher campaign created a high ranking stir, because ben butler was almost certainly the most controversial officer in the northern army. butler was a political general, a wealthy 46-year-old massachusetts attorney, a volunteer officer, and a prominent northern democrat in a war being waged by a republican administration. he was eccentric, riding about on horseb

as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is yes. >> did president trump abuse his power and commit an impeachable offense? the answer is yes. the phony political investigations that president trump demanded from ukraine were part of a scheme to sabotage a political rival, joe biden, and cheat in the 2020 election. no national interest was served. the president used his awesome power to help himself and not the american people. he must be held accountable. the president's defenders may argue, as mick mulvaney tried to do, that quid pro quo arrangements are a common aspect of u.s. foreign policy. nonsense. there are situations where official united states acts like head of state meetings or the provision of foreign assistance are used to advance the national interests of the united states. that is not what happened here. here president trump sought to advance his own personal political interests facilitated by rudolph giuliani, the human hand grenade. let's walk through the overwhelming evidence of how president tru

us to love our own kind and let the white man take care of himself for a white man to days after kidnapping millions of black people from africa stripping them of all human characteristics and relegating them to the role of chattel cattle animals commodity merchandise that could be bought and sold it will and then 100 years since the emancipation crack approximation using every type of deceptive method to further us into slavery call 2nd class citizenship i think that it would take a whole lot of nerve for white people today to ask negroes do they hate it ok malcolm spoke to the white media but he was not trying to convince still by media then what he was saying was true because he knew that they were going to distort what he said. but ok no end of the hand and artists of the spoken word he worths try our way stranded get the attention of the media to use the media to support he is non violent approach to social change was after seeing the repeal of segregation laws in the alabama busing king pursued his action in other states. he emerged as the leader of the civil rights movement. we do no

you've been talking about the white house filing.e democratic filing responding to the white house's brief from today. so you'll see these legal documents, these briefings go back and forth until we actually get to the actual arguments later today. we'll see also, john, whether or not house democrats themselves decide to talk a little bit more about this filing, about the white house's response. right now they are in speaker pelosi's office with the impeachment managers as they try to strategize the next few days, discuss what articles will be made publicly and see what they have to say about the white house's latest filing as well, john. >> more on the written word and the brief right now will become more of the lawyers on the senate soon enough. >>> we'll take a quick break. we'll be right back. $9.95 at my age? $9.95? no way. $9.95? that's impossible. hi, i'm jonathan, a manager here at colonial penn life insurance company, to tell you it is possible. if you're age 50 to 85, you can get life insurance with options starting at just

he then discussed potential dates for a white house meeting.hen the very next day, ambassador volker wrote to rudy giuliani exactly the right messages, as we discussed. these messages confirm mr. giuliani's central role. the nature of president trump's solicitation of the pressure campaign on ukraine waged by mr. giuliani and senior officials at president trump's direction. again, this is just some of what we learned from ambassador volker's records. as you will see you during this trial presentation, there were numerous whatsapp messages in august, while ambassadors volker ambassador sondland were pressuring ukraine to announce the investigation that president trump wanted and ambassador taylor's texts that you saw it earlier about withholding the aid further revealed how much more material there likely is that relates to the articles of impeachment. there can be no doubt that a full production of relevant texts and whatsapp messages from other officials involved in ukraine and in touch with ukrainian officials, including ambassador sondland,

but it is not just the white house. following president trump's orders, the office of the vice president, the office of managementand budget , the department of state, the departments of energy and the departments of events all continue to refuse to produce a single document or record in response to 71 specific requests, including five subpoenas. additionally, following president trump'sorders , 12 current or former administration officials continue to refuse to testify as part of the houses impeachment inquiry. not only current administration officials but former administration officials as well. nine of those witnesses including senior officials would direct firsthand knowledge of the president's actions continued to defy subpoenas for testimony because of the presidents orders. and yet, despite president trumps instruction, as you have heard and seen throughout the house managers presentation of the facts of the presidents scheme, the house gathered overwhelming evidence of his misconduct from courageous public serva

whether it white people particularly within the white supremacist society but the thing that no black people have no power is just not true. and to also say even 100 years ago where we did not have all these black elected officials, when we did not have black person on supreme court, we all still have the power. some of us used that power and some of us did not. typically those who did not want did not because they felt the problem was lack. it ultimately caused to realize that black people can be racist, to particularly to black people and ultimately it was black on black crime. >> that's beautifully stated. the story about a speech in adolescence and we reconstruct reconstructed, precisely that. that kind of internalization of inadequacy. it's so powerful because the devices you described are actually quite common. in black public spheres. you call into question that practice which is long-standing. i wonder if it's kind of just a question after the edge but it's interesting, why do you think there's such persistence, even as, i think most of us think we are antiracist in some form

two white house lawyers. the second time we now clearly understood the gravity of the ongoing misconduct. because the president blocked mr. eisenberg from testifying without any justification, the record is silent as to what if any actions he or the white house counsel took to address president trumps brazen misconduct and abuse of power. we do know, however, that instead of trying to halt the scheme, white house lawyers facilitated it. by taking affirmative steps to conceal evidence of president trumps misconduct. for example, after lieutenant colonel denman and mr. morrison reported their concerns related to the july 25 call to the national security council lawyers, they tried to bury the call summary. they tried to bury it. the colonel testified that the lawyers believed that it was appropriate to restrict access to the call summary for the purpose of the leaks. and to preserve the integrity of the transcript. according to lieutenant colonel mr. eisenberg gave the go-ahead to restrict access to the call su

a lot of discord briefly, if you would, in the white house. to abc news. i'm ros childs. strategy in the middle east has been criticised for yea rs the middle east has been criticised for years —— donald trump's strategy. we have had lots of discord and that seems to be continuing. into such a situation where iran has launched ballistic missile attacks on two airbases and iraq which housed us forces. these are developing situations, we are monitoring them for you. welcome, you are watching bbc news. now to some of the day's other news stories. a teenager guilty to the manslaughter of a police officer who was dragged along a road by a van. he was killed last august as he investigated a burglary. prosecutors wa nt investigated a burglary. prosecutors want the 18—year—old to be put on trial for want the 18—year—old to be put on trialfor murder. just one month earlier, he had married his partner, and the newlyweds were about to head off on honeymoon. 0n the evening of the 15th of august, harper and a colleague were called to report on a break and.

the dedication addressed and highlighted the connection between the importance the whites played on white supremacy in the early 20th century with the cause they fought for and during this address, he talked about coming home to chapel hi hill, coming to the campus and he said just a few feet away in the spring of 1865, when he arrived home, talked about and admits to what he called a negro lunch for talking back against a white woman. he talked about detail, what it was like. when you understand what he was doing was connecting 1913 with 1965, it highlights the importance of white supremacy as part of a civil war itself, the confederate cause and especially this time decades later where white southerners are working hard to maintain white supremacy through legislation. they were trying to understand what's going on. we at least have to come to some kind of understanding and an agreement about what got us here. the story of the black confederate and the story of enslaved labor helped fill in a small part, but an important part of that story. >> we visited the campus of umc to interview af

that complication you have not touched on but that is diversity you discuss black white.and it's a catchall and one company where apple the diversity officer said even a blue-eyed white man can be diverse. that is correct because they are trying to get economic diversit diversity, regional diversity. they will have metrics to be dispersed spirit that's way i focused on racial diversity we have lgb t we have everything compounded by race. >> that's what i would do. >> but i can tell you in corporate america it is a shell game 80 percent of more contracts that go out to corporations every year still go to white companies. everybody else so that percentage has stayed four-year. >> over 15 years, case in point fortune 500 ceos that the percentage of whites dropped 82-point something percent. because white women. people of color the numbers didn't really change that much. you are right. that's why i drill down on racial diversity and to be overshadowed by the overtaxed term. it is part of the problem. >> so one issue that i see is diversity like some other corporate initiative

document request around the white house. morrison is senior director at the national security council remembered seeing a copy of this letter. he also recalled that the three committees ukraine investigation would discuss at a meeting of senior level nrc staff soon after was publicly announced. lieutenant colonel vindman recalls discussions among the nsc staff members that the investigation here's a quote might have the effect of releasing the hold on ukraine military assistance because you'd be quote potentially politically challenging for the administration to justify that hold to congress. later that same day on september 9 the inspector general informed the house and senate intelligence committees he determined that the whistleblower complaint that had been submitted on august 12 the pier to be credible, matt good urging concerned that the statute and yes he reported that for the first time ever the acting director of national intelligence was withholding this whistleblower complaint from congress. that violated the law

in response, the white house produced zero documents. in this impeachment inquiry, 71 questio requests, zero documents. president trump is personally responsible for depriving the senate of information important to consider in this trial. this point cannot be overstated. when faced with a congressional impeachment inquiry, a process expressly set forth by the framers of the constitution in article i, the president refused to comply in any respect. and he ordered his senior aides to fall in line. as shown on the slide as a result of president trump's obstruction 12 key witnesses including mr. mulvaney refused to appear for testimony in the house's impeachment inquiry. no one has heard what they have to say. these witnesses include central figure in the abuse of power charged in article i. what is the president hiding? equally troublesome president trump and his administration did not make any legitimate attempts to reach a reasonable accommodation with the house or compromise regarding any document request or witness subpoenas. why? becau

we all understood that these prerequisites for the white house call and the white house meeting reflected president trump's desires and requirements. >> deputy assistant secretary of state george kent described the pursuit of president trump's corrupt demands as, quote, infecting u.s. engagement with ukraine. here is his full testimony. >> in mid august it became clear to me that giuliani's efforts were infecting u.s. engagement with ukraine, leveraging president zelensky's desire for a white house meeting. >> in short, u.s. diplomats responsible for ukraine policy understood that giuliani had defacto control over whether the oval office meeting would be scheduled and under what circumstances. mr. giuliani had been given that level of authority by president trump. and it was infecting official u.s. policy toward ukraine. to shake loose the white house meeting, top ukrainian officials knew that they had to meet with mr. giuliani who john bolton described as a human hand grenade who was going to blow everybody up. so, on august 2nd, mr. giuliani met with mr. yermak, president zelensky's top

document request around the white house. tim morrison, a senior director at the national security council, remembered seeing a copy of this letter. he also recalled that the three committees' ukraine investigation was discussed at a meeting of senior level nsc staff soon after it was publicly announced. lieutenant colonel vindman recalled discussions among the nsc staff members at the investigation. here is the quote. might have the effect of releasing the hold on ukraine military assistance because it would be, quote, potentially politically challenging for the administration to justify that hold to congress. later that same day on september 9th, the inspector general informed the house and senate intelligence committees he'd determine that the whistle-blower complaint that had been submitted on august 12th appeared to be credible, met the definition of urgent concern under the statute. and yet, he reported, that for the first time ever, the acting director of national intelligence was withholding this whistle-blower compla

host: what is the white house to do in the white house -- what is the white house to do to keep republicans of the writers in their court, in line? bit.: working the phones a the president has been in touch with a lot of his allies on capitol hill as well as republicans like susan collins, who said the president has not spoken directly with her but has been in touch with officials heading into the trial. and we of course expect that to continue the next few weeks. the president has also brought down a number of lawmakers to mar-a-lago. he spent three weeks down there in florida wining and dining these people. he golfed with senator graham at one point. really making sure that his allies are not only allied with his strategy on impeachment, but are acting as communicators back on the hill to their politics and making sure their senate colleagues are also in line with what the white house things should happen. host: senator graham will be perhaps the point person other than mitch mcconnell. he was on fox news sunday morning and he said, that he is willing to work with senator mcconnell, but w

house officials testified including white house counsel john dean, white house chief of staff h.r. haldeman executive assistant to the president alexander butterfield. edition nixon produced many documents in response to congressional subpoenas including notes from the president. as the house judiciary committee explained at the time 69 officials had been subjected to impeachment investigations the route american history yet in that quote with the possible exception of one minor official who invoked the privilege against self-incrimination not one of them challenge the power of the committee conducting an investigation to compel the production of evidence if deemed necessary. president nixon's production of records was incomplete however with the very important respect. it not produced tape recordings of key oval office conversations in response the house judiciary committee approved an article of impeachment against the president for obstruction of congress. 24 years later the house undertook impeachment proceedings against president clinton. consistent with precedent and unlike p

being interns at the white house. in fact, i believe josh, who is now a congressman, was an intern, one of my interns. he is now a congressman. that is a great way, if you can get one of those internships, i would highly recommend that you try to go for one of those. ms. sams: we love internships. let's take our first question. >> hello, i am a first-year graduate student in creative writing. i noticed your commonality between generality and specificity. the overall movement or things people notice in their everyday life. the candidacy and what it would mean to people versus the specificity of senior children and the specificity of the badge versus where you were when you knew it or other wording that made me think of friends, parents who died in 9/11. how do you choose when is a good moment to use a specific detail --when is a good movement to good moment to appeal to people as a whole? mr. edmonds: i think you do both in most speeches. you always want to have a real life story to bring your point to life. and i thin

house and michael duffy, a top white house budget office official. expect amendments on each of those individuals to subpoena them and then there possibly could be even more amendments if the house impeachment managers want to issue more subpoenas or offer any amendments whatsoever. expect any of those to go down along party lines like we have seen so far on a 53-47 vote as republicans hold firm. chuck schumer's office does not say exactly how many amendments are left. if there was any deal, it would be to punt the rest of the amendment votes until tomorrow and push off opening arguments in this case. as you can see, anderson, very partisan, very contentious and no signs of two sides coming to the at this point, anderson. >> there are votes, just to be clear, on witnesses, essentially whether or not to do it now or to table it until later on in this process, correct? >> reporter: yeah. in the mcconnell resolution, it sets up a process that after the arguments take place on each side, opening arguments and then senators have 16 hours to ask questions