Good evening.

Tonight, a stone wall goes up lawyers.

For President Trump, tell Congress, there will be no cooperation with the House impeachment

inquiry.

Also public opinion coming into focus with new polling on impeachment.

It shows Republican support rising for the impeachment inquiry now at 28 percent, sub 21

points since July.

And perhaps most importantly, the story itself, what happened is coming into focus.

We've extensive new reporting tonight about how problematic the people close to the president

fought his phone call with Ukraine's president was multiple sources detailing the scramble,

just moments after the president hung up to assess and contain the damage.

New reporting as well on a memo written by the whistleblower who first raised the alarm

in which we're learning tonight at White House official use the words crazy and frightening

to describe that call.

And after that July 25 call, according to multiple sources, a freak out ensues.

Several security officials began talking about whether the president had crossed a line.

White House lawyers were notified and a transcript of the call was later put onto that highly

classified server.

Again, this is new reporting that flushes out what we know about the call and the efforts

that followed to secure what the key players either seemed to know or had reason to fear

was a quid pro quo with Ukraine.

Reporting that adds context to those text messages among the American players and their Ukrainian

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