Evening. Well see you in half an hour at 6 00. Tonight, breaking news. The showdown between the u. S. And iran. After iran shoots down a u. S. Navy drone. Tonight, right here, the new u. S. Surveillance showing the massive 100 Million Drone as big as the wingspan of a 737, plummeting from the sky. Hit by the iranians, they say it was in iranian airspace. The u. S. Says thats not true. And tonight, President Trump now saying maybe iran made a mistake. That it could have been someone, quote, loose and stupid. And breaking now as we come on the air, what were now learning after an Emergency Meeting in the Situation Room. Martha raddatz and mary bruce standing by live. The stunning turn tonight in the War Crime Trial of a former navy s. E. A. L. , accused of murdering a prisoner. A fellow navy s. E. A. L. Taking the stand today and telling the court, i was the one who
murdered the prisoner. The courtroom shocked, prosecutors yelling. Were tracking a major storm system up and down the east
I really mean it when i say i could talk to these friends for another hour. My thanks to all of them, and mostly to you for watching. Chuck todd with mtp daily starts now. Welcome to tuesday. It is meet the press daily. Good evening. Im chuck todd in washington where another round of potential bombshell testimony as the president and his allies once again struggle to defend him as democrats unveil their official road map for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry. This afternoon the house laid out a resolution that will lay out the rules and procedures that will govern the next phase
that will include public hearings and the official rollout of the impeachment. It will include an ability for President Trump to have attorneys around. Meanwhile, there was more potentially explosive testimony in the investigation itself from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. He is a purple heart recipient, a National Security official who was in on the infamous phone call with the ukraine president
This from like the ivory towers of your law school but it makes actual people in this country when the president calls you dont get to interrupt me on this time. And when you suggest that you invoke the president s son name here and try to make a joke at referencing baron trump that does not lend credibility to your argument, it makes you look mean and attacking someones family. The minor child of the president of the United States. So lets see if we could get into the facts. To all of the witnesses. If you have personal knowledge of a single Material Fact in the schiff report, please raise your hand. And let the record reflect no personal knowledge of a single fact. And you know what, that continues on the tradition we saw from adam schiff where ambassador taylor could not identify an Impeachment Offense and mr. Kent never met with the president and fiona hill never mentioned military aid and mr. Hill was not aware of any
nefarious aid and Colonel Vindman said that bribery was invoked
We dont know whether the suspect is still alive in the house. Weve heard from a couple of authorities that the suspect may have shot himself, but we dont know whether thats correct or not. Theyre going to assume, as naturally you would, that he remains a threat. And so theyre going to do this entry by the book. And thats what youre seeing right now. But they believe that the threat to the community is pretty well over because they believe they know where the suspect is and that the suspect is contained and no longer a threat. But until they actually put eyes on the suspect theyre going to do this by the rules, and thats what youre seeing play out right now. While in the meantime area schools are on lockdown, the sheriff has told people in the neighborhood if they live anywhere near sawing ugs high school to lock their doors and stay inside. And if they see the suspect to call 911. But they believe they know where the suspect is and theyre about to make an entry. And fully confirm that
And that brings this hour to lewandowski has agreed to come in. We expect to have him come in a close. This month. I will see you tonight at we have additional witnesses we 8 00 p. M. Eastern and then will be interviewing some using tomorrow at 1 00 eastern and staff to interview and others well have them come during a public hearing. Again at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. This is all to educate the deadline white house with American People. Nicolle wallace begins now. There already is a mountain of hi, everyone. Evidence that donald trump its 4 00 in new york. Committed multiple felonies. Not even a trip to the pentagon congressman, do you to honor the victims of 9 11 on understand the critique that the this solemn anniversary slowed Southern District of new york found donald trump to have the president s steady stream of committed a felony campaign complaints and attacks today. Most of those grievances aired finance violation in their investigation that Robert Mueller found donald trump on his