During the leagues faceoff with beijing. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im alison kosik. Happy friday, dave. They cant stop the questions from coming. These guys have to answer them. Happy friday, october 11th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. We start with the stunning and dramatic airport arrest that could have links to the ukraine scandal engulfing the white house. Two associates of Rudy Giuliani, arrested on charges they viol e violated Campaign Finance laws including donations they made to a trump super pac. They are sovietborn citizens. They were detained on wednesday, after the feds learned they had oneway tickets out of the country. Giuliani told the wall street journal, they were traveling to vienna, where giuliani was also headed. Starting in november of last year, the two men helped him in the ukraine, digging up dirt on democratic candidate, joe biden. You can see the two men here in this twitter video. We dont know where or when the video was shot. But we know the three met
Already enough to draft one article of impeachment. The ukraine scandal, theres already enough to draft one but were not going to basically keep on investigating forever. I also think that he is probably the only person within his circle of advisors that still thinks theres a possibility he wont be impeached out of the house. Because he doesnt want to go down in the history books as being impeached. You think hes going to be impeached . Yeah, think the house is going to pass articles of impeachment. Winter is coming. A cold front of news arrived at President Trumps doorstep and the question today is what is the white house going to do about it. President trump headlines yesterday at hispanola golf course with Rudy Giuliani. I stand behind Rudy Giuliani, absolutely. We have a team of reporters to bring us the latest noose and analysis on the impeachment crisis and dramatic new developments on the president s pull back in syria. Weve got more on what the ambassador to the eu is telling h
The committee is expected to vote to approve the report tomorrow along party lines. Then on wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearing. The hearing will feature legal scholars rather than actual witnesses to the ukraine scandal. To focus on the constitutional grounds for impeaching the president. Politico writes for the week of december 16th, if the dems want to impeach before the end of the year, wed have to see articles of impeachment this week. Remember, it took the Judiciary Committee only three days in 1998 to draft the articles of impeachment. Joining me now from capitol hill is msnbcs garrett haake. Garrett, whats the feeling on capitol hill about what this weeks going to look like . I think its another buckle your seatbelt week, ali. We got members just starting to come back into town. Tonight, well have the release of that report. Sometime tomorrow night after members approve it. Then the hearing wednesday. Theres potential to go either way. I could s
Ukraine scandal. And tax documents belonging to the trump organization, that on two properties, the documents show they appear more profitable to lenders and less profitable to tax officials. Were going to get to all of that in just a moment but i want to focus now on the big picture here. Lets start with that. That chaotic meeting between the president and Democratic Leaders. Joining me is charlie dent, michael sheer. Good evening. Thank you so much. We got a lot of ground to cover. First off, michael, i want you to listen to how nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer described the meeting with the president. Still the part of the president was a meltdown. Sad to say. He called her a third grade politician. This was not a dialogue. It was sort of a diatribe, a nasty diatribe not focused on the facts. Michael, ive got to ask you, is the president s meltdown a reflection of the chaos hes facing on two fronts, impeachment and syria . Yeah, i think thats right. This president has shown a propensi
Down. Nancy pelosi and is doubling down. The acting head of the department of Homeland Security is out. The agency has had four secretaries in three years. Up with us, he Cover Congress for politico. And he was an assistant u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york. Done call way is a democratic strategist and ceo of pine street strategies. With us jeff mason, a White House Reporter for reuters. The week has gone from bad to worse. The u. S. Attorneys office is looking into giulianis dealings in ukraine. President trump seemed to be distancing himself from his personal attorney and his most out spoken defender. Well i dont know. I havent spoken to rudy. Hes a very good attorney and has been my attorney, sure. Hours after damaging testimony from the former u. S. Ambassador to the ukraine, yovanovitch pointed to false claims by people with questionable motives referring to two of Rudy Giulianis associates. President trump claims he does not know who they are. Adding to an impe