Moment. Josh, i understand you have breaking news about a white house official for us . Thats right. This is the Top White House official responsible for russia and europe, andrew peak. Nbc has now learned from two u. S. Officials as well as one former u. S. Official that peak has been put on administrative leave indefinitely pending a securityrelated investigation. We dont know exactly the nature of the investigation, but peak had been scheduled to join the president at the davos forum this week, he has been pulled off the trip and will not be at the white house while this investigation plays out. Peak is someone who had taken over the russia portfolio at the white house after handling mid east affairs over at the state deputy. We will bring you more as relearn it. Josh gets lets get back to the houses not so brief brief. After filing they released a statement saying the presidewhe president got caught he tried to cover it up by obstructing the houses investigation into his misconduct
The president s trial, which is now less than 48 hours away. What can we expect . How will it differ from congress brief . Were following gemts. Were also getting new information about lev parnas, a Rudi Giuliani associate and his connection to devin nunes. Plus Bernie Sanders and joe biden on Social Security, live reports just ahead. Just two days away from the start of the third ever impeachment trial of a u. S. President at this housh, the house impeachment managers are meeting. They got there about two hours ago to prepare for the proceedings in the senate. The president and the house trading fierce barbs in the leadup to the trial. The house filed a brief outlining its charges. Its 111 pages, and it says the president s conduct is the constitutional framers worst nightmare, presents a danger to the democratic processes, our National Security and the commitment to the rule of law. He must be removed from office. The full white house brief is due tomorrow at noon but the president s
Conversations are part and parcel of the russian collusion investigation, and that takes precedence. Stay with me. Gloria borger, and let me bring you in this and we can comment on the bizarre nature of the briefing here in a second, but to hear sean spicer refer any question on, you know, the next weeks testimony with mr. Comey and the investigation, and referring to outside counsel, and this the beginning of the new norm . Yes. I think it is. And mark casowitz is someone who has long remitted donald trump, and he is going to have a supervisory role, and other lawyers hired, and he is going to be the one who communicates with the president most frequently. Clearly, there is a Comfort Level there, and this is clearly a very different world, because i think that what you are going to be finding in this white house as you have found in the clin ton white house is that you have to kind of wall people off from this investigation. Sean spicer doing his job, and not answering questions that
While mr. Trump refuses to answer questions. Halfway there. President trump cheers on House Republicans taking a crucial First Step Towards passing tax reform. Now the fight shifts to the senate where the president s party is rolling the dice. And back door overture. Jared kushner is being told to turn over documents from wikileaks. How much is the president s soninlaw holding back . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Democratic senator al franken under fire as Sexual Misconduct allegations surface that could potentially cost him his job. A radio news anchor accusing franken of forcibly kissing her during rehearsal for a 2006 uso show overseas. He also groped her while she slept, posting a photo of the incident. Senators in both parties are now calling for a fullscale ethics investigation and franken is promising to cooperate. Top democrats say it could possibly leave to frankens expulsion from the sen
Think that its trickery. Mark meadows has been cut out of this process at he says that democrats want him and jim jordan back in the shadows. Meadows also will tell us about the latest testimony today which he believes he is now the democrats were hoping it would be. We will discuss that. His adam schiff dressing as ken starr this halloween . Hes here to tells what he thinks of that. Plus, tom brogan on what he says is underneath all of this. What is the actual ukraine policy of the Trump Administration and is that what has the state department conce concert . The resignation of katie hill and more. By the way, we didnt buy at 30 democrats, theyre usually very welcome then, they show all the time. We invited 30 democrats to talk about the impeachment decision and they said no, they were apparently traveling. That was a response we got from most of them. Hopefully theyll be on tomorrow night. Joining me now, mark meadows, member of the House Oversight committee us. Good to see you i thi