part, the president is increasingly frustrated that his efforts to stop people from cooperating with the probe so far have collapsed under the we congressional subpoenas, advisors said. earlier today the president dismissed the need for help in fighting impeachment. here is the thing. i don t have teams. everyone is talking about teams. i am the team. i did nothing wrong. here for our discussion on a friday night, geoff bennett, white house correspondent for nbc news. carol, pulitzer prize-winning investigator for the washington post, and phil he will its, politics correspondent for time magazine. welcome to you all. carol, i d like to begin with you. are we being led to believe that the lack of a strategy is the strategy? that ad-libbing is going to be the way this goes? i m a little concerned about the lack of a strategy, how little time it takes to figure
as investigators hear from philip reeker. and nbc news has learned lawyers for former national security advisor john bolton have been in talks with house investigators for a possible interview. bolton left the administration back in september. he says he resigned. the president says he fired him. well, last week the president s former top advisor on russia and europe, fiona hill, testified that bolton was so disturbed by the trump administration s ukrainian efforts, he called it a drug deal. and next thursday investigators are scheduled to depose tim morrison, a national security counsel officer and the first current white house official who will testify. morrison would have been on the july 25th call between president trump and the ukrainian president, so he ll have first-hand knowledge of the whole conversation. but as evidence continues to pile up, evidence the president today dismissed the need for a coordinated response. here s the thing, i don t
first quarter of next year. which obviously has implications into the election cycle as well. looking at iowa. and all this. while the president proclaims that i am the team in his words, no one else. elena and kevin, thank you so much. and the day s other big headline, president trump saying that i am the team. white house strategy shifting as evidence against the president is piling up with a clear portrait of a quid pro quo emerging. advisers to the president tell the washington post he s increasingly frustrated he s not been able to stop key witnesses from did he having. here s what the president said about beefing up his defense strategy. i don t have teams, everyone talking about teams, i m the team. i did nothing wrong. you re back with me, not letting you go. so we re just talking about that. the first line of the washington post article is after weeks of dismissing the impeachment inquiry as a hollow partisan attack, president trump and his closest advisers
josh dawsey in the paper that says in part, the president is increasingly frustrated that his efforts to stop people from cooperating with the probe so far have collapsed under the weight of legally powerful congressional subpoenas, advisers said. earlier today, the president dismissed the need for help in fighting impeachment. here s the thing. i don t have teams. everyone is talking about teams. i m the team. i did nothing wrong. here for our leadoff discussion on a friday night, geoff bennett, white house correspondent for nbc news, carol leonnig, pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter for the washington post, and phil elliott, politics correspondent for time magazine. welcome to you all. carol, i d like to begin with you. are we being led to believe that the lack of a strategy is the strategy, that ad-libbing is going to be the way this goes? i m a little concerned about the lack of a strategy, how
his impeachment defense. i don t have teams. everyone is talking about teams. dy nothing wrong. rudy giuliani is a fine man. he was the greatest may nert history of new york and one of the biggest crime fighters and corruption fighters. we start off turning to the white house and be in s hans nichols. put in perspective the judge s new ruling on impeachment and where the strategy from the white house stands today as more testimony is expected. well, in terms of the overall effect of the ruling, i don t think we quite know, because the justice department is still trying to figure out whether or not they can appeal it and there is always the possibility of the appeal. if it holds though, it is significant, and i ll tell you why. on the top of it, it undercuts the entire white house argument that you need to have a formal impeachment vote, the full house has to vote, and before that, everything else is illegitimate. in fact, the judge cited the letter from pat ciprioni talking about