Good morning, everybody. It is monday, may 13th. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside nbc News White House correspondent jeff bennett who is in more ayman mohyeldin. Stock market bracing for another dumpy ride as u. S. And chinese negotiatiors are far apart on reaching a deal. Over the weekend the president issued a lengthy tweet storm beginning on saturday writing in part this, i think that the china felt that they were being beaten so badly in the recent negotiation that they may as well wait around for the next election to see if they can get lucky and have a democrat win. In which case they will continue to rip off the usa. The only problem is they know ill win and the deal will become far worse for them if they have to be negotiated in my second term. Be wise for them to act now. Then 23 hours later. Were right where we want to be with china. Remember they broke the deal with us and tried to renegotiate. Well be take in tens of billions of dollars in tariffs from china. Buyers can make
Case . But first we begin with an exclusive report from nbc news about some of the 65 hours of closeddoor testimony given to the house impeachment committees by Trump Administration officials. Nbc news reports at least three current and former u. S. Officials have all made the same startling admission, a coveted white house vivid for the new ukrainian leader had been explicitly conditioned on his agreeing to investigations that could have helped President Trumps reelection. And when Gordon Sondland was asked pointblank under oath whether that constituted a quid pro quo, he did not dispute it, people with knowledge of his testimony said. Nbc news reports that, thanks to testimony like this and thanks to Public Comments from trump, his aides, and his allies, quote, a portrait is emerging of a quid pro quo that evolved over time when the president progressively upping the ante when his demands were not met. This Development Comes on the heels of a double victory in court for House Democra
Theyre just kind of tuning it out. I dont know what the answer is. I know that we have to keep on top of it, but i dont know what the answer is to get people engaged. Climate change is important. Whats happening with this president now is also important. People should be just as engaged and just if not even more outraged by it. Look, i get it. Protests. I get that it can be too much. You know how you have compassion fatigue, consternation fatigue also. Then you look at what happened in the mid terms, you had a huge turnout. Yeah. I was worried about the same type of fatigue back then that were people really paying attention . Did they really seem to care . Is it all too much, too constant . Then they came out in droves. These are pictures obviously of what people did today. Yeah. Here is the problem. Can you organize and come out immobilized. Im not talking about in the other countries, im talking about here. If you organize you will get what you want. You will. Well, you will, but in
Can the canadian Prime Minister overcome the scandal before the next election . And the vaping cases skyrocket to 500 nationwide. Now, the feds are investigating. Welcome back to early start. Im julia chatterley. Im dave briggs. Friday, september 20th. That means area 51 day. More on that in a moment. We start with compelling, new details about the whistleblower complaint that concerns president trumps communication with a foreign leader, talks that could be geared toward helping his reelection bid. The Washington Post report it involves ukraine. Thats according to two people familiar with the matter. It involved some kind of promise the president made. A promise so alarming, a u. S. Intel official blew the whistle. 2 1 2 weeks before that complaint, mr. Trump spoke to the ukrainian president , zelensky. The president threatened to hold aid to ukraine. That hold was pulled back. They wanted ukraine to investigate joe bidens supposed role in the dismissal of a prosecutor who investigate
Erin burnett. Rudy giuliani was trying to line his pockets with half a Million Dollars from ukraine while digging up dirt on joe biden. Giuliani was in talks to represent government officials including the same prosecutor he was working with to get information on biden and his son. Giuliani claims he ultimately backed out of his deal because of his ties to trump and moments ago tweeted i did not pursue a Business Opportunity in ukraine, but this comes as trump for the first time distances himself from his personal attorney. I knew he was going to go to ukraine, and i think he canceled the trip, but rudy has other clients other than me. You didnt direct him to go there on your behalf . No, but no. Not exactly a warm embrace there. Trump says he didnt direct giuliani, but that explanation doesnt add up, look at trumps own words. Mr. Giuliani was a highly respected man, the mayor of new york city, a great mayor and i ask him to call you along with the attorney general. Rudy very much know