Good morning, everyone. It is friday, september 27th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian. We begin with the fallout from the escalating impeachment inquiry of President Trump. White house officials are scrambling to figure out their next steps for countering democrats impeachment push. One person close to the white house tells nbc news there appears to be a rising sense of anxiety, unease and concern inside the white house. That the whistleblowers allegations could seriously wound the president. One source familiar with the situation described to nbc a sense of total panic. All of this over the past week, to address this new reality. Another person familiar with the discussion described the mood inside the white house as shell shocked. With increasing wariness that as the impeachment inquiry drags out, the likelihood increases that President Trump could respond erratically and become quote unmanageable. According to Washington Post, trumps advisers are envisioning a split
Senior editor, Senior Reporter for buzzfeed news, and republican strategic. And hillary for america. They are both msnbc contributors. From washington, d. C. Ely covers the white house for the los angeles times. We begin with President Trump at war with an impeachment inquiry that threatens his presidency. He is calling it president ial harassment while pushing unsubstantiated claims about joe biden. This is the first in u. S. History to deal with the president s ties to a foreign country. A brandnew poll out from abc news this morning shows 63 of americans believe what the president did in that phone call is a serious problem. In austin, texas, last night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke about what she says is at stake. We cannot have a president of the United States undermining his oath of office, undermining our National Security, and undermining the integrity of our elections. Im heartbroken about it. I would just have hoped that there would be something exculpatory, something that woul
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. At the end another week, day 1,093 of the Trump Administration, which means we are now 293 days away from the 2020 president ial election. Tonight we are just over 72 hours away from the opening arguments in the Senate Impeachment trial, and another new trove of evidence has been released by House Democrats courtesy of lev parnas, the indicted Rudy Giuliani associate who spoke to Rachel Maddow for a twopart interview here this week. Before we bring in our first guests to talk about this day, once again tonight we have asked our own National Political reporter, Josh Lederman, to dive into this new lev parnas evidence and tell us what the headlines are from tonight. And, josh, i heard you a little bit earlier on this network. It seems like its yet another mountain of material to go through. Reporter a lot of new documents that weve been digging through in the last couple hours since this unexpectedly was poste
It is tuesday, october 1. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. We begin with new reporting concerning secretary of state mike pompeos role in the july 25th phone call between President Trump and the president of ukraine that is now at the center of an impeachment inquiry. A Senior State Department official telling the wall street journal, and nbc news, has confirmed the reporting, that pompeo was among the Administration Officials who listened in on the phone call. Pompeos participation on the call has not been previously reported. In interviews last week pompeo said that he had not read the whistleblowers complaint, in its entirety, but maintained that actions by the state department had been quote entirely appropriate. The the wall street journal is reporting that pressed the president of ukraine eight times to work with Rudy Giuliani to investigate joe bidens son. What do you know about those conversations. You gave me a complaint of a whistleblower complaint, none of wh
Iowa today. Casting the president as corrupt and shook over a prospective 2020 matchup with the current democratic frontrunner. Trumps doing this because he knows ill beat him like a drum. And hes using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me. Everybody looked at this and everybodys looked at it and said theres nothing there. For the last 24 hours, the president has been at war on twitter. Where else . With biden and Congressional Democrats claiming controversy, this controversy is it just latest version of the socalled witch hunt as more house dems clam mor for impeachment and the president s allies are either silent or scrambling. In just a few minutes ill ask senator cory booker about the brewing war between congress and the white house and his revelation today that a lack of funds may push him out of the president ial race soon. First let me begin with my panel. Joining me now, sirius xm radio host danielle moodiemills and republica