And steel magnolia. Nikki haley stirs the pot with her account of what Rex Tillerson and john kelly allegedly asked her to do behind the scenes. It should have been go tell the president what your differences are and quit if you dont like what hes doing, but to undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york on this veterans day. Were saluting generations of men and women who have served the nation. President trump is here in manhattan, the first sitting president to attend the traditional veterans day parade as he prepares for public impeachment hearings this week. The president has been trying to rally Congressional Republicans to counteract damaging testimony from officials who say he withheld military aid from ukraine in order to pressure the ally to help him damage his political rival joe biden. To set the stage for this important week, Top White House and political correspondents, New York Times chief White House Corr
Plus, the kblogloves are off. The 2020 campaign trail gets hot. Hes a damned liar, man. And mayor Pete Buttigieg feels the pressure of a campaign on the rise. First of all, weve got to win. No question about that. With primaries right around the corner, who can emerge from the free for all . Hello. Im dana bash in for jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is crossing a threshold. Those are the words of House Speaker nancy pelosi, whose team of Top Democrats is working all weekend on articles of impeachment against President Trump. The first votes on those articles could come this week. It is now almost certain that donald j. Trump will become the third u. S. President to be impeached by the house of representatives. The president s legal team signaled it will not participate in the house process which the president again yesterday called a continuation of a threeyear witch hunt. Instead, his team is looking ahead to a trial in the republicancontrolled senate. But the a
House. Were looking at the president s party as well, how republicans are trying to defend their leader with what our First Read Team calls a weak hand. As one of their former colleagues says its time to put their principles over their careers. Also, what does all of this mean for joe biden . The president s allies are trying to transfer the heat onto the former vice president. So is his Campaign Ready to handle that pressure . Well dig into that in just a bit. But we start at the center of this storm, the tension between the Trump Administration and lawmakers. Nbcs hans nichols is at the white house. Nbcs Geoff Bennett is on capitol hill. Mr. Nichols, ill start with you, sir, the president has been tweeting almost nonstop on this issue, nearly 30 tweets, or retweets on this topic in just the last 24 hours. Nbcs got some new reporting on how the white house plans to try and handle all of this. What are you hearing . Well, its just a plan, at this point, craig, and we dont know if its b
Believe is an attempt by the Trump Administration to bribe ukraine for an investigation into the biden clan. Also to the machinations the personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to accomplish this fete. So that much we know we can expect from open testimony. What we dont know is how the witness testifying publicly may influence the American Voters if it does so at all. We also dont know what the white house and the president s supporters will do on capitol hill. A mountain that has gotten larger with the release of more closed door testimony in just the past few hours. We dont know because so far the reaction has been a smattering of everything from nothing to see here to the white house is too incompetent to hatch an extorsion scheme. That last one came from senator Lindsey Graham who like a president has been all over the map on this one. His latest defense came over the weekend. Here he is making a statement about process and the identity of the whistleblower. If they dont call the whistleb
Ii of the resolution, peaching president donald j. Trump for obstructing congress. The clerk will call the roll. Mr. Chairman there are 23 ayes and 17 nos. The article is agreed to. The resolution is amended as ordered reported to the house. If the full house votes on those two articles as its expected to do next week, donald trump will become the third president in this countrys history to be impeached. And dont let the gop spin fool you. Donald trump loathes the notion of having another asterisk on his legacy. The New York Times reports, quote, trump nurses resentment over the red mark about to be tattooed on his page in the history books as only the third president in American History to be impeached. No matter what some of his critics say, advisers said he genuinely does not want to be impeached. Viewing it as a personal humiliation. Even in private he accepts no blame and expresses no regret that he rails against the enemies he sees all around him. As if seeking to conduct himself