Whether the Trump Campaign did actually collude with russia to influence the 2016 election. That is still a big if. Along with manafort, assange is denying the story. Speaking of back channels. New reporting from nbc news obtained a draft court filing from the special counsel revealing an email exchange between jerome corsi and roger stone. Corsi lays out the timeline for the wikileaks email dump. Quote, word is friend in embassy plans two more dumps. Corsi wrote august 2nd, 2016 referring to wikileaks founder Julian Assange. One shortly second in october. Impact plan to be very damaging. Corsi defending himself says he was just speculating. I believe these Podesta Emails will destroy hillary. Why did i think they were coming out in october . I said to myself if i had these emails, id use them as the october surprise. You didnt know that at the time, did you . This is speculation. You didnt exactly write to him that it would be drip by drip. I did though explain that to him. Theres som
Republicancontrolled senate is unlikely to convict the president and remove him from office, but if they dont impeach, democrats will abdicate a clear constitutional chance to hold this president fully accountable. Now nbc news is reporting tonight that during tonights Conference Call congresswoman val demings of florida implored her colleagues to act, saying i believe we have enough evidence now. Well, democratic leadership, however, seemed to favor more cautious approach. According to politico, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues on that call we arent going to go faster, we are going to go as fast as the facts take us. This comes after pelosi acknowledged the division amongst her caucus on impeachment in a letter today. Arguing the facts can be gained outside the impeachment hearings. Thats an argument. Well see if its true. This comes after the democratic chairmen of three powerful committees expressed similar caution when confronted with the question of impeachment on the sund
Friend david gura. This is up and im david gura. The president warning retaliation will be met with retaliation. This a threeday period of mourning continues and we learn more to the extent the administration gamed out what is going to happen next. Cory booker is going to join us and well also get the latest from him on negotiations over impeachment. A judge ruling one of Rudy Giulianis indicted associates can share documents and data with the house intelligence committee. Glen kurshner msnbc contributor and adrian elrod and buzzfeed news. He is the host of the podcast impeachment today. Author of the book isis inside the army of terror and my colleague matt bradley is in israel. President trump threatening reprisals against iran as he declares in the very same tweet thread that the United States, quote, wants no more threats. The president calling on iran not to retaliate for the air strike. Let this serve as a warner, President Trump writes. That if iran strikes any americans or amer
Iraqi Security Forces have regained control of the area. But a spokesperson said america should have received the message. And the Embassy Protests were only a first step. All public Consul Services are suspended until further notice. Arwa damon is live for us in baghdad. Ar arwa, what can you tell us . Good morning. Those rooms that were torched are not exactly inside the embassy compound. Theyre where you go in to get your security screening and your badge. This group of people were able to march through checkpoints, into what was a restricted zone. It goes to the core of complex items unfolding here. The broader approxima eer proxys playing out between august and tehran, mostly from the battle that is being resolved. The key group, including the one targeted by the one on sunday, is demanding that the americans leave iraq. They delivered their message and will leave it up to the iraqi government. But the patience is not necessarily openended. You have rhetoric being tossed back and
Now right now that u. S. Embassy in baghdad is on lockdown. Security personnel from inside the embassy have been firing tear gas as protesters tried to storm the compounds today. Breaking through gates and climbing over the outer walls. Look at this video thats just come in. Protesters trying to break down doors. President trump is directly blaming iran, warning that iran will be fully held responsible for the attacks that he expects iraq will use its forces to protect there at the embassy. Lets get to arwa damon who knows iraq so well. Arwa, this is the biggest u. S. Embassy in the world. Remarkable scenes coming out of there. What do we know about the states of those protests right now . Well, look, first of all, we should point ought these are not ordinary protests. The vast majority are members of whats known as the Popular Mobilization force. This is sort of a Paramilitary Force that came to be during the fight against isis that is mostly made up of former members of a variety of