aid. the president and his allies insisting nothing wrong with that call and there wasn t a quid pro quo or whatever happened is typical foreign policy. because this is our special coverage i m thrilled to tell you about some of the people and experts leading us off this morning. nbc chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. msnbc s garrett haake on capitol hill. nbc news correspondent heidi presswhat in washington. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense. john meech m, presidential historian. bob costa, reporter and msnbc analyst who has been leading coverage of this has been reverberating in the past hour. joining me here at our headquarters former u.s. senator chair mccaskill, pulitzer prize winner eugene robinson from the washington post and barrett burger a prosecutor in the southern district of new york. good morning to everyone. thrilled to have you here. feels like a big prime time evening as well. i want to go right to the hill,
i want everybody to know that i am running for president of the united states of america. everybody has got to know that i m running really not to beat anybody. i m running to unite people. hope you are not running out of room on your dems running for president list. cory booker is adding himself to the mix. the senator from new jersey joining seven other democrats who are exploring or definitely running. take a look. his senior adviser sharing this video of him filling out his paperwork with his mom by his side. the announcement on the first day of black history month. booker coming out with radio interviews and this video on twitter. watch. i believe that we can build a country where no one is forgotten. no one is left behind. where we see the faces of our leaders on television and feel pride. not shame. joining me now, msnbc s
we are good people. we are not criminals we are just hard workers the white house is not commenting directly on the former employees comments, but this may not be over last night some of the workers headed to washington, d.c., with their attorney to meet with democratic lawmakers and craig, they re having those meetings as we speak on capitol hill. meanwhile, it would seem as if the president s son is watching the peacock yes eric trump who we saw a statement from in the piece just within the last hour questioned why we led the broadcast last night on nightly news with this story, and then i wrote to him one thing your former employees also said to us is that they wish they could come out of the shadows that s a quote and he wrote back absolutely, kate this is why we need our incompetent lawmakers to fix this broken and very sad system. again, he was initially tweeting to me that he felt that we shouldn t have led the broadcast with this story.
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all right. this just in on a kavanaugh confirmation process. now senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley sent this letter to christine ford s attorney asking to make her client available to the committee. we just got our hands on this letter. msnbc s garrett haake on capitol hill. what s in it? reporter: it s lengthy and starts with an apology to dr. ford. chuck grassley saying he s sorry for what she has been through since choosing to come forward with the accusations publicly on sunday and then the letter goes through the process, grassley outlining the fact that he would very much like to see dr. ford at this hearing on monday. in the letter grassley says as soon as they became aware of the accusations they reopened the