According to nikki haley, rex tillingson and john kelly tried to recruit her to undermine President Trump in an effort to save the country. Big news this morning. Good morning and welcome to morning joe if the is monday, november 11th. Veterans day. With us we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire. Former chief of staff for the triple c and Adrienne Elrod. Shes an msnbc contributor. And nbc news correspondent hans nichols joins us, and former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense and msnbc News National security analyst jeremy bash. A lot to get to but there was a big game this weekend. There was. Liverpool ended up beating man city 31, thats what all the kids are talking about. There also was a little game that went on in tuscaloosa, alabama, and then ouch. You were there, Jonathan Lemire. The curse, i mean, of the banbino, youre covering it, the curse is secondary now as the kids are saying the curse of trump. Curse of the bamboozler as my
This i dont care, what i said it was misreported as usual. What i said is very simple. There should not be anything. There should not be impeachment hearings. Maybe they misconstrued it. What i said is read the transcript. It is all about the transcript. People i have not even heard of some of these people, i dont know who they are and it is all third hand knowledge. Read the transcript. They want to have a strans crypt of the other call, the second call, and im willing to provide that. Well probably give it to you on tuesday, monday being a holiday, well probably give it to you on tuesday, but we have another transcript coming out that is very important. They asked for it and i gladly gave it. There has never been a president so transparent. This is a witch hunt at the highest level. And it is so bad for our country. Read the transcript, you will see the call. Now i will give you a second because i had two calls with the president of ukraine. You will read the second you tell me if yo
Republicans as the impeachment inquiry enters a new phase. Gop members have submitted requests for testimony from several key figures including the anonymous whistleblower and joe bidens son hunter. This as the house prepares for the first public testimony in the impeachment inquiry next week. Meantime, the white house is pushing back on having other key witnesses appear behind closed doors. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney shirked a subpoena on friday and is now trying to join a lawsuit to avoid testifying all together, this despite testimony from two top level white house officials who put mulvaney right in the middle of the ukraine controversy. Cnns Kevin Liptack is here with us. What are the names besides hunter biden on this witness list that republicans are putting fort worh . There are eight names on this list and it provides an indication of where republicans want to head. Aside from hunter biden, theres another member of the burr ees ma board, thats the Ukrainian Natural Ga
Former National White house security advisor has new relevant information about the scandal that has never been disclosed. Lets bring in now cnn white house producer kevin liptak. Based on those new transcripts, ive got to say it does not look good for the acting chief of staff. It certainly places Mick Mulvaney much closer to the center of this impeachment inquiry than we knew before. What is striking in this testimony from fiona hill and Alexander Vindman is this depiction of this crucial white house meeting in july where they say they overheard gourdon sondland placed mulvaney at the center of pressing ukraine into starting these investigations into the president s political rivals. Just to read some of what fiona hill said in her testimony, she said ambassador sondland in front of the ukrainians as i came in was talking about how he had an agreement with chief of staff mulvaney for a meeting with ukrainians if they were going to go forward with the investigations. Now, the reaction
May have information crucial to the impeachment case. He is also awaiting a court ruling on whether he should testify. Meanwhile, President Trump is now distancing himself from gordon sondland, the u. S. Ambassador to the european union. His revised earlier testimony now inform the investigators that he told a Ukrainian Military aid was likely conditional on ukraine opening investigations into joe biden. President trump, who had called sondland a great american, now claiming that he and the diplomat are not that close. I hardly know the gentleman. But this is the man who said there was no quid pro quo. And he still says that. And in just the last hour, House Republicans have submitted their list of witnesses that they would like to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry. Some of the names will not go over well with democrats. We have Team Coverage now. Arlette saenz is with the Biden Campaign, but first lets bring in Cnns Kevin Liptak who has more information on the republicans wit