thus, anyone who dealt with parnas could be in trouble. quote, mr. parnas has begun rolling production of certain records in his possession, custody, or control in response to the subpoena, which the committees are evaluating. there s also this about trump s pressure campaign to have ukraine make a specific statement regarding investigations into the bidens. the report includes an excerpt of a draft statement sent from ukrainian officials to then-special envoy kurt volker august 12th. the next day volker sent a revised version of the draft to gordon sondland which included an added promise to investigate burisma and the 2016 u.s. elections. the statement was never delivered publicly. this is all unfolding during the president s london visit for this week s nato summit meeting. tonight trump and other leaders joined the queen at a reception at buckingham palace. but earlier in the day and in traditional form, the president
by reporters. he has a press conference today where he ll certainly be asked about this and have an to opportunity to really go back at it if he wants to with democrats. and now to the brave life-long republican sitting inh our midst. s i want to read you this from david frum on social media tonight. smoking gun showing text of draft statement without burisma in 2016 elections and then updated text including those words. lonnie, if you had to prove it, could you prove that that s a demand? could you prove that that is indeed a quid pro quo or as david calls it a smoking gun? yeah. precisely to shannon s point good morning. we have breaking news out of london where it is day two of the nato summit getting under way. the final day of the nato summit commemorating 70 years of nato.
photo. yesterday, tensions were on full display when president trump and french president emmanuel macron both laid out dueling visions for the future of the alliance. president trump found himself in an unusual position, actually defending nato. meanwhile, president trump is scheduledru to hold a bilateral meeting with german president angela merkel. joining us now from london nbc news correspondent carroll lee. good to see you this morning. thanks for joining us. what were the biggest takeaways from yesterday and what do we expect to see today? reporter: well, i think, yasmin, youl, hit on one of the big ones which you saw president trump essentially yesterday defending nato, an alliance he s been sharply critical of for years since running as a candidate in 2016. to put that in an countext, i
lead-off discussion. tfye with us from london and traveling with the president, shannon pettypiece, veteran journalist, senior white house reporter for nbc news digital. maya wiley, former assistant attorney for the southern district of new york now with the new school here in new york, and lanhee chen back with us, research fellow at the hoover institution, former presidentiar campaign adviser to marco rubio and mitt romney. good evening to all of you. counselor, i d like to begin with you. i heard a lawyer on cable tonight say this is much more direct and serious and damning and specific than any similar document in all previous impeachments of johnson, nixon, and clinton. in your reading of this, did they make the case? will the american people agree they made the case? how many of the american people are going to read all 300 pages? well, number one, they not only made the case, reading it
impeachment inquiry happening tomorrow. the first of the public hearings in the judiciary. here is what the president had to say a short time ago in london on that. president trump: i think it s very unpatriotic of the democrats to put on a performance where they do that. i do. i think it is a bad thing for our country. impeachment wasn t supposed to be used that way. sandra: let s bring in former independent counsel ken starr. what have you heard from the president overseas responding to what democrats are doing back home on impeachment? well, the president is doing his job. you can approve or disapprove, but he is the president of the united states and my goodness, this was a phenomenal interaction between president macron and president trump talking about world issues. in the meantime i believe i m just going to use a harsh word, it is scandalous that this process of impeachment is proceeding in a public way this week. it is, i think, outrageous, a