Steve i unplugged after that. Brian you did . I cant afford to. Steve i got to catch up. We are going to start with a fox news alert. This broke late yesterday. The secretary of the navy is out. Brian case in point. Richard spencer asked to step down after disagreeing with the president Eddie Gallaghers war crime case. You will. Secretary of defense mark esper fired Richard Spencer over his handling of Eddie Gallaghers case. According to the pentagon, spencer lost the trust and confidence of his boss after secretly trying to negotiate a deal with the white house to allow the navy to complete its review of gallaghers case while promising he would essentially fixed the results to ensure gallagher was allowed to you keep his trident and his rank. Defense officials tell fox news President Trump rejected that offer. Telling spencer, quote no. Were done. And then doubled down on his efforts to halt the review of gallaghers actions in 2017 that resulted in a high profile war crimes case. Gall
Agenda. It will have historical and constitutional basis of impeachment, that will be in the agenda, the framework through which the house will look at the evidence and whether it warrants drafting articles of impeachment. The nadler comes as reporting through the Washington Post suggests there is little to no evidence to back up Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondlands claim that he spoke with President Trump on the now famous call. The president says that call proves he was not seeking favors from ukraine, a claim now under scrutiny. All this after seven public hearings to date, more than 34 hours of public testimony, 12 witnesses all set, the Judiciary Committee now takes the raeins. Former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, carol lam, but first lets go straight to nbc News White House correspondent Kelly Odonnell in west palm beach, florida, and kelly, its a new day. Weve got new deadlines and has the white house responded to chairman nadler . Reporter not yet, and perhaps theyre go
Indeed inside the executive branch after the president decided in july to with hold the congressionally mandated military aid to ukraine. And it reveals some pretty heated discussions behind the scenes. And do they actually expose the real reason the aid was put on hold . You know, it doesnt quite take us there. Whats apparent from some of the email exchanges that weve heard about and also some of the public testimony is that the president decided made a decision to with hold the aid or at least to delay it initially without an explanation. And then the email trove that were most familiar with in early august shows Mick Mulvaney exchanging messages with his successor at the office of management and budget, asking for justification for holding up this aid, looking for legal reasons to do so. And indeed the federal law, the obscure bit of legislation called the federal budgement and act does require if aid is rescinded ordelayed or altered after a certain period of time, that congress be
Witnesses, although a democratic aide tells nbc news the witnesses will be academics, not fact witnesses. In just a moment were going to speak with a member of the House Judiciary Committee about this breaking news. It comes after a federal judge rebuked the president and ordered his former white House Counsel to testify in the houses impeachment inquiry, a rule cing which the Justice Department is appealing. Democrats on the Judiciary Committee who brought this suit now confront a dilemma. They argued there was an urgent need for this judge to rule on whether mcgahn had to testify in their investigation. Yet after winning this case, they appear ready to begin drafting articles of impeachment without mcgahns or other key witnesses testimony. This judge was scathing in her 120page decision, tearing down the administrations argument that top aides and advisors have absolute immunity from testifying and the ability to ignore subpoenas. Even though the impeachment hearings have given democ
And that begins today. Or so it would seem. The chairman of the judiciary committee, congressman jerry nadler, tells the president he has 24 hours to meet a deadline and six days to meet a second deadline. In a letter, nadler asked President Trump to let his committee know by sunday, tomorrow, if he plans to attend the hearings or to bring counsel. He also set a deadline for friday, december 6th, for the president to decide if he wants to call his own witnesses. In addition, nadler laid out, in this letter, the hearings agenda. It will have historical and constitutional basis of impeachment. That will be in the agenda. The framework through which the house will look at the evidence and whether the president s actions warrant drafting articles of impeachment. Now, the nadler letter comes as reporting from the Washington Post suggests that there is little to know evidence to back up Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondlands claim that he spoke with President Trump on the nowfamous september 9th cal