When falking about the president s lawyer. All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on this friday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,065 of the Trump Administration. The newly impeached 45th president is now in florida for the christmas break, and in an air force hangar prior to taking off, he and the first lady employed Home Field Advantage there at Andrews Air Force base and attended an event designed to highlight his role and commander in chief to end the most turbulent week of his administration by any standard. As a military crowd looked on, he signed the National Defense authorization act. As the president flew south, new reporting tonight about an issue central in his impeachment. Military aid to ukraine. The Washington Post reports the Trump Administration demanded that a portion of yearend spending legislation that referenced ukraine be removed. The post reports it this way. Senior Trump Administration officials in rec
Top of the hour. Good morning, everyone. Im poppy harlow in new york. Im jim scuitto in manu raji reporting that House Committee members have been told to be prepared to come back during a scheduled recess. This is an team to wrap up an impeachment inquiry in the fall. I think it shows how quickly this has moved, right . Also House Speaker nancy pelosi believes attorney general bill barr in her words, quote, has gone rogue. Democrats are demanding to know why barr four times being mentioned, have think anything to do with the Justice Departments decisionmaking. Our Suzanne Malveaux caught up with the this seems like theyre going to pursue getting this inquiry going and wrapped up by thanksgiving. Its a remarkable pace when you think about it. Yes, theres a flurry of activity, and as manu raji had reported, also some of those members of the House Intelligence Committee could come back within that twoweek recess. What she is saying here is that shes not limited to a timetable here. Shes
I want to remind folks that this is a lot of what we saw during the mueller investigation. Several parts going on. You had the parallel investigations. Investigations. Public investigation conducted by fbi agents and separately counterintelligence. Counter intelligence has to do with National Security. The big concern here, saying it from talking to folks that people were trying to influence policy working outside the normal channels of the state department, backdoor channels, getting to Rudy Giuliani who had the ear of the president to try and influence policy. That is a big part of what the fbi and the Counter Intelligence invessel gatien involves. Trying to see whether or not people were going to Rudy Giuliani to then try to get him to go to the president and other politicians, members of congress to try and influence policy. Certainly the issue of the firing of the ukrainian ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, that is a big part of this investigation. It says as much, that indictment we
The newly impeached 45th president is now in florida for the christmas break, and in an air force hangar prior to taking off, he and the first lady employed Home Field Advantage at Andrews Air Force base and attended an event designed to highlight his role as commander in chief to end the most turbulent week of his administration by any standard. As a military crowd looked on, he signed the National Defense authorization act. As the president flew south, new reporting tonight about an issue central in his impeachment, military aid to ukraine. The Washington Post reports the Trump Administration demanded that a portion of yearend spending legislation that referenced ukraine be removed. The post reports it this way. Senior Trump Administration officials in recent days threatened a president ial veto that could have led to a Government Shutdown if House Democrats refused to drop language requiring prompt release of future military aid for ukraine. The report goes on to say, the language u
Msnbc political analysts nick confessore. Republican strategist and msnbc political analysts susan del percio. Reverend al sharpton and president of the council on Foreign Relations and author of the book a world in disarray richard haass. And katty kay is with us along with represent communication strategist and msnbc political contributor rick tyler. So it may be a holiday week, but the news does not stop. Just consider all these new developments, newly released emails show that a request to withhold funds to the country of ukraine came less than two hours after President Trumps july perfect phone call with the ukrainian leader. That adds a new layer to Nancy Pelosis decision to withhold the articles of impeachment from the senate, perhaps new information could pour out. It seems to by the day. Plus, Pete Buttigieg has been taking plenty of heat from Elizabeth Warren, and now Bernie Sanders is piling on. What it says about the state of the race and just how far democrats are willing