Dealing with the former Vice President. There there are biden allies saying they may turn the tables and talk about his own family and whether hes profiting on the presidency. Mike memoli, appreciate that. Chris jansing in new york, it looks like you, my friend, are going to be able to have that taped playback of the president s remarks on the white house south lawn. I imagine those will be coming in the next few minutes, although it depends on how long the president speaks. As fast as humanly possible our folks will get that tape turned around. Hallie jackson, thank you so much. Good morning. Im Chris Jansing in for craig melvin apt msnbc headquarters in new york. A flood of new headlines have emerged since we saw you this time yesterday, each more damaging for him, while offering democrats more bread crumbs to follow in the Impeachment Inquiry. All this can seem overwhelming. Well walk you through this
including the socalled Smoking Texts between u. S. And ukrainian ambassadors. Ill
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all right the breaking news. these text messages released overnight. politico calls them smoking texts. u.s. diplomats appear to link a meeting between president trump and ukraine s leader with an investigation into the 2016 election and an investigation into the bidens. bring in van jones. and bakari sellers. you gentlemen are both accomplished lawyers. so i am pleased to be in your company this morning. so bakari, when you see these text messages, in black and white, what does that do to the discussion now? well it bolsters a great case i believe house democrats already had.
very much. john? all right. thank you very much, alisyn. so how will republicans in congress react to the release of what some are calling the smoking texts? a former republican senator who was called on somewhat of statue to the republican party to, quote, stand up. joins us next.
gardner or susan collins from maine,do they start to feel pressure on the political side of things as well? politico are calling these the smoking texts. i mean that s a big statement. republicans knowing that the smoking texts are out there, and they re not saying much. that does not move the immedine for them? we ll not know until they get back into town. it is a lot easier for them to stay quiet now. you know a lot of senators have stayed very quiet. house members are unusually quiet. some of the president is defe s defenders are having a hard time on what to say. many of them are on the record about 2016 and how it was inappropriate to have a foreign government interfering in the election. that appears to be exactly what the president is asking china and other countries to do. ambassador, you know bill taylor and kurt volker for years.