treating chairman s treating schiff as a defacto prosecutor and strange behavior with fabricating an official quotation and attributing to president trump which he was sharing. and only if we feel like it is not a standard that should be applied to any american and it should not be applied here to the president of the united states. and according to the washington post, the white house is planning to invite a group of republicans to meet with president trump, ahead of today s vote, as a way to rally the troops. in a series of tweets yesterday, the president urged gop lawmakers to defend him on the substance of the allegations against him rather than protesting the impeachment process itself. he tweeted, this impeachment nonsense is just a continuation of the witch hunt hoax which has been going on since even before i got elected. republicans go with substance and close it out. according to politico, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell met with the president for a
figures interviewed by congress. bolton s lawyer later telling nbc news that the former national security adviser is not willing to appear voluntarily but if bolton does testify he would be the first prominent figure yet to give testimony in the impeachment inquiry. joining us on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos, great to have you with us on this morning. let s talk a little bit about bolton testifies, what that means for the president. this is a guy who was inner circle, due you don t get any more inner circle than the national security adviser. what picture could this be? bolton left the administration because of major disagreements of foreign policy and some of the disagreements could be this exact thing that is being investigated right now. so his testimony will be critical. and as a strategy, it is probably a smart thing, his lawyer is telling him, to refuse
people on the economy, members as well as staffer, are saying that his decision to step down ahead of his testimony today, it definitely is not a good sign forde republicans. that it does show, and npr did say it was unclear whether he was asked to leave or if he resigned, but regardless, it does free them up a bit, in ways that he wouldn t have been before, if he knew that he had to continue hisfo role at the n. and morrison is someone that a lot of people throughout this week have been really excited to get inside, democrats mainly, to get inside closed doors, and to really grill him on what ambassador bill taylor, the top diplomat to ukraine had told democrats earlier this month. which was that he had, morrison had told him that he had overheard the president potentially ask, saying that aid to ukraine as well as a potential white house meeting hinged on president zelensky s commitment to investigating
one-on-one meeting where he was advised to stop attacking senators. last night, fox news had this warning for republicans with go against the president. i have more, first, there is no gop in 2020 without trump. should you abandon him, on the spurious grounds ginned up by adam schiff the, you not only not grow the party, you lose everything. and i m curious what you were watching for in today s vote. because you heard the statement that it is a preordained conclusion, right? is it stall tactics? is it some kind of dissenting overtures? what is that you re looking for? the main thing, it is
investigation. they re going for a jackpot by trying to get the testimony of john bolton, the national security adviser. we re told that he will not show up voluntarily, he ll need a subpoena or a court. but, here s the why it matters. if he s compelled to testify, look out. john bolton knows a lot. we re told by someone very close to him he want be demur, won t hold back. the trump campaign, on the other hand, is focusing on swing states they need to shore up. so they say that after this impeachment vote they re going to have a data-driven effort in key states to go after members who are in tough districts to take a vote on impeachment and they point to polls in these swing states showing that for now the president s support is holding up. mike, we mentioned a bit earlier that twitter announced it s going to ban all political advertising. give us the axios take on that. there s a great tweet on this that said this was the best