Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20191230 12:00:00 : compar

columnist and associate editor david ignatius. jiendingi jie and joining the conversation alexi mccammond. let's get to the top stories. >> the "washington post" is reporting after months of rising tension between the u.s. and advance, president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani took part in a 2018 phone call with venezuelan president tic las maduro in order to ease him from president. pete sessions took part in a, quote, shadow diplomatic effort to remove maduro from power and reopen resource had rich venezuela to business. one former senior administration official telling the post that word of giuliani's call with maduro eventually reached white house officials who did not know why the former mayor was actually involved. the post notes that then national security adviser john

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