Good monday morning, everybody. It is november 25th. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside nbc News White House correspondent geoff bennett. We begin with a shakeup at the pentagon. Navy secretary Richard Spencer has been fired after the case of a navy s. E. A. L. Accused of war crimes in iraq who was later acquitt acquitted. According to a statement from the Department Department secretary mark esper lost his trust and confidence in spencer over the handling of the case of chief petty officer Eddie Gallagher. He had been accused of committing war crimes while he was deployed in 2017. He was acquitted of murder but convict instead july of posing with the corpse of an isis prisoner for which he was demoted. President donald trump reversed that demotion, and on thursday tweeted that gallagher would keep his trident pin signifying his status as a member of the elite navy s. E. A. L. S. A day later spencer told reporters he reviewed the view process over gallaghers status should go forward. The Defense Department says spencer had privately proposed to the white house that gallaghers rank be restored and that he be allowed to retire as a navy s. E. A. L. In his Resignation Letter to the president last night, spencer acknowledged his termination and stated, unfortunately had has become apparent that in this respect i no longer share the same understanding with the commander in chief who appointed me in regards to the key principle of good order and discipline. I cannot in good conscience o y obeyobey an order that i believe violates the sacred oath i took. Earlier on sunday gallagher was on fox news where he attacked his chain of command. Wachl this. This is all about egoand retaliation. This has nothing to do with good order and discipline. They could have taken my trident at any time they wanted. Now theyre trying to take it after the president restored my rank and we filed an ig exposing all the corruption thats been going on during my case. In a series of tweets, President Trump said gallagher will retire with all the honors he has earned including his trident pin. He also announced that Kenneth Braithwait will be nominated to take over as Navy Secretary. Latest reporting suggests some of President Trumps defenders are knowingly taking part in a russian operation to smear ukraine and divide the u. S. Nbc news has confirmed reporting from the New York Times that u. S. Intelligence officials briefed senators in recent weeks that russia engainiged in a yea Long Campaign to frame ukraine for its own meddling in the 2016 u. S. Election. A u. S. Official tells nbc that the information about the russi russian operation was considered classified until dr. Fiona hill revealed it in her public testimony. It isnt stopping the president or his defenders from pushing or engaging in the debunked conspiracy theory. The fbi went in and they told them get out of here. Were not giving it to you. They gave the server to crowd strike or whatever its called, which is a Company Owned by a very wealthy ukrainian, and i still want to see that server. You know, the fbis never gotten that server. Thats a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian Company . Are you sure they did that . Are you sure they gave it to ukraine . Well, thats what the word is. Senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and Clinton Campaign computers, their emails . Was it russia or ukraine . I dont know, nor do you. Nor do any of us. Ms. Hill well, let me just interrupt to say the entire Intelligence Community said it was russia. Right, but it could also be ukraine. Im not saying i know one way or the other, im saying that ms. Hill is entitled to her opinion but no rebuttal evidence was allowed to be offered. Can you confirm that you guys have been given an intelligence briefing on this issue that russia is trying to frame ukraine . Some members have, i have not, but im not at all surprised that russia is gearing up not at all surprised that shes correct that russia tried to interfere in 2016. Also, ukrainians themselves tried to interfere also, but chuck isnt there a big difference between the two . I understand theres individual ukrainians who were upset that candidate donald trump wanted crimea to stay with russia. Is that the same as the russian government and putin ordering a fullfledged interference in the United States election . Im concerned about both. Following the testimony of 12 witnesses over five days of open hearings, Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff says the house will move forward with its impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Watch this. Theres more work to be done, but at the same time weve already accumulated quite overwhelming evidence that the president , once again, sought foreign interference in an election, conditioned officials acts, a white house meeting that ukraine desperately wanted as well as 400 million of bipartisan taxpayer funding to get these political investigations that he thought would help his reelection, so, you know, we view this as urgent. We have another election in which the president is threatening more foreign interference, but at the same time there are still other than witnesses, other documents that we would like to obtain, but were not willing to go the months and months and months of rope a dope in the courts which the administration would more than love for us to do. So right now no public hearings scheduled for anytime the rest of the year. Former National Security adviser john bolton said friday he has regained control of his personal twitter account, claiming that the white house refused to provide access to it after he resigned in september. Are you concerned theyre trying to stop you from testifying . I dont know, youll have to ask the white house, but i can say definitively we have regained control of the twitter account, twitter detached the white house. Bolton on friday tweeted in part, quote, speaking of since resigning as National Security adviser, the white house refused to return access to my personal twitter account out of fear of what i may say . To those who speculated i went to hiding, im sorry to disappoint. President trump rejected boltons claims and even touted his Good Relationship with his former National Security adviser. John bolton has just gone back on twitter. His account was frozen for two months. Did you guys freeze his account . No, of course not. Of course not, no, i actually had a Good Relationship with john. We disagreed on some things and some methods but i actually had a Good Relationship. Joining us congressional reporter for the hill, olivia beavers. Good morning. Hearing the president say there he had a Good Relationship with john bolton also reiterating it on twitter by retweeting john bolton after he sent out that sort of ominous tweet there, what might we see from the rise of this contentious relationship between the former National Security adviser john bolton and the Trump Administration. Bolton has had this back and forth with the Administration Since hes left, and hes shown that hes willing to push back on claims they might make as we saw with his resignation. This also came after a deterioration of relations over them clashing over major Foreign Policy issues. So right now this week we are hoping to maybe get a decision on the megan case which would possibly lead to bolton come and testify, and a lawyer has previously claimed that he has a lot more information about ukrainian meetings. So bolton is someone who democrats really want to hear from. He was in key meetings. Fiona hill says he was talking about hand grenade when is it came to Rudy Giuliani and drug deals with other Trump Administration officials, p but him speaking out against the white house might not also translate into him wanting to help the democrats. Hes kind of stuck in between two different areas, and which way he goes is anyones guess. Its a good point. We know there are no more public hearings scheduled, no more closed door depositions. What happens next . What should we expect this week and next week once members come back to the hill . Well, right now were told that staffers and members really at times going into the scif, and theyre coming up with theyre reviewing the week and a half 12 public depositions that we saw and trying to figure out what is going to be in the report that the Intelligence Committee gives to the Judiciary Committee, and theyre working on that, but as we played a clip earlier, chairman schiff is saying hes not promising not to bring in additional witnesses, and my sources tell me, were still trying to wrap this up by the end of the year, but if bolton is a possibility, theyre not going to give up on that chance to hear from somebody that might have Additional Information that hasnt been revealed yet. Were waiting to see how the timing plays out. Right now it looks like heading into after thanksgiving break, the Judiciary Committee will be working on possibly having three hearings, and then having a vote on impeachment. So we spoke of john bolton obviously being someone who could feasibly public testify despite the fact were hearing from schiff that hes not going to reveal whether or not thats going to happen. What other names have you heard floated of people that could feasibly testify in the coming weeks . They definitely would like to hear from Mick Mulvaney and secretary pompeo. They previously asked for documents from pompeo, and they said they have not received those documents, and then recently he was further added into the mix when it was revealed there were phone calls between giuliani and pompeo, so those are names that if they can bring them in, they had direct knowledge of these communications, mulvaney was one who called and made the decision to put a hold on the aid to ukraine. So these are officials that they want to hear from, but whether or not theyre able to, its just been a back and forth battle for months. It would be quite surprising if we saw mulvaney or pompeo testify in the coming weeks. Democrats arent banking. I imagine so. Olivia beavers, thank you so much. Supreme Court JusticeRuth Bader Ginsburg is back home and doing well after being hospitalized friday for experiencing chills and a fever. The 86yearold justice was tested for a possible infection at Johns Hopkins hospital friday and was released once she was treated with intravenous antibiotics and fluids. She had just returned to the bench last monday after being home sick with a stomach bug and has also been treated for cancer twice this past year. Former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg is officially making a bid for the presidency. What other 2020 white house hopefuls are saying. Plus, President Trump once again attacks former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, this time claiming she refused to hang up his portrait in the u. S. Embassy in ukraine. Those stories and more and a check on the weather when we come right back. Former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg has officially entered the 2020 president ial democratic race. The billionaire businessman made the announcement in a statement on his newly launched Campaign Website explaining that he is running to rebuild america and defeat President Trump whom he believes represents an existential threat to our country and our values. Mike bloomberg started as a middle class kid who had to work his way through college, then built a business from a single room to a global entity. He could have stopped there, but when new york suffered the terrible tragedy of ni9 11 he tk charge becoming a threeterm mayor who brought a city back from the ashes, but now he sees a different kind of menace coming from washington, so theres no stopping here because theres an america waiting to be rebuilt. Mike bloomberg for president , jobs creator, leader, problem solver, its going to take all three to build back a country. So bloombergs late entry dovetails with the staggering 31 million ad buy for Television Commercials to outline his background and political agenda, which dwarves the advertising budget of other rival campaigns. Bloombergs entry sent shock waves among the already crowded group of 2020 democratic candidates, as some look to knock the businessman from the wealth his bid adds to the race. We do not believe that billionaires have the right to buy elections. That is why multibillionaires like mr. Bloomberg are not going to get very far in this election. Elections should not be for sale, not to billionaires, not to corporate executives. We need to build a grass roots movement. Thats how democracy is supposed to work. Money will not win this election. Connecting with people will. You know, listen, we got to get money out of politics. Let me just be honest with you. I mean, i got to raise a ton of money to be competitive, and you know, theres some people who started this race with 10 million. All right, lets get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. You dont want to hear what i have to say. Do we ever . Aside from like august 7th hwhe its 80 degrees and sunny. I like to think i have something to offer in this relationship. Realtalk. Monday morning. We have a very difficult forecast heading into this thanksgiving travel period. Our big storm from the weekend is exiting, just a little bit of snow left here for our friends in northern portions of maine. Were clearing things out. Today is by far the best travel day of the next seven. If you chose today to go to the airport or the roads, you won. Compared to the rest of the week this is very nice and calm. A lot of sunshine across the board, 50s up the east coast. Still a little chilly in minneapolis and boston. This is the storm thats beginning today in the rockies thats going to cause us all the problems over the next couple of days. By the time we get to tuesday, snowstorm from denver to nebraska. Snow from omaha to minneapolis. Minor airport problems like ohare and detroit through cleveland but periods of rain. It will be a fullfledged snowstorm from lacrosse to minneapolis through northern wisconsin. This storm blows toward the east coast for wednesday. Of course thats the busiest travel day. If youre going to have windy conditions in the northeast with periods of rain, youre going to get some significant delays out of that, and as far as the snow forecast in the airports go, this will be the worst of it on tuesday from denver to minneapolis, and then minor delays, chicago, cleveland, the great lakes, and as i mentioned, in new york if it rains and you get even breezy conditions youll get some significant airport problems. La laguardia is shut down when a drop of rain comes out of the sky. I think we all know that pretty well. Thats going to cause major delays. Thats only storm one, well talk about storm two coming up. Going back after thanksgiving may be worse. Wow, there you go. See what i mean . I told you. All right, still ahead, the president s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani once again says that he has insurance if President Trump tries to turn on him. Well show you those comments coming up next. Welcome back, President Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani gave a wide ranging interview over the weekend where he attacked numerous figures involved in the house impeachment probe and claimed for the second time to have, quote, insurance when questioned about his relationship with the president. Have you talked to President Trump in the last week or two . Have you met with him . Are you still his counsel . I do not discuss my conversations with my client. You can assume that i talk to him early and often. Yeah. And have a very, very Good Relationship with him and all of these comments, which are totally insulting, ive seen things written like hes going to throw me under the bus. Right. When they say that, he isnt but i have insurance. Okay. So hours later giuliani clarified on twitter that his statement on having insurance was, quote, sarcastic, not necessarily sure i saw sarcasm there by the way. Right, yeah. And relates to the files in my safe about the biden familys four decades of monetizing of his office. All right. President trump said on friday that he was angry with former ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch claiming without evidence that she refused to hang his picture in the u. S. Embassy in ukraine. The ambassador, the woman she wouldnt even put up shes an obama person, you know. I said why are you being so kind . Shes a woman. We have to be nice. This ambassador that everybody says is so wonderful, she wouldnt hang