25th phone call between President Trump and ukrainian president zelensky. A growing number of republican senators are considering acknowledging there was a quid pro quo on that phone call. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a new interview saying there is no deadline to finish the investigation, telling bloomberg any case made to impeach the president , quote, has to be ironclad. Now we are just going to continue to do a few more depositions and then move quickly to the public stage, but its about building the strongest case we can more the public and for the senate. Do you city point think there is enough evidence to bring forth articles of impeachment against donald trump . Yes, i do. Never before seen documents from special counsel Robert Muellers investigation of the russian interference into the 2016 election have been released today. We got a new poll as we do most days of the week, it shows 49 of americans now support impeaching and removing the president. This is not about democrat or republican, this is not about politics, this is about who is standing to defend the constitution of the United States of america and being abundantly clear that no one is above the law. The Washington Post reporting House Democrats are pivoting from factfinding to a campaign of persuasion. Privately sketching out how they plan to use a series of block busting hearings with these witnesses to make the public case for trumps removal from office. We covered a lot yesterday, certainly going to cover a lot today. Joining me to assess those new developments this morning a team of reporters and analysts. One big headline we are following this morning, new comments from President Trump on the impeachment inquiry before departing for new york last night the president took questions from reporters including whether he would block white house officials from testifying before congress. [ inaudible question ] i dont know. You will have to speak to the lawyers. Nancy pelosi has become unhinged, theres something wrong with her. If you look at whats happening, if you look at the poll numbers, if you look at the poll numbers in the swing states, theyre saying dont do this. Dont do it. Im fine with it. We did absolutely nothing wrong. Nbc White House Correspondent hans nichols joins us from new york city in front of trump tower. Hans, theres more to what the president had to say, particularly on the possibility of hosting president zelensky at the white house. Reporter thats right. Look, the president speaking to reporters before he came up here to new york city he took in a fight, one of these mixed martial arts fights, but what the president is suggesting is that he be open to hosting president zelensky at the white house, claimed that he was a good guy. Remember, the white house has always insisted because zelensky said that he didnt feel any pressure that didnt have been a quid pro quo. It does president the president of the at the mercy of mr. Zelensky because he could tell his side of the story and it could potentially change things. The president continues to insist the transcript or the call log was perfect in his opinion and hes also optimistic that once these transcripts of the testimony, the deposition thats been taking place for the last month, once those come out that its not that he will be exonerated but they will be good for him, have a listen to how he couched it. I dont know what their testimony is. I know this, i know this, the testimony has been extremely good for us, but they have to release the testimony. Weve had very good testimony. [ inaudible question ] well, you will be seeing very soon what comes out, then you then you can ask the question in a different way. Reporter so that was a question from our own Kelly Odonnell there challenging the president on calling vindman a never trumper. And the president seems to be suggesting that the testimony from vindman isnt as damaging at least as the public reporting of it is, and, remember, there have been some damaging disclosures out of that testimony. The most recent one is that vindman was told not to discuss his serious or grave concerns about the call in the days after it and that he was somehow sequestered and locked away, this call transcript, the overall call log. President is affecting confidence, here for fight night at Madison Square garden. Obviously there is a controversy about whether or not he received boos and cheers. In general the president likes controversy, he likes attention. Remember that when they are trying to reach voters across the country they like the demographic that watches mixed martial arts fighting, this is a president that tries to broadcast on different frequencies. Frances. We have seen also the nationals as well. Hans, stick with us. I want to bring in francesca chambers, kevin cirilli. To all of you welcome and good morning. Were going to jump right into this because we are all refreshed, start with you francesca, unpacking some of the remarks from the president. The president says that the testimony as we heard him has been very good for the white house but the white house has yet to release it. Assess that level of spin. Well, the president went on to say yesterday that he doesnt really mind if white house officials testify. So its still an open question as to whether or not they will this week. We already know that rick perry, the energy secretary, who was called to be deposed will not testify. Were waiting to see whether or not russ vote the acting omb cheap decides to testify this week based on what the president said yesterday. Of course, there is the case of john bolton as well as his former deputy, they are currently battling in court, at least kupperman is, the deputy and bolton could be added to that case to determine whether or not they will have to come forward. We will see. The house, they released that, what will come of it and what the president will say. Kevin, the president said that you will have to talk to the lawyers about the white house blocking people from testifying in the coming week. Isnt the administration blocking pretty much everyone . Well, i think democrats believe that. I mean, look, i mean, youve seen this play out just over the past couple days in the sense that the white house candidly really views this as nothing more than a political operation designed by democrats in order to drum up support for the progressive base, but republicans are saying, hey, bring it on. They feel its going to help them with their base come the election. Theres two quick points that i would make, just to pick up what francesca spoke about, john bolton, will he or wont he . Thats what i have my eye on for this coming week ahead. Secondly, when are we going to start to hear from a lot of these 2020 democratic president ial candidates who want to be campaigning in iowa and New Hampshire, senator Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, cory booker, amy klobuchar, these folks will have to be back in the halls of congress dealing with the impeachment when candidly this is crunch time for them in the early caucus states. Questioning on that timeline and how nancy pelosi sees it. The president said look at the numbers in swing states, theyre saying dont do this impeachment. Is that really what polls are saying from what you understand . Well, yes, and we see that theres enough support for the inquiry but there is not enough for impeachment yet. And that should pretty much be expected since we are a divided country. I think that we see the polls more or less reflecting where the president stands in his popularity numbers, although they tick a little lower than the impeachment inquiry, but its now up for the house to present their case. Right now people are making their decisions based on introductory statements, they have not heard the testimony of the people who are in front of the house and the committees. It will be released next week so it will be interesting to see what happens, but it is now up to nancy pelosi to make a case to the American Public with hearings, with facts and lay it all out. Even they have it or they dont. Now, knowing nancy pelosi and the way she plays, i dont think she would have taken the vote on thursday that she did to formally vote on the inquiry unless she really thought she had it. John bolton or not. And that remains to be seen in the coming week with this big week ahead. Lets try to fill in the blanks here from the snippet we had a erred from the president , francesca. Can you figure out what he meant when he was asked whether he regrets called admiral vindman a trevor trumper. He said you will see when it comes out. He thinks hes going to be vindicated by this. Thats something that Trump Campaign officials have been telling me all week long as well. They are raising massive amounts of money off of the impeachment inquiry and they feel pretty confident that next year assuming President Trump isnt removed from office by the senate that this will be something thats in their Rearview Mirror and at best it gins up the base. They think this is a good thing for President Trump. Whether or not that turns out to be true a year out from now remains to be seen. But President Trump and the campaign arent too concerned about this. Were seeing at all their sporting events, he went to the nationals game, clearly booed there, last night in new york city the ufc event. Mixed reaction, not sure if its boos or cheers, protesters were outside the venue. When is he all of a sudden showing up at their public sporting events . Look, i think thats a really good illustration in terms of really the thinking right now of where Senior Republicans are as well as President Trump because this isnt a water cooler conversation about whether or not the president got booed. This is impeachment. I mean, this is incredibly serious and as susan correctly pointed out either Speaker Pelosi has the goods or she doesnt. As these cases become more public, as she cases become more transparent then its really going to be up to quite frankly less so democrats, more so moderate republicans, more so republicans who are up to in key congressional districts in suburbs all around the country to see whether or not they are going to play ball with democrats or hold firm. I interviewed riggleman, representing virginia, he was also a former foreign intelligence officer. He told me based upon everything that he has seen, everything that he has heard, the transcript and whatnot, he doesnt feel that democrats have the goods on this. Those are the kind of republicans that democrats are going to need and right now based upon my reporting, frances, i just dont see those republicans switching over. Thats the thing, are they going to be on the same page when it comes to this, the president kind of touched on that last night. Lets play it. Susan, i want to talk to you about that on the other side. Everybody knows it. The republicans have never been this unified. Im at the highest level i have ever been at, but the republicans have never been this unified and this whole impeachment scam, thats exactly what it is, its a scam. All right. So we heard from kevin and who he has spoken with as well. Susan, whats your assessment, have republicans never been this unified . Not exactly. Especially if you listen to them behind closed doors. I mean, the fact is that the republicans for right now it was not a bipartisan vote in the sense of no republican voted for the impeachment inquiry in the house, but there was no reason to on a procedure vote to just get beaten up for a month or six weeks by the president. Lets see what happens, again, the case has to fold out. The president can say whatever he wants, it does not make it true. He calls Lieutenant Colonel a never trumper. That means in trumps mind you just dont agree with trump and if you dont agree with trump you are human scum. So, you know, i dont mind being judged by my enemies, if you will, if he wants to call me human scum thats just fine. Before we let hans go, talk quickly about these stories of people cutting through the new border wall the president responded to that. Lets take a quick listen. All right. Any sense of how much of a problem that is, hans . Reporter the with, the president in that sound bite that we didnt have ready was basically saying he hadnt heard of these reports. You know, the president has talked about making the wall impenetrable, talking about adding all kinds of different features to it to make it more difficult. What were seeing with these reports that theyre cutting through the walls with power sauce, electric saws, bigger walls lead and bigger fences lead to bigger ladders. Now, the president may cease upon this as an opportunity to have more funding, more Border Patrol agents. Its clear that he sees that his path to the reelection running along the border, he was out there in san diego about six, seven weeks ago talking about it and viewing it. Anytime the president can talk about the border and talk about his wall he will use that opportunity. Regardless of the technical aspects of and how secure the actual wall it, this is a subject the president likes to focus on. Hans nichols, we will cut you loose, francesca, kevin and susan, you will stick with me. Thank you, hans. Still to come, one year to go until election day, a wide ranging poll on the 2020 race is out. We will talk about the biggest take a ways next. We will talk about the biggest take a ways next d less and get way more. So you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one. For small prices, you can build big dreams, spend less, get way more. Shop everything home at wayfair. Com [narrator] forget about vacuuming for up to a month. 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She was so hot over the summer and she has just been fault ring and now we know that shes cutting staff in New Hampshire and putting everything all in in iowa and its still not seeming to make a difference, not just in the National Poll but in the iowa polls as well. Shes not even breaking into the top three. Then also Pete Buttigieg, right, he is the one who showed that it can make a difference if you do really well in the debates. He is the one who is on fire moving into that area where joe biden had been dominating in the center and hes now leaving some room for the south bend, indiana, mayor. Where does that leave the president , kevin, good or bad news for him . Well, i dont know i think its too early to tell in terms of where it lands President Trump, but im obsessed with these poll numbers and i think francesca and i as political junkies we crunch them and are talking about them offline. Pete buttigieg went up against beto orourke and absolutely won. Pete buttigieg has a ton of cash on hand, has continued to try to build momentum particularly in iowa, but i also am looking at senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Elizabeth warren had her time in the sun, so to speak, in the past couple of weeks, precisely as she is now seen largely as a front runner of sorts, and shes still been able to maintain high poll numbers. Now, she just released her medicare for all plan on friday, we dont have post polling numbers on that, we will have to see, but Bernie Sanders everyone has counted him out but he still consistently is in the top three and thats a really interesting affair to monitor because a lot of his supporters its just assumed that they would go to Elizabeth Warren, but if you break it down theyre also potential biden voters and quite frankly the aoc squad endorsements that only helped fuel him even further as well. Susan, how do you see the numbers . I think its interesting. Polls are in the eye of the beholder. Its a snapshot, you can glean whatever you want from them if you look at it through a certain way and tilt your head. At the end of the day what i look at in addition to the poll numbers is who has money on hand. Bernie sanders, El