Public in a big way. Podium taking questions from lev parnas, Rudy Giulianis reporters. Really we think any minute here. Righthand man in ukraine weve also been talking a lot dropping 11th hour bombshell about house kpeechlt managerimpt right here on msnbc, directly implicating the president and his inner circle in that Pressure Campaign with kiev, managers. Well talk about what sources something democrats say makes the impeachment case against the are telling me infighting president even stronger. Deciding who is in and who is not. First more news in the senate. President trump knows exactly before the historic formalities what was going on. He was aware of all of my on impeachment today, they are taking care of business, expected to vote on president movements. Our team of reporters is covering every angle of this trumps north american trade with what you need to know. Deal. Seems like its going to pass with bipartisan support. Nbcs Geoff Bennett on capitol this has already got the green light from the mexican legislature, Canadian Parliament set to ratify it later this month. Hill. Kelly cobiella. Assuming the senate votes to jake sherman with msnbcs kelly approve, the president said hes going to sign one of his senior odonnell over at the white pledges into law sometime next house. Jeff, i want to start with you. Week. His senior tell us what we expected this pledges into law sometime next week cept work. Morning and what were hearing why is that . From senator mcconnell on how is it because people love filling out forms . This is going to progress on what is frankly a day of, as one maybe they like checking with their supervisor to see how much Vacation Time they have. Of our colleagues put it, historic formalities if you or sending corporate their expense reports. Will. Thats right. A day of ser mope and rceremonyr ill let you in on a little secret. They dont. By empowering employees to manage their own tasks, the third impeachment trial for paycom frees you to focus on the business of business. A sitting president in u. S. History. This kicks off at noon eastern. To learn more, visit paycom. Com well see that group of newly appointed house managers proceed from the house to the senate. Articles of impeachment in hand just like they did yesterday. Yesterday they transmitted the articles of impeachment. Today the senate will formally receive them. So after that happens, the impeachment managers will then go to the senate floor and read aloud the text of both articles. One, abuse of power. The other, obstruction of congress. Following that at 2 00 p. M. Eastern, chief Justice John Roberts will be summoned from the supreme court, ushered into the senate chamber. He will be sworn in by senator Chuck Grassley who serves as senate pro tem. After roberts this morning, he will swear in all 100 senators. They will take that oath, sign their names into an oath book. After that we expect Senate Majority leered mitch partly cloudy connell will take to the senate floor and do some housekeeping, give us a sense of how the next days will go as both sides prepare for opening arguments we expect to begin on tuesday after the mlk holiday. Geoff bennett, thanks. As this is going down wildfire we have breaking news to tell you about. Would not out of the nations capital, one ukraine. Kiev announcing two investigations and not the ones the president s allies would hope for. One into whether Marie Yovanovitch was under illegal surveillance while she was stationed at the u. S. Embassy in kiev. Thats after the first bombshell by this guy lev parnas, associate of Rudy Giuliani. He was the one arrested at an airport with a oneway ticket of the out company. Hes on bail after charges of Illegal Campaign donations. He handed over phone messages, et cetera, but some documents appear to show somebody tracking the movements of ambassador yovanovitch. Now a second major development, for the first time parnas is talking, specifically about his role in trying to pressure ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden and his son hunter. Boy, does he point the finger at President Trump and other top cabinet officials in an music playing interview you saw first on this network with Rachel Maddow. What conversations have you had with lev parnas and igor. This is the first day of my life i dont know those gentlemen. He knew exactly who we were. He knew who i was because i i was born right in the doorway interacted at the event. I didnt know the name, the name parnas. Now i dont know where i am, i dont know where ive been do you know congressman devin but i know where i wanna go nunes. Yes, i do. I never discussed the issue of the bidens with zelle ensky. Through the at t network, edgetoedge intelligence gives you the power to see every corner of your growing business. The president because tasked from using feedback to innovate. With conversations about hunter to introducing products faster. Biden. He said, quote, whatever you can do with the attorney general to managing website inventory. Would be great. And network bandwidth. Mr. Trump knew everything. Giving you a nice big edge over your competition. Its impossible. We have a team to break this down. Thats the power of edgetoedge intelligence. I want to talk more about what lev parnas has to say. I want to talk about breaking news with josh letterman. There is a headline out in the last moment or so as we were coming on the air from the Government Accountability office as it relates to ukraine and what is essential to the we are getting new reaction impeachment inquiry. Out of breaking news, government the withholding of aid, military accountability office, gao, aid set to be delivered to kiev. What do we know . Nonpartisan government watchdog. This is a big deal, hallie. Just this hour as we were if you recall last year in the impeachment hearings, we learned literally coming on the air it found Trump Administration officials both at the White House Budget Office and also at violated law withholding the pentagon had been concerned military aid to ukraine. In realtime that withholding ken is joining me now. This aid could actually be i want to talk about what the illegal because it could violate implications are of this something called impoundment decision and how the gao came to control act. It basically says if congress it. One of the things president passes a law to direct money to trump said in the impeachment saga, democrats cant point to a a certain goal or issue, the law they say he violated. Now we have a nonpartisan administration has to carry that agency, government out. Accountability office saying, in fact, the Trump Administration they cant decide willynilly did violate the law. They arent going to spend money its called empowerment control authorized and appropriated by act, and its a law that says the president must spend money that congress appropriated. Congress. Now we have this decision from and the gao took a look at the Government Accountability justifications that the office office, essentially the top of management and budget, that Auditing Agency for the federal government. They are saying, in fact, this did violate the law. I want to read to you a little white house spending office used bit of what they are saying. To withhold the money from faithful execution of the law ukraine, they said those justifications had no basis in does not permit the president to substitute his own policy law. They are saying the Trump Administration violated the law. In fact, hallie, this was a law priorities for that congress has passed in responses to abuses by enacted into law. This decision gs on, hallie, to president nixon, so echos of say, therefore we include omb, watergate here. The thing is, there are no chace the White House Budget Office, violated the impoundment repercussions, no criminal statute, no gao police that can control act. Arrest Trump Administration but you can expect a pile on in the factor into the question of next few hours democrats in the whether witnesses should be house and senate now that you called into the impeachment have an auditinging a saying, inquiry. One of the people that the house yes, the law was violated in wanted to hear from was the house of the omb, russell withholding that aid last year. Just to be clear for viewers, voight. We are juggling a lot. They did hear from a lower level not just impeachment hearings set to happen in the senate in a budget official who said this was highly unusual the way the matter of less than two hours. Trump administration withheld youve got joshs breaking news this aid. Now again we have a nonpartisan on the Government Accountability office directly saying, right, ruling that the trump that the white house does not follow the law. Youve got lev parnass new frustration vie haolated the la interview and the fallout we are when they held 200 in 200 seeing this morning from that, which well talk about more in a second. Kelly cobiella, you have this news out of ukraine, this investigation ukraine is now million in aid from ukraine. Announcing into whether or not we will move on. Maria joseph wyovanovitch was s ken dilanian, thank you for joining us here in washington. Over at the white house, theres with this foreign government. A developing picture now of the Senate Impeachment trial trying to see was that strategy. Appropriate or not. What do Laura Ingrams childs the ministry for Foreign Affairs in ukraine specifically points to those Text Messages godfather, james comeys former from republican congressional candidate robert hyde to lev deputy all have in common . Theyre all on your screen right parnas, between the two, in now. Which the two talk about the they are all part of President Trumps impeachment defense former ambassador marie team, according to what sources are telling me and my white yovanovitchs movements and her house unit at nbc news. Were told that Pat Cipollone is computer and phone off. They point to that and say these going to lead the team, she has the connection to laura ingra m messages point to the possible violations of ukrainian law and vienna convention. Ingraham. They say ukraine cannot ignore and jay sekulow has a daily such illegal activities on the territory of its own state radio show his son has been hosting. Saying they are starting hes spoken in front of the investigation into this. Supreme court about a dozen they say they are not times. We also have two deputies to interfering in the internal Political Affairs of the United States, so you can see they are cipollone. A guy named pat phil bin and trying to strike this delicate balance. They say their goal was to mike purpura. Investigate whether this was violation of law or bravado on with us now from capitol hill is the part of two u. S. Citizens. Bob costa, National Political they also say they expect the reporter for the washington u. S. To respond promptly. Post and msnbc political analyst. The makeup of the house then theres the second investigation, the hacking into managers, how nancy pelosi was selecting the democrats to Energy Company burisma, the prosecute the case. Lets talk about how the white house is putting together the makeup of a team to defend that company hunter biden sat on the case, if you will. Board. Bring me inside what youre they have opened criminal investigation into the hacking and it was, quote, probably hearing from sources. Reporter in conversations conducted by Russian Special services. In that case they have asked for with white house officials and the fbis help. Trump allies, its clear the white house will likely have 24 hallie. Josh, what else . Hours over the course of several days to make the case on behalf kelly talked about lev parnas of President Trump and theyre going to maybe not use all 24 connection to this ukraine hours thats allotted to them. Investigation. We are hearing a lot more from parnas as he is now talking it going about potentially being open to its going to be a concise case, being a witness in the taking some shots at burisma and impeachment trial, for example. Hunter biden in terms of his walk us through highlights from engagement with ukrainian how this is playing out today companies and then stepping after frankly the extraordinary away. Its not going to be an interview last night. Extensive legal effort, based on a lot of developments out of my reporting. The interview with Rachel Maddow i think thats right. Were heard from a senior last night. Administration official lev parnas really directly yesterday who said it was implicating not only the extraordinarily unlikely this president but a lot of the trial would go past two weeks in people around him saying vice their view, which, frankly, based on my other conversation president mike pence knew about what was happening, that was seems like a bit of an aggressive timeline, unless the attorney general william barr would have had to have known what was happening. Tr trump team would take a little weve reached out to the department of justice who said thats 100 false. Less time, if its such a slam mike pences office saying dunk for them, they dont need essentially that other witnesses all the time allotted. In the impeachment testimony as much as some are bantering from last year had contradicted about calling different that. But its really bringing to life witnesses like hunter biden, the a lot of what had happened appetite inside of white house behind the scenes last year for calling extensive witnesses because we never heard from is not that big. My white house sources are anybody in the hearings who raised their hand and said i did telling me that President Trump it. It was wrong and i shouldnt wants this trial to be over but have done it. He also knows at the end of the now we have from lev parnas. Day he may have to dot the is President Trump know exactly and cross the ts and allow the what was going on. He was aware of all of my trial to play out, make a forceful defense, step away and movements. I wouldnt do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani or urge republicans to dismiss the trial or at least move to acquit the president. It was all about joe biden, hunter biden. It was never about corruption. H him. It was never it was strictly tell me what the sense is of folks you are talking to this about burisma which included juggling not just his impeachment trial but breaking hunter biden and joe biden. Another really interesting news on lev parnas and the news moment in that interview, hallie, is when lev parnas on the top of the hour on the apologized to ambassador gao report. Yovanovitch acknowledging he was to be frank, hallie, its part of a plan to get rid of her pretty chaotic here at the senate. Basically on false pretenses. In terms of witnesses, theres he doesnt think she was really working against the president. No agreement. He said he was sorry for his d role in that. Kelly odonnell to you here. Do some senators want to see two questions for you on the white house reaction to the witnesses . Yes, they do. Multiple developing stories were following this morning. Theres no real agreement or one, and im doubtful of this, i assume we havent heard anything consensus on witnesses that is from Administration Officials emerging at this point. About this breaking gao report. They may not expect any deal on i know thats coming out in the witnesses in the coming weeks, that its going to be an ongoing last six minutes here. I cant imagine we have negotiation, that theres no anything. Correct me if im wrong. Hard and fast rule that there so far nothing on that. Will be witnesses in this trial. Its going to be more about although i think we may have political standoffs and dynamics opportunities to try to get a reaction based on knowing what unfolding rather than any kind senior officials here are going of agreement thats certain to to do. We wont see the president today appear. Until 2 00 p. M. For an event in robert costa of the the oval office unrelated where Washington Post joining us from what looks like the russell he will be talking about the Constitutional Rights of prayer rotunda there. Indeed. In school. We are moments away from so perhaps theres a chance to hear the president going off Nancy Pelosis briefing with reporters including one of our topic a bit. Own. Were going to take you inside that remains to be seen, hallie, the room coming up. In our next hour, the lawmaker who asked for that gao review of so well follow up on that. As soon as we get it, if it the Trump Administration ukraine happens in your hour, well come back to you. Thank you. When you look at how the aid with holding, senator chris administration, not only the white house but the different van hollen is going to be on offices within are reacting to this network live. Lev parnas thats the second question. They are singing from the same playbook. They have some different variations on how they are responding to that, hallie. As you might expect, there is a concerted effort now to put lev are ar let me tell you something, parnas in the box of the man indicted trying to save himself. Give you a sense of the different reactions, here is what weve gotten so far. From the white house weve got this. These allegations be