We are coming on the air this morning with Breaking News from capitol hill. Our first look at just how house Impeachment Managers plan to prosecute their case against donald trump. Set to file their pre friel brief and we are now getting a look at it just seconds ago, this is all ahead of next weeks Historic Second senate trial and we have a better sense of what their argument will be. A point by point case that trump is responsible for inciting the deadly insurrection at the capitol and that his responsibility for those events is unmistakable. Those managers taking direct aim at what im told will be one of the key arguments by the former president s team. That defense team also rushing to meet their own filing deadline today. My new reporting on how theyre going to convince senators or try to to acquit donald trump again. Good morning, im Hallie Jackson in washington along with our nbc news team covering this. Garrett haake on capitol hill, Shannon Pettypiece outside the white house,
reporter: well, at this point democrats have demanded that jeff sessions come back in front of the judiciary committee and give testimony. it doesn t look like that s going to happen, but they have said that he s going to amend his testimony and he had no contacts with russians in the course of the campaign and then it was revealed that he did meet with the russian ambassador back in the fall. so we ll see him amend that testimony and he also says he ll take questions from members and that likely means he ll take written questions and respond to them in written form. so that s set to happen on monday at this point, frances? nbc s kasie hunt reporting for us from west palm beach. kasie, thank you. joining me now is msnbc political analyst robert costa. i m hoping you can walk us through it. you write that steve bannon who is expected to fly from washington, d.c., to florida saturday afternoon and attend a dinner there with mar-a-lago with donald trump and jeff sessions and others.
senator lindsey graham and his subcommittee on the judiciary committee want to investigate this as well. and the last line of this statement, neither the white house nor the president will comment further. there s been some reporting by the washington post and the new york times that white house lawyers were trying to get evidence of these wiretaps, and that had raised concerns among some experts that the white house was potentially interfering directly in an investigation, which would be a breach of protocol. so, not having anything else to say could potentially insolate them from potential challenges in that area. thomas. all right, kasie hunt reporting for us in west palm beach. thanks very much. and just to a point about from the trump administration to the obama administration. yesterday, about 1:00 in the afternoon, kevin lewis, a spokesperson for former president barack obama put out a statement saying a cardinal rule of the obama administration was that no white house
but at this hour, we are still looking at the 11 more iraqis that are still being detained at the airport according to congressman nadler. kasie hunt reporting that the white house was working on granting a waiver for one or iraqi refugee. no word if they are working on waivers for the others reportedly held up. now i d like to bring in executor director of the national immigration law center. thank you for being with us. this is tough types. we look at immigration law as well as the complexities of implementing new law or in this case an executive order. as i mentioned, one iraqi released, 11 more in custody. how do we make sense of what may happen to them based on the way the law stands now? thanks for the invitation, richard. so we at the national immigration law center are so honored to represent mr.
immigration attorney michael wilds. and what we will focus on is a lawsuit that came out today from two of those who were detained at jfk airport, two of the 12 that we know of over the rules that were out lined from the executive order that came from president trump. kasie hunt reporting the white house is already try to go spin explain why it didn t have the new policy spelled out. where do you think this go? the writ of habeas corpus is the right of having somebody released who is being held. there a clear case in controversy and a federal judge will have to deal with this. just an amazing experience who