projects. it is an interesting one, because on one hand, donald trump says that day one, dictator for a day, i m going to drill drill drill. russia producing more fossil fuels than anybody in the world by a long shot, and then antibodies ever produced. let s get down to the skin of some climate activists who say that maybe that is not the goal that we should be having. and so this is that intersection between energy dependent and being a leader in the world and guaranteeing freedom for people who don t want to buy their gas from russia, and at the same time, being conscious of the climate. it is an interesting tightrope that we are going to talk about. have a great weekend, i will see you again tomorrow morning. all right, take care alley. all right. right i m ali velshi. we begin this morning with a blockbuster penalty that a jury has awarded the writer e. jean carroll in a defamation case against the twice impeached four times indicted ex president. yesterday, a
powerful quake that sent tremors across the entire region. the magnitude 7.8 quake struck before day break in southern turkey nearly the border with syria. the quake and aftershocks collapsing buildings. now a desperate search and rescue efforts under way to find people trapped in piles of rubble. cnn s scott mclean joins us from london. scott, this is one of the strongest quakes to hit turkey in a century, what do we know? reporter: that s right, this part of the turkey, christine, used to earthquakes but nothing like this. this happened in the middle of the night, so people were jolted out of bed with this terrifying shaking. they re finding themselves running out of their houses and apartment buildings into very cold weather. turkey is experiencing an unusual cold snap in that part of the country. andmalatya, they re working to get people of the rubble. with the cold weather, time of the essence, because people were not survive in this kind of cold. we re getting message
to be a dictator, are you? i said, no, no, no. ot other thanher th day one who s america s favorite dictator. we are talking about opening up all women and girls to examinations. hey there. what s under the hood?? oh, christmas is a big deal in our household. merry christmas, everybody. gavin newsom cancels christmas plus. andrew jackson famously buid americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect missio n ,like storming the beaches of normandy, like stepping foot on the moon, like taking out bin laden. well , here s another man on a mission. joe biden. joe his mission isn t to stoptoo inflation, crime or migration. the missionp is to stop trump money. i expect so. run. but look, he is running and i just have to run right now. no, biden just admitted he s too old for this. if the democratio olc bench was. so thin, he d retire and sniff hair. plus, only joe biden knows how to use the fbi and the cia during an election. but later, biden rea
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newsroom starts right now. our top story, u.s. president donald trump fighting back against the latest accusations from lhis former attorney michael cohen. the president again denied having prior knowledge of a 2016 meeting at trump tower between his top campaign advisers and russians. according to our sources, cohen says the president knew about it. if cohen is telling the truth, it could be problematic for the white house. there are at least 20 instances over the past year in which mr. trump and his advisers have said mr. trump was not aware of the meeting. here are just a few examples. did you tell your father anything about this? it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. donald trump jr. put it all out today. did you he know the time that they had the meeting? no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never h
another hour but we re out of time. my thanks to steve schmidt, most of all, thanks to you for watching. mtp daily with chuck todd starts right now. welcome to thursday. it is meet the press daily. good evening. i m chuck todd here in a big curly w washington. lchl exactly a year after the presidential election, today s been another hectic day in the nation s capital from capitol hill to the courts to the white house. house backed an impeachment inquiry into the president and historic symbolic action that moves us one step closer to public hearings. and behind closed doors, it was another bomb shell day as the national security council top russia expert tim morrison
confirmed much of the substance of the damning testimony by the administration s top diplomat to ukraine, bill taylor, what he testified to is that military aid was contingent on investigations into the president s political rivals. this is according to a review of morrison s opening statement. now, morrison also t