Lee, New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt and New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters and in new york along with willie geist we have msnbc contributor Mike Barnacle and the president of the Foreign Relations and author of the book war of choice, richard haas. I know david especially is hoping that hes next and that hell get am rosas job. But it appears that cable tv is like the bench for the president. It looks like it. The attorney speaking on fox news amplifying or perhaps introducing the idea that the entire Mueller Investigation is a conspiracy against President Trump, that is President Trumps argument. Hes been tweeting about it that the investigation is a witch hunt and it appears he wants to surround himself with attorney who is agree with him that this is in fact a witch hunt against him. That should be interesting and again, worries about the potential firing of mueller. We begin though with that shakeup in President Trumps legal team. Michael schmidt, you and your colleague
Joe is out and hopefully hell be back next week and mika is out with family matter. Donny deutsch, wilbur ross, what is that about besides being completely out of touch . Thats actually a person who shouldnt be in that position. Thats not even let them eat cake. Thats let them eat sevenlayer cake. When trump says theyll work with you. No, thats not how it works People Living paycheck to paycheck cannot walk into their local banks and say, hey guys, lets sit down and work out a longterm strategy. Wilbur ross will be a poster boy Going Forward in the 200 election. That clip and trumps clip will show up over and over again. Its not just those 800,000 people. Its anybody in this country that lives paycheck to paycheck and thats a lot of people. Thats reprehensible. I think he should step aside from his job based on that. That is not our commercial secretary. I dont know whose it is. Its so embarrassing he was confirmed by the senate, wilbur ross. All the reports hes the guy falling asleep
Administrations. They are following yesterdays testimony from this decorated veteran, Alexander Vindman who told house investigators he raised a red flag immediately after hearing President Trumps call with ukrainian president on july 25th and he said that looking at the white house transcript that was released and what he heard it appears parts were edited which the white house denies. Congress gets ready to open the closed doors and start the public stage of this impeachment inquiry. Lets begin with todays testimony. Our senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju joins us on capitol hill. Were expected to hear the lawmakers will hear today is more concerns being raised about the role that rudy giuliai played which has been a consistent theme that the personal attorney worked outside legal channels. Even at a key time these officials were trying to strength relations with a key u. S. Ally. Catherine croft testifies about efforts what she was told about this aid being put on hold for
Community expressed unanimous support for resuming the funding in the u. S. National security interest. There was also a discussion of how ukrainian anticorruption efforts were making progress. Dod reiterated what we had said in our earlier certification to congress, stating that defense reform including anticorruption had occurred to justify the usai spending. I, and others at the interagency meetings, felt that the matter was particularly urgent, because it takes time to obligate that amount of money, and my understanding was that the money was legally required to be obligated by september 30th, the end of the fiscal year. In the ensuing weeks until the hold was released on september 11th i pursued three tracks. First, starting july 31st at an interagency meeting, i made clear to interagency leadership my understanding that once dod reaches the point at which it does not have sufficient time to obligate all the funding by the end of the fiscal year, there were only two ways to discon
This case we got something very rare. We got up close like cinema v i varitae you are there footage. You could even hear like the russian swearing in the background. Russias navy chasing three ukrainian ships. This video appearing to show the moment of impact. One ship rammed, shots were fired. The ship seized. Two dozen ukrainians sailors captured russian war planes threatening above. The ukrainian ships were hit at the Narrow Strait between russia and crimea which it illegally annexed. Russia now claiming these waters it its territory and blaming ukraine for provoking the incident. That was a report from nbc correspondent bill neely right at the time this happened. We also got publicly released at the time, just a sort of an amazing video from what i think appears to be maybe the bridge of one of the russian ships that was involved. It was a video that was shot as this thing was happening. This happened just a little less than a year ago, sunday november, 25, last year, 2018. What ha