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Underway on this not so silent monday night. Good evening once again are from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,068 of the Trump Administration. The start of the holiday week brings no let up from the partisan fight over this looming impeachment trial in the senate. Late today the president launched new attacks from maralago against Democratic Leaders in the house and senate, quote, nancy pelosi is doing everything she can to delay the zero republican vote articles of inpeachment...

Gas, rubber bullets, and possibly live me mission. Irans government has denied shooting protesters. [chancing] angry crowds chanting fight with us, we will fight back and calling irans Supreme Leader a murderer. Meanwhile, back at home, the Trump Administration continues to face tough questions about what it calls an imminent threat, which it used to justify killing around stop general. President trump has defended the killing and claimed Qasem Soleimani was planning to attack for u. S. Embassie...

Adviser fiona hill still behind closed doors. She has been there for more than nine hours. Nine hours. She is the first person who worked in the white house to be deposed in the impeachment problem. One thing we know that hill told members of congress, according to a source, she passionately defended the former ambassador to ukraine. Keep in mind, this is the same ambassador who says she refused to push trumps agenda into investigation into joe biden. Hill says that ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch...

Im fredricka whitfield. Isis leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi was killed in a raid, u. S. Forces using the cover of night after tracking him down at a secret compound near the border with turkey. The white house issuing this photo showing a moment inside the situation room during the raid. Al baghdadis death is being seen as a deathly blow to isis. The president went into explicit details about abu baghdadis death. He went into the turn whimpering and screaming. He was a sick and depraved man. And no...

It made mother russia a lot smaller though it is still pretty huge too. It also sits on the border separating russia from europe. Ukraine is a word that literally means border land and the southern part of it stretches across the black sea, a key water route for ferrying oil and natural gas to europe, which is russias biggest customer for the stuff that keeps the lights on. Curb sha and ukraine havent been the friendliest of neighbors since ukraine declared itself an understood pen dindep. Ukrai...

Actions were justified. As long as im president of the United States, iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. As i speak to you this morning from the white house, we continue to receive word that iran is standing down. The question is, should the United States be at war with iran . President trump, in a series of backandforth escalations in the last 18 months, has brought us to that place. I think its unfortunate that so Many Democrats are making the question of the imminence of thi...

This isnt it that anything personal that a president isnt about politics to doubt patriotism the houses impeachment inquiry has exposed the truth the white house launched a shadow Foreign Policy President Trump led an extortion shakedown scheme over the ukrainian president abused his power undermine our National Security and undermine the integrity of our elections the democrats are trying to impeach the president because they are scared they cannot defeat him at the ballot to play an obvious cr...

Articles of impeachment to the senate, setting in motion only the third president ial impeachment trial in u. S. History. Cnns senior congressional korng correspondent, manu raju is on the hill. Walk folks through what will happen today. Reporter a lot of the ceremonial and procedural aspects of this trial will begin today that will set the stage for those opening arguments to begin next week. What were going to expect probably in the next hour is for the vote to begin to actually name those imp...

People remember they treated us very unfairly. They didnt give us due process. They didnt give us a lawyer, they didnt give us anything. Now they come to the senate and want everything. Just to be clear the senate was invited to have either to represent himself or have his lawyers represent him at the impeachment. He declined to do so. As the standoff drags on, the wall street Journal Editorial Board is calling for the senate to hold a trial. The board writes in todays paper, the Current Senate ...

Our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,068 of the Trump Administration. The start of the holiday week brings no let up from the partisan fight over this looming impeachment trial in the senate. Late today the president launched new attacks from maralago against Democratic Leaders in the house and senate, quote, nancy pelosi is doing everything she can to delay the zero republican vote articles of inpeachment. That was the early spelling before the correction. She is trying to take ove...