thanks for joining us tonight. never miss tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. president trump doubling down. this time in public, now calling on china to investigate his political opponent joe biden and his son. it all comes amid the escalating impeachment investigation looking into the president asking for the same thing in that phone call with ukraine s new president. and the text messages revealed here tonight. one diplomat saying it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. the new images just in tonight. a u.s. military drill gone wrong. 87 paratroopers jumping at night. but then missing their landing spot. nearly two dozen badly injured. several rushed to the hospital. some dangling in trees, one for 12 hours. also breaking at this hour, the hard landing and then the sheriff s department flying overhead, then that helicopter going down, too. you could see the pilots, one appearing to try to help the other.
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giuliani to manufacture dirt on the president s political opponents and arrested trying to flee the country. maybe i ll ask rudy to say a few words. tonight what we know about the two men. is rudy giuliani now under investigation? and what did the president know and when did he know it? what conversations have you head with lev parnas and igor fruman? i don t know those gentlemen. you were in pictures with them. and hillary clinton s campaign manager john podesta what he makes the push to impeach trump.
and as republicans stews over defecks the new call from conservative lawyers who say a speedy impeachment inquiry is necessary. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the first arrests of the impeachment era happened today and washington, d.c. airport attempting to leave the country with one way tickets get this only hours after they lunched with their business associate and lawyer rudy giuliani. let me take a minute to explain these
among those questions, what it could mean for 2020. could some in the president s party be rethinking whether they want to stick with mr. trump amid the impeachment fight. we ll break down all the i m kagss of last night s elections results. a significant new twist in the impeachment inquiry. eu ambassador gordon sondland changing his story now, backing up the testimony of several other key witnesses regarding aid to ukraine and the commitment to investigate the 2016 election and the bidens. but why was he allowed to change his testimony? we re going to dig into that in just a moment. let s go right to the implications of tuesday s elections. for that i want to bring in msnbc national political correspondent steve kornacki. he s at the big board. nbc news road war i don t vaughn hillyard joins us from louisville, kentucky. vaughn, it s a state that president trump won by about 30 points in 2016.
here we are just three years later. looks like there will be a deck kr democrat in the g
dealing with the former vice president. there there are biden allies saying they may turn the tables and talk about his own family and whether he s profiting on the presidency. mike memoli, appreciate that. chris jansing in new york, it looks like you, my friend, are going to be able to have that taped playback of the president s remarks on the white house south lawn. i imagine those will be coming in the next few minutes, although it depends on how long the president speaks. as fast as humanly possible our folks will get that tape turned around. hallie jackson, thank you so much. good morning. i m chris jansing in for craig melvin apt msnbc headquarters in new york. a flood of new headlines have emerged since we saw you this time yesterday, each more damaging for him, while offering democrats more bread crumbs to follow in the impeachment inquiry. all this can seem overwhelming. we ll walk you through this
including the so-called smoking texts between u.s. and ukrainian ambassa
i think that was a successful own medicine. and the nats lost. to houston we go. don t go anywhere. strategem for something that brianna keilar starts right now. have a great afternoon. to allow a continued military presence in syria. let s talk about what the i m brianna keilar live from purpose of killing al baghdadi. cnn s washington headquarters. it was important they not talk underway right now, defiance on a new level. one of the former officials on about as many details as the president talked about. the president s infamous call what did you think about what was shared? with ukraine refused to show up i think this is appropriate before congress. and one of the world s most wanted terrorists is dead, but did president trump reveal too as the president and john much about the secret operation that took down the leader of isis? plus after starting his day milley. straight facts. receiving accolades for the and good on john milley for not operation, the president en
mean, that s the appropriate way to raise an issue with the ukrainian president, correct? it s appropriate for the justice department and the prosecutor general to cooperate and to exchange information, yes. to the extent the president has concerns and to the extent the attorney general is having u.s. attorney durham look into it, isn t it entirely appropriate for the president to flag this for president zelensky and say youn touch with our official channels? mr. castor, i don t know the precise appropriateness of these kinds of relations. now, were either of you involved with the preparation for the 7/25 call? i was not. i was not. how do you account for that? i mean, you were two of the key officials with responsibility for ukrainian policy. if the president of the united states is going to have a call with the leader of ukraine, why
wouldn t you ordinarily be involved with the preparation? sir, we work for the department of state in an embassy overseas. preparatio
i really mean it when i say i could talk to these friends for another hour. my thanks to all of them, and mostly to you for watching. chuck todd with mtp daily starts now. welcome to tuesday. it is meet the press daily. good evening. i m chuck todd in washington where another round of potential bombshell testimony as the president and his allies once again struggle to defend him as democrats unveil their official road map for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry. this afternoon the house laid out a resolution that will lay out the rules and procedures that will govern the next phase
that will include public hearings and the official rollout of the impeachment. it will include an ability for president trump to have attorneys around. meanwhile, there was more potentially explosive testimony in the investigation itself from lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. he is a purple heart recipient, a national security official who was in on the infamous phone call with the ukraine
wt is the full extent cleared away. chuck rosenberg. of the democrats prior senator mccain s former coordination with the whistle-blower, and who else did colleague, jeff flake, retired the whistle-blower coordinate senator from arizona, surmised this effort with? that if a secret impeachment second, what is the full extent vote were held, 30-35 of the of ukraine s election meddling senate republican members would against the trump campaign? vote to impeach. and i thought how sad, how sad, and third, why did burisma hire that it takes a secret vote to hunter biden, and what did he do for them, and did his position make a courageous vote. affect any u.s. government actions under the obama it should be 30-35 if they administration? these questions will remain believe that s the right thing to do. i know i m sounding naive, but i outstanding because republicans were denied the right to call witnesses that know these remember being saddened by that. i feel the same way. answers. wha
what we found out he is come i there would have been a new can t remember if it is zero or that never happened with me and they are. round of massive sanctions near $0 from any european county to the larger point of the against turkey. and you will see in the meeting one of the things you missed the president didn t want for lee legal aid. meet you for the president say to take the meeting. agreement that on the basis of we gave them tanks and they give he didn t want the phone call. them pillows. the pause of 120 hours, a that is absolutely right. that was rick perry was as vocal as the europeans are pushing for that. mick: at the end, he has cease-fire over the next five about supporting ukraine, they are really, really stingy when a courtesy extended at the time. it comes to legal aid. days, that we will not be they were not helping ukraine implementing additional he was never realistically sanctions during that period of and that is still to this day are not in the pres
to participate and actually defend itself a on the substanc? or was does it do? is it all bombast all the time until we get to potentially an impeachment vote. i want to delve deeper into that point and also tell our viewers here, as we re at the top of the 11:00 hour on the east coast in washington, you re watching msnbc s special live uninterrupted coverage of what all agree is a historic day on capitol hill.c this is the preparation for a house vote on resolution 660, providing for the rules for the potential impeachmentth of the current president donald trump. what you see on your veen is a countdown that will result in proceeding to thatsu vote. so the current count you see on your screen has not yet arrived under the house procedure on the phone. what i can tell you, in a matter of moments when you sigh this count run down,u within the ne nine minutes, we expect the house to, proceed then to the
actual vote on the impeachment resolution and trules. we also are told in a depa