Plus breaking news, a familiar face back on the bench at the supreme court. An update just in on Justice Ruth Bader ginsberg. Were following all the developments on this monday morning. I want to bring in hans nichols at the white house and Garrett Haake over at capitol hill. Hans, let me start with you and the new comment from the House Speaker that apparently sparked the tweet from President Trump. Watch. The president could come before the committee and speak all the truth that he wants, if he wants to. You dont expect him to do that . If he wants to take the oath of office. He could do it in writing. He has every opportunity to present his case. Hans, the president seems to be saying maybe i will and maybe i will . Reporter well the president is taking the opportunity and hes running with it. Hes at least playing with it. About an hour ago as the president started off his morning on twitter, clearly suggested that he will be willing to appear. Maybe not necessarily in person, but a
And a very good day to you. Im Kristin Welker in new york. While impeachment is on pause today, the standoff between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is heating up. Pelosi insisting that the democrats need to know what sort of trial the senate will conduct before moving forward. This morning senator mcconnell criticizing the speaker for not yet transmitting the articles of impeachment. Are you surprised you havent been handed the two impeachment articles from the speaker . Yeah. I mean, the papers have to be physically brought over to the senate and we cant go forward until the speaker does that. Shes apparently trying to tell us how to run the trial. You know, im not anxious to have this trial so if she wants to hold onto the papers, go right ahead. This happening as newly released emails show that a request to withhold aid to ukraine came from the office of the white House Management and budget less than two hours after the controversial call with ukrai
Iraq. Raising tensions even further around the world, iran says its ending its commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal when iran agreed to limit nuclear activities. That deal referred to as the jcpoa. Meanwhile at home, nancy pelosi announcing a war powers vote when Congress Returns in an attempt to limit President Trumps military actions towards iran. I want to bring in nbcs hans nichols, Richard Engel from northern iraq. Ali arouzi is tehrans beauty chief. Joining us from iran. Hans, lets start with all those significant headlines we ticked through. Is there any sense this morning the president may back down on his threats or is the u. S. Looking like it might be inching closer to war . Reporter the president s latest tweet is about iran not getting a nuclear weapon. What weve seen from the president and the administration is three different justifications. The initial one was that there was an imminent threat. You heard it from the Defense Department and the state department. The presid
Anything to stem the flow of violence . Forest cooper and leo terrell are here on that. And the worst media fails of 2019. Im actually fairly shocked how much they got wrong this year. Youre probably not. Im a bit shocked. But first, senator Mitch Mcconnell is ready to dive in on the impeachment trial. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi is still refusing to hand over to impeachment articles. Mark meredith is here with all of the details. Mark . Mitch mcconnell said he is not an impartial juror in the president s looming impeachment trial and he admits in being in contact with the white house. And they sparked outrage from senate democrats. Mcconnell met facetoface with Chuck Schumer last week to start the negotiations on how a senate trial will work. Those talks are expected to continue in the new year. Schumer is pressuring mcconnell to compel four current and former white house officials to testify before the senate. They might exonerate President Trump or they might incriminate him. But the t
Williams. Day 1,016 of the Trump Administration and there is plenty of news on this friday night including democratic president ial candidate beto orourke abruptly dropping out of the president ial race. We will have more on that ahead. The current occupant of the white house, meanwhile, tonight is ramping up his reelection bid in the midst of a snowballing impeachment inquiry. Tonight just a day after the house voted to formalize the inquiry and one year away from the general election, donald trump went on the attack while speaking in tupelo, mississippi. Corrupt politicians nancy pelosi and shifty adam schiff. Shifty. And the media are continuing with the deranged impeachment to me it is a dirty word. Yesterday the democrats voted to potentially nullify the votes of 63 million americans, disgracing themselves and bringing shame upon the house of representatives. But ill tell you, the republicans are really strong, the strongest ive ever seen them. The most unified ive ever seen them.