A Top Tech Firm could have put information at risk. 17 years after leaving school to fight in the war, a veteran from oklahoma finally gets his high school diploma. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im julia chatterley. Good morning, my friend. Happy friday. Im dave briggs. Its 4 00 a. M. In new york and 1 00 in california. That tremor is coming from alabama. The big shock from the 2020 field. Former new york city mayor, michael bloomberg, preparing a white house bid. Bloomberg will file paperwork to get on alabamas ballot, ahead of the states filing deadline. The billionaire businessman has been making calls to connected democrats over the last few days, including guess where iowa. A strategist thats worked with bloomberg said one major factor in his thinking is this weeks election in virginia. Funding from his Gun Safety Group helped democrats win control of the legislature. Six weeks ago, bloomberg ruled out a run. The truth of th
Underway on a thursday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,001 of the trump administration. It was a bad day for the trump administration. And in plain english heres why. The president s chief of staff speaking out loud in front of the press corps in the White House Briefing room reversed everything the president has been saying about the call with ukraine. He said military aid was held up over politics, said they do it all the time, said we should get over it. He confirmed Rudy Giuliani has been all over u. S. Foreign policy. He said the president s own golf resort has been selected as the host location for the next g7 while at the same time the Vice President was overseas in essence giving turkey what they want and cementing the end of the kurdish homeland. But lets start at the beginning. Here is Mick Mulvaney who enjoys the title acting chief of staff confirming what we have seen happen, the president holding back aid to press
Theyre back. Welcome to the world series. Welcome in to early start. Im Christine Romans im dave briggs, 4 00 a. M. In new york. 11 00 a. M. On the turkish border. First, the House Democrats begin seth up their formal public impeachment process starting with the debate this afternoon. The panel will discuss the resolution of the vote and steps. The vote will mark the first time each House Democrat will have to go on record on the attempt to oust the president. More now from lauren fox on capitol hill. Welsh dave and christine, democrats unveiled their new resolution. What it does is sets up the rules for the next step of the impeachment. The Intelligence Committee will have a report theyll send over. What it does is gives republicans an opportunity to request testimony and documents from individuals. Of course, they have to do that with consultation from the democratic chairman, and if theres a disagreement, there will be a full committee vote. Of course, republicans are arguing that g
Whether to end the trump administrations d. R. E. A. M. Er act. Also a former president right now recovering from a brain operation. Well have the new details on jimmy carters condition. Historic impeachment hearings begin tomorrow and both sides are bracing for the fight of their lives as democrats prepare as democrats prepare to lead the hearings, republicans have come out on talking points. There is a memo to the house of republicans. We have someone who served in the administration with president obama and president bush. Kelly, youre going to help us with these points. The claim is that the july 25th phone call shows no evidence of pressure. Whats your analysis of that . I really think its important to look at the july 25th call in the context of a larger picture that starts both before and after the call. We already know that the ukranians were approached by both sondland and volker about the white house visit, so its not just about the assistance, its about the visit itself ahea
Plus as the scrutiny intensifies around Rudy Giuliani, his dying associate reportedly makes an explosive claim about what giuliani told him to do. And nikki haley out with a new book where she says two top cabinet officials felt the need to undermine the president over his behavior. This will be an historic week. The American Public getting to witness something rarely seen in the countrys 243 years, public impeachment hearings. Three career diplomats will describe under oath the president , that he withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid from ukraine as he and his associates pushed the country for investigations, including one into a political rival of President Trump. And the role of the president s pro bono personal attorney Rudy Giuliani running his own shadow state department. First up on wednesday is going to be bill taylor. Hes the top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine. In previous testimony he said that he, quote, observed and ordered to move forward on the security ass