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Mulvaney was in fact in south carolina. he had gone to his home state for the weekend and was not notified about the raid until it was already happening. left out of the whole thing. im sure this has been very embarrassing for mulvaney, but im sure nobody wanted to jeopardize the mission with a guy in the room distracting everybody. >> theyre after my financial statement, the senate. theyd like to get my financial statement. at some point i hope they get it. >> are you going to turn it over? >> ...

Areas we are seeing an enormous abuse of power, an enormous abuse of the publics goodwill and trust, and i think its going to be a very grim and ugly outcome at the end of this thing because this sort of corruption and this sort of behavior only ends one way and that is in tears and hopefully not in blood. >> rick wilson has agreed to stay with us over the break. when we come back, something we all have in common, it turns out, with the white house chief of staff. we all learned about the baghda...

But again, how this is conducted and the way that democrats behave, and i think to your point, charlie, not allowing it to be turned into a circus, and using theci decorum of the procs i think is really important. and you knowin what, if republicans choose to go off the rails yelling and screaming and attacking witnesses, thats all on camera for the american people to decide. but democrats do not -- >> you have to get rid of the five-minute rule. >> well,ut they did in this resolution. >> the d ...

Having a tension between the two parties that no side ever got everything they wanted. no side ever was dominant for too long. what they see here is this opportunity with trump slipping away from them because of his behavior and his corruption and his manias, and they are terrified of it. so theyre going to get while the getting is good. theyre going to feast because tomorrow we may die. and theyre, you know, doing everything they possibly can in the political domain, in the financial domain, in...

President -- or does the senate have to take it up? that becomes a moot point. now, mitch mcconnell has said if the house were to vote to impeach, the senate would. if you look at the clinton experience, the -- the articles of impeachment were passed in october. the trial began in early the following year. so, you know, i think were looking at maybe three -- two to three -- months. >> all right. we will follow this all very closely with you. pete williams. nbc news justice correspondent. liz hol...

When the white house released their photo of the situation room during the weekend raid to take down the leader of isis, which some have later compared to "the apprentice." notably absent was the presidents chief of staff. turns out mick mulvaney didnt know the raid was about to happen. five current and former senior administration officials telling this network, quote, acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney first learned about the u.s. military raid against isis leader al baghdadi afte...

Including mitt romney, who will likely soon judge your fate in an impeachment trial. and in this case trump appears to have listened to the man in the senate who controls the future of his presidency. well, theres this on the upside. the president did this today. he tweeted out a picture of the hero dog from the baghdadi raid receiving the medal of honor. the photo shop required removing the actual recipient of the medal of honor, james mclogan, who survived two days of sustained gunfire in viet...

Chief of staff as we said is right there with the biggest, with the president on the biggest moments in history. who could forget the iconic photo of president obama and his team in the situation room thenith they took out bin laden. you can see of course chief of staff dennis mcdonough right there in the center, and also in the situation room as president trump and his team monitored developments in the baghdadi raid. now, trumps acting chief of staff mick mulvaney cant be seen in this photo un...

Acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney first learned about the u.s. military raid against al baghdadi after the operation was already under way. mulvaney was at his home in south carolina on saturday when the president tweeted something very big has just happened, exclamation point. and mulvaney was then briefed on the raid later that evening. here is what the white house chief of staff is supposed to be doing in those situations. theres white house chief of staff bill daly standing rig...

Nbc news is reporting that acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney first learned about the u.s. military raid against al-baghdadi after the operation was already under way. mulvaney was at his home in south carolina on saturday when the president tweeted "something very big has just happened," exclamation point. and mulvaney was then briefed on the raid later that evening. here is what the white house chief of staff is supposed to be doing in those situations. theres white house chief of...