Things like steak and pork halloween is going to the dogs a san diego woman gives her pups their own haunted mansion. Early today starts right now good Tuesday Morning im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. The Trump Administration now fully embroiled in the impeachment inquiry this morning. Nbc news has confirmed that secretary of state mike pompeo was among the officials listening in on that july call where President Trump asked the leader of ukraine to do him a favor, and look into his rival joe biden. That disclosure casting a harsh new spotlight on the state department in the houses probe. Attorney general william barr is also under intense new scrutiny this morning over his contact with foreign officials about the origins of the Mueller Probe nbcs tracie potts joining us with the latest from d. C tracie, good morning so, how did the attorney general get wrapped up in all that reporter so, turns out he was in contact with several foreign officials, but specifically asked the white house to connect him with australias Prime Minister as they tried to figure out investigation part two after the russia Mueller Investigation how all of that got started. That request to connect him ended up with President Trump making an introduction between barr and the australian Prime Minister, something thats inappropriate. Some of the president s supporters on capitol hill saying there was nothing wrong with that. Barr was doing his job so now hes wrapped up in all of this meantime, President Trump is focusing on that whistleblower yet unidentified who revealed one conversation that the president had with ukraines president , talking about joe biden and whether or not that country might be digging up some dirt on him. Heres what the president is saying about the whistleblower. Were trying to find out about a whistleblower we have a whistleblower that reports things that were incorrect. Across the board people have said whistleblowers need to be able to speak truth to power my feeling is the president has gone completely against the notion of that statute and that critically Important Program reporter democrats say they want to protect the whistleblowers identity if he or she ends upcoming to testify here on capitol hill and, by the way, they are also issuing a subpoena for documents from Rudy Giuliani, the president s attorney, about his contacts with ukraine. Things really heating up in washington tracie potts, thank you so much. Meantime, Rudy Giuliani is firing back after that house subpoena looking for his text messages, phone records, and other Communications Last night he was on fox news and asked whether he would agree to testify before congress im weighing the alternatives i kind of might go through it. Ill get my evidence together, ill get my charts i dont know, if they let me use videotapes and tape recordings that i have. If they let me get some of the evidence that i gathered i gathered all this evidence before the Mueller Probe ended, so it was clearly under my responsibility as the lawyer for the president of the United States well Nbcs Kristen Welker has more on whats next for the president s personal attorney. Reporter Rudy Giulianis push for an investigation in ukraine is putting him at the center of the impeachment firestorm with that new demand for documents from giuliani by House Democrats. Giuliani is mentioned in the whistleblower complaint more than 30 times, alleging the president s personal lawyer was in frequent contact with ukrainian officials as giulian spearheaded the effort to investigate Hunter Bidens businessactivities in ukraine while his father joe biden was vicepresident there is no evidence of wrongdoing by biden. At one point giuliani contradicting himself during a recent interview did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden . No. So you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden . Of course, i did. Reporter giuliani has told nbc news the state department asked for his help and sent us text messages, including this one that he says was from the state departments former special envoy to ukraine, curt volcker. Volcker resigned last week giuliani defiant, slamming House Democrats and congressman adam schiff i would really love to challenge the illegitimacy of this committee i cant see how you can have a committee run by a guy who has judged the case already. And that was Kristen Welker reporting. Now that the trial that has captivated the nation, a former Dallas Police officer accused of murder after shooting and killing her unarmed neighbor inside his own apartment the jury is now weighing the fate of amber geyger nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is at the courthouse where closing arguments took place jury deliberations are set to continue here later today after seven days of testimony. If convicted of murder, amber geyger faces up to 99 years in prison amber geygers fate is in the hands of a jury, eight women and four men must decide whether the shooting death of botham jean amounts to murder now this jury will make a determination whether or not his life mattered. Reporter in dramatic testimony on friday, geyger, a former Dallas Police officer, apologized i wish he was the one with the gun that killed me i never want to take an innocent persons life. Reporter during closing arguments, they argued his belief she was killing an intruder inside her own home was an entirely reasonable mistake a wonderful human being has lost his life, but the evidence shows its just a tragedy, a horrible, horrible tragedy reporter prosecutors meanwhile hammered home the point that geyger missed crucial signs she was on the wrong floor, including this bright red door mat outside of jeans apartment. Whether or not you want to accept responsibility forced upon you reporter the jury can also consider a lesser charge of manslaughter, but the verdict must be unanimous. Phillip . All right, gabe, thank you. The Justice Department is now sharing the results of an elaborate fbi sting operation. A man in california has been arrested and charged with working as a Foreign Agent for chinas Intelligence Service the multiyear probe is providing a new look at u. S. Efforts to crackdown on spies living and working among us. Nbcs Cynthia Mcfadden had this report reporter edward pong is in custody, a naturalized american citizen who worked as a tour guide in San Francisco despite receiving a degree in Mechanical Engineering in china. The chinese are the number one intelligence threat to the United States right now. Reporter no question no question the russians are up there for sure, but the chinese are number one. And they are also the number one threat in the political espionage context. Reporter the criminal complaint reads like a spy thriller, complete with dead drops and code words beginning back in march of 2015, when the fbi launched an elaborate sting operation, planting a double agent inside a ring of chinese intelligence operatives in china. To string the chinese along, the u. S. Double agent filled sd cards with nonharmful secrets carefully curated from the u. S. Government put the sd card in a book. Wrap it in a bag mark the package to ed and leave it at the front desk of a hotel located in newark, california edpong came to collect the package in a silver mercedes this is pong hiding 20,000 in exchange for american secrets. This went on for three years why so long . We dont want to watch one dead drop. We want to get a sense of is this the way they operate and practice in this case you can because the information youre giving them is carefully curated reporter one more piece in a very complex and dangerous puzzle Cynthia Mcfadden, nbc news, new york he was one of the first republican members of congress to endorse donald trump for the presidency and now new york congressman Chris Collins has resigned collins is expected to plead guilty today to charges related to Insider Trading he allegedly used his position as an early investor in an australian biotech son to tip off his son and other family members about a failed drug trial to help them avoid over 750,000 in losses speaking of gop exodus, congressman Matt Thornberry announcing his retirement, making him the 6th republican to retire ahead of the 2020 national election. He served in the 13th district of texas for 25 years. Overseas, beijing is marking 07 years of communist rule as hong kong braces for a day of mass protests. Police there say they anticipate hard core violence as the city enters 13 consecutive weeks of mass demonstrations. The protests started in june sparked by a extradition bill. The fight for democracy continues. Today the chinese president celebrates 70 years since the founding of the peopleless republic with a massive parade showcasing chinas military. California governor gavin newsom is paving the way for College Athletes to profit 0 of their name, image and likeness newsome has signed the first in the nation bill called the fair pay to play act. He did it while appearing on Lebron Jamess hbo show, the shop uninterrupted new regulation starts in 2023. Newsome said colleges reap billions from student athletes, but block them from earning a single dollar. Thats a bankrupt model. The northwest is getting an early taste of winter, an unprecedented snowstorm in montana, up to 4 feet of snow. Look at this temperatures dropped to the teens and 20s, wind gusts reaching 35 Miles Per Hour while montana got the brunt of the storm, the system dropped a lot of early snow across the Northern Rocky Mountains on areas of oregon, idaho and washington it seems impossible when were flirting with 90 degrees in new york city janessa webb, good morning tell us whats going on. Doesnt that look fun it does a little bit later on in the season a look at temperatures for montana, this really hurts here. The feellike temperature, upper teens this earn montgomerie. Hopefully well see warmer air by this afternoon. Also watching the storm system from western new mexico, this will cause a lot of rain for the plains were going to see accumulation up to about 3 to 4 inches with 12 million under flash aral stas with highs, look at that, upper midwest in the upper 30s on the other side we have a heat wave. Well talk about that coming up. 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