Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, december 10th, im yasmin vossoughian, amin had an important family matter that kept him from making his flight back in time but he is on a red eye, as we speak. And will be back in the anchor chair tomorrow. We begin after weeks of hearings and countless hours of witness testimony, today democrats are expected to announce articles of impeachment against President Trump. Five sources familiar with the discussions telling nbc news democrats will bring two articles against the president , abuse of power, and obstruction of congress. Speaker Nancy Pelosis office announced last week that leaders of the house committees involved in the impeachment probe will hold a News Conference at 9 00 a. M. , this morning, to announce the next steps in the inquiry. Two people familiar with the matter are telling the Washington Post that under the current plan, the Judiciary Committee will vote on the articles on thursday setting up a floor vote for next week. Now to the findings of the Justice DepartmentInspector Generals report that debunked the conspiracy theories involving the fbi investigation into his 2016 campaign. The president called the investigation a witch hunt but the Inspector Generals Office says no evidence was found that improper bias or improper motivation influenced the bureaus decision. The president claimed the fbi spied on his campaign but the Inspector General found no evidence that the bureau tried to place anybody in the campaign, or treat anyone from the campaign, or try to get someone to report on the campaign. And the president claims the investigation was based on the steele dossier and the fbi officials who opened the investigation did not become aware of Christopher Steeles reporting until weeks later, concluding that it had no role in opening this probe. The Inspector General did take issue though with the way agents and prosecutors went about monitoring then Trump Campaign adviser carter page, whom they felt russia was trying to recruit. The report identified quote at least 17 significant inaccuracies or omissions in fisa Application Force a warrant. The Mueller Investigation has resulted in convictions for six of the president s socials as you can see here including a campaign chair, cochairman, and National Security adviser. And as we expected, the attorney general is disputing the findings of his departments investigation. Bill barr released a statement that reads in part, this, the Inspector Generals report now makes clear that the fbi launched an intrusive investigation of a u. S. President ial campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken. And in a stunning move, john durham, the federal prosecutor, barr handpicked to essentially run a trump approved version of the same investigation, also released a statement, in the midst of the investigation, and an investigation that has not yet wrapped completely unprecedented, he wrote this, and i quote, based on the evidence collected to date, and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the Inspector General that we do not agree with some of the reports conclusions as to predication and how the fbi case was opened. In his first interview since the horowitz report became public, former fbi director jim comey spoke with Msnbcs Nicolle Wallace and argued that after years of smears by the president , the report found nothing. It was all made up. Two years of sitting silently at the fbi while youre lied about, and finally the truth is out. It was lies. There was no treason. There was no conspiracy. There was no tapping of trumps wires. There was no putting informants in the campaign. It was all nonsense. As the Mueller Report was reaching its conclusion, there was a lot of pointing to horowitz on conservative media, which i like to keep an eye on, and he was held up as, you know, dont look at the Mueller Report, the one i really want to see is the horowitz report. If durham doesnt come up with the kinds of conclusions that theyre looking for, what do you think happens next . I dont know. I mean with the horowitz report, theyre not only moving the goal post, theyre moving the stadium and now focus on durham and when that doesnt produce what they want, they will focus on something else. It wont end until he is out of office and he needs to burn the fbi down because the rule of law is the opposite of what he stands for. And he was booked to appear on fox and friends this morning but the network canceled him and comey suggests it is because of the horowitz report. Comeys representatives reached out to appear on the show but he was quote not booked and was never confirmed to appear. And President Trump claims vindication, despite the fact that no political bias by the fbi was uncovered in the Inspector Generals report. The details of the report are far worse than anything i would have even imagined. What they were doing and what they would have done, if i didnt make a certain move, a certain move that was a very important move, because it would have been even worse, if thats possible. And they might have been able to succeed. Trump also attempted to advance his narrative ahead of the upcoming report by prosecutor john durham who as we mentioned was hand picked by attorney general barr to lead a separate investigation into the russia probe. Im looking forward to the Durham Report which is coming out in the not too distant future. Better known information, which is this information, plus, plus, plus. And it is an incredible thing that happened and we are lucky we caught him. I am going to put this down as one of the great achievements. The official white house statement mixed the words saying the American People should be outraged and terrified by this abuse of power. Vice president pence echoed that sentiment saying this what took place here ashould never happen again to any president or any administration in the future and those responsible should be held accountable. Meanwhile republican lawmakers jumped to President Trumps defense, offering out similar information in the d. O. J. Inspector generals report. If that doesnt bother you, you hate trump way too much. That should bother every american. If i were mr. Carter page, i would hire me a lawyer. And i would sue the hell out of the united states. This is a sad day. This is a dangerous set of circumstances. I dont know how anybody can conclude there was no political bias here. This is not a good day for the fbi. Hopefully it is a good day for america, if weve learned from this. Theres more than enough evidence in this report that would suggest a Major Overhaul in terms of policies and procedures. Joining me here on the set, msnbc analyst Danny Cevallos and also with us in washington, nbc news correspondent Julia Ainsley. What do you think of the democrats hitting President Trump with two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of congress . Abuse of power is no surprise. It is the lesserincluded offense. The easiest case to make out, it does not require a crime at least in a criminal statute. And all you really need to show is that President Trump abused his official power, with some bad motive. And for, among all of the articles of impeachment, it has to be the easiest to make out. So these two at least are no real surprise. Julia, lets talk about this Inspector General report. Once again, you have a document, a report, that both republicans and democrats are coming to very different conclusions on. Unsurprisingly, as we have with the pluler report, as we had the phone call with president zelensky. What do you think moving forward the republicans will be seizing on within this Inspector General watchdog report and also the same for democrats here . Well, youve seen it already, and you just played it in the soundbite, but republicans are really seizing on the carter page fisa. It is true, there were a number of mistakes made that the Inspector General said they were incomplete, the fisa application, they were given to judges, in order to start surveillance on carter page, and that they relied too heavily on the steel dossier, thats information provided by christopher steel, a former British Intelligence officer that got into what the russians may have had over President Trump in terms of blackmail. A lot of those, a lot of the information in that report was uncorroborated. And he says that the people who are serving out this fisa applications did not press steele on his political affiliations and how he was getting funding from democrats. However, the steele dossier does not prompt the opening of the investigation. That was what Michael Horowitz was asked to look at. What prompted the opening of the investigation was a tip from a foreign government. That government being australia. That was a perfectly legitimate reason to open this investigation. It says they were authorized to do. So so while the carter page fisa, do presents a problem, and the Inspector General even said he wants to have a further review of how the fisa application process works in this country when it comes to surveilling americans, he said the overall decision to open the investigation did rely upon good sourcing and the fbi didnt even have the steele dossier at the time they made that decision, which i think that time line really lays it out. But republicans are going to be seizing on the mistakes made in the dossier, while democrats are looking at the overall conclusion that there was no bias in the decision to open. Danny, what does this mean in the grand scheme of things . How is this going to affect President Trump and this ongoing impeachment probe, especially considering the fact that at 9 00 a. M. , there will this be announcement made about the articles of impeachment . There is something for everyone to complain about in this Inspector Generals report. On the one hand, it debunks the idea there was no political conspiracy to undermine President Trumps 2016 campaign. But, on the other hand, it does detail the serious errors and inaccuracies and omissions, and the reason i cant stress this enough, the reason this is important, as we take a step back, and beyond President Trump, is that this fisa process, a lot of these intelligence processes, with these courts, are highly onesided. Theyre very different than the criminal process in that a search warrant there eventually can be challenged by a defendant in open court. Thats not the case here with a lot of these courts like the fisa court. And because it is so onesided and because an investigation may never become public, the fact that there are this many inaccuracies and errors in the course of an investigation does warrant review, because this is something that our citizens completely entrust to people and to a process that were never a part of. So it is important. Do you think that a report like this could actually change the system, especially when it comes to these fisa applications, considering what came out of this Inspector General report . Yes, but it is a balancing test. There is a reason for the secrecy, because these are such sensitive matters of National Security, and arguably interNational Security, because fisa courts deal with investigations home and abroad, so it is going to be a really difficult balancing test, because we as americans dont want inaccuracies in any warrant applications of any kind. Julia, is this report definitive, or does it beg more questions than it answers . I think it actually did answer a lot more questions than i was expecting. We now have the answer to the way this process worked. We know how the fbi communicated with the Justice Department in the early days of this investigation. What, the questions that are still unanswered is what john durham will do next. He is of course the u. S. Attorney that barr has to look into, this exact same question, that it has become a criminal probe, which means there is something he has uncovered that he thinks could potentially come down to a criminal prosecution. As we saw from that statement yesterday. John durham and the attorney general disagreed with the conclusions of this report. And they think that decision to open the investigation was not authorized. So those are the questions that i still have. And i feel as if that statement from john durham which was so completely unprecedented, was in fact, made to delegitimize this Inspector General report, and legitimize the report that durham is pursuing. It is. It was so shocking. I mean the reporters in the pressroom were all scratching their heads when that came out because the only time you would see a prosecutor come out and show his cards in terms of what he has in an Ongoing Investigation is if there is an interest of National Security, theres a real threat, and it needs to be addressed, and so they would go out and tell you some information they have. But for him to be drawing a conclusion on what does not appear to be a National Security matter at this point in the investigation was shocking. Danny cevallos, julia, thank you to you both. We will talk to you again in a little bit. Still ahead Rudy Giuliani says he wants to present the findings from his ukraine trip to republicans this week. This, as fbi director chris wray rejects claims that ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. Those stories and of course a check of your weather with bill karins when we come back. 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Awarded the best professionally installed system by cnet. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Call, click or visit a store today. Welcome back. President trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said yesterday that he expects to complete a report detailing his findings from his recent trip to ukraine by the end of this week. Watch this. I was going to do an outline of it and try to present it at the convenience of the republicans in congress, and the attorney general at the end of this week. I should probably have it ready on wednesday or thursday. I dont know exactly when it will be made public. But it should be ready by then. So according to the hill, during giulianis visit to kyiv and budapest last week he spent several days interviewing current and former ukrainian officials in an attempt to gather damaging information about trumps political rivals including former Vice President joe biden. The hill also notes that giuliani met with a former ukrainian diplomat. He spread the unsubstantiated theory that ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. And fbi director chris wray told news that there is no evidence that conspiracy theory, that ukraine, not russia, interfered in the 2016 election. Did the government of ukraine directly interfere in the 2016 election on the scale that the russian dis . We have no information that indicates the ukraine interfered with the 2016 president ial election. So wray went on it say that russia presents the most significant threat in regards to the upcoming 2020 election. His comments come a day after senator ted cruz told nbc news that he believed ukraine meddled in the election. Do you believe ukraine meddled in the American Election in 2016 . I do. And i think theres considerable evidence. You do . You do . Let me point out again, that the immediate is playing, a question you have asked a number of people you have said to the senator sort of aghast do you believe that ukraine and not russia interfered in the election. Look, on the evidence, russia clearly interfered in our election. But here is the game the media is playing, because russia interfered, the media pretends nobody else did. Ukraine blatantly interfered in our election. By the way, there is no evidence to suggest the fact that ukraine interfered in our 2016 election. Lets take a turn now, and get a check on your weather. Good morning. Nbc m