Good morning, everybody, it is tuesday, october 22nd, im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside ayman smmohyeldin. President trump is chastising republican lawmakers for not significantly defending him. During a Cabinet Meeting yesterday he urged members of his party to quote, get together and fight while pointing the finger athe senator mitt romney one of his most outspoken republican critics. I think the democrats are lousy politicians with lousy policy. They want open borders. They dont care about crime. They want sanctuary cities. They dont care about drugs. They dont care about almost anything. I think theyre lousy politicians, but two things they have. Theyre vicious, and they stick together. They dont have mitt romney in their midst. They dont have people like that. The republicans have to get tougher and fight. We have some that are great fighters, but they have to get tougher and fight because the democrats are trying to hurt the Republican Party for the election. Senator romney spoke to reporters on capitol hill saying his fellow lawmakers should not jump to any conclusions ahead of a potential impeachment trial in the senate. I think most people are looking at whats going on in the house with interest, obviously with concern, but ultimately we may well become a jury, andom if thats the case, think people want to make their own decision and not jump to any conclusions at this early stage. Holding up funds to a foreign nation, particularly one thats under military threat in order to full a political purpose is a real problem. Democrats are said to be zeroing in on a framework. Multiple people familiar with the deliberations tell nbc news democrats will focus n on a sime abuse of power narrative involving the president s actions regarding ukraine. House Committee Chairs and leaders are said to be debating the need for additional articles or charges that extend beyond trumps dealings with ukraine. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been adamant that the case against trump must be targeted and easy to communicate in order to build public support. Its too easy to discuss the specific legal framework, but one person familiar with the strategy said abuse of power when it comes to ukraine is the big point pelosi has been hammering home. President trumps negative view of ukraine has been shaped by the regional adversarieadver. Trumps conversations with russian president vladimir putin, hungarian minister viktor orban reinforced his perception of ukraine as a hopelessly corrupt country. According to the post, the role played by putin and orban was described in closed door testimony before c house investigators last week by Deputy Assistant secretary of state george kent. Kentke cited the influence of those leaders as a factor that helped sour trump on the president of ukraine in the months leading up to their july 25th phone tocall. All this is having an impact on voters. Of voters in six states that helped carry trump to victory say they support the House Democrats impeachment inquiry into the president. According to the latest new york times, Sienna College poll, 60 of voters in pennsylvania, florida, michigan, wisconsin, north carolina, and arizona said they support the impeachmentana inquiry into tr 45 said they oppose it. 43 of americans from those battleground states said they support impeaching and removing trump from office. Over half, 53 said they did not. Th when broken down by party lines, an effort to impeach and remove the president has the support of 5 of republicans, almost 40 of independents and a staggering 84 of democrats. So President Trumps Approval Ratingpr continues to remain bew 40 heading into 2020 according to a new prri poll. 39 of americans say they approve of the president s Job Performance with 26 saying there is almost nothing he could do to lose their approval. 13 aapprove, but said trump could lose their support. Meanwhile, 61 disapprove of the president s Job Performance with 15 saying there is almost nothing he could do to win their approval. 46 disapprove saying there is almost nothing trump could do to win their approval. However, 55 of republicans who cite fox news as their primary news source said there is nothing the president could do to lose their support compared toei 29 of republicans who do t cite fox news as their primary news source. U. S. Ambassador to ukraine bill taylor is set to be deposed today as House Democrats continue to conduct their impeachment investigation. Taylor who raised alarms about the white house withholding military aid to ukraine left for washington last week shortly after the house requested he appear. Tomorrow the housed will hear from pentagon official laura cooper and two officials tell nbc news that another state department official, ambassador phillip reeker is expected to testify in a closed door session this coming saturday. One thing House Democrats wont get, however, is a response to a subpoena issued to acting director of the office of management and budget russell he wrote i saw some fake news over the weekend to correct. As the white house letter made clear two weeks h ago, omb officials, myself and mike duffey will not be complying with deposition requests this week. Senior writer at roll call, neels leneils nez lieu ski. What are house investigators keen on listen to this weekend . What are they looking for . There are sort of two audiences for ultimately what comes out of the testimony and these depositions. On one hand, the investigators are going to be looking for any sort of additional evidence that both could make the case to the public and the case, frankly, to someone like mitt romney. What they need is evidence that could eventually cause republican senators to want to the vote to convict to remove donald trump from office, and so theyre probably going to be looking for anything that could tie these conversations to either a quid pro quo or to more evidence that there was some sort of perhaps outside actor that may have been helping to contribute to the decisions that were being made by President Trump and by the state department and by omb and not releasing the money. Lets talk about some of these numbers that ayman and i were ticking through, and one that really stood out to me which is the Approval Rating of the president ro currently sitti at around 40 . All this happening while he is lashing out at his republicans for not defending him amid this impeachment inquiry. How might this impact the president going into 2020 . I would turn that around the other way and ask how low does the president s Approval Rating get ahead of the impeachment process, and does that start to affect republican senators who are on the ballot next year, so not just for President Trump, butst if you think about does there become a threshold at which it becomes advisable for someone like cory gardner in colorado or Susan Collins up in maine to vote to remove Donald Trump Office because his approvalis rating has gotten th bad. And thats sort of i think the immediate threshold for the question about where the president s standing. What do you think that threshold, if the threshold is if there is one . I would gather were probably getting close toit. It would probably have to be 33 . Its possible he could fall off a cliff in someplace like maine before he has fallen off in sort of national surveys. What do you make of the president s call on republicans to get tougher to fight impeachment . Is that a sign that he is worried that there may be some splits among republican ranks, especially when you have people like Mittal Romney who are out there saying im keeping an open mind to this. Lindsey graham said he would be open to impeachment if someone could show him there was a crime committed beyond the ukraine phone call . Sure, i think the immediate question is trying to avoid leakage if youre trump and the white house, trying to avoid losing votes in the house and trying to convince these particularly the retiring House Republicans because were already seeing a whole bunch of Committee Chairmen or ranking members rather and longstanding House Republicans who are announcing theyre notbl seekin reelection, trying to avoid losing those people on the front end when this goes through the house. All right, thanks so much. Were going toll talk to you in little bit. Still ahead, President Trump claims hes the victim of a phony emoluments clause when it comes to his scrapped plans to host the g7 summit at his miami resort. Legal analyst, Danny Cevallos is here to weigh in on that. What adam schiff is saying about the gop effort, those stories and a check on weather when we come right back. En we c. Chevys the only brand. To earn j. D. Power dependability awards. Across cars. Trucks. And suvs. Four years in a row. Since more than 32,000 real people. Just like me. And me. And me. Took the survey that decided these awards. It was only right that you hear the good news from real people. Like us. Im daniel. Im casey. Im julio. Only chevy has earned j. D. Power dependability awards across cars, trucks and suvs. Four years in a row. Its something we take personally, and believe in passionately. Its the idea that if our mothers were diagnosed with cancer, how would we want them to be treated . Thats exactly how we care for you. With answers and actions. 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I dont think you people with this phony emoluments clause, and by the way, i would say that its cost me anywhere from 2 to 5 billion to be president , and thats okay. Between what i lose and what i could have made. I would have made a fortune if i just ran my business. I was doing it really well. In a tweet yesterday trump continued his tirade writing in part, quote, the doral in miami would have been the best place to hold the g7 and free, but too much heat from the do nothing radical left democrats and their partners, the fake news media. Im surprised that they allow me to give up my 400,000 plus president ial salary. Well find someplace else. Joining us on set, msnbc legal analyst Danny Cevallos who has just booked a trip to doral, miami, i believe. Cant wait, looking forward to it. What is your take on the president s comments to this phony emoluments clause . In fairness to the president , i dont think he was saying the emoluments clause doesnt exist. Hes saying whats phony is the democrats invocation of it and the litigation of it, but even then hes wrong. The emoluments clause is real. It is two provisions in the constitution. One is the foreign emoluments clause, and the other is the domestic. At their core theyre about anticorruption. Theyre about antiforeign influence and anti, believe it or not, influence from individual states like virginia or michigan. In the past we have some context because, for example, Ronald Reagan was allowed to keep his california state pension. Why . He wasnt being influenced by california. That was something he had already earned, and it was money being paid to him by the state, so strictly construed, it might have been a violation of the domestic emoluments clause, but there are two major views of the emoluments clause. One view is that any benefit whatsoever is a violation, if it comes from a foreign state or one of the United States. The other view and the one espoused by trump is that it has to be something for his personal services. If you stay at doral and he turns down the bed or brings you up room service, that might be a violation of the emoluments clause if hes getting paid for those services in his president ial capacity. Ultimately these cases are before the courts and they will be litigated and in a pretrump era, no federal court had ever really ruled on the emoluments clause. These are all cases in a sense of first impression. To that point, walk us through exactly how trump would have, you know, benefitted from and hes using the word profit in a very narrow definition, making money off of it, but to host the g7 summit with hundreds of World Leaders, the security fortifications, the upkeep, the renovations, that is all the renovations they have to do to bring them in and the renovations they have to do once they leave. That stuff he would benefit from. Wouldnt he benefit from that financially . Here is what i think you know, now that hes not doing this doral trip, the what i think made this an emoluments clause violation is this. We know in the past that jimmy carter took his business and put it in a blind trust. He created a wall between being the president and his business, but once donald trump, even if he didnt take any profit from this the g7, once he was involved as the president putting that summit, that conference at one of his hotels, he blurred the line. He scaled the wall between being president and being a hotel manager, and so when he did that, i think thats something that spilled into the world of the emoluments clause, mainly because as the president he was involved in getting the business for his hotels. He knows all the millions of dollars that would go in by taxpayer dollars going into renovating. In spite of the fact he says it would be done for free. Thats a small thing, the free part. He blew it off, but the promotion for a resort that has not been doing as well as it had in past years, all kinds of benefits to his company and eventually to him. Lets not forget Mick Mulvaney saying this president still considers himself in the hospitality business. I just wondered would he not have made this decision had he not been in the midst of a impeachment inquiry. Or weakened politically. Lets get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. This time yesterday we were showing you the first pictures from the damage of the dallas from the tornado. It was an ef3 tornado. Thatst a very strong tornado. Winds were 140 Miles Per Hour, and some of the pictures that weve seen, once when the daylight came and the helicopters got up there and gave us pretty incredible, that was the mall area where the home depot was destroyed. An ef3, the scale goes from 0 to 5, a 5 you wouldnt see those trees and you wont see the house. It would be a clean slab of cement where the house was, but still a very strong tornado. Its amazing no serious injuries, and no fatalities, and that was on the ground for 15 miles through populated areas. What are we dealing with today . We have our big storm thats up here in areas of wisconsin making for a windy day in the midwest. Still very cool. Its going to drag that cold front through the east. With it were going to see some Severe Weather and some rain for your commute. The area of Severe Weather concern, eastern north carolina, central south carolina, rockingham, fayetteville towards eastern carolina. Its not going to be widespread but you could have minor power outages. 7 00 a. M. This morning rain through ohio into west virginia, a line of showers and storms possibly through atlanta. As we go through the evening commute, by 6 00 p. M. , washington, d. C. Rain fueled by 4 to 6 00 p. M. The rain begins to move in by 6 00 p. M. The rain will go through this evening. 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