New york. Is walking back comments he made the victims are members of an about defying a possible ultraorthodox Jewish Community congressional subpoena in the marking the 7th day of the Senate Impeachment trial. Jewish holiday. Hans nichols is in florida with the suspect fled the scene after trying to enter a synagogue and the latest on that. Former Vice President joe was arrested 30 miles away in biden working to clarify if he would honor a Senate Subpoena in manhattan. Heres reaction from a Rockland County legislator. Any possible impeachment trial unfortunately, as an orthodox for president donald trump. Vowing to cooperate only with a legitimate or lawful congressional investigation. Jew, we were scared but not would you comply with the surprised. This is not the first incident subpoena . I would honor whatever the in new york. Congress, in fact, legitimately the suburb has a lorj asked me to do. Ultraorthodox population. His comments after he would well bring you a live report from the scene in the next hour. Not submit to a Senate Subpoena. Now to new details on a the reason i wouldnt is plane crash in louisiana that because its all designed to left five dead, including a deal with trump doing what hes daughterinlaw of an lsu football coach on the way to the done his whole life. Peach bowl in atlanta. Trying to take the focus off the plane went down in flames in him. President trump has said he lafayette yesterday. Would like biden to testify at nbcs sam brock is at the scene. Any trial. Sam, what do we know . Pointing to unsubstantiated reporter garrett, good claims at the former vice morning. Witnesses described hearing a president improperly aided his boom. They thought it was a car crash. Sons dealings in ukraine. When they arrived on scene, they biden took to twitter to clarify found parts of a plane on fire his remarks. I have always complied with a and two cars on fire. You can see the debris littered in that parking lot and field. Lawful order and cooperated with legitimate congressional an Early Morning crash with fatal consequences. Oversight. This impeachment is about trumps conduct, not mine. This ball of flame is all when the former vice that remained of a small plane that crashed to the ground in president was pressed on this, lafayette, louisiana. He said well cross that bridge killing five and injuring four. When we come to it. The plane diving to the ground just after takeoff around 9 30 biden is clearly preserving his smashing into a field only about a mile from the airport. Ability define whats lawful or legitimate. Two cars engulfed in flames. Hans nichols with the the lone survivor of the plane crash is in critical condition. President in West Palm Beach eyewitness brandon tried to save florida. You just heard the last the life of the surviving piece. On the biden matter, hes been passenger. All over the place. When you saw a man trying to first saying he would not respond to a congressional get out, what kind of condition subpoena. Now hes walked that back. Was in . By the time we got to him, he does the back and forth hurt him was out. At this point. But hes 100 burnt from head to actually, garrett, biden mentioned that he thought the toe. Episode was going to bring news they were on the way to the peach bowl. U wiping away and he had he knew that reversing his statements would call for attention and what his campaign has been focusing on was pushing the attention off of him and his son and back on to the president , staying out of the argument, out of the hearing, out of the inquiry. Right now the decision to say that he would not and then he would oblige to a subpoena really puts the spotlight back on him and his campaign when theyre trying to make sure voters are paying attention to the president ial candidacy that hes running for. Dave, realistically, what are the chances that biden actually gets called to testify in the impeachment trial . Arent we six steps down the road from that . It could be. Theres no telling what could happen. Joe biden made this point. Its injure cutting the message that hes trying to put out. Hes on his no malarkey tour. They have to wonder what is malarkey. This isnt the first time that joe biden has flipflopped or done a 180 on a pretty big major issue in the news. There was the hyatt amendment dealing with federal funding of abortion and his acceptance of super pac support. He said previously he wouldnt do it. Were not going to know g. Until three, four, five, six steps Going Forward when hes ultimately subpoenaed. It was an untenable position for him to Say Something like that, especially when donald trump is so criticized for ignoring subpoenas of different sorts. Katie, the president has been spending a lot of time this weekend thinking about impeachment. Hes been tweeting about it. Do you see a strategy behind the twitter attacks or is this his holiday airing of grievances . When we look at the president s twitter feed, right now during when the Holiday Season when its quiet, if there is a strategy, its to make sure the voters are cued into his side aside from the point that the articles havent even moved yet. They havent carried over to the senate. When that happens, we dont know when a trial will start, voters dont know what will happen before the iowa caucus starts and might coincide with the senate trial. What the president is trying to do is trying to make sure that his days of his voters are paying attention to his side of the story, which is that he is the victim here and that hes a part of a quoteunquote witch hunt by the democrats. One tweet is getting a lot of attention. He retweeted a link naming the alleged whistleblower here. Thats something that a lot of news organizations avoided, the president avoided to this point. Are there any ramifications for that. On its face, the president of the United States making National News for days at a time by retweeting surfer mom 77 is just a bit crazy in and of itself. Thats where were at with donald trump. Hes been tweeting and retweeting people spotting out spouting out conspiracy theories. This is a kind of rarefied and very New Territory on this particular issue. Just in general. Its important to note that the president of the United States tweeting about the name of the supposed whistleblower is just really the culmination of whats been a multistep process at this point. Youve had senator rand paul, representative dan bishop including donald trump jr. Who tweeted or spoken publicly about the name of this particular individual who works in the Intelligence Community. Really, what the president is tweeting about it as he did is just putting the ultimate icing on a cake thats being baked much to the chagrin of many people in the Intelligence Community for months now. That was part of the argument from david fromm, the conservative writer, former bush speech writer. He suggested that the president is unrepentant. He was determined to break the law again. Do you see a similar take away. Why they had to move quickly on impeachment that the president is sort of off the rails and willing to keep going down these paths. The president doesnt play by any rule book. Donald trump will do what donald trump feels like doing at any point he feels like doing it. Sometimes thats speaking to a camera. Sometimes tweeting from his phone. The latter in spades over the christmas holiday. As a result, we can suspect as the impeachment trial goes forward, once it goes forward, we dont know when thats going to be because of nancy pelosi holding back the articles as mentioned, donald trump is only going to be likely to do more of this in the future. Yes, this is a big deal now. But whats he going to do a week from now, a month from now. Only donald trump really knows that. Katia, how do you assess this . Does he pay any price or is this the kind of thing thats swept away by the next crisis in 24 hours . I mean, when that tweet came out, we heard from legal expert after legal expert saying the whistleblower protection act covers the Intelligence Community so the president has the authority to protect the whistleblower and their identity. If we have the president coming forward trying to name that person, this could actually mean legal ramifications against him trying to retaliate against this person, whoever their identity is. That can come to legal consequences. What they might look like coming down the line, the republicans, his allies, if they keep calling for identity to come forward and endanger this person, we could see theres going to be legal blowback at least towards the president if he continues down this route. All this for a retweet. Amazing. Katia tubman and dave leventhal. Thank you forg getting up early this morning. Breaking ranks. Why some may force a senate trial with witnesses. On the campaign trail. It intensifies. The state is hugely important to contenders, up next. Ext. Everything your trip needs for everyone you love. Expedia. For everyone you love. Us lives here. Where we can be surprised by others. And ourselves. For a better us, donate to your local y today. And i like to question your im yoevery move. N law. Like this left turn. Its the next one. You always drive this slow . How did you make someone i love . That must be why youre always so late. I do not speed. And thats saving me cash with drivewise. My son, he did say that you were the safe option. And thats the nicest thing you ever said to me. So get allstate. Stop bossing. Where good drivers save 40 for avoiding mayhem, like me. This is my sons favorite color, you should try it. [mayhem] you always drive like an old lady . [tina] youre an old lady. Looking around here i see tablets, laptops, printers, smartphones. Theyre all connected to the internet. Theyre all connected. Can your network handle all those devices . Sometimes. Comcast business runs on the nations largest gigspeed network. So you can get the bandwidth you need to power all of your devices at peak performance. If all of my devices could have that kind of speed, i would be dancing get started with secure 35megabit internet and one voice line for just 64. 90 per month. Call today. Comcast business. Beyond fast. More now on that breaking news from suburban new york city where a stabbing rampage at a late night hanukkah celebration left five people wounded. Nbcs kathy park is near the scene in monsey, new york, what do we know so far . Reporter garrett, good morning to you. It is a dark day in monsey. Right now, this is very much an active investigation. Still a developing story. Heres what we know right now. The attack happened just before 10 00 last night. We were told that several people were congregating in this home behind me, the home of a rabbi on the 7th night of hanukkah when a masked man burst through the doors holding a weapon and went on a stabbing spree. Evidently, five people were taken to the hospital and one seriously hurt. We dont have an update on their conditions. Just two hours later, about 35 miles away from here, Police Arrested the suspect. Right now, we dont have more details on the individual. We know it was an adult who was arrested. As the day goes on, well get more answers about who this individual was. We still dont have a motive at this time. But i want to bring in a guest here. A spokesperson for the orthodox Public Affairs council. You were here shortly after the incident happened. What else can you tell us . I live a sevenminute drive from this location and moments after the attack happened, messages started coming in that three people attacked and there are 15 victims. Obviously, many times when theres a developing story, theres a lot of rumors, if you will. So i decided to be here on the ground and gather information and get it out there to the press and to the community at large. Obviously, people who are in this house when it happened, pretty much shaken. But at the same time, i think it was quite encouraging to learn two things. First of all, that one of the people who was in the house followed the perpetrator when he left and went to and he got a tag. This is how Law Enforcement was able to apprehend them went out quickly to Law Enforcement. And the other thing is that the rabbi who lives there has a congregation there after everyone was taken to the hospital went over to his congregation to continue the celebrations which i think is a show of defiancdefiance, a show strength. No attack, no incident should deter anyone here in the United States from exercising whatever freedom of liberty they choose to exercise. Reporter we were told there was some sort of celebration being hosted at this home. How many people were here . R50 toe 60 people. It is last night was the 7th night of hanukkah. So the rabbi was in the house. He lit the candles and theres singing going on. And you have people of all ages sitting there. You have people of all ages sitting there and the person burst into the house and started stabbing people indiscriminately, leaving five people wounded, two critical, one extremely critical. Reporter as far as people fighting back and just making sure that the attacker wasnt going to hurt any more individuals thats correct. My understanding was that mayhem ensued. One person took a folding table and threw it at him. He continued to stab at some point he stopped, turned around and left in his vehicle. As you posted, you can see the person go to his vehicle, get in and take off. Someone following behind trying to get a bead on the tags, which they did successfully. Reporter as far as you know, it was one individual . Yes, correct. One individual. Not three based on what i gathered at the five victims. Not more. Maybe they were traumatized by an event. But im being physically attacked. My understanding is that five people were transported to the hospital. Reporter as far as updates on the i spoke to the family of the person who is most severely injured. He is a male in the low 70s. Maybe older a little. He is in a very critical condition. Reporter okay. Weve been reporting all this month that there has been an uptick in antisemitic crimes. Right now we dont have a motive behind the attack. Whats your overall sentiment about the rise in violence in the Jewish Community. Correct. In terms of saying correct regarding there isnt a class sif indication for this classification for this attack. But for someone to go into a gathering where there are jewish people to stab indiscriminately. To be another story, i dont think thats the case. Well let Law Enforcement figure that out. Looking at the big picture, obviously, theres been an increase in bigoted attacks against identify bli jewish people. I am hasidic. Sometimes theres confusion about it. We have seen those attacks in jersey city, which was fatal. Now you have this attack waiting for Law Enforcement to classify it for what it was. And then you have those multiple attacks happening in brooklyn. I think, you know, everyone can be out there and express outrage and concern, but i think people want to see specific steps, specific ideas. I can throw out some of them. I dont know if someone wants to list listen. First of all, its good when Public Officials respond forcefully right away touring an attack. This was the case in jersey city and here. The other part, which is partially okay is when Law Enforcement said that they will increase patrols. But those things usually cool down after two days. I think they need to be i think they need to keep those patrols stepped up more longterm. I know its impossible to protect every institution. But i think those things need to continue. Finally, most importantly, especially in brooklyn, i think there needs to be a public list by the District Attorney or the mayors office, what have you, to showcase to the public the list of attacks and the list of the consequences. No one has any idea what has happened to the dozens of persons who committed the attacks. Were they arrested. Are they in prison now . Will they serve a sentence for six months, community service. Regardless what it is, i think if the public will see the consequences, it will have two benefits. Number one, i think members of the orthodox Jewish Community will feel more comfortable with the response and i think it will also send a signal to wouldbe attackers that playing around with other peoples lives isnt a joke or childs play and there are serious consequences. At this point, i hope that the brooklyn d. A. s office who is a very competent d. A. , but i think in this specific thing, his office needs to step it up and get information out there and release it to the press, release it to the public, do a press conference, this is what we did to that person and that person and let them now an attack on judaism isnt im sorry youre going through this. Once again, this is still very much an active investigation garrick. According to the governors office, hes directed the hate Crime Task Force to investigate. Right now, we still dont have a motive. Come back if you learn more, obviously. Now on to impending impeachment trial news. Former Vice President joe bidens reversal on whether hed comply with a Senate Subpoena. Biden says hed comply with any lawful order. Also, hes quote, not going to pretend theres any legal basis for republicans to subpoena me for my testimony. Joining me now is former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Glenn Kirschner in washington. Is the Vice President correct here . What would be the legal basis, if any, for a biden subpoena . Garrett, because an impeachment hearing is not exactly a legal proceeding, its hard to say what rules will be adopted to govern, for example, what witnesses can be called. I will say, if this was a trial setting, there would be no lawful basis for that subpoena. When Defense Attorneys try to subpoena witnesses that are l