fearless fiona hill taking aim at the putin election threat as david holmes recounts the trump phone call that he overheard. the white house pushing back big time against moving toward articles of impeachment. >> the deadly crash on a military training mission gone wrong. two airmen killed. two supersonic jets involved one of them flipped upside down. >> denied. the appeal from cleveland browns' myles garrett is rejected by the nfl. is the whole story out there new details revealed >> three big storms threatening our holiday travel week. bill karins is here to tell us more >> tesla is burning up the internet with elon musk's newest

creation tesla cyber truck right out of blade runner. >> "the tonight show," with his take on the impeachmt n policy holmes and fiona hill. fiona said that her boss john bolton thought rudy giuliani's actions would come back to haunt us i'm sorry. does rudy giuliani really look like somebody that would haunt you? >> "early today" starts right now. good friday morning. i'm frances rivera >> and i'm phillip mena. house lawmakers are heading home for the thanksgiving holiday after a dramatic close to this chapter of the impeachment inquiry. the final scheduled day of public hearings wrapping up with impassed testimony from former national security council officials fi did holmes from the u.s. embassy in ukraine. what may have served as closing arguments, both the majority leader and ranking member ended this phase of the inquiry with a exclamation point. >> this president believes he is

above the law, beyond accountability, and in my view, there is nothing more dangerous than an unethical president who believes they are above the law. in the words of my great colleague, we are better than that adjourned. >> exploiting the intelligence committee as a venue for impeachment has been one of the grossest abuses in the process filled with cynical manipulations, large and small but this farce will soon move to the judiciary committee where impeachment rightfully belongs >> nbc's alice barr has a look at the biggest moments from the hearing. >> reporter: for what could be the last time in the intelligence committee's impeachment inquiry hearings, two key witnesses stepped forward to piece together what happened in ukraine and what did not. fiona hill, president trump's former top russia expert, forcefully discredited a republican conspiracy theory that ukraine, not russia, interfered in the 2016 election.

>> this is a fictional narrative that is being perpetrated and propagated by the russian security services themselves >> reporter: that narrative is part of what president trump wanted ukraine to vega long with joe biden and his son. state department official david holmes testifying he actually heard the president say what he wanted, recalling how he overheard a phone call between president trump and his european union ambassador gordon sondland >> it was quite loud when the president came on, quite distinctive. >> reporter: holmes said he could hear president trump asking whether ukraine's president would announce the investigations >> he said, oh, yeah, he's going to do it he'll do anything you ask. >> reporter: afterward holmes asked sondland what president trump thought of ukraine >> ambassador sondland stated the president only cares about big stuff. big stuff that benefits the president, like the biden investigation. >> reporter: in a dramatic moment, fiona hill described having a confrontation with ambassador sondland over the push for investigations. >> he was being involved in a domestic political errand, and

we were being involved in national security. i was irritated with him and angry with him that he wasn't fully coordinating and i did say to him, ambassador sondland gordon, i think this is all going to blow up and here we are. >> reporter: president trump insists he did nothing wrong, tweeting the democrats leading the impeachment inquiry are human scum with the partisan divide only growing sharper. he warns this is just what russia wants while the impeachment inquiry looks back, they are told to look forward to guard against the same in the future alice barr, washington >> hearings, president trump tog dozens of his supporters and lashing out at house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff calling him a corrupt politician and saying called on democrats to stop the, quote, illegitimate sham hearings immediately and that president trump wants to have a trial in the senate

because it's clearly the only chamber where he can expect fairness officials tell nbc news the president met with republican senators last night to discuss the impeachment strategy >> in oklahoma, two u.s. airmen were killed during what's being called a routine training mission. it's the second accident involving this type of plane at the air force base since last year nbc's gabe gutierrez has this report >> reporter: the military is investigating how two airmen died in northwestern oklahoma. >> we are a close-knit family, and when tragedies like this occur, every member of the u.s. armed forces vance feels it. >> reporter: they describe it as an aircraft mishap during landing. two t-38 talons like these with two people on board were on a training mission one of the aircraft ended up upside down just off the runway the other stayed up right. >> there are two off the runway

at the air force base. how they ended up i have to let that play out. >> reporter: it is a supersonic aircraft that has served as the air force's training jet for decades. this is the second crash involving the plane in the last 15 months at vance air force base in august of 2018, a pilot safely ejected after a bird strike >> our safety record is exemplary. >> reporter: gabe gutierrez, nbc news >> president trump honoring fallen soldiers in an unscheduled trip to dover air force base overnight he paid tribute to the remains of two army chief warrant officers killed in a's helicopter crash in afghanistan hawaii deployed last month in the apache helicopter pilot, the president stood silently and saluted them this is his third visit to the delaware base. actor john voit was in attendance the president invited him earlier in the day after

presenting him with the national medal of arts. >> a's new twist in the case of a navy ill seale acquitted of war crimes president trump in an unprecedented move told the navy not to oust chief petty officer edward gallagher from the seals. here's nbc's miguel almaguer >> reporter: president trump intervening again to defend embattled navy s.e.a.l. chief eddy gallagher saying he will not legality the navy strip gallagher as his status as a seal he tweeted the navy will not be taking away war fighter and eddie gallagher' take action on beha navy is aware of the tweet and has requested further guidance it comes days after president trump ordered gallagher's rank restored after he was demoted following a widely covered trial in which gallagher was acquitted of murder and war crimes, but found guilty of posing with a corpse

of a teenage isis fighter. >> he told me he wanted to instill confidence back into the war fighters of our community. >> reporter: a move widely to have created a rift with the navy, which is referring inquiries to the white house as the commander in chief has made his orders clear in a tweet. miguel almaguer, nbc news. >> an nfl star will remain off the field until further notice cleveland brown myles garrett lost an appeal to overturn his indefinite nist suspension for a violent attack in a game last week here's nbc's ron mott. >> reporter: a full week and countless three days later, myles garrett's clubbing of rudolph with his own helmet remains the talk of the sports world. the nfl upheld the cleveland brown star receivers's punishment after his appeal suspended indefinitely >> it sends that message loudly and clearly, that even though one guy has done it, it should never happen again and if it does, this is what's going to happen to you >> reporter: garrett who

apologized for his actions after the game, made his case in person at league headquarters in new york espn reported garrett told league officials rudolph used a racial slur. something the pittsburgh steelers quarterback quickly denied an nfl spokesperson said, we looked into it and found no such evidence rudolph has not been disciplined by the league. >> the bottom line is i should have done a better job keeping my composure in that situation >> rudolph didn't like the way he was tackled >> reporter: a football fight still rumbling ron mott, nbc news >> a plane-load of people in new zealand might want to buy some lottery tickets. while they were waiting on the tarmac -- nobody was injured and there was also no damage done to that plane. >> let's get a check on your friday weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning >> good morning. anyone trying to do travel over this weekend pay close attention to the forecast for the weekend storm. it's now starting to move through areas of texas we have snow in colorado

we have a rain shield spreading from areas just north of memphis, all through kentucky. so for this weekend, we'll watch the storm system spreading the rain from east texas all the way through mississippi, northern alabama into tennessee and even north georgia late in the day. and then on saturday, we're going to see the rain all the way from the florida panhandle back up through georgia, heading into areas of the mid-atlantic washington, d.c., the richmond area, rain will move in later in the day. and it looks like philadelphia, new york city most of your saturday is dry, but the rain will move in saturday then by the time we get to sunday, this looks like almost a nor'easter type storm. it's going to be cold, windy, raining. we should get some snow in the higher elevations, poconos, catskills, maybe areas of southern and central new england. we'll wait and see the actual path of the storm. again, a loth 70s along the

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kristen talk about this week the wildly anticipated frozen 2, the sequel to the animated movie she starred in that became a block buster hit and phenomenon around the world. we talked about being on that wild frozen ride her role on the hit show "the good place" and why she is so open and honest about her life and her marriage to fellow actor dak shepherd our sunday sit down with kristen bell plus the latest news and politics as always, this weekend on "sunday today. you can catch us in the morning or set that dvr and watch us any time you like. for now, i'll send it back to you, phiip and we'll see you on sunday morning. >> all right, willie, we'll see you then >> now to the little dog with a big following helping kids learn something so valuable. here is nbc's kristen dahlgren >> reporter: it's easy to see this little dog named piglett is different. what you can't see is he's deaf

and blind rescued by melissa shapiro when he was one pound and petrified. >> i didn't know what to do for him. he was so tiny >> reporter: but piglet wouldn't give up and neither did melissa. >> i said, if we are going to keep him, then he's going to have a productive, meaningful life >> reporter: she started pos videos on social media and more than 100,000 followers fell in love including third grade teacher trisha who thought maybe her udouldearn something from a little pink dog >> what can you take that piglet taught you in your own life? >> i would say i should persevere more and try harder on things >> reporter: if you close your eyes, put your hands over your ears >> reporter: they call it the piglet mind-set. >> no matter who you are, what disability you have, you could still do stuff >> reporter: it's been so successful here, biglet's lessons is taught across the country in schools >> i want my students to grow up

and be successful and happy. more importantly, i want them to be good people >> put yourself in pig let's shoes and see how that feels >> you're supposed to sit and you stay there you go >> reporter: learning life's, m. >> wowpio schools all across the country. >> amazing, pig let is such a perfect name taking pictures of pig let yesterday. >> it needs to g could see children's books, pig let merch. thanks for waking up with us i'm frances rivera >> i'm phillip mena. coming up on the today show,

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>> and we'll get a look at that commute in a minute. >> people are trying to get places. >> exactly. maybe get to work early so they can get out early. so we have a live look outside at the golden gate bridge. not as many people here. but we have seeing clear visibility. it will be a cool start. a few clouds rolling by. mid-40s. at noon, we're at 62.