we must move swiftly to do our duty. >> this is not an impeachment. this is just a simple railroad job. >> the house judiciary committee hitting the ground running with four constitutional scholars explaining high crimes and misdeanors while president trump continues to battle back on twitter. a $100 million lawsuit has been filed by george zimmerman who was acquitted in the death of trayvon martin against martin's parents and others. new details this morning. former presidential candidate hillary clinton answers howard stern's questions about lesbian rumors and what she whispered to george w. bush at donald trump's inauguration. want to score free starbucks every day for the rest of your

life we'll tell you how. jimmy fallon gets caught up in the impeachment hearings. >> the president did commit an impeachable abuse of office. >> oh, i'm going to cyber bully that nerd so hard. watch out, professor plum. because it's going to be donald trump in the bathroom with the twitter. "early today" starts right now. good to be with you on this morning. i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm cori coffin house democrats laying their foundation for articles of impeachment against president trump at the house judiciary's first public hearing yesterday, three constitutional scholars invited by democrats said unequivocally the president's efforts to pressure ukraine were an abuse of power. a fourth scholar invited by republicans disagreed, saying the case was based on inadequate evidence with no additional hearings on the schedule, what's next is still unclear, but the president's legal team has until

tomorrow to decide whether white house attorneys will participate with the inquiry nbc's alice barr has more. >> we must move swiftly to do our duty. >> this is not an impeachment. this is just a simple railroad job. >> reporter: the house judiciary committee opening its first hearing with four constitutional scholars explaining high crimes and misdemeanors three of them saying the president should be impeached for abusing his power in ukraine. >> when president trump invited, indeed, demanded foreign involvement in our upcoming election, he struck at the very heart of what makes this a republic to which we pledge allegiance. >> reporter: that message is at the heart of this report the intelligence committee concluding that president trump used his office for political gain by urging ukraine to announce investigations of the bidens and 2016 election interference while withholding military aid >> if what we're talking about is not impeachable then nothing is impeachable >> reporter: democrats also making the case for obstruction,

accusing the president of silencing witnesses and ignoring subpoenas, but the one expert republicans called says democrats are rushing the process and haven't proven anything >> close enough is not good enough if you're going to accuse a president of bribery, you need to make it stick >> reporter: the hearing growing heated with republicans accusing the democrats' witnesses of bias >> just with a show of hands, how many on the panel actually voted for donald trump in 2016 >> reporter: and professor pamela karlan delaying criticism for bringing up president trump's 13-year-old son to make the point that presidents are not kings. >> the constitution says there can be no titles of knnobility so while the president can name his son barron he can't make him a barron. >> reporter: the first lady tweeting in response that karlan should be ashamed. >> i want to apologize for what i said earlier about the president's son. it was wrong of me to do that. >> reporter: in a deeply divided washington, this committee now

weighing the evidence against the constitution in deciding whether to impeach a president for the third time in american history. in washington, alice barr, nbc news meantime, president trump is back home from london after abruptly leaving the nato summit he had hoped the trip would focus attention on his foreign policy priorities while the impeachment inquiry played out at home, but instead there was more controversy nbc's kristen welker has more. >> reporter: while other world leaders were holding closing press conferences, president trump was leaving london in dramatic fashion, abruptly cancelling a planned news conference, surprising even his own staff when he announced the news himself >> there's no reason to have press conferences because we've had about eight of them. so i can't imagine you'd have any more questions. >> reporter: the move came after stunning video emerged some of america's closest allies caught on video at buckingham palace mocking him. in one part, canadian prime minister justin trudeau who met with the president for over half an hour tuesday, can be heard

ventin the president took aim at trudeau when asked about the video, noting he had criticized canada for not contributing more to the nato defense budget. >> he's two-faced. >> do you think that germany is -- >> reporter: >> and honestly with true doe, he's a nice guy. i find hery nice guy, but, you know, the truth is i called him out on the fact that he's not paying 2%, and i guess he's not very happy about it. >> reporter: and later mr. trump appeared to compliment himself for that remark in comments that were captured on audio >> that was funny when i said the guy's two-faced. >> reporter: for his part, trudeau tried to downplay any divisions. >> last night i made a reference to the fact that there was an unscheduled press conference before my meeting with president trump and i was happy to take part in it, but it was certainly notable, and i've had a number of good conversations with the president over the course of

this -- this day and yesterday >> reporter: for president trump the trip was aimed at turning the page at least temporarily away from the impeachment inquiry, but instead sparking new controversies on the world stage. and president trump defended his relationships with those nato leaders, tweeting from air force one he got along great with them and there is only deep respect he returned to the white house late wednesday night cori, frances? >> all right kristen, thank you ♪ and democratic front-runner joe biden didn't waste any time capitalizing on that video that kristen just mentioned he may have seen it. nato leaders mocking the president after mr. trump returned to the u.s. last night, biden tweeted out a new political ad saying, quote, the world is laughing at the president. >> the world sees trump for what he is, insincere, informed, corrupt, dangerously incompetent

and incapable, in my view, of world leadership if we give donald trump four more years, we'll have a great deal of difficulty of ever being able to recover america's standing in the world in our capacity to bring nations together. >> president trump has not yet responded to the new ad. nearly 700,000 people in this country are on the verge of losing food stamps the trump administration finalized a rule enforcing work requirements for adults who don't have children. the new rule requiring 20 hours of work a week was denounced by anti-poverty groups and is set to take effect april 1st. yet another shake-up at the catholic church. of the buffalo diocese has stepped down according to the vatican. this comes just two years before his mandatory retirement, age of 75 malone had been facing public outcry over accusations that he protected priests who abused children in a letter, malone says that he retired early, quote, freely and voluntarily. the buffalo diocese faces more

than 200 child sex abuse lawsuits including federal and state investigations the current bishop of albany has been temporarily appointed to run the diocese of buffalo. turning now to breaking news out of hawaii. officials confirming overnight that two civilian shipyard workers at pearl harbor were killed and another was wounded the gunman fatally shot himself. military officials have not determined a mote five the attack and they have not released the names of the victims or the suspect they did say that the wounded civilian is in stable condition. the lockdown of the base has been lifted and the incident remains under investigation. now to a case that made headlines across the country george zimmerman is suing the parents of trayvon martin and others for $100 million. he's claiming that police and prosecutors conspired to fabricate a narrative against him. zimmerman was acquitted in 2013 of homicide charges in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager trayvon martin. the ruling sparked nationwide

protests kerry sanders has those details. >> reporter: 17-year-old trayvon martin's death launched moveme. >> when wa it? >> now. >> reporter: charged with second-degree murder in the teenager's 2012 shooting death was george zimmerman, an armed volunteer on neighborhood watch. zimmerman called 911 and said martin seemed suspicious and followed the teen as he walked home through his central florida neighborhood. >> are you following him >> yeah. >> okay, we don't need you to do that. >> reporter: zimmerman claimed self-defense and in 2013 a jury acquitted zimmerman on all charges. the key witness for the prosecution was rachel jeantel, trayvon martin's girlfriend. in the defamation suit filed, zimmerman claims rachel jeantel was an imposter and fake witness who provided false statements to incriminate zimmerman. and in a new film producer joel

gilbert claims he found the real girlfriend who was unwilling to testify. >> i found trayvon's real girlfriend. >> reporter: rachel jeantel's attorney tells nbc news in part her testimony at trial was accurate in a statement, trayvon martin's family attorney ben crump says martin's parents called this an unfounded and reckless lawsuit attorney larry clayman, founder of the conservative legal foundation judicial watch, filed a lawsuit on behalf of zimmerman. meantime, the film, "the trayvon hoax," was scheduled to play here but now the theater has cancelled its screening. >> kerry sanders reporting for us kerry, thank you. former president jimmy carter is out of the hospital. carter is recovering at his home in planes, georgia the 39th president was treated for a urinary tract infection. the carter center says he looks forward to further rest at home. all right. some nice weather on the horizon. good morning >> good morning. happy to report not many travel

issues today and even into friday, but as our next big storm gets going, we'll see a little bit friday night and saturday this storm will move onshore into areas of california a lot of rain. high elevation snow. kind of what you'd expect with these west coast storms. this is going to quickly move across the country not a lot of cold air with this one. snow in montana, possibly up in north dakota and the higher elevations of thckby the time wy night and into monday, this races to the east coast or eastern half of the country. rain throughout the tennessee valley rain throughout the east coast and the northeast. so a lot of that sno little bit of that warm weather trying to sneak up into virginia today. richmond at 53 looks pretty nice still chilly, though, near the great lakes with snow showers. we do have some snow out there

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vacation. >> yeah it sounds like this. >> she really did. i was texting with her. my kids are like, who are you? what is the matter with you? >> so is mike's. >> let's clear the area. >> that time of the year the colds go around the office. a little bit cooler now. we've seen these rounds of rain coming in. a look at storm ranger right