tonight. thank you for being with us and good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. new overnight, two new administration officials tell the "washington post" that president trump reportedly ordered a hold on military aid to ukraine just days before the call with the ukrainian president. >> the call about president trump, and joe biden is looking at new calls for impeachment and house democrats will discuss options later today. >> a subpoena for trump's tax returns, attorneys argue do not have sweeping immunity from a criminal probe. good morning, everybody. it's tuesday, september 24, i'm

yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin. we begin with new reporting overnight considering the president and ukraine. three senior administration officials telling the "washington post" that the president ordered held back nearly $400 million in military aid to that country days before the call in which trump reportedly pressured ukraine's president to investigate joe biden. that reporting has since been matched by "the new york times" and "the wall street journal." >> now, according to the post, administration officials were instructed to tell lawmakers that the delays were part of an inter-agency process. but to give them no additional information, a pattern that continued for nearly two months until the white house released the funds on the night of september 11th. congress is now investigating if the president froze the military aid as a way to pressure ukraine to digging up dirt on a political rival. while the president denies a direct connection, he did connect the funding to corruption and corruption to joe biden. >> did you tell the ukrainian leader that they would have the

aid only if they investigated joe biden and his family? >> no, i didn't. no, i didn't. i did not ask for, i did not make a statement that you have to do this or i'm not going to give you, a, i wouldn't do that. i wouldn't do that. >> we're supporting a country, we want to make sure that country is honest. it's very important to talk about corruption. if you don't talk about corruption, why would you give money to a country that you think is corrupt? >> there was no pressure put on them whatsoever. i put no pressure on them whatsoever. i could have. i think it would probably possibly have been okay if i did. but i didn't. i didn't put any pressure on them whatsoever. you know why? because they want to dot right thing. and they know about corruption. and they probably know that joe biden and his son are corrupt. now, when you see the call, if you see it, i hope you see, it frankly. >> you can authorize the release -- >> i can do it very easily but i would rather not do it from the standpoint of all of the other conversations i have. i may do it, because it was a very innocent call. i hope you get to see it.

and i hope you get to see it soon. >> on the whistleblower you say you want the transcript of the call released. >> i didn't say that at all. i didn't say that at all. it may get released. i didn't say that at all. i don't think it is a great precedent to be releasing calls with foreign country, heads of foreign countries. >> amid the fallout over the whistleblower complaint with president trump, congressional republicans are trying to throw cold water on the matter. >> as with most matters before the committee, i believe it is extremely important that their work be handled in a secure setting with adequate protections in a bipartisan fashion. and based on facts, rather than leaks to the press. it is regrettable that house intelligence committee chairman schiff and senator schumer have chosen to politicize the issue. circumventing the established procedures and protocols that exist so the committees can pursue sensitive matters in the

appropriate, deliberate, bipartisan manner. although we don't know the substance of the allegations, there is speculation that it relates to our relationship with ukraine. for my part, mr. president as i stated earlier this month, i was very glad to see the white house release security assistance funds for ukraine. >> a couple of things. the first is the president admitted to raising the issue with the bidens and i don't believe he should have done that but we need to learn a lot more about this. i'm not prepared to go as far or anywhere near some of the people around here are going. >> we don't have all of the facts yet. the president has admitted that he asked president zelensky to investigate corruption, included but not limited to the circumstances surrounding mr. hunter biden. that doesn't surprise me. the president calls for a lot of investigations. it's just the way he rolls.

>> i think right now, it's just another issue that the democrats have latched on to. it is amazing to me the different stand the democrats are now using. any time something comes up that they don't like with the president, they're saying, well, you need to prove you that didn't do anything wrong. when did that become the standard? >> phone calls between the president and foreign leaders should be a fairly privileged circumstance, because if it is not, i don't know how you can become president of the united states and be effective in your job. but having said this, this whole dust-up about a whistleblower, i would just urge the president, you know, he's talking openly about the conversation, to release as much as possible, and here's what i think, i think you're going to find more about that phone call in the coming day, you're going to be surprised about the level of transparency, regarding that phone call, and in turn, that should put pressure on the system to find more about what joe biden was talking about. >> okay, joining us here on the set, danny cevallos, also with us from washington white house

reporter for "politico," gabby, i don't think anybody has pol e politically surprised gabby to the reactions to the latest whistleblower development. talk to me about what you're hearing. >> i would put the republican party in three different camps in the way they have responded to the scandal. out of the trump administration. you have republican leaders like senator mcconnell who have urged caution in terms of approaching this. they have called for a deliberate investigation by the senate intelligence committee. they're really saying let's not rush to judgment before we have all of the details and the facts of the case laid out. and then you have this other camp of republicans, people inside the freedom caucus, fiery republicans, who have aligned themselves with president trump before, who have turned this on joe biden. they're trying to use this to capitalize on his campaign, and to attack him, and call for questions, call for investigations into possible corruption by him. when he was vice president.

and i don't think a lot of them are being taken seriously, only because they're using that as a way to evade questions about what the president may or may not have said on this phone call. and then on top of, that and i think you just heard this in one of the sound bites you played, there are a number of republicans who say there is an issue here of whether or not president trump should release transcripts of the phone call, because of the precedent that it would set for future elected leaders, should the president be able to have these conversations with foreign leaders, where he doesn't mind people on the phone, doesn't expect that his phone calls and conversations will be released to public scrutiny and that's a legitimate question that these republicans are asking. >> to that point, the president has said he is not linking military aid to ukraine for the joe biden issue, but then incredibly, the president then goes on to quote say things like why would we give money to a corrupt country and then tie corruption to joe biden so it seems one part of his comments tries to deflect and deny and as

he keeps talking, he adds more fuel to the fire by confirming what the reporting is coming out and saying. legally speaking, what would you tell the president to do here about this subject given the fact that he is creating more and more of a mess for himself. >> first, stop talking. >> i knew you why were going to say that. >> stop talking. >> criminal defense advice. >> i've been thinking a lot about his defenses and you can show that with each of his statements, the president is cutting off his different avenues and options for defense. to the point that now, i only see a very narrow defense for this president. so i anticipate his point is going to be that, look, i'm the president, i was cutting off aid to what i perceived to be a corrupt country. the problem with that defense, is that that might be acceptable, even if it is a quid pro quo, it would be for a proper purpose, if for example he said, i'm not giving you money until you investigate corruption generally. or even interference in u.s. elections and let the chips fall

where they may even if that harms my chances for re-election. once you start mentioning biden you get into what we consider a correct purpose, an improper purpose, something that is indefensible in a sense. so it would be hard to explain well, why, as the president i'm particularly concerned about the biden corruption. >> about the man running against me in a couple of years. >> and in your head, if i presented that to a jury, would it fly. and answer is probably not. each though having done it for any number of any other reason, look generally i think there are bad things going on and i'm not giving you this money until you fix the problem. >> he could have made reference to organized crime or oligarchs, all that stuff and that would have been different. >> those would be proper purposes and purposes that he has authorized arguably to do as the president. >> so gabby, all of this allegedly about the 2020 election, obviously, what additional steps have been taken here to ensure election security heading in to 2020?

>> well, it's all that the administration hasn't done that is so concerning. ahead of 2020, i mean the president and his white house have previously said in statements that they will not tolerate any type of election interference in 2020, and yet, their actions do not reflect those words. the president has downgraded staff at dhs who are supposed to be handling the inter-agency process of making sure our elections are secure. those resources have joined over the course of his administration. obviously his own actions, including this alleged phone call with the ukrainian prime minister, reflect a sort of nonchalant attitude about our election security. and there is really no single person or agency in charge right now, across the federal government, across the trump administration, who has been tasked with ensuring that our elections are safe, that our votes are protected, and that we're not subject to foreign

interference as we were in 2016. >> danny, very quickly, how you would say that the allegations involving ukraine stack up against what bob mueller has uncovered in his russia probe? >> rert mueller probe considered whether or not there was an election violation for asking for something of value in connection with an election from a foreign government. and the interesting thing about that law is that it requires a knowing and willful violation. it is one of those rare instances where you have to know you're violating the law. and in the light of that, now months later, how could it be said that this -- >> this president would know if he is violating that law. >> asking for help from a foreign power, in an election. >> considering there is a two-year investigation involving probably that. >> he probably knows. >> thank you, gabby orr, danny cevallos. the president has stated he has a packed schedule for the u.n. general assembly full of meetings but the potential for a sitdown with the iranian leadership there is a bit of a different opinion. watch this. >> are you willing to meet with

mr. rouhani, sir? >> we will see what happens. we have a long way to go. we will see what happens. we're doing just fine. >> mr. president, is there a possibility you could meet president rouhani in new york? >> we have no meeting scheduled. somebody said we would like to meet but we have nothing scheduled. >> you wouldn't rule it out? >> i would never rule anything out. why would i do that? >> are you meeting with president trump? >> no. >> iran has said that it actually would be open to new talks with trump if he re-enters the u.s. into the 2015 nuclear deal and got rid of the sanction campaign. trump on the other hand has said that he would like a new deal because the old one was the worst in history. and in an exclusive interview with nbc's lester holt, british prime minister boris johnson says trump is just the man for the job. >> i think there is one guy who could do a better deal, one guy

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welcome back, everybody. five weeks to go until the latest brexit date, the supreme court will rule at any moment, within the hour if prime minister boris johnson acted lawfully when he suspended parliament or unlawfully meaning he misled the queen to an improper motive. johnson promulgated parliament from september to october, which is widely viewed as a way to force his brexit plan through, by giving lawmakers drastically less time to debate even his brexit plan or a no deal plan. the prime minister has been a major proponent of leaving the eu on october 31, deal or no deal. now, the talk originally given at brown university yesterday that later appeared at the op-ed in the "new york times," the publisher ag salzburger pointed a finger at

the u.s. government blaming it for a spike on journalists in the past years because the administration has betrayed them. and it looks at egypt, who received help from a u.s. official who feld the trump administration had no assistance. and declan walsh's arrest is considered standard but that individual passed along the warning without the knowledge or permission of the trump administration. salzburger said this, rather than trying to stop the egyptian government or assess the reporter, the official believes the administration sit on the information and let the arrest be carried out. the official being punished for evening alerting us to the danger. this incident forced the paper to rely on walsh's native country of ireland to get him out of the country safely instead of the u.s. government. solzburger quote the current

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welcome back, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour. we start with the top stories. the calls for impeaching president trump are growing in the wake of reports that he pressured ukrainian officials to investigate joe biden. according to a count by nbc news, 148 democrats have expressed the support for impeachment. 11 of those members voiced support following these new revelations. now nbc news has learned house speaker nancy pelosi, acting colleagues, they believe this is a tipping point. multiple senior house democrats and congressional aides telling the "washington post" that pelosi was making calls as late as last night, and many leadership aides who once thought trump impeachment was unlikely now say they think it is almost inevitable.

pelosi has called a members only caucus meeting for later this afternoon, that is expected to cover the issue of impeachment. a democratic leadership aide telling nbc news that a resolution condemning trump over the ukraine allegations is being discussed but no decisions you about how to move forward have yet been made. meanwhile, vulnerable freshman democrats are out with a new op-ed in the "washington post" calling for president trump's impeachment. three sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news this piece is expected to give house speak yer pelosi the cover she needs to back a formal impeachment inquiry. the democrats right this, our lives have been defined by national service, we are not career politicians. we are veteran was military and of the nation's defense and intelligence agencies. our service is rooted in the defense of our country, on the front lines of national security. now, we join as a unified group to uphold that oath, as we enter uncharted waters and face unprecedented allegations against president trump.

this is flagrant disregard for the law cannot stand to. uphold and defend our constitution, congress must determine whether the president was indeed willing to use his power and withhold funds to persuade a foreign country to assist him in an upcoming elections. if these allegations are true, we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense. we do not arrive at this conclusion lightly. and we call on our colleagues, in congress, to consider the use of all congressional authorities available to us to address these new allegations, and find the truth, and protect our national security. and coming up on "morning joe," two of the authors of the that piece, elissa slotkin, and abigail spanberger will both join the conversation. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is pushing back on criticism from democrats while talking extensively about the opposition to russia on the senate floor yesterday. >> going back years, i have urged the administrations of kboegt parties to be completely clear about the dangerous

intentions of putin's russia. and the importance of standing with ukraine. i sounded the alarm early and often with the obama administration and during the trump administration i have been a strong supporter to provide lethal weapons to ukraine and georgia. as i said repeatedly russia has a significant threat to u.s. efforts and the best way to contest putin is to rebuild our defenses, work closely with our allies, and partners, and improve the capacity of those threatened by moscow to defend themselves. >> the dnc has raised the qualification threshold the presidential candidates will need to meet in order to get on its november debate stage. candidates will now have to hit 3% in at least four early state or national polls that meet the dnc's requirements or 5% in two polls in the four early states of iowa, new hampshire, nevada,

and south carolina. that is up from the 2% threshold to qualify for the september and october debates. the number of unique donors needed as well will have to increase. from 130,000 to 165,000. candidates will need to hit both of the polling and grash grass roots thresholds to qualify for the debate stage. if you take those metrics, the only ones well above the new polling and fundraising threshold are listed. joining us once again white house reporter for "politico," gabby orr, let's talk about the new debate qualifications and it seems this is the tipping point for whittling down the field as we near closer and closer to the first primary. >> absolutely. it's no secret that did the nc chairm chairman, the dnc chairman tom flores has wanted to narrow the democratic feld for quite some time and doing that by effectively changing the debate rules each time, in order to sort of winnow it down, make

sure there are candidates who cannot he reach that threshold us whether it is because of their donor base or their poll numbers. and so heading into november, it does look as though the field is going to include at least five candidates who currently qualify or are likely to qualify for that debate stage and that means there are several other, including julian castro, and amy cloeb cha klobuchar, people who have reached 3% in iowa, but may not have the donor threshold, the 165,000 donor, and also the geographical advantage that the dnc want themselves to have, in order to make that debate stage. i think one of the most interesting point in these new debate rules is that at least 600 of the donors contributing to any campaign have to be spread out across 20 different states so they are making sure that these democratic candidates for president aren't just getting all of their donors from concentrated areas of the country. >> so let me ask you this,

gabby, has the new report involving trump and ukraine potentially lend itself to being the tipping point for top democrats on the subject of impeachment? we read earlier the seven democratic freshman, coming from national security and the military, and veterans, intelligence, and they say, or at least seem to think so. >> yes, i think today will probably be a really good indicator of where democrats stand on this. nancy pelosi is due to speak to her caucus, a bit later this affect, on capitol hill. democrats will meet, and i am sure that impeachment is going to come up, when they get together, but that story that you just put up, the article that was penned by the seven swing state democrat, really does give nancy pelosi the cover she needs, if she wants to go out there and say, i finally support an impeachment investigation, because as we know, from her previous statements, she has been very tepid in her endorsement of

impeachment previously. she's dlfr declined to go that far and doesn't think it is politically savvy for democrats to do so. the big question now is whether, having nearly the entire democratic caucus behind, this means that she is finally comfortable moving forward with that. >> we will have to wait and see. obviously, with the meeting ahead today, what happens there. gabby orr, thank you very much, nice having you. >> thank you. and in an appeal to human rights yesterday, president trump championed religious freedom on the host of religious freedom at the united nations. >> today with one clear voice the united states of america calls on the cun trifs world to end religious persecution. >> to stop the crimes against people of faith, release prisoners of conscience, repeal laws restricting freedom of religion and belief, protect the

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understand the urgency. but no matter how sad and angry i am, i do not want to believe that. because if you really understood the situation, and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil, and that i refuse to believe. >> an incredibly impactful speech from a 16-year-old activist. i just think it is inspiration toll see a generation like that, kind of setting a stage to want to lead for their future, to protect their future. >> hopefully world leaders will heed her call and do something about it. bill karins is with us, with an update on the weather. it is interesting how the conversation has changed, you know, instead of arguing over it, now, it's people, you know, turning to the politicians, and saying, what are you going to do about it? >> what you are going to do about it. >> hopefully we can elect politicians to take it seriously and not continue to deny it.

>> and around the globe. >> and puerto rico, tropical storm karen, it was a tropical storm and weakened to a depression and now back to a tropical storm and all it means is the winds kicked up a little bit. due northward over the top of puerto rico. tropical storm warnings up there. and for the vig virgin islands. the heavy rain will move. in we are concerned with the mud slide possibility and potential flooding. they have canceled school for the kids today considering. that and as far as the statistics go, the winds aren't going to cause any problems. only 40 miles an hour winds with this. it is how much rain will fall over the island over the next 24-36 hours. the path of the storm drifts it northward. a lot of questions of what happens as we go throughout the upcoming weekend. does it go harmlessly out to sea? that is the case if it is weaker. if it is stronger and stalls out across this region, but no signs

it will head to the u.s. but again, this is five, six, seven days away from now. so we will continue to track. that the other story, the endless summer weather continues. look at these temperatures today. montgomery, 94. new orleans, 92. and dc, a little bit cooler today. at 80. but then we're even up in the 80s as far north as minneapolis today. and even into tomorrow, and the warmth builds right back, in and 80s and 90s, widespread for the east coast. and this is going to be the story, guy, as we go through the upcoming weekend, and really the first week of october, i mean this upcoming weekend, dc is back near 90. night across the deep south. so yes, it continues, endless summer. >> thank you, bill. and when we come back, we have breaking news from london where the supreme court there in the united kingdom made a decision regarding prime minister boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament. we will have the details around that for you when we come right back. and we are going to have new details on the safety concerns surrounding boeing 737 max jet,

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welcome back, everyone. now to breaking news coming out of the united kingdom. the supreme court there has ruled that prime minister boris johnson acted unlawfully when he suspended parliament and that the prime minister essentially

misled the queen through an improper motive. johnson controversially suspended parliament from early september until about october 14, which was widely viewed as a way of forcing his brexit plan through by giving lawmakers drastically less time to debate either his brexit plan or a no deal plan. the prime minister has been a major proponent of leadiving th eu october 31, deal or no deal. we are five weeks until the halloween brexit date. and british politics continues to enter uncharted water fwls it is interesting when boris johnson entered office, he was confident key get this deal done. >> a plan, and now part of the plan was to kind of park parliament on the side, has been ruled unconstitutional. which then means that the parliament is going to have to have a say in which way brexit goes. an obviously, as we've seen over the last two years, parliament cannot agree on how brexit should play out. >> just take for a moment the extreme political turmoil the u.k. has been in over the last

few years. since brexit initially happened. and at the resignation of theresa may over all of this. and now seeing this ruling. it has just been an in kreebl, incredible ride for the u.k. be from the prime minister here. he's here in new york. we interviewed him yesterday at msnbc. we'll see if he has anymore comments to this. just six months after the boeing 737 was grounded, a whistleblower complaint concluded that training requirements for pie lots were underqualified and that the federal aviation administration provid provided misinformation for congress. safety oversight at the faa which has faced scrutiny since two new certified jets crashed in indonesia and ethiopia last year. in a letter to president trump,

they write that the faa response to congress appear to have been misleading in their portrayal of faa employee training and competency and that information by the faa diverts attention away from the likely truth of the matter, that they were neither qualified under agency policy to certify pilots flying nor to assess pilots procedures and maneuvers. they respond saying this. we remain confident in our representations to congress and in the work of our aviation safety professionals. aviation safety is always our foremost priority and we look forward to respond together concerns that have been raised. "the wall street journal" reports federal prosecutors in california are starting a criminal investigation into e-cigarette company juul. it come halls they have been blamed for the rise in teen vaping. the probe is still in the beginning stages and the focus is not yet known. people familiar with the matter tell the journal the food and

drug administration, the federal trade commission along with several states are looking into juul's marketing practices. the san francisco-based company has said it never marketed to teens and its products are designed for adult cigarette smokers who want to switch. coming up, we have a look at that morning's one big thing. and. and on "morning joe," the fallout between the president and ukraine. his efforts to pressure leaders there to investigate former vice president biden. and apparent steps by his administration to cover it up. abigail and elisa will discuss that plus their op-ed with several of their colleagues to be impeached. "morning joe," everybody, just moemts moments away.

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frequent thing. >> i'm going to win the nobel peace prize. >> you could win for a lot of things. cofounder of axios. >> you're going to introduce him. >> what have you got for us? >> i stick to the script. i don't go off-script like trump does. what do you have in terms of the one big thing today? >> you guys have been all over it this morning. the impeachment overnight really changed. the chances that you're going to have formal impeachment proceedings are almost not certain yet but they're getting a lot more close to certain. in's meeting with the full caucus today. lots of signals that she herself could come out publicly as soon as today and say that the tide has turned. the fact that rosa delora, very close to her, long time congresswoman came out and said that things are different now, you had a lot of swing state democrats yesterday come out and say that now we take what's haps happened with eye cranukraine, n top of what happened with

russia, they have to begin impeachment proceedings. that doesn't mean that he would be removed from office, probably means he would be impeached from the house. but you don't have many republicans expressing concern about what -- >> you get some of them -- >> are you surprised by that? >> not surprised at all. there's not been a single instance where anyone who isn't retiring from office speaks out against the president. look what happened yesterday. mitt romney did and he gets torched on twitter by donald trump. so anybody who thinks that they might say something critical about it, they understand the consequences. it's appearance undn underappre that he has. he's just going to ridicule you to death in public or he's going to pick an opponent against you. so you have to be strong in your view on it and we don't sense that from republicans at that point that they're worried enough? >> what do you think has tipped the scales for democrats, especially overnight? is the pressure on now more so than ever? why? because there was an appetite

for impeachment following the findings of the mueller report. there was 134 house democrats or so that said we abdicate for impeachment hearings. but now in jumping on board it seems. what do you think has really tipped the scales ultimately for all of this? >> i think it's a combination of the audacity and how much it looks like what happened with the whole russia saga. the fact that almost the day after mueller wraps up his hearings on the hill the president is having a phone call with the head of ukraine and basically, according if you look at all of the reporting, a quid pro quo that could have an influence on our election. if you're in it gets harder and harder with each passing day to say the hell with it, this seems like something we could push off. that's why democrats are saying no. >> you think the president's attorneys were about to pop the

cork on the wine bottles. >> he's like i didn't do anything wrong if the it might turn out that legally i didn't do anything wrong, but did he. you've got remember about impeachment it has nothing to do with legality, it has to do with do you thinks these are high crimes with the house of majority and representatives? and house democrats are under so much pressure at homes for activists to do something. at some point in can't be a caulk cuffs one. and she knows that and she doesn't want to be too far behind it. that that meeting today will be one for the history books because it could be the moment where she comes out and says we're going for impeachment. >> you do. >> i do. >> i know axe cos has some new reporting on bernie sanders campaign. what's going on there. >> mike has a scoop this morning looking how he's going to come out with a wealth tax. you take the richest people, people that make over $50 million in total assets and you just give them a tax, say it's 3% or whatever that number is. for elizabeth warren it's 2%, rises up to 3%.

bernie sapders is goi bernie sanders is going to copy that idea but go even further. the reason it matters, you look at bernie sanders and you look at some of these plans, trillions of dollars on climate change, we're going to wipe out your debt, we're going to send your kids to school for free. that's a lot of stuff for free and at some point you have to detail how you're going to pay for it. this is his first effort to say how he might pay for it. >> good to see you in person. hopefully you'll be here tomorrow morning, you'll come back. >> i'm going to sleep here. >> always a pleasure. thank you very much. of course you can read axios right there, sign up at axios kox. it will be coming out in a little bit. >> that does it for this tuesday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. iran is a different place than when i took over. when i took over the united states, when i became president, iran was a real threat to the