that is our effort for tonight. thank you for being here with us welcome back. and good night from our nbc news lev parnas and igor fruman, the headquarters here in new york. two associates of rudy giuliani who were arrested wednesday on campaign finance charges donated $325,000 last year to a pro-trump super pac. at a rally in minneapolis that same month parnas posted last night, president trump went photos of facebook of himself after joe biden in personal and and fruman with president trump. and with the president's eldest sometimes profane terms and also slammed house democrat force the son donald trump jr., trump ongoing impeachment inquiry. >> two florida businessmen with yesterday denied knowing the two links to trump's perm attorney giuliani associates. >> what conversations have you rudy giuliani have been arrested had with lev parnas and igor on campaign finance charges fruman? while attempting to leave the >> i don't know those gentlemen. >> you're in pictures with them. >> it is possible i have a country. picture with them, because i >> turkey's military forces have have a picture with everybody. i have a picture with everybody pushed farth near northeastern syria, the turkey ministry says here. but somebody said there may be a nearly 300 kurdish fighters have picture or something, at a fundraiser, or somewhere, so, been killed so far. but i have pictures with everybody. >> have you talked to them? >> i don't know if there is anybody i don't have pictures with. >> i don't know them. good morning, everyone. it is friday, october 11th. i don't know about them. i don't know what they do. but i don't know. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside

yasmin vossoughian. there is a lot to get to this maybe they were clients of rudy. morning. but we want to begin with the you would have to ask rudy. president's wild night in >> but my son had a meal with minneapolis. it's where he held his first them as well. just fyi. campaign rally since the launch the president's outside counsel of a formal impeachment inquiry. jay sekulow told nbc news, as for about 102 minutes he just basically let it rip against all of his favorite targets. the indictment state, neither the president or the campaign none of his attacks were as were aware. >> danny sevz is with us. vulgar and personal as those against joe and hunter biden. and when asked if rudy giuliani >> joe's son hunter got thrown out of the navy and then he could be indicted the president said i hope not. became a genius on wall street he said i hope not. he didn't say no categorically in about two days. not. he said i hope not. in legal terms that sounds like by the way, whatever happened to a little bit of a wiggle room, hunter? no? where the held is he? >> that and his response, you will have to ask rudy and the hunter, you know nothing about energy. you know nothing about anything last time you will have to ask frankly. hunter, you're a loser. insert name of lawyer he said why did you get $1.5 billion, michael cohen and things didn't work out very well for michael hunter? and your father was never cohen, you remember that moment considered smart. he was never considered a good on air force one. and i think the president is senator. caught and doesn't know what to he was only a good vice say and punts the answer. president, because he understood >> and giuliani concerned? >> giuliani should be concerned how to kiss barack obama's ass. but i should caution generally speaking as a criminal defense

>> wow. lawyer, we do come into information about our clients biden responded tweeting at the that is unsavory. sometimes we have knowledge of president, i spent my night at past criminal activity. the human rights campaign forum talking about the fundamental the key is did the lawyer do respect every human being deserves and you spent yours anything at all to advance showing how little respect you future criminal activity? did the lawyer did anything at all to cover up or deceive the have and america is so much government about that activity? stronger than your impeachment. house democrats continued on there's nothing wrong, in fact, it is very common, for lawyers the impeachment inquiry and to know of bad acts but it is an president trump says his july entirely different thing to advance them or promote them in 25th phone call was quote any way. >> the president has said he perfect. >> they're not going to win the knows nothing about this scheme, but the giuliani ukraine 2020 election and they continue connection obviously is tied somewhat to the impeachment the impeachment witch hunt. inquiry, and what is being these are bad people. currently investigated by house my phone call with the president democrats. is it possible the southern of ukraine is perfect. we have the greatest economy, district could feasibly hand the greatest military, we've over information to the house democrats? rebuilt our military, $2.5 >> it's not likely at this point. trillion because when i took it but history has a way of over, it was a mess, and what do repeating itself throughout the they want to do? prior impeachment investigations, and both nixon let's impeach our president, and clinton, a key issue was right? i don't think so. >> president trump also used his what does one branch choose to share with another branch. rally to defend list decision to now, it wasn't always the

withdraw u.s. troops from southern district before. northern syria, as he faces but in the past, it's been grand backlash from both republicans jury information. it's been what do prosecutors and democrats over the move. >> from now on, we want to share with congress. and this is always going to be an issue. fight, where it is to the because as federal benefit of the united states of investigators, the southern district is going to have access america, not to the benefit of to information that congress other countries. simply may not be able to the turks have been fighting obtain. with the kurds for two so i suspect that the southern district of new york is not centuries. and turkey, as you know, is a likely to break with its tradition of not sharing nato ally. information, with anyone at all, but i've been rough on them. including congress. but in the future, the more we defeated 100% of that isis caliphate and no longer have any indictments or information they troops in the area. unseal, or reveal in the form of we don't have any troops. public filings, those will be the troops have been pulled out. available not just to congress but to the world at large. >> really quickly, though, as >> every once in a while you you mentioned, the branches of have to change course and do what you have to dox the united government and the information, states has spent $8 trillion in the interesting dynamic here is the middle east. within the branch of government we've lost thousands of brave that is the executive branch. william barr has obviously been soldiers. and tens of thousands of aware of these charges, reportedly from day one as the terribly wounded people. investigation began. are you at all concerned that, great people. their lives will never be the same. these wars produce only chaos that the president of the united states could have access to the and bloodshed. information? >> we're slowly getting out of is there a conflict of interest,

when rudy giuliani is the middle east. representing or at least now >> and two foreign born associated to two individuals associates of rudy giuliani are who are being invited but at the facing criminal charges being same time represents the president and there is a loop of arrested trying to leave the country. information where the president they're accused of trying to can find out what is happening in the case? >> yes and no. influence u.s. politics with if you're talking about the illegal campaign politic, the individual southern district of two men, igor fruman and lev new york, and really other independent district, yes, they are within the executive branch, but i would expect that if the parnas made an initial president tried to, or the appearance in federal court yesterday, following the executive, or even the attorney indictment, house democrats issued subpoena force the two general, tried to invade the men to provide testimony and province of the southern documents. according to the "new york district of new york, that you would get some major pushback. times," parnas had known mr. giuliani casually for years those districts see themselves through republican political circles. as individual districts that are last year, their relationship deepened when a company he yes, within the chain of command of the executive branch and the helped found retained mr. justice department, but they see giuliani for what mr. giuliani it as their independent duty to said yesterday was business and investigate and ferret out legal advice. crime. >> so is this sort of a nothing even as he worked with parnas' to see here moment when there are reports that bill barr was company, fraud guarantee, mr. at the southern district yesterday? >> boy, optics-wise, it may be giuliani increasingly relied on mr. parnas to carry out mr. problematic, but at the same time, bill barr himself has to trump's requests for evidence in know that if he were to march into the southern district, and japan and russia's interference

on his behalf in the 2016 try to directly influence them, election and help him into the that would not go well for him 2020 re-election campaign a at all. >> danny cevallos, always a witness tells the "the wall street journal" that the two men had lunch with mr. giuliani at pleasure. thanks my friend. let's switch gears and bring the trump international hotel in washington, on wednesday. in nbc meteorologist bill karins while the atlantic's alaina plot with the weather. breaking news overnight is in areas just outside of los reports, he was planning to fly angeles. a few fire has formed. 24 hours after the business it quickly formed about midnight associates were arrested as they last night. east coast time. and now already up to 1600 prepared to do the same. federal prosecutors say the men had one way tickets to leave the acres. evacuations under way. u.s. when they were arrested at homes have burned. it is the saddle ridge fire, in dulles international airport by the fbi. the two men had no known plans this area right in here. the winds have been very high. to return to the u.s. under critical fire danger for and no destination was in fact, the rest of the day today and there is the potential for rapid fire spreads. that's why they've been disclosed. evacuating animals and horses yesterday, a push by parnas and it is an equine area and and fruman to oust then also, you know, just a lot of ambassador to ukraine maria homes in the way, too, so we will wait and see if the firefighters can get a hold of that blaze and kind of contain it as we go throughout the next couple of hours, but a scary yojanovivitch. according to the "the wall situation in southern street journal" federal california. the other big story, the prosecutors in manhattan say the snowstorm that yesterday dropped two men were engaged in snow from denver all the way political activities in the u.s. through the northern rockies, on behalf of one or more still in the dakotas, boyfriend

ukrainian government officials warning is up for areas north of including a lobbying campaign jamestown, north of bismarck, targeted at a republican and we're going to expect to see congressman to remove the u.s. the possibility of one to two ambassador in kiev. feet of snow by the time it is all done on saturday. so we also have a lot of heavy multiple senior u.s. law enforcement officials telling rain in northern areas of arkansas, some strong nbc news that the former thunderstorms went through dallas overnight, and the big representative pete sessions of story is obviously all of the blue on this map, this heavy texas. the indictment alleges that the snow right now, over much of two men committed to raising $20 you,000 for the lawmaker north dakota. there is the area that could see the possibility of up to two sessions who lost his re-election bid last year. feet, so that's from fargo to confirmed last week while still bismarck, northwards, and then in office he wrote a quote the other story out there today personal letter to the secretary is, enjoy your last warm day in of state mike pompeo, asking the ohio valley for a while, about the ambassador to be much chillier air coming your way, 80 today in ohio with the removed. pesky storm in areas for boston she is scheduled to meet with and talk about the weekend forecast, coming up. and a lot quieter than it is house committees behind closed this morning, and especially doors today. >> while president trump when we show you the pictures continues to say his call with from california, firefighters the president of ukraine is will be happy to know that the perfect, a new report by the winds will be a lot lighter this "washington post" says four weekend. >> all right. officials were so worried about the nation's attempts to thank you, bill. >> thanks, bill. pressure ukraine for political energy secretary rick perry purposes, that they in fact, is the latest trump official to raised concerns with the white be subpoenaed by house democrats. house lawyer both before and what the president has to say about that, coming up. but first, a bit of breaking immediately after trump's july 25th phone call. news. it was just announced the prime minister of ethiopia, is the

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and so i don't know if that house democrats impeachment affects the viewership numbers, inquiry. in may, perry led the u.s. for the next debate, but i think they will have to, it will definitely be a huge topic. delegation to the zen zelenski i think most democrats support inauguration which led to the phone call with trump at the center of the impeachment this impeachment effort. inquiry. president trump was asked yesterday about perry's but if it is successful, do they really want to run against mike subpoena. >> how many people can they talk pence, who doesn't have as much to? we had a simple conversation. baggage as president trump, and everybody knows what the i think they want to pivot to conversation was. because i gave it immediately when i heard about it. issues that play to their strengths. they don't want to just have an the whistle-blower who seems to be a democrat that is involved impeachment 24/7, because it's much harder for democrats to get with a lot of people, gave a oxygen to get news attention. false interpretation of the conversation, because we have >> daniel, let me thank you very much. we will talk to you again in a the conversation. the president of ukraine just little bit. >> thanks. we are taking a closer look said, just now, that the at the two businessmen with conversation was absolutely links to rudy giuliani who have perfect, no problem, it was a been arrested and specifically whether or not they may have ties to the president. >> and new reporting about a very good conversation, so i meeting between attorney general don't know why they would be bill barr and media mogul rupert calling rick perry, i don't know they would be calling all of these people. murdoch. those stories and a check of it's a very bad situation for your weather when we come back. our country. >> it appears white house yeah, that's half the fun of a new house. officials close to the president

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top story, turkey's long-planned military operation in northern syria, against the former u.s.-backed kurdish forces has already had deadly consequences. turkey's defense ministry says the assault so far has killed at least 277 quote terrorists, which is how turkey has long described the kurds.

kurdish media reports at least two children have been killed. and nbc news has not independently confirmed those figures a major warning regarding a new humanitarian crisis as tens of thousands of people flee the fighting, while hundreds of thousands more remain in harm's way. >> so in the midst of the attacks on what will, what was until this week a u.s. ally, president trump tweeted out, we did our job perfectly, now turkey's attacking the kurds. >> would he have one of three choices, send in thousands of troops and win militarily, hit turkey very hard with sanctions or mediate a deal between turkey and the kurds. >> what are the three choices on syria that you just articulated in a tweet do you think you will follow? >> perhaps the last one, i hope. i hope the last one. of the three, i hope it's going to be the last one. look, we have no soldiers in syria.

we've won. we beat isis. and we beat them badly and decisively. we have no soldiers. the last thing i want to do is bring thousands and thousands of soldiers in, and defeat everybody again. we've already done that. so what we have is really two choices. you have the choice of bringing in the military. and defeating everybody again. or you have the choice of financially doing some very strong things to turkey. so that they take it a little bit easy on really competition that is, i don't think it is being fairly treated in many ways, okay, would he have a very good relationship with kurds, or we can mediate. i hope we can mediate. >> wow. it is important to note that despite the president's statement, the u.s. has hundreds, if not thousands of soldiers in syria, by some estimate, as many as a thousand, the pentagon says isis has not been defeated but is in fact the midst of a resurgence. that is the pentagon what is saying that. just emphasize. and until this week, the u.s. heavily backed kurdish forces have been done most of the on

the ground fighting against isis in the area and who have been guarding 12,000 isis prisoners captured during the u.s.-led campaign. overnight, the kurdish and syrian and democratic forces report that a turkish air strike hit a prison used to house isis prisoners. president trump talked about the kurds at his rally last night as well. >> turkey is right now waging a very tough campaign against the kurds. we get along with the kurds. and we help the kurds and don't forget they're fighting for their land. you know that. but they're fighting. >> joining us now, joining us live from new york, bill, good morning to you. thank you for joining us on this, some of the images so far that we have been seeing the numbers staggering, just a couple of days into this. what is the latest you are hearing on the ground there? >> reporter: good morning, everyone. well, clearly heavy fighting overnight. and thousands of civilians

fleeing to get out of that war zone. the turkish military is reporting that another 49, as they call them, militants or terrorists, were killed, overnight, bringing that total, according to them, to 277 kurdish fighters that they've killed. the kurds themselves reporting that they've lost around 23 men. and clearly, at least a dozen civilians have been killed and the u.n. is now saying 70,000 civilians are fleeing, and 60,000 fled on the very first day. so i think we can expect that figure to be updated during the day. and clearly, what we've got is an overwhelming turkish force, using nato jets, bombing kurdish targets on the ground, and frankly, the kurds are outgunned. but there is a long way to go, and the kurds will not simply lay down their weapons. this, as weeks, if not months to go.

so president erdogan is clearly gaining ground. he is not gaining any friends however. and there have been very tense exchanging diplomatically today. the nato secretary general is in istanbul. remember turkey is one of nato's leading members. turkey's foreign minister was there and said to nato, we expect you to show solidarity with us, because our offensive is all about self-defense, and stultenberg simply said, we are seriously concerned about your offensive. and in europe, too remember president erdogan made that extraordinary threat to open the gates and send millions of refugees pouring towards europe, well the european council president donald tusk hit back and say how dare i would you weaponize refugees and how dare you threaten us. this is totally unacceptable. both on the ground and diplomatically, very tense exchanges, guys. >> you said this is a possibility that could last for

weeks if not months as the kurds regroup and reconstitute themselves after this initial wave of an attack. talk to us, from neighboring iraq, how kurds in the region generally view what is going on. are you seeing a mobilization of let's say kurdish resources, both for humanitarian, as well as military purposes from the peshmurga, or elsewhere, trying to get some aid to the kurds in syria that are suffering right now? >> yes, and there has been a general call from kurds across the region, and that is not just syria, but iraq itself, to mobilize, and if they can't mobilize with weapons, at least to help. and one kurdish leader has been saying that president trump's name will now forever be associated with betrayal, kurds here and in syria, equally angry. yes, i mean when the turks took the turn last year, it took them

59 days to take that one small town. they're now proposing to take a zone that's 20 miles deep and 300 miles long. i think it's safe to assume, amin, that this will take days, not days or weeks, but months, so this has a long, long way to go. >> nbc news chief global correspondent bill neely, bill, thank you very much for that report. >> thank you, bill. president trump's former top aide on russia and europe is set to go before congress where she is expected to give revealing testimony, on rudy giuliani, and european union ambassador gordon sondland. nbc news has learned from a person familiar on the matter that fiona hill is expected to appear on capitol hill monday, and is expected to tell lawmakers that giuliani and sondland bypassed the national security council, and the normal white house process, for communicating with trump, on ukraine issues, in a bid to pursue a shadow policy on the matter. that source says it included circumventing national security

adviser john bolton. a senior white house official tells nbc, that fears are, stokes fears close to the president due to the pivotal role on ukraine policy and it presents a major test of the committees with impeachment inquiry over whether they can get testimony from other former administration officials who have left given the possibility that the white house may try to assert executive privilege to stop them. hill's attorney declined to comment on the matter. rudy giuliani telling nbc he does not know how hill would know this information, quote, since i was doing it at the request and reporting back to state department, adding, quote, how is it secondary foreign policy? >> u.s. bass dor to the european union gordon sondland is set to testify before the house committee's investigating president trump and ukraine next wednesday, despite an order by the state department to keep from appearing at a closed door deposition. axios reports that one source familiar with the rescheduling said after the state department blocked sondland's testimony,

republicans close to trump encouraged the president to let the ambassador come before the committees because they believe his testimony will in fact, be helpful to their side. text messages turned over by the former u.s. special envoy to the ukraine kurt volker revealed that sondland in exchange with a top u.s. diplomat in ukraine defined the president, excuse me, defended the president saying president trump was not withholding security assistance with help with the campaign and crystal clear, no quid pro quo of any kind. >> joining us is white house and washington reporter for "politico," daniel, good to have you with us, and let's talk about gordon sondland for a moment. he will reportedly testify next week, despite orders from the state department not to do so behind closed doors in a deposition. what do you make of the latest developments? is he likely to actually appear this time? >> as of today, all signs are go. but they usually, if they're going to block it, they would block it at the last minute so

the morning of, they would pull him. and so we're not at that point yet, but democrats have really wanted to hear from sondland, because they think he is a gold mine of information about this shadow foreign policy that giuliani was pursuing in concert with sondland. sondland did try to try to mitigate some of this stuff, but he also was kind of a big player in trying to convince the ukrainians to issue a statement about, that, you know, that they would investigate corruption, and you know, the bidens worked in burisma and the 2016 election, and so his hands are not completely free here. >> let's talk about the upcoming testimony on monday of the president's former top aide fiona hill here, daniel. what type of impact is this going to have on the house democrats' investigations for the white house to cooperate with their inquiry? >> well, i think they're going

to point to her testimony as evidence that other former white house aides like john bolton and other national security council officials, they should also testify, because if fiona hill is doing, then why not the others? and so it gives them powerful rationale to urge other officials to speak the truth about what happened. her testimony, you know, really said in that nbc news story, he didn't know who fiona hill was, which is exactly the problem, because you're supposed to coordinate with the nsc when you're doing foreign policy for the president, and she was the top, she was his top aide on russia and europe, and so obviously, he did not coordinate there. >> daniel, live in washington, d.c. for us, thanks. still ahead president trump lashes out at one of his most outspoken supporters fox news as the top lawman meets with the company's founder.

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denouncing some anchors and reporte reporters hes did not consider to be friendly and took the coverage by fox especially hard when yesterday theres with a fox news poll that came out with 51% of people supporting impeachment, up nine points since july. he took to twitter writing, quote, this, from the day i announced i was running for president, i have never had a good fox news poll, whoever their pollster is, they suck. but fox news is also much different than it used to be. in the good ol 'days. he continued his lament. fox news does not deliver for us anymore. it is so different than it used to be. oh, well. i'm president. however in a case of whiplash hours later at the minnesota rally, he extended praise to some of fox's hosts. welcome back. we are dealing with evacuation orders that are now in effect for the fire, we have 30,000 people in porter ranch that were told to evacuate in the middle

of the night in southern california. this is the evacuation map from the l.a. fire department. if you're familiar with the area. these are some of the live pictures that we're seeing here from our helicopter, from our nbc station in los angeles. they have the mapping technology that they can share you where the fire is live. you can see the bright red on there, and actually, where it corresponds to the roads, below. and you can see how close the fire and the flames are, to some of those roads, and of course, right along those roads and in those neighborhoods are home, i have seen pictures of homes that are on fire, that are engulfed even right now as we talk, and you can see, we will continue to give you live pictures as we get them in and as the helicopter arrives on the scene. here is the burbank airport. this is interstate 5. the fire started up here. it hopped over interstate 5. and then it was in this area here. kind of a remote area. but it has been pushed by the wind, down towards the neighborhoods here, and that's why the porter ranch area is being evacuated, because the fire is burning that way, and they're sayingof even chatswort

evacuated next and the north ridge neighborhood is located over here, that's where california state university north ridge is located. so again, you know, unfolding in the middle of the night, thousands of people in southern california, told to evacuate, because of a fast-moving fire, that started about midnight, east coast time. so red flag warnings were up because of the windy conditions throughout southern california. the blizzards in the dakotas. up to two feet of snow is possible. and rain and cooler temperatures through texas. the east coast not looking too badded a all. the areas of concern, a little bit of rain today and boston and ocean storms and windy conditions, that exits on saturday and then by sunday, we're getting better and keep an eye on that. i haven't seen on some of the pictures from our l.a. station, you know, numerous homes just engulfed. >> i have seen those, too. >> do you know if authorities there were considering doing the same type of power outage, pg&e tried to do? >> it seems like this is exactly what pg&e was trying to do. >> i haven't heard what caused this fire, if it was from a downed power line or not.

we will worry about that in the days ahead. one thing it is interesting, they're telling people, keep the garage doors open, when people get the evacuation orders if you lose power you can't get in the car and flee quickly if the garage door is down. >> thank you, bill. the latest read on where the 2020 candidates stack up, following elizabeth warren's recent climb to the top. >> and what bernie sanders is saying about the future of his bid following his recent heart attack. we'll be right back. llowing rect attack we'll be right back.

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. welcome back. 2020 candidate bernie sanders is reinforcing that he is strong enough to continue campaigning at a high level despite suffering a heart attack last week. last night sanders said that during his health scare the thought of dropping out never even crossed his mind. >> during this whole process, at any point from last tuesday, nine days now, was there any point when you said, you know what? i think the best course of action may to be drop out? >> no. because, you know, i don't know how -- again, you know, when you hear the word heart attack you're thinking somebody lying on the ground in terrible pain. that wasn't the case, okay. the day i woke up after the procedure, no pain, zero pain. no pain right now. i feel really good. so we've struggled really hard to get to where we are right now, bringing millions of people together in the fight for

justice. and i'm not a quitter. >> a new fox news poll shows former vice president joe biden once again leading the 2020 democratic primary field. biden at 32% is ten points ahead of massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. he's up three points since the last news poll back in september. warren sits at 22%. and bernie sanders falls in third place with 17% on support among democratic voters. he's down one point. biden, warren, and and is vers a sizeable advantage over president trump in a potential 2020 matchup. biden and warren have a ten-point lead over trump. 50% to 40% if the election were in fact held today and sanders holding a nine-point lead over president trump. jonathan swann has a look at this morning's one big thing. coming up on "morning joe," president trump hits the road amid a flurry of controversies surrounding his presidency. >> the president going after his critics amid the impeachment inquiry against him and backlash

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welcome back, everybody. joining us from washington we look at axios a.m. national political reporter for axios, jonathan swann. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> hey, jonathan. >> talk to us about axios' one big thing today. >> aside from the fact i got married. >> oh, yes. >> congratulations. >> i wanted to say congratulations but i wasn't sure if you wanted to bring it up on the air. >> we're very excited for you. >> and to betsy. that's my one big thing. sources close to president trump have expressed concern about the intentions of the recently departed national security adviser john bolton to write a book about his time serving president trump. i reported that bolton has signed on with agents, top book agents, keith urbine, they

represented james comey for his book deal. he saw the most in terms of national security decision making, the most sensitive decisions and conversations made in this administration who appears to be willing to talk about that in fairly candid terms. you saw others like james mattis, the former defense secretary, he wrote a book but it was all about leadership and he avoid the "t" word as much as possible and sort of kept it very, very an know dine. sources who know bolton do not expect that's the path he's going to go. >> given the way he left and the kind of disparaging comments the president has made about him, i wonder if he will not unleash on the president. quick question for you. is there any indication on when the bolton book may come out, when it maybe published? because the question is whether or not it will have any impact on the run up to 2020. >> i don't know the timeline for it, but given the speed at which the deal was done, i expect pretty quickly. i know from talking to literary

agents that the demand -- there's a very small window for these trump books right now and they need to be out before the election for there to be a good deal. so my assumption is it will be before the election and potentially substantially before the election, but i just don't know the date. >> i know axios is also looking ahead to what could be a big week for the impeachment proceedings against the president. what can we expect here, jonathan? >> so my colleague elena reported last night that gordon sondland, the u.s. embassy to the european union at the moment looks like he may after all appear next week. certainly that's the schedule that the committees have sent out. i can tell you from my own reporting there was a pretty intense internal debate inside the white house about who whether to allow him to appear or not. ultimately they decided not last week. but there were people in there who argued pretty strenuously that he would be much more

helpful in his testimony than some of the other folks. mostly because he's a real trump loyalist and you can see that from the test message he put where, you know, it was scripted, i understand mr. trump would never do a quid pro quo. the problem is there is an asterisk. he will have to answer questions about the fact that senator ron johnson told "the wall street journal" on the record that sondland told him that it was his understanding the ukraine aid was being held up on -- because president trump wanted an investigation into the bidens. so he's going to have to answer that question. and, you know, you've got the word of a u.s. senator, republican, on the record saying this is what he said. so, i mean, i know that they think it will be helpful, but there's certainly potential downside as well. >> so what are you going to be looking for in the day, the week ahead? what are some of the important issues related to the impeachment inquiry or elsewhere that you're keeping an eye on? >> well, apart from what i just

do normally had is try to find out what's being said in these rooms with the testimony one thing i'm watching closely is the movements in public opinion. that's something that the white house is watching closely, president trump's political team is watching closely ar and senators are watching really closely because we have seen an unmistakable shift in public opinion towards support for impeachment of this president. and that is concerning some people. >> all right, jonathan swann live for us in washington, d.c. congrats again. >> congrats to you and betsy. >> we'll be reading axios a.m. in just a bit. our viewers sign up for that newsletter by going to signup.axios.com. >> that does it for us on this friday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. do you think it is appropriate for the president of the united states to solicit foreign