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is monday, october 28th. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. president trump yesterday confirmed the death of isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi following a raid this weekend in northwestern syria by u.s. special operations forces. according to comments by trump national security adviser robert o'brien and nbc news reporting from multiple officials familiar with the raid, at around 5:00 p.m. saturday trump and his top national security officials gathered in the white house situation room to watch the military operation. the day before trump had given the order to launch a raid to capture or kill baghdadi after options were presented to him on thursday thanks in part to information from the same syrian kurdish allies trump is accused of abandoning, u.s. analysts believed they had found the isis leader. the cia had been honing in the intelligence for weeks. the man believed to be baghdadi was under u.s. surveillance and his movements were being tracked. the american commandos had been staging in the region since last month.

some of them were launched from the iraqis kurdish city of erbil. there was no hostile force nearby given that trump had receivedacquiescence. >> this was not the first attempt to get the isis leader. two or three launches has been canceled because baghdadi changed his mind about where he was headed. the u.s. either had a human source in baghdadi's entourage or was monitoring his communications. trump and his team watched a video feed with a definition that the president said was as clear and detailed as one might see in a mall cineplex. u.s. aircraft flew low and fast for about an hour and ten minutes over air space controlled by turkey and russia as trump explained it, eight helicopters were met with gunfire as they approached the compound and returned fire to neutralize the threat. the choppers landed, and quote,

a large crew of brilliant fighters emerged. they blew holes into the building to avoid a booby-trapped main door. they captured fighters killing anyone who existed. they were chased by u.s. special operations dogs, baghdadi fled into what the president called a dead end tunnel with three children. baghdadi then detonated his suicide vest ending all four lives and collapsing the tunnel. the commandos spent two hours total in the compound collecting highly sensitive material trump said to be certain of baghdadi's identity, the operators had a team on site with samples on his dna. no american was injured in the raid, though a military dog was wounded. >> president trump compared taking on baghdadi to the death of another notorious terrorist osama bin laden. according to the president bin laden only became known after the world center trade attacks. he claimed he predicted a terror

attack from bin laden thisin a . >> bin laden was very big, but bin laden became big with the world trade center if you read my book, i don't get any credit for this, but that's okay. i never do, but here we are i wrote a book, a really very successful book, and in that book about a year before the world trade center was blown up i said there is somebody named osama bin laden. you better kill him or take him out, something to that effect. he's big trouble, and i'm saying to people take out osama bin laden that nobody ever heard of, nobody ever heard of. al baghdadi everybody's heard because he's built this monster for a long time, but nobody ever heard of osama bin laden until really the world trade center. but about a year- you'll have to check it. a year, year and a half before the world trade center came down, the book came out. i was talking about osama bin laden. i said you have to kill him.

you have to take him out. nobody listened to me, and to this day i get people coming up to me, they say you know what one of the most amazing things i've ever seen about you is that you predicted that osama bin laden had to be killed before he knocked down the world trade center. it's true. i made a prediction and let's put it this way. if they would have listened to me, a lot of things would have been different. >> of course bin laden was not unknown before the 9/11 attacks but indeed quite well-known as a global terrorist, especially within the intelligence and kmil te military communities. as the a.p. noted when trump first made similar claims about bin laden. trump's book did not foreshadow a bin laden attack. that was incorrect. they wrote in part, quote there was nothing original or clairvoyant in the reference to bin laden. nor did it call for further u.s. actions against bin laden or al

qaeda. >> almost did not happen due to one of his most widely criticized foreign policy decisions. multiple military and counter trac terrorism official. for months intelligence officials had kept him appraised of the hunt for mr. baghdadi, but mr. trump's abrupt withdrawal order from northeast syria three weeks ago disrupted the meticulous planning underway and forced pentagon officials to speed up the plan for the risky night raid before their ability to control troops, spies, and reconnaissance aircraft disappeared with the pull out. mr. al baghdadi's death occurred largely in spite of and not because of the president's actions. it allowed the formerly u.s. backed kurds to fend for themselves. however, u.s. officials telling the paper that the kurds continued to provide information to the cia on baghdadi's

location even after trump's betrayal. and the kurds provided more intelligence for the raid than any single country. and in a tweet, kurdish syrian democratic forces call it a five-month quote, joint operation. >> i want to thank the nations of russia, turkey, syria, and iraq and i also want to thank the syrian kurds for certain support they were able to give us. >> can you say what role the kurds played in this generally? >> they gave us not a military role at all, but they gave us some information that turned out to be helpful. the kurds have worked incredibly with us. it was much easier dealing with the kurds after they went through three days of fighting because that was a brutal three days. >> joining us live from erbil in northern iraq, nbc national security correspondent, courtney ku kube. lots to dissect in the

president's announcement. let's hone in on one part of it, the president talking about the region's oil and the need to secure it, and i understand that you have some new reporting this morning on the movement of u.s. troops in that area. what more can you tell us about it? >> that's right, so president trump said very clearly in his speech yesterday at the white house that u.s. troops would be securing the oil in syria, and he talked about the importance of that mission. well, we saw those first troops moving out of here in erbil on saturday for this new mission. what's unclear is how many troops will be use. . we know they'll have heavy and light armored vehicles including some tanks. many of them actually will come from here in iraq, troops that are already here deployed including some that will come from erbil and in the kurdish region. president trump has really gone back and forth over this deployment to the oil fields. it will have an impact. you mentioned that "new york

times" story on the raid and how it was sped up because of the president's decision to pull us troops out. this redeployment and then this new mission will have an impact on future missions like that. it is a riskier mission for u.s. troops if they have a smaller or no footprint in syria, mainly because they don't have the troops on the ground. they may not control air space, and they may not have the kind of human intelligence sources that they would have if they were actually present in the country. >> all right, courtney kube live inn in er bile iraq. president trump's former chief of staff john kelly said before leaving the white house he, in fact, warned president trump against hiring a yes man. >> i said whatever you do, don't hire a yes man, someone that's going to tell you -- won't tell you the truth, don't do that. if you do, i believe you'll be

impeached, and someone has got to be the guy that tells you that, you know, you either have the authority or you don't or you know, mr. president, you know, don't do it because whatever, you know, but don't hire someone that would just, you know, nod and say that's a great idea mr. president. because you will be impeached. >> and president trump responded in a statement saying john kelly never said that. he never said anything like that. if he would have said that, i would have thrown him out of the office. he just wants to come back into the action like everybody else does. stephanie grisham hit back in a statement reading i worked with john kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great president. that is a true statement. >> congress reporter from the hill, olivia beavers. thanks for joining us on this. pretty astounding stuff from john kelly over the weekend,

especially with all of the al baghdadi news developing. >> bizarre. >> really bizarre. >> what do you make of john kelly warning the president to not hire a yes man, and it obviously seems as if the president did not listen. >> it seems to be quite a zinger for him to make this comment especially as the impeachment inquiry is going into full scale. john kelly is saying don't surround yourself with yes men. that seems to be pointed with the mick mulvaney and rudy giuliani who are two figures also wrapped up in impeachment. we know the president from thiz past has tried to surround himself by people that he views as loyal to him. i think john kelly's warning was a sign that said don't surround yourself by someone who will just take orders blindly. you need someone to put up guardrails and protect yourself when you have an idea that will not play legally or with the american public. so his warning as he says, it was intended to be something to

help the president rein in who he likes to surround himself by. >> let me switch gears for a moment and talk to you about the isis raid over the weekend. it's kind of drawing a lot of negative commentary, if you will, that congressional leaders were not briefed, the traditional so-called gang of eight that includes the bipartisan leadership in some of the more important national security and intelligence committees. they weren't given the heads-up or briefed about the operation but apparently countries like turkey and russia were given a heads-up. how is that going down on capitol hill? >> i think that's another step that has added to the frustration among democrats. you hear that other leaders were briefed in the senate, but the house leaders, adam schiff and devin nunes who are part of the house's impeachment inquiry led by democrats were not involved in any briefings, so it might

just be some democrats were complaining this is just a result of the president playing politics with intelligence when they say they should be briefed and they weren't just because they're also at the same time taking part in this impeachment inquiry. but certainly this is another sign that the president is not following all the same protocols that other presidents have maybe followed in the past. >> but i just think it's important to note contextually ahead of the osama bin laden raid the congressional leaders were briefed, even if it was just a couple of minutes or so, they did know what was about to go down. >> olivia beavers is live in washington, d.c. for us this morning. thank you very much. we're going to talk to you again in a little bit. new reporting about republican lawmakers efforts to gather information about the whistle-blowers who exposed president trump's attempts to pressure ukraine. former vice president joe biden slams the president as an idiot for calling russian election interference a hoax. those stories and of course a check on your weather when we come back. e

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according to "the washington post" the crowd sustained booing hit almost 100 decibels and was followed by chants of lock him up and impeach trump when he was introduced after the third inning. as for the game, the houston astros defeated the nationals 7-1 and lead the series 3 games to 2. let's check on the weather. >> over the weekend, i hope you saw some of the pictures out of california. devastating once again, the kincade fire just exploded. it went all the way up to 60,000 acres. i mean, the amount that it traveled yesterday in the 50 to 60 and 70 miles per hour winds was incredible. at one .200000 people were evacuated. they say now there's still 80,000 structures threatened by this fire, 80,000. 200,000 people were evacuated. as of now about 100 structures have burned. very dangerous and incredible

times in this horrific wind storm. imagine being that firefighter or any of the firefighters out there trying to fight a fire with 50 to 80 miles per hour wind gusts yesterday. we're not done. it's not going to be as windy today, but then we have a whole other santa ana wind event to take place tuesday through thursday. this is just an incredible stretch here of dangerous fire weather in california. 42 million people are included in the red flag warnings and the fire weather watches. the highest winds are today in northern california. the kincade fire here north of san francisco. some of the air quality is just horrific right now with some of the air blowing down through the bay. tuesday and thursday is when the dangerous winds will return to southern california, and there's other spot fires out there, but the big one is that kincade fire, and for today critical risk continues in that area near santa rosa. this is where the kincade fire is through the wine country here. as we go through tomorrow and into thursday, we could see the highest wind event of the season in the southern portion of

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happened. as "the washington post" points out, the white house script on the death of brutal terrorist abu bakr al baghdadi was short but president trump turned the somber announcement into a vivid 40-minute news conference that included bravado, detailed descriptions of military operations, questionable statements and self-promotion. >> from the first day i came to office, and now we're getting close to three years, i would say where is al baghdadi, i want al baghdadi, and we would kill terrorist leaders, but they were names i never heard of. they were names that weren't recognizable, and they wseren't the big names, some good ones. some important ones. i kept saying where's al baghdadi, and a couple of weeks ago they were able to scope him out. you know, these people are very smart. they're not into the use of cell phones anymore. they're not -- they're very technically brilliant, you know, they use the internet better

than almost anybody in the world, perhaps other than donald trump. but they use the internet incredibly well, and what they've done with the internet through recruiting and everything, and that's why he died like a dog, he died like a coward. he was whimpering, screaming and crying, and frankly, i think it's something that should be brought out so that his followers and all of these young kids that want to leave various countries including the united states, they should see how he died. >> and during his news conference yesterday president trump said many congressional leaders did not get advanced notice of the raid that killed al baghdadi. republican senator richard burr and lindsey graham were informed ahead of the raid, but other leaders were not due to a fear of leaks. >> have you notified the congressional members about this, pelosi. >> we notified some. others are being notified now as i speak. we were going to notify them

last naight but we decided not o do that because washington leaks like i've never seen before. there's no country in the world that leaks like we do. a leak could have caused the death of all of them. house speaker nancy pelosi released a statement saying the house must be briefed on this raid, which the russians but not top congressional leadership were notified of in advance. our military and allies deserve strong, smart, and strategic leadership from washington. vice president mike pence was asked yesterday why top democrats, specifically nancy pelosi were not informed ahead of the raid. here's how he answered. >> does the president not trust the speaker of house with sensitive national security information? >> chris, i don't think that was the implication at all. i think from the time that we got actionable intelligence, the president's total focus here was on a successful mission and the

safety of american troops. >> why didn't the president notify the spaeaker of the hous? >> chris, i just want to emphasize the president's focus here throughout particularly the last several days was on the mission to bring a man who was the most wanted man in the world, a man who had brought unspeakable violence through the isis caliphate who was exporting violence around the world to justice. >> meanwhile, baghdadi's air -- has been killed citing the leader of a activist. he was killed in a separate joint u.s. kurdish operation about a day after baghdadi. people at the scene reportedly told the syrian activists that he was being smuggled across northern syria in the back of an oil tanker when it was hit by what is believed to be a u.s. air strike.

nbc news has not independently confirmed these accounts. the times reports that u.s. officials also could not confirm he had been killed. switching gears for a moment, former michigan congressman john conyers has died. the liberal democrat was the longest serving african-american in the history of congress with more than 50 years of election wins, an outspoken pioneer of the civil rights movement, he was a founder of the congressional black caucus. in 2017, conyers stepped down from congress amid accusations of sexual misconduct by two women who he denied. the former congressman died at his detroit home yesterday of natural causes, this according to police he is survived by his wife and two sons. former congressman john conyers was 90 years old. thousands gathered this past weekend to honor the life and legacy of the late congressman elijah cummings in his beloved hometown of baltimore. among the eulogizers included presidents bill clinton and

barack obama who paid homage to their friend's integrity and character in the face of political opposition. >> they knew that without the constitution the laws that were passed under it, the rights that were guaranteed by it, and the abuses it was designed to prevent, without that constitution he would not have been in congress. and so he said to himself i am certain every day i will not let this promise be sullied. >> people will look back at this moment, and they will ask the question what did you do, and hearing him, we would be reminded that it falls upon each of us to give voice to the voiceless and comfort to the sick and opportunity to those not born to it and to preserve and nurture our democracy. >> the culmination of the

three-day long funeral service, which began with cummings becoming the first african-american lawmaker to lie in state at the u.s. capitol drew an outpouring of bipartisan praise for the man known to many as a defender of democracy through grace and dignity. congressman elijah cummings was just 68 years old. joining us now reporter for the hill once again olivia beavers. good to talk to you again, let's talk about how the presidency here has changed the way that washington remembers political greats such as congressman cummings and senator john mcc n mccain. >> certainly, what you see here are politicians coming out and praise cummings as they did with mccain for their efforts to reach across the aisle, to be civil, to engage with people who don't have the same ideological views as them. one of the speeches that you saw for chairman cummings was congressman mark meadows who is this very conservative republican, who was praising

cummings as being someone who was larger than life and having these great strong values, even if they didn't see eye to eye. it's that kind of reaching across the aisle and that kind of respective friendships that are special and being praised in a growing not only city but country as politics and impeachment are ramping up. people are liking to see these old leaders, these old guards who would step in when they didn't think something was right and even if it was at cost of what their party disagreed with many. >> let's talk about the raid, as we were continuing that conversation from earlier about the fact that congressional leaders were not necessarily informed about the mission to take down the isis leader over the weekend. what do you make of this? are we going into new territory? especially after we played that soundbite of mike pence essentially dodging the question

about whether or not the president trusts nancy pelosi. >> i had a source text me after they watched the pence interview, and they said how can he claim that the president was totally focused and didn't have time to inform democratic leaders when he had time to inform some of the republican leaders. i think that that sort of a response is a sign they don't buy it. the president says he is worried about leaks, there is a gang of eight, which is eight top members of congress that aims to be able to handle these sensitive intelligence matters, and the president chose to withhold it from the democrats. as you can see, this is a sign that things are probably going to be getting more and more dirty as impeachment ramps up. >> is there anything actionable that you are hearing that either pelosi or schumer, some of the individuals that were not informed plan to pursue because of this? >> not at the moment, but i believe that they probably are going to be huddling sometime today to discuss their next

steps of how they choose to respond, if this is something that is a one-off that might be something that they let slip, but if this is something that continues they might use it as a sign that trump is turning intelligence into further partisan -- making intelligence partisan, which is -- which is something that they've tried to prevent from happening. >> all right, olivia beavers live in washington, d.c. for us this morning. protests in lebanon are still raging in what's being referred to as the october revolution. for 11 days protesters have taken to the streets fueled by dire economic conditions and anger against the political elite that they have mismanaged funds and plundered state resources for personal gain. the country's leaders have failed to calm those protests offering no political concessions while the country's banks have been closed raising fears of a financial crisis. last friday the head of

hezbollah backed the government saying the protests were being leld by invisible leaders as part of an international conspiracy. the army opened fire on protesters in tripoli killing six people. joining us from beirut lebanon, foreign correspondent matt bradley. lots to get to across the region. we'll get to the killing of the isis leader in a moment and how it's playing out across the region. bring us up to speed first of all on those protests and demonstrations taking place in beirut now turning deadly as in some cases the security forces have opened fire on those demonstrators. zplo >> reporter: it's the 12th day of these protests. they've been going on now for nearly two weeks. what we're seeing today is kind of a general strike. again, a lot of the businesses are closed. everybody who wants to participate is staying away from work. they're closing their businesses, and we're seeing the big problem for the government here is road closures. it's bringing the city and the whole country really to a

standstill. folks are dragging furniture into the streets, into the main highways, clogging the arteries, trying to keep people from going to the airplaort. we were worried we wouldn't be able to get out of the airport when we arrived a couple of days ago. this follows on yesterday when there was a startling site, nearly 200,000 lebanese joined hands in the streets and tried to kcreate a human chain up and down the coast of lebanon. it was quite a stirring sight and follows this sprawling protest we have seen just off my right shoulder here. we're starting to see a little bit of the momentum kind of petering out, and it's unclear whether or not this is going to continue. remember, this is a difficult challenge for these protesters because this is a leaderless movement, and also lebanon is kind of a leaderless country. you know, it's easy to see these kind of protests and see this as a bunch of young people rising up against a dictator. there is no dictator in lebanon.

there is no cohesive government to overthrow. >> it's the entire system that's essentially corrupt that they want to reform. >> we want to talk about the reaction of course in the region to the president's announcement about the killing of abu bakr al baghdadi, what are you hearing on the ground there from your perspective? >> reporter: in the same way that all of these different countries and groups are fighting the kind of dismember syria itself trying to claim as much land and as much influence as they possibly can, this major victory against abu bakr al baghdadi and isis, a lot of these countries and interest groups are trying to stake their own claim from that. we heard from the syrian democratic forces that mostly kurdish fighting force that was allied with the u.s. and really still is, we heard from the iraqi military, we heard from the syrian regime of bashar al assad, and a lot of these kbrups a groups are trying to say they

were instrumental. it was the syrian democratic forces, those kurdish allies of the u.s. who president donald trump essentially spurned just a couple of weeks ago when he withdrew troops from the syrian border and allowed for that turkish incursion to come in. those sdf fighters, it seems that despite the betrayal by the president, they've still been committed to the cause of fighting islamic state whether with the u.s. or without them. >> it's kind of hard to see what's happening in beirut with the killing of isis's leader, sometimes what you can connect is the corruption that leads to extremism is what groups like isis use to fuel. a lot of people want genuine meaningful reform, so that they aren't forced into the arms of extremist groups. exploit those resources.

matt bradley live for us in beirut. former vice president and 20 to candidate joe biden has some harsh words for president trump when it comes to his comments about russian election interference. bill karins has another check on the forecast as dangerous wildfires tear across northern california's wine country. we'll show you those images and tell you that next.

freshman congresswoman katie hill resigned amid multiple allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with staffers during her time on the campaign and in office. in a letter posted to twitter hill said this, it is with a broken heart that today i announce my resignation from congress. this is the hardest thing i have ever had to do, but i believe it is the best thing for my constituents my community and our country. the california democrat attributed her resignation to her estranged husband who she said is driving a smear campaign

against her after explicit photos were leaked to a conservative website leading to a house ethics investigation. she continued having private photos of personal moments weaponized against me has been an appalling invasion of my privacy. it's also illegal and we are pursuing all of our available legal options. i know that as long as i am in congress, we'll live fearful of what might come next and how much it will hurt. speaker nancy pelosi responded to hill's resignation sunday night saying this, hill has ak nonged errors in judgment that made her continued service as a member untenable. we must ensure a climate of integrity and dignity in the congress and in all workplaces. >> joe biden slammed president trump for down playing russian election interference saying trump and the russians are aligned. >> the russians are targeting you. >> the russians don't want me to be president, and trump doesn't want me to be the nominee. there's certain things that have come across very clearly. >> how concerned are you about

foreign interference in this election? >> i'm very concerned about foreign interference. everybody knows what's going on. trump not only doesn't want to do anything about it, he's going out and asking for help. come help me. come help me defeat, keep biden from being the nominee. >> he's perpetuating. >> how is he perpetuating it? >> by encouraging them to get involved in our elections. >> president trump says russian interference is a hoax. >> he's an idiot in terms of saying that. everybody knows this. everybody knows it. nobody doubts it. >> all right, let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> continuing this week, the fire dang is the big story. we have a big cold outbreak and snow in the rockies and then i've got a soggy halloween forecast for way too many people. the most dangerous thing out there, and it was all weekend long was the fire weather conditions in california. this was the dry season. all summer long it was hot.

all the vegetation dries up. we go through the fall season where we get these strong offshore wind events. sometimes we call them the santa ana winds. those winds are gusty and typically they're warm and the low humidity, if there's any fires out there they can spread rapidly. that's what we've been seeing happen. today another dangerous day, northern california will not be like yesterday. yesterday was historic. one wind gust on a mountain top was 100 miles per hour. firefighters were fighting this blaze, the kincade fire with winds of 50 to 70 miles per hour. imagine trying to stand in front of that. that's why 200,000 people were evacuated. for today, east coast is relatively quiet, a little bit of rain in florida along the northern portions of the gulf later tonight some of that rain will move in. there's very chilly conditions. we have a little bit of snow moving through the central rockies and temperatures are in the 20s and 30s. it's cold. it's like winter time in the rockies, and the high fire danger continues. by the time we get to wednesday, all of a sudden you see a big storm developing a lot of rain moving in off the gulf, even a little bit of snow on the back

side of it. still dealing with santa ana winds in california, and then thursday into friday all of that wet weather goes towards the east coast. by friday it clears out. so how does that halloween forecast look? this is where all the wet weather could be. if you're east of the mississippi river, it could possibly be an umbrella and costume type day. the soaking rains, tennessee valley and ohio valley and kind of wet, damp but mild up the eastern seaboard. could be a little bit of snow for halloween on the back side of this storm in areas not far from chicago. i know, it's not the best trick or treat forecast. >> just silence. >> silence. >> i'm not responsible for it. i'm trying to prepare you for it. >> i was going to say, you can see like all the faces of little kids bill karins has just totally crushed their hopes. >> the kids won't mind. it's the participants that will complain. >> exactly. we're going to come up with costumes that include tarps. >> and sippy cups. we're reporting on how much

the federal deficit increased this year. plus, a new book details the president's efforts to quote, screw amazon out of billions of dollars. we're going to have that story and much more coming up next. the game doesn't end after that insane buzzer beater.

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since 2012. during trump's time in office the deficit is up nearly 50% due in part to the president's endorsement of big spending policies. the current state of the u.s. economy largely contradicts the president's campaign promise to eliminate the federal debt within eight years. treasury secretary steve mnuchin commented on the new deficit figure saying quote, in order to truly put america on a sustainable financial path we must enact proposals like the 2020 budget plan to cut wasteful and irresponsible spending. an upcoming book on jim mattis's tenure as secretary of defense claims president trump told mattis to screw amazon out of a $10 billion cloud contract for the pentagon. the joint enterprise defense infrastructure contract was awarded to microsoft on friday evening sending its stock up 3%. the contract is capped at 10 billion over the next ten years. if it ends up being worth that much it would likely be a bigger deal to microsoft than it would have been to amazon. the account was written by

mattis's speech writer in the forthcoming book entitled "holding the line, inside trump's pentagon with secretary mattis." mattis said he wasn't going to follow through with the president's demands. quote, this will be done by book legally and ethicalically. in a statement general mattis said he does not intend to read the book and said mr. snodgrass was a junior staff who took notes in some meetings. he was appointed to a position of trust at the department of defense and surreptitiously taking notes without authorization for a self-promoting personal project is a clear violation of that trust. he may receive a few brief moments of attention for this book, but those moments will be outweighed by the fact that to get them he surrendered his honor. trump has taken aim at amazon's ceo jeff bezos as well as "the washington post" which he owns for his coverage of the administration. philip reeker testified

of rudy giuliani. according to a source familiar with his deposition, reeker said he and his colleagues tried to put out a statement in support of the yovanovitch but was told no by undersecretary david hale. reeker expressed concern over hail and ulrich. the closest adviser to secretary of state mike pompeo. reeker testified that he knew nearly $400 million of military aid was being withheld from ukraine in july after a meeting with ambassador bill taylor. reeker testified that envoy for ukraine ambassador kurt volker was communicating with rudy giuliani and reeker who began his post in march spent his first week reacting to what he called a fake narrative being spread about yovanovitch, which previous witnesses have testified was run by giuliani. trump's former deputy national security adviser has filed a lawsuit asking a federal

judge whether he has to testify in the impeachment inquiry. kupperman's testify, which is scheduled for today would bring the inquiry closer to john bolton, the president's former national security adviser. the outcome of the lawsuit could affect the ability of other witnesses who worked closely with the president to cooperate with the investigation. kupperman says in a lawsuit that he was told by white house lawyers not to appear today. in a statement obtained by nbc news, kupperman's attorney said his client cannot satisfy the competing and irreconcilable demands of the legislative and executive branches. still ahead, much measure on the reaction to president trump's announcement that abu bakr al baghdadi died during a military operation in syria. >> courtney kube joins us live from northern iraq with the very latest. your first look with "morning joe" is back in a moment. ck in . well, it does need to be a vehicle. but - i need this out of my house.

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