it is a new week in the impeachment probe, and starting on wednesday, we are going to see public testimony for the first time, this as we learn new details about witnesses previously, what they had to say behind closed doors. >> democrats are pushing back on gop efforts to have hunter biden and the ukraine whistle-blower testify in the impeachment

probe. house intelligence committee chair adam schiff is calling it redundant and unnecessary. >> and former u.n. ambassador nikki haley says in a new book, two of president trump's former advisers tried to undermine the president to quote save the country. good morning, everyone. it is monday, november 11, veterans day. i'm ayman mohyeldin, alongside yasmin vossoughian. we want to begin with what is expected to be a busy and historic week in the impeachment probe as it now moves from behind closed doors to public proceeds. the hearings are expected to open wednesday with bill taylor, who testified he was told everything ukraine wanted, military aide and a white house visit were contingent on the announcing investigations in the 2016 elections as well as the biden. george kent is also set to testify publicly on wednesday. he told lawmakers that a white

house visit was contingent on a promise from ukraine to launch the investigations. ousted u.s. ambassador marie yovanovitch has told investigators she felt threatened when president trump told ukraine's president in the july 25th phone call that she would quote go through some things. >> we're getting a look at more of that testimony from behind closed doors. the latest from the president's former top adviser on russia and europe fiona hill who put acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney at the center of the ukraine scandal and testified the infamous july 10th meeting telling lawmakers this, ambassador sondland blurted out, we have an agreement with the chief of staff if the investigations in the energy sector start and john bolton stiffened, at the mention of an investigation into burisma meaning the bidens and brought

the meeting to an abrupt halt and bolton then sent her to another meeting happening inside of the meeting. hill told lawmakers quote this, ambassador sondland in front of the ukrainians as i came in was talking about how he had an agreement with chief of staff mulvaney, for meeting with the ukrainians, if they were going to go forward with investigations. >> and house committees have released the deposition transcript of president trump's top ukraine expert on the national security council, army lieu te lieutenant colonel vindman, he testifies that there was no doubt trump was in fact seeking investigations from ukraine, involving the 2016 election, as well as former vice president joe biden, and his son hunter. according to the transcript of his october closed door testimony, released friday, vindman told impeachment investigators it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where the gain would be for the president in investigating the son of a political opponent. vindman also testified that

trump administration officials delivered a clear quid pro quo message, telling investigators that u.s. ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland, had informed him that not only was a white house meeting with zelensky contingent on the probes trump desired but his condition had been coordinated with the white house chief of staff mick vul mainy. vind mand said at another point in his testimony that sondland told the ukrainians they would need to deliver an investigation into bidens for a white house meeting saying there was no ambiguity in the q and vind mand said by july 3rd that military aid to ukraine had been frozen, two weeks earlier than the date others cited in the testimonies. and the hold occurred following abnormal questions from the white house office of management and budget. >> the republicans want the testimony as part of the

impeachment probe but adam schiff is pouring cold water on the idea. devin nunes listed hunter biden and the whistle-blower as requested witnesses in a letter to schiff on saturday. schiff wrote back to him, saying the committee's investigation will not serve as vehicles for any members to carry out any sham investigations into the bidens or debunked conspiracies about 2016 u.s. election interference that president trump pressed ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit. president trump weighed in on twitter yesterday, writing this, corrupt politician adam schiff wants people from the white house to testify in his and pelosi's disgraceful witch hunt, yet he will not allow a white house lawyer, nor we will he allow any of our requested witnesses. this is a first in due process and congressional history. the senate judicial chairman graham yesterday said the impeachment probe is invalid unless the whistle-blower testifies. >> i consider any impeachment in the house that doesn't allow us

to know who the whistle-blower is to be invalid, because without the whistle-blower complaint, we wouldn't be talking about any of this. >> and republican senator ron ron johnson shed more light on the leg work being done by himself and white house vizers to convince president trump to release military aide to ukraine. >> from my standpoint, i understand that most of president trump's advisers wanted the military aid released. and they were trying to figure out some way shape or form to convince president trump to approve that release. what i was trying to do in my phone call to him on august 31st. so i don't have a problem with advisers trying to figure out some way, shape or form to convince the boss to do this. when i raised the issue, he vehemently, adamantly and angrily denied there was any kind of condition to release it. >> david mark, from the washington examiner joins us now. thanks for joining us on this.

good morning. >> good morning. >> let's talk hunter biden here and the ukraine whistle-blower. and republicans are now wanting to hear from both of them. and their testimony. adam schiff basically say it's not happening. what is the strategy here going into this pretty historic week when it comes to this impeachment inquiry? >> the goal is to shift away attention from any actions by president trump and his underlings and try to move the focus to former vice president joe biden and his son hunter biden. it is really try to absolve trump from anything he's done. chairman schiff is not allowing it. he's saying that's not what the issue. is that's not the focus. and schiff has the power to do this, because he is the chairman of the committee and democrats are in the majority. >> let's turn if we can really quickly to what is expected to be a busy historic week, as the democrats prepare for the first public hearings of the impeachment inquiry, beginning wednesday. what are you going to be looking

at for, from these testimonies? is there a likelihood that any new information will be learned from them? >> one thing i'm going to be watching is actually not as much what the witnesses say, although that's important, but we have an idea what's coming from them, but how the questioning is actually conducted. part of the problem democrats have had to date, particularly with the mueller hearings, a few months ago, is they're all over the place. they interject, they get five minutes each, they don't paint a coherent narrative. it will be interesting to see if the democrats have one of their lawyers actually do most of the questioning, and that would mean putting aside some egos, but actually getting, eliciting more information from the witnesses. >> david mark, live from washington, d.c., we will talk to you again in a little bit. "the new york times" is reporting that presidential hopeful pete buttigieg may have struck a nerve with democratic rival, according to the times, despite the steady rise in the polls more than a dozen participants in the democratic

campaign, including opponents and campaign aides say they're anowed with how buttigieg quote analyzes and makes pronouncements about the primary. the times rereports the millennial mayor holds a commanding position in iowa one of the biggest bank accounts in the primary and has several field offices in early voting state, the most of any candidate in the field. but as his popularity grows with the public, many of his political rivals argue that buttigieg is still too inexperienced to be electable and his accomplishment does not merit the vast a peappeal he ha candidates and donors. >> bernie sanders says the climate change plan is expensive at a climate change summit co-hosted by congressman alexandria ocasio-cortez, argued the high cost of the plan is the only option given the imminent threat to the planet. >> building on the green new deal, we have brought forth a rather detailed proposal. and i have been criticized by

some who say it is expensive. well, they're right. it is. it is $16 trillion over a ten-year period. that's a lot of money. but i want you to tell me what the alternative is in terms of saving the planet? >> still ahead, president trump's acting chief of staff mick mulvaney seeks so join a lawsuit concerning impeachment testimony. ultimately he is asking a court to decide whether he listens to his boss or complies with a congressional subpoena. >> despite the president's claim that he is bringing troops home from syria, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff say hundreds of troops will stay in the war-torn country. those stories and a check of your weather when we come back. ♪oh there's no place like home for the holidays.♪

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welcome back. president trump's acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is asking a court to allow him to join a lawsuit that

could determine whether administration officials testify in the impeachment probe. the lawsuit filed by john bolton's former deputy charles kupperman asks a court to determine whether he can testify. as "the new york times" points out kupperman's lawsuit names the honorable jonld j. trump as a defendant along with congressional leaders and the lawyers tried to fin es that by saying in the boddist motion, who they wanted to sue was congressional leaders but the own motion named trump as the defendant because that is the suit they sought to join. in effect, mr. mulvaney hopes the court will tell him whether to listen to his own boss who want himself to remain silent or comply with the subpoena from the house, which wants his testimony. the move has put mulvaney at odds with other white house administration officials who have simply defied democrats' request to testify. joining us here on the set, msnbc legal analyst sdanny

cevallos great to have you with us on this monday morning. lefkow let's talk about mick mulvaney and the implications he finds himself and what are the implications of the federal lawsuit and what it might mean for others like john bolton and former deputy security adviser as well as charles kupperman. >> first this is not a traditional lawsuit where we're accustomed and sues for money, it names donald trump nominally as a defendant but it brings the pears together to declare what everyone's rights and duties are. i think it is a smart move by mulvaney because he is caught in the middle between the executive branch telling him not to appear and congress, who is telling him, the legislative branch, that he must appear. subpoenaing him. and he doesn't want to be personally responsible and end up in criminal contempt. so a wise move is asking the court, hey, decide this issue for me, tell me who's right, is

it the olc, who says close personal advisers of the president are immune from all process, or is it congress, who has this broad subpoena power and the ability to hold me in criminal contempt. somebody please tell me what my responsibilities are. >> but it is interesting, because is this sort of, and i feel like this is what you're saying but i just want some clarity on it is, this kind of mulvaney basically wanting historical record to reflect the fact that he didn't completely defy the subpoenas as others have but instead brought a court case up and subsequently decided that way and he went by the law? >> he wants to know what the law is so he can say he is only complying with the law. so he if he is forced to appear before congress, he could say it's not my choice, i'm just complying with the law and he can tell the same thing to the executive branch and to congress if it is determined that he can refuse, he wants to be able to tell congress, look, i can't appear, the olc opinion turns out is right, and i, close personal advisers of the

president, cannot appear or be forced to testify, so i'm covered either way. >> i want to get your take on sort of the public testimonies that we're going to be hearing this week. what are you going to be looking for most? >> you will hear from bill taylor, george kent and marie yovanovitch this week, and possibly the most explosive testimony is that of bill taylor because we heard it already before, but he said something to the effect that he was very alarmed. something to the effect of this is crazy that we're holding up aid in return for an investigation, or help with a political campaign. now, the republicans are going to point out that that's mostly secondhand information that bill taylor had. but consider that these public hearings are really about optics. a lot of this testimony we already know. but congress wants to get the public's backing, democrats want the public's backing if they proceed with impeachment and they may garner more support. >> a lot at stake. sev sev, thank you very much.

>> thank you. >> great. let's switch gears and bring in msnbc meteorologist bill karins. it is veterans day out there. a lot of parades taking place around the country including here in new york city. >> the cold and the snow a mid december like feel out there, many areas of the country. let's start with the 66 million people impacted by the storm and that's how many people we have along the winter weather advisories or winter storm warnings from the foothills in colorado and overnight a decent snow and a lot of schools are delayed, and i know it is a federal holiday, a lot of schools are canceled, too. a one or two inch event in the ohio valley going from rain, over to sleet and freezing rain with a coating of snow on top of it. so yes, you have to remember your winter driving skills because a lot of people haven't used them in a while. and a full-fledged snowstorm in areas of northern new england. how much snow? obviously this time of the year, near the great lakes, they're still pretty warm and cold blasts and you get the enhancement of the snow, and

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morning. minneapolis will be four. and wind chill of two. so at least not that windy but you say chicago, will feel like negative 3 and for the east coast, the cold doesn't come in until we go tuesday into wednesday. and so be prepared as you go through wednesday morning, the wind chill in new york will be nine. and that will be a wakeup call. and other areas will be in the teens and single digits. so unusual cold, record cold. and yes, just kind of makes everyone -- >> what happened to fall? >> i think bill was telling us a month ago it was an unusually hot fall. >> it is called job security. >> and now unusually cold. >> thanks bill. president trump says he may have plans that includes a trip to russia next year after receiving a special invitation from vladimir putin. that story and much more coming up. that story and much more coming up if you live with diabetes,

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. let's start with the morning's top stories a former ambassador to the united nations nikki haley claimed in her new book that she refused attempts by two of president trump's top advisers, former secretary of state rex tillerson, and former white house chief of staff john kelly, to undermine the president. she writes in the new book, kelly and tillerson con fighted in me, when they resisted the president, they weren't being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country, it was their decisions, not the president's, that were in the best interests of american, they said. the president didn't know what he was doing. she also wrote that tillerson told her quote that the reason he resisted the president's decisions was because if he didn't, people would die. when asked about the quote, she stool by them in a recent interview. >> it absolutely happened. and instead of saying that to me, it should have been saying

that to the president. not asking me to join them, on their side bar plan. it should have been go tell the president what your differences are, and quit, if you don't like what he's doing. but to undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing. and it goes against the constitution. and it goes against what the american people want. and it was offensive. >> so tillerson did not provide an immediate comment to nbc news and haily told the "washington post" giving the best and most ethical staffing advice across the government so he could make an informed decision is quote working against trump, then guilty as charged. president trump praised her in a tweet yesterday evening. john bolton revealed on friday, that he was personally involved in many of the event, meetings and conversations at the center of the impeachment probe. as well as many relevant meetings and conversations that have not yet been discussed publicly. bolton's attorney, charles

cooper made that disclosure in a letter written to the house, in an effort to explain why his client needs a court order to testify before lawmakers. in that letter, bolton's lawyers stated that both bolton and his deputy charles kupperman have information concerning national security and foreign affairs adding that bolton has information that has yet to be touched on publicly. bolton had been scheduled to testify as part of the impeachment probe last thursday. but he did not appear. both he and kupperman have asked a court to determine whether they should obey house democrat's request to testify. according to axios, people around the president say they are actually worried what kind of notes bolton might have kept and when he might decide to divulge them. the sources which include current and former administration officials tell axios that bolton was the most prolific note taker at the top level of the white house. and probably has more details than any impeachment inquiry witness so far, specifically about the president's dealings with ukraine.

we've also recently learned that bolton has a new book deal with simon and schuster, and according to reports, that deal is worth about $2 million. >> details not going well for the president. >> and "the new york times" is claiming lev parnas, was told an incoming representative in may, that the country's announcement had to announce an investigation into the bidens or vice president mike pence would not attend the swearing in of the ukrainian leader and the u.s. would subsequently freeze aid to the country. the claim was communicated to the times challenges the events of narratives from trump and the ukrainian officials and directly links giuliani. and parnas stands alone in saying the intention was to present an ultimatum to the ukrainian leadership. his contention is denied by i r

igorfruman. >> republican lawmakers argued over the weekend, that president trump's actions involving ukraine fall short of impeachable offenses. >> the constitution is very specific, bribery, treason, high crimes and misdemeanors which is basically felonies and that's what you have to prove as a threshold question. the second question is under the circumstances do you believe it is good tore the country to proceed with impeachment and i would suggest a couple of circumstances are relevant here and number one there is not anything that the president said in that phone call that is different than he says in public all the time, so is there some sort of abuse of power that rises to that threshold, that is different than the american people have been hearing for three years? i don't hear that. >> i think the american people want fairness, and i don't think they're going to judge fairness when they're accusing president trump of the same thing joe biden did, threatening the aid if some kind of corruption is not investigated. it seems like everybody, both

parties have been threatening aid if some kind of investigation either doesn't happen, or is ended. so i think really, what's going to happen, people are going to say they're impeaching president trump, for exactly the same thing that joe biden did. >> i remain sympathetic with president trump's legitimate concerns about the corruption. when you're going to provide hundreds of millions of dollars of hard-earned american taxpayer dollars into a system, you want to make sure it is not corrupt. >> in an interview saturday, congressman mark meadows of north carolina told "the new york times" that democrats have overstated the case against the president, saying that evidence from the impeachment witnesses won't stand the test of other evidence and cross-examination. meanwhile, president trump on twitter yesterday maintained that his july phone call with the president of ukraine was quote perfect. he warned republicans, quote, don't be led into the fool's trap of saying it was not perfect. but is not impeachable. no. it is much stronger than that. nothing was done wrong. joining us on the set, nbc news

correspondent hans nichols. >> who is morally impeachable? >> don't you love amin's portrayal? he's perfect. >> a fireside chat of the president's tweet. >> you own it. >> coming into the holidays. >> let me play for you this exchange that you had with the president yesterday, actually on friday, i believe it is, it was very interesting of watch this exchange. >> mr. president, did you ask bill barr or anyone in your department of justice to investigate the bidens? and if not, you didn't ask them, why would you ask the president of ukraine to do something you weren't willing to ask your own justice department? >> we are looking for corruption. we are giving hundreds of millions of dollars, and we're looking for corruption. and all you have to do is take a look at biden, and you can see tremendous corruption. because what he did is quid pro quo times ten. >> did you ask -- >> be quiet. quiet. >> did you ask the d.o.j.? >> quiet. >> you are ready? i never spoke to him about anything. it's up to bill barr.

bill barr can do whatever he wants to do. but i saw the same tape on television. and the tape shows that joe biden is a crook. >> let me just say first of all, kudos for you for being persistent. we don't see a lot of that in the white house, people ask a question and he dodges it and goes on and we forget it, your persistency revealed something very significant. >> look, there are two sides of this, right? if the president had actually asked his justice department and the d.o.j. and the fbi to investigate the bidens per se, and that would also be a scandal. right? i mean you're not, and the president has talked about having, you know, in the past, he says well, we will have bill barr look into, that he wanted jeff sessions to do things, he and jeff sessions basically broke up over the president's inability to really control the justice department. so when the president says definitively, he has now said it, he never asked the d.o.j. or bill barr and that's bill barr's prerogative that to me says that the president has some indication that there are some things he can't ask the d.o.j. to do.

>> his answer was not very convincing. i don't think he had a clear answer t-as to whether or not he wanted to say to you he or didn't us bee because he said bill barr could do whatever he did and he also said he talked to bill barr and ambiguous enough to go both ways. >> maybe. . right after that, though, the president sort of tried to put this story to rest, that he asked bill barr to have a public press conference, and you know, exonerate him and said the call was perfect. he said i didn't ask him but he follows up, but we do it had i asked him. so he both denies it, that this is something to think about, and then in the same token, he comes in. >> are you at all seeing that the president is watching what he is saying and what he is putting out there publicly considering the fact that he is involved in the midst of this impeachment inquiry? has there been a change at all that you have seen personally? >> no change. i think, when you listen to the call, when you listen to the way donald trump talks, the way he, you know, he always walks right

up to things, and if something was incubated in depositions, right? he mows what it is like to be deposed. he knows how to be careful with his words. . i think there is a story, he just throws things out there. he is actually, he seems to be, with the exception of a "covfefe" twet or something like that. >> which he stands by. >> we'll never know. when melania's memoirs come out, i want the week off, right? >> you know, he hedges things in his tweets a lot. and there are things you can say, wait a second he just said. it and then you look back and say actually he didn't say. it he had a caveat. so you know, he knows what he's doing with social media. he knows what he is doing with the press. like this is not his, to use a metaphor from a different administration, this is not his first rodeo. >> i want to ask you about john bolton. how likely is it that we're going to see him testify, a, and b, what do you think he could feasibly have on this president? >> a lot.

the implication is that bolton has, he and mick mulvaney, all roads seem to be leading more to mick mulvaney, the thing with mick, he seems loyal and agrees with the president and bolton had policy differences, whether it is troops to venezuela or iran or series of policy differences. i read the letter several times. you can say one, this is a brushback to the white house and say look, i know a lot. it is another way to look at it though and say, he's saying because he knows so much, therefore executive privilege should be clearly attach to him. and i can't divine the intent of his attorneys or bolton from that letter. you can take it both ways. bottom line, he knows a lot. >> hans nichols, thank you very much. always a pleasure. still more on the news concerning the longest held hostage in american history, robert levinson vanished from an iranian island more than 12 years ago. we will go live to tehran. ill g.

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welcome back, everybody. there are new developments in a case involving former fbi agent robert levinson, who has been missing for 12 1/2 years, after being detained on iran's island, in a new filing to the u.n., iran for the first time acknowledged levinson's case as quote ongoing. we want to bring in nbc news tehran bureau chief on this. ali, good morning to you. talk to us more about what you know on this. >> reporter: that's right, for the first time in 12 years, iran has now filed a missing persons report on robert levinson. up until now, iran had said that they don't know anything about him. he went missing on the island in 2007 and since then, there was a press report saying that he had been arrested, following that, there had about to reports of robert levinson from iran, until

2010 and 2011, where two videos were released in the very disturbing orange jump suit, he was saying that he wasn't well, that his diabetes medicine was running out, but even then, the iranians said that they didn't know anything about him. that video had nothing to do with him. and it wasn't recorded in iran. now, after all these years, iran has filed a case with the united nations, acknowledging that he is missing. and all that they are saying is that we are acknowledging for humanitarian reasons that robert elevenson went missing from the island but they are not saying they know anything about his status or his whereabouts or anything that has happened to him. so it is a very curious case. it does raise questions as to why the iranians are bringing this up at this point. could they be jostling themselves for some kind of a prisoner swap, after all, robert levinson is a high asset prisoner, if he is indeed a prisoner here, but it does raise

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five of the most famous whistle-blowers, including frank seshaco, jeffrey wiegan whis had blower. and they all had a similar message. and it was you're not alone. daniel elseri daniel elsberg who leaked the pentagon papers. they are saying hang in there. and others out there who are seeing something, they should say something. >> we mentioned earlier in the show about john bolton and his meticulous note taking and how cohave a l he could have a lot more to offer. what more can you tell us about this? >> this is a scoop by jonathan swann who points out that unlike any of the other prominent witnesses we've seen, john bolton spent a lot of private

one-on-one time with the president. and his lawyer has teased the idea that he has a lot of relevant information with discussions that weren't out there. while others in meetings were listenin listening, we're told that john bolton was on his legal pad taking more notes than anyone in these meetings. we've shown he's willing to do it and we know you has a second outlet for legal reasons he doesn't testify, he has this book deal, $2 million. one way or another it sounds like the bolton diaries are going to get to get good use. >> any idea if the white house is nervous about him testify? >> because he has that contemporary notes, he left on bad terms. remember he said he would have his say. we're starting to get a clue of some of the ways why. >> why doesn't you come out and

say it, if he has something important for investigators given how significant and historic this moment is in our country's history, why is he teasing something or sound like he's telegraphing a book sale here? >> look, we have a lot of information. >> just come out and say it. >> part of it is he wants to be told that he had to so people won't say he voluntarily threw the president under the bus. but we're told if a court asks him to, he will happily do it and it will sting. >> we know you have new reportings about how americans are feeling about the state of u.s. politics. how are we feeling? tell us? >> we're mad and we're getting madder and we're making ourselves madder. this is the fascinating finding in this poll by axios by survey monkeys. when we conserve politics that makes us mad. but here's the surprising thing,

democrats say they're madder than republicans. the idea that i'm a stranger in my cupp my country, now democrats are feeling that even more than republicans. >> we're going to be reading axios a.m. in just a little bit. don't forget you can sign up for the newsletter by going to ox ox. >> that dosignup.axios.com. >> "morning joe" starts right now. why didn't you deny calling the president a moran? >> you know, that's a really old question. >> you understand that by not answering the question some people thought you were confirming the story. >> i think i've answered the question. >> you think you answered the question? >> i've answered the question. >> 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. because if you do, i believe