that's all. i'll see you tomorrow morning. andrea mitchell reports from new york city. >> great to be here with you. and it's veterans day. right now witness list. as public impeachment hearings are about to begin, the president's defenders fight back, trying to put joe biden's son on trial. >> what's going to happen is 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 corruption. >> i consider any impeachment in the house that doesn't allow us to know who the whistleblower is to be invalid. >> acting chief of staff mick mulvaney asks to join a lawsuit against the president, an attempt to duck a house impeachment subpoena. >> i'd love to have mick go up, frankly. i think he'd do great.

and steel magnolia. nikki haley stirs the pot with her account of what rex tillerson and john kelly allegedly asked her to do behind the scenes. >> 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 good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in new york on this veterans day. we're saluting generations of men and women who have served the nation. president trump is here in manhattan, the first sitting president to attend the traditional veterans day parade as he prepares for public impeachment hearings this week. the president has been trying to rally congressional republicans to counteract damaging testimony from officials who say he

withheld military aid from ukraine in order to pressure the ally to help him damage his political rival joe biden. to set the stage for this important week, top white house and political correspondents, "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker. robert costa, national political reporter at the "washington post" and moderator of washington week on pbs. here with me onset my colleague white house correspondent kristin welker. the president arallying republicans trying to rewrite the narrative of that fateful phone call. >> he is. he's saying stop saying that what i did is not impeachable. start saying what i did is not wrong. that's been his argument since the start.

this was a perfect phone call he had with the president of ukraine on july 25th, there's nothing to see here, let's move on. what's so striking about this moment is you have some of his fellow republicans making the case, look, we don't agree with he said, at the same time we don't think it's impeachable. it's a strategy that goes back to what we saw during bill clinton's impeachment proceedings. so republicans taking a similar tack. i think it's interesting to note all of this comes against the backdrop of these public hearings set to get underway this week. you have democrats saying we want to be very focused on that phone call on the question of whether or not there was a quid pro quo. republicans saying, no, no, no, we want to bring in hunter biden. they're trying to make this a much broader discussion than democrats would like to see. >> when we look toward the hearings, the democrats are planning to try to prevent it

from becoming a circus. they're going to start with staff counsel asking serious questions in longer formats. but the republicans are trying to change the witness list and they're going to go on the attack. and the president has been going on the attack, particularly against adam schiff. >> president trump absolutely wants fierce loyalty from republicans. what he wants is really to turn on the television and see republicans saying that he did nothing wrong, but also saying that he is someone who has a good foreign policy and it was a better foreign policy than his predecessor. what republicans have been doing is continuing to adjust their messaging. last week we saw lindsey graham laying on the idea that president trump's ukraine policy was actually too incoherent to be able to even pull off a quid pro quo. i've been talking to democratic aides all weekend. they tell me they learned a lot of lessons from the hearing of robert mueller. they say that hearing didn't go well because an hour and a half in there were a lot of disruptions. now they're saying they want to

bookend this with blockbuster witnesses. they have bill taylor. they think he can tell the entire story by himself. they also want marie yovanovitch to be there. i'm told she cried during her deposition. they want her to be there to be sympathetic and see there were actually victims. >> putting jim jordon on the intelligence committee, devin nunes, john ratcliffe who was the president's failed nominee to become director of national intelligence and is really partisan and not someone who supports the intelligence committee. >> you have in congressman jordan of ohio a political combatant very close to president trump along with devin nunes the congressman from california. you see republicans both publicly and privately starting to see the coming hearings not

so much as a moment to engage on the substance of the testimony but as framing the entire exercise as partisan and building toward the 2020 election as political war. that's why jim jordon was put there to make sure they had one of their soldiers in that slot. >> bill taylor, george kent, talk to me about what their credentials are and why the democrats think they're going to be so powerful. >> bill taylor is a career diplomat. he is somebody who served his country in the military. he's served his country for about 50 years under republican presidents and democrats. he started under reagan. he retired as the ambassador to ukraine appointed by george w.

bush and continuing under obama. this is the person the trump administration turned to. so i think he has obviously credibility that goes beyond just a political partisan. he's not a known figure in party politics. he's somebody who served under both administrations under both parties. george kent as deputy assistant secretary of state, somebody who is critical of both some of the appearances at least of what biden did as well as what he saw under trump, not a partisan figure, somebody who was upset and distraught by what he saw happening to foreign policy, how he was told to keep out of it. people like him, the people who were part of the shot were shunted to the side by this shadow foreign policy being run by rudy giuliani and gordon sondland. two powerful witnesses obviously for the democrats. the question of whether it

changes any minds is a whole different kettle of fish. republicans are locked into their positions. they're not looking to either of these witnesses to tell them something they don't know. >> i want to ask about john bolton, the man who didn't show up, is not going to show up, is going to court. krist kristin, you've covered john bolton. what do we expect he is trying to do by going to court, delaying it beyond the point where the house democrats can actually proceed? >> he's essentially trying to say, look, i don't want to be the ultimate arbiter here because you have the white house trying to block bolton and others from testifying. he's saying let's have the courts make the decision. the reality is there is some concern about what bolton might say if he were to testify. he is someone who had concerns about rudy giuliani.

fiona hill testified to that, that he felt rudy giuliani was running a shadow foreign policy, making a drug deal. he had some concerns about the president, urged him against making that july 25th phone call. his testimony, if he does in fact appear, could be problematic for the president. >> he's been teasing that he's got something unusual, something that we haven't heard already, something to add to the narrative, yet we don't know where that's going to come out. is he trying to monetize a potential book deal? is he going to end up back on fox news? does he want a position in a future administration? what do we think john bolton's play is? >> ambassador bolton reminds me of don mcgahn, the former white house counsel. both are partisan figures but both of them are also attorneys.

they know if they appear before congress, it's not a game. their reputations are on the line but also their status as attorneys. they must tell the truth if they are under oath. john bolton is no john dean. he's not trying to do a total flip on president trump. at the same time, if asked direct questions he could give and would like ly give answers about president trump's conduct. that's why mcgahn and bolton know what would happen if they appear before congress, so they're letting the federal courts decide because they don't want to seem too eager because they both want a future in conservative politics but they know they can't fight congress if they're compelled to appear. >> then you've got mick mulvaney trying to join the charles kupperman bolton lawsuit. the act chief of staff peter baker is suing.

>> he's asking to join the lawsuit. the lawsuit names the president of the united states as a defendant along with congressional leaders. mulvaney's lawyers tried to finesse that. it's rather extraordinary because unlike cupperman and bolton who are former officials and out there on their own, mick mulvaney is working 50 steps from the oval office. the president's top aide refused to simply go along with what the president told him to do but instead went to the court asking the judge for a second opinion. mulvaney trying to join the lawsuit filed by cupperman is rather extraordinary because

mulvaney and buolton were on opposite sides of this. mulvaney ordered the security aid suspended while the president was pushing ukraine for incriminating information about democrats. bolton was the one resisting it. the two were on opposite sides. they were known to not get along. so the idea of mulvaney trying to join this lawsuit has ironies on all sorts of fronts. >> mulvaney was uniquely capable of freezing that money despite what congress wanted. of course, he's a former house republican member of congress. speaking of congress, what are you hearing about house democrats and how nervous they are about some of their own going rogue? they have to be worried about the judiciary sessions once this

does get to articles of impeachment and how badly they performed post mueller. >> democratic aides are really focusing on trying to make the members have a very narrow view of what they want to get out of these public hearings. that narrow view isn'tgiuliani . their focus is about quid pro quo. i was told that people are very happy, democrat aides are very happy that this is a house intel doing these hearings because it's a smaller committee. you have 13 democrats instead of 24 in house judiciary. that being said there are lessons learned from mueller which is that people make up their minds in the first hour and a half so they hope their members stay on target for that first hour and a half. >> please make sure to join me and kristin along with rachel

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in a new book out tomorrow former ambassador to the united nationskki haley is portraying herself as president trump's defender from what she calls a dangerous attempt by rex tillerson and john kelly to circumvent policies they saw as reckless. writing in the book, haley clai claims -- >> it absolutely happened. instead of saying that to me, they 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.

it was offensive. >> joining me now is ben rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to president obama. and phil rutger. i'm sensing a political calculation here, guys. ben, nikki haley, loyal ambassador to the united nations. it was very clear that the state department was not all that comfortable with her because she was not, they thought, as well qualified for that post as she should have been, but she was a former well-regarded governor of south carolina. now if she's going to be a candidate in 2024 or in 2020, get added to the ticket in some way, what else is going on for her to be coming out so supportive of president trump when he's at his most embattled?

>> first of all,it's interesting what we're not talking about. she was ambassador of the u.n. for a little less than two years. we're not talking about their foreign policy record. we're talking about this kind of reality show. it should be concerning to people that the secretary of state and white house chief of staff seemed to think that the president of the united states was some kind of danger to the country because he was so unfit for office. what we've seen from nikki haley for the last several years is this evideffort to calibrate he public image to be standing behind president trump but at the same time winking at everybody else saying i'm a different republican, certainly have a different foreign policy on russia and ukraine. she can't have it both ways. you can't fully embrace trump and at the same time say on these things that are troubling i'm a little bit different but

i'm not going to go as far as these other officials to make sure president trump was limited in the damage he could do. >> your team interviewed nikki haley and has gotten a reaction from john kelly. he wrote if providing the president with the best and most open legal and ethical staffing advice from across the government so he could make an informed decision is working against trump, then guilty as charged. >> that's john kelly not exact hi exactly denying what nikki haley alleged in her book. we know from reporting at the time that kelly in particular saw himself as a human guardrail against the president's impulses and instincts. haley's book takes it a step further. she certainly seems to be trying to carve out that perfect

political space vis-a-vis trump because she knows she has a future in the republican party and she knows this is donald trump's party so she needs to carve out that space where she's not too cross wise with the president. >> it already worked. look at what he tweeted. he wrote an endorsement of the book, said nikki haley is out with a new book. make sure you order a copy this week or stop by one of her book tour stops to get a copy and say hello. good luck nikki. >> what this really shows is how far the republican party has fallen into the embrace of donald trump. nikki haley like lindsey graham is somebody people would look at and think they must get this is wrong. they must get that quid pro quo foreign policy to serve the president's political interests are wrong, that this leadership

is not good for the country. yet every time presented with a choice where on impeachment, these establishment republicans like nikki haley have chosen to side with the president. i think it shows what's really going on in our country is you have an entire political party that has decided to completely tie its own fate and future to this erratic and unfit president, so unfit that even his closest aides thought they had to prevent him from doing damage to the country. >> fill rut ger, on the face of it nikki haley has so many things to offer, the way she handled the confederate flag controversy in south carolina, her response after mother emanuel, the tragedy there of the killings. she has an immigrant background. she's got credentials now on foreign policy because she was

u.n. ambassador. from the standpoint of the republican party, from the south, closely tied with the evangelical christian community. she is a formidable potential candidate for president or vice president. >> she certainly is. her political skills should not be underestimated. she rose up as an almost unknown state representative in south carolina by positioning herself at the vanguard of the tea party movement in 2010. she has a good innate sense of where the republican party electorate and mood is along the way. that's why she's been able to become governor, been able to serve in the trump administration. she clearly has ambitions on the white house. >> if there were any attempt to remove mike pence from the ticket, she would be a very logical running mate for president trump if anything like that were to happen. there's always talk about removing the vice president. this one seems to be fairly

closely ensconced. nikki haley, if you were just thinking of political futures and pure politics, she also left the white house before all the bad stuff became as apparent. >> yeah. although on that point, andrea, what's become apparent is that when a lot of these people left, not that i think things were working perfectly when john kelly was there, but things have gotten worse. her theory that she puts forward in the book that we need to get behind the president, shouldn't try to prevent him from doing damage. what we've seen the last three years is as people have cycled out and as trump has been surrounded more by yes people, thing verss have gotten worse. i don't know that the theory of her book has held up well. the reality is these people are making a bet on trump bearing out. if you look at nikki haley, we're not hear talking about her

record as u.n. ambassador. i don't think most americans can name something she did at the united nations. all we're talking about is her positioning around president trump. so much of the republicans' future is going to be tied to how 2020 plays out. if trump were defeated and nikki haley has embraced this kind of politics, it might be harder for her in the future, not easier. >> thank you both so much. coming up next, quid pro no. why a democratic congressman on the intelligence committee says they should be using different language to describe president trump's actions. language to describe president trump's actions. you're still out there chasing what matters.

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you just said you think the words quid pro quo shouldn't be used anymore. it's a lot of your own colleagues that have been using it as part of this debate. do you feel as if that word just

doesn't penetrate the seriousness with what happened? >> i have two problems with quid pro quo. number one, when you're trying to persuade the american people of something that is really pretty simple which is that the president acted criminally and extorted in the way a mob boss would extort somebody, it's probably best not to use latin words to explain it. >> house democrats are trying to counteract the president's attacks against impeachment witnesses by emphasizing that they see his pressure on ukraine's new president as extortion. we need a lawyer here, barbara. you're one of the best that we know. here's the deal. first of all, for impeachment it does not have to be a criminal offense. it's high crimes and misdemeanor which is a political argument not a legal argument. what about the president's call, which he calls a perfect call to

ukraine's president and if you believe it was pressure, is it criminal? >> so i think i agree with congressman hines there that using the term quid pro quo could confuse people on a number of levels. one, it's a latin term. it just means this for that. i think the other reason it's problematic and perhaps one of the reasons president trump keeps emphasizing it is a quid pro quo is not necessary here. it appears that it's satisfied in the transcript, but to say that i would only give the military aid if you gave me what i wanted, whether it's an investigation into the 2016 election and/or an investigation of the bidens, if you were proving a crime of bribery or extortion in a court where you have to satisfy the elements of a statute, you would need to prove that quid pro quo. here based on the transcript and everything we're hearing in these depositions, it sounds like there was a quid pro quo. even if there was not, this is

still an impeachable offense. the president was demanding a thing of value, an investigation into a political rival for his personal political gain and abuse of power and he was also withholding and leveraging military aid that our congress had determined was in the best national security interest of our country. even apart from whether there was a quid pro quo, this to me is an impeachable offense. >> why does it rise to the level of being an impeachable offense? i'm just playing devil's advocate here. >> yes. president trump put our national security at risk by withholding military aid. he really did two things that i think are impeachable. one is inviting a foreign country to interfere in our elections. foreign countries don't act in the best interest of the united states. they act in their own best interests. so all president trump wanted was an announcement that there was investigation into joe biden so that he could smear him politically. it was asking for a disinformation campaign. on the other piece of it, withholding military aid, this

is something that our country determined was in our best national security interest to help ukraine fend off russian aggression which had invaded crimea, part of ukraine. we wanted to stop russian aggression. we believed it was in our best interest. president trump stopped that so he could use that for his own personal advantage. he put his own interest ahead of the national interest. and he also exposed himself to blackmail by lying about what he was doing for the country. he could have put ukraine in a position for demanding more and more aid in exchange for the thing that he wanted. so on many levels, president trump put his own national interests above the interests of the country which is what a president has a duty to do. for that reason, i believe it's impeachable. >> i just wanted to play a bit of nikki haley, the former u.n. ambassador, making a counter argument and get your reaction on the other side. >> the ukrainians never did the investigation and the president released the funds. i mean, when you look at those, there's just nothing impeachable

there. the american people should decide this. why do we have a bunch of people in congress making this decision? >> so my reaction there is on two levels. one, she seems to say no harm, no foul. if someone comes up to you on the street and puts a gun to your head and asks for your wallet, if the police should come along and stop that crime before you actually hand over your wallet, a crime still occurred. and that's what happened here. it is simply the demand that caused the harm here, the demand risked our national security. it delayed the funds from going over and there were ukrainians who died as a result of that delay in the release of the funds, and it harmed our credibility and national security around the world. the other is why should congress do that instead of the people? because the constitution gives congress the power to impeach.

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was doing. it's harder to get a compromise. whether it's cable tv, social media, the bases of both parties are really directing. i don't think ronald reagan and tip o'neal would be able to make the deals today they made them. >> peter king, for 28 years a familiar voice, announcing he is retiring from congress after this term. he's the 16th house republican to announce they are not seeking reelection next year, one of the most high profile of the group. joining me now former congressman david jolly. give me your perspective. you've been there. you've done virtually the same thing by leaving. >> every member makes a decision based on their own terms, if you will. what it says is even republicans believe that democrats are going to keep the house in 2020. the rash of retirements you're seeing from republicans is

largely because they see the same outlook that the rest of the country sees and prognosticators see that democrats are in a very strong position to maintain control of the house and may even be in striking distance of taking control of the senate. what is remarkable in pete king's retirement is the pattern of senior republicans leaving. greg walden from oregon, a former chair of the energy and commerce committee, mack thornberry in texas, rob bishop, sens sensenbrener, even susan brooks, the woman in charge of republican kanld candidate recrt is leaving well. it is a reflection of bad political prospects for republicans. it's also reflective of this. it is a terrible environment for republicans to serve in congress. it's a miserable environment to be serving in the minority in the house of representatives under a trump administration

down pennsylvania avenue. >> if i'm not remembering this incorrectly, susan brooks was one of the key players on the benghazi inquiry. she was one of those people with trey gowdy and mike pompeo. she was right in the middle of the thick of the campaign back in 2015-2016. let's talk about republicans and whether they are going to stand solidly behind the president no matter what the testimony from highly credible state department and national security figures. this is cindy mccain speaking about what john mccain would be saying. >> i think he'd be disgusted with some of the stuff that's going on, i really do. i think what he'd be saying was he'd be railing against what is going on. i think john provided a lot of cover for other members. when he would do it, then they could get behind him kind of thing. i'm not seeing a real rudder in the senate right now. >> your reaction to this, david?

is this a message to lindsey graham? >> yeah. john mccain would have sought the truth in this moment. whether that led to the impeachment of the president or the exoneration, mccain would have sought the truth. lindsey graham and house republicans have abandoned any pretense that they're interested in the truth. we will hear from bill taylor on wednesday that, yes, there was a quid pro quo. he will introduce to the nation that rudy giuliani was acting on behalf of the president's personal interests, not a coordinated state department diplomatic strategy. george kent will say this went all the way to the oval office, that sondland spoke with mick mulvaney. ambassador yovanovitch will say this overturned all of the traditional diplomacy occurring on behalf of the united states in the ukraine. that will be the truth. what you will hear from republicans is a 2020 campaign strategy. they can't overcome the truth, they can't beat back the votes on impeachment, they're already there. what republicans will focus on is how do we shore up the base for republicans and donald trump

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where in the world is mike pompeo? that's the question posed by the "washington post," quote, where is mike pompeo, the secretary of state who is supposed to shield his diplomats from political interference? now we have an answer. pompeo in recent months has essentially been in hiding, protecting himself, denying all questions, ignoring questions while his subordinates took the hit. joining me ambassador mike mcfaul, former ambassador to russia and david ignatius, associate editor for the "washington post." david, you posed the question and we extrapolated a little bit from your quotation there. today mike pompeo was at the citadel in south carolina talking to a local television crew at wcsc tv. this is the way he described the president's call with ukraine

and his characterization of the ukraine policy. >> we were very clear. we wanted to make sure that the corruption that had been existing in ukraine for a very long time was reduced. then this president wanted to make sure too that vladimir putin wouldn't be able to inflict hardship on the people of ukraine. so we provided defensive weapons to the people of ukraine. the previous administration chose not to do that. they chose to provide blankets. we gave them real weapons so they could fight against the russians. >> i don't even know where to start in fact checking that. as we know, the previous administration did give non-lethal aid and it included armored humvees and other military equipment, not just blankets. the fact is that he is characterizing the corruption probe as unrelated to anything

regarding joe biden and mischaracterizing the president's call as former state department senior ambassadors have testified. david? >> pompeo's comments are entirely disingenuous. entirely disingenuous. d disingenous. i am glad the trump administration decided to provide them. that was being withheld from ukraine at the time of the phone call which mike pompeo was listening from anothereo extensn and he knew that it was being withheld becausewa we know president trump was demanding that ukraine before the release of that assistance agreed to do his political bidding and launcheddd investigations of hunter biden and any connection to vice president joe biden and

this mix match involving the 2016, server and the question about where was mike pompeo is, he was listening on the call and did nothing and now to me misrepresents that entire event. >> mike mcfaul, a former ambassador in russia, you know full well of the importance of not bringing military aid, this new leader, untested leader of ukraine needed to show strengths against moscow. he's gone into negotiations with russia considerably weaken by that critical delay. >> that's right. they politicize the military aide and somebody who also celebrated the trump administrations a provision of

the legal sassistance is outrageous. let's go back andan read the transcript. not once does president trump say "i stand with you against putin aggression." all theag things that pompeo claims if that interview you just played apart of trump administration policy may be true but the president of the united states is not committed to that particular objective. the second thing just to underscore what david said, it is not just about corruption. by the way, if you are against corruption, you are against all corruption, not all individual, one american. theyal also talked about this crazy idea about what ukraine may have done in the 2016 presidential election, always remember that because it seems to be a new talking point that republicans just want to leave it out of the conversation, yes, it was front and secenter in th transcript of that trump/s

trump/zelensky call. >> where is pompeo? he's traveling around the world not answering questions of people who's trying to go down on this or blowing them off or not taking them with him had been done before the administration and the travel pool. but, david, he's importantly sidinghe with the president againsth his own state departmt diplomats. when he disparage william burns and revere former diplomat. these witnesses who have been appearing, mike mckinley. what signal does it send? >> one of the most poignant

things, about their effort, who's responsible for the state department the way the general or chairman joint chief or secretary of defenses responsible for his troops in the field. they were unable to do so and that'll be one of the most powerful moments that we'll be watching later in the week. these people wanted their boss and as you know, a lot of people have high hopes for pompeo to reverse -- they have high hopes in this so they weighted and they asked and pleaded and do something. it did not happen. and you will all hear about that from the foreign service officers who were involved. >> briefly, mike mcfaul, congresswoman liz cheney taking on mike pompeo this time over

erdogan with his visit coming this week and asking twitter, secretary pompeo make sure the thugs who is attacked american protesters during erdogan's last visit are denied entry into the u.s. >> it is going to be quite a week. the president personalized and prioritizing foreign policy and secretary pompeo is not having much influence on that. he made a giant mistake in attacking bill burns. i can tell you the mood of the state department, he lost his soldiers and people and officers. that's a misstate for diplomacy. >> ambassador michael mcfaul and david from "the washington post." thank you so much, we'll be right

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before we go, an important update. for the first time in all that time, the government of iran is acknowled acknowledging the case of robin levinson. this is welcome news for his family. my family and i were optimistic. we believe this is the first step. we think it is an overdue acknowledgment that iran know where is my father is and they know what happened to him and can find him. levenson went miss ing in 2007.

president trump called for his release, and the state department increased the award for levenson to $25 million. we are hoping he comes back. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea reports." here are ali and stephanie ruhle for "velshi & ruhle." >> hello everybody, it is november 11th. it is veterans day. this is the start of a major week in the impeachment inquiry into president trump as public hearings are set to begin on wednesday. coming up this hour on "velshi & ruhle," acting white house chief of staff mulvaney will let the court decides whether he'll testify in the inquiry. l we'll look at the strategy. whether he's prioritizing the country or his job. uber ceo is walking back his remark, calling jamal khashoggi is