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probe heads into a new phase. jerry nadler's panel will now weigh in whether president trump committed an impeachable offense. >> and new revelations that devin nunes was making calls to rudy giuliani and one of giuliani's indicted associates during critical moments in the ukraine scandal. >> and the democratic presidential field is a bit smaller this morning. senator kamala harris has dropped out of the race. good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, december 4. and we have a lot to get to this morning. but first, president trump will spendrs a second day meeting wi world leaders at the nato summit in london. as menno. president trump and other leaders begantr arriving a shor time ago and are expected to gather for the annual family
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photo. yesterday, tensions were on full display when president trump and french president emmanuel macron both laid out dueling visions for the future of the alliance. president trump found himself in an unusual position, actually defending nato. meanwhile, president trump is scheduledru to hold a bilateral meeting with german president angela merkel. joining us now from london nbc news correspondent carroll lee. good to see you this morning. thanks for joining us. what were the biggest takeaways from yesterday and what do we expect to see today? >> reporter: well, i think, yasmin, youl, hit on one of the big ones which you saw president trump essentially yesterday defending nato, an alliance he's been sharply critical of for years since running as a candidate in 2016. to put that in an countext, i
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think one of the reasons we saw him do that, he was angry with comments that french president emmanuel macron had made saying that he was brain-dead. particularly a lack of leadership, president trump's decision to withdraw troops from northeast syria without notifying allies. so it's not necessarily that president trump is suddenly a big fan of nato although he's praised the alliance more as he believes in his view, it's come into view with his vision, his pressure iscampaign, to get nat allies to invest more in their 20 budgets. but really this was a stab, a slight that he felt was into him from presidentin macron and he s pushing back on that. so, that was one of the big things from yesterday. yesterday he also had a closed-door meeting there were no cameras no pictures with the prime minister of the uk. and that was something that was not onom his schedule, because e
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britain didn't really want to have an big show with presiden trump. there's anre election going on. president trump is not popular here but they discussed nato, as well as syria and trade. but antoday, he's going into a bunch of meetings with other nato leaders and he'll have a one-on-one meeting with chang lo chancellor merkel from germany and theom leader of denmark whi is a dispute over the president's push maybe to purchase greenland. >> carol, as we see the class photo happening as we speak, what was the reaction over there to president macron, pushing back on president trump at that moment? you rarely see another world leaderee pushing back publicly president trump like that. certainly not on a stage like we saw yesterday. >> reporter: yeah, you're right. and it's a real switch from, you know, where his relationship began. macron is one of the world leadershe who is heavily invest with a personal rapport with
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president trump. and over the years that has not paid t dividends in terms of policy decisions. he was not able to convince the president to remain in the iran nuclear deal or the paris climate accord. so that relationship has frayed and tensions have ramped up. yesterday we saw president macron not back p down on what said on nato, but on president trump when it came to the position of france, germany and others in europe taking back on syria. and it was a very interesting moment when the president made a quip,id you want an isis fighte you can take as many as you want. and macron said let's be serious and outlined why he doesn't think that's a top priority. and the president shot back with ae nonanswer. so it's an interesting start with the way this relationship began. >> it's always interesting to see the class pictures take place because you're watching
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the body language. there's been so many outtakes. where the leaders are looking. president trump was looking up to the corner. no one really knew what he was lookingha at. thatg was a moment that, of course, went viral. the president standing next to turkish president erdogan. we see angela merkel next to the president and macron in this photo. whatn do you think, carol from your perspective is macron's ultimate objective in going up against the president? >> reporter: well, look, i think that he's tried a different tact. and he tried to be very conciliatory towards the president. and to try to establish some sort of -- you know, some strong friendship with him and that didn't work. so, what we've seen he's not the only one whose then tried to pivot to perhaps a more conversational approach. or take him in a different
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direction with more of a combative style. i do think that the president and erdogan isnk an interesting dynamic just because the there on is really out an island a little bit in terms of defending erdogan over his incursion in syria. you've seen other leaders be critical of him on that front. and the president, yesterday, said, despiterd that turkey has gone into syria and despite that they havean purchased this russn missile defense system and activated it, tested it, that he's not really -- you know, committed to any sort of sanctions which congress has wanted him to do. so his sort of softer approach is to turkey and to erdogan is a little different than what we've seen from otherre leaders here. at the same time, you hear about a leader, nato leaders including the secretary-general saying, look, we need turkey inside the tent, not outside of the tent that's the way this alliance is going to be best served because of eye its importance to the alliance, the strategic importance. so that's something that i don't think ist' going to be entirely
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worked out certainly at this summit and it's not clear exactly where that dynamic is going to yngo. >>s and if there's any leader that has hollywood this leader to account it's german president angela merkel. and that that's going to be covered on "morning joe" later this morning. but what do you expect to come out of that meeting? >> reporter: well, it's interesting because she is someone who is kind caof, you know, she's not -- she's on her way out. and someone who the president has been highly critical of. since the campaign.ha and so it will be -- it's not clear how this meeting is going to be approached by him, whether it's something that's more combative in the way that we saw with macron. or if it's a little more conciliato conciliatory. but there are certainly issues, pay it trade, you know, paying more into a defense budget, those sorts of issues that are the belief, that the president
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doesn'tat think germany is doin as much as it could. so that's been an issue. but generally, these are two leaders that the president doesn't have a relationship with, like boris johnson has with president trump. sosi it will be rather stiff, i imagine. >>, considering all of this is happening in the shadow of the impeachment inquiry happening here at home, carol, to what extent does this change the capitalism of other world leaders inli terms of how they' dealing with the president or do you think they're following it that closely? >> reporter: oh, they're following it very closely. i think it's certainly something that'sin hanging over the president as he's on the world stage. i was talking with an official -- a european official this morning who was saying, everyone is trying to gain out how this is going to play out, not just with impeachment, but also there's an election next year. and you can see leaders trying
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to size this up. we cane also see it's really getting under the president's skin having all of this happen back inl washington while he's here trying to be basically the face of the united states and delve into all of these high-stakes foreign policy issues. and he's been very frustrated withve that. he's made that very clear. heer has spoken to the reporter for more thanas would hours ove the course of yesterday. and he's vented about democrats. he's criticized house intelligence tichairman adam schiff. so, this is something that world leaders ares paying very close attention to. although they may not be addressing it directly with the president or bringing it up in their conversations. butei they're paying attention. andyi this is something that's clearly very much on the president's mind. >> all right, carol lee, thank you, my l friend. >> thanks. zbluf >> just to key cap, we saw the class photo take place for nato. and we saw the president standing next to president
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erdogan. also reahead, the impeachme probe moves into a new phase. we'll have a preview of what to expect for the house judiciary committee hearing. plus know, loss for president trump as the federal appeals court rules that deutsche bank and capital one must hand over years of his records. those stories and more, when we come back. ♪everybody
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welcome back. the impeachment probe of president trump officially moves into the hands of the house judiciary committee. late last night the house committee voted 13-9 along party lines to sent the impeachment report to the judiciary committee. now at 12:00 a.m. this morning the judiciary committee will hold its first impeachment hearing featuring a panel of legal scholars who will discuss the definition of, quote, high crimes and misdemeanors and testify on the constitutional
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grounds for presidential impeachment. no other hearings have been scheduled at this point but more are expected in the coming weeks. once the hearings are finished the judiciary committee is expected to drop articles of impeachment. as politico is pointing out the most significant question facing the committee may be to limit the charges of, quote, abuse of power based on the ukraine probe or include, quote, obstruction of justice based on evidence supplied by special counsel bob mueller. democrats also seem likely to charge trump with obstruction of congress. now to a report that will serve as the cornerstone for impeachment proceedings against the president. on the inquiry itself the president is accused of, quote, unprecedented campaign on obstruction. the report accuses the president of placing his own personal and political interests above the nation's, seeking to undermine the integrity of the election process and endangering national security. faced with the revelations of
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his actions, the report adds president trump publicly and repeatedly persisted in urging foreign governments including ukraine and china to investigate his political opponent. this continued solicitation of foreign interference in the u.s. election presents a clear and present danger that the president will continue to use the power of his office for his personal political gain. >> and the white house claims the house intel committee failed to introduce evidence of wrongdoing and here's the president speaking from london just yesterday. >> what did you learn from adam schiff? >> from what? >> adam schiff. >> i think he's a maniac. i think he's a deranged human being. there are reasons that are obvious, i think he's a very sick man. and he lies. adam schiff made up my conversation with the president of ukraine. and one of the reasons people keep talking about it, that's what they saw. this guy is sick. he made up a conversation.
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he lied. if he didn't do that in the halls of congress, he'd be thrown in a jail. but he did it in the halls of congress, and he's given immunity. this is a sick person. he's a liar. by the way, nancy pelosi knew he was lying, and she went on her show, stephanopoulos and she said he told the truth. so she was lying, too. >> so despite the contradictory findings of a bipartisan investigation, some ukrainian lawmakers are embracing the feeling that there was meddling. saying he saw no difference in what russia did early on in russian elections and what ukrainian officials say, quote, it's still meddling. and then clarifying his statement in the journal saying i don't believe anyone conducted the sophisticated interference
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russia did in 2016. meanwhile yesterday demurred when asked to set the record straight. >> there seems to be a debate going on within this party about whether or not ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. you can set the record straight? >> look, this whole issue, as far as i'm concerned is a house issue. they have to decide what they want to do, if anything. related to all of these suggestions. and we'll deal with what comes over here. >> during a senate hearing on the future of u.s. policy towards russia yesterday, u.s. diplomat david hale disputed the growing conspiracy theory being advanced by president trump and some republican lawmakers that ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election. >> are you aware of any evidence that ukraine interfered in the 2016 u.s. election?
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>> i'm not. >> you know, i appreciate dr. fiona hill's testimony before the house, the former national security council director for europe and russia who said that theory is a fictional narrative that is being perpetrated and propagated by the russian security services themselves. do you have any reason to disagree with dr. hill? >> i do not. still ahead, north korea appears to threaten the united states with an unwelcome christmas gift. what president trump has to say about the stalled talks of kim jong-un. we're back in a moment. (dad) one under par on a hole is a...? (daughter) birdie! (dad) that's what i'm talkin' about. and a score of two under par is...?
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welcome back, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday that it would not block congressional subpoenas from president trump's records from deutsche bank and capital one. several members of trump's family sued the banks for blocking them from the records from the house intel and services committees. the ruling placed a seven-day stay on the subpoenas so that the trump family could file an appeal. president trump's attorney jay sekulow said the president's legal team is considering appealing the ruling to the supreme court. house speaker nancy pelosi issued a statement yesterday following the ruling, writing in
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part, this, today's ruling is another victory for the rule of law, our constitution and our american democracy. yet again, the courts have reaffirmed on behalf of the american people. joining me, danny cevallos. good to see you, my friend. i know you were booted from the show but you're back. >> it's great to be back. >> what does the appeals court ruling mean? >> it means in all likelihood that the banks are going to have to turn over records but that isn't much of a surprise. the trump steam lost at the appeals level. but the court held with the district court. which is these subpoenas don't involve so much a separation of powers issue. this is not the executive branch versus congress. instead, trump appears in this case as a private citizen and the court goes to great lengths to explain that and make that clear, that he is a private citizen in this case, essentially arguing against the
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power of a congressional subpoena for financial records. in that sense, the outcome was never really in doubt. but trump might as well appeal to the supreme court because why not at this point? >> this morning coming up at 10:00, the judiciary committee is going to have its first impeachment hearing that's going to feature four constitutional scholars here. what can we expect on that? what are we talking about? >> we're all going back to law school this morning. >> i didn't go to law school. >> for the first time. this is obviously the opportunity to learn about the legal underpinnings with impeachment. how it comes from history. how we borrowed it from the english tradition, how the colonists used it. and is the crime alone sufficient for an impeachable offense. and legal scholars still disagree. and legal minds can differ. and the reason for that, after
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all of the aspects of the law, we have libraries and libraries of case law to guide us. but when it comes to impeachment, we have 18, 19 cases of impeachment. and just two or three cases of impeachment of presidents. so, we have so long precedent and so long history of actual presidential impeachment it's like arguing how many angels can fit on the head of a pin. it's going to be exciting. >> what are some test things that were exciting to you that came out yesterday? >> i think they laid everything out in a digestible manner. the house committee knows the most important thing for the public is being able to digest all of this information in hours and days of testimony and understand what about this is an impeach only offense. i thought it was pretty well organized but of course the republicans are going to have their response and what's interesting today how they take on legal scholars describing the standards for impeachment and whether or not this fits into the definition. >> we've been talking about high crimes and misdemeanors for
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quite a while now. and nobody seems to agree on what that means. how are legal scholars going to clear that up for us or will they at all? >> they will never clear it up for us. because there are powerful arguments on both sides. take, for example, does it have to be a crime to be impeachable? there's no real answer to that. the text of the constitution says high crimes but history suggests high crimes related to breach or abuse of official power. so, these are the kinds of things that we can go back and forth on and ultimately at the end of the day there's no clear answer, but whether or not the public is ultimately persuaded one way or the other. >> we learn something and stay a little confused, i guess. >> went to law school for the first time. >> thanks. north korea said yesterday that the dialogue with washington is nothing but, quote, a foolish trick and warn that the u.s. could be on the receiving end of an unpleasant christmas gift.
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the reclusive country gave the u.s. an end of year deadline to offer recessions in return for its concession to end nuclear testing. despite that, trump praised his relationship with leader kim jong-un and also added that military action is an option if needed. >> he definitely likes sending rockets up, doesn't he? that's why i call him rocket man but we have a very good relationship. and we'll see what happens. it may work out, it may not. in the meantime, it's been a long time. president obama said it's the number one problem. and it would have been war -- we'd be at war right now if it weren't for me. if i weren't president we'd be in a war right now in asia. and who knows where that leads. >> the two countries have made little progress in their discussions about dismantling north korea's missile program. they abruptly ended a february summit in vietnam.
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let's get a check of the weather with meteorologist bill karins. bill, give us good news? >> sunday will be in the 50s in the east, does that work? boston 7 inches, bangor, maine, around 6 inches. and now the storm system's in the canadian maritime. albany, new york, had -- the snowfall total from the storm, it was the eighth greatest snowfall that they've ever had. pretty incredible stuff. 23 inches in albany, new york. new ipsich, new hampshire, 30 inches on the ground. you'll see the ground in mid-april. cold air comes down, not a huge blast of cold air but enough to trigger lake-effect snow. we haven't had lake-effect snow events so far this season. if anyone is driving from erie,
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cleveland to erie, buffalo, snow towns south of buffalo, you'll pick up 4 to 6 inches today and tomorrow. same drive for syracuse and watertown. this is called the tokyo plateau, one of the snow west spots in our country. travel forecast for today not that bad. a cool morning with a beautiful afternoon. 66 in dallas, san antonio, 71. no problems in florida and georgia. there may be a few flurries in the area but this afternoon we get into the area, cloudy and gray from philly and d.c. and washington. and southern consider is going to get rain from los angeles to san diego. some of those areas that had fires we could get minor debris blow, i don't think it's a huge ordeal. compared to what we just dealt with this is a nice quiet pattern. >> how do you even dig out of
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phillip mena. we begin this half hour with the major revelations from the house intel committee reports on impeachment. phone logs are connecting key players in the investigation. rudy giuliani, his indicted associate lev parnas and republican congressman devin nunes, also under scrutiny, giuliani's contacts with the white house office of management and budget. and a game of phone tag, on april 9th between giuliani and a mysterious number from the white house. that call lasted more than eight minutes. as "the new york times" reports house investigators suspect that the number may belong to president trump in part, because of evidence from the roger stone trial which showed stone who had direct access to the president also received a call from the same mysterious number. the call records show that around that time, giuliani, nunes and parnas were in frequent contact with john
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solomon, a columnist for the hill who wrote an article criticizing marie yovanovitch. and the phone records show several calls between giuliani, parnas, nunes and solomon, including on april 10th when giuliani and nunes talked on three short calls in quick succession, followed by text message and ending in nearly a three-minute call. phone records also show on april 24th, the day that yovanovitch was recalled to washington, giuliani spoke at least eight times with the white house phone number. giuliani has previously acknowledged pressing trump to remove the ambassador from her post. here's what ranking member nunes and chairman schiff said late last night about those call logs. watch this. >> maybe they have recordings of mire phone calls with rudy giuliani. they're welcome to play them because everything that i spoke with rudy giuliani about is nothing that i couldn't care that the american people found out.
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>> did you ever talk to this lev parnas, or whatever his name is? >> you know, it's possible. i haven't gone through my records. i don't recall that name. i remember that name now because he's been indicted. i'll go back and check on my records it seems very unlikely i'd be taking calls from random people. >> these phone calls show just the kind of interaction between these different players in the midst of this scheme. we're trying to identify the full scope of those who were complicit in what the president was doing. and these records give a window of insight into exactly that. >> as we were watching devin nunes in the hearings, he knew that you had obtained phone records that included him. and that those phone records would inevitably be made public by your report. >> well, he certainly had possession of the records. now, how much he looked into them, how much he discussed what they showed with his staff, i really can't say. you'll have to ask him.
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>> while the impeachment plays out in washington, the president is at the nato summit in london where he attempted to make light of his repeated calls for european nations to reclaim custody of captured isis fighters originally from those countries. french president macron quickly brushed back trump's remarks. >> and we have a tremendous amount of captured fighters. isis fighters over in syria. and they're all under lock and key. but many of them -- would you like some nice isis fighters. you can take every one that you want. >> in this statement, this is the isis fighters and more and more fighters use this. >> this is why he's a great politician because that was one of the greatest nonanswers i've ever seen. >> joining us from london, nbc
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news correspondent hans nichols, hans, that was a rare sight there, seeing a foreign leader put president trump on his heels. >> reporter: and a mild rebuke, right? for the first part of that meeting, the two of them seemed to be playing nice after the president set the stage for that initial morning meeting lobbying broadside with emmanuel macron a man he was going to meet in two hours so it got tense there. what we don't know what happened in the private conversation when they went from buckingham palace, in the president's own vehicle, the beast, to paris. right now the plenary session is in place. they're meeting at the nato conference. they're there getting together. and we've had opening remarks from boris johnson. and it's interesting he started off his comments talking about an attack against one is an attack against all. the core of what nato stands
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for. when the president was asked quote/unquote deliberate consequent countries would be accorded article 5 answers he doesn't seem to answer. if article 5 is based, guys that means that nato ends as an alliance and no longer what it's known for over 70 years. mr. johnson with the attacks here early, and that's an indication that they may want to broaden the conversation and also talk about counterterrorism and not just the threat posed by russia. guys. >> hans, we talked about this earlier with carol lee, but i want to get your perspective on it. and that is the bilateral meeting that we're expecting to see wean the president and german chancellor angela merkel. they have not necessarily been friends to say the least, over the last couple of years as president trump has been the leader of this country. what are you expecting to come out from this meeting with german chancellor angela merkel.
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>> reporter: well, i'll be interested to see whether or not angela merkel changes her tact at all. from the president, we know basically what we're going to get. we're going to get mild criticisms, some barbs, maybe a few compliments. merkel is in a fundamentally different position in this meeting than in the previous meetings with the president. and that is to say, she is in the sunset of her career. trying to figure out how to hand out pore between the csu. so merkel is thinking more about her legacy, whshe's going to lee behind. and it's clear that angela merkel believes in nato and a strong europe. and to the sense those are centrifugal forces pulling that apart which we saw with emmanuel macron yesterday, remember, the last five years with it, she's been buffeted by the european refugee crisis and also the europe crisis like what to do
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with countries like greece, high debt rates and italy. she's a firm and staunch opinion, that's where her core is, to make sure europe stayed united. >> hans, thank you. yesterday, the house passed a resolution in a bipartisan vote that disapproved of russia being in the g7 summit. russia had been suspended from the group. back in august, president trump suggested that russia should be invited back to participate in next year's global summit. that prompted the congressman cyrus, a democrat from new jersey to introduce the participation in the g7. the group currently exists of the seven most advanced countries in the world, united states, canada, france, italy, japan and the united kingdom. still ahead, senator kamala
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my campaign for president simply does not have the financial resources to continue. and the financial resources we need to continue. i'm not a billionaire. i can't fund my own campaign. and as the campaign has gone on it has become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete. in good faith, i cannot tell you my supporters and volunteers that i have a path forward if i don't believe i do. so, to you, my supporters, my dear supporters, it is with deep regret but also with deep gratitude that i'm suspended our campaign today. >> that was 2020 candidate kamala harris announcing she's suspending her campaign for president after assessing that her campaign no longer had the financial resources she needed
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to move forward. harris, she did have a strong debut in her campaign on martin luther king jr. day drew a crowd of 20,000 people in her hometown of oakland, california, that was the kickoff event later that week. but the democratic candidate had been struggling to maintain the excitement she held at the beginning of her campaign. she raised the second most amount of money with $12 million but failed to pick up the pace with $11 million in the third quarter. harris had been polling throw. her most recent was 3.4%. however, harris had qualified for the december debate and with her withdrawal now there's no other candidate of color who has qualified so far. upon hearing the news of harris' suspension of her campaign, donald trump tweeted, too bad, we will miss you, kamala. to which the former prosecutor replied, don't worry, mr. president, i'll see you at your trial. >> expect no less from the
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senator there. let's get a check of weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> heading out the door in the northeast, we're still recovering from our snowstorm. some of that melting happened yesterday. got the typical black ice out there so a little extra tossing. the big cities are in the 30s. north new and in, in the 20s this morning. as we go throughout the day today, it's not brutal arctic air but breezy. temperatures in new york city, boston, five degrees below normal. it's a little colder than typically would be without the snow on the ground. 30 in buffalo with lake-effect snow in syracuse. a little bit of warm air up the east coast on sunday, d.c. in of the 50s. norfolk, 55 degrees. so a little bit of relief. so what's next? our next storm that's moving into california. we do have flood watches in
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effect for southern florida. you can see the rain that's moved in here. san francisco, l.a., and san diego, of course on the roads on i-5 that will be rainy weather. then the next storm on saturday comes in behind this one. this storm will actually move across the country but this time there's not a lot of cold air in it. it will get snow in the rockies and it looks like a rain event sunday in the middle of the country and rainy monday for the east coast. that's where people look far ahead. there's no big snowstorms coming and no arctic blast. maybe we can get a calm period. >> thank you, bill. still ahead, the president tries to clean up comments he made about iran, but has the damage already been done? we're going to dig into that, coming up next. ♪ find everything you need to get together this holiday, with low prices and free shipping on millions of items at amazon.
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mr. president -- >> for who? >> prince andrew. >> no, i don't know prince andrew. that's a tough story. that's a very tough story. i don't know. >> yeah, he doesn't know him except when they met sandwiching melania. deep in westminster abbey. in close walks. abbey. in close walks not knowing each other at a party at mar-a-lago.
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these guys have taken more photos together than mos does he think we don't have google? >> no one has never met more people than donald trump. >> i don't know him very well. i have not spoken to him much. this is not a man i know well. >> i don't even know who they are. i've never even heard of some of them, most of them. >> i don't know them. i don't know about them. i don't know what they do. >> i don't know them. i never evenw met some of thes people. >> he never nigh me. >> i never met them. i never met these people. >> i don't know these gentlemen. >> i don't even know them. >> i never met the guy. >> i don't know thim. i never met the guy. >> i don't know her. >> i really don't know her. >> i don't know her. >> i've never d met her. >> i don't know. i've never met her. >> i never met putin. i don't know who putin is. i know so many people. >> but not any of the bad ones. he knows some of them. >> there needs to be someone whose jobds in the white house' soul purpose is to whisper to
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the president there are pictures sir. >> i know him but i don't know him know him, know what i mean? >> there's also visual evidence of him meeting emmanuel macron. president trump raised some eyebrows about making comments about the ongoing protests in iran. >> does the united states support these protesters in iran? >> i don't want to comment on that, but the answer is i no, b i don't want to comment on it. >> the president walked back his comments at the beginning of his meeting with canadian prime ministerad justin trudeau telli reporters he misunderstood the question. >> the question was asked a little while ago about supporting the people protesting in iran and are going through a tough period. we do support them totally and havet supported them from the beginning. the question was asked do we support them, i thought financially, and we haven't supported them. i don't know that we've ever been actually asked to support themen financially, and you kno
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somebody asks maybe we would. >> all right, it's important to report what's happening inside of iran right now, not a lot of news coming out of that country. human rights groups estimating more than 200 people have been killed there in the last month during demonstrations over a 50% hike in government sent gasoline prices. the regime cracked down violently with the reports of the irgc opening fire from rooftops and surrounding areas. david ignatius is writing this, quote, the recent wave of demonstrations against the iranian regime has been powerful, partly because it gathers so many streams of dissent from iran, from women's rights activists and working class iranians angry about living standards and from the diverse ethnic groups in iran and the world is watching. up next, a look at this morning's 1 big thing. and coming up on "morning
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joe" the house judiciary committee begins impeachment hearings. >> at the center of all of it is the scathing report accusing the president of abuse of power and undermining u.s. interests. we're going to break all of it down with political and legal minds. cory booker joins the conversation, a very busy "morning joe" just moments away. . searching for a way to help stop your cold sore? only abreva can get rid of it in... ...as little as 2 1/2 days when used at the first sign. abreva starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. abreva acts on it. so you can too. ♪'cause no matter how far away for you roam.♪ys.♪
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♪ welcome back, joining us from washington with a look at "axios" a.m. political reporter for "axios," alexia mcka man who has just been named the 30 under 30 media list. congratulations. >> thank you, thank you, i'm still pinching myself a day later. >> i can only imagine. talk to us about "axios's" 1 big thing. >> senator elizabeth warren has firmly established herself as the policy wonk among the 2020
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democrats. that has excited folks on the left who are energized by her and it spooked people who are more critical of her who think her policies might negatively affect them. according to our reporting at "axios" with senate democratic aides and former white house follows officials on both sides of the aisle, if elected president senator warren would have a difficult time passing many of her most ambitious policies through congress. that of course matters for americans who simply want to know what the country might look like under president warren, but it also matters for warren. even utmost optimistic scenario for democrats which is that they maintain control of the house and retake the senate, she'd have a tough time getting medicare for all, the wealth tax, green new deal, canceling student loan debt, all of these ambitious policies she'd have a a difficult time getting those thinged passed into law. >> what is "axios" reporting about the dueling impeachment reports between the democrats and the republicans?
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>> the developments we've seen this week in terms of impeachment with the intelligence reports from house democrats and house republicans followed this pretty politically divided polarized process we've seen play out since the impeachment inquiry started. we saw republicans sort of put out a prebutt tall to democrats' reports this week which sort of had a loose interpretation of the facts and went out of their way to argue against everything democrats have put forward. then we see democrats put forward their report. the bottom line here is this process has been so polarized that we see how republicans not really moving towards impeaching the president. we see democrats getting stronger in the way they make their case against him, but we don't see the two sides coming together over anything at all. of course this could all change with the house judiciary committee starting their public hearings today and really going through these articles of impeachment, but so far we've seen the ways in which this has been a totally polarized process. >> what are you going to be watching today considering the
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dual screens with the nato summit happening in london, and then you have the impeachment inquiry in the house judiciary? >> certainly the house judiciary hearings but also i'm still a little surprised by the timing of senator kamala harris dropping out of the presidential race yesterday. the day before she dropped out, she announced that governor gavin newsom of california was heading to iowa next week to campaign for her. obviously that's not happening anymore. she claims because she's not a billionaire she can't continue this process which makes sense, you need money to run for a presidential campaign. i'm going to be watching where her staff goes. i think that would be interesting to see if they all sort of move to the same campaign or if they spread out or ditch the campaign trail altogether. >> the young and influential alexia ka monday. you can sign up for

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