and i just wanna make a difference for those who don't have a voice. that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm natalie morales. thanks for watching. we're heading into what could be a pivotal week in the impeachment probe. house judiciary chair jerry nadler says his panel will presumably present articles of impeachment against the president in the coming days. plus president trump says his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, wants to go before congress and the attorney general to present his findings related to the ukraine scandal. and the fbi is investigating last friday's shooting at a pensacola naval base as an act of terrorism. officials are trying to determine the motive of of the 21-year-old saudi national who opened fire killing three people.

good morning, everybody. it is monday, december 9th. i'm yasmin vossoughian. ayman is wrapping up his time off and will be back tomorrow. we begin this week with fast-moving developments in the impeachment investigation. at 9:00 a.m. democratic investigators will present the evidence they've uncovered to the house judiciary committee and republicans will have another chance to refute it. chairman jerry nadler says he expects the committee to introduce articles of impeachment by the end of this week, a track that could have the president impeached by christmas. >> we have a very solid case. i think the case we have if presented to a jury would be a guilty verdict in about three minutes flat. >> while the white house has declined an invitation to participate in the hearing, the president appears consumed by the issue tweeting and re-tweeting more than 100 times since yesterday, mostly about impeachment, and republican senator ted cruz of texas on, quote, "meet the press"

yesterday advanced the debunked theory that ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. that's despite a briefing by u.s. intelligence officials warning the narrative is being promoted by russian security services. >> do you believe ukraine meddled in the america election in 2016? >> i do, and i think there's considerable evidence -- >> you do? you do? >> yes, and chuck, let me say -- >> senator, this sort of strikes me as odd because you went through a primary campaign with this president. he launched a birtherism campaign against you. he went after your faith. he threatened to spill the beans about your wife about something, he pushed a "national enquirer" story. >> i appreciate your dragging up all that garbage. that's very kind, go ahead. >> let me ask you this, is it not possible that this president is capable of creating a false narrative about somebody in order to help him politically? >> except that's not what

happened. the president released the transcript of the phone call. you can read what was said on the phone call. >> yeah, and the bidens. you yourself thought the biden part was troubling. >> chuck, chuck, let me point out a game that the media is playing. you know, a question that you've asked a number of people is you've said to senators sort of aghast, do you believe that ukraine not russia interfered in the election? now that -- that in a court of law would be struck as a misleading question. of course russia interfered with our election. nobody looking at the evidence disputes that -- >> the president of the united states does. >> look, on the evidence russia clearly interfered in our election, but here's the game the media is playing, because russia interfered the media pretends nobody else did. ukraine blatantly interfered in our election. the sitting ambassador from ukraine wrote an op-ed blasting donald trump -- >> so a pair of president trump's staunchest congressional

allies, denied trump asked ukraine to investigate his political rival in pursuing a probe of joe biden. >> the president asked a leader of a foreign country to investigate his political rival, so one simple question to start. is that appropriate? >> well, one, he didn't do that. i don't agree with your premise. he talked about investigations. if you look at the transcript, i think he said will you do us a favor based on the united states going through a lot, talking about 2016 elections, and when you see that, dana, i think probably the biggest thing is this president has gone through so much. >> can you explain to the american people why you think it's okay for the president of the united states to ask a foreign nation to investigate a political opponent and withhold a white house meeting at the same time? >> i reject the premise of the question and that's what the

president was doing. i think the president was acting on a sincere, longly held view and skepticism of foreign aid. i think he was acting on concern about ukraine being the third most corrupt country in the world and i think he was reflecting specific concern about this biden connection to burisma. it was george kent who said we were so worried about burisma our own embassy had to pull out of a public private. >> lindsey graham issued a stark warning to house democrats. >> wae're not going to turn the senate into a circus. i will tell schiff what you're doing is very dangerous for separation of power. adam schiff is doing a lot of danger to the country, and he needs to stop. mueller spent two years looking at trump. this whole ukrainian stuff is a joke. they got the money. they got the meeting with the president. they didn't investigate joe biden or hunter biden. there is no there there.

>> and defense secretary mark esper declined to answer whether he was aware of any political consideration regarding the trump administration's hold of nearly 400 million in u.s. security aid to ukraine. >> you were the secretary of defense this past summer when a lot of these actions were going down with with regard to ukraine. did president trump ever explain to you, tell you why he was holding up u.s. military aid to ukraine, an ally that was and is in a current war with russia. >> i'm not going to get into that. there's obviously an inquiry underway on capitol hill. on late july is when i assumed office. >> you'd been acting earlier in july. >> i had for a couple of weeks and i was out of the game a couple of weeks. when i came onto the scene, the three things we were looking at were this, one was the aid necessary, vital to the ukrainians in terms of defending against russia, number two, had the ukraines addressed

corruption, and that was a con impressional concern. and number three, were other countries in the region, other allies and partners assisting them. and given those three things we decided to support the provision of ukrainian aid. at the end of the day, the bottom line is most of that aid got out on time, and at no time did it have any impact on united states national security. >> and you were never told about political considerations. >> i'm not going to get into th that. >> the trump administration placed a hold on the aid as the presidents and allies were pushing for ukraine to investigate the bidens and democrats. the administration released the aid two days after congress became aware of a formal whistle-blower complaint regarding president trump's actions towards ukraine. and the department of justice is expected to release a watchdog report on the fbi's investigation of donald trump's 2016 campaign today. inspector general michael horowitz signaled to the senate that the report is ready ahead

of his testimony in front of the judiciary committee on wednesday. nbc news reported last week that the inspector general found no evidence that the fbi spied on trump's campaign according to people familiar with the draft of the report. "the washington post" reports that attorney general barr has told associates that he disagrees with the report's assessment that the fbi had enough information in july of 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members of the trump campaign. according to people familiar with the matter, the "new york times" reports that barr has also recently approved the release of new details about the former fbi informant behind the steel dossier that had previously been blacked out in the upcoming report. meanwhile, the timing of the report's release has irked some of the former officials interviewed by the inspector general who told "politico" the standard review period seemed rushed so that it would be made public in the middle of the impeachment proceedings. lets talk about some of this. joining me now from washington,

congressional report eer for th hill olivia beavers. good morning, thank you so much for joining us on this. >> good morning. >> what impact here could this justice department's report into the fbi te's investigation regarding the trump campaign in 2016, what impact could that have on the president's and the republicans' defense going forward? >> well, the president is certainly going to seize on the parts of the report that he believes will benefit him. early reports show that a lawyer -- horowitz found that a lawyer changed a renewal application to get a surveillance warrant on carter page, and if that's true you're going to have the president saying that they were unfairly spied on as he's been saying repeatedly, but it's also the timing as you mentioned earlier. this is a great time for them, if they want to be hammering the fbi and trying to change the narrative amid impeachment, they're really going to be pushing that they were -- that

the deep state claims, the 2016 claims that washington's been working against them since they came in and now the democrats are working against them now. so it's really going to probably be something they seize on on the psasame day that judiciary its hearing. >> are we confident the president has seen this i.g. report considering the fact over the weekend he did tweet saying basically the most important thing happening on monday is the release of this inspector general report? >> it's not entirely career. it wouldn't be surprising if you have several, you know, friends or allies of his feeding information about what they might have heard. i've certainly been hearing some gossip or speculation on capitol hi hill, and that might be feeding back to him, and as you said, he's been touting it as this g

revelation, and we still have yet to see what really is in the report. but i have heard from republicans that they do think these early sort of leaks are seeking to down play how serious the findings are. that's just something we're going to find out today. >> once again dueling narratives are going to have the release of the i.g. report along with the judiciary continuing their impeachment inquiry. >> stay close. we have breaking news out of new zealand. police say at least five people are dead after a volcano erupted on a small island off of new zeala zealand's coast. the eruption happened on white island off the country's east coast sending an ash plume 12,000 feet into the skyme. you can see it there in some of the video taken of people observing this. the deputy commissioner of the national police said overnight rescue operations have been installed because it's been too dangerous for police and rescue services to go to the island.

50 people were in the area at the time. new zealanders and tourists are among the missing and injured. still ahead, new reporting that attorney general bill barr has warned president trump that he's not being served well by rudy giuliani, this as giuliani claims to have new ukraine evidence to present to barr. plus, joe biden comes to his son hunter's defense as questions about his dealings with ukraine ramp up. what the former vice president is saying in a new interview with "axios." those stories and of course a check on your weather when we come back. ♪

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some things are too important to do yourself. ♪ get customized security with 24/7 monitoring from xfinity home. awarded the best professionally installed system by cnet. simple. easy. awesome. call, click or visit a store today. welcome back. president trump said over the weekend that his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, wants to deliver information he's gathered on ukraine to congress, and attorney general bill barr. the president told reporters giuliani has not told him what

information that he has found yet, but he's heard there's a lot to go through. >> well, i just know he came back from someplace, and he's going to make a report i think to the attorney general and to congress. he says he has a lot of good information. i have not spoken to him about that information, but rudy, as you know, has been one of the great crime fighters over the last 50 years. he has not told me what he's found, but i think he wants to go before congress and say, and also to the attorney general and the department of justice. i hear he's found plenty. >> and nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker asked giuliani about trump's comments and whether he intends to give information to the attorney general and lawmakers. giuliani texted this. all my conversations are privileged, and he can disclose what he is comfortable with. i am in the process of still analyzing what i received. meanwhile, "the washington post" reporting that during several conversations in recent months, attorney general bill barr has counseled president trump in general terms that giuliani has become a liability and a problem

for his administration. that is according to multiple people familiar with the conversations. in one discussion, attorney general barr warned trump that he was not being well-served by his lawyer. white house aides fear giuliani has used his role as the president's lawyer to promote the interests of private clients, they do not know who he represents. giuliani's conversations with trump are protected by attorney/client privilege. former white house chief of staff john kelly tried to limit ju giuliani's reach so he would not interact with other white house staff. former administration officials says kelly told others he did not want to be part of calls or meetings with giuliani. the justice department and the white house both declined to comment on the post's reporting. giuliani did not respond to multiple calls and messages, and his lawyer declined to comment as well. with that let's get a check on

your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins who has just returned from a bout of sledding in upstate new york. >> there's nothing like sledding. >> i'm probably the only person who drove two hours to go sledding because the kids didn't have any snow. >> is that all you drove up for? >> i saw my brother and his family as well. >> let's give them credit as well. >> a little bit. >> it's a stay in bed monday morning in a lot of areas of the country. we have a rainy period for two straight days coming from the ohio valley, the east coast. the rain is moving through indianapolis. the rain has snuck up through the coastline, new york city some light rain. it's going to be moving through hartford and boston. on the cold side of the storm, we have a little snow around sioux falls heading to minnesota. be careful in northern new england, there's enough cold air in place. unusually we'll start awful with a litt -- start off with a little bit

of snow. because of the rain and periods of rain, baltimore, washington, d.c., philly, newark, laguardia, possibility of significant delays today. it's just heavy rain occasionally, low visibility, low ceilings. the cloud level's pretty low. the same for minneapolis, a little bit of morning snow there too. interstate 80 and definitely 95, especially late today could be some very heavy rain from new york all the way back up into the boston area. yeah, this is a multipart storm. this is part one, and then this will be part two, and yasmin, part two may even end at some snow on the east coast. >> that could be nice. then you won't have to drive two hours to go sledding. >> head straight to central park. i'll meet you there. >> thank you, bill. a feud breaks out between two democratic front runners, elizabeth warren and mayor pete buttigieg in a clash over transparency. what both candidates are calling for. that's next. idates are calling for. that's next.

welcome back, mayor pete buttigieg's presidential campaign has released a summary of his work for mckinsey ask company after increased calls for more details about his work for the consulting firm that's been known to advise authoritarian and corrupt governments. he attempted to clarify what he did for the firm, writing in part this, the bulk of my work

on these teams consisted of doing mathematical analysis, conducting research and preparing presentations. i never worked on a project inconsistent with my values, and if asked to do so i would have left the firm. buttigieg asked him -- mckinsey has so far refused previous calls by the campaign to release buttigieg from that agreement. an hour after releasing the summary, chicago mayor lori lightfoot at a presidential forum in iowa pushed buttigieg to break his nda with the consulting firm. watch this. >> you said you can't talk about your work at mckinsey because of a nondisclosure agreement, and you said today you've got to honor your commitment to mckinsey. i'm asking you, shouldn't you break that nda so that you have the moral authority and the high ground against somebody like trump who hides behind the lack of transparency to justify everything that he's doing?

>> so the feud between two 2020 front runners has escalated after senator elizabeth warren criticized mayor pete butte jumg for his fund-raising practices. the massachusetts senator referred to the fund-raising as a conflict. >> will you release the tax returns for late 2000? >> look, this is about what's going on right now. he should open up his fundraisers. he should release who is bundling for him. he should make clear who's on his finance team. this is not about what happened 15 years ago or 20 years ago. it's about the conflicts he's creating right now, and let me start with one quite specific. the mayor is going to be in new york city, in manhattan starting next week doing at least three big fundraisers that we know about. those should be open to the press and whoever is bundling for him at these fundraisers

should be exposed. i understand -- the point is sa about what's happening right w now. >> on thursday warren called on the mayor to be more transparent about the time working for mckinsey. buttigieg has asked mckinsey to be let out of it in order to be more transparent with the public. when asked by reporters about the transparency of his campaign, the mayor had this to say. >> well, i'd say that we are leading in many ways on this including making sure that i've put out the tax records covering my entire time in the private sector, that even though that was my first job out of school, i have released information about the type, the location, and the kinds of clients that i worked with during my two, two and a half years as a consultant and i stand on my record, in particular when it comes to

competing with president trump in terms of my public and private sector career. >> buttigieg's campaign has also been calling on elizabeth warren to release her tax returns from before 2008 during her time as a corporate lawyer. last night she did revealing that she made nearly $2 million from private legal work since 1986. still ahead, as the impeachment probe ramps up this week, republicans are getting ready to launch an advertising blitz, and it has some swing district democrats worried. plus, what we're learning this morning about friday's shooting at a naval air station in persons col pensacola, florida. we're back in a moment. a, floria we're back in a moment

♪ welcome back, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian, ayman is out, but he is back tomorrow. today marks another key moment in the impeachment hearing. what could be the democrats' final chance to argue that donald trump committed me impeachable offenses before charges are actually drawn up. at 9:00 a.m. democratic investigators will present their case to the house judiciary committee and republicans will have another chance to refute it. the white house has declined an invitation to participate in mounting no defense against impeachment in the house opting instead to make the case for acquittal in the senate. chairman jerry nadler says he expects the committee will formally introduce charges against the president by the end of the week. take a listen. >> have you had an idea of how many articles you think we're

going to draw up? you're not ready yet? >> i'm not ready to decide that, and it's not just my decision. >> the speaker, you may come up with recommendations and she ultimately says do this, not that? >> she'll have a role as many of the members of the caucus. >> joining me from washington, congressional reporter for the hill olivia beavers once again. talk to me about this new piece at hill.com entitled democrats gear up for high stakes judiciary hearing, olivia. what should we expect today as house democrats and republicans face off in the next stage of this impeachment inquiry considering just around the corner we have the articles of impeachment, which we are awaiting as well? >> certainly, as you said articles of impeachment are coming. that's what makes it so high stakes, but it's going to be a long day, andst it's going to this battle between democrats and republicans who are going to try to make their last sort of public case in the judiciary committee that the president did or did not commit impeachable

offenses. as you said, it starts at 9:00 a.m. you're going to have opening statements from chairman nadler and the ranking member doug collins, and then you're going to get into a hefty chunk of staff statements and -- first from the judiciary during the opening arguments and then house intelligence staff doing -- walking through the evidence. and after that members get to ask questions, and that's where you might see some knives sort of coming out. this is really kind of laying the groundwork, doing a little bit more grease before articles are introduced and multiple sources have told me that they expect it this week. they're moving quickly. >> despite the gop's united opposition to this probe, who are some of the house republicans that democrats are hoping to sway to support impeachment? you heard senator chris murphy on "morning joe" last week when

asked by will geist about whether or not there were republicans in the senate who would jump ship. there were republicans in fact that were willing and looking to do that? >> there are certainly a few that i think they're hoping to pull over and that would be the more moderate numbers you don't see as frequently out there defending the president. i think there's actually more -- at least in my conversations, a fear that republicans are becoming more and more united. you have mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham kind of working on making those republicans who might be flipped be more resolute in deciding that the president should not be impeached, and that's what sources have been telling me this week and kind of gearing up how they would address if, you know, republicans are going to subpoena schiff and kind of do like the tactics of responding back, but you know, we saw it in the house when schiff and others were trying to convince republicans to kind of come on

board with impeachment, you didn't really see any tables turning. so it will be interesting to watch what happens in the senate. >> all right, olivia beaver, thank you very much. appreciate it. republicans are far out pacing democrats by blitzing americans with impeachment related ads on social media and on television. "the washington post" reporting that the onslaught of ads has worried some democrats in swing districts who are being painted as do nothing pro-impeachment radicals. those democrats have reportedly been urging party leaders to strike back with their own counter message for weeks. they were told that the cavalry is coming but have been given no firm date as of yet. over the past month, republicans have launched roughly $10 million in ads aimed at democrats in districts president trump won in 2016. according to an analysis by "the post" more than 100 gop congressional incumbents ran

anti-impeachment ads. and republican congressman devin nunes yesterday down played his communications with lev parnas, suggesting to fox news the interaction was limited to a call from parnas's wife despite phone records released in a report by the house intelligence committee last week listing two calls from nunes to parnas. >> somebody concocted this story in order to try to get this parnas guy, who i've never met, to get -- >> were you ever on the phone with him, though? >> i said this yesterday. i went through my records on friday, okay, and very clearly i got a call from a number that was parnas's wife. i remember talking to someone and i did what i always do, if i don't know who they are, you put them to staff and you let staff work with that person. >> so a national security aide to vice president mike pence turned in more classified evidence to house impeachment

investigators about a september 18th phone call between pence and ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. the aide jennifer williams submitted a supplemental filing on november 26th and had alluded to the phone call already during his public testimony on november 19th. while she was testifying she said that -- and i quote -- the office of the vice president has taken the position that the september 18th call is classified. now, house intelligence committee chair adam schiff is calling on the vice president to declassify that material. in a letter to pence, schiff writes this, having reviewed the supplemental sub mmissionsubmis committee believes there is no legitimate basis for the office of the vice president to assert that the information is classified. schiff further noted in his letter that pence's office has failed to turn over a handful of documents that investigators requested back in october. and the fbi is investigating a fatal shooting of three at a pensacola, florida, naval base

on friday presuming that it was an act of trucherrorism. fbi special agent rachel rojas said they are investigating the attack. a second lieutenant in the royal saudi air force who was training at the naval base to see if he acted alone or was part of a larger network. law enforcement sources say investigators believe he returned to saudi arabia after starting his u.s. training back in 2017, and when he came back earlier this year he was more pious and refrained from socializing. he recently showed videos of mass shootings to other saudi flight students, and authorities believe a tweet posted just before the shooting claimed america was anti-islam bhoz bel him as well. eight people were injured including two local sheriff's deputies who exchanged gunfire with the shooter and killed him.

law enforcement sources telling nbc news that although non-citizens are typically prohibited from buying handguns, al shimrani had a valid hunting rifle. president trump attempted to salvage his relationship with saudi arabia. the president wrote king salman of saudi arabia just called to express his sincere condolences and give his sympathies to the families and friends of the warriors who were killed and wounded in the attack that took place in pensacola, florida. the king said that the saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter and that this person in no way, shape, or form represents the feels of the saudi people who love the american people. on saturday while leaving the white house for a republican fundraiser trump spoke to reporters and but refrained from calling the attack terrorism. >> i spoke with the king of saudi arabia. they are devastated in saudi arabia. we're finding out what took

place, whether it's one person or a number of people, and the king will be involved in taking care of families and loved ones. he feels very strongly, he's very, very devastated by what happened, what took place. likewise, the crown prince, they are devastated by what took place in pensacola and i think they're going to help out the families very greatly. but right now they send their condolences. and as you said, i've said my condolences. it's a very shocking thing, and we'll find out, we'll get to the bottom of it very quickly. still ahead, joe biden addresses reports that the obama white house was warned about hunter's position on the board of burisma. why the former vice president says he may have missed it coming up next.

interview with "axios," joe

biden defending his son hunter after being pressed on what he was doing opt board of a ukrainian energy company while biden was vice president. >> what's your understanding of when your son was doing for an extraordinary amount of money? >> i don't know what he was doing. i know he was on the board. i found out he was on the board after he was on the board, and that was it. and there's nobody -- >> you've had a lot of time. isn't this something you want to get to the bopt ttom of? >> no, because i trust my son. that doesn't pass the smell test. when you're a vice president, don't you need to know what's happening with your family? don't you need to put down some guard rails? >> unless there was something on its face that was wrong. there's nothing on its face that was wrong. look, if you want to talk about problems, you know, let's talk about trump's family. i mean, come on. this is -- you guys are amazing. >> so you think that everything that happened was kosher? >> you know there's not one single bit of evidence, not one

little tiny bit to say anything done was wrong. >> meanwhile, joe biden said over the weekend that he was not warned by white house aides about a potential conflict of interest involving his son. >> you know it didn't look good for hunter biden to be on that board, even if he did nothing wrong, the optics weren't good, and you talk a lot about what it means to be a biden, and the integrity that is imbued in that family name, but there were former white house aides of yours who tried to warn you about the potential conflicts of interest -- >> nobody warned me about a potential conflict of interest. nobody warned me about that, and at the same time -- >> george kent, the state department official testified that he raised it to you to your staff. >> he did not say -- >> to your staff -- >> i never heard that once. >> to your staff and your staff told him he has no bandwidth. >> my son was on his death bed,

i guess that's why he said it. >> so the new yorker reported in july that an obama administration official had warned biden writing this in part, in december 2015 as joe biden prepared to return to ukraine, his aides braced for renewed scrutiny of hunter's relationship with burisma. the obama administration special envoy for energy policy raised the matter with biden himself, but did not go so far as to recommend that hunter leave the board. and while democrats on capitol hill contend with impeachment on the campaign trail, 2020 hopefuls escalate attacks on each other as the candidates try to frame how the party thinks about money and big business on a fundamental level. ali vitali is joining us from charleston, south carolina, with more. >> reporter: you know, yasmin for a democratic party that talks about unity, late tlaly they've been looking anything but. less than two months before the first ballots were cast, what

once was a mostly friendly field dominated by attacks on diversity. >> we're spiraling towards a debate stage that potentially could have six people with no diversity. >> on electability. >> and i just thought to myself, donald trump would eat them up. >> and even on voters. >> a damn liar, man. >> reporter: billionaires catching scrutiny for being billionaires isn't exactly new. >> bloomberg from you. >> billions of dollars. >> reporter: but elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg's brawl is putting big business and big money front and center with questions of transparency swirling. >> i remember when they said the same thing about obama. >> reporter: warren challenging buttigieg to release his campaign bundlers and open his fundraisers to the press. >> it's time to disclose who the bundlers are and who's getting special access. >> reporter: while pushing for more information on the mayor's work with private consulting firm mckinsey. >> i think voters want to know about possible conflicts of

interest. >> reporter: butte jung sayiigi can't release specifics because of a nondisclosure agreement, demanding more tax returns from warren to encompass her time representing corporate clients. >> i think it would be a good idea to release tax returns like i have. >> what remains to be seen is if voters care more about voter ties or the business of beating trump. >> i realize that some people may say do we really want a general election between two new york billionaires, to which i say who's the other one? [ laughter ] >> reporter: and yasmin, last night elizabeth warren's campaign releasing the compensation behind the cases. she made just under $2 million over 30 years of legal work. yasmin. >> our thanks to nbc's ali vitali for that report. let's get a check on your weather. >> isn't charleston beautiful?

>> such a beautiful city. i've been there a couple of times. incredible. this is one of those transition weeks where you have like kind of fall and winter and like they go back and forth each and every day so you really have no clue what to wear. today is an umbrella day, ohio valley, northeast, mid-atlantic, it's going to rain hard at times, some significant travel delays at the airport. the back side of this is cold enough that we have some snow, especially around the minneapolis area. for a stormy weekend we get a break at least for the next two days in the west. on wednesday our storm will come in to the coastline of oregon. the storm system we're dealing with in the east, we do end it with some snow on the i-95 corridor. wednesday morning may be a little treacherous and a little slippery. it's not a huge event, but the timing could make that morning commute a little rough. then we get another storm coming up the east coast as we go into friday. there could be a cold enough air

mass in place initially that we start off with freezing rain or sleet, maybe even a little snow in areas of the mid-atlantic. you talk about wintery weather in the mid-atlantic that could be troublesome. we have two areas of snow, the one i mentioned today that's happening now, sliding through minneapolis, duluth, maybe another one to three inches, and then we'll get that lake effect snow coming into the upper peninsula there of michigan. this is the snow forecast for wednesday morning. it rains for like two straight days. it's warm, and then we're going to get about one to three inches of snow. we may even get some snow in areas like knoxville and nashville and london, kentucky. and then through the spine of the appalachians, and then it looks like d.c., philly and new york, right now you're all in about one to three inches of snow. that's wednesday morning. until then, it's very warm. temperatures in the eastern half of the country are going to hit 60 possibly in new york city, d.c. could be in the 60s. >> you could even actually feel it this morning as you were stepping outside the house. it felt a bit different than it

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start of talks last year. the announcement comes as negotiators over north korea's nuclear program have stalled with the reclusive country threatening to find, quote, a new way if it fails to receive concessions from the u.s. by the end of this year. yesterday president trump reacted to north korea's announcement tweeting in part, this kim jong-un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything actually, if he acts in a hostile way. north korea under the leadership of kim jong-un has tremendous economic potential, but it must denuclearize as promised. prior to yesterday's test north korea's bass to the u.n. announced that denuclearization was not up for negotiation. and jewish groups are accusing president trump of trafficking in anti-semitic stereotypes, this time in florida over the weekend, one remark about money. >> we have to get the people of

our country, of this country, to love israel more. i have to tell you that. we have to do it. we have to get them to love israel more because you have people that are jewish people that are great people that don't love israel enough. you know that. you know that. a lot of you are in the real estate business because i know you very well. you have to vote for me. you're not going to vote for the wealth tax. >> so on the campaign trail back in 2015, trump told a group of jewish republicans, quote, you're not going to support me because i don't want your money. the jewish democrat council of america released a statement on this latest incident saying this, we strongly denounce these vile and bigoted remarks in which the president once again used anti-semitic stereotypes to characterize jews as driven by money and unsufficiently loyal to israel.

at a florida republican fundraiser, trump brought army first lieutenant clint lawrence and matthew goldstein. both were pardoned last month. lawrence was serving a 19-year-old sentence for ordering soldiers to shoot at an unarmed man and go. the miami herald reports at the event was kept top secret forcing the 1,000 attendees to check their cell phones into individual locked cases. reporters were not allowed to attend. and president trump holds the most important position in the world, and with that power he has set his attention on water efficiency in toilets. during a white house meeting on friday, trump announced that the e.p.a. was looking at new efficiency standards in sinks ask showe

and showers and other elements of bathrooms. >> we have a situation where we're looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms where you turn the faucet on and areas where there's tremendous amounts of water, where the water rushes out to sea because you could never handle it, and you don't get any water. you turn on the faucet. you don't get any water. they take a shower and water comes dripping out. it's dripping out very quietly dripping out. people are flushing toilets ten times, 15 times, as opposed to once. they end up using more water, so epa is looking at that very strongly at my suggestion. you go into a new building or a new house or a new home, and they have standards where you don't get water. you can't wash your practically, and the end result is you leave the faucet on and it takes much longer to wash your hands, you end up using the

same amount of water. we're looking seriously at opening up the standard, and there may be some areas where we'll go the other route, desert areas, but for the most part you have many states where they have so much water that it comes down. it's called rain. they don't know what to do with it. we're going to be opening up that, i believe. >> all right, still ahead, setting the stage for another historic week in washington as house democrats barrel towards an impeachment vote. the judiciary committee is set to hold another key hearing this morning. articles of impeachment could be introduce b introduce ed by the end of the week clearing the way for a series of votes that could have the president impeached before christmas. we're going to get you up to speed on all the latest developments. that's next. ♪

♪ we're heading into what could be a pivotal week in the impeachment probe. house judiciary chair jerry nadler says his panel will presumably present articles of impeachment against the president in the coming