at stake. this is very well written bill. it's got everything in it, it's got every element, it anticipates what the defenses are and i think what they've got to be doing is educating the public. >> thank you so much for sticking around for the hour. that is "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow starts right now. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. our main studios here at msnbc are in new york city, hid town, new york city. and at this time of year with the rockefeller christmas tree all lit up, with this part of midtown manhattan being sort of the biggest tourist attraction in the world, it can possibly be logistically a little overwhelming just coming to work or leaving work, just trying to get in and out of the building. it's a great problem to have. i've not complaining. it is awesome, it is a blessing. it's incredible and still blows my mind i work right here in the middle of it.

and the crowds this time of year are a visual and physical even sort of a visceral reminder of just what a great city new york is, what a world capitol this is. but also it's a great reminder of just how many freaking people there are here at any one time, how many one people can fit into this city all at once. new york city is just massive. i grew up in the san francisco bay area and i grew up thinking san francisco was the big city. then i came to new york. right? there are 8 million residents in the city itself. more like 20, 22 million in the new york metropolitan area. that of course makes new york the biggest urban area in this country, places like l.a. and houston and chicago, those are also massive urban areas in the united states, but new york is bigger than all of them. new york is the eighth largest urban mega city on the planet

earth. it's just huge. that said, though, for as big as new york is and for as big as it feels particularly this time of year, when it feels like everyone on earth is here to see the tree and all the rest of it, it's actually a bit humbling to realize even though new york is the biggest city in this country, new york is only the eighth largest mega city on earth. there are like at least 6 or 7 urban areas on earth that are even bigger than new york. and interestingly none of them are in this hemisphere. they're all in the east. those are all urban metropolises, all international mega cities that are even bigger than ginormous new york city. take seoul and south korea. seoul and south korea considerably larger.

just massive. peter burgen is a veteran national security reporter at cnn. i know cnn is our competitor so i shouldn't say nice things about them, but peter burgen is awesome and always does great eye opening reporting for cnn and has written some pretty influential books including on terrorism. he wrote "holy war incorporated inside the secret world of bin laden." and that came out in 2001. it could have not been more influential at that time. he wrote another influential book about osama bin laden. and he wrote about homegrown terrorism in the united states. peter burgen, national security reporter at cnn is great. he's just out with a new book called "trump and his generals

the cost of chaos." and i will admit to you right up front i have not yet read this book. it just came out this week. i bought out, i will read it over christmas. i'll read everything peter burgen writes. but we are starting to get the first headlines from the new reporting peter burtgon includes in this book. and it was the guardian newspaper in london who first grabbed and stuck a headline on one eye popping newly reported detail from peter burgen's new book. i'm going to quote to you from the guardian. quote, in his book bergen describes an oval office meeting on north korea, the national jespecial intelligence agency and even made a model of a secret north korean facility, a model the size of a coffee table to illustrate the regime's overt

russian programs. that satellite image showed the lights of china and the lights of south korea and the blackness of north korea in between. trump originally mistook the black void of north korea in the satellite image for an ocean. presumably as these national security officials were explaining to him that that wasn't an ocean on this imagery that he was looking that, that was an area without electricity and that's why it's dark. it's not water, it's land it's just there are no lights there. these national security officials in the oval office with trump showed thim him it wasn't an ocean and they showed him, quote, the bright lights of soerg, south kor

seoul, south korea. president trump reportedly asked his briefings, quote, why is seoul so close to the north korean border? trump had repeatedly been told america's reaction against north korea was constrained by the fact north korean artillery could demolish seoul. in retaliation for any attack that barrage against seoul could inflict mass casualties on seoul's population. but after being shown the location of seoul on the map in relation to where the border was, president trump decided he'd issue an order about how this problem could be fixed. according to peter bergen's new book trump accounted to this lesson and visual aid he was shown by saying, quote, they have to move. bergen says the national security officials in the room were unsure if president trump

was joking. but president trump repeated the line, they have to move. what he meant was the city of seoul must be moved farther away from north korea. president trump believed that was an order he could issue and other people in the u.s. government would follow through on it. luckily for us and in the course of world history the pentagon and national security who received this order from president trump, they decided to according tool peter bergen's reporting to ignore this order. and bergen also reports that the president had ordered all u.s. civilians should be immediately evacuated from the entire nation of south korea. national security officials told him that would be received as the first step towards a war which of course could be a nuclear war with north korea. he nevertheless insisted that evacuation must happen.

quote, trump is reported to have ignored the warning from the briefers telling his team, quote, go do it. logisticly you can imagine what it might mean to evacuate all u.s. civilians from south korea. even if in the view of america's national security professionals doing so could potentially start a nuclear war and it wouldn't necessarily be a good idea. you can at least imagine how it would go. you can at least imagine the u.s. government trying to carry out a terrible idea like that. how exactly did you think they were going to move seoul? just imagine new york city again just quite as big as seoul but it's the closest we've got in this country. imagine how it would go? just like call connecticut, we're sorry but we're scootching new york city, we have to scootch it like a few miles so we're going to bring over the empire state building first.

do you have a spots for the entire state building and after that we're going to bring a fuel of the avenues maybe one at a time. do you want park avenue first or fifth avenue because all the avenues we're moving the city and bring the first million people, and after that the next million people, we'll phase them in. but thoifr all coming because we're moving new york city. you guys ready? you call connecticut, new jersey. how do you feel a city of 20 million people plus? imagine you're in the briefing with him, he's not joking. move that city. i mean you're -- you know, you're an expert from the national national geospatial intelligence committee and he's like move

seoul. what was the quote again? the exact quote was go do it, they have to move. and they repeated it again, the quote was they have to move. they have to move seoul. a lot of these lines i will also just mention that "the washington post" reported not long ago, earlier this year that president trump at one point phoned vladimir putin, the president of russia to ask him how putin wanted him, the american president, to start behaving towards north korea. north korea of course has a border with russia. russia has helped north korea evade sanctions that we put on north korea, that they have tried to shore up the north korean dictatorship. why would an american president ask vladimir putin for direction in terms of how putin wants to start treating north korea?

but the record of that call in which president trump is reported to have asked vladimir putin what he wants the u.s. to do towards north korea -- i mean the record of that call is reportedly one of the trump presidential call records that's been taken out of circulation effectively inside the white house. they locked up the record of that collin a code word level super highly secure server so almost nobody can access that record. the trump white house is reported to have done that with call records between president trump and mohammed bin salman and to collards from multiple calls between president trump and president putin including the one where he reportedly asked putin what he wanted the u.s. policy to henceforth be towards north korea, the one in which he second degree putin to set u.s. policy towards north korea. the trump white house has also reportedly locked up the

presidential call records in which president trump is recorded to have spent a solid ten minutes on a phone call with pri british prime minister theresa may. trump apparently spent tynminutty10 minutes on phone trying to convince theresa may russia didn't do it. immediately after that meeting with the russian foreign minister in may 2017 a number of disturbing elements of that meeting leaked out. that's where we got word president trump had shared secret top secret information he wasn't supposed to give them and that ouris didn't know he was sharing with anybody let alone the russians and also found out he told the russians he had just fired the fbi director the dpa

before and he believed that would relieve the pressure on him over russia. we would only find out months and months later this year actually that at that meeting the president did something even more direct. we learned trump white house officials also locked up a record from that meeting, a memorandum of what happened in that meeting in the oval office and that memorandum indicated one of the things he told him that day in the oval office he was okay with russia having intervened in the 2016 election to help put in the white house. president trump told two senior officials in the 2017 oval office meeting he was, quote, unconcerned in moskow's interference. he was okay with it. he didn't mind that. the official white house record of that meeting which showed the president making those comments is another one of those records of the president's calls and meetings and behavior that has

reportedly been locked up in some secure server or otherwise been isolated in some way to e restrict access to it. so officials can't see that record. they can't access the record of what president trump actually did and said. and of course we actually learned first from the whistle-blower, from the intelligence community whistle-blower who filed this report with the intelligence committee that one of the other things that trump white house officials locked up and put in a super secure server to keep from accessing that information was a initial record of president trump calling ukraine in july this year, the call in which he told the ukrainian president that the ukrainian government needed to announce an investigation into joe biden. that call record, too, was at least initially locked up by trump white house officials to try to prevent anybody from knowing what president trump had actually said on that call. they took the record of that call, they put it in a special

secure highly restricted computer server to try to prevent even president trump's own appointees from knowing exactly what he's done. they've done this over and over again. as much as the trump white house and republican allies and the house and senate and conservative media, they all want to expose that intelligence community whistle-blower, they want to blame this whistle-blower for this scandal going to lead to the president's impeachment, there were three main claims made by the whistle-blower and what the whistle-blower claims it all turned out to be true. it was three things. the whistle-blower claimed president trump pressured the ukrainian government. that happened. the whistle-blower also said president trump pressured ukraine to support a russian disinformation effort, to down-play what russia did to

interfere in our election and instead play out this fantasy it wasn't russia, it was ukraine instead. that's a russian government disinformation operation the president pressured ukraine to lend support to that. and the third thing the whistle-blower claimed was that white house officials tried to hide the evidence of what president trump had done by taking these unusual steps to restrict acte restrict access by locking up the records of his behavior in oddly and inappropriately secure servers that aren't designed for stuff like that at all. they used those records to keep people from being able to access the actual factual record he had done. those were the three claims from the whistle-blower. that's what the whistle-blower claimed. all of that has been borne out

by corroborating evidence now. and that ultimately has led to what is happening tonight in the house judiciary committee whereas we speak they are continuing to markup two arlticaarl articles of impeachment against president trump, one for abuse of power and one for obstruction. the plan right now is for this debate to stretch out over two days. it's going to go very late tonight and pick up again early tomorrow morning. and these two debates, this tracks roughly. in 1974 the judiciary committee took six days to markup articles of impeachment against nixon. around this year in 1998 the judiciary committee took three days. it looks like with the president trump impeachment it'll be interest days of debate and markup in the judiciary committee which we're seeing part of tonight. it's ongoing tonight.

we'll bring you that news as it happens. but one of the things that, you know, for all the parallels to other impeachment proceedings, right? for all the ways it tracks there is something unusual, that is truly novel about this impeachment we are living through right now, and it is that this president is being impeached, but the investigation into him is ongoing, right? they're impeaching him because they know the basics of what he did in ukraine, that the president abandoned u.s. policy towards ukraine, not because he wanted some new u.s. policy but he wanted them to do a domestic political errand for him. and he staked a white house

meeting as additional leverage, additional pressure behind that demand. that's all uncontested. they admit that is what they did. as for the second article of impeachment, the obstruction one, it's also uncontested. all sides agree that president trump has flat out and completely refused to acknowledge the constitutional authority of the house to conduct an impeachment. and he's refused flat out to cooperate with it or allow any witness testimony like even other impeached presidents have. they are impeaching him on those two articles for this narrow scope of his behavior that is factually uncontested to and admitted to by the president himself. there are these two articles he admits i did it, that's what they're impeaching him on. but in a way that is novel, unpres dnlted, in a way we're

not quite sure haw to handal as civilians, the overall investigation into exactly what all he did and how all he did it and who else was involved, that investigation is ongoing. that rolls on even as he's being impeached now for what everybody agrees he did. we learned the white house did in fact hide records on the president's statements and actions on super secret but just as an effort to keep other officials from knowing what the president had done. it was borne out by time during the impeachment inquiry and since then all of these meetings the president has had that have been treated in the say way. and because of that all those

records are still hidden. including apparently on the call where putin got to set our north korea policy. i wonder if maybe putin told him that seoul was somewhere else and that was the srs source. what happened on that call? they had to lock up the records for. just today a judge incidentally appointed by president trump allowed a lawsuit to proceed today that is seeking the minutes that's that the white house has hidden or locked down concerning trump's conversations with vladimir putin. that lawsuit by two oversight kbrups will be allowed to

proceed. the lawsuit aims to turn up evidence what the administration did with records of those calls and meetings but hopefully going to turn up the records themselves so we all can find out someday what actually he did, what's in all of those records they've tried to lock away and make sure nobody can get access to? i mean the unlocking, the unleashing of just one of those call records they've tried to hide has already resulted in the president being impeached. just the ukraine call being released has already resulted in his impeachment. what about all the others that are still locked up? there's also the ongoing investigation specifically into the ukraine scheme. an official working in mike pence's office, she notified the impeachment investigation after her initial testimony that she had come to recall some additional information about

mike pence's kplukzs with the ukrainian government. and while she believed that that information about vice president mike pence and his interactions with ukraine was relevant to the impeachment inquiry, vice president pence's office has insisted that information she testified about can't be release ed to the public. and it went over to the committee tonight for them to answer this new information. tonight as we speak. and wait there's more. just tonight i kind of can't believe this one as well. in addition to that federal court ruling today trying to get the records of all his calls with foreign officials and the fact the impeachment investigation is still turning up new information being handed over to the investigative committees in addition to all that just tonight federal prosecutors in the southern district of new york have dropped their own bombshell

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tonight the judiciary committee is markup the two articles of impeachment against

president trump. they're going to continue this debate and markup through the night and then they'll reconvene tomorrow morning with the expectation ultimately they'll vote as a committee on thiese impeachment articles by the end of the day some time tomorrow. just a couple of hours ago we got a jaw dropping bit of new news in the criminal case that is proceeding through federal court in new york, a case that is sort of adjacent to and abutting these ongoing impeachment proceedings on capitol hill. because when president trump tasked his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, to basically take over the u.s. government's interactions with ukraine so the president could get these political favors from ukraine, the scheme for which the president is now being impeached, when president trump sent rudy giuliani to work on that scheme, mr. giuliani had helpers. beyond the trump administration officials and ambassadors who were all told to call rudy and

coordinate anything they were doing with ukraine through rudy giuliani, he also had a couple of helpers outside the u.s. government, a couple of guys we've come to think as a sort of trendy boy band duo named lev and igor. lev and igor not only became apparently constant companions for mr. giuliani as he carried out this scheme on the president's orders they also for whatever reason seemed to have turned up a lot in the company of president trump himself. president trump insists he's never met these guys and doesn't know them, but there's a lot of pick toral evidence to the contrary. lev and igor were both arrested at dulles airport in the washington, d.c. area. they were attempting to board one way flights out of the

country. and it lays out allegations they funneled illegal donations including foreign money to various republican candidates and causes including to the main super pac supporting president trump's re-election. and the relationship between these two indicted gentlemen and president trump remains murky, but at least in the case of lev, he's the one on the left of your screen, the guy whose eyes are slightly close together -- at least in the case of lev, he has maintained in court that effectively he works for president trump. his lawyer explained to the judge overseeing his case in the southern district of new york that lev was working for rudy giuliani in giuliani's capacity as the president's personal lawyer. so the president has rudy giuliani working for him as a personal lawyer in that capacity and the president has rudy giuliani go to ukraine and mount this pressure campaign against ukraine to deliver these

political favors for the president. right, that's what president trump is now being impeached for. but as part of that work for the president, rudy giuliani has another guy working for him, lev parnas. and it's not just some, you know, public bragging puffery like social media claim. oh, i'm working for rudy giuliani in his capacity as personal lawyer, this is actually level parnas' quite serious lawyer telling a federal judge that my client worked for giuliani in mr. giuliani's capacity as president trump's personal lawyer. well, tonight just a couple of hours ago federal prosecutors in this case have now written to the judge that's overseeing the lev parnas case to say that they the prosecutors no longer believe it is safe to allow lev parnas to be out on how's arrest with an ankle monitor while he's awaiting trial on these felony charges. as of tonight prosecutors now say that he's a, quote, significant flight risk and he should be remanded to custody

immediately because they quote, it is difficult to overstate the extreme flight risk that mr. parnas now poses. why did they change their minds on whether he needed to be in jail or not? before they were fine with house arrest on an ankle monitor. according to this filing from prosecutors tonight they say they have just realized that mr. parnas lied to them about his financial situation and assets after he was arrested. when they were going through the process of setting his appropriate bail terms, he lied to them about something big. what specifically? well, according to prosecutors he neglected to mention to them among other things that in september of this year so right in the middle of him working on this scheme with rudy giuliani at the direction of president trump to pressure ukraine into giving president trump political favors and pressuring ukraine into supporting this weird russian disinformation thing that russia didn't interfere in the 2016 election, it was ukraine instead.

in the middle of lev parnas running that scheme in ukraine with rudy giuliani at the president's direction, in september of this year, september 2019, he neglected to mention to prosecutors that, quote, he received $1 million wired to him from a bank account in russia. oh. prosecutors say he also neglected to mention hundreds of thousands of dollars he received as a kind of pass through from that kremlin connected oligarch who has hired trump connected lawyers who has hired lev to work for them. that lawyer is one of the people in ukraine who's been providing giuliani with faudr for todder impeachment scheme. and he didn't mention that someone in russia wired him a million dollars last month. while he was working for rudy giuliani in giuliani's capacity as president trump's personal lawyer.

i mean, so lev's working for the president and somebody in russia is sending him a million bucks, really? the impeachment proceedings are under way literally as we speak in the judiciary committee. they're marking up and debating these article of impeachment right now. there's no factual agreement for the things on which the president is going to be impeached but this new question tonight on why somebody in russia wired a million dollars to one of the guys who carried out this scheme for him in the middle of the scheme, that's all still rolling out literally tonight. i mean, it's rolling out in the ongoing investigation by the intelligence committee. it's rolling out in the federal courts as various oversight groups start to pry loose these records of the president's behavior that they have tried to hide inside the trump white house. and tonight it is rolling out in the southern district of new york where federal prosecutors tonight are asking a judge to lock up one of the key players who carried out these orders

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president trump goes through national security advisors like most people go through tissues in hay fever season. he was replaced by john bolton. john bolton was then fired under circumstances that still aren't clear but appear to have been

immediately coinciding with the events of the impeachment scandal, which is why it's such a big deal bolton won't tiff about what he knows of the impeachment scandal. after bolton was fired he did get himself a book deal and get a gig doing speaking engagements. and he gave a shocking warning. he said if president trump is re-elected and gets a second term he thinks one of the 'ing its trump will do in a second term is he'll pull the united states out of nato. nato of course is the transatlantic alliance setup at the end of world war ii to among other things provide a unified western counterweight and check of what was then the soviet union. that alliance is arguably why there has never been a world war 3. but the first thing john bolton said after he got fired as trump's national security

advisor and he gets a second term, he's going to destroy nato, he's going to pull the united states out of it. as crazy that might sound last week nato leaders at that summit came to that summit prepared to do damage control should he announce abruptly at that summit that in fact the u.s. was pulling out of nato. world leaders literally had a plan amongst themselves, they had a plan ready in the event that trump announced on a whim that the u.s. was ditching nato. because that seemed to them like a realistic prospect. well, now today the senate foreign relations committee did something sort of remarkable. they passed a resolution on a bipartisan basis that requires congressional approval if president trump were to try to withdraw from nato. this is democrats and republicans, a bipartisan vote here. democrats and republicans essentially making defensive maneuvers here, playing dfls about what the president might do next. just a remarkable move today on a resolution sponsored by

democratic senator tim kaine. now, the house is casting its impeachment actions basically along the same lines, saying they're moving with speed, they're moving because they need to defend it country, they need congress to move to act to defend the country from what the president is trying to do next in this context, too. >> the president's misconduct goes to the heart of whether we can conduct a free and fair election in 2020. it is bad enough for a candidate to invite foreign interference in our political process, but it is far more corrosive for a president to do so and abuse his power to make it so. >> as the house gets ready to vote now and thim peachment articles will head over from the house to senate for the president's trial, what happens to this dynamic, this sort of awkward principle we're seeing even in bipartisan ways to basically try to protect the country from the president's

actions and what the congress is worried he might do next. joining us now is a member of the foreign relations committee. sir, thanks for being here. >> you bet. glad to be back, rachel. >> let me ask you about this nato provision. this was a remarkable vote today. bipartisan support for your legislation to essentially block the president from unilaterally busting up nato. are you seriously concern he may be angling to do that? >> rachel, i am worried about it and in fact this bill, it was one of the last bills john mccain introduced. he and i introduced it shortly before he died, and we introduced it then because we were so worried that all the president's bashing of nato suggested, a, he might leave and that he clearly believed he could do it on his own. nato was a treaty ratified by the senate so the president thinking i can get out of it on my own worried us both.

we introduced it and over time and this year it's the 70th anniversary of nato. we the president continues to say negative things about nato. and tat the nato meeting last week you saw french president macron saying nato is now brain dead because the real lack of u.s. commitment of the president to nato. so we just slowly built a consensus among democrats and republicans that the alliance has value, that the only benefactor if the u.s. pulled out of nato would be vladimir putin and russia, and we want to make clear to our allies and to the president and especially to russia the congress supports the u.s. staying in nato and we're not going to let the president back out of it on his own. >> because of the disruption or the disillusion ofina nato or e the u.s. pulling out of nato

would be such an apex goal for putin and russia. it is remarkable -- i know there's a lot going on right now but it is remarkable to see you get this bipartisan vote in the senate. to see democrats and republicans agreeing that russia needs to not get what it's going for here, and if the president tries to give it to him we'll get in the way or stand up. i wonder if you see that as room to grow or a toe hold for some of these bipartisan ways to move forward on these scary issues. >> i do. and the bill is about two things. bipartisan support in both the senate, and we know it's there on the house floor, the continuing viability of nato. it's so very important. bipartisan agreement, a president should not be able to torch an alliance that's lasted for 7 years on his own whim or say so in significant bipartisan concern about the activities of russia that are ongoing today.

the foreign relations committee today passed a number of other resolutions that were directly about russian attempts to strong arm neighbors, to use their oil to basically hold european nations hostage. we're taking a lot of actions to check russian bad behavior. and if we're going to do that, we have to make clear that the nato alliance will stay strong regardless of what this president thinks about it. >> that bipartisan dynamic you're describing, does that factor at all into the way you're thinking about how the senate is going to consider the impeachment articles when they somewhat inevitably end upcoming over to the senate very shortly? >> well, you know, rachel, i'm hopeful but also realistic. we're seeing news from the republicans that suggests what they want to do on this impeachment trial is as little as possible. they don't want to do very much at all. but we owe the president as well as the american public a really full and fair trial in the senate so the people know what

the facts are. in the house, the president didn't participate. he told witnesses not to show up. he didn't produce any documents. as you pointed out early in the show, they never attempted to rebut the main claims that the president carried out this campaign to get dirt on a political opponent, using his office for a personal purpose that was illegitimate, hurting an ally by doing so and all this helped an adversary, russia. they didn't deny any of it. they just chose not to participate. but a trial in the senate the president and his team need to participate. we need to see the documents. we need to hear from folks. it doesn't have to be long, but it has to be thorough so the facts are out there and everyone knows what happened. >> thanks for making time for us tonight. we'll be right back. stay with us.

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as the house marks up the impeachment articles against president trump tonight we're following a bit of thunderbolt development in the criminal case that prosecutors are pursuing in the southern district of new york against some key participants in the ukraine scheme for which the president is being impeached. it relates to the case of lev parnas who was apparently working with rudy giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, to enact this scheme in ukraine. tonight prosecutors have sent this to the federal judge in his case. quote, the government respectfully writes in opposition to defendant parnas' motion seeking modification of the terms of his pretrial release. the government opposes parnas' request to lighten up his bail conditions because, quote, parnas made materially misleading and false statements regarding his assets and income. coat, there is no set of conditions that will reasonably ensure his compliance with the terms of his release. the government now moves to

revoke parnas' bail and remand pending trial. among the things lev is said to have lied to prosecutors about include a $1 million wire transfer payment that was sent to him in september, a month before he was charged while he was busy working on this scheme with rudy giuliani, that $1 million payment was sent to him according to prosecutors from a bank account in russia. joining us now is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of the great state of alabama. thank you for being with us to help us sort through this filing. >> glad to be with you, rachel. >> so originally prosecutors did not seem bothered by the prospect that lev parnas was going to be on house arrest with an ankle monitor. to those of us who aren't lawyers that seemed a little crazy with the way they were arresting him getting on a jetway on a one way plane with a ticket out of the country. now they're saying oops, we were wrong. and among other things he had

money coming in from places like rushy he lied to us about and that means we think he's a flight risk. tell us if you've seen patterns like this in other cases. >> you know, this is pretty familiar pattern. initially the prosecutors in the southern district that they'd be able to work some sort of cooperation agreement with parnas. that is why i think we saw those relative modest conditions of release given the fact as you say he say standing almost on the tarmac. and what we're seeing now as prosecutors who reevaluate his motion for lighter conditions, he had actually lied to them. they found he'd given three different accountings of his financial status to three different people. and ultimately he submits this n under an oath, under penalty of perjury, an affidavit talking about his financial assets and

he just is way off the mark. here's what this tells prosecutors. that tells them this isn't a guy who doesn't feel constrained to play fair with them and also he has the resources if he makes it out of the country to be able to survive. so at that point their radar goes up and they're really worried about him. they've decided he's a flight risk and he needs to go into custody. >> joyce, i really appreciate you being here. i didn't see this coming at all. clearly advanced experienced prosecutors did. thanks for being with us. we'll be right back. stay with us. h us we'll be right back. stay with us

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amid everything else going on in the news right now, midnight eastern time tonight is the deadline for candidates to qualify for the next presidential debate. there are seven democratic candidates we know are going to be on the stage next week already. biden, sand sers, warren, buttigieg, andrew yang just yesterday met the polling criteria to get on the debate stage. california senator kamala harris had also qualified for the december debate when she decided earlier this month she would end her candidacy, so she won't be there. interestingly senator cory booker has met the donor requirement for this one, meaning the number of people given him the right amount of money but he hasn't met the polling requirements and again the deadline is midnight tonight.

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