new developments overnight in the impeachment probe and a surprise move that seemed to infuriate republicans. house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler abruptly delayed a vote on articles of impeachment late last night. now lawmakers are scheduled to reconvene at 10:00 a.m. eastern. plus, british prime minister boris johnson leads his party to a historic general election win, paving the way for britain's exit from the european union early next year. and as we head closer to primary season, senator and 2020 candidate elizabeth warren is ramping up the criticism of her fellow democratic presidential candidates. ♪

good morning, it is friday, december 13th, i'm geoff bennet in for yasmin and amin both under the weather and those who watched yesterday's show know what their voices sounded like so they're taking a much needed morning to recover. after more than 14 hours of debate on the articles of impeachment against the president, the house judiciary committee abruptly adjourned late last night holding off a history-making vote until later this morning. chairman jerry nadler appeared to catch many fellow lawmakers off guard when he made the announcement shortly before midnight. >> there's been a long two days of consideration of these articles and it is now very late at night. i want the members on both sides of the aisle to think about what has happened over these last few days and to search their consciences before we cast our final votes. therefore, the committee will now stand in recess until tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. and at which point i will move to divide the question so that

each of us may have the opportunity to cast up or down votes, and each of the articles of impeachment, and so this be our judge, the committee is in recess. >> mr. chairman, mr. chairman -- >> >> there was no consulting from the ranking member on your schedule for tomorrow, and what you have just blown up schedules for everyone, you chose not to consult the ranking member on a schedule issue, of this magnitude, so typical. this is the, this is the kangaroo court that we're talking about. >> so the committee is going to return at 10:00 a.m., to vote on the articles of impeachment before sending them to the house floor next week. that follows hours of debate yesterday, where democrats on the house judiciary committee argued the case for impeaching president trump. >> the president committed the highest crime against the constitution by abusing his office. >> this is the most abusive act we can imagine. trying to influence our

elections with foreign interference. that takes power away from the american people. >> this president has chosen to put his purge interests ahead of the national interest. >> it is overwhelming evidence of the scheme led by the president, led by his personal lawyer rudy giuliani to corrupt the american elections. >> no president has ever, ever, ever obstructed congress in the manner that we've seen from president trump. >> the president abused his power, and is a continuing threat, not only to democracy, but to our national security. >> republicans meantime attacked the substance of witness testimony, and republican congressman john rat cliff was brushed back by democrat val demmings after he suggested the whistle-blower distorted the contends of the july 25th phone call of the president with ukraine. >> the democrats have built this

impeachment scheme around an alleged demand. guess what word is not anywhere in the transcript? demand. nowhere in that transcript is the president make a demand. >> there have been so many things that have been said, like, the president never used the word demand. well, i can tell you this, when a robber points a gun at you, to take your money, they usually don't walk up and say i'm robbing you right now. >> the republican congressman andy bigs questioned the credibility of david holmes, the embassy official who overheard the u.s. ambassador gordon sondland on the phone with president trump, saying holmes did not relay his story to anyone. >> well, what do the facts actually get to? so when my colleague just talked about the money was released, the aid was released, it takes

this inference, based on time line, and he is citing rank hearsay. a guy comes to you and says hey, you know what, i overheard this conversation, i'm in a restaurant, actually sitting on a patio at a restaurant, lots of people around, but boy, chi hear everything. i knew who it was, i knew what was said and i was so concerned about it, i didn't tell anybody. >> but holmes actually told impeachment investigators in his november deposition that he told ambassador bill taylor about what he overheard, and repeatedly referred to the call in other conversations. well while that was happening on one side of the hill, on the other side house speaker nancy pelosi responded to president trump's criticism of the impeachment inquiry. the president had called it impeachment-like for including just two articles and, impeachment light for including just two artand nancy pelosi defended the house probe. >> the president is wrong. what can i say?

we have put forth articles of impeachment. i am very proud of the committee, six committees have been working on this for a very long time. this is nothing swift about it. but it is urgent. >> speaker pelosi also explained why the charge of bribery which she has accused the president of committing was not included in the final articles of impeachment. >> you yourself accused him of bribery. why did you decide not to make bribery one of articles of impeachment. >> i myself am not a lawyer. sometimes i act like one. and not as often as i act as a doctor, i practice medicine on the side, without benefit of diploma, too. this was a decision recommended by working together as committee chairs are attorneys. and the articles are what they are. they are very powerful. they're very strong. and they are a continuation of a

pattern of misbehavior on the part of the president. >> joining me now is msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos, and danny, you heard the house speaker there say she is not a lawyer, and you lucky for us, are, and one of the things that house democrats have said is that they wanted to bring, in this impeachment inquiry, the strongest case with the simplest evidence. do you think they've done that here? >> it's an interesting strategy. because sometimes prosecutors, in criminal cases, throw a bunch of charges against the wall and the biggest charges they can think of and meet in the middle and maybe end up with a lesser-included charge. that's not the strategy the democrats have chosen here. andrew johnson's impeachment here had 11 articles of impeachment, he was acquitted of all of them, and now you see only two, and those charges are abuse of power, and obstruction of congress. abuse of power, and this came up many times, maybe 100 times yesterday, during the debates, that abuse of power is not a

crime. in other words, democrats are not committing themselves to proving what would appear to be a higher burden, criminal elements, like you'd see in the crimes codes, and that may be a really clever strategy, because if you use this amorphous abuse of power, then it maybe easier to make out the claims. on the other hand, house republicans are making the point that, look, it is not even a crime. the abuse of power is not a crime. but they can't evade the fact that abuse of power is an impeachable offense and it has been an impeachable offense by itself in the past. >> was there anything else that was said in the 14 hours worth of debate that made you think differently about the case, that democrats are bringing, or the rebuttal that republicans are trying to offer? >> for most of us who have been watching all along, there weren't any new revelations yesterday. there were just arguments upon arguments, and hours and hours of arguments by people who appear to need no bathroom breaks or food or any kind of

rest, because they took almost no breaks from what i could tell. so this is, for many of us, a lot of us saw grandstanding on both sides. people making more arguments to their constituency. and oftentimes, it got way off base. references to hunter biden, that probably didn't need to be made, and other things of going off track of maybe more policy discussions, but i mean that's 15 hours of debate. after a while, they started to run out of new ground. >> all right, danny cevallos, thanks. thanks as always. prime minister boris johnson and his conservative party are celebrating a commanding win, securing a majority in the british parliament and paving the way for the u.k.'s exit from the european union early next year. now, overnight, labor party leader jeremy corbyn announced that he will be stepping down after the opposition, not only failed to out of the ruling conservatives, but also lost dependable seats in parliament. now, facing his second general election defeat, corbin also

said he would not lead the party into another election, but would stay on during what he called a process of reflection. now, during his victory speech in london, johnson said the win would give him a mandate to get brexit done. >> this election means that getting brexit done is now the irrefutable, ear resistible, unarguable, decision of the british people. and with this election, i think we've put an end to all of those miserable threats of a second referendum. >> with the projected landslide victory of over 350 seats in parliament, this marks the greatest win for conservatives at westminster since margaret thatcher's 1987 election. and joining me now here in washington is axios world editor dave lawler. this was a crushing defeat for the labor party. explain to us exactly what happened here. >> right, i was shocked actually, when the exit polls

came out last night, they projected a much bigger majority for boris johnson than the polls had anticipated. this is a crushing defeat for labor. and not just for labor party, but for everyone who has been trying to stop brexit over the last three years. this is a decisive result for boris johnson. as he continually says, to get brexit done. you know, the biggest majority since thatcher. i think why it was so shocking in part was because british politics has been deadlocked for years and now all of a sudden, you have such a decisive moment in favor of the conservatives and in favor of people who want to move ahead with brexit. >> yes, so what, it looks like that brexit is going to happen. >> yes, at least the first, leaving is probably the easy part, although it is taking three years to do it, they will be leaving the european union early next year. they still need to negotiate a trade deal with europe. there is a lot of questions to be answered over the course of

2020, and probably beyond. but this big question that is sort of loomed over u.k. politic, will they actually leave the european union, that seems to have been answered last night. >> are there any take-aways from what happened overseas to what could happen in this election, the 2020 election, or is that comparison too fraught here to make? >> one thing that i find similar is the seats that boris johnson went out and won do kind of resemble the rust belt that was the 2016 key battleground ahead of 2020, and able to flip union towns, places that had gone labor for generation, able to turn them conservative. but the u.k. election was such an anomaly in terms of the brexit issue, it was really a once in a generation thing for them, so i'm not sure there is a like for like comparison, but i'm sure on campaigns on this side of the atlantic will be looking at what happened and seeing what they can glean from it.

>> dave, thanks again. we will be talking to you shortly. still ahead, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is pledging to be in total coordination with the white house, as the impeachment probe heads to the senate. even though he will be a juror in the impeachment trial. >> plus, recovery missions are under way after a deadly volcanic eruption off the coast of nye zealand. we will have an update on the search operation. those stories and a check of the weather when we come right back. to be honest a little dust it never bothered me.

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another eruption. >> reporter: going by helicopter from a nearby navy ship, the eight member team needing protective gear and breathing devices to set foot on the island. the volcano officials say is highly volatile. authorities here are under pressure to retrieve the remain force desperate families, who boarded boats before dawn, for a prayer service, at sea. 47 people were on the island that day. the hollander boys from chicago. 13-year-old matthew, his older broth barron, dying of their injuries in the hospital. their parents still missing a family erased. >> horrendous. >> horrendous burns. >> fortunately they were together. because they were very, a very close-knit family. >> with the mission under way, people gathered at the shore to offer prayers and honor the dead and wait for word that it's over. >> thanks for that report. let's get a check of the

weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. pretty lonely up there, no yasmin, no amin. >> is it wrong for me to say it is quiet and peaceful. >> they will hear about that. >> you will hear about it when yasmin gets back. we talked about the travel indications yesterday and a new storm coming up the east coast. it has begun. it is rain in georgia. raining in atlanta. driving around, a slow commute. there and the charlotte area. in the map, the pink color, that's ice and we have some icy problems, north and south side of the queen city, outside of charlotte, mostly into the areas, heading into the mountains of north carolina, and also virginia, and the roanoke area is one of those spots that we're concerned. with here is the additional ice forecast. so around greensboro, north of greensboro north carolina, a tenth to a quarter inch of ice and have to worry about the sidewalks and maybe minor tree branch problems and the roanoke area, one of the spots to be concerned.

with and warming up during the day, the worst of it is now for the next couple of hours. the rainfall, the forecast, the areas of blue, one inch of rain, the purple is one and a half, and notice southern new england, soaked, two inches of rain for areas of coastal main, and also in massachusetts and through connecticut and rhode island and even new york city could get about an inch, inch and a half and with the heavy rain, we will get the airport delays. it is not a snowstorm, but it will also be windy, too. so that will cause problems. here is how i see the airports playing out. the worst of it in atlanta this morning, with the delays, many cancellations and charlotte, a long day there, and even raleigh, and also will include you in this, too, and airport delays possible, cancellations and in the baltimore washington, d.c. area and not until late tonight, early saturday, is when the worst of it is in new york city. so that's the good thing about the new york city airport, the worst of the weather is when most people are sleeping and logan airport, it looks like early in the morning is when you have the worst conditions to deal with. for today's forecast, there is the wet weather in the east

coast and we have a really nice day today in texas through the middle of the country, and still colder than we'd like in areas of minneapolis with the light snow and a new storm in the west coast and that will bring some snow, and eventually this week, into the middle of the country, some of our friends in kansas city, and st. louis, have a chance of getting a little bit of snow out of this. are you traveling this weekend? >> i'm not but i might book a ticket to san antonio. 77 degrees. can't beat that. >> that's right. >> south texas, yes. >> for the winter. >> yes. >> you're right about that. still ahead, we will go live to london for new reaction on the ground after prime minister% johnson and his conservative party's historic win in a crucial election. there back in a moment. ke's wons important right this minute, because if he could beat america's biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nra backed politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundreds of polluting plants and beat big tobacco,

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corken was a disaster on the, corbin was a disaster on the doorstep and everyone knew he couldn't lead the working class out of a paper bag and now john has this party within a party, aiming to keep the purity, the culture of betrayal goes on. you will hear it more and more now over the next couple of days, getting their act together. i want them out. i want the mention gone. go back to your politics and your little, you know, left wing -- >> that isn't realistically going to happen, is it? >> i'm saying. >> that was former labor home secretary allen johnson, clashing with momentum founder john lanceman earlier today, following the loss of the labour

party in the u.k.'s general election. joining me now live from london is nbc news correspondent cal perry. help us understand what is happening on the ground there right now. >> reporter: you know that look, that pundits had on their face november 8, 2016, in the u.s., sort of what is happening here? that was last night here in the u.k. the sweeping victory from the conservative party, i don't think anybody could have predicted. i mean the estimates were that they would take somewhere between 300 and 330 seats, we're looking at more like 360. so this was a mandate vote. brexit will go through january 31st. the prime minister is not going to have any problems there. a lot of people are blaming the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, his unlikable rating in the u.k. was unbelievably high, minus 44, on a scale that goes to 50. so it is a reset election. this is a redefining election for the u.k. this is one of those elections where you sort of redraw the map. one of the big questions here,

and one of the most interesting questions i think is what happens next with scotland? scotland had a very strong night with the s&p, and the scotland national party, some of the 50 and 55 seats, it seems they were pushed forward in trying to have a referendum for independents. keep in mind a majority of the people in scotland voted against brexit so they are taking it there as a mandate, and ask the prime minister for permission to carry out referendums for independence and that's going to force yet another constitutional crisis, here in the u.k. >> so the conservative party there believes they have a mandate on brexit. but are they unified on how britain should actually leave the eu? >> well, listen, the trade deal hasn't been worked out in its final form, and there is no trade deal with the u.k., for example, that said, boris johnson purged the party of any opposition. so where the party was split before, where we had these long laborious sort of parliamentary sessions that wept back and forth, we won't have that

anymore. boris johnson as i said had gotten rid of anybody who was opposed to brexit and it is quite likely he will put it through with no problem at all. it is crazy to think boris johnson compared to margaret thatcher but there is stairing in the face with an overwhelming majority, the largest win that the conservatives have had in 30 years, so it is, as he said, an electoral and historical earthquake. geoff? >> nbc's cal perry, thanks for the reporting. we appreciate it. still ahead, the latest on what we can expect from the house judiciary committee this morning, after a vote on the articles of impeachment was abruptly delayed late last night. plus, the trump administration appears to have reached a partial trade deal with china. what it means for the ongoing tariff war. we're back in a bit. tariff war wee 'rback in a bit. d you know g sluggish or weighed down could be signs that your digestive system isn't working at its best? taking metamucil every day can help. metamucil supports your daily digestive health using a special plant-based fiber called psyllium. psyllium works by forming a gel in your digestive system

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welcome back. i'm geoff bennet in for amin and yasmin. the bottom of the hour, let's start with the top stories. in a surprise move late last night, the house judiciary committee jerry nadler delayed a vet on articles of impeachment against president trump. the announcement came after 14 hours of drawn-out debate yesterday. now the committee is expected to reconvene at 10:00 a.m. eastern, to finalize the impeachment articles. and vote on them. chairman nadler says he wanted lawmakers to have time to search their consciences he said, before the final roll call. now rather than arguing why evidence does not support the charges made against president trump, republicans on the house judiciary committee tried to make yesterday's markup all

about the biden family. >> let's talk about what vice president biden did. this isn't smearing. this is seeking the truth about corruption. >> it was also significant reason to believe that the bidens were involved in corruption. >> the foreign corrupt practices act makes it a crime to offer something of value to secure business in a foreign country. well, the facts of mr. biden's actions in ukraine certainly look like they cross that line. >> i didn't know biden was involved with crowdstrike, i didn't know he was involved with the dnc server being hacked, i didn't know that was all part of his thing, but that's what the president is asking about, because there had been some information there were some people in ukraine that knew something about that. and that's what he is asking about. so i appreciate the revelation from my friends across the aisle, biden was in the middle of all of that. and then i guess you have one of your wealthy people, the server they say ukraine has it, again,

i didn't know biden was all in, up to his ear ball, eyeballs in that. >> and the evidence suggests that he wasn't. all right, well committee democrats zeroed in on that transparent approach and hit back. >> this is about distraction, distraction, distraction. our good friends spent three hours saying the president did not target the biden, now they're saying that he did, so which is it? >> their defense speaks to the truth of the allegations in this article that it was all about the bidens, they're all about the bidens, and that's what it is about. >> republicans spent day and night slamming the articles of impeachment, and reviving the argument that democrats are trying to remove the president simply because they don't like him. >> my question is, where is your crimes? >> the entire argument for impeachment in this case, is based on a charge that is not a crime. much less a high crime.

>> there is no allegation of bribery in these articles. there is no allegation of extortion. >> why aren't they in this impeachment document? because they don't exist. >> we are marking up articles of impeachment for offenses that aren't crimes. >> the article does not charge such crimes. why not? because there's no evidence to support them. >> you guys don't respect the 63 million people who voted for this guy. >> this is a pre-determined, you guys have been wanting to impeach this president since he got elected. >> you're the ones seeking to nullify our vital constitutional safeguard with this scam. your ultimate object is to nullify the votes of the 63 million americans who voted to elect president trump. >> the election then moves into the senate and during an interview on fox news last night, majority leader mitch mock comfortable says he will be

in total coordination with the white house counsel as the probe becomes a trial. >> everything i do, during this, i'm coordinating with the white house counsel. there will nobody difference between the president's position and our position, as to how to handle this. there is no chance the president's going to be removed from office. my hope is that there won't be a single republican who votes for either of these articles of impeachment. >> on the house impeachment vote, democrats are bracing for some defections in their ranks. "politico" reports, and nbc reports this as well, that the democratic leaders are privately expecting no more than half a dozen defections on next week's full impeachment vote. especially among members in the heavily pro-trump districts. but yesterday, at her weekly press briefing, house speaker nancy pelosi stressed that she was not collecting votes for

impeachment. >> what about the moderate democrats who are concerned that the impeachment could backfire politically. >> i have no message here and due you don't whip something like this. people have to come to their own conclusions. they look at the facts and the constitution, as they know it, they take an oath to protect and defend it, but they see the constitutional experts speak about it, they will make their own decisions. i do say anything to them. >> all right. there are new developments in the trade war between china and the u.s. as the two nations have settled on the terms of a partial trade deal, according to several people familiar with the matter. and yesterday, the president met with his economic advisers and agreed to reduce tariffs, that he placed on $360 billion worth of chinese goods, in exchange for china's agreement to buy $50 billion worth of american agricultural products in 2020. now, the partial trade deal comes just days before president trump's tariff hike on china was

set to go into effect. yesterday, president trump previewed the deal in a tweet, writing this, getting very lose to a big deal with china. they want it. and so do we. now, if confirmed, the u.s. trade representative, and the chinese ambassador, are expected to sign outlines of the deal today. and joining me once more from here in washington is axios world news editor dave lawler, let's talk about the china trade deal. and what are your take-aways from this partial agreement coming just days before tensions were set to escalate between the u.s. and china? >> yes, this deal consists of what we heard so far, it is a very small slice of what trump has been demanding from china, which is really an overhaul of their economic mod toll make it more fair to the united states. it looks like this could bring some relief to the farmers who have been hit hard by this trade war. if china does follow through on buying these agricultural products. obviously the markets love it. because they were expecting potentially more escalation and now we have a dialing back of tensions, but we're nowhere near

this sort of, you know, final deal that trump has said he will be able to reach with china. >> got it. let's circle back to brexit. we talked about this earlier in the show, but for folks who might just be joining us, what is the circumstance of boris johnson's victory? >> his whole campaign was centered on his slogan of get brexit done. it seemed like it was all he could say for the last several months and now he won a big ma swrrt on the back of that slogan, so he will do brexit done. the u.k. will leave the european union at the end of january. and so this whole question of whether brexit will happen or not, you know, you've had millions of people on the streets on both side, you know, arguing one way or the other, it was answered last night, brexit will happen. >> and what happens now with scotland? we heard my colleague cal perry talk about this earlier, you've got the leader of the scottish national party, who is already calling for an independence vote. >> right, there were two pretty shocking results last night. one was how big boris johnson's

majority was and the sweep of scotland. obviously scotland had a referendum just a few years ago, and it failed, that was before brexit, scotland voted overwhelmingly against brexit, and now, the pro-independents, you know, the activists there think they have an opening, if they get a referendum, to make independence happen. now boris johnson says he won't go ahead with the referendum on scotland but there is the potential for yet nor constitutional crisis in the u.k. on this issue. >> dave lawler, thanks so much. still ahead new reporting that president trump is apparently thinking about skipping out on the 2020 presidential debates. plus house democrats deliver on a major campaign promise. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment.

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welcome back. president trump is reportedly thinking about opting out of the general election debates in 2020. now, according to the "new york times," trump told his advisers he does not trust the commission that oversees the debates, and is concerned about the media personality that would be chosen as the debate moderator. during a trump campaign briefing yesterday, nbc news reports that officials did not want to talk about the topic. and during the 2016 election, trump claimed the process was rigged, he said, because two of the three presidential debates overlapped with the nfl games, so viewership would be divided between the two events, the president said. the senate unanimously cast a resolution recognizing the armenian genocide in turkey more than 100 years ago despite earlier objections from president trump, the passage is a symbolic victory for armenians and the first time congress has formally recognized the 1915 mass killings of an estimated

1.5 million armenians at the hands of the ottoman empire. and robert menendez and ted cruz have been working on a resolution in recent weeks but each time the white house directed several republican senators to block the deal, they argue it could damage the relationship between the u.s. and turkey. according to "politico," the move amounted to a stern condemnation of turkish president erdogan who has grown close to russia in recent months and who credit sized a similar resolution, criticized a similar resolution passed by the house. the house passed a bill yesterday known as the elijah cummings lower drug costs now act that would allow the government to negotiate prices for costly prescription drugs. the measure passed by a vote of 230 to 192. with two republicans breaking rank to support the bill. still, the bill has virtually no chance of passing in the senate. majority leader mitch mcconnell has called the measure socialist and he has vowed to block it. let's get a check of your

weather now again with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> still watching the rain for the east coast. let's give you the timing on that, and a complete weekend forecast, which does include some snow for our friends in the middle of the country. heading out the door, pouring in charlotte and raleigh and raining shortly and atlanta, it is raining right now and florida not too bad but a lot of clouds and hit and miss showers throughout the day. let's time this out. the soaking rain moves in from the mid atlantic and i paused this at 8:00 p.m. and until 8:00 p.m. or so, we are kind of dry from the baltimore washington, d.c. area northward and a little bit of rain coming in during the rush hour into areas like providence and boston but not the heavy stuff, that's going to be south of richmond down through raleigh and eastern north carolina through the wilmington area. and friday night, the rain gets very heavy, overnight from philadelphia to new york city to southern new england. by the time we get to 2:00 p.m. saturday, a lot of the torrential rain over eastern new england and up through maine. the backside of the storm will have some rain and cold air with it, too. and it will get windy on the

backside. so even though it is not pouring on i-95 during the middle of the day, it is going to be one of those days you want to be in the stores and get your errands done and stuff inside the house. it will be windy and getting colder. and it is also going to be kind of drizzly on and off. by the time we get to sunday, the storm pulls up into the canada mare times and dry up throughout the northeast and the east coast but still kind of chilly. as far as the airport impacts go, we mentioned that late in the day, naurew york city, toda this evening, the baltimore, washington, d.c. area, the worst of the airport delays are in the charlotte and atlanta areas. the rest of the weekend forecast, dealing with a storm on saturday in the northeast. here comes the next storm through the inner mountain west. and cold in the plains and then on sunday, we see a band of snow in the middle of country, doesn't look to be a lot of snow but enough to give us treachery travel especially interstate 70 out of denver and through areas of topeka and kansas city, and st. louis could get some snow, too. and it doesn't look huge, geoff

but a couple of inches here and there in areas that don't typically get a ton of snow every winter, maybe enough for the kids to get out and play on sunday afternoon. >> thanks, bill, as always. still ahead, after months of avoiding conflict on the 2020 campaign trial, senator elizabeth warren is escalating her criticism of some of her democratic rivals. we will show you that new soun, and how some of her opponents are responding next. d, and how some of her opponents are responding next. d, and how some of her opponents are responding next. for a cold sore,

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2020 candidate senator elizabeth warren has increasingly ramped up her attacks on federal presidential contenders, calling some out by name, and taking swipes at others, including former vp joe biden. look at this. >> unlike some democrats, some candidates for the democratic nomination, i am not looking at republican politicians having a epiphany and suddenly supporting taxes on the rich or big business accountability that they opposed under democratic presidents for a generation. >> now, biden's reply to warren's sleight, on his optimism for working alongside republicans, by rhetorically asking this, are you going to do it, by executive order? he wasn't the only target of the massachusetts senator who also slightly called out mayor pete buttigieg and openly aired her dislike for michael bloomberg. >> i am no fan of michael bloomberg. that has been made clear.

through the years. but here's the deal. michael bloomberg built a successful business. when you make it big, when you make it really big, when you make the top one-tenth of, big in america, pitch in two cents so that everyone else has a chance to make it in this country. >> note ply missing from warren's remarks was any mention of bernie sanders who as "the new york times" points out she has yet to directly invoke at a campaign rally. in the latest 2020 head-to-head matchups between president trump and democratic candidates, president trump is statistically tied in every hypothetical race in wisconsin. the marquette university law school poll shows joe biden as the only democrat coming out on top against the president in hypothetical matchups, as you can see right there. 47% to 46%. and president trump beats bernie sanders 47% to 45%, and elizabeth warren loses to the president, in this poll, 45% to,

44% to 45% -- four 4% to 45%. pete buttigieg and cory booker come in right behind the president with 43% to 44%. and for the democratic nomination in wisconsin, joe biden maintains his lead despite dropping seven points since november with an over six-point margin of pa margin of error in the paul, he sits at 23%. and isers at 19%. elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg are next with 16% and 13% respectively. joe biden holds a lead in south carolina, but he lesions his double digit lead in the new post and courier research poll. joe biden finds himself at the top with 27%. bernie sanders comes in seven points behind him with 20%. elizabeth warren is in third with 19%. pete buttigieg fientsds himself at 9% and then tom steyer and

cory booker bomb th at 5% in so carolina. up next, a look at the one big thing on axios and on "morning joe," joe, mika, and willie are standing by on another critical day in the impeachment process. we'll talk to the judiciary committee who is pushing forward in trying to remove the president from office. plus, new reporting impeachment may ann political plus for the president, but also a personal mohumiliation. "morning joe" is just moments away. humiliation. "morning joe" is just moments away. ♪for the holidays you can't beat home sweet home.♪ we go the extra mile to bring your holidays home. the best of pressure cooking and air frying now in one pot, and with tendercrisp technology, you can cook foods that are crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the pressure cooker that crisps.

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and joining us from here in washington with a look at axios a.m. is cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. what's the one big thing for this morning? >> good morning. as you have the impeachment hearings unfolding, the vote about to take place, jared kushner, the president's top adviser, brad pascal basically doing a briefing for reporters on why they think impeachment is good for the president and why

they think they'll win in 2020. and they pointed out a few things i wasn't that aware of that go into the core of their strategy. one, that they wiped away almost all opposition at the state level, at the state party level. they say 42 people who run -- 42 different states are now totally pro trumpers so there's no opposition. so the ability for anyone not to work on his behalf has been eliminated. they're also focusing on the smallest counties in america. they say in wisconsin it represents about 22% of the population, 20% in pennsylvania. and they're micro targeting those voters, those people who are in rural counties, particularly those who sat out the midterm elections because they're more pro trump than they are more pro republican. and there's evidence that they're probably right. look at that poll you showed in wisconsin. donald trump even as he's being impeached still very competitive.

you're seeing that in a lot of these swing states. and then republicans will say, heard a little bit of this briefing yesterday, look what happened in britain. depending what the choice is, if the economy's strong, if people kinda like the direction that the incumbent's talking about, you can still win even if people really don't like you. and the president's team's kind of embrace that. you look at these ads. they're like you don't like me, a lot of people don't like me. but do you like the stock market? do you like the jobless sflat that rate? that's going to be so core to his message heading into 2020. >> beheawe heard that in that marathon debate. as the judiciary committee is set to take a vote this morning, give us a sense of what happened last night. any takeaways from the 14-hour marathon series of tharmts argu that we heard? >> the takeaway is nothing new that we heard. we know they're going to impeach him by a party-line vote.

republicans will marinate in this often conspiracy theory that it's all about biden. so you're going to have the vote. there's not going to be that much drama to it. i think one of the things people should pay attention to, there's a real danger now that this is now the new reality, that we're going to keep trying to impeach people. republicans say, listen, we have enough just from these hearings to be able to impeach joe biden and you've had five of the last eight presidents since richard nixon where there's people putting forward impeachment resolutions. is what happened when we saw with government shutdowns and supreme court fights. when you start to take these things that used to be almost never use and they become another political weapon, they make politics even more toxic. to hear republicans saying during these impeachment proceedings i think it shows what the future could look like. >> thanks very much. we'lli

we'll be reading axios a.m. in just a little while and you can sign up at signup.axios.com. that does it for this morning. "morning joe" starts right now. it has been a long two days in consideration of these articles and it is now very late at night. i want the members on both sides of the aisle to think about what has happened over these last two days. search their consciences before we cast our final vote. the committee will now stand be in resource until tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. at which point i will move to divide the question so that each us may have the opportunity to cast up or down votes on each of the articles of impeachment and let history be our judge. kmis t committee is in recess. >> mr. chairman, there's no consoumgt the ranking member on your schedule for tomorrow in which you've just blown up schedules for everyone? you chose not to consult ranking member on a schedule issue of this magnitude? >> so typical. >> this is the kangaroo court

that we're talking about. >> after more than 14 hours of debate on the articles of impeachment against the president, the house judiciary committee abruptly adjourned late last night holding off the history-making vote until this morning. that was chairman jerry nadler appearing to catch in of his fellow lawmakers off guard when he made that announcement shortly before midnight. the committee will return at 10:00 a.m. this morning to continue the markup of the impeachment articles before sending them to the house floor next week. >> did he have a flight to catch? what was going on there? >> that's strauss, that's nadler. what did very do? >> on the one hand, yeah, let's get some sleep and let's, you know, let's sleep on this. on the other hand, dude, we've been here 14 hours, can we just vote and go home? >> speaking, though, of that, i want to be