"msnbc live." piece in the times today? constellation of these attacks >> happy new year. there have been a lot of reporting on what rudy giuliani >> reporter: i think there were in recent weeks. has done, the mission that he two key take-aways from this i'm going to play you mayor bill de the president's behest in ukraine from the piece. hey, everybody. one, as you point out the extent president trump is hitting pause to which rudy giuliani was on his holiday twitter barrage really running what was against house speaker nancy pelosi today as a new deep dive described by some at the state department as a shadow foreign from the "new york times" sends de blasio. >> we're not going to get rid of shock waves through his policy. and number two, and i think this administration. the "new york times" releasing a may be the big revelation here, this horrible trend of hate in comprehensive look into 84 the extent to which alarm bells our country simply with public went off for a number of top safety. a huge part is educating our officials within the trump young people and bringing administration. communities together to renounce you had secretary of state mike this permission that's been pompeo, former national security given to hate speech and bluntly advisor john bolton, defense to also address the reality of the social media companies that secretary esper talking to the are allowing their platforms to tumutu president in the oval office and mu critical conversation between be vehicles for hate speech. the president and three key cabinet members. trying to urge him to release there's a lot going on here that giving us more insight into the aid, trying to explain to we have to get to the root cause acting chief of staff mick of. him how it would be perceived >> as i look at the complaint issued here about the subject in mulvaney's involvement in the with some in the administration question being charged with process. mike pompeo one of those federal hate crimes, i wonder officials who pushed to release saying, look, this will make it what you had to make of what the the aid has a new mission this appear as if the president is in mayor had to say. week. he embarks on a trip to ukraine fact pro russia. to continue to smooth over they were concerned about the what could be done in the wake reaction from congress. relations with that country's of course, not anticipating it of this? >> there's certainly not president zelensky. joining me kristin welker from would ultimately lead to the simple law enforcement focused solution to this problem.

west palm beach, florida. president's impeachment. i think we're getting a much these kinds of individuals who garrett haake is in walk along closer, deeper look at the level carry out these kinds ofo identn with gabby orr. of concern within the west wing and beyond about withholding aid to ukraine. i did reach out to officials who natasha bertrandan of this piec. are traveling with president trump here and so far no reaction. but you have to anticipate that this only adds to the narrative, the concerns that they have heading into the new year. we've seen that play out in the identify. >> we're going to have to rely president's twitter feed as he on a greater sense of has taken aim at nancy pelosi information sharing and calling her crazy, calling the manufacturing the public as to impeachment a hoax. what to look for about it is clearly getting under his individuals who may be headed skin as he braces for what will down a radical path. that's not something that likely be a senate trial once happens with the flip of a nancy pelosi does turn over those two articles of switch or a single government impeachment to the senate. program, unfortunately. >> let's focus on that moment, >> what can we learn from what's that dramatic meeting in the been accomplished in europe? oval office. those cabinet official there is, this has been a scourge there mark esper, john bolton and the for some time. national security advisor as >> i bring a lot of humility to well. in late august, defense that project because i think we secretary mark esper joined can learn from looking overseas. secretary of state mike pompeo but in the end, it is our own and john bolton for a previously communities and our own unique

characteristics as americans undisclosed oval office meeting that will allow us to solve with the president where they these problems. tried but failed to convince him certainly there are lessons that releasing the aid was in the interest of the united learned from communities in europe. but in the end there's not even states. a single federal program i could how the president responded to the entreaties they made during point to that would work all across the country. the course of that meeting. ukraine is a corrupt country, radicalization is going to be the president said, according to dealt with almost community by the piece. community, city by city, we are pissing away our money. metropolitan area by metropolitan area across the in a few weeks after that john country. >> thank you very much for the bolton left that position as time, for the expertise as well. national security advisor. >> a couple questions that immediately come to mind upon reading that passage, of course, appreciate the time, nick. is who is putting all of this thank you very much, again. up next, moscow calling. about ukraine into the president's ear? president putin making a phone all of this narrative about call to president trump. ukraine corruption, this what we know the two leaders narrative that they tried to talked about and what we don't. dismantle his candidacy in 2016, that's coming up. plus, joe biden tries to that has been pushed by two main clarify his comments about people, rudy giuliani and whether he would comply with a congressional subpoena to appear vladimir putin. so to the extent that the at the senate impeachment trial. r president has been having these at the senate impeachment trial. free shipping. conversations with two people that he apparently trusts more you get everything you need for your home at a great price, than his national security

advisors, more than the the way it works best for you, intelligence community, then his i'll take that. wait honey, no. comments about ukraine make sense, because these are the when you want it. people who have been in his ear on this issue. you get a delivery experience the second, of course, is why you can always count on. the president -- this sheds more you get your perfect find at a price to match, on your own schedule. light on why the president has been reluctant to have these you get fast and free shipping on the things that cabinet officials testify in the make your home feel like you. impeachment proceedings. that's what you get if he believed that they would provide testimony that were when you've got wayfair. exonerating for him, then it so shop now! would seem as though the white house would not have any hesitation in allowing them to testify before the senate and the trial. so this is a really illuminating passage because we didn't know, for example, the extent to which mark esper, the defense secretary had been involved in these discussions, what his position had been. we could guess, but it hadn't really been reported before. secretary of state mike pompeo was clearly involved in thor apprised of this entire shadow foreign policy campaign as early as this spring. going into the aid release, that

is apparently when he started becoming very concerned and he went to the oval office to try to overturn this. it does shed light on why there's been reluctance by the trump administration to have these people testify. >> what we learned from this piece which draws from a dozen plus interviews, draws from documents that we haven't seen before and testimony during the impeachment process as well is just the level of chaos or concern westbound tithin the administration, particularly within the omb among career officials. they had to do some creative lawyering to do what the president wanted them to do. >> this extends to agencies like dhs which have time and time again been asked to do things think about circumvent the legal processes. this president is known among

his aides for asking them to do things that are unlawful and put them in jeopardy themselves. that's one of the reasons the reporting in this "new york times" piece is so important. it sheds further light on what happens behind the scenes in this white house, which is often unlawful requests and the president asking people to do things that put them in positions that would potentially creais back at red lobster.ast with new creations to choose from; incriminate themselves. it's an important piece of like rich, butter-poached maine lobster reporting. i hope that a lot of people and crispy crab-stuffed shrimp rangoon. following impeachment will read this and i do think it's going how will you pick just 4 of 10? to inform the senate impeachment it won't be easy. better hurry in. trial going forward. i think a lot of democratic and republican senators are reading this right now and realizing the importance possibly of calling witnesses to further shed light on what happened here. >> garrett haake, let me turn to you on the matter of those lawmakers who might be reading this piece. it begins with an anecdote about an e-mail that one of mick mulvaney's aides sent to him about holding onto this aid.

expect congress to become unhinged if the white house tried to counter mand spending passed by the house and the senate. the administration was aware of potential ramifications of this and how congress responded. >> robert blair is one of the four witnesses democrats said they want to call in a senate trial. chuck schumer has tweeted this piece out, saying it provides even more reason why those witnesses should be called, including john bolton. by my count this piece actually marks two separate occasions on which john bolton is said to have met with the president about this aid. so i think that reinforces the need to get him in front of the senate if possible. the first time since july, at least democrats will continue to be calling for him to come testify. blair was pretty forthcoming vladimir putin and president trump spoke on the telephone. here, was pretty forthright in that call took place sunday. his prediction here that this according to the white house, would set off congress, although putin called trump to thank him i don't think even he would have for the information united expected we'd be dealing with states provided that helped foil

impeachment in this stage. i think his e-mail, that a potential terror attack in document which has not been shared with any investigators of the impeachment inquiry, what russia. that does is it show that is the joining me are mike mcfaul along white house knew this was not a perfect call from the get go. this was going to be a problem down the line. i think it does reinforce the with ann gerin. democratic calls for underlying let me start with you. we had a readout from the documents, underlying evidence beyond the testimony of those kremlin detailing some of this. four witnesses. there was silence from the white whether that will impact the house for some hours. thinking of any republicans who now we do have a statement. will ultimately be required to what do we know of the call, how vote in favor of calling long it lasted and what was witnesses, that's a different discussed? story. we're looking at still probably >> we don't know a great deal those same three or four republicans who could be pivotal about the full duration of the call. of course, probably knowing the here, susan collins, lisa precise number of minutes isn't murkowski, mitt romney have especially helpful considering indicated in some fashion they see this inquiry as lenlgitimat. that there would have been translation and so forth what happen we do know is it's the where does a fourth vote come most substantive discussion from if those three could even between the two leaders that we be counted on? know of anyway since last that's still a challenge for summer. you think of all the things that have transpired in the u.s./russia relationship and of democrats. course ukraine next door to

>> there's this big piece in the times, a big piece in the russia and all the things that have transpired involving "washington post" as well of interest to us and i think of president trump and ukraine since then. interest to the white house as they certainly would have had a well detailing the role that great deal to talk about. the fact that the kremlin's rudy giuliani played in having conversations with the president of venezuela, with nicolas readout of this preceded the white house by a full day would maduro. he was on a phone call back in have been wildly unusual in any 2018 with the president of venezuela and representative other administration. however, we've seen the same pete sessions. thing take place with at least they have this hour-long phone three other phone calls that the conversation about the way in two leaders had where the which that president might make an easy exit from running that kremlin account emerged first country. and it took the white house astonishing how all the principals are the same, pete quite some time to catch up and sessions, rudy giuliani. then in general to issue a less what does it tell us broadly about the work that rudy detailed report than had come initially from russia. giuliani does? >> it's remarkable. >> in twhat we learned from the i did reach out to rudy giuliani to try to get his response to kremlin here is some detail of what was discussed during that this, to try to see if he could phone call. we also learned an invitation give us any more insight into was extended for president trump these conversations he was to go to russia to celebrate the having. no response. he has consistently said look he hasn't done anything wrong. this underscores the fact that victory in the war.

president trump has relied on this enables russia to shape the rudy giuliani for a range of foreign policy matters, not just message, to shape where the relationship stands between issues related to ukraine. these two world leaders, doesn't it's undoubtedly going to boll it? >> that's right, david. before i served in moscow, i worked three years at the te bolster those witnesses who national security council for testified in house impeachment president obama. i wrote many of these statements that was running. and prepped these kind of phone i have been speaking to aides calls. when we issued a statement we and allies of the president and tried to advance our policy they have consistently said to me that their concern is that objectives vis-a-vis russia. rudy giuliani, the president's often times you would use these statements just to clarify what personal attorney, is doing more your policies are. what is missing is not only is harm than good. it a day late and allows russia to set the agenda and the >> thank you very much. messaging, but what's about any. . coming up, under attack. a church in texas and a rabbi's there are many, many issues in home in new york, two religions u.s./russia relations that one both targets over a holiday weekend. could have said these are the what can be done to keep things we pushed on, we pressed worshippers safe? that's next. russia to stop backing iran and >> strikes its militias in iraq. we pressed president putin to over the weekend as acts of

terrorism. how the deadly attacks will release paul wheelan who's been held in captivity for a year now affect tenses in the mions in t without any evidence. none of that was in this particular readout. east. ions in the middle east >> we've got the itinerary for secretary of state mike pompeo's next trip. stops include cyprus, uzi beck stan, belarus and ukraine. how do you process that, what this looks like with what's happening here domestically, what's happening with the impeachment process in the u.s. and the fact that russia and ukraine are still at war and there is a need for the u.s. to show face in the country of ukraine? >> i'm glad that secretary pomp eo is traveling to all those countries. it's an interesting itinerary. i hope he will extend an invitation to president zelensky to visit the oval office.

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what strategy is there to respond to things like these? i understand there is some fear that things could escalate after those attacks. >> absolutely. the israelis for one have been pressing the white house to take a more shall we say robust attitude toward strikes and developments in syria and iraq that israel finds threatening and blames on iran. we're still talking here, though, about a central tension that has existed for at least a year, maybe longer in which when it comes to using data, which is why xfinity mobile president trump would still like is a different kind of wireless network to be the guy who invites iran that lets you design your own data. choose unlimited, successfully to a new shared data, negotiation. iran has repeatedly shot that or mix lines of each and switch any line, anytime. down and in the process alarmed giving you more choice and control compared to other top wireless carriers. israel by sponsoring terrorism save up to $400 a year when you switch. next door. plus, unwrap $250 off a new samsung phone. but it still is an issue for president trump. he doesn't want to get heavily

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gunman. >> reporter: the urgent calls came right in the middle of sunday service. it happened at west freeway church of christ in white settlement, texas. the service was being live streamed on youtube. there in the top left corner you see a man get up from his seat and talk to someone. minutes later he steps back, pulling out a shotgun and fires twice. parishioners who were also armed spring into action. >> two of the parishioners who are volunteerins of the securit force drew their weapons and took out the killer immediately, saving untold number of lives. >> reporter: in the gunman's path, two victims. both rushed to the hospital where they later died. one of them identified by family as 64-year-old tony wallace, a loving husband, father and grandfather. >> he was just our rock that

held us together. >> reporter: tony's daughter tiffany describes watching in horror as the gunman opened fire shooting her father as he served communion. she says she held him in the sanctuary in what would be his final moments. >> you don't think it's going to hit home. and the fact that it hit our home and someone who loves us and is our dad, that's what hurts the most. >> reporter: the shooting comes two years after another gunman killed 26 people at first baptist church in sutherland springs, texas. i felt gross. people were afraid i was contagious. sta i was covered from head to toe. state lawmakers passed two laws, one allowing guns inside i was afraid to show my skin. it was kind of a shock after... churches, the other making it easier to form security teams. i started cosentyx. i wasn't covered anymore. heightened fear among the four years clear. jewish community after a knife five years now.

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weekend was about defeating mental illness and donald trump, about party unity. hospitalization. later on this afternoon his what have we heard from the attorney is supposed to speak, former vice president as he's made his way through new so we should be getting some more information just on his hampshire? >> reporter: welcome inside what background, hopefully a little is one of my favorite venues in bit more information on that. you mentioned the heightened all of new hampshire, the fear, the concern in the jewish historic exeter town hall. it is a venue that is intimate. community in the wake of all the i'm using my golf channel voice recent attacks in the new for fear of running afoul of the candidate and the audience york/new jersey area. behind me. biden just took the stage here we spoke with one muslim woman in the last two minutes and he's doing what he often does at new who decided to come here. hampshire events, which is she was so compelled because of talking about how similar it is what she has seen in the last couple of days and decided to to campaign in new hampshire and his home state of delaware, drop off flowers, to show up, to small states where individual assign a solidarity. contacts with voters matter so here's a little bit of what she told us earlier today. >> these are my brother and sisters even though i'm a much. muslim, but i feel very, very he's al close to christians and jews and he's also been sending a message of unity. all humanity. we're all children of adam and this message of working with republicans across the aisle, eve. when i read it, i was like how his belief that he can still do can they do that? that despite what some of his

this is his home. democratic rivals are saying are he's praying in there. something he's really hitting you just knock on the door and hard in this state. want to stab them. he's been asked the last few how insane is this? days about whether he would comply with a subpoena, whether he would testify in a senate >> reporter: and also something to note, i was out here impeachment trial. yesterday. there was a jubilant torah he did an interview with the procession that went on. herald just before he came here they said they wanted to come to exeter. out and continue leading their he said when asked about whether he would comply with that lives and they will not be subpoena, that he would respond. deterred by this hate. i think that's an important distinction. it's not saying he would honor a finally as for the victims, we subpoena. it's saying he would respond to were told that all of them have a subpoena. been released from the hospital, the position he articulated on except one individual who twitter the other day is he remains in critical condition. would certainly comply with any legal or valid subpoena, but he i want to turn to the would not view one from the director of the national counter terrorism center. senate republicans as valid or he is now an msnbc national legal. it's probably a moot point security and intelligence because mitch mcconnell has been analyst. clear he's not interested in let's start with what governor having any witnesses. andrew cuomo called this attack, it's something he's had to address here in probably what is his last trip to new hampshire domestic terrorism. before he focuses full-time on >> these are not isolated iowa in the weeks ahead.

incidents. they're all connected. connect the dots, call it what wisconsin election officials it is. expected to meet today to otherwise you'll never solve it. try to figure out what they can yes, intolerance, yes, do about a judge's ruling that ignorance. has purged more than 200,000 it's also illegal. i want to call these acts voter registrations. domestic terrorism. when you have mass murders, what happened here? this is still very much up in the courts. someone who tries to kill a large number of people because i know there's a lot of debate of their race or their religion over what might happen. what's being discussed among or their creed, we call that terrorism. they don't have to come in on an those electoral officials today? airplane. >> the elections commission is they can be in this country and it's domestic terrorism. trying to decide just that. it's a special meeting today to determine how to proceed that's government's forward. responsibility. >> i want to ask you about the they put out five options, one of which was to do nothing importance of calling this by itself name, calling it what it because the wisconsin department is. i remember hearing an interview of justice has filed an appeal. with you after the attack in el so the commission may ultimately paso. decide let's just wait and see you said domestic terrorism has been part of the fabric of this what happens in the court system. the wisconsin supreme court, if country for some time but there it ends up there is a have been problems in conservative court, they have government. you have folks in law the majority. enforcement who would see this this lawsuit that was brought and turn their head maybe to the about this issue was all because fbi and say this is out of our there are more than 200,000 privy.

what more can be done to nip voters whose addressed this in the bud? >> what distinguishes an conflicted in the system that the elections commission has on file for them. incident that terrorism from an either they register a new vehicle with the state or they act of criminality is the put in a forwarding order with presence of an idealogical the post office. motive, something that is so a huge mailing went out in motivating the individual to october telling people that we carry out the crime in the particular horrific way they understand that you may or may are. that, to my mind, demands a not have moved. this is the address we have on different kind of government record for you but there are response. it's not simply a law other addresses for you in enforcement response. various database. law enforcement professionals so if you would like to continue your registration at this whether the local level or the address we have on file, you have 30 days to do that. federal level do a terrific job of protecting us from crime and a conservative group filed suit asking the court to force the domestic terrorism, but they are commission to immediately eliminate those voter who is did largely left alone to do that. not respond to that mailing. we have not mobilized as a the vast majority of them did society in the same way to deal with this domestic form of not do that. the majority of these voters are terrorism in the same way we in heavily democratic parts of have when dealing with overseas the state. terrorism. obviously folks on that side of >> i'm hearing the subject has the aisle are crying foul that just been charged with a hate crime. let me ask you about the this is yet another voter suppression effort by republicans. >> any sense of the timetable of rationalization process. we have folks so much of the when we could get a decision?

>> we could hear something today. i've seen some traffic on twitter that they were dead radicalization of folks locked on a presidential vote on overseas. is it that different when it's domestic? >> it very much looks the same whether it's an individual how to move forward. there is another scheduled attached to an ideology that's meeting in about two weeks on originating overseas or the 14th of january. something like this, which may be more localized or domestic. if nothing happens between now it's the same sort of pathway and then, if the court of that a new individual goes down appeals there does not make a to reach the point where they move, we may not see any action on this until then. look at somebody else as being >> thank you very much for the other, somebody else as being reporting. sufficient hi threly threatenin joining me now, joe crowley of different that it requires them to take violent action against them. unfortunately what we don't have new york. take a bite out of this if you is the same tool kit when we're would. this is part of a larger story. dealing with international terrorism and domestic terroris this is certainly not something that's happening in isolation in wisconsin when we talk about access to the polls and gerrymandering as well. >> i just finished a great book called "one man no vote," a take

on the one man one vote by carol anderson. she goes into great detail as to the attacks on voters all over the country, particularly in the south and primarily by the republican party. do i think this is going to be something that continues. we see this voter suppression through the rolls themselves or actually through gerrymandering. the precursor now is what you're seeing happening right now. >> joe biden is speaking in new hampshire right now. he was in iowa yesterday making his way between those two states as we get very close to the caucuses and the first in the nation primary. he talked about the importance of party unity. >> i think joe biden is offering a hopeful and optimistic message that he can work with republicans if he is elected president to get things done for the american people. whereas other democrats

candidates are saying no, no, no, we have to crush our enemies. that's the only way to get things done. biden understands the reality of how power is shared in washington, the reality that he'll probably be facing a republican senate if he's elected president. >> how much room is there for intraparty existentialism? why have this sort of monolithic focus on what's going to happen in november if this is a time when these decisions should be worked out among members of the party? >> for one thing, i think joe biden actually believes this. he wants to see the country more unified than it is today. i think it really fits his mantra as well, who we think joe biden is. so i think people are tired of in fighting and the fighting

we're seeing in the country today. i think joe biden is trying to respond to that and i think it's actually very positive. >> the former vice president clarifying what he said to the des moines register editorial board a few days ago about what should happen if he were to be called before the impeachment tria trial. as we have those house articles waiting on ice not yet brought over to the u.s. senate, a vacuum has opened up here and things like this grow and grow and grow and you find the vice president having to comment on them and comment on hypotheticals. how problematic is that for democrats? how problematic is that for the former vice president? >> i think this is probably going to be a moot point. senator mcconnell has indicated he doesn't expect any witnesses

in the senate trial. i think this cuts against the former vice president's argument that he can work with republicans if elected. if he gets a subpoena, it will be a lawful subpoena from the senate majority and he should comply with it. i think it is undercutting his argument that he can bring the country together if he is continuing to insist he would refuse to comply with a lawful subpoena from the senate. well wishes flow for civil rights leader congressman john lewis after he announces he's battling cancer. announces he's battling cancer create your own ultimate feast

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challenging jim crow's laws, alongside the reverend doctrine, martin luther king jr. whi what became known as the bloody sunday. congressman lewis now serving his 17th terms, often called the conscious of congress. his latest appearance on the house floor and in support of impeachme impeachment. >> this is a sad day, thit is n a day of joy. when you see something that's not right, not just and not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something and do something. our children ask us, what did you do? >> reporter: lewis says he's

undeterred. >> doctors told me i have a fighting chance. i decided to do what i have known to do and have always done, i am going to fight it. among his friends and colleagues lending support, house speaker nancy pelosi, know that yen realizatio generations of you have you in their thoughts and prayers. and former president obama, praying for you my friend. >> geoff bennett is joining me now. >> what more do we know of the prognosis? >> stage four of pancreatic cancer is a serious thing. >> the prognosis is grim. congressman lewis says he's aware of that. he plans to fight the disease with the same tenacity and

grits. he begins to work in congress as he begins his treatment plan. as he put it in his term that he wants to be back in the front line. >> conscious of the congress. the role he plays in the u.s. congress today. >> he's not a member of house leadership. he's a leader in the house. he's a moral center of the beyer body and the piece you saw of his latest appearance on the house floor during impeachment. he casts the impeachment in moral terms. he had democrats and republicans watching in silence. that's the kind of respect that the way that people view himself. >> geoff bennett joining us from washington, d.c. >> much more ahead on msnbc. a decade comes to a close, we want to know what you think the biggest story of 20 was. go to msnbc/decadestories.com

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