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good day, everyone. a very busy morning on the sunday talk shows. tensions with iran dock nament t
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dominate the discussions. >> the president made the right decision. we will reduce risk. i think general milley said, is there risk of attack, of course there is. we are doing everything we can to take that down and protect american lives. >> i accept there was a threat. the question of how imminent is something that i need more information on. >> we need answers on whether this is part of a meaningful strategy, what choices were offered to the president and why he believed this was the best choice. >> the intelligence assessment made clear that no action, allowing soleimani to continue his planning, his terror campaign, was more risk than taking the action we took. >> we learned the hard way in iraq, in the iraq war, that administrations sometimes manipulate and cherry pick intelligence to further their political goals. this dramatic escalation is putting americans at greater risk. >> i really worry that the actions the president took will
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get us into what he calls another endless war in the middle east. >> we will have the latest on the showdown with iran ahead. first, an update to the breaking news near pittsburgh where at least five people are dead, around 60 have been hurt after a crash, enormous on the pennsylvania turnpike. a tour pusbus and two tractor-trailers and several cars. it happened near mount pleasant, pennsylvania, southeast of pittsburgh. gabe gutierrez is joining me with more. we heard from police a few minutes ago. can you give us an update why this happened? >> reporter: yeah. this is a devastating crash as you saw from the images, includes several vehicles, three tractor-trailers. you see the tour bus there as well as one other passenger vehicle. the new developments that we just heard from pennsylvania authorities is that five people have been killed, about 60 have been taken to the hospital.
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several have been treated and released. we just learned that this was a tour bus that was heading from new jersey to ohio. this crash happened just before 4:00 this morning. the national transportation safety board investigators are on their way to the scene. we're told by authorities that the people in the tour bus, included a lot of japanese and spanish speakers. many of the people in the bus were from outside the country. that's proven a little difficult to communicate exactly what happened leading up to the crash. authorities do say that around the time of the crash, they were told by some of the passengers that the weather started to deteriorate. they don't know exactly what role that played in the crash. if you have been in this part of pennsylvania, you know it's extremely mountainous. there's a lot of steep hills in the area. we're told that that tour bus was coming down one of the hills and somehow ended up on an
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embankment. it's unclear exactly how big of a role weather played in this crash. that's something that ntsb investigators will take a look at. we under the red cross is on the scene at several of the hospitals where those victims were taken. five people unfortunately have been killed in this crash. about 60 were taken to the hospital. some of those have already been treated and released. this investigation still very much underway. >> absolutely a tragedy along the pennsylvania turnpike. were you given any indication how long this 86-mile stretch of the turnpike will be shut down? >> reporter: no. they haven't been able to reach some of the victims, unfortunately. as you know in these investigations, they need to reconstruct the entire scene. it happened on the westbound lanes, but some debris ended up in the eastbound lanes. that area will be shut down for a while according to authorities. it's about 40 miles southeast of pittsburgh, near the west
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virginia border. a mountainous, rural area. at 4:00 a.m. this morning, with all that -- there was deteriorating weather, visibility could be low. that's something investigators will look at. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you for that. let's go to breaking news on the world stage. tensions between the u.s. and iran intensify. mike pompeo this morning doing a full ginsburg, appearing on all the talk shows, defending the administration's decision to kill a top iranian general. >> the senior leadership had access to all of the intelligence. there was no skepticism. general milley said we would have been cull culpable if we didn't take this action. >> new reaction from the democrats with skepticism and concern over the consequences.
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>> i think we learned the hard way, chris, in iraq, in the iraq war, that administrations sometimes manipulate and cherry pick intelligence to further their political goals. they have an obligation to present the evidence. they did not notify the gang of eight. the one opportunity they had just two days ago to brief senior staff at the top secret level, they provided no evidence to support their claim of an imminent threat. >> taking out soleimani, it may have short-term benefit. smartness in terms of in the region with our allies and bringing along the american people, i think the jury is really out on that. >> we have a lot to go over this hour with hans nichols and richard engel. let's begin with you hans in florida. what are we hearing from the administration today? >> reporter: the administration is doubling down on this idea that they needed to re-establish
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deterrents in the region. mike pompeo did that on all five talk shows as you mentioned, with slightly softer rhetoric. his tone was different than the president's tweets last night. the message is the same. if iran strikes, if iran retaliates and tries to avenge the death of soleimani, there will be a robust response. they are still justifying this. publically, pompeo is saying this was retribution for the things soleimani had done in the past. but also trying to stop an imminent threat. they do appear to be prepared to share some of their intelligence on capitol hill. have a listen to how pompeo put it. >> president trump was right in what he said. so was i. we will share all the intelligence we can. i was the cia director for a little while. there are tlihings we cannot ma public about what we know and what we know today about the continuing activity. general milley said we would
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have been negligent if they went go after soleimani when we had the opportunity. >> reporter: there's a certain level of trust that needs to be established, on sharing sensitive intelligence and making the case. it's going to be behind closed doors as the secretary of state is suggesting. this comes ahead of a week where we could have some movement on an impeachment trial. the same time the senate could be impeaching the president or having a trial, there could be this question of just how solid the intelligence was that's clearly escalating tensions in the region. >> hans, thank you for that update. heated rhetoric getting even hotter in the middle east. in beirut, the chief of hezbollah said today that the killing of soleimani was a crime. he also declared that america's military in the middle east are fair targets. in baghdad, the iraqi parliament passed a non-binding resolution to expel u.s. troops from the
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country. in tehran, elected officials earlier broke into chants of death to america. they were at a special parliamentary session called to discuss the u.s. air strike. iranian officials are meeting to further scale back iran's obligations under the nuclear agreement. they left the door off to resuming talks after iran pays off the u.s., in other words, takes revenge for soleimani's killing. let's turn now to richard engel in iraq. i understand you have news to update us on with regard to the parliament that's passed the resolution telling the government you gotta end the presence of foreign troops there? >> reporter: no, i think it's more about -- you made a brief reference to it in the introduction. you mentioned hezbollah. i was just listening to the speech by the leader of hezbollah. he was giving an indication of how the shia militia groups
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across the region want to respond. in a lengthy address, at times impassionate, he said that the appropriate response to the killing of soleimani is not to attack americans in the region, not to attack the american people, not to attack american professionals working in the middle east, but to kick out american troops from the region. he said he would be the most powerful to rise up to have an uprising to turn their aggression, turn their weapons, their energy against american forces. he specifically mentioned american bases. he mentioned american ships. he said that is the appropriate response to -- the appropriate
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vengeance for the death of soleimani. that came just as the shia members of the iraqi parliament, several of them, many of them supporters of hezbollah, took this resolution, voted in the same vein to call on their government to kick out american forces. i think we're starting to see how this network that soleimani bime built, supported, how they want to respond. they are calling for actions to push out american forces. that could be a dramatic step, a violent step. any american troops who served here in iraq will know that the shia militia groups in lebanon, in this country are a force to be reckoned with. >> absolutely. as you talk about the statements here, when you look at the area
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where the united states has a presence -- you mentioned ships. persian gulf, strait, destroyers, warships, is this what he was meaning? >> reporter: he was calling for the entire network of supporters of iran, of soleimani, which has presence in afghanistan, yemen, there is also presence in bahrain where the fifth fleet is located, specifically syria, lebanon, iraq and iran itself. quite a large area in the middle east, mostly radiating around iraq. but that was the force, this informal alliance of shia powers that he said now must take on
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the responsibility and rise up to drive out american forces. yes, the straits and the u.s. fifth fleet in the middle of that and u.s. presence in bases in afghanistan, in iraq, u.s.le. he said now it is the duty not to focus on attacking american civilians or american interests. he didn't mention diplomatic interests. he mentioned kicking the u.s. military out, the same people, the same military that attacked and killed soleimani and an iraqi shia militia leader with him. >> thank you so much. let's go to iran's capital city of tehran. do you have anything more to add to what richard said with regard to the statements at the general soleimani memorial?
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>> reporter: there are some things. there's been some major developments while i was waiting to come on air with you. we were talking about the nuclear deal and the fifth step iran was going to take. there was an official iranian government announcement saying iran is taking its fifth and final steps. it's going to completely shed its commitment to the nuclear deal. it's not going to abide by any restrictions on uranium enrichment, centrifuges or on research and development. saying they're not going to abide by any of the restrictions of the jcpoa, which is otherwise known as the iran nuclear deal. which is a major development. we have to see how european countries respond to that. obviously, america is no longer a part of that deal. the europeans have been trying desperately to salvage that deal. i think it's going to be very hard for them to abide by it now once iran has shed all of its
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commitments to it. in response to all of this ongoing tension and fiery rhetoric that's going on, former head of the irgc, who also sits on the expediency counsel here, a body that makes decisions here in iran, tweeted out that iran is going to strike militarily against the united states to avenge soleimani's death. if there is any reaction to that strike by the united states, iran will level tel aviv. they see israel in complicit in everything going on. so they made a very huge threat towards israel as well if there is any retribution for the attack that they want to launch to avenge soleimani's death. the head of iran's national security council said that there is going to be a military strike
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against the united states. it's not going to be just limited to military strikes. that could mean cyber as well as choking off the flow of oil in this region. >> is there an accurate sense of how far developed the nuclear program is there within iran? >> reporter: alex, they have gotten very far in the nuclear program. and that's why there was such a desperate scramble in the obama era to make a deal with iran. you may be a fan of that deal or you may not be a fan of that deal. but the reality was that that was an indication of how advanced iran was on the nuclear program. i think it's fair to say that iran had mastered the nuclear cycle. they don't have a nuclear bomb, but they have almost certainly have the know how and could go into production in a relatively short period of time providing all those elements come together.
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so it is a pretty advanced nuclear program. and that's why so many world powers gathered together over -- in the obama period over a two-year period and had those intense talks with iran, because there was a fear of a breakout capability from iran. yes, it is an advanced nuclear program. they do seem to have mastered the nuclear cycle. >> very sobering comments from you with that reporting. thank you so much. we will go to california representative susan davis, a democratic member of the house armed services committee. welcome. pretty heavy discussion to get into, but may i ask you, just your reaction as you hear the reporting from my two most recent nbc news correspondents, that essentially according to ali in tehran, that iran has said, we're going to withdraw from all aspects of the nuclear deal, which the u.s. has done as
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well, in addition that the head of hezbollah, he has said, go out and attack american military targets. this is what he is asking for in the region. it's sobering to say the least. what is your reaction? >> extremely sobering, alex. i'm sitting here and listening to that. about as harsh a rhetoric i think as we could expect. i think what that means is that the american people need to be prepared, they need to be told what's going on through their representatives as well as through the reporting. there certainly is a real need now -- i know that we are all anxious to get back to washington. and i can assure you and others that we will be smepending a tremendous amount of time, amount of focus on this, in addition to many, many other issues that we have been dealing with. >> talk about a full plate as you kick off 2020.
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>> it is really a full plate. >> let's talk about the trump administration, which has been saying that an imminent threat forced the u.s. to launch that strike against general soleimani. let's take a listen to secretary of state mike pompeo's latest defense of that decision. >> was the justification in that he has been this destabilizing force for so long or was the justification this imminent threat? >> it's never one thing. you have been at this a long time. the american people are smart. it's never one moment. it's never one instance. it's a collective. it's a full situational awareness of risk and analysis. i am confident and the intelligence community presented us facts that made clear the risk from doing nothing exceeded taking the action we took. we made the right decision. >> you have said you are eager to get back to washington to find out the answers, the reasons for this particular strike. what you heard there from secretary of state, does that explain well enough to you what exactly an imminent threat was?
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>> not at all. i think the secretary was really trying to not answer the question. i can understand that at this particular moment. as we return and as the different committees that have jurisdiction over this as well as the entire congress becomes engaged and very involved, we expect answers. we expect answers for the american people. they need to know what's going on. what i have felt -- and i was in the congress on 9/11 and also as we went into iraq. if you can't answer the what comes next question, then you really have no business moving forward. i understand that they had a risk calculus here. the military always does. they should. but it's clear to me that there are likely a number of issues that were not raised or certainly not resolved.
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there's a lot there that they are spewing in terms of what we can expect. i certainly hope that that does not come about. we need to be sure it doesn't. >> i know your democratic colleague, that being senator chris murphy, stressed the importance of congress' role in military decisions just like this. let's listen to what he had to say. >> when president trump came into office, he set into motion a series of blind he is can esc matters that have us on the precipice of war. if he is contemplating taking action against a broad set of threats to the american public, then he has the responsibility to come to congress. >> do you agree with that? i'm assuming you do. what do you and your fellow members have in your pocket to ensure congress gets properly informed? >> certainly, a series of hearings that are -- i know are
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being scheduled. i think also we need to realize the role of the iran nuclear deal. clearly iranian enrichment is going to be going on now and did not have to be. there are inspections. we don't have the information that we would have had had we still been in that deal. the international community, of course, plays in a role in that as well. what i find very troubling is that this international community had been involved in this. we had been at the table. they have their contacts as well as we do. we don't have that interaction anymore. that leaves us in a very vulnerable position. >> in terms of vulnerability, the u.s. bracing for the retaliation. dhs issued an advisory system bulletin. there's no information regarding a specific threat, it is pointing out that iran and its partners capable of conducting operations in the u.s. that would include previous plots against what u.s. infrastructure, also cyber targets.
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what are your major concerns for the homeland? what is your message to americans during this time? >> that we need to gather that information. also, that we know it could occur in a number of different ways. we have our own defenses when it comes to cyber operations. so do the iranians. we need to be pre-empting whatever possibilities and whatever strikes there are. that's a difficult thing to do in the entire country and in all those other areas where we have military troops and personnel. i am concerned about our personnel wherever they are. we need to be sure that they are willing to schedule those interviews and those discussions and that congress does have an ability to act. you know, alex, the thing that we have to keep in mind always is, even if we have an authorization for the use of military force, even if it's limited, the reality is the
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president, through the constitution but also through the powers that he or she has, has the ability to make these decisions. they can do it as a defensive move. but they can -- they have that ability to do that. that's why it's so important that the temperament of the president is critical. that's always a decision that the people have to make. >> california democratic congresswoman susan davis, thank you for your time on this tense day. appreciate that. >> thank you. new reaction from the campaign trail about the one topic that's not being talked about since the president's decision to target iran's tar general. when it comes to using data, everyone is different.
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the question people reasonably ask is next week donald trump faces the start of an impeachment trial and why now. i think people are starting to ask why now did he do this. why not delay? >> you heard it there, senator elizabeth warren questioning the timing of the president's decision to kill a top iranian general and raising the prospect it may have been linked to the pending impeachment trial in the senate. joining me now, adrian elrod, rena shaw, klaudia krissaulis
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and john harwood. john, you are the only guy so i will reach out to you first. what do you make of warren's comments? >> it's a reasonable question to ask. president trump more than any other president we have seen is someone who doesn't particularly care about issues one way or the other. he is excessively or almost exclusively focused on his own personal interests all the time. therefore, it's logical to wonder whether or not this is somehow connected to his political predicament. it's possible there was an imminent threat or an ongoing threat that intelligence officials identified and this was a unique chance. maybe it will all make sense. the idea that democrats are raising this question is reasonable and not surprising. >> have you seen anything -- the
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answer is probably likely not, because intelligence is keeping things close to the vest -- that would indicate it was an imminent threat or have you heard from secretary of state mike pompeo who was on the sunday talk shows, has anything he has said this morning that you have seen answered the question as to why it was an imminent threat? >> no. i think the case for imminent threat as laid out by the administration is weak and getting weaker. we saw snenator marco rubio saying soleimani was going to attack and kill americans. as you were discussing with congresswoman davis in the previous segment, you had pompeo giving that statement about, well, it's a lot of things and inaction was more costly than action. the strongest argument that i have heard so far is one that david petraeus made which is that this will change the
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deterrence calculus and decision making calculus of the iranian regime and possibly end this sort of gradual tit for tat that we have been on. that's yet to be proven. as for imminent threat, that does not seem to be the strongest case. it seems to be getting weaker over time. >> what about what senator chris murphy tweeted last night? the moment we all feared is likely upon us. an unstable president in way over his head panicking with all his experienced advisers having quit and the amateurs remaining. assassinating foreign leaders, announcing plans to bomb civilians, a nightmare. what do you make of that, adrian? do you think that reflects the mood of democrats right now? >> i do. chris murphy hit it on the head. what he is saying is there has been such a brain drain from the trump administration. you had mattis, even john bolton, people who had experience, even if you didn't agree on their decisions, they had experience, significant experience in the foreign policy realm.
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the fact that he has had a brain trust leaving from the administration and combined with the fact that the point that elizabeth warren made this morning, which is donald trump likes to distract from the issues that are affecting him. he still thinks every single day about the fox news poll that shows that over half of americans want him impeached and removed from office. what are we doing? we're not talking about impeachment. we're talking about it far later on because it's not driving the news. this is driving the news. we have no proof that's why donald trump did this. i would hope that as an american that was not his intention. we certainly need to raise that prospect that he was doing this in order to distract from issues that might be hurting his campaign. >> you mentioned fox news. senator chris van holland said this. >> any concern about holding this trial with the president in this growing confrontation with iran and potentially an
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international crisis? >> we have a constitutional duty when it cops to the issues of war and we have a constitutional duty to try the president in an impeachment trial when the house of representatives sends us the articles of impeachment. i think our system is strong enough that we can do both. >> is there any concern from lawmakers dealing with both iran and an impending impeachment trial ? these are both heavy lift. these can consume a news cycle, can consume congress. you put >> this is quite a week we are ledding int i heading into. there's a question whether the articles of impeachment will be transmitted. the senate hasn't been able to pick up its work on a trial because it's awaiting this move. as mitch mcconnell said this past week, that they cannot proceed with this trial without
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those articles. to top all this off, we have iran, we have questions about this decision and this escalation ahead. lawmakers are set to be briefed this week. this will be a very tall order for both chambers and lawmakers. >> as this comes to the forefront -- i know you are republican, but are there any of the 2020 candidates that can use this to their advantage? mayor pete comes to mind given his military experience. do you think he might be somebody who from the campaign trail can shed light and insight into the situation? >> i don't think anybody can do that. i think where we should look is no longer the campaign trail and at congress. that's our only hope. for anybody that's concerned, whether you are a republican, a longtime one like myself, anyone that's concerned about the actions of this administration, how they continue to lie to us, it's no longer the time to be angry and tweet and post on facebook to try to inform our less politically informed
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friends. the time is to take to the streets and enact peaceful demonstrations everywhere and let our members of congress know we no longer want this administration to act unconstitutionally and illegally. the president is not only a master con, i think he will weather the storm of balancing iran and impeachment quite well. i see him thriving. i see him getting worse. i see him becoming more of a g megalomaniac. our only hope is congress. >> this is just coming from the republican on this panel. thank you. i have to wrap it up there. breaking down this decisionma decisionmaking. a former cia officer is weighing in next. in next. as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchumal- cut. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need.
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breaking news from tehran. new fallout from the killing of soleimani. iran's state tv announced that country will withdraw completely from its obligations under the nuclear deal. joining me now, ned price at the cia. ned is an msnbc national security analyst and contributor. ned, your reaction? was it something you expected? >> i can't help but think back to how we got into this predicament.
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in may of 2018, trump told the world that the iran deal wasn't good enough. essentially, it wasn't good enough at forestalling an iranian nuclear weapon. he did so in spite of the guidance and counsel of his own national security team and in spite of the assessments both in public and in private from his own intelligence community that the iran deal was working to verifiably prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. now look at where we are. not only has iran prior to today even accelerated elements of its nuclear program, enriching urani uranium, introducing more sentry fu fu -- centrifuges, but now they will abandon everything. we are focused on iranian retaliation, repercussions for the killing of soleimani.
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few are focussed on the program which trump told us was a focus that they had to leave the iran deal. it doesn't make sense. >> what about the rhetoric from iran and iraq? they say, go out, target american military sites but also made mention of the fact that tel aviv, places like that, can be within striking distance and targeted. >> there's a reason successive american administrations opted not to make this choice. there's a reason multiple governments in israel omepted n to make this choice. it's not because soleimani was a ghost, because no one knew where he was of the t. the israelis are one of the most capable services in the world. they could have gotten to him over the years. the fact is they those not to. they chose not to for precisely the reason we see now. they made the calculation as previous american
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administrations did that soleimani is more dangerous dead than alive. he has american blood on his hands. that's not the question. are americans safer because of this action? i think the answer is no. israel seems to have reached the same conclusion. >> ned, how will this administration justify the killing? when they have to make the wider case to congress here and brief congressional members on all of this. >> they do. congress, those briefings have belatedly started. what we are hearing doesn't instill confidence that this was something categorically different from the kind of intelligence we have had on the past on soleimani. the administration is essentially saying, take our word for it. this is an administration that has shaded intelligence from the
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start. assessments like the fact that russia attacked our elections in 2016, that iran wnorth korea wo denuclearize, those have been cast aside by this president and his advisers. they say, trust us. frankly, that's not good enough. it's not good fluenough for congress that has to see the underlying intelligence and it's not good enough for the american people. the american people, given the grave and broad implications of this move, deserve to see and need to see a declassified version of that intelligence case so we can judge for ourselves. >> ned price, good to see you. thanks for weighing in on that. on the campaign trail and the final push for votes, a live report next from new hampshire.
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just 29 days until the first votes are cast in the 2020 election, when iowa voters go to the polls on february 3. the clock is ticking for democratic presidential candidates to make their case with many campaigning across the country today. joe biden attended morning service at church in des moines, iowa. sanders also in iowa hosting a brunch. warren kicks off neighborhood canvassing in iowa. new hampshire has patrick holding a house party. buttigieg campaigning around new hampshire today. a few moments ago, he kicked off a town hall in manchester. that's where josh lederman is
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with us. tell us about this feud between buttigieg and trump over religion. >> reporter: yeah. pete buttigieg just took the stage behind me. as the fight has been escalating between him and trump over the weekend, with trump accusing buttigieg during a speech to evangelicals of pretending to be religious for political reasons. buttigieg punching back yesterday saying basically he doesn't know why trump is suddenly so interested in his faith but that he thinks he has been a believer longer than president trump has been a republican. repent the morning talking with churchgoers as they were leaving this morning. democrats and republicans about what they felt about this kind of an attack. they generally told us they think a candidate's faith is po important but they didn't like to see candidates attacking each other this way over their religion. take a listen. >> i don't think it's our job to
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judge. i don't think it's our job to question anybody else's faith whatsoever, whether you are running for candidate, whether you are not. >> i think a lot of people assume he can't be a christian because he is gay. that, of course, i'm a new hampshire ee miss co-payian. we had a gay bishop. that's trump says is about himself. he is only attacking himself. >> reporter: pete buttigieg addressed this a few seconds ago here in manchester saying that god does not belong to one political party or another and that while religion should be used to include people in bringing people in, instead it's sometimes used to divide people. >> amen to that, josh lederman. thank you for that live report from new hampshire. talk a little about the favorites ahead of tonight's golden globe awards. it's the most fun to watch. seventh platton, 40 seconds!
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awards are tonight. joining me now, my dear friend dominic patton, senior editor for deadline. let's get right to it. >> i'm taking the glasses off. netflix the irishmen, you're going to keep watching again and again. >> i watched already. best picture musical? >> should be knives out, but it's going to be quentin tarn tino once upon a time in hollywood. >> that's hard to argue. it was good. >> it's hollywood. >> best action picture. >> johnson price, the two poepz. >> come on. how about best actor in a musical comedy? >> rocket man which is the elton john, very, very -- >> i have not heard that from a wide variety? >> sunday night is all right for fighting. >> what about best actress? i've heard about one person? >> rene zell weger.
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>> charlize theron did a good job. >> she and megan kelly are the same person. >> extraordinary. best actress in a musical comedy? >> i think it's going to be acwau fooena for the farewell. >> her range is amazing. a lot of people new her from rich crazy asians. th this thissy movie is everything. >> director, that one has got a couple of big names? >> it's going to be bon joe hone for parasite. do not count out a quentin tarn tino. >> hollywood. >> hollywood in hol oo wood. >> second to last film. >> he says but there's star trek film. >> you are the tv guy, give me what you think, that's one thing i love. you do films, tv.
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>> you talked about this kicking off award seasons. for me, and thank you for mentioning my tv critic role, it's a toss-up between season three of "the crown" for the favorite golden globes and season two of succession. as they say. >> how do you choose. >> condemn and move on. >> they're both fantastic. those should be the toss-up between -- let me ask you because i got you, usually you're at your post when we talk. you're here to cover the harvey weinstein trial. two woman having made accusations against him. want to note his attorney reiterated we he says anything that happened was consensual. >> unlike most trials like cosby, the big one is going to be this week, jury selection. the way they pick these jurors in the greatest environment in a case covered for two years
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relentlessly, everyone, prosecution and defense, we've got to get this ride right because depending on what happens if harv vooe can say he didn't receive a fair trial that's a speed way to an appeal. >> thank you. for all of you now, back to work. congress returning to washington and into the fray of the president's impeachment trial, how the news in iran may have changed that conversation. any comments doug?
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we're approaching the top of the hour. i'm out of time. thanks for watching. kendis gibson is picking up another big news day. there's not a break lately at all. >> it has been relentless. let's hope things turn positive at some point. >> we hope. >> enjoy your weekend. i'm kendis gibson at world head kwaerlts in new york. the rhetoric between the u.s. and iran intensifying by the minute, iran and thousands of supporters gathered for the funeral of caqasem soleimani an in nearby iraq the parliament voting in favor of expelling all foreign troops from their country. aefrlier today an am bish at a base in kenya, several u.s. aircraft and vehicles destroyed but no confirmation that any