this morning, tensions are on the rise following the u.s. air strike that killed iranian general qassem soleimani. president trump spent the weekend issuing threats on twitter if iran retaliates. iraq's parliament has voted to expel u.s. troops from the country. iraq's prime minister is expected to tell the u.s. ambassador today that american troops must leave. all of this comes as the impeachment fight ramps up on capitol hill. senate judiciary lindsey graham says they should consider

starting the impeachment trial even if the house hasn't handed over orders of impeachment. good monday morning, everyone, it is january 6. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we begin this hour with president trump's very latest threats against iran, warning against retaliation for the assassination of its top general, qassem soleimani. on saturday, the president said let this serve as a warning that in iran strikes any americans or american assets, we have targeted 52 iranian sites, representing the hostages atake by iran many years ago, important to iran and the iranian culture, and those targets and iran itself will be hit very fast and very hard. the usa wants no more threats. he also tweeted the united states just spent $2 trillion on military equipment. we are the biggest and by far the best in the world. if iran attacks an american base

or any american, we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way and without hesitation. talking to reporters flying back to washington from his 17 day vacation, the president was asked about his threats against iran's cultural sites, which many experts say would actually constitute a war crime. this is what the president had to say. they're allowed to kill our people. they're allowed to torture and maim or people. they're allowed to use roadside bombs and we are not allowed to touch their cultural sites, it doesn't work that way. >> the military adviser, major general hossein dehgan said it might be argued that there could be proxy operations. mr. trump has taken action against us so we take direct action against america. quote our reaction will be wise,

well considered and in time with decisive, deterrent effect. adding this, the only thing that could end this period of war is for the americans to receive a blow that is equal to the blow they have inflicted, afterwards, they should not seek a new cycle. >> iraq's parliament passed a resolution, urging the country's prime minister to ask washington to withdraw u.s. troops from their country on the heels of that vote, president trump is now threatening to impose new sanctions on iraq. on board air force one last night, the president told report er ers, quote if they do ask us to leave if we don't do it in a very friendly basis, we will charge them sanctions like they have never seen before. it will make iranian sanctions seem somewhat tamed. we have an extraordinarily expensive air base that's there. it cost billions of dollars to build, long before my time. we are not leaving unless they pay us back for it. well, iraq's prime minister is scheduled to meet with the u.s. ambassador in baghdad. two officials tell nbc news the

prime minister is expected to tell the ambassador that u.s. troops will have to leave the country. he's also expected to ask for a time line. joining us live from teheran, nbc news bureau chief, all it's the third day in the, hearing the president of the united states talking about the fact that they have basically focused in on 52 cultural sites, talk to us about the reaction you're getting from inside the country right now. >> reporter: well, i was at the funeral procession this morning for qassem soleimani, and they were extraordinary scenes, passionate grief and anger amongst the crowds there. hundreds of thousands, if not a million people there chanting death to america, that we will avenge qassem soleimani, revenge is coming. it was an extraordinary scene,

yasmin. i have never seen anything like that in all the years i have covered iran, and then ayatollah hamehni, they were broadcast on state tv, put on loud speakers throughout the streets of downtown iran. his voice was trembling, he was crying while he read the prayers for qassem soleimani, and a lot of people here that are in the know tell me that that is an indication of how harsh the retribution is that he is planning against the united states. this is on outpouring of grief and anger in this country, and as you mentioned, all we've been hearing for three days are threats and counter threats from the united states and from iran. iran is promising a swift blow against the united states. they're talking about targeting u.s. military assets and personnel in this region.

but that would probably be done by their proxies rather than the iranian army themselves, those proxies are scattered all over the region near u.s. assets. >> ali, let me get your thoughts quickly on the sentiment of concern if there is concern among ordinary iranians that you have been speaking to. there's no doubt the rhetoric is about retribution and revenge, certainly with that could possibly come as we have heard from president trump on twitter and the rhetoric that he's been talking about, retaliating against iranian cultural sites, what do ordinary iranians feel about the escalation and where this is heading. there are people that have suffered a lot with the economic sanctions but do you get a sense there is also a tremendous amount of anxiety about where we are going in the region? >> reporter: the anxiety here is palpable. people are worried about what iran's next must have ove is go,

what america's next move is going to be, and what the consequences for them is going to be. iran has been battered by financial sanctions. that has taken a toll on a large cross section of people's lives here, and don't forget, ayman, a lot of people in this country also still remember that bloody 8-year war with iraq during the 1980s that cost a million lives. those are all very real fears in this country. but i can also tell you, president trump's tweet about targeting cultural sites really hit a raw nerve here amongst iranian people. this is a country where an ancient civilization and some of the most important historical sites in the world. there was a fire storm on social media here, comparing president trump to the taliban or isis saying that only factions like that destroy things that are so cultural, so that didn't win any hearts or minds in iran, but yes, the anxiety, the fear, and

the anger in this country is palpable. >> ali arouzi for us, thank you, my friend president trump claiming his tweets are sufficient notice to congress of any possible military strike against iran trump tweeting quote this, these media posts will serve as notification to the united states congress that should iran strike any u.s. person or target, the united states will quickly and fully strike back and perhaps in a disproportionate matter. such legal notice is not required but given nonetheless. >> with senate minority leader chuck schumer warning quote if he plans a large increase in troops and potential hostility over a longer time, the administration will require congressional approval and the approval of the american people. efforts will start today to pass a new war powers resolution, introduced by senator tim kaine on friday. over in the house, speaker nancy

pelosi announced a plan in a letter to colleagues, writing that the chamber this week quote will introduce and vote on a war powers resolution to limit the president's military actions regarding iran. pelosi states the resolution quote reasserts congress's long established oversight committees by mandating if no further congressional action is taken, the administration's military hostilities with regard to iran cease within 30 days. the effort will be led by freshman congresswoman alyssa slatkin of michigan. few republicans in congress have raised questions about trump's claim that he has authority to attack iran with just one example coming from gop senator rand paul of kentucky who tweeted out friday a war without a congressional declaration is a recipe for feckless intermittent eruptions of violence with no clear admission for our soldiers. ahead, how the escalating tensions are playing out on the

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welcome back, so the impeachment battle is continuing on capitol hill as senate judiciary chair lindsey graham says that senate republicans are prepared to take matters into their own hands to proceed with the impeachment trial against the president. >> the founders never envisioned you would have a speaker do something like this, withhold the articles, demanding the senate bend to her will. it's not going to happen, so i hope she sends them over soon so we can get on with the trial. if she does not, i would urge senator mcconnell to change the rules of the senate so we can proceed to the trial without nancy pelosi being involved. my goal is to start this trial in the next coming days, not let nancy pelosi take over the

senate. >> graham's comments come after house speaker nancy pelosi is waiting to see what a senate trial will look like before sending articles of impeachment the house passed last month to the chamber. currently the senate trial cannot proceed without those articles. joining us onset, legal analyst, danny cevalas. let's talk about lindsey graham making these comments for the senate to take matters into their own hands. is that something they could do? could they actually begin the trial in the senate without the impeachment articles being transferred. >> in theory if they had enough votes they arguably could without the articles transmitted they could hold a trial. what trial would that be. realistically, it could never happen, not politically, not really morally because you wouldn't even have the articles of impeachment, you would have essentially a motion to dismiss,

decided upon immediately because you wouldn't even have house managers to come over and try the case. it's interesting, though, back in the clinton impeachment, the house managers even threatened not to participate in the senate trial because they, they being republican house managers were frustrated at the rule making process. but on the other hand, one thing that was different in the clinton impeachment trial is that 100% of the senators voted to at least move forward with opening arguments and opening briefs and at least start the senate trial. now, prior impeachments in the senate are not binding pres death penal -- precedent but they're of historical significance. >> can we talk about the recent events and developments overseas could feasibly play into the senate impeachment trial. two weeks ago you had john bolton saying i have a lot to share but it's all in regards to the decision, that was moot, that cleared the way for john bolton testimony. over the weekend, you see john bolton fully supporting the president's decision to strike

qassem soleimani, including that along with the recent threats against iran, are any of these things, and these factors going to play into the senate impeachment trial. >> absolutely, and i think that's something that house democrats anticipated is that if we impeach now, there's a possibility with this president that there may be more information that comes to light, either by getting more information from people who previously refused to come forward or as we've seen in the case in iran, breaking news or changing news or new decisions made by the president, possibly revealing new evidence, and we've seen that in just the last few weeks. the real question for the senate is whether or not to allow new information that was not introduced in the house to come into the trial, and going back to the only precedent we really have which is the clinton impeachment, it was a very very different situation there. the evidence allowed in the senate impeachment trial of president clinton involved only evidence that had been publicly

made in the star report. there is 0 new evidence in the clinton impeachment trial. different times may call for different rules. >> it's interesting, the president's tweet a couple years ago, president trump will declare war, star a war with iran to secure his reelection. >> you mean president clinton. >> no, president trump tweeting about president obama seeking reelection. >> there's been so many instances because there was the strike during the house impeachment trial as well for president clinton. >> danny cevallos, always a pleasure, let's get a quick check of the weather with bill karins. a little bit of snow, pennsylvania, northern half of new jersey, southern new england moved through last night. light snow from syracuse, to utica, and this moved through northern new england, maybe just a little bit slippery on some of the untreated roads. many of the major roads should be just fine.

as we go throughout the afternoon, we see heavy snow bands coming off lake erie, the tug hill plateau, and light snow, 1 to 2 inches in the mountainous areas. let's take you to the week ahead. this is one of those weeks where we start a little bit wintry and it's just going to be spring like heading into next weekend. mid atlantic for 51 in d.c. no complaints there. we're about 60 in atlanta. all through the southern half of the country we're fine. here comes the next storm system, and if there's been one spot that has had miserable weather, it's been the northwest, a lot of cloudy days, on and off rain, and more rain in the forecast today. let's fast forward as we go throughout the week ahead, by wednesday, it's exiting areas of maine, and you notice the rest of the country, very quiet. and look how warm these temperatures are. 64 in dallas. 55 in kansas city. we're in the 60s and 50s in the southeast, and then the next rainstorm, yes, another end to

the week rainstorm, like we finished with on thursday, and then friday, with this area of green is all the rain. just a huge rain, typically we talk about a rain or snowstorm. we may get a little bit of a wintry mix changing to rain in new england. look at d.c., up to 60 degrees. new york city in the mid-60s. boston is in the low 50s. ski country and snowmobile country is not happy with the forecast on friday, and then saturday this will all be in areas of the northeast. as i mentioned, it's a stormy spot this week, if you want to complain, the pacific northwest with another storm system late in the week. no signs of winter locking in, and all of a sudden now we're starting to get towards the second week of january. >> fast forward to three weeks from now, a frozen tundra outside of our doors. >> even the longer stuff doesn't show it yet. >> i'm ready for spring. we can skip all this. >> i like winter rch. new reporting with the department of homeland security stopped dozens of

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so that was former mayor pete buttigieg saturday in new hampshire talking a little bit about all the escalations and developments over the weekend. joining us here onset, msnbc correspondent vaughn hillyard, and we managed to get him off, and find out he doesn't have a home, he has been living on the campaign trail literally. let's talk a little bit about former mayor pete buttigieg's comments there, and how likely the developments over the weekend, the killing of qassem soleimani is playing out. >> the democrats, you're looking at a field that has to hold its finger up in the air, when it comes to where they are on their own foreign policy. the next inauguration is more than 12 months from now. what you have seen in the last several months, go back to or s october, the trump administration removed troops from syria. usually it's democrats calling for the draw down of troop presence in the east, and what you have seen is tumult in the

region. pete buttigieg was 19 himself bang in 2001 that are now being put into the situation, 3,500 more troops heading towards the middle east region: and so what you're hearing from these candidates, pete buttigieg at the forefront saying that being cautious in saying in his assessment of the hit, of the attack on soleimani, saying, you know, we need to hear from secretary pompeo, from president trump because yesterday was actually an interview on sunday morning program yesterday in which he was asked was the attack the right thing to do, and he goes well based on the interview with secretary pompeo a few minutes prior, in which pompeo was not able to say the threat was imminent, then how are we supposed to respond when we don't know what the intelligence was. >> former vice president joe biden has gotten endorsements and has been criticized for his foreign policy record, especially his iraq war vote in which mayor pete buttigieg has criticized him for openly, last week or two weeks ago or so.

talk about if this could feasibly bolster pete buttigieg's campaign, considering the fact that he has served and secondly, if there is a real concern amongst people on the campaign trail, voters, with regards to foreign policy. >> look, it's actually, you know, if you go and look at polling for a second. foreign policy is never up there. it's never even close to being up there. at the same time, when you're looking at these democratic candidates, they're very much on the same page, and you know, despite, you know, bernie sanders or pete buttigieg criticizing that, that iraq war vote that joe biden made, they all turn back to the trump administration saying look, we need to consolidate our message here, and if it weren't not for this administration pulling out of the iran nuclear deal, which all five senate candidates that are running for president all voted for, obviously joe biden was a part of the obama administration that worked to negotiate that. if the trump administration did not pull out of that nuclear deal, they would not be having

this conversation today. there would be no vote by the iraqi parliament, calling on the u.s. troop presence to exit iraq, that none of this would be taking place if it were not for the trump administration. >> a domino effect. >> they're suddenly in this tight spot, to what extent does one criticize a joe biden vote from 18 years ago, compared to what is happening. >> we're going to talk later in the show about that specific point. and former mayor pete buttigieg is going to be on "morning joe." maybe you could question him as he walks into the studio. >> dpragreat to see you in pers >> thanks for having me. iran has announced it is ending its commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal. we're going to talk about what that means for heightened tensions. mike pence is facing criticism for a series of tweets trying to link qassem soleimani to september 11th terror attacks in this country. we have a fact check on that tweet coming up next. tweet coming up next

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin. we begin this half hour with the latest in the escalating conflict with iran with president trump and teheran trading new threats. a top adviser to teheran's supreme leader, and foreign defense minister telling cnn its response to the assassination to , major general said our reaction will be wise, well

considered and in time. meanwhile, president trump is warning against retaliation, tweeting that the united states has targeted 52 iranian sites, symbolic of the 52 american hostages held at the u.s. embassy in teheran during the islamic revolution. the president's threat included cultural sites in iran, which many experts say would be a war crime. flying back to washington from mar-a-lago last night, the president was asked about the threat, and here's what he told reporters, they're allowed to kill our people. they're allowed to torture and maim our people. they're allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people, and we're not allowed to touch that you are cultural sites it doesn't work that way. the nuclear deal intended to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons, the decision comes in response to the u.s. air strike killing general qassem soleimani, abandoning the deal means there are no restrictions on iran's nuclear program, and former u.s.

national security adviser john bolton who also favors regime change in the country tweeted out in response to iran's decision yesterday, another good day, iran rips the mask off the idea it ever fully complied with the nuclear deal or that it made a strategic decision to force nuclear weapons. now it is on to the real job, effectively preventing the ayatollah's from getting a capabili capability. mike pompeo was out in full force defending the decision to kill soleimani. he appeared all all five morning shows and was prezzed on the claim that had u.s. had to take out the top general when it did because of an imminent threat. >> why are you convinced if there's an imminent against american interests, why are you convinced taking out soleimani has done anything to stop it. >> we are negligent if we had not taken this action. the american people would have said we weren't doing the right

thing. president trump has been crystal clear. >> is the attacks he was putting together so imminent and so big it would have been seen as that kind of negligence? >> made the right decision. there's lots of intelligence. some of it is in public, the death of an american on december 27th, the president made the right decision. >> so was the justification in that he's been this destabilizing force in the region for so long or was the justification this imminent threat? >> chuck, it's never one thing. you have been at this a long time, the american people are smart too. it's never one moment. it's never one instance. it's a collective, a full situational awareness of risk. >> when you say the attacks were imminent, how imminent were they, days, weeks? >> if you're an american in the region, days and weeks, this is not something that's relevant. we have to prepare. we have to be ready, and we took a bad guy off the battlefield. >> meanwhile, a senior u.s. official telling "the washington post" that pompeo first spoke with the president about killing

soleimani months ago, but quote neither the president nor pentagon officials were willing to countenance such an operation, the post citing pompeo spoke to trump several times after the attack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad, and the secretary along with vice president mike pence urged him to make the move. on december 29th, the "post" reports that pompeo, mark esper and the chairman of the joint chiefs traveled to mar-a-lago where the defense officials presented possible responses to iranian aggression including the option of killing soleimani. the report says trump's decision came as a surprise and a shock to some officials briefed on his decision, given the pentagon's long standing concerns about escalation and the president's aversion to using military force against iran. joining us live from teheran, bureau chief alelie al

ali arouarouzi. >> read what he said, very closely. we have made clear that the cost of the youth proxy forces of the region will not be born by those proxies, they will be born by iran and its leadership itself. those are important things that the iranian leadership needs to put into its calculus as it makes its next decision. >> president trump tweets earlier in the day that he has 52 sites targeted, including cultural sites. mike pompeo comes out says that's not correct, go back, look at it carefully, then the president doubles down with reporters, speaking very clearly, saying that, yes, we would target cultural sites. once again, the secretary of state being embarrassed by his boss for coming out and defending him and the president doubling down on this, what some say is a war crime. what do you make of this rhetoric, this escalation, and how is that playing out in iran?

>> well, i mean, this is a dangerous cycle that the united states and iran have gotten into. there's a lot of heated rhetoric being exchanged, almost on an hourly basis between the two countries, these two old enemies, but the comments about bombing cultural sites in iran went down like a lead balloon here. i mean, it really really upset a lot of iranians from a wide cross section of the society here, even iranians that may have been pro-american. there was a fire storm on twitter saying that president trump's comments are akin to the taliban blowing up the buddhas or isis destroying the city of palmyra. these are not strategic locations and should not be targets. it's one thing to target military installations but to target somewhere that would probably be full of tourists is

just outrageous. so that comment didn't win any hearts or minds in this country, but as you said, he doubled down on those tweets and said that they are fair game. what they would gain from hitting cultural sites here is beyond me. i mean, it would be akin to, you know, the united states falling out with italy and bombing the coliseum. i mean, what would that achieve? absolutely nothing. so it's just a very very heated rhetoric. it's also a lot of people say it's beneath the president's office to make comments so outlandish as that, but they're out there now, and it's part of this very very dangerous cycle of rhetoric between these two countries and it also shows the danger of miscalculation that could just tip us over the precipice, so these are very tense days in iran, emotions are running very high here. t

a lot of people within the ruling establishment are looking for retribution, and this all plays into that. >> i just want to say some of the sites we are seeing there, we're seeing the freedom tower in iran, the march and the procession, the funeral procession starting at teheran university, and ending at the freedom tower. important to note that. ali, for quite some time in teheran, there has been a major division between the hard liners and moderates in that country, especially at the top, and especially over the issue of the signing of the jcpoa, and sitting down and negotiating with the obama administration back in 2015. has that division basically closed? >> reporter: well, they have closed ranks here, yasmin, i mean, it's quite odd. president trump's decision to kill qassem soleimani from where i'm standing seems to have backfired. if you think about it, yasmin, only two months ago there were huge protests, anti-government

protests in iran. in iraq, they were calling for iran to be -- to leave iraq, to stop meddling in their domestic affairs. today, iran looks like a united country. today in iraq, the iraqi government is calling for the u.s. troops to be expelled from iraq. hard liners here who wanted out of the nuclear deal are getting their way, and nobody is objecting to it. they basically rolled back all of their restrictions on the deal yesterday. i mean, they left a caveat open saying if donald trump drops all sanctions, we can reverse these moves we've made but we all know that's not going to happen, and in the meantime, more and more u.s. troops are being sent to this region, so this in some way has benefitted iran. president trump opened the pandora's box, and now we're seeing the results of it. >> unbelievable to some of these images as we're watching this

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port of entry increased by four hours because of the high number of people entering staffing shortages due to the holiday season played a factor in this delay. it's important to note, border officers are not allowed to refer someone for secondary screening based solely on their national origin but it is one of multiple factors they are directed to consider. customs and border protection did not respond when asked if a traveler's country of origin played a factor. nonetheless, this story is incredibly troubling, and we're going to keep following it, and find out exactly what's going on here. president of the council on foreign relations and author of the book, "world in disarray" richard haas. >> are we in disarray. >> you have two opinion pieces out and you discuss the potential outcome that could take place should iran retaliate which all officials say they are going to do. i hate to tell you to look into

your crystal ball but what are the possible outcomes of iranian retaliation. >> one we're beginning to see, the breakout from the 2015 nuclear agreement, it gives iran tremendous flexibilities as to what they do, when they do it and so forth. that buys them time. after that, your guess is as good as anyone else's. they have cyber fools, militias, dozens of neighbors, they could go after soft targets. the other thing they will probably do in short order is try to create a political environment where the united states is forced out of iraq, and that's something that iran would love. it would give them really tremendous control over the country. if they could begin to get out from under the nuclear, get the united states out of iraq, that buys them time before they have to start going after specific targets. >> you have said on twitter, a war with iran is not like anything we will have ever seen before. it's not a symmetric war.

. >> people think of battlefields, you have surrender ceremonies, so the battleship missouri at the end of world war ii. this is not going to be that, a cyber attack here, a militia attack, something might not happen for a month. hezbollah could do something against israel. all sorts of targets, tools, open ended timing, people would deny they had anything to do with something. we wouldn't be able to prove it. again, it's not -- war is almost the wrong metaphor. >> let's listen to secretary of state mike pompeo on fox news who basically blamed the obama administration for where we are with regards to war. >> it's a strategy several years in the making that we have been working on, a diplomatic strategy, an economic strategy, you're now seeing elements of the military strategy, and with respect to targets, president trump talked about 52 targets last night. that's not new. in 2015, the obama biden

administration essentially handed power to the iranian leadership, and acted as a quasi ally of theirs by underwriting them, undermining the militias that killed americans, the resources, the money they had to build out the forces was provided to them by the nuclear deal. we allowed europeans to go do business there, provided $150 billion, pallets of cash, all of these things are the challenge the trump administration has had to correct. >> you in fact have said the exact opposite, this started when the trump administration pulled out of the jcpoa. >> this is revisionist history we are hearing from the secretary of state. when we pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal, it wasn't just that we left it, we also put into place, severe sanctions. that was committing economic warfare against iran. what did we think iran was going to do. they cannot commit economic warfare, what they can do is push back militarily, more recently the attack on the oil

refineries, and what the militia are doing and so forth. we have umped the ante again with attacks. it has set in motion a confrontation. we would have been much wiser to stay within the agreement, even though quite honestly, i thought the agreement was flawed and we could have gone to europeans and others and said hey, the duration of the constraints are too short lived, we got to get something longer we got to get something that captured missiles, and so forth. >> put unified pressure on iran to change this. >> and more recently what we could have said is look, we're willing to relieve some of the sanctions but only if you sign up to longer term constraints, what we were missing all along was any sort of a diplomatic off ramp. it was all one dimensional, pressure economically, and now pressure militarily. >> and any chance of diplomacy.

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welcome back, everyone. we just mentioned dow futures down 200 points as a result of tension with iran. joining us live in london we have more. watching markets and oil prices under pressure this morning. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: well, there's no doubt about it that global investors are very closely

eyeing this escalation in tensions in the middle east. starting on friday we saw a spike in the oil price, and that spike is continuing today with brent and wpi, both seeing an increase in the absolute price level. oil initially hit $70 per barrel overnight. that level hadn't been seen sis september when we saw the strike on the saudi aramco sites. what this means for oil supplies moving forward, it meant oil majors, the stocks connected to the oil market have moved higher this morning, but outside of that global markets are under pressure. so stocks are trading lower here in europe. they traded lower overnight in asia and you mentioned, ayman, the u.s. stateside as well. negative sentiment hitting stock market. oil getting a boost from

escalations. >> thank you, as always from london. coming up, joining the conversation with the iowa caucuses, pete buttigieg, less than a month away. plus congresswoman slotkin a guest aimed at limiting the president's military action against iran. "morning joe," everyone, just moments away. ♪ when you look at the world, what do you see? ♪ where others see chaos, we see patterns. ♪ connections.

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welcome back. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m. national political reporter jonathan, good morning. >> good morning, guys. >> talk about axios "one big thing" today. >> the inside story how the trump administration tried very hard to stop the iraqi parliament from voting to expel the american military from iraq. they were unsuccessful. they tried. this was a pretty senior effort, pretty forceful effort warning iraqis not to do this.

telling the government this would be a really bad idea. the parliament yesterday defied the united states, went ahead and did that. it's still not a certain outcome. we've got a prime minister who's already resigned. i was in baghdad two months ago to interview the president and it was clear even then that the prime minister's time was limited. so it's not clear yet what's going to happen, but i thought very, very telling that the united states put a lot of pressure on iraqis too try to get them not to take this vote and parliament went ahead and did it anyway. quite revealing of the current state of the relationship. >> speaking of that relationship the president tweeted what he expects from iraq in the event they did ask him to withdraw u.s. troops from there giving us a bit of insight about the president's thoughts about that. what is axios's insight how president trump views the relationship between iraq and the united states? >> extraordinary what he said on

air force one yesterday. he said that they would pile on the sanctions on iraq and if they didn't treat them nicely, and asked them to pay america back for the military base. this fits with how he views iraq. it's in very mercenary terms. he never -- said publicly the worst mistake in american history. the iraqi president when i interviewed him is clearly very uncomfortable with the things donald trump has said about the that can't if a america should have taken iraq's oil, which sounds like a sort of colonial exercise, and this is not -- this type of assertion is mnot going to help this relationship. >> shockingly amidst all of this, amidst crisis with iran, with iraq overseas, president trump still dealing with an impeachment. >> oh, yeah, of course. >> at home. >> yeah. >> especially starting today with everything back in session. what is axios reporting what we can expect this week? >> so we're hearing from

democratic leadership aides that no decision yet has been made by speaker pelosi about when to send the articles over to the senate. this could go on for a little while. it's really going to depend on, she's going to test the mood of her, of her colleagues. it's going to depend on what the colleagues and the mood is in the democratic house, but there have been new revelations that came out. there's the "new york times" foyer request with the white house not releasing these 20 emails between top trump officials that relate to ukrainian aid. the gamble, the bet they're taking in the democratic house is can these new revelations change the calculus in the senate, which seems very set. can we put enough, they've put enough pressure on these wobbly republican moderates to get them to change the rules and bring up witnesses? there are no signs whatsoever

that mitch mcconnell is losing control of his, of the senate, but that's what they're trying to do. >> jonathan swan, live from washington, d.c. appreciate it my friend. reading axios in a bit. you, too, is sign up online. that does it for us. "morning joe" starts right now. -- these critiques president trump didn't say he'd go over a cull actual site. read what he said very closely. we've made sure will not be borne just by the proxies but by iran and its leadership itself. important things the iranian leadership needs to put in his calculus as it makes its next decision. >> that was secretary of state mike pompeo saying that the president didn't say he'd go after a culture site. reading what