on one conversations at judge over the senate. gatherings, where they would he will then swear in all 100 have round tables, six people at a table. u.s. senators. we had several of those. for now, thank you for being mike pence and what parnas here with us. claims was the vice president's good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. role in the scheme. let's start with the message parnas was told to deliver to ukraine about making that announcement of an investigation into the bidens. watch. >> i told him that if he a new bomb shell interview related to the ukraine scandal, and president trump's doesn't, the key at the time because of the inauguration that impeachment. lev parnas, the indicted pence would not show up, nobody associate of rudy giuliani said would show up. >> unless he announced an trump knew exactly what was going on during an alleged investigation into joe biden, no attempt to dig up dirt on joe u.s. officials, particularly biden. the house has officially sent articles of impeachment vice president mike pence would over to the senate setting up a not come. >> pence's trip was in fact historic trial expected to get cancelled the following day. underway next week. parnas says on president trump's after a tense exchange following the democratic debate, orders delivered to him by rudy giuliani. when asked if pence knew why his we now know what senators trip was cancelled, he quoted elizabeth warren and bernie the impeachment testimony from sanders said to each other. ambassador gordon sondland that everybody was in the loop. there's also that september trip let's just say the key part to poland where pence met.

of that exchange was i think you called me a liar. >> about the bernie sanders, i >> president trump was supposed to meet zelensky in poland thought you were going to say about the part with the lev himself but then he used the parnas interview. take your pick. excuse of the hurricane but it wasn't because of the hurricane, >> that was probably part of that interview as well. it was because he was angry that good morning, thursday january 16th, i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin, we zelensky still didn't make any attempt or effort to make any begin with those bomb shell allegations with rudy giuliani's announcement before he was going to neat him. >> how do you know that was an indicted associate about the president, vice president and excuse and that wasn't the real attorney general's alleged knowledge and involvement in the reason. ukraine scandal. >> i spoke to rudy. lev parnas who was arrested we spoke about this every day. while attempting to leave the >> so president trump is country is now currently free on bail after pleading not guilty supposed to go, he decided not to charges of making illegal to go. >> he sends him instead, and campaign donations to republican basically he was supposed to go there and get it straightened candidates. one thing he does deny is his out that zelensky was supposed role in trying to pressure the government of ukraine to dig up to make another announcement and that didn't happen, and that's dirt on joe biden. now, just days after handing on bolton, secretary bolton went over a trove of new evidence the over there, and i think he has a house intelligence committee, par nas in a new interview with lot to say. i'm not going to talk on his, but i think he's a key witness msnbc's rachel maddow is saying to his conversation with who else knew about the scheme.

>> president trump knew exactly what was going on. zelensky and when he came back he was aware of all my and got fired or however you movements. i wouldn't do anything without the consent of rudy giuliani or want to look at that. >> when vice president went over there on september 1st, in the president. president trump's stead, you i have no intent, i have no reason to speak to any of these believe, or you have reason to officials. believe that vice president i mean, they have no reason to pence was tasked at that meeting speak to me. with getting president zelensky why would president zelensky's to announce investigations of joe biden specifically. >> yes. >> so when asked if bolton knew what the administration was inner circle or why would they pressuring ukraine to do, parnas said quote 100% he knows what meet with me. who am i. happened there. they were told to meet with me. >> parnas implicated attorney that's the secret they're trying to keep. general bill barr, even i was on the ground doing their describing him as part of the work. team that was dispatched to put yeah, it was all about joe the pressure on ukraine. biden, hunter biden and also >> do you know if mr. giuliani rudy had a personal thing with was ever in contact with mr. the manafort stuff, the black barr specifically about the fact ledger and that was another that he was trying to get thing that they were looking ukraine to announce these investigations into joe biden. into, but it was never about >> oh, absolutely. >> mr. barr knew about that. corruption. it was strictly about the >> mr. barr had to have known burisma, which included hunter everything. it's impossible. biden and joe biden. >> did rudy giuliani tell you he >> wow. had spoken to the attorney general specifically about >> so parnas also pushed back at ukraine? >> not only rudy giuliani, i mean, victoria and joe, they

president trump's claim that he were all best friends. does not know parnas and igor i mean, barr was -- attorney fruman. here's the president back in general barr was basically on october. >> i don't know those gentlemen. the team. >> andeam. now, it's possible i have a picture with them because i have a picture with everybody. i have a picture with everybody they advised the president, and here, but somebody said there may be a picture or something at were once fixtures on fox news. a fundraiser or somewhere. the department of justice but i have pictures with commented saying the comments on everybody. i don't know if there's anybody i don't have pictures with. barr are 100% false. i don't know them. i don't know about them. they also reached out to rudy i don't know what they do. giuliani, and he denies he spoke but i don't know, maybe they on behalf of trump, and said were clients of rudy. parnas is a sad situation. you would have to ask rudy. when asked if parnas was lying, i just don't know. >> he lied. i mean, we're not friends. giuliani said quote all i can say is the truth. i mean, when you say friends, i >> joining us is danny cevallos. mean, me and knew exactly who we were, he ae i don't know where to begin. so many threats to pick at here. first of all, what do you make of lev parnas both on the credibility aspect of it, in terms of how he is telling it, and the second part is he is making serious allegations which include people like mike pence, the attorney general, william

barr, were all in on this scheme. what kind of evidence might he have to corroborate that? a lot. and we heard some of it last night. >> let's start with credibility. you bring up a good point. if this were a criminal trial, a defense attorney like me would be pointing out that this is probably a corroborating witness that is saying or doing anything he can to get the best deal for himself, and then the government would counter, look, he's got no reason to lie at this point. he's still being charged. he's still going to face punishment for what he did. he's here to tell the truth, and if he doesn't, the hammer will come down on him. the jury will decide what they are going to decide in credibility. there's so much to unpackage in what parnas told rachel maddow. it's more that the request was never about corruption it was about the investigation into joe biden and burisma because that defeats any argument that the president was acting under his

article ii power to root out corruption wherefore it may lie, and so all of these threats as you put it, that pence may have been in on it, that is very compelling because the evidence that pence cancelled this trip to the inauguration is key that there was a punishment actually imposed. that's why that is so significant. do what we want, or else you won't get what you want, ukraine, and let me give you an example. i believe to paraphrase rudy giuliani, parnas said something or there was an interview, we'll see what happens or we'll show them. something to that effect. we'll see. and that's exactly what happened, and those kinds of consequences in the context of federal prosecution are key in showing things like quid pro quo and cause and effect, which are so important because rarely are these agreements actually in writing. this may be a rare instance where some of the agreements are in writing, and we're seeing documents come out by the day.

>> two things i want to talk about here first and foremost is the credibility question that ayman brought up. when you hear him use terminology like he had to have known, ag bill barr had to have known was taking place here. does that hurt his credibility when he doesn't necessarily have anything to back up that statement, and secondly do you think an interview like this one will be taken into account in the senate impeachment trial. >> as to the barr comment, saying he had to have known, i'm going to need more to know whether or not barr knew, more facts to show that he knew, not just generally, he must have known. an example he gave with other folks, yeah, i was on the phone call with him. >> a major accusation, without evidence to back him up. just saying he had to have known is not enough, especially from somebody who's not on the inside but moving forward, what compelling evidence, that more evidence should be heard at the senate trial. if you go back to the nixon hearings, there was evidence that was revealed in between the

judiciary committee hearing about and deciding on the articles of impeachment and thereafter. that's when more explosive information came out. >> the infamous tapes came out after the house in the nixon trial. >> that's exactly right, and if you follow the vision of a criminal indictment, it's frequently the case that an indictment only involves enough evidence to get it over the line, more than probable cause so you can get the charges out there, and then at the trial, much more evidence comes in. now, but again, if you compare to the clinton trial, the only evidence that came at the clinton trial was arguably stuff that was in the public record, in the star report, expect republicans to make that argument. >> we expect our capitol hill reporters will be chasing senators to get their reactions. >> we have heard from mcconnell we are only going to hear evidence that was brought to us by the house. he has said this repeatedly, we are going to only see evidence

brought by the house, and we're not going to build a case beyond that. >> that's so true. think of the trial as a fore gone conclusion. if you go back to the clinton trial, republicans had the majority but they were consumed with putting on what appeared to be a fair trial. if republicans do the same thing this time around with the majority they should also be consumed with, even if we know how we're going to vote, there should be a fair trial. >> danny cevallos, always a pleasure. i think you're going to have a busy day ahead of you. don't go too far. we're going to show you what was said during this tense exchange between 2020 candidates elizabeth warren and bernie sanders following tuesday night's democratic debate. plus, what to expect next in the impeachment process now that the house has sent over articles of impeachment to the senate. we're going to have those stories and a check on weather when we come right back. er when we come right back.

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know what was said in the post debate, cnn released audio captured by the debate stage microphones tuesday night. >> i think you called me a liar on national tv. >> what? >> i think you called me a liar on national tv. >> let's not do it right now. you want to have that discussion, we'll have that discussion. you called me a liar. >> i don't want to get in the middle. i want to say hi, bernie. >> good. >> you have to love tom steyer, bernie is like, hi, good, good, he didn't ask him how are you. yeah, good, good. >> i think if we were imagining those bubbles of what exactly they were saying yesterday when we were sitting in this exact same place wondering what they were saying, it was basically on par to what turned out to be true. former vice president joe biden and senator bernie sanders remained statistically tied in wisconsin, according to a new poll. sanders has 19%.

those numbers are unchanged since last month. both candidates sit within the polls over a 6 point margin of error. mi y mayor pete buttigieg 15%, warren falls two points to 14%, and former mayor michael bloomberg and businessman andrew yang sit at 6 points. new polling from wisconsin on a hypothetical match up between president trump and the top challengers, according to the latest marquette law school poll. joe biden, sanders and warren and buttigieg. only 1 point separates senator bernie sanders and trump, 47% to 46%. president trump is up 3 points against senator elizabeth warren, 48% to 45%, and trump is up two points against former mayor pete buttigieg, 44% to

46%. >> joining us now from washington, senior writer at "roll call" nieeals, there is a major rift between senator warren and sanders. what's been the response so far amongst their reporters? >> obviously there's the split that was always sort of potentially there between supporters of sanders and warren. although, you know, the first thing to remember is of course when you're on national television, you never know when your microphone might be on, which is, you know, one of those things that we all know and in theory, should remember but maybe got lost in the moment there. what i wonder is what happens if eithernef them is not viable at any particular caucus site. so, you know, when you're in a caucus state like in iowa, you can have a situation where people have to walk across the

room or pick somebody else, do the sanders supporters go over to warren or do the warren supporters go over to sanders if their candidate is not going to be qualified at their particular caucus site or not. >> i think she wanted to make that point very clear, and i expect that's why she did it so bluntly right after they wrapped up the debate. >> senator sanders was caught off guard. >> let's take a look at numbers coming out of wisconsin. what does it mean for the current presidential contenders and their respective strategies that in wisconsin it's still pretty much the same top four but slightly different in their dispersion. >> yeah, the thing that is of interest to me is sort of how closely clustered they are in terms of how they compare with president trump in the

hypothetical match up. i mean, it's obviously still early but there is the argument that someone like joe biden can make about possibly carrying wisconsin and of course wisconsin, this is the year that everyone in the democratic party is going to be intensely focused on that because of the argument that hillary clinton didn't spend enough time there or didn't put enough resources there, so certainly this is going to be a state that everyone is going to be maybe spending too much time in if there's any, you know, if there's a risk of overcorrection. >> nooels necessa-- another record year for warm temperatures across the globe. what it means for the overall climate crisis coming up next. a. (sports announcer) what an unlikely field in this final heat. hang on... you're about to see history in the making.

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third hottest year for the country on record with alaska, georgia, and north carolina all experiencing their individual warmest year in each state's history. >> let's bring bill karins into this conversation who we are so happy to see back. >> it's all very timely. >> these numbers just unbelievable. >> what is the appropriate for the acronym, noaa? >> for the last three days i was in boston, the hundredth anniversary of the american meteorological society. it wasn't just tv meteorologists, all the academics, people from the private and government, we were all together, and climate was a huge part of it. the climate unit was so nice to spend me there for three days, and i got to talk to so many scientists, the biggest take aways, i can go on tv, i have this platform, what do you want people to know that we're not telling them. . the first thing is there's not one tipping point. there's numerous tipping point in all the earth's systems and as we get warmer and warmer,

we'll keep ticking those tipping points off. what's scary is we don't know what some of them are until after it happens. other thing is the longer it takes to go after this problem and getting off fossil fuels, the harder it's going to be. they are frustrated because they were kicking the door down a decade or two ago, and not much has happened. the third thing is we're not going to be able to engineer our way out of this. it was eye opening for me. the more we can listen to the scientists, the better. the second warmest year on record. we are mentioning this is only behind 2016, 2019 was and the headlines is there's 16, 15, 17, 18, 19, all of the last five years have been the warmest we have ever recorded and as far as the temperature anomalies, 43 consecutive years we have been above the global average temperature, and 2010 obviously the last decade was the warmest,

and it's almost guaranteed that the next decade is going to be even warmer, so the whole climate, you know, scenario and scenes and everything else, it's, you know, it was just -- >> it sounds very scary when you think about it. what's disheartening and you say obviously speaking to the scientists who know firsthand and some of our politicians are in denial. people calling climate change a hoax, politicizing it, saying it's an attempt to undermine our economy. >> one of the interesting points from talking to them, they were like don't engage the 20% of denialists, it's ideology, you're not going to convince them using science, work with the 80% that does believe in this, want to find out solutions, what can you do, who can you elect to make a difference. >> that's an important point. . thank you, bill. >> kwoowe're going to talk to yn a little bit, and get the behind the scenes.

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congressman devin nunes, told fox news that he now remembers speaking on the phone with indicted giuliani associate lev parnas after previously claiming he couldn't recall having that conversation. >> your phone number showed up with calls to him to lev parnas in a list of data numbers, and you said that you didn't recall speaking with him or whether it was on your cell phone or your office phone. have you figured out the answer to any of those questions. >> and if you recall that was brand new when that had come out when i came on your show. i just didn't know the name, this name parnas, what i like to remind people is we are dealing with people every day. we're an oversight committee. we have incoming calls that come to my office, my cell phone, et cetera, and you know now that he had called my cell phone and i didn't know his name. i didn't remember the name, but i did remember going back looking at where i was at the time because you can do that now, you actually know where you physically are checked with my

records and it was very clear, i remember that call, which was very odd, random, talking about random things, and i said, great, you know, just talk to my staff, and boom boom boom. >> so there was no discussion about the ukrainian ambassador, was there any discussion about the ukrainian ambassador and the fact that she should be removed in that call. >> the first time i remember the name yovanovitch the ambassador was not until this impeachment sham started. >> you think we should call devin nunes see if he'll take our phone call, boom boom boom, i don't know how many people get random phone call on their cell phone from a member of congress. >> the difficult part of all of this is we are in the midst of an impeachment trial in this country. it's a very serious moment for this country and what we're dealing with and what the president of the united states is going through, and i think it's important when you are in a position like denver nunez that you do your due diligence, if something comes out, do your due diligence, figure it out before you deny the fact that you have

a call, and go on the same show, no, no, no, it was clear. he said it was clear. i had the phone call, and then backtracking. >> boom boom boom, here we are. meanwhile, parnas told rachel maddow that he had met with nunez a number of times, and was surprised to see him among lawmakers involved in the house impeachment hearings. >> do you know congressman denver nunez. >> yes, i do. >> what's been your relationship with him? >> we don't have too much of a relationship. we met several times at the trump hotel. but our relationship started getting basically where it expanded was when i was introduced to his aide, derek harvey, and the reason why derek harvey was more, i understood, i was told at that time, was because devin nunes had something to do with the ethics committee and couldn't be in the spotlight. he was kind of shunned a little bit, and that he was looking into this ukraine stuff.

>> does it strike you as unusual or inappropriate that denver nunes would be one of the lead investigators into this scandal on the house intelligence committee. he's obviously the top republican on this committee. >> i was in shock. when i was watching the hearings and when i saw denver nunes sitting up there, and there was a picture where derek harvey was in back sitting, i texted my attorney, i said i can't believe this is happening. >> because? >> because they were involved in getting all of this stuff from biden. >> so house impeachment investigators have released more material turned over by lev parnas, according to "the new york times." the material including text messages, photographs and calendar entries, underscored how deeply parnas and others were involved in carrying out the ukraine pressure campaign, and it provided additional evidence that the effort to win political advantage for president trump was widely known amongst his allies. "times" reports text messages and call logs show that parnas was in contact with two top republican fundraisers about

what he was up to. tom hicks jr. and a donor and trump family friend and joseph hern who raised money for pro trump political groups. in the text messages, parnas kept both men appraised of efforts to disimnate targets of trump and giuliani, including marie yovanovitch, joe biden, and ukrainians that spread information about paul manafort r . >> the house voted yesterday largely along party lines to send over articles of impeachment to the senate. around noon today the senate will formally accept them, hours after naming the team of seven democrats who will serve as prosecutors in the trial, house speaker nancy pelosi signed the articles during a ceremony in the capital. after the signing, the seven democratic prosecutors, along with the house clerk and the house sergeant at arms, you see there in that video, hand delivered the articles to the senate, more than two dozen democrats were in the chamber awaiting their arrival.

according to "the washington post," the only republican senators present there at the time were majority leader mitch mcconnell, kevin kramer of north dakota, and chuck grassley of iowa. leading the team of democrats, prosecutors, congressmen, intelligence committee adam schiff, a former federal prosecutor in his own right, joined by jerry nadler, hakeem jeffries of new york, value demmings of florida, and sylvia garcia of texas. it is a diverse group of lawmakers with varied backgrounds many of them originally attorneys by training. congresswoman demmings was a police chief in florida, and congressman loftgren was a judiciary committee staffer during the nixon era and a house member during the clinton impeachment. >> let's talk about possible witnesses that could be called during the senate impeachment trial. senate republicans discussing the possibility of calling resip

row ca -- reciprocal witnesses. republicans are vying for hunter biden to testify if the senate decides to include a democratic witness such as former national security adviser john bolton. the idea was first floated to mitch mcconnell by senator ted cruz, watch this. >> if the prosecution brings a witness, if they bring john bolton, then president trump can bring a witness, he can bring in hunter biden. >> and according to politico, senator rand paul is threatening to put the squeeze if four or more vote to split. paul plans to force the senate to vote on subpoenaing hunter biden and the whistleblower, polarizing pictures who moderate republicans are not eager to call. joining us now from washington, once again, senior writer at roll call, niels lesniewski. good to see you once again. let's start with the evidence in lev parnas as we have been

discussing for the last 30 minutes or so. how is it going to be brought up in the senate impeachment trial if in fact it is? >> to begin with, i think there's whittled out that adam schiff and the house impeachment managers will use some of this information, perhaps the call records and the documentation in their sort of presentation of evidence. we expect that there will be something like 24 hours of time for the house managers to present their case and so, you know, i can't imagine a situation at this juncture under which there's actually a vote by republican senators to block the administration of the evidence. now, that's separate from the question of whether or not there's testimony but i can't really imagine, you know, that whatever the house managers want to present they won't be able to. >> niels, you reported yesterday that the senate had laid out its

first ground rules for the trial. walk us through what you've learned. >> well, so the biggest thing other than the fact that the swearing in is going to come at about 2:00 this afternoon of both the -- by the chief justice and then the senators as jurors, the other thing is that there are access restrictions at the capitol that come into effect for reporters, for staffers, for senators themselves starting at 10:30 this morning. it's going to be really difficult to get around on capitol hill, at least in the senate wing of the capitol starting today and so anyone who happens to be visiting washington, you're going to need to take extra time if you want to be participating or watching the impeachment trial proceedings. >> what a historic day it is. >> it certainly is. niels lesniewski, thank you so much. >> thank you. iran's president rejects the idea of nuclear talks with trump. plus the announcement from russian president vladimir putin is being viewed as a ploy to

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welcome back, iran's president hasan row hanie, after floating the idea of a trump deal. in a televise speech, the right path is to return to the nuclear deal referring to the deal negotiated by the obama administration in twif2015 and which president trump withdrew three years later. a day after president trump tweeted prime minister of the uk boris johnson, iran's foreign minister announced via twitter under the current nuclear deal there will no longer be any restrictions on the number of

centrifuges. as iran has said repeatedly, and the united states has backed this up as well, they are not necessarily going to want to negotiate this administration so long as they don't return to the restrictions of the acpoa and lift the sanctions but i think the mistake that the uk prime minister made was by calling it the trump deal. that was mistake number one. >> probably something that trump wants himself. russia's prime minister saying overseas, and his entire cabinet resigned yesterday after russian president vladimir putin proposed a constitutional referendum that would shift power from its presidency to its power. he said the government he heads was resigning to give the president room to carry out the changes he wants to make to the instituti constitution, "the new york times" framed putin's constitutional proposals a strategy for keeping power after the end of what is supposed to be his final term in office which ends in 2024. putin's call for a vote on changing the constitution came during his annual state address

and would be the first constitutional overhaul of the russian federation since 1993. >> that is unbelievable. >> incredible. let's get a check of your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> good morning, once again. a couple different weather stories. we actually have a snowstorm going on in northern new england, right in time for the holiday weekend upcoming. it's been a horrible snowmobile season, and ski season has been better. at least they can make the snow for the mountains. the northern portions of new england, roads are slick, could upd end up with 4 to 8 inches of snow. behind it is a lot of colder air. windchill right now is negative 34 in fargo. and the national weather service up there just called it, it's an advanced cold morning. i never heard that before, but yeah, you know, you bundle up with everything you have and tried to limit your time outside this morning for anyone in the northern plains. even omaha at negative 15, and the windchills will be diving and getting lower in the great lakes, and tomorrow morning that

cold air will be in the northeast. here's our next storm system, california is getting hit, areas of rain and snow, that will move across the country as we go throughout the days ahead. we are going to watch some of the rain and snow today in areas of the central plains and tomorrow we'll get the accumulating snows, especially from i-70, kansas city, st. lose northwards, 3 to 6 inches in iowa, minnesota, wisconsin, chicago, detroit, a couple inches too. saturday this storm system moves to the northeast, a brief period of snow, d.c., baltimore, philadelphia, over to rain quickly. very little, if any, accumulations, new york city to hartford, to boston, maybe an inch or two saturday afternoon, and then it will go over to rain. really have to be in the northern portions of new england and the northeast, to get significant accumulation. saturday we'll be dealing with that storm system. other concerns, the areas of purple is 6 inches, it's a good half foot.

it's definitely plowable, shovelable, and school closings possible on friday in areas in the northern plains. saturday event in the northeast, travel delays airports and the roads b you know, heading towards the holiday weekend, the ski areas, you know, they needed it. >> they're struggling a little bit right now. >> it was just in the 60s and 70s last weekend. >> what a swing in a week from almost beach weather last saturday and sunday to a little bit of a snow. >> those days are over. >> thank you, bill. still ahead president trump signs the initial phase of a trade agreement with china. we're going to dig into the details about how the deal impacts u.s. farmers and what china stands to gain. and why the treasury department, a promise from pepsi that hinges on the outcome of the super bowl. those stories driving your business day next. e stories drir business day next. ♪

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so after months of negotiations the u.s. and china signed phase one of a trade deal between the two countries. c nbc's reporter joins us live in london with a quick read on that. what is chine nan getting out of this trade deal if the united states named it a currency manipulator. >> one thing. not a huge amount is tangible, ayman. thinking about it myself. not changing behavior when it comes to alleged theft of property, a grievousen signed. and subsidies the u.s. says gives them an unfair competitive advantage when it comes to the

tech sector in particular and not fully open up to u.s. financial terms, however, will still face tariffs, not lifted and reduced anytime soon, united states said, and in theory purchase over $200 billion over the next years, and they say hard to enforce. and inspector general talking about an investigation launched into the element of the 2017 tax overall plan. focused on opportunity zones trying to encourage investment in underprivileged neighborhoods. "new york times" and propublica found a lot of business leaders close to the trump administration have been involved in taking those funds and using them to delve luxury developments in neighborhoods you wouldn't consider privileged. that investigation expected to close in early spring, the inspector general says.

talk super bowl. about two weeks a way from the super bowl. pepsi, a sponsor of the super bowl halftime show making a massive pledge leading up to the game. what more it you ktell us about this? >> they're saying if either team ends um with zero points on the board, everybody across the u.s. entitled to a free can of pepsi zero, no sugar, a product they're pushing. >> wow! >> i feel they're not going to have to pay up. >> listen to this. 53 super bowls so far, one in four ended with one of the two teams with zero on the board. it's happened twice in the last 12 years. the real caveat, you've got to buy that can of soda first before they reimburse the money. >> the score could be like 20-10? everyone gets a can of pepsi zero? if that's the case? >> no, no, no. got to have, one team ends up

with zero points. only happened in one out of four super bowls. >> and also have to buy a pepsi being being reimbursed. not like everybody gets a can of pepsi zero in the mail. >> a pleasure. >> great seeing you. up enext, a look at axios "one big thing" and also the impeachment process. and heating up, new allegations and new evidence from that indicted associate of rudy giuliani. a jam-packed edition of "morning joe" on this historic day in washington is moments away. do not miss it. ot miss it. so we know how to cover almost anything. even a "gold medal grizzly." (sports announcer) what an unlikely field in this final heat. hang on... you're about to see history in the making.

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colleague rachel maddow block busters. if true they prix connective tissue of sorts between president trump and ukraine, and he seems to want to be a witness in the upcoming senate impeachment trial and now axios learned why. a parnas lawyer told us he feels by providing a slew of documents and offering himself to be a witness in this trial, he thinks he can use that as leverage to negotiate logistics and details of his own upcoming court case, and by speaking up publicly now about his desire to be a witness and cooperate with the senators who be acting as jurors, he gets to ensure himself and others that he's providing this information and speaking his piece and even if he doesn't testify, sharing information he really wants to. the obvious question, of course, whether he'll be viewed as a reliable narrator. he's been indicted on federal campaign charges, though he maintains his innocence in that situation. >> switch gear as moment. your thoughts on russian

president or if you want to call him leader at this point, russian leader vladimir putin, trying to somewhat create a new position for himself. >> leader forever. >> after his presidential terms ends. trying to take a playbook from china's leader and become leader for life? >> exactly right. russia's president vladimir putin term limits currently set to expire in 2024, meaning expected to step down from the presidency at that point, but just yesterday he announced he wants to implement these changes that what essentially allows him to access power and have a position of power potentially for life. to your point, ayman, he is taking a playbook from china, because china's leader xi jinping eliminated term limits allowing him to maintain power for as long as possible. the big question with vladimir putin, when expected to step down as president it's not clear what his next role would be. whether he would become prime minister or carve out a new powerful position that allows him to maintain this leadership and governance he's experienced

for so long. >> and alexi, talk about that moment between senator sanders and senator warren on the democratic debate stage two nights ago. now we have audio of senator warner approaching senator sanders saying i believe you called me a liar on national television. what more do you hear about this exchange? >> some lib al activists and leaders on twitter have said feel like mom and dad are fighting. reflects the narrative in the situation we see unfold. up to this point sanders and warren maintained a unity pact vowing not to go negative against one another and now an argument over gender in politics. obviously something the country at large talked about surely since the 2016 midterms and the election and everything that went down between hillary clinton and president trump and hillary clinton and bernie sanders himself. these candidates are worried

this will draw voters to more moderate candidates or even someone like president trump. >> and of course, there's tom steyer, just wanting to say hi. >> and sanders waving him off. >> nice to see you, as always.a. reading axios a.m. in a bit. ymin vossoughian alongsides ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. what conversations have you had with lev parnas and igor fruman? >> i don't know those gentlemen. >> he knew exactly he we were, who i was especially because i interacted with him at a lot of events. >> did you ever talk to this guy lev parnas or whoever his name is? >> you know, it's possible, but i haven't gone through all of my phone records. i don't really recall. >> do you know congressman devin nunes. >> yes, i do. >> concerning joe biden and his son hunter trump told zelensky, "whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great." >> mr. barr, i told him everything. he knows everything. i