♪ >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. ♪ first up on msnbc, point, counterpoint. a new fallout from the tangled web. how close rudy giuliani associate and more unraveling about the stories and people around him. >> adding up the price of freedom for meghan and harry and interpretations of exactly what happened. good morning. it's sunday, january 19th. >> they loss the hrh? what does it mean? >> were they pushed out by the

queen? all kinds of hems. >> brexit and cheaper? power. >> let's get into the main point of the morning. trump impeachment trial beginning this week with dramatic development late last night. democrats and the white house both filing their formal case outlines. the key points here house democrats say the following. that was the second article. >> white house lawyers responding that no impeachable offense offense or violation of law or crime is alleged. >> joining us right now glenn can presenting the strongest case for democrats and katie is

presenting the strongest case for president. both msnbc analysts. glenn, let's start with you. let me see here. you're a former 30-year veteran federal prosecutor of the u.s. attorney's office in d.c. zip on the abuse of power article, what is the democrats' best and strongest point? >> i think the best and strongest point is the actual evidence of what president trump did to solicit a bribe from press zelensky. he read the six-page white house letter which was a six-page long tweet and i was actually reminds of -- i'm a dog person -- i would hear how people say over time dogs and their owners begin to look alike. it seems like the same phenomenon is at play with

president as and white house counsel. they begin to sound along. in it makes clear that the white house and the president has absolutely no defense on the facts of his conduct. he plainly committed the crime of soliciting a bribe. that is characterized fountain first article of impeachment as an abuse of power. what is described in that article of impeachment is soliciting a bribe and it happens to be extortion. in the second article of impeachment, he is charged with obstructing justice and a crime in the u.s. code, 15 usc 1505. i think on the evidence, he is plainly guilty of these offenses. the six-page letter, the response from the white house makes clear that they are not

going to attack the conduct. they are going to try to attack the house managers, the democratic party, and anything but the president's conduct. so, you know, when the evidence is strong, you don't attack the evidence, you attack the process and the prosecutors, that's what we are going to see. >> do you think it was a mistake that nancy pelosi held on to the articles of impeachment as she did? >> i think it turned out to be a shrewd move. what developed was john bolton announcing to everyone's surprise if subpoenaed, i will testify. and some say, well, maybe he'll invoke executive privilege. here is the thing. he already knew when he made that announcement that the president didn't want him to testify. in fact, the president had ordered all administration officials not to evidence and people like john bolton's

computer charles cupperman said i'm not testifying, i'll file in court. bolton said if subpoenaed, i'll testify. >> got it. >> that is one of the important developments that unfolded during the delay. >> as a new puppy owner, i can tell you, glenn, my puppy and i look like enemies. we don't look like. >> just wait. the bond will be formed. we will see. so they say. >> glenn, thanks for joining us. kelly o'donnell is following this with the president in palm beach, florida. is it clear how the white house will approach tuesday? >> reporter: as white house reporters we have had a chance to talk with people who are close to the president's legal team that just been assembled. eight lawyers to get a sense of what they are saying and how they are approaching this. they do have a game plan that, of course, is in the kind of opposite direction of was democrats are doing, but what

they are outlining for us they are going after the process and substance and tack edge head-on. the presentation begins on tuesday when the senate goes to trial. they provided their response but they do not have to give their full brief of their outline of the case until monday but they responded to the summons sent by the senate on those two articles of impeachment and to give you a sense of how they are describing it for this initial phase, they are saying that the articles of impeachment violate the constitution so that is, in part, the process argument because they claim they are, quote, defective in their argument. that is not so say an underlying crime and say the plofs used ro defect so part of what we expect to hear. they say they were face the substance head-on and saying

president trump and president is a zelensky did have a meeting. you'll hear the white house say they released the transcript which is a rough description of the call between presidents zelensky and trump to argue there was no, remember the phrase quid pro quo which was very prominent early in this impeachment sort of season we have been in. also hearing from pam bondi, the former florida attorney general who is now a part the president's actual legal team and she is speaking out and one of the faces you'll see representing the president not only in these proceedings but as a part of their media response. here is her response and describing what the president's case will be. >> schiff said they have all of these crimes. absolutely nothing.

they have not charged the president with any crime because the president did nothing wrong. there was no crime. the transcript of that phone call speaks for itself. yes, it's insufficient on its face, on the merits and yet they are sending this basic trash over to the u.s. senate and, you know, senate is a lot smarter than that and especially with adam schiff bringing bring it on because we are ready to go. >> joo this will be quite the fight in legal terms and sort of brash statements like that and expect that the white house will push back at every turn. the president's time in office is on the line here and expect that this will get heated at times with some cerebral arguments and some emotional arguments to be sure. >> given the last three years we have had between president and congress, par to the course, i guess. kelly o'donnell, our thanks to

you. >> you heawhat is the overall b argument you can make on the president's behalf? >> here is the reality. if i am the defense counsel for donald trump, i've only been filing a seven-page answer to the summons. but tomorrow i will file something ma probably surpasses 110 pages of fluff filed by the house managers. if you put on a kiss for donald trump you go for something we call jury nullification. when you try a case before a jury sometimes when you're the defendant and you know on the merit you don't have it, you persuade the jury to go your way by doing something we have seen so far which is saying, look, ladies and gentlemen they are trying to overturn the results of the 2016 election because they don't like the results. when you make that argument and consider your audience, it's not an audience of a jury even though the senators really

should be fair and impartial you're appealing to your gop senators. when you make that argument you say it was executive power, no quid proce, there is no direct evidence either through documents or witness testify tying donald trump to a quid pro quo and as a result you can't convict and you got to acquit. >> we got a great preview of what the next three weeks will be like. harry lippman? a "the washington post" op-ed says that the following. does that make sense? >> it happens all the time in criminal defense cases. what happens you say you may not

lock my guy. we are seeing the same kind of thing happen all the time in courtrooms across the country. in this particular courtroom when we are in that senate well if i were trump's defense team i would make donald trump show up. it shows you're dragging him away from important functions and make him come and stare people down and say bring it and what are you doing because i have not done anything wrong. >> that would be interesting, indeed, katie. thank you. >> turning to london and the royal family fallout as harry and meghan get to ditch their royal titles and a fund. moments ago, the queen arriving at church for sunday services. prince andrew reportedly in attendance.

we are joined from associate editor for the telegraph. harry and meghan are paying back more than $3 million of taxpayer money they used to renovate their home. what do you know about their finances? will this actually be a problem for them? >> i think it problematic moving forward as to how they will be funded privately although they admitted they, themselves, didn't think it would be appropriate for them to that their government grant funding which is what the government gives the royals. they chief a chunk of funding around $3 million. it's kind of an archaic british thing but a holding that prince charles has to fund his own duties and that of both the sussexs and cambridges. still in the air whether they will receive that money. they are both quite independently financially secure. harry from his inheritance from princess diana and the queen

mother and we know they have got the potential to earn enough money in north america. will there be a funding transition to which they move to a position they are essentially funding themselves? >> what is your take on how the queen handled all ever this? >> i think the queen was swift and decisive to be honest. they said behind palace gates they wanted the situation sorted out within days, not weeks. i know the queen, herself, said when it came to the duke of new york situation, prince andrew, when he gave that disastrous interview and stepped back from royal life it was six days. the queen wanted a swift resolution. and by saying effectively it will be a hard mix-it you've put it that the company will be completely divorced from the family firm, they will remain relatives and the queen suggested she was sad to see them go and would always love them as family members but not

able to use their hrh titles and cut off royal duties and it does seem as if this is the cleanest break possible. >> it seems it would be quite the sting. give me a picture for this. when was the last time we had a royal, at least in the windsor family this ooze their hrh status? >> both princess diana and the duchess of york fergie. prinz harry was born into his hrh. yes, meghan inherited it. the duke of sussex remains because a wedding gift from the queen. basically not having anything taken away they have advised that they can't use that hrh but if you aren't royal, how do you

use that as your signature? >> question real quick. are they still going to be able to use the sussex thing that they had put in for that they are -- sussex royal.com, yeah. >> we know they have got that website. you've seen it and they released their information how they wanted their hybrid role to work on that. we know they have trademarked a number of different avenues by which to commercialize sussex royal but it remains to be seen whether they will be able to use the royal part. >> for those who haven't been to london what is the scene taking place behind you right there? >> this is changing of the guards so loads of tourists around just to see that spectacle because they like to the the pomp and pageantry but great interest in buckingham palace generally because i'm not the only reporter here, guys, as i'm sure you know so quite an atmosphere down here and everybody is talking about this story, right? it's the conversation by the

water cooler not just in the u.s. about you in the uk and around the world for the last two weeks. at the moment, i don't see any sign of that abating. >> there is always pump and pageantry and i always find it funny to watch the changing of the guard because you see this pump and pageantry and then they play disney tunes. they didn't play any off-beat tunes at this time, right? >> indeed. >> indeed, they did. thank you. >> i did not know that did that. >> they did. it's like a whole new world from the british band. i'm like, ah. weird. >> it has wide appeal. >> i guess so. preparing for the worst. why virginia's governor has declared a state of emergency ahead of plans for massive gun rights rally in richmond tomorrow. a feud between two front-runners. the acticati the accusations about a doctored video. t a doctored video. asy.

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welcome back to msnbc world headquarters in new york. we are taking a live look at downtown detroit from canada where i think it will be in the 20s today in that part of the country. tragedy on the slopes. an 18-year-old snowmobiler decide last night after buried in avalanche in new york, north of salt lake city.

dozens of eyes standards worked to dig the victim out of the snow. he was pronounced dead at the hospital. flooding major highways and submerging homes in australia. some parts received almost 4 inches of rain the past couple of days. other areas saw triple the month rainfall overnight. australia firefighters are still battling more than 100 push fires which killed 29 people since september. hundreds of protesters have been wounded in violent clashes with security forces in beirut. leb protesters threw rocks at riot police demanding. capital of virginia braces for

tomorrow's gun rights rally. the governor has temporarily banned guns from the capital grounds fighting criminal intelligence. the fbi has arrested seven people with connections to a white supremacist group planning to attend the rally. tomorrow is martin luther king day. >> which is perhaps the timing behind why they are doing all of this. interesting to see what does play out. all right. now to the race to the white house. only 16 days left for iowa voters to pick their candidate when the caucus on february 3rd. >> democratic hopefuls are campaigning across the country this weekend. several spoke at an iowa educator forum on saturday. they all made a pledge to the crowd of teachers there to better the public education system. >> in my first 100 days, i have 137 things that i found out you can do without congress, a

president can do herself, that are legal. in the first 100 seconds i will fire betty devos. >> we have no business sending this money off to four profit charters. this is outrageous. that means the money says in our public schools. >> if i'm elected i promise you'll never have a better partner in the white house than joe biden and that is the god's truth. >> that has to be done with educators, not to educators and one of many reasons why for-profit charter schools have no place in the future of american education. andrew yang stepped back from campaigning to commend his wife who is selling her personal account of sexual assault. >> i'm so proud of my wife. she's the bravest woman i know and her giving voice to so many women that experience this kind of assault who have never been able to have a platform has been

inspiring to me. >> tulsi gabbard took questions at a town hall in new hampshire sass she talked about looking past political parties. >> in this hyperpartisan atmosphere, so often it's really one side pitted against the other and both sides screaming at each other and very little actual listening going on on better understand, hey, what are the things my neighbor is concerned about? >> bernie sanders was in new hampshire where he said he is not bad-mouthing other candidates. >> i think the best thing for all democratic candidates and what we are going to do in our campaign, as you heard me tonight, you didn't hear me say a word about any of the other candidates. we are going to focus on the issues of the working families of america and bring them together. >> i won't mention their names, just their policies.

here is gary who is joining us from manchester, new hampshire and today covering the sanders' campaign, specifically. we heard from senator sanders and he was saying he was steering clear about talking about other democrats. but it does look like he is already in another fight this time with joe biden. what is happening here? >> the sanders campaign is telegraphing this for weeks now and worrying about how to deal with older americans and have policy distinctions with other candidates. social security matters to older americans and a policy distinction that they can make here. so a voter yesterday in iowa asked vice president joe biden about a policy distinction and phone call she was getting saying joe biden's record on social security is a little bit sketchy so here is a full screen to plain somewhat is going on. biden responded by calling the video released online by sanders

campaign advisers doctored. a speech by biden years ago whenwhere he was discussing tax cuts and saying paul ryan was correct when he went after social security and medicaid. it doesn't include the full connect of what biden was saying when posting it. there is a little bit of a back and forth there. this is an argument the sanders campaign wants to have but now i want to be clear here. senator bernie sanders i was with him at three events and he didn't say a with or without about social security so seems to be an argument between sanders senior advisers and national press secretary for the campaign and joe biden himself. >> what he seems to be saying and talking about specifically when it comes to targeting biden is spending cuts. playing a video from the '90s from 1995 of joe biden on the floor of the senate there talking about those spending cuts. take a listen. >> when i argued if we should freeze federal spending i meant

social security as well. i meant every single solitary thing in the government and i not only tried to once, i tried it twice, i tried it a third time and i tried it a fourth time. >> all right. is really coming after him now. what does the biden camp do at this point? >> he is so -- vice president joe biden has been in this game for decades. it means he has been here for decades and means he has the experience. it's also bad news because he because he has been in this game for decades and hat experience and has the record so though for it. yes, he had supported some freezes and has supported some proposals that have been a little iffy when it comes to social security but something that every wants to move on from this. >> we will move on from for now. thank you wrap your head around this for a moment here. a year from tomorrow will either

be the last day of president trump's presidency or start of his next term. >> four more years. >> yeah. >> the voters have to decide what kind of politician they want. do you know what i mean? better than yif sanders runs on a very, very opposite and opposing plain than biden with his decades of experience. >> we will look at most readies and scathing reaction what mike pence wrote about impeachment. >> president trump is reportedly obsessed with sanders' popularity. is sanders the 2020 candidates he is most concerned about? 0 cas he is most concerned about ♪ limu emu & doug and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city.

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we are back now with a look at this morning's must-read editorials. first up, vice president mike pence writing an op-ed in "the wall street journal" this morning encouraging democrats to acquit president trump in his impeachment trial that starts on tuesday. the vice president comparing trump's trial to president andrew johnson's highlighting then senator edmond ross. who had him for a drinking reference today? >> not me.

>> ross' decision to break with republicans and vote to acquit andrea johnson. as kennedy understood it would be a senate snr willing to stand up and reject a partisan impeachment passed by the drk-controlled hou democrat-controlled house. who will stand up against l legislative mob rule? >> i think he just said five "who". >> who had edmond ross. >> there was a -- what do you call it? i can't get the words out right. an opposition to his vice president's op-ed facing criticism including something revealed in a interview, saying

the following. hannah is with "the daily beast." you wrote saying prutrump is privately obsessed with popularity and socialism appeal. he has asked multiple advisers how senators would perform in pennsylvania. does he see sanders as his most formidable opponent? >> good morning. thanks, everybody, for having me. he seed him as a foremidable opponent but remains unclear if he sees him as the most formidable. according to our reporting trump

hag privately asking two that we most of associates, close allies of his about bernie sanders' poll numbers. as he has risen the democratic primary, trump has notices and anyone who follows president trump obsession with the polls, he is kind of noticed that sanders is on the uptick and wondering how he is doing in pennsylvania. that is a must th-win state on h sides for republicans and democrats. i think he is sweat be sanders a little bit now from our reporting. >> trump has widely been record is as mocking socialism on the campaign trail. you report that trump had told long time associates and republican donors that running against socialism in 2020 may not be so easy due to its populous appeal. so can bernie turn voters away

from trump? >> that is the campaign's hope. i think with trump he sees a lot of similar campaign tactics. sanders and trump both have the huge crowds. in 2016, i think he viewed sanders' campaign as a much more impressive one than hillary clinton's, obviously, for the reasons we all expect. we have reported in the past that trump has privately said, you know, this might not be so easy. you might have somebody who likes donald trump and who referring to himself in that first person, but who also likes, quote/unquote, free stuff. so my colleague reported on that more closely. i think it's interesting how he publicly calls him crazy. we have seen an uptick in his sort of criticism of sanders on the trail but, privately, it's a little bit of a different story. >> right. i don't know if he is branded

bernie sanders anything yet. >> crazy bernie. >> hana, thank you. back to london. the new split within the royal family as meghan and harry get ready to give up royal duties and be fully financially independent. joining us right now is nbc foreign correspondent matt bradley and alex king is a reporter for "the toronto star" newspaper. a lovely sunny day out there outside of buckingham palace. give us an idea what this means for the royal family for harry and meghan. is this a big deal? >> reporter: yeah, it really is. it means a lot to the royal family. only a week ago, you know, we heard this is a trial separation. they were going to be stepping back and now we hear they are going to be stepping down and more like a full divorce. we are hearing statements from the queen that came out

yesterday, that shocked a lot of people because we were expecting that maybe this royal couple would be able to have their cake and eat it too. >> no! >> be kind of enjoy the stature of being royals but, at the same time, not have to deal with the scrutiny, maybe get some of the money but, at the same time being able to live independently. it looks the queen said no, you're not able to get everything you want. all you get is either be a or to be a royal. no half measure here. so the terms of this deal it basically sounds as they they have to pay back the $31 million they spent on renovating their cottage and not able to be called your royal highness which is important. and not being a member of the royal family and the perks that go along with that and have to self-sufficient so they have to

make hair own money. they probably won't go starving and they have a massive following and being famous they are able to make money on that and a lot to cash in on here. one thing they get to keep and that is important is this brand name. they will be able to keep sussex royal and that is actually something that a lot of people are wondering how do you get to have sussex royal? they are still the duke and duchess of sussex but keep that brandsing on everything they do and instagram. can they call themselves royal when they have been divorced from the royal family? that is a question coming up how do they maintain their lifestyle? what are you expecting here, guys? >> i have so many questions about this. i actually want to know about kind of where they are going to be living. know reports they will split their time between london and canada but there seemed to be pushba pushback from canada. >> reporter: one editorial in

the canadians paper saying they like our royals to be royals bull not living with us here in canada. does that reflect the opinions of everybody? i don't know. they don't necessarily want to have that royal presence here, but now the sussexs are not royals and commoners so maybe they are welcome in canada. >> you're the canuck here. q weigh in on that. >> i don't know if the editorial reflects the opinions of most canadians here. certainly here in canada, we don't really think about or i think the general member of the public doesn't think about our connection to the monarchy quite so much as that. but i would say that in the conversations that i've had, people are generally not closed off tolt idea of the couple coming to live here in canada. certainly it's always nice in canada when prominent people say

we think this is a great place and we would like to live there. there has been talk about them going to a number of different places. i'm currently in victoria, british columbia and where they spent their christmastime and made their first public appearance in toronto at the invictus games there so maybe go there? >> it's big country but the particular area where you are, alex, is fairly small, fairly quaint, fairly pristine, even though they are not royal highness they get a lot of puntship pubs thelicity there. are people looking forward to this? >> if they come to place like this, you're right.

400 thousa,000 people that lives area. if you have harry and megman coming here and attracting the press and tabloid press and a lot of attention that will be noticeable probably in the city. >> it will be noticeable. >> a couple of people i've spoken to here in victoria say there are quite a number of people come to this area of canada, people who are perhaps famous and want to get away from it all. >> that area is very, very well familiar with people, a lot of celebrities up there. >> the queen also said that public funds would be made available for their security team. >> alex, we will leave it there. matt bradley, any weird songs coming from the changing of the guard so far? >> not yet but as you can see,

there is tons of people here. the royal family still really popular. >> the queen not there. thank you both. what is trending? >> we begin with demands for answers in puerto rico. the governor fired the director of emergency management. they found unused supplies from hurricane maria. earthquake survives broke into the warehouse and took water bottles and cots and other emergency aid this week. the governin 2017 nearly 3,000 died after maria decimated puerto rico. hank has retired as the voice of a racist character for some on "the simpsons." the character may not disappear forever. they are hired an indian actor

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welcome back. tomorrow, white house lawyers have another deadline to produce a legal brief, saying out their case to the senate. now two republicans senators say they have prepared to break ranks, possibly to hear from witnesses in the trial. let's bring in hans nichols with more. >> reporter: two moderate republican senators are opening to hear from witnesses in president trump's impeachment trial. >> i am very likely to vote for

additional information. >> if i determine that i do not have enough, i will vote to accept additional information. >> reporter: the president's legal team responding to the senate impeachment simmons calling the articles a dangerous attack on the right of merge people to freely choose their president. their comments coming after fresh photo evidence putting an indicted associate rudy giuliani into focus. they say he was connected to the trump world. the photos released along with text messages that linked a soviet born businessman to david nunes a staunch trump defender. he texted a phrase. also do you want to interview the general prosecutor? nbc news reached out to nunes

office for comment and has not heard back. the president says he doesn't know parness. pam bondi is also pictured with him as a publicity seeker. >> clearly lev parnas liked to take pictures with a lot of people. he showed up at events pretty much everywhere. >> late saturday the house impeachment managers, those democrats filed 111 page brief on their case. they are calling trump's conduct, the framer's worst nightmare. they say the evidence against him is overwhelming and they say he presents an immediate threat to the nation and the rule of law. hans nichols, nbc news traveling with the president in palm beach, florida. just a programming note, if you missed it, we're going to be reairing all of rachel maddow's lev parnas interview airing at 10 p.m. eastern. kanye west is catching heat this morning for an evangelical prayer rally. >> while yesterday's event was

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prayer rally in tempe, arizona. some scenes from the rally right there. this is the shot of it from overhead. it was at sun devil stadium. it was called the awaken 2020 and it's not necessarily criticism due to his messaging there on stage but perhaps the messaging of the other people who were there on the stage. of course, kanye publicly declared his support for president trump, famously declared, quote, love for him in a 2018 white house meeting. let's talk about all of this and how it's all coming together right now with republican strategist and reverend joe watkins who's joining us right now. reverend watkins, you are here with me. >> how are you? >> good morning. good sunday morning to you. is kanye west trying to help widen the appeal to donald trump to more than just his base? >> i don't know that that's what he's -- i think when he's preaching or when he's performing in a church setting, i think he's about spreading the gospel of christ and not doing

anything political. that's always a challenge. i get invited to preach all the time. when you come to preach us, just share the gospel. we don't want to hear about your political persuasions or about your political thoughts, just preach the good news of the gospel. that's what i think kanye does when he gets invited to these places. >> in the news lately there is talk of evangelical support of trump and kanye very supportive of the president. when it comes to the black votes, nearly 2/3 of black americans say it is a bad time to be black in the united states. is kanye, do you think, in any way trying to bring black voters into the republican party with this platform? does he have any chance of doing this? >> i don't know that kanye's necessarily a republican. i know that he's friendly with president trump, but this is a tough time for black people in the country. if you're african-american like i am, you shouldn't have to worry that a police stop could end up meaning your life and

clearly we know this has happened around the country and it hasn't really been addressed by anybody, certainly represent con or democrat in a national way. so, yeah, this is a tough time for people of color in the country, i understand that feeling because i have the same worries that people of color have everywhere in this country. >> so are we wrong in associating what these events that kanye is holding with trump in general? >> no. i think that everything you've said is pretty much on the level. i think as it relates to african-american voters and african-american christians, there's a divide between black christians and white evangelicals. white evangelicals will probably overwhelmingly vote for president trump. i think in 2020 black christians will vote for whoever the nominee is. that divide is going to continue right through the november election. >> let's talk about this awaken 2020 event in tempe. some people are describing it as being discriminatory towards lgbtq people.

have you heard of anything from this rally, anything that would lead you to believe that it was, in fact, discriminatory? >> no, i haven't heard anything to lead me to believe that. obviously some of the people that were invited. some i think may have been disinvited at the last minute have been very public about their views, but as far as i'm concerned, certainly at the church i serve anybody is welcome to come. we love everybody that walks through the doors. this is god's house. it's not -- churches are supposed to be god's house, not an exclusive club. everybody is welcome. we're supposed to love our neighbor like we love ourselves. >> has your church played any of kanye's songs? >> not yet. he would be welcome -- he's a musical genius. i love his music. >> thank you. appreciate it. reverend watkins, enjoy your sunday. the impeachment trial, point, counter point. we're getting a much better picture of the arguments set to begin this week. uments set to

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