iowa caucuses and the democratic presidential candidates are ramping up their attacks on each other. and the super bowl is all set, next month the san francisco 49ers will face off against the kansas city chiefs after both teams won their reference championships yet. ter reference championships yet. after both teams won their conference championships yesterday. good monday morning, everybody. it is january 20th. i'm yasmin vossoughian. ayman is out today. we begin with president trump's long awaited impeachment trial beginning tomorrow. the process is expected to kick off with majority leader mitch mcconnell introducing the organizing resolution that outlines the rules that will govern this trial. there will be up to two hours of arguments between the democratic prosecutors and the white house defense team after that. minority leader chuck schumer is expected to introduce an amendment that would take up the issue of witnesses and documents. last night, schumer vowed to

force a vote on the issue and criticized mcconnell for not yet releasing the organizing resolution. >> we are going to demand votes, yes or no, up or down, on the four witnesses we've requested and on the three sets of documents we requested. we will force those votes. mcconnell has still not come up with his proposal. that's unheard of. we don't know what it is. i as democratic leader don't know what it is, even though it's going to the floor tuesday morning, most republicans don't know what it is. why is mcconnell being so secretive about his proposal. >> all right. so once the organizing resolution is actually laid out, opening arguments will take place, republicans are considering a plan that would give each side 24 hours to present their case followed by 16 hours for senators to ask

questions in writing. meanwhile, democratic prosecutors in the president's defense team already trading sharp attacks ahead of the impeachment trial. on saturday, the seven democratic congressional leaders that will try the case against trump outline their arguments in a 111-page briefing to the senate. they argue that the president's conduct in office is the founding father's quote worst nightmare, and called trump quote a danger to our democratic process. they write in part this, president donald j. trump used his official pouwers to pressur a foreign government to interfere in a united states election for his personal political gain and then attempted to cover it up. his scheme, by obstructing congress's investigation into his misconduct. in a six-page statement president trump's defense team hit back calling the impeachment charges brazen and unlawful. they write in part this, the articles of impeachment submitted by house democrats are a dangerous attack on the right

of the american people to freely choose their president. they go on to say this, president trump categorically and unequivocally denies each and every allegation in both articles of impeachment. democratic prosecutors slammed trump's defense team with another statement writing in part this, rather than honestly address the evidence against him, the president's latest filing makes the astounding claim that pressuring ukraine to interfere in our election by announcing investigations that would damage a political opponent and advance his reelection is the president's way of fighting corruption. it is not. rather, it is corruption itself, naked, unapologetic and insidious. this is precisely why the president must be removed from office. >> the white house legal team sent their response last night to the articles of impeachment, abuse of power, obstruction of justice. they on the first argue that there was no violation of any law, and on the second point, they argue that the president had the right to refuse to

produce documents and witnesses due to executive privilege. how are you going to prosecute this case? >> well, both of those statements are errant nonsense, there is ample evidence, overwhelming evidence, any jury could convict in three minutes flat that the president betrayed his country by breaking the law. >> all right. let's get to the president's impeachment defense team. white house counsel pat cipollone and jay sekulow will be playing leading roles. with the addition of alan dershowitz and ken starr, hardly the most high profile members, two of the biggest legal names of the '90s. dershowitz helping with o.j. simpson's murder case, and starr, the independent counsel who investigated bill clinictop. in t -- clinton.

dershowitz, a friend of epstein until his suicide sued a victim for defamation after she claimed she was traffic to the attorney while under age. starr meanwhile played a role in the controversial plea deal in which epstein avoided federal charges and served only 13 months in jail with a work release. starr defended his role in a march 2019 letter to the editor of the "new york times" in which he and other lawyers for epstein argue that the deal was fair. also on the impeachment defense team, former florida attorney general pam bondi, and former independent counsel robert ray who succeeded starr in the clinton investigation. "the washington post" reporting that starr, dershowitz, bondi, and ray were selected personally by the president for their celebrity, and vocalness in the media despite their baggage. alan dershowitz is arguing the put should not be removed from office even if he is guilty of the house charges. >> as you know, the house

materials have cited crimes that were committed as well. >> they weren't elements. the articles of impeachment are two noncriminal actions, namely obstruction of congress and abuse of power and those are what have to be voted on by the senate. >> is it your position that president trump should not be impeached even if all the evidence and arguments laid out by the house are accepted as fact? >> that's right. >> wow. joining us, msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, and white house correspondent, checking his messages for sources, jeff mason as well. thank you for joining us this morning, guys, very much appreciated. jeff, i'm going to start with you on this one. let's talk about this back and forth we're seeing. i think this is a precursor for what we're going to see over the next couple of weeks and the senate impeachment trial. the back and forth between the president's defense team as well as the house prosecutors. what do you make of it? >> well, i think it's a case of both sides really having the

same set of facts and interpreting them entirely differently, and that was, you know, very much on display by the fact that you've got the white house not really disputing anything that the house managers have been arguing but saying as in the clip that you just played, that it just doesn't rise to the level of impeachable offenses. the president wants very much to be vindicated in this trial. he has chosen the team that you have just laid out to do that, partially because of the fact that they are familiar on television and can do so there. but also because he believes that they can do so in the senate. but in general, this is a strategy not just on a legal level but also in the court of public opinion and the president wants to win there. >> danny, let's talk about the president's defense team here as we are seeing some pretty high profile names. we have ken starr, alan dershowitz, we have pam bondi, pretty big names to say the

least. what do you make of the defense team in general? >> they are huge draft picks. kenneth starr was a huge pick, alan dershowitz as well. they are perfect for the mission. they are very trumpian in that they are well known commentators, good at getting their message on tv. they will be familiar to people. the mission is not a traditional criminal trial in an article iii court. this is a trial of convincing not only a hundred senators but also the entire country who's going to be watching and in a way they are playing a kind of prevent defense. the republicans know they don't have the votes, as it stands to impeach and convict and remove the president, so at this stage, i think this is a really good and a very accomplished team in dershowitz and star for this defense. >> do you think that this defense team, danny, is a type of defense team that's going to allow the president to be the president, ie, you can treat as much as you want, because it can

help your case or stay quiet, and let us take care of it. >> they can tell him to stay quiet. he's not going to listen. you're right in bringing up a common problem we lawyers have with clinents, the client that doesn't listen. any lawyer that works for trump knows that at this stage, he's not someone that you can order to stay off twitter no matter what. >> jeff, talk us through what we're going to see playing out tomorrow. >> well, number one, it's really the kickoff to the trial itself. we saw last week the chief justice coming in and swearing, being sworn in himself and swearing in the rest of the senators. tomorrow, i think, you're going to start seeing the actual trial kick off. you'll see the attorneys there. you'll see the senators start getting into some arguments, start actually listening to the oral follow up to what was submitted in written form over the weekend, and it will start to begin to feel like an actual trial. >> danny, what do you think about dershowitz's argument here

that no matter what, even if he is guilty of the charges that have been brought forward that he should not be removed from office, that this does not rise to high crimes and misdemeanors? >> i'm going to give you such a legalese answer to that, it's a little more nuanced to that of course. the constitution mandates if he is guilty, adjudicated guilty, he must be removed, there's no option, there's no probation. there's no anything else, you must be removed. instead what he's arguing is more like a yeah, so what. we call it a rule 12 b 6 motion. the bottom line is he's saying if he did everything he's alleged to do, he's still not guilty and he wrote an entire book based on this premise which is that the constitution requires the text of it appears to require a crime, therefore, unless criminal conduct is alleged, then he can not be convicted. he can not be found guilty.

it's an interesting theory. it's in the minority among academics, but it's an interesting con textual element. >> is this the only option the defense team has considering up until now he said it's a perfect phone call, and we see the evidence laid out and it was not a perfect phone call. is this the only option that the defense attorneys have as to say even if the committed all of th crimes you guys say, this does not rise to an impeachable offense. >> even if he did all the things ux, yes, and this is a common motion in civil and criminal context. even if all the things alleged in the complaint are true, you still don't have a case, and that's exactly the argument here. they were sort of cornered into this argument back in the summer because once they released that tripl transcript or memorandum or whatever the case may be, all of the facts largely were out there. the defense was always going to be, all that stuff he admitted to saying, there's nothing wrong

with that, and democrats take the position that, no, no, that language, those words constitute an impeachable offense. >> danny cevallos, thank you, jeff mason, stick around, i'm going to talk to you in a little bit. a new reporting that president trump shared details about the strike that killed iran's top military official with republican donors at his mar-a-lago estate. plus, what prince harry is saying about his and his wife meghan markle's decision to give up their royal titles. those stories and a check on your weather when we come right back. k on your weather when we come right back

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welcome back, president trump over the weekend told donors at his mar-a-lago resort details about the strike that killed iran's top general. in audio obtained by "the washington post" and cnn, trump can be heard delivering a dramatic retelling of the drone strike at a friday night prooif private dinner.

trump at times in a subdued and conversational tone explained his motivation for the attack and recounted the final minutes before the strike. watching and listening from the situation room. he told donors that he heard almost two weeks ago that the u.s. had soleimani under surveillance and that he was talking about bad stuff. however, the president did not mention any of his previous reasons for justifying the military strike including a quote imminent attack on u.s. interest or threats to four u.s. embassies in the region. trump said quote this, he was saying bad things about our country like we're going to attack, we're going to kill your people. i said listen how much of this expletive do we have to listen to, right, nbc news has not reviewed these audio tapes. and laura trump, president trump's daughter-in-law is being slammed for mocking joe biden's stutter. watch this. >> i feel kind of sad for joe biden, and you know that's when it's not going well for him, right, because i'm supposed to

want him to fail at every turn. every time he comes on stage or they turn to him, joe, can you get it out, let's get the words out joe, you kind of feel bad for him. >> sully sullenberg known for landing a commercial jet on the hudson river wrote about trump's comments in a "new york times" op-ed where he recounted his own struggle with stuttering as a child. this issue goes beyond politics, regardless of how you feel about joe biden or his chances of becoming the democratic nominee, whether you are a republican or democrat, stuttered as a child or laughed at one who did, whether as a parent you try to protect your child from taunts such as though made by the president's daughter-in-law, these words come without hesitation, stop, grow up, show decency, people who can't have no place in public life. lara defended her remarks, yet another example of the egregious

reporting, anyone who takes ten seconds what i said, clearly see i never mentioned the stutter, didn't know he had one, but they can't help themselves. let's switch gear and get a check of the weather with janessa webb. you know when you're so happy to see all the sunshine, and you think it's nice and warm, this one is going to kind of trick you today. you're going to see an abundance across the country, with sunny skies, as the front made its way through, things are clearing out, but please do not be fooled by all of that sun. there's no heat behind it, windchills this morning, 4 below in minneapolis, 20 below, ouch in des moines this morning, and we're going to continue to see that core of the cold shift to the east, and it's going to jolt across the country fairly quickly. these are the actual temperatures right now for the northeast. boston currently at 19 degrees. it's 21 in new york city, and that's going to continue to fall throughout your afternoon. so this morning, even for

chicago, the actual temperature 13, it feels like 3 degrees. detroit, 11. we're in the single digits and it's not going to back off even for tomorrow. that's when it's kind of centered for areas of the northeast. now, the front made its way through. i know it was a very snowy weekend for detroit, the midwest, and still these squalls are persisting up to 10 inches for ashtabula to the menner area in northeast ohio, even erie, pa. we're going to see cancellations this morning if you're headed out and about. make sure you're being safe on the roadways. also another storm system that we're yacwatching, yasmin, this our next coast-to-coast system, just beginning today with isolated showers across the coast from seattle to southern oregon and as this storm starts to really rev up, another one is behind it. these two are going to connect

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latest on impeachment. as the senate trial is set to resume tomorrow. nbc news correspondent hans nichols has more. >> reporter: president trump touching down in texas to tout his china trade deal before a friendly audience. after the president's legal team formally responded to the senate impeachment summons calling the articles brazen and unlawful. democrats dismissing that argument. >> there is ample evidence, overwhelming evidence, any jury would convict in three minutes flat. >> reporter: alan dershowitz distanced himself from the legal team he's joining. >> i did not read that brief. my mandate is to present the constitutional argument. >> reporter: aside from knowing tuesday's start time there's still uncertainty if new witnesses and evidence will be allowed during the prose. >> senator mcconnell prevails and there are no witnesses, it will be the first impeachment trial in history that goes to conclusion without witnesses.

>> reporter: some of the rules are known, no cell phones, no standing, no talking. senators are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprism. and senate republicans suggest that the house may want to consider a redo. >> maybe they ought to withdraw the articles of impeachment and start over again. >> reporter: with one of the president's closest allies saying that mr. trump wants the trial wrapped up by the state of the union address on february 4th. >> but his mood is to go to the state of the union with this behind him and talk about what he wants to do for the next rest of 2020. >> reporter: and on sunday night, the president weighed in on impeachment saying he was being impeached by radical left lunatics but insisted that farmers would stay with trump. as for that tuesday's trial, when it starts, the president plans to be in davos, switzerland, meeting with foreign leaders and touting america's economic strength. >> thank you to nbc's hans nichols for that. joining me once again from washington, white house

correspondent for reuters, jeff mason. good to talk to you once again. >> you too. >> let's discuss this impeachment trial getting under way 1:00 p.m. not sure why they're starting so late in the day. >> i think that's partially to do with when the senators and the lawmakers get back in town after their recess. >> of course. >> that's a fair question. >> right. >> let's talk about the president's legal strategy here, we saw quite a progression with regards to the defense of the president over the house impeachment investigation. in the beginning they said it just didn't happen. there was no quid pro quo, the president didn't engage in this type of conversation, and that has progressed to where we are now, which it seems as if there's more defense of, even if he did do this, it does not rise to the high crimes and misdemeanors as laid out by the founders in the constitution. it does not rise to an impeachable offense. talk to us about the president's legal strategy here going forward. >> sure, i think it boils down to a couple of things very specifically, one, the defense attorneys in this case, the president's attorneys are

arguing that the president did nothing illegal. that he did nothing wrong. they will repeat the fact that they believe or the president believes that his call was perfect, the one with president zelensky of ukraine, and that basically he's done nothing wrong, and number two, with regard to the second article of impeachment, that he has the right to executive privilege, he has executive privilege and the right to not send over the documents and not allow some of the witnesses that lawmakers were trying to call and trying to get during the initial process in the house, so those are the two main legal arguments there, basically that he did nothing wrong on a legal level and that he was allowed to do what congress is saying or at least what democrats in congress are saying has been obstruction. >> so now let's talk then about the political strategy here. we are in an election year, which is incredible, all that we are facing in the barrel, considering we have a presidential election ten months or so away from now.

what is the political strategy here for the president going forward, especially when you hear from people like senator lindsey graham, he says the president says so him he believes he has been bolstered politically by this impeachment process. >> there's some evidence to support that, just if you look at the money that sort of has been flowing in to president trump's campaign, at least according to them, and the rnc, they have done extremely well since this impeachment process and the entire impeachment process has begun. so there have been some political benefits there. there might continue to be some. certainly it's given president trump a lot of fodder to discuss on twitter and at the rallies that are a key part of his campaign strategy. i think broadly politically, he is working to continue to keep his base ginned up and impeachment has done that. and he will continue to show, both by going to davos tonight,

switzerland, and by holding that state of the union address in a couple of weeks that he can contrast what he wants to show of him doing his job as president with what democrats are doing with regard to impeachment. >> and of course then there's the question of witnesses, will we actually see people like john bolton testify during the senate impeachment trial. >> tvd. >> thank you so much, great talking to you, jeff. >> you too. in a sharp break from standard election protocol, "the new york times" editorial board has endorsed two democratic candidates for president, senator elizabeth warren and senator amy klobuchar, in explaining their decision, the opinion side of the paper argues that among 2020 democratic presidential candidates quote, an essential debate is underway between two visions that may define the future of the party and perhaps the nation. both the radical and the realist models warrant serious consideration. that's why we're endorsing the most effective advocates for each approach. citing elizabeth warren's medicare for all plan and tax on

the wealthy. the editorial board argues, the board writes that the lack of a single powerful moderate voice in the democratic race is the strongest evidence of a divided party. amy klobuchar has emerged as a standard bearer for the democratic center. and the democratic national committee has announced two ways candidates can qualify for the next presidential primary debate to make the stage for the february 7th debate in new hampshire. candidates can qualify by winning at least one pledge delicate to the democratic national convention in the iowa caucuses or by collecting donations from 225,000 people and earning either 5% support in four qualifying polls or 7% in two polls, new hampshire, nevada or south carolina. so far all six candidates in last week's debate appear to have qualified for the next debate. and former vice president joe biden is demanding an apology

from senator bernie sanders' campaign for circulating what we called a quote doctored video, which he says misconstrues his record on social security. in the video, biden during an april 2018 speech at the brookings institution said that then house speaker paul ryan was quote correct in trying to dismantle social security. his campaign said he made the remarks sarcastically. the video was posted by an unverified twitter user and re-tweeted this month by a senior sanders campaign adviser at an event in iowa biden responded to a question about his record on social security by a woman who said she received a call from a campaign questioning his position on it. >> it is simply a lie that video that's going around. and ask anybody in the press, it's a flat lie. they have acknowledged that this is a doctored tape, and i think it's beneath, and i'm looking for his campaign to come forward and disown it.

but they haven't done it yet. >> and sanders campaign hit back in a statement accusing biden of quote dodging questions about his record writing in part, this joe biden should be honest with voters and stop trying to doctor his public record of trying to cut social security. the facts are clear, biden not only pushed to cut social security, he's on tape proudly bragging about it on multiple occasions. sanders campaign released a memo listing video statements and quotes on social security as far back as 1984. let's go to des moines, iowa, where we find msnbc correspondent von hilliard who gets to be in from the cold in des moines, iowa. great to see you in a suit without a big puffy jacket on. you were out on the trail with the 2020 democrats this weekend. what's been the reaction so far to sanders' latest feud with former vice president joe biden? >> the feud i think, if the last

two weeks are any indication of where the democratic party finds i itself, particularly the top four candidates, nonhave the intention -- none have the intention of ending the feud. adam m adam mincer, interviewed joe biden who went on to call bernie sanders attacks desperate saying that they were desperate measures to take him down just two weeks before the iowa caucus. of course if you're in the bernie sanders campaign, they feel pretty good about where they stand when it comes to polling, not only here in iowa but in new hampshire, and south carolina and nevada, believing that they are well positioned to have a good stable of support in each of these early states and looking beyond even to super tuesday, what you saw is bernie sanders second feud with a candidate, of course that first was with elizabeth warren. >> right. >> when each other both on that debate stage a week ago accused

each other of essentially lying about one another on national television. elizabeth warren was asked these questions repeatedly to expand over exactly who was lying. i had asked her on friday night, whether she had called sanders. she said that she had not. i asked why do you not take that step to try to calm tensions and she was asked again just 24 hours ago. i want to let you hear what she said just yesterday here in des moines. >> i think we all ought to be out here talking about why we're running for president. that's what i'm doing. that's what i have done today in des moines and that's what i keep doing, reaching out to voters, telling them who i am, why i'm in this fight, and asking them to join me in a grass roots movement. >> and the part about this race, yasmin is there's not many days in which they're going to be sharing the campaign trail together. today is the last day of campaigning for these folks before senators like warren and sanders fly back to d.c. for the start of the senate impeachment trial.

>> vaughan, i'm curious, seeing that you have been out on the campaign trail for a long time at this point, do endorsements like what i have been talking about from the "new york times" of senator amy klobuchar, and elizabeth warren, do those resonate with voters in iowa. >> this is the pundit election, a lot of voters have been trying to get a good sense of who will be the most electable candidate, who they should turn to. a large number of folks at these events watch msnbc. they are engaged reading articles from the "new york times," and i'll be interested to see to what extent they take into account "the new york times" editorial recommendation. we should also note the newspaper out of the quad cities, the davenport area, they just endorsed two days ago, amy klobuchar. i'll be interested to see, not only is it the national papers but it's the local papers around here, folks that are very much immersed in their own

communities in which people have for a long time been much more engaged with. i'll be interested to see the extent of the conversation over the next two weeks. >> thank you, vaughn hillyard, appreciate it. >> thanks my friend. a void in the white house when it comes to pushing back against russian aggression as the top official responsible for the effort is placed on indefinite administrative leave. plus a heightened nuclear threat from north korea after a top pentagon officials warns the country could resume nuclear testing with missiles capable of hitting the united states. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. is back in a moment. ♪

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national security council in november and had been scheduled to join the president at the davos forum in switzerland this week but was suddenly put on leave according to one official. it's unclear the specific nature of the investigation. peek did not respond to a request for comment. peek's absence at least temporarily creates a void in a key position responsible for pushing back on russian aggression and coordinating u.s. policy towards moscow. before starting his post at the white house, peek had been a deputy assistant secretary of state overseeing iran and iraq in the state department's bureau of near eastern affairs. and according to a top pentagon official, north korea is building new missiles and weapons quote as fast as anybody on the planet. an indication that the hermit country could resume nuclear testing with missiles capable of hitting the united states. according to cnn, air force general john hyten, the vice chair of the joint chiefs of staff made the comments friday in washington, d.c. saying speed is efficiency. the trump administration has reached out to north korea to

resume negotiations after the two countries broke off talks in october. a white house national security adviser recently telling axios, earlier this month, north korean leader kim jong un said there quote will never be denuclearization on the cree caribbe -- korean peninsula. he announced the world will witness a new strategic weapon in the near future. let's take a break and a turn and get a check of your weather with nbc meteorologist janessa webb. good morning, the chill is here, and this is canadian cold air we are seeing. it's a very strong air mass that has traveled over 2,000 miles. 211 people going to be impacted with the subzero temperatures this morning. what you can count on is the clearing that's going to start to happen. the air temperature, erie, pa currently at 21 degrees for

syracuse, we're at 11. philadelphia in the mid-20s but when you factor in the winds, you're going to notice the breeze this morning for the northeast. the windchills, they're feeling like they're in the teens, and this starts to make its way to the south and southeast by tomorrow afternoon. our daytime highs, they are going to fall about 15 to 20 degrees below average and this chill, it's not going to start to back off, yasmin, until about midweek, but i promise you there is a reprieve by thursday. we'll see highs back in the mid-50s. >> thank you, janessa. still ahead, amazon imagines a new way to make credit card payments, and the company's ceo jeff bezos is toppled as the richest person in the world. we're back in a moment. richest . we're back in a moment which over time can cause sensitivity and a lot of people start to see their teeth turn yellow. i like to recommend pronamel to my patients to help them protect their teeth and keep the enamel strong. i like to recommend pronamel to my patients

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friday. lost $760 million on paper. meanwhile, the frenchman saw his wealth increase $1.9 billion on paper. amazon in the news for another development. issued, filed a paper on biometric i.d. process involving a hand scanner. images of a palm and tie that to a credit company. talking to visa, mastercard, jpmorgan, farce fars -- and something to watch closely. >> and jeff bezos is making it easier to buy things to increase his wealth and get back on top. let's talk about -- >> got that right. >> -- davos. what can we expect to see this week?

>> people like president trump meeting with ceos of huge companies, public intellectual celebrities. formal agenda, deglobalization, rise of artificial intelligence, people call the fourth industrial revolution. less officially, of course, heads of tech companies worried about increased regulation on both sides of the atlantic. people concerned about potential conflict in the middle east, trade conflict between the u.s., china and europe and hanging over this huge event is concern about climate change. the place people fly in on private jets, ferried around in suvs, trying to change that, encouraging people to use the train and snow grips to get around town. >> incredible to hear stories coming out of davos coming out of climate change when so many are flying in on private jets with just a couple people on the plane. great seeing you. coming up next, keir simmons joins us from london as prince

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welcome back. more now on prince harry speaking out for the first time about the decision to step back as a senior member of the royal family. i want to bring in nbc news senior international correspondent keir simmons joining us live from london. appreciate it. quite major news over the weekend. of course, hearing for the first time from prince harry publicly. what's he saying, keir? >> reporter: well, that's right. i mean, you really know that it's having an impact when "morning joe" is talking about a royal story, but i mean, it is historic. isn't it? we had this announcement over the weekend, despite what harry and meghan hoped for, they will now pull back fully from their royal duties, that they will no

longer be allowed to call themselves, keep the title his or her royal highness. i think it is stunning, too, to hear prince harry overnight talk almost a bit like a character from netflix "the crown." talking about the conflict between duty and happiness and while he sounds kind of soft and understanding and impersonable, in reality with the speech, clone a grenade into the courtyard of buckingham palace. >> nbc's keir simmons, thank you. >> perhaps read over the past few weeks -- so i want you to hear the truth from me as much as i can share. not as a prince or a duke but as harry. the same person that many of you have watched grow up over the last 35 years, now with a clearer perspective. the uk is my home, and a place that i love. that will never change.

i've grown up feeling supported from so many of you, and i watched as you welcomed meghan with open arms, as you saw me find the love and happiness that i'd hoped for all of my life. finally the second son of diana got hitched. hooray. i also know that you come to know me well enough over all of these years to trust that the woman i chose as my wife upholds the same values as i do, and she does. and she's the same woman i fell in love with. we both do everything we can to fly the flag and carry out our roles for this country with pride. once meghan and i were married, we were excited, we were hopeful and we were here to serve. for those reasons it brings me great sadness it has come to this. >> reporter: this won't be the end of it, guys. still questions whether they can

call themselves sussex royal. many critics will question why they weren't allowed to work for the queen, while not taking a salary for that work. pretty stunning. >> thank you, keir. that does it for me on this monday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. when we let it ring from every billow and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to feed on that day with all of god's children, black men a white men, jews and gentiles, protestants and catholics will be able to join hands and join in the old negro free at last, free at last, thank god, free at last. >> 1963. every day we honor the legacy of dr.