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following today. explosive reporting. new information about what the president said at a dinner party. could it become everyday at his senate impeachment trial? >> on the defense, the president's legal team starts to layout its side of the case. reactions from both sides, what comes next with witnesses hanging in the balance. race against time, hundreds of cases and dozens of deaths blamed on the coronavirus. a third case in the u.s., what doctors are doing to contain the outbreak. good morning, it is sunday, january 26th. >> good morning, everybody. new this morning, more damming evidence. true, president trump ordered the firing of former ambassador marie yovanovitch. >> nbc news obtained video from lev parnas. now, this is taken from a 2018 dinner party for donors. >> the shaky video captures several conversations that include the president. abc's josh letterman has the

story. >> reporter: president trumps claim he doesn't know lev parnas and his partner igor fruman is taking a big hit. a dinner with donors lagsing well over an hour in which trump and parnas discuss everything from ukraine to russia and the gulf and the border wall. we are working to definitively work the voices on this tape. no indication it's fought real. trump hasn't denied it. the white house can't deny it. trump can be seen before the cell phone is placed on the table to the ceiling. parnas described dinner several times before, where he told president trump ambassador yovanovitch was bad mouthing him and he said, get rid of her. now we have it for everyone to hearch e to hearch

. >> now, what's really striking here is that trump doesn't even know the name of yovanovitch at this point. parnas and others at the dinner can't remember it either. president trump u trump is so persuaded by the suggestion she is criticizing him, he makes a decision on the spot. >> now, trump didn't actually follow through that night. it's another year before he fired yovanovitch in the summer of 2019some now that's a key moment in the impeachment trial. donors can push their own agenda. some of them are asking for help with natural gas in ukraine, even pushing a family property to be the site of a summit with kim jong-un. this they is giving us critical context of the president's awareness of how important

ukraine is with russia just as senators are withholding that aid, merits removing him from office. >> josh letterman reporting. >> the president's impeachment trial. >> it moves into its second week. it will be the first full day of opening arguments by the president's defense team. >> his lawyers only used two hours of an allotted saturday to bring the president's audience tomorrow. >> the president's team says it does not take as long, but if yesterday was any indication, a face-off over facts is ahead of us. >> you've heard a lot of facts that they didn't tell you, facts that are critical, facts that they know completely collapsed their case on the facts. >> the bottom line is it is not possible for the brief security resistance to be reviewed as leverage when president zelensky

and other top ukrainian officials did not know about it. >> disagreeing with the president's decision on foreign policy matters or who's advice he is going to take is in no way an impeachable offense. >> what was most striking to me about the president's presentation today is they don't contest the basic architecture of the scheme. they do not contest that the president solicited a foreign nation to interfere in our election, to help him cheat. >> the point of impeachment process is that the framers of the constitution knew that there might one day arise a criminal president who tries to upset the constitutional order, who tries to distort liberty. two tries to aggregate powers to himself, who tries to make himself a dictator. >> our analysts are standing by on what to expect in the next

phase. >> first, garrett haik on capitol hill. what stood out to you? >> reporter: i think one of the key things we will hear again from the lawyers is so much of the manager's case is based on presumptions and assumptions of people who didn't really talk to the president. when they did, they were basically guessing. there's the argument that jay sekulow made on the floor that got a lot of attention from republican senators. take a listen. >> this case is really not about president's wrongdoing. this entire impeachment process is about the house managers' insistence that they are able to read everybody's thoughts, they can read everybody's intention even when the principle speakers the witnesses, themselves, insist that those interpretations are wrong. >> expect to hear that kind of argument from sekulow and the white house' other lawyers when the trial resumes monday an

around 1:00 p.m. this thing could go late into the evening? it's our reporting white house lawyers don't want to use all their time, they want to make sure eyeballs are on this, expect this to go into prime time, we may hear from dershowitz and ken starr, who the president has brought on to his legal team in the hopes they can argue for him that this impeachment is not up to constitutional muster. guys. >> hey, garrett, let's talk about witness, we will be talked about whether or not they are called. if they are called, what happens next? >> reporter: so we could see that vote by witnesses by the middle of the week, on wednesday or thursday. prussias are signaling they will not go down with the fight, even if they lose the vote on witnesses, josh hally says he will try to call the biden, both of them, joe and hunter biden. he wants to call the whistle blower and witnesses he thinks may be favorable to the president's case.

adam schiff rebutted calling the whistle blower yesterday after arguments wrapped up. >> a battle over witnesses. >> when we were able to find all of these other witnesses and protect the anonymity of the whistleblower, and make our case without relying on the whistleblower with second-hand information, whose life has been put in jeopardy by the president and his ially, yes, we didn't want to go there. and the only motive they have for trying to out the whistleblower is to punish the whistleblower. >> so, remember, there will be one vote first on the question of witnesses broadly. do they want to hear from any witnesses? we still don't know if democrats will get the votes to get that across the thresh hold then there could be all these smaller votes. you hear from schiff, the question to call the whistleblower could be a contentious vote as well. >> thank you. joining with us more on this

is a congressional reporter with npr. claudia, thanks for being here this sunday morning. what was your biggest take away from the trump team's opening arguments? >> so saturday was an appetizer, if you will, for the coming two days of the arguments, these lawyers will make on trump's behalf. i thought it was very interesting that they focused on the democrats and tried to flip the argument on who was trying to interfere in the 2020 elections. as we know, the house managers went through their arguments and said, it was president trump working with ukrainian leader trying to get that country to interfere, but, instead, the lawyers on saturday argued that the democrats are trying to interfere now in the 2020 elections and to erase ballots for that election and take trump's name off of it. so i thought that was interesting in terms of what's more to come in the next couple of days? >> and claudia, in addition to trump's team saying that it should be the voters who decide, they also accused house

impeachment managers of presented a skewed narrative, leading out key information. here's democratic tim kaine's response. >> i was surprised that they've made the case today about six facts which can be proven or disproven if there is witness or documents. because it was almost in a way they were making the architect for the very thing that we have been asking for and that the american public deserve. >> it feels like something happens and each side sees it radically different. is there some chance the republican senators view this president the same perspective? >> it's, right now we are seeing a lot of republicans remaining very loyal to their defense of the president. they are -- the majority of them are saying they're not interested in hearing from additional witnesses or getting additional evidence and in the long run, in terms of the president being removed from office, we're not seeing anything there in terms of any republicans standing occupant

and say saying, yes, this republican must be removed. they're sticking solidly together so far. >> so yesterday when trump's defense got the first opportunity to present their side of things, their arguments. they did not make mention of joe biden. then lindsey graham says that might be coming here. >> if you don't talk about trump did, sure as hell you want to talk about what biden did. how could you not? you want to look at trump's actions and his administration and the ukraine. let's look at biden. that only fair. >> all right. you think that's coming tomorrow? >> so we do expect to hear more about the bidens come tomorrow. jay sekulow, trump's attorney, said after the arguments on saturday that they do expect to raise the bidens more in these coming days. and so we do expect that argument. but in terms of witnesses being called, right now, we don't see much of an appetite, even among allies such as lindsey graham of

the president, that they want to see the bidens come into the chamber or submit to videotaped depositions. >> it all kicks off tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. npr's congressional reporter, thank you. turning now to the 2020 race, just eight days now until the iowa caucus. senator bernie sanders currently in the lead at 25% according to a few poll from the "new york times" and he leads pete buttigieg by 7 points. >> meanwhile, a top newspaper, the des moines register endorsed elizabeth warren. the editorial board writing quote at this moment when the very fabric of american life is at stake, elizabeth warren is the president this nation needs. >> and in the first in the nation, presidential primary state of new hampshire, the largest paper there, endorsing senator amy klobuchar. the paper's editor at large calling the minnesota democrat sharp and witty and writes trump doesn't want to face her.

joining us right now msnbc reporter alex smith. a lot happening, we got three big 2020 headlines here we're talking about. they all feature senators who have spent all week as jurors in the trump impeachment trial. so is being side lined going to catch up with these candidates? >> well, you know, if you look at the polls right now, you see bernie sanders starting to surge. he's taken off in the last three or four weeks. i'm not sure it's had a negative effect on him, certainly, they would all rather be campaigning in iowa, we are days away from the caucuses. they'll get a respite from the impeachment trial. many will go immediately on the campaign tra ill in iowa. it's in the democratic primary. it's not hurting them directly. but when are you a candidate like elizabeth warren or amy klobuchar and you are trying to climb up over a few people in the poll, every moment you can

have in iowa is crucial. >> so what's better? being ahead or getting the endorsement from the des moines registers editorial board? >> i think when you talk about iowa, the des moines register is the top paper in the state. >> that is huge. >> that new york times poll is big for bernie as well. with the caucus process, it's not directly like a primary. so you are going to have voters going over from one candidate to another and how many voters can bernie pull from some of the more moderate process gets under way. it's obviously going to be a big question f. are you a democrat, you want this poll close to election day. every candidate has had their time being in the number 1 spot, the front returns, the top four, for much of the past four or five months. now, sappeders is hitting his peak in these polls right at the perfect time. >> let's unpack the polls, aside from the latest "new york

times"-sienna college. he has a standing lead. first in the nation primary is 16 days away. the vermont for has 29% support. 12 points up from the next candidate, pete buttigieg. if he wins in both iowa and new hampshire next month, doesn't this carry into the nomination? >> you know, certainly winning iowa and new hampshire will be huge for bernie if he can pull it off. the margin for victory in those races is going to be key. because everyone will end up getting some delegates. >> that will incentivize people to carry on with their campaigns. really, it's hong this campaign remains such a big feel before it starts clearing out f. sanders can pick up commanding wins in the first two states that can certainly carry him through their only contests and give them that momentum before the convention. >> he has endless energy it seems like. >> yeah, post-heart attack, it's

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we're back now with a look at this morning's must read editorials. first george conway writes in the washington post, there is a critical witness, impeachment is missing. and the best case for calling him has been established by an argument that was advanced by the president's own lawyers. trump's testimony is actually pertinent for precisely the reason the bidens' testimony is not, according to george conway, some intake there. >> here's another one, from "the washington post" ford editorial. the impeachment will catch up with the president and trump whether they ignore it or not. here in the post board points out mr. schiff pointed out whether or not gop senators demand relevant testimony and documents in the trial, more facts come out. those who choose now to

disregard the fdz against mr. trump and abet his obstruction will be reduced to watching it in the months and years to colorado against their abdication of constitutional duty grows stronger. conservative national review, they say impeachment doesn't require a crime, which is contrary to the white house defense that either abuse of power nor obstruction are crimes. the editors write attempts to impeach presidents have thus impeached charges of crimes with charges of non-criminal abuses. a categorical denial of the latter charge would do violence to the constitution and one of its checks on presidential misconduct. they go on to say senator republicans have spoken consensus, the president shouldn't have frozen the aid to ukraine, it doesn't bear removal from office, voters get a chance to weigh in, in a few months. >> maybe the questions will be answered in a week from now. we'll see. >> we want to get republican

florida congressman carlos curbelo's take. do you agree republicans have come to an unspoken agreement that the president did do something wrong but shouldn't be removed? >> without a doubt, a lot of republicans agree that what the president did was wrong. some of them have even said it publicly. that's risky for republicans because this is is a president that demand absolute loyalty. so the fact that some spoke out early on and say that this was wrong, that they would have never done something wrong was significant. since then, the white house has kind of taken control of the situation and republicans have been more muted. but i think the other editorial, washington post, really makes the big point here. we see the way this is all going. unless there is any major surprises in the coming week, we know how this trial is going to end. the oath that jurors are the millions of americans who are going to vote in november of this year and they will have

more information than we all have today. >> do you think as george conway writes that president trump should be testifying? >> well, look, in a way, the president has already testified publicly. right, right outside the white house when he said that this was about having an investigation launched against the bidens and invited the chinese to do the same. will the president sit down for a deposition? i highly, highly doubt it because as many conway says in that op-ed, it would probably be a bad experience for him. now, of course, that would be the best way to try to get to the with the toll of this, to ask the president what is it that vote mated him, if not this potential investigation against the bidens. >> how about "the washington post" op-ed, do you agree that this will all catch up to president trump and the republicans in general? >> well, i think a point that chairman schiff made on the

senate floor about all of the information coming out eventually is ac r eventually is accurate. some of it may come out after the election and history will be the ultimate judge. so i do think that it behooves republicans, all members of congress, really, this isn't about party to get all the facts, get all the information and then based on that make the best decision possible and perhaps a reasonable senator can conclude that what the president did was wrong but because we are so close to an election, does it merit removal? that's certainly not an unreasonable position. that's a position that i think a lot of voters might be able to understand, but, refusing to see all of the information, refusing to allow that information to

come to light, that's a little harder to defend. >> well, speaking of what could potentially be evidence, over an hour audio and video of a rudy guiliani associate, appears to show president trump at a donor dinner order d.c. removal of ambassador yovanovitch. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i know lev parnas no made that video publicly. i met him in 2018 and my understanding is that mr. parnas has even more information that is going to be coming out here in the coming weeks. he has offered to testify. his attorney, of course, has been on your air and has made other public appearances, so, aga again, there is more information out there. it will come out sooner or later. if i was a republican, i'd like to see it all now, a republican in congress, so that i could make the best decision possible. >> if you know him, you've met

him, why do you think he is releasing these tapes? why did he tape all of these things in the first place? >> yeah, i think that's a complication question. part of this i think is legal strategy in terms of his own personal defense. i think another part of this is he just wants to be transparent and forthcoming about everything that's happened and i think he feels badly that he got involved in this mess or this drug deal as apparently mr. bolton called it. and he's decided to just be transparent and honest and sincere about everything that happened. >> former congressman carlos curbelo, thank you. it does wonder if this guy was to tape this 83 minutes of footage and audio without anybody knowing, including the president, what other people might have recorded the president off the cuff without him knowing? >> well, you know, parnas might be trying to be honest and transparent now. but he is still under federal

indictment. corey. >> let's get to some of the other big headlines this morning and what's happening around the country. when begin with a tragedy in georgia two, people are dead after a high speed crash on a highway in atlanta. they say the plane went down on the highway before rolling over into a wooded area. ntsb is helping to investigate. emergency crews rescued a little girl and her mother from the rubble of their home. at least 29 people have died and 1,400 were hurt in the earthquake that shook eastern parts of turkey. officials working to save some 22 people still passed. the lunar new year event in some states around the u.s. organizers for colorado's chinese new year's celebrations chose to hold off on this year's festivities saying they were concerned about the potential spread of the disease. >> chinese new year, we always wish people good health, good

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we are back now, hello, good morning, detroit, a little foggy so 42 years today we were starting to get buried by 30 inches of snow. today not bad. 35 degrees. breaking news, the u.s. is confirming its third case of the coronavirus. there is now one case each in washington, illinois and california, but in china, the epicenter of the outbreak, the virus is spreading so quickly. construction workers are racing against time to build new hospitals. look at this dozens of cranes

working feverishly to build new hospitals. the latest numbers show 1,975 infections, 56 deaths in 29 different provinces, the bulk happening in the city of wuhan. joining me is dr. william schk 'ner. good morning, doctor, what do you find most troubling about this outbreak? >> well, lindsay, i find the entire outbreak troubling, really. and we're getting new information from the minister of health of china suggesting that this virus is more contagious than we had previously experienced. and, of course, that's consistent with the large number of cases that we're seeing today. doctor, what does that mean? sars was pretty contagious. we sponsor plenty of other diseases that came through. what does that mean, exactly? >> well, the new information suggests that contrary to what we previously thought, that people were able to transmit

this virus. >> that is, they became contagious only when they became sick rather now they might be able to sponsor ed this virus before they become sick. it's not clear how many days before they become sick. but this is consistent with other infectious diseases, such as influenza, which can be spread the day before you get sick. >> and doctor, should americans be concerned? >> well, we're all concerned, of course, but the cdc, along with state and local health departments is doing a good job in defining the cases, putting them in isolation, providing them good treatment and watching all the contacts of those cases. so, so far, as your piece said, we've only had three cases in the united states. so, so far, so good. >> yeah, doctor you follow this sort of stuff, you know h1n1 started in mexico and patient

zero flew to atlanta after that. you have been watching how china has been moving on all of this. are they making the right moves? >> well, there's an awful lot going on in china and you know they're making a jie normous -- ginormous experiment, they're target wuhan and surrounding cities in order to prevent travel during this chinese lunar celebration. we wish everybody there and of course around the world a happy new year. we hope this experiment to curtail travel will inhibit the transmission of this virus, will curtail its spread. >> doctor, let's talk about crews working feverish will i to build new hospitals, how unusual is this and also as a patient, would you feel comfortable staying in a hospital that was built in another -- >> it's a part of the extraordinary effort they are making to care for sick people in and around that province. this is not going to be a

complete hospital. i can't imagine making a complete one. but they could provide facilities to care for patients. the trick will be to get the staff in there that's capable of doing that. >> and they're trying to get staffers from all across carolina to wuhan right now. dr. william schaffner, that hospital was a 1,000-bed hospital they're trying to build. they also mentioned they're trying to build another one by february 1st that will hold some 1,300 beds. >> just incredible images coming out of china right now with all thov those cranes. overnight, nbc news obtained a recording from indicted associate lev parnas. >> the recording which parnas' attorney claims was at a donor dinner in 2018 appears to be the president talking about ukraine. listen. talking about ukraine. listen

. >> it was tough to hear there. but you can hear him talking about get her out of there joining us attorney and glen kirshner both msnbc legal analyst, katie, how significant is this audio? republicans have said, ah, it doesn't matter, what do you think? >> well, that's convenient to say it doesn't matter, especially when it doesn't help you. it is huge. i mean it's a direct impeachment, no pun intend and fully intended for evidentially purposes. you know, when we have these cases, if you make a statement and something comes out and it's a prior inconsistent statement, you can use that to impeachment the credibility. donald trump claims he didn't know lev parnas, thought it was some guy that took a photo with him every once in a while. here we have him sitting down in april 2018 for at least an hour-and-a-half, a donor dinner from a super pac that lev parnas

and ifor fruman were involved in. clearly it had the value to have words to haunt donald trump, himself. i want to make a note joseph bondy, the lawyer for lev parnas notes this was done by igor from youman. lev parnas has been making the round, we haven't heard from igor fruman. so the fact that fruman was secretly making these recordings, it's significant. it makes you wonder how many other tapes are out there that would contradict donald trump and perhaps others. >> here's another clip of what appears to be parnas talking to the president about ambassador yovanovitch a year before she was fired. ador yovanovitch a year before she was fired. . >> couldn't this be used as evidence, potentially.

and if it was, do you think it would make a difference? >> it could be used as evidence in the impeachment trial and used as everyday in a criminal trial if charges were ever brought. let me tell you, this tape, if authentic is about as troubling as anything that we have heard the president say or do. think about this, lev parnas is apparently having a conversation with the president of the united states providing him information, perhaps false information, about a u.s. ambassador marie yovanovitch saying, well, you know, she wants you impeached and in knee-jerk fashion, what does the president do? he says, take her out, get rid of her. you know, what other data points do we have? we also learned that people may have been pulling surveillance on marie yovanovitch. we also learned from the testimony from marie yovanovitch, herself, on the spur of the moment, people told her get on a plane, you are being pulled, get back to the

united states, we are concerned for your safety this really couldn't be more dramatic evidence that the president is involved in deep, deep corruption and wrongdoing and let's face it, his defense is i don't know lev parnas, first of all, the evidence contradicts that, but if it's true, then the president is taking information from somebody he doesn't know about a u.s. ambassador and he's acting on it and saying, get rid of her. >> i know you cover legal analyst, analysis for us, also you know the world of espionage. how troubling is this to have a recording of the president? >> inside the white house. >> in tidz white house. there could have been other real spice out there that have recordings of the president. >> it shows how reckless the president is with respect to his own security. think about all of the people at mar-a-lago silting there with cell phones, recording what the president says. the southern district of new york, better meet with parnas,

bring him on board as a cooperator and take this seriously. >> stephanie grisham has the right to place people who support his agenda and his policies within his administration. >> in reference to the ambassador. >> right. >> thank you. there is an expressionless is more, but will that work in the senate impeachment trial? >> a quick heads up, our colleague joy reed will speak one-on-one with val demings, one of three women to serve as house impeachment manager. catch that at 10:00 a.m. eastern only on msnbc. msnbc. >> with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with... ...an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss.

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. >> in the history of the republic, no president has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry. >> they're here to perpetrate the most massiveer feerns in -- interference in an election, we can't let that happen. >> the history of president trump's impeachment trial. >> joining us now, alan litman, the presidential historian, september 2016, he correctly predicted president trump's election and impeachment. he's also correctly predicted every election since 1984. alan, good morning to you. >> where is the crystal ball?

>> exactly, where is it hiding? both sides making historical claims. which side is right? >> clearly, not a single framer of the impeachment article said that it required a statutory indictable crime. in fact, there wasn't even a federal criminal code back then. all of them closely tracked what hamilton said that is impeachment flows from abuse of power that harms the society. attorney general bill barr agrees with that, so did a trump lawyer alan dershowitz before he changed side. but here's what's most telling and you haven't heard, ken starr, another trump lawyer investigated, clinton and among the articles of impeachment that he recommend to the congress was, quote, president clinton abused his constitutional authority by among, other things, lying to the public, invoking executive privilege all

as part of an effort to hinder, impede and deflect possible inquiry by the congress of the united states. you can see it right there in bold, invoking executive privilege, does this sound exactly familiar, the president's own lawyer. >> somehow, i don't think he will bring that up when he go es in front of them. >> but the democratic senators can and they can ask him about it. >> that's true. so we have some 26 hours of testimony this past week and i have no doubt you watched all 26 hours of it alan. >> most of it. >> what stood out the most for you? >> i'm going to say something somewhat obscure, because this trial so far is not about acquittal or conviction. it's about witnesses. and i thought what was most telling was when hakeem jeffreys brought up this chart of all 15 prior impeachments showing every

single one of them had witnesses and the average was 33 witnesses. the fewest was the clinton trial, only three, bats because ken starr had already interviewed every single relevant and even lots of irrelevant witnesses. an average of 33 witnesses. >> and there for a moment there, i was thinking that you, your favorite moment was when hakeem jeffreys quoted biggy. but not quite. >> that's pretty good. >> after the lawyers spoke yesterday, democrats may have talked too much. they used up more than 20 hours to make their case. if the president's team doesn't use the same amount of time, will that be seep as some sort of a disadvantage? >> i don't think so. because they don't have the thick evidentially base that the democrats had. look, sherlock holmes said, when you eliminate the impossible, what's left is the truth. and the republicans are asking us to believe two impossible

things that what the president was really doing was fighting corruption and getting the european nations to pay their fair share. if that were true, those legitimate public policy objectives, why keep it secret? why break the law and not report -- as far as corruption is concerned, he never mentioned the word corruption in either of his conversations with president zelensky, even though he was urged to do so. his administration had already certified that ukraine had met anti-corruption benchmarks, he never even reviewed corruption during the time he withheld the aid and he recommended drastic cuts in anti-corruption aid to the ukraine. as far as the european burden sharing, that was never reviewed either. when he talked to gordon sondland, the day after his july 25th phone call with zelensky, did he ask him about going to the european nations? this is the ambassador to the eu. no all he asked about were the

investigations that he was interested in. >> alan, really quickly, only ten second, before we talked the last time, impeachment hadn't happened yet. you said they needed impeachment in order to down about five. so, stay tuned. >> he's come back from more before. >> you sound like a weatherman on tv. >> you have to know what way the wind is blowing for the president. >> that indeed. thank you. sin city has a new signature slogan and you'll either love it or hate. this week's good, bad and ugly, next. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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with globalization. we have to keep our eye on this. you guys have done a great job on your broadcast. >> your bad is something we've seen before, unfortunately. >> i have a google alert set for any one about hair. at a high school in texas they're suspending two students of color now because their dreads are too long and this is 2019. we have to respect cultural differences and you can't take a really well-performing student and punish him or her because of any kind of cultural differences. and in 2019 and look at their board. we need to let kids express themselves. >> nothing good comes from that. >> no. >> exactly. the hair rules are arbitrary these day. >> a lot of people having a

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and that is all the time we have for this morning. i'm kendis gibson. we'll see you next saturday and we should throw like a strong welcome to this man to the mornings. weekend mornings. ali velshi. >> what an absolute pleasure to be with you all. we're going to have a good time over the next many, many months when we're together. thank you. some of your viewers may have heard me as i entered the room. >> he was not quiet. >> i gave a booming hello for a mile for everybody that could hear me. >> you all have yourselves a great day. thank you, bye. good morning from msnbc world headquarters in new york. president trump's defense team took only two hours to present opening arguments and some republican senators are already saying they're going to need to