new revelations from john bolton's upcoming book are raising the stakes for president trump's impeachment this morning. democrats are once again calling on the former national security adviser to testify. the president's defense team takes a spotlight in the senate impeachment trial. trump's legal team says democrats have failed to make a case against the president. and the world is in shock following the death of five time nba champion kobe bryant. investigators today are looking into what caused the helicopter crash that was heading out of

los angeles. good monday morning, everyone, it is january 27th. a very sad day for the world of sports, the country and beyond. i'm ayman mohyeldin, alongside yasmin vossoughian. we'll talk about kobe bryant in a moment. we are kicking off week two of president trump's impeachment trial and new revelations from former national security adviser john bolton's upcoming book, paper to be reigniting the calls for witnesses at the trial. "the new york times" is reporting that trump told bolton last august that he wanted to continue freezing critical military aid to ukraine until government officials helped with investigations targeting joe biden, his son hunter and other democrats. the times says this is according to an unpublished manuscript. nbc news has not seen a copy of the manuscript or fingreport. bolton writes about how the ukraine affair unfolded over

several months until he departed the white house. he not only describes president trump's private disparagement of ukraine but also details about senior cabinet officials who have tried to publicly sidestep any involvement. >> for example, bolton says secretary mike pompeo acknowledged privately that there was no basis to claims by president trump's lawyer, rudy giuliani, that the ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch was in fact corrupt. bolton claims he raised concerns about giuliani with bill barr following the phone call, and bolton writes that acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney was present for at least one phone call where the president and giuliani discussed yovanovitch, despite mulvaney telling associates he would always step away when the president spoke to his lawyer. they are blaming the white house for the disclosure of the book.

she says bolton has not passed that manuscript to anyone else for review. president trump is denying the allegations outlined by "the new york times." in fact me tweeted last night, i never told john bolton that the aid to ukraine was tied to investigations. he never complained about this at the time of his very public termination. if john bolton said this, it was only to sell a book. democratic prosecutors leading the impeachment case against the president put out a statement last night saying in part, there can be no doubt that mr. bolton contradicts the heart of the president's defense, and therefore must be called as a witness at the impeachment trial of president trump. >> and following three days of arguments by prosecutors in the impeachment trial of the president, the white house defense team on saturday presented senators with its case spending only two of the 24 hours allotted to them so far. the president's team framed the impeachment process as illegitimate while trying to invalidate the prosecution's

arguments. >> for all their talk about election interference, that they're here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in american history and we can't allow that to happen. it would violate our institution. it would violate our history. it would violate our obligations to the future. and most importantly, it would violate the sacred trust that the american people have placed in you. >> first of all, let me be clear, disagreeing with the president's decision on foreign policy matters or whose advice he's going to take is in no way an impeachable offense. >> when it comes to sending u.s. taxpayer money overseas, the president is focused on burden

sharing and corruption. first, the president rightly had real concerns about whether european and other countries were contributing their fair share to ensuring ukraine's security. second, corruption. since the fall of the soviet union, ukraine has suffered from one of the worst environments for corruption in the world. a parade of witnesses testified in the house about the pervasive corruption in ukraine and how it is in america's foreign policy and national security interests to help ukraine combat corruption. >> to say that the president of the united states was not concerned about burden sharing, that he was not concerned about corruption in ukraine, the facts from their hearing, the facts from their hearing establish exactly the opposite.

>> the democrats accuse the president of leveraging security assistance to supposedly force president zelensky to announce investigations but how can that possibly be when the ukrainians were not even aware that the security assistance was paused. there can't be a threat without the person knowing he's being threatened. there can't be a quid pro quo without the quo. the top ukrainian official said nothing, nothing at all to their u.s. counter parts about the pause to security assistance but then as soon as the politico article comes out, suddenly in that first intense week of september in george kent's words, security assistance was all they wanted to talk about. what must we conclude if we're using our common sense, that they didn't know about the pause until the "politico" article on august 28th. the bottom line is it is not possible for the brief assistance review to be used as

leverage when president zelensky and other top ukrainian officials did not know about it. that's what you need to know. >> joining us onset, nbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, and great to have both of you with us. let's talk about john bolton's reportedly saying in his new book according to "the new york times," we'll make that clear that nbc has not seen that manuscript, but according to their reporting, what does what he has to say add to what we already know about this ukraine scandal. why is what he is saying this morning so important? >> so this is by far the most significant blow to president trump's defense in the entire impeachment inquiry. if we look at what the president's lawyers have said this entire time, they have been saying that we don't have any firsthand witness testimony from people who directly spoke to the president and heard him say the words that he was going to withhold ukraine's military aid until they delivered the investigations he wanted.

with john bolton, you have not only a firsthand witness but perhaps the most high profile person so far to potentially testify against the president, if the senate decides to call him. he is the former national security adviser. we already know that he is at the center of a number of really pivotal events in the impeachment inquiry, and another really important thing as far as witnesses go is that he can potentially corroborate those moments because we know that he was a very prolific and meticulous note taker. >> that's true. >> when you're looking at his words versus president trump's, that's going to go in his favor. >> let's talk about the democrats' case here, is it that much stronger considering what we know from this unpublished manuscript from john bolton and is this now going to force the hand of republicans to vote in favor of witnesses? >> this is the most compelling evidence not for witnesses but for one witness and that's john bolton, especially because you saw that tweet from president trump denying outright john

bolton's claims allegedly in this manuscript, and there it is right there, so now once you have that denial, president trump effectively created an issue of fact. he denied it, and now it's a disputed fact and therefore it's an even stronger argument for a witness, john bolton. as to the other witnesses, yes, it raises the question of what they have to say generally speaking but the most compelling fact here is that john bolton is a witness. >> jumping off quickly of what sonem just said, considering the fact that john bolton was a meticulous note taker, if called to testify, would he then also be able to submit his notes as evidence along with his testimony? >> yes, he could, assuming the white house doesn't oppose it. even though the rules of evidence don't apply in this hearing, it's interesting to know that one of the big exceptions to hearsay is what's called contemporaneous notes,

which is why you see officials keeping meticulous notes because someone gave them a memo, it's important to write down what happened immediately afterwards, jo james comey is a good kpamp exaf that. as a general rule you see so many people in business and government, taking those contemporaneous notes because they may be admissible where otherwise notes generally speaking might not be. >> let me get your thoughts quickly on what the president's lawyer was saying there, could you have a quid pro quo without the quo. could you have a threat if the person doesn't know they're being threatened. what's your legal take on that. >> it's not a strong argument. you can have a threat without the person known about it. if i shouted out a threat, if i meant it, that would be a threat, even though the target of my threat may not yet be awake and may not know of the threat until i have committed the crime of transmitting that threat, so you don't always need

the victim to be aware that the victim's being victimized. that's a fundamental idea in our law. >> very valid point. danny cevallos that's a great example. appreciate it. a lot of people watching at 5:00 a.m. that threat has been transmitted. you can't get that back. let me get your thoughts on the impeachment and where it goes from here. what do you think we are likely to hear more of or different from the president's lawyers today if anything? >> i think we're going to hear more pretty much what we heard on saturday which was essentially putting forward a bunch of information that is not based in the facts, i wouldn't expect them to address the bolton bomb shell. correct me if i'm wrong there's a way to effect -- i don't think there's a way to effectively do about that. >> you think they would have shared it with the president's lawyers, heads up, this may come out while we're in the middle of all of this. >> i think it's certainly possible. i think that's something they were hoping wouldn't come out right before, especially in the middle of their opening arguments, this is the worst potential time for something

like this to come out. >> which probably explains how it was leaked to the "new york times" as well. >> it does raise some questions. >> thank you so much, danny cevallo cevallos. the deadly hospitaler crash that killed nba legend kobe bryant and how he's being remembered around the world. president trump gets into a back and forth fight with lead impeachment prosecutor adam schiff. those stories and your weather when we come back. we come back. i think i forgot to lock my buick.

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the world is still in shock this morning after nba icon kobe bryant was killed yesterday in a los angeles area helicopter crash. the 41-year-old former nba superstar was with his 13-year-old daughter gianna when the private chopper went down. espn reports they are believed to have been on their way to a travel basketball game. they called for a downed helicopter in a brush fire in

ca california. seven other people were killed in the crash. bryant who lived south of los angeles often used helicopters to avoid southern california's notorious traffic. he traveled to practice and games by helicopter. >> he was one of the most influential basketball players, in the late 1990s, and early 2000s a 20-year career. a five times nasdba champion, nd most valuable player in four of the 15 all star games he played in. he was the nba's mvp in 2008 and was twice mvp of the nba finals. on saturday night, bryant tweeted his congratulations to lebron james after james surpassed him at number three on the nba's all time scoring list. kobe bryant is survived by his wife vanessa and three daughters. >> i was going to say really

quickly, that tweet that he posted paying tribute to lebron james speaks volumes of the character of kobe bryant. he was also considered and was well known to be one of the most competitive athletes. he earned the name black muba, that being his final tweets. >> lebron talked about kobe before any of this happened and talked about how he kind of revered kobe and looked up to him as a player, and what he's doing off the court, unbelievable across the board. >> sad day. >> everyone is still very much in shock. let's switch geerars w and get a check of your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. first the shock of the death, and you think about the basketball career, and immediately you start seeing the pictures of him and his four daughters. >> the powerful tributes have been the ones on the sidelines coaching his daughter, going to games with her.

the clip that went viral where they were court side at a game, and he's giving her instructions. >> she was finishing his sentences, and he was going exactly. and you could tell how proud he was of her and what she had achieved, and just unbelievable, and what he aspired her to achieve later on in life. >> and the fact that vanessa is waking up without her husband, and raising three girls. >> unimaginable. >> makes it very human for all of us. let me get into your forecast, and tell you what need to know. a couple of weak storms out there, nothing that's going to cause you too many headaches. there is a snow going through areas of western new york, a coating out there. be careful on some of the secondary roads. most of the main highways will be fine. light rain from fort myers, sliding up to myrtle beach and a little bit of wet weather in the southeast. not a lot. the next storm is starting to move through salt lake city, and

areas of texas tomorrow. i froze this at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. if you have travel plans coming out of dallas or houston, we could have areas of rain and delays with that. it's not a horrible, you know, storm. it's not going to be severe weather, anything like that. just some downpours. tomorrow morning, western oklahoma, you may get snow. your week ahead forecast, we track that storm today in areas through the four corner region, and take it throughout southeast on wednesday. notice the northern half of the country, pretty quiet from the plains, great lakes to the northeast, all the troublesome weather is going to be in the northwest areas of rain. by the time we get to the end of the week, the last day of january, already next weekend is february. >> such a short month, and i feel like we're in spring. >> i'm going to say it's going to be an early spring. my gut tells me, the way things are looking. >> your gut. >> no weather almanac here, but we'll see. >>. thank you, bill. still ahead bernie sanders makes a quick trip to iowa amid the senate impeachment trial. we're going to look at new

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because, perfect or not, life's better when you're in it. be there with depend®. welcome back, over the weekend as the president's impeachment trial took a break, senator bernie sanders took a quick trip to iowa for a campaign rally, taking swipes at his rivals fundraising and arguing that what democrats will require to defeat the president is the strongest voter turnout

in u.s. history. >> i do not believe. i simply do not believe that the same old same old politics is going to generate the excitement to create that turnout. you can't generate excitement when you're busy going to new york raising large sums of money from millionaires and billionaires. people want change. and i think that what our campaign is about is the ability to speak to working people, many of them having become disillusioned with status quo politics. people are working longer hours for low wages are tired of the political establishment and want a government that stands up for them and not just the 1%. we can talk to those people. >> meanwhile, former mayor pete

buttigieg made a fundraising appeal on saturday, touting his own poll numbers against the president. buttigieg's campaign also sent a fundraising e-mail that took aim at sanders saying bernie performs the worst against the president amongst all major candidates. coming up on "morning joe," you don't want to miss this, pete buttigieg will be a guest. just a week before the iowa caucuses, the latest polls show a tight race with senator bernie sanders coming out on top. in the cbs news ugov poll, bernie sanders is tied for first place with joe biden, 26%, 25%, pete buttigieg is in third with 22%. senator elizabeth warren follows in 4th with 15%, and senator amy klobuchar rounding out the top five with 7%. in the "new york times" sienna college, buttigieg sits in second with 18%, and is statistically tied with joe biden and elizabeth warren who have 17 and 15% respectively.

klobuchar in 5th with 8%. >> latest polling coming out of new hampshire, showing bernie sanders lead growing and massachusetts senator elizabeth warren falling behind. in the pete buttigieg and joe biden are next, statistically tied with 17 and 14, respectively. followed by senators elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar who are statistically tied at 12 and 10%. in the poll from cnn and the university of new hampshire, sanders leads the rest of the field by a 9 point margin with 25%. biden, buttigieg and warren follow. all statistically tied with 16, 15 and 12% respectively. still ahead, president trump's defense team has started laying out their arguments in the senate impeachment trial. we're going to show you how lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are reacting so far. president trump launching a new attack against congressman adam schiff. schiff is accusing the president of trying to threaten him. that new back and forthcoming up

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin, we begin this half hour with more from the senate trial as the white house team makes its case against impeachment. republican senators rally around the defense laid out by president trump's lawyers on saturday. >> after the house began their case on the first day, i said i thought they did a good job of weaving a tappest tri, i thought

the house managers for the most part were very professional and articulate. what i would say today, that looks a lot different than it did a few days ago. and that's the way trials are conducted. >> within two hours, i thought that the white house counsel and our team entirely shredded the case that has been presented by the house managers. what we heard today was very concise. it was full of truths and facts as presented from the house managers' own witnesses. >> and senator rick scott of florida tweeted that trump's lawyers quote presented facts, not partisan rhetoric and innuendo. adam schiff got kneecaped. and senator mitt romney told reporters this, i think it's lookly i'll be in favor -- likely i'll be in favor of witnesses. lead impeachment prosecutor adam schiff blasted president trump's lawyers for depriving

americans of a fair trial. >> i think they're definitely afraid of what witnesses will have to say and so their whole strategy has been deprive the public of a fair trial. what was so striking to me, really about their case was that they basically acknowledged the scheme. they don't really contest the president's scheme. if they're successful in depriving the country of a trial, there's no exoneration. americans will recognize that the country did not get what the founders intended because they put the word try in the constitution for a reason. >> in his later twitter tirade, president donald trump focused his attention on congressman adam schiff, suggesting he will pay a price for his role in the impeachment trial. yesterday he tweeted the peechlt ho -- impeachment hoax is a massive election interference, the likes of which has never been seen before. shifty adam schiff is a corrupt

politician and very sick man. he has not paid the price for what he has done to our country. later in the morning, schiff responded to what the president had to say. >> this is a wrathful and vindictive president. i don't think there's a doubt about it. look at the president's tweet to me today, saying that i should pay a price. >> do you take that as a threat? >> i think it's intended to be? >> the president then deepened the fight following the interview calling schiff a conman. >> as president trump's impeachment trial continues, americans are being polled on whether the senate should vote and convict and remove him from office. 50% of voters said that the senate should move to impeach and remove trump from office. 44% disagreed, and 48% of americans said the senate has enough information to decide whether to convict and remove the president. 44% said the senate needs witnesses to testify. americans are divided in the latest "washington post" abc news poll, 47% said the senate should vote to convict and remove trump from office.

66% agreed that the senate should call new witnesses to testify in the impeachment trial. and there's also new polling on impeachment in some of the battle ground states around the nation. according to a baldwin wallace university poll, 50% of wisconsin and michigan voters believe the senate should convict and remove the president from office. that's followed by 49% of pennsylvanians. ohio is the most divided battleground state with 47% wanting the senate to convict and impeach the president, and 46% said they did not favor removal. in a new reporting obtained by nbc news, president trump appears to call for the ousting of u.s. ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch, and asks donors for an assessment of how long ukraine would survive against russia. according to lev parnas's lawyers, the recording is from an april 2018 dinner attended by rudy giuliani's now indicted associates that include obviously parnas and igor fruman. >> the biggest problem there i think we need to start is we got

to get rid of the ambassador. she's left over from the clinton investigation. >> the ambassador of ukraine. >> yeah, and she's basically walked around telling everyone, wait, he's going to get impeached. it's incredible. >> she'll be gone tomorrow. what's her name? >> i don't remember. >> one of the things that will be, now that we have a secretary of state -- >> get rid of her. get her out tomorrow. i don't care. get her out tomorrow. take her out. okay? >> excellent. >> how long would they last in a fight with russia? >> not very. >> i don't think very long. without us, not very long. >> so he appears to speak at length with ukraine and russia, a new indication that as early as march 2018, the president was seeking insight into how ukraine would fare without u.s. support. nbc news has not confirmed that

the voices on the tape are of trump, parnas and fruman. trump can be seen in early parts of the video. neither he nor the white house have disputed that the recording is authentic. >> joining us once again onset, political correspondent for business insider sonam sheth. 48% of americans said the senate has enough information to decide whether to convict and remove the president. 44% said the senate needed witnesses to testify and this other poll, "washington post," abc news poll, 47% saying the senate should vote to convict and remove the president. 49% said they should not, and 66% agreeing that the senate should call new witnesses to testify in the impeachment trial. we have talked a lot about how republicans are possibly looking at these polls to decide which direction they want to go in. how much into account do you think senate republicans are taking some of the polling? >> i think the big number to focus on is the 66% figure that you just cited because it shows

that a clear majority of the country thinks that the senate trial would not be complete and it would not be fair if they didn't call witnesses. we were talking about john bolton before, i mean, this "new york times" report is pretty much the biggest confirmation that they can't afford not to call witnesses. you know, and there's this interesting juxtaposition when we talk about people who think the senate has enough information to convict trump. that doesn't mean they don't need more information to find out if the scheme to essentially extort ukraine extended further than we know. they could very well have enough evidence to incriminate the president. that doesn't mean more wouldn't come to light, and the public shouldn't know that. >> we talked about this offline, you and i, about the timing of these bolton revelations and how they could complicate the president's defense which is supposed to get underway in earnest, despite the fact that it started on saturday, how do you see what revelations have come out of the bolton testimony, complicating the president's defense. what are we likely to see from today, are they likely to modify

or adjust or pivot as a result of this? >> i don't think there's a way for them to address the revelations without making the case for themselves more difficult. if we look at what they did on saturday, they essentially made the democrats entire case for them by essentially saying -- by saying there wasn't enough firsthand evidence in order to convict the president and now you have the president's former national security adviser according to this unpublished manuscript with that evidence, and so it's going to be really difficult for them to look at what bolton is claiming and to say that they still don't need more witnesses. >> considering what bolton likely has to say, if this is any indication of what he may testify to, what is your feeling as to whether or not the president would actually claim executive privilege if there were a vote in favor of calling witnesses, specifically john bolton to the senate floor to testify? >> i think it's a very likely possibility. it is worth noting that the president and the white house have not invoked executive privilege at any point so far throughout the entire

impeachment inquiry. all they've said is that he is quote absolutely immune from any kind of, not just any kind of prosecution but any kind of investigation all together. however, if they do see bolton as a threat, which all indications are that they do, considering he's such a high profile witness who was in the president's inner circle and of course has these notes to corroborate his potential testimony, it is very likely they would invoke executive privilege. >> what do you think the democrat dos in a situation li this, what do they do today besides go to the microphones and have press briefings saying we need to have witnesses, bolt i don't know come and testify. >> i don't think the democrats need to do anything because the president's lawyers seem to be making their case for them. all they really need to do is sit back because it seems like if today is anything like what saturday was, then the democrats are not going to need to really make an effort to push their case. >> we know the president's been up late last night tweeting about this. i'm sure we'll hear more from

him directly today. thank you so much, always a pleasure. >> thank you. nba icon kobe bryant killed along with eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter in a tragic helicopter accident in california yesterday. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. g joe" is back in a moment. you always want to be able to deliver relief for your patients. get them out of pain, get them out of pain fast. we have a new product out there: sensodyne rapid relief. if you use it on monday, by thursday, you'll be enjoying that chocolate ice cream again. they can start it, and 3 days later, i know that they're going to have the results they were looking for.

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the world is still in shock after nba icon kobe bryant was killed yesterday in a los angeles area helicopter crash. nbc news national correspondent miguel almaguer has the details. >> reporter: the fiery wreckage of the helicopter carrying kobe bryant and his daughter gianna. >> we have one copter down. >> reporter: was still smoldering when first responders arrived. >> all units responding to the brush fire. >> reporter: in the canyons of calabasas, officials confirmed the 41-year-old basketball superstar was with his

13-year-old girl and seven other people including the pilot when the chopper went down. headed to a travel basketball game, flight radar shows the f 76 seen here with bryant had been flying since 9:00 a.m. it appears to have crossed over downtown los angeles, glendale, and then calabasas, making a sudden u-turn at 2,300 feet, before rapidly descending into the hills. >> i heard the helicopter noise, was very low flying. >> witnesses said the conditions were foggy when the crash was followed by explosion. the retired laker, five time champion and oscar winner had long commuted via his own private helicopter, dubbed kobe one, to beat l.a. traffic. >> you still fly the helicopter? >> yeah. >> reporter: bryant recently spoke of air commuting on jimmy kimmel. >> i barely trust myself behind the wheel of a car. >> reporter: just hours before the fatal crash on instagram,

bryant paid tribute to lebron james who surpassed him as the third highest scorer in nba history. tributes for bryant pouring in from players, politicians, presidents, and fans. >> just disbelief, i mean, it's kobe. he's invincible. >> reporter: an nba icon and a family man, bryant shared his love for basketball with his daughter gianna. his life as legendary as tragic. kobe bryant survived by his wife vanessa and three daughters. >> i think that last guy really echoes what so many of us are feeling, utter and total disbelief and seeing the pictures of him with his family, and kids and wife, and looking so happy. it also just strikes me over the last 24 hours, i learned so much more about kobe bryant that i didn't necessarily know, and the man that he was behind basketball, and it shouldn't take moments like this for us to learn about others and individuals in general. >> beyond the headlines, what a remarkable athlete, remarkable family man.

thanks to nbc news miguel almaguer. let's get a check of your weather with bill karins. >> we wanted to see what was next with kobe. he was starting to write this great next chapter. >> oscar winner. >> now it's going to be incomplete. >> a lot more things in the works for him. >> a lot of questions about what caused the crash, a lot of speculation, fog possibly, who knows. mechanical. a lot of answers to come in the weeks and months ahead. so let's get into this forecast today. the worst weather in the country is going to be in the northwest. a big storm today, another one on wednesday, and we'll probably have flooding issues because of it. you can see the stream of moisture just coming into the west. the other thing that this happens when you have an active pacific pattern moving pretty much from west to east, it brings mild pacific air across the country ch there's not a lot of cold air to be found anywhere. the only issues is with the rainfall. when you look at the windchill values out there across the country, typically, this is late january, the heart of winter, the coldest, it's hard to find many freezing locations.

15 in minneapolis, that's one of the chilliest, even areas of kentucky feel like 41 this morning. not bad, boston to d.c., right around 31 degrees, and as far as today goes, another 50 degree day possible in washington, d.c. new york is going to be about 46. all of this is about 5 to 10 degrees warmer than normal. not a lot of cold air out there to be found. tomorrow, 48 in montana. usually this is where the cold air first comes down from canada, but as i said, this is mild pacific air and even through the end of this week, we're in the 30s and 40s, many areas of the great lakes and northeast, so it continues to be a very mild winter across the country. by the time we finish this week, should be one of the warmest januarys ever recorded. >> thanks, bill, appreciate the update. google under the microscope over what's being called monopolistic behavior. plus the economic impact of the coronavirus as it continues to spread. how the deadly disease sweeping through china is affecting u.s. markets at home. this story is driving your business day. all of that, next. driving your business day all of that, next.

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state attorneys general are set to meet with the justice department to possibly team up for their probes into google. joining us from c nbc, good morning to you. talk about this. why of the state ags and the state looking into the tech giant? >> looking into alphabet, google's parent company for potential monopolistic behavior. the fact google controls so much

of the advertising space and search traffic, there's concern this could harm consumers. if we do see these two different bodies come together, the u.s. state attorneys general and justice department attorneys it could mean more scrutiny for the tech giant. important for the tech base and consumers as well in turn. keeping with the text base, huawei is back in the news. there is debate reportedly swirling in washington over how to proceed in dealing with huawei. president trump has, of course, made it clear his issues with huawei viewing it as a national security risk and the u.s., of course, imposed restrictions on huawei last year. now pentagon officials are reportedly stalling a commerce department's bid to further limit the chinese tech giant's access to u.s. technology. the reason that the pentagon is

not key on limiting huawei further is because it could cost u.s. companies too much money, could start to impinge on their research, resources and be a handicap in terms of their own innovation. another story we're keeping a close eye on. >> quickly, i know the number continues to rise. 80 people or so perished in the deadly coronavirus sweeping china. how is the virus overseas affecting the stock market? five affected here in the u.s., obviously, but how is it affecting the stock markets? >> without a doubt the main driver of markets across the globe today. here in europe stocks are under a great deal of pressure and where you are in the u.s., the dow is looking to open more than 400 points lower. investors, very, very cautious, trying to understand the potential impact of the threat of this virus and trying to judge what the business and economic impact could be as well as, of course, the health concern primarily.

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all right. joining us from washington, d.c. way look at axios a.m., reporter mr. jonathan swan. great to you have with us on this monday morning. what is the "one big thing" for us? >> the stunning leak of the "new york times" of john bolton's unpublished manuscript which bolton's team sent to the white house, to the national security council for pre-publication review about three weeks ago. of course it matters, because bolton directly contradicts according to the report and this is not disputed by bolton's team, directly contradicts the central argument of the trump legal defense which is that trump did not link, at no point

did he link ukrainian aid and the holdup for his demand for investigations of democrats including his potential 2020 rival joe biden. it was a shock for the white house, rattled the white house yesterday. this was so closely held, senior officials i spoke to yesterday and last night did not know in most cases even the existence of this manuscript, the fact it had been transmitted saying maggie haberman and others at the "new york times" received this linked information before the white house press shop even knew that this manuscript existed, or was residing at the white house. how big this was yesterday, last night at the white house. >> stunning. >> is this going to force the hand of senate republicans now to vote in favor of witnesses or "witness" john bolton? >> well, it sure could according

to conversations i've had with republican aides. to be clear, we don't know or the usual caveat. but already two senate republican strongly signaled they're likely to vote for witnesses. utah's mitt romney and susan collins of maine. and a waiver, from all accounts, tortured about this, it's very, very un -- is very, very urn certain what to do next, lisa murkowski, another person. if anything changed dynamic in the senate, only this, it was only this new revolution of new information from a firsthand witness. the trump defense team, which comes back today for their second day of arguments, they van audience of about four or five and they need to somehow persuade them that this material is immaterial, and that it somehow is not relevant to the trial and that they can proceed for a vote without calling in

john bolton. >> any ideas what their plans are in doing that, jonathan? >> my colleague, elena treen based on reporting from last night, they're going to argue just that. that it doesn't matter, doesn't change the facts of the case. that they received the aid. that president trump met with zelensky in the end, but i mean, that -- that can really, it sort of misses the central point which is that the president has been arguing all along he never tied the holdup of ukrainian aid to these investigation, denied it against tonight and john bolton's book apparently directly contradicts that. i don't see any way around that, but these senate republicans are incredibly, in many cases, devoted to trump, in many cases forced to be devoted to him, because they're getting furious calls from constituents saying, stick with donald trump. better not abandon him. >> their own re-election is tied to the president as well.

>> jonathan from washington, always a pleasure. axios a.m., read it in a bit. that does it for us on "first look." "morning joe" starts right now. 19-year-old young black men. there are a lot of other young black men out there watching you this morning. what do you say to them about their responsibility in terms of families? you come from a very strong family and as you know the black community has a problem with young black children. what do you say to young black men watching today? >> at times, i was fortunate to have a family a strong family background. >> wonderful mom and dad? >> wonderful mom and dad, two older sisters. in some cases they don't have that love to latch on to. they have to be strong individuals and dig deep inside themselves and not look for other venues and a negative path to walk down, because there are so many