senator mitt romney said it's increasingly likely that he and his fellow republicans will vote to have witnesses, although i'm not sure we can trust a guy who blows out birthday candles like this. come on. who does that. he's taking his time. as "politico" writes this morning, mitt makes his moving and he's not the only republican to break ranks it seems one at a time. the president's attorneys spent much of day two going

after the bidens, and former president obama. one person they tried to avoid hard, john bolton. and perhaps she said too much, why the biden campaign says republican senator joni ernst just helped make their case. >> is that how you blow out your birthday candles. >> just one at a time. >> maybe we have been doing it wrong all these years. you know who would hate that by 3-year-old child who wants to dig in. >> head first into the cake. >> good morning, tuesday, january 28th, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. we begin with the fallout from john bolton's manuscript and his reported firsthand account of the president tieing ukraine to investigations of joe biden and his son. the president's legal team mostly ignored the bomb shell during their defense on the senate floor choosing not to take it on directly until about

8 1/2 hours into their nine-hour day. we're going to get to that part in just a moment. first, the fight over witnesses as two key republican senators say support appears to be growing for the former national security adviser to testify. senator susan collins released a statement that reads in part this, the reports about john bolton's book strengthen the case for witnesses and have prompted a number of conversation amongst my colleagues, and here's senator mitt romney followed by some of his other republican colleagues. >> it's increasingly apparent it would be important to hear from john bolton but i think at this stage it's pretty fair to say that john bolton has a relevant testimony to provide to those of us who are sitting in impartial justice. i think it's increasingly likely that other republicans will join those of us who think we should hear from john bolton. >> two things, when is john bolton is no shrinking violet. hoo he's not afraid of the camera. and he has bold strong opinions.

any microphone is open to john bolton, everybody's welcome to hear it. the second thing is, we need to be able to see that manuscript at some point. there are ways they can go ahead and make that available to the senators and have a chance to be able to see it, and know more about it, rather than have it out there. i don't think it's unrealistic, the white house has a copy. it's not finished. all of us have classification on it. we should be able to reveal it. >> i don't know what's in the manuscript. if there's need to add to the record, my view is we're going to completely add to the record, not selectively, and i'll let you know thursday if i think there's a need. if the senate needs to secure testimony from john bolton, i will say so, if i think that's necessary for fairness, but i also have said for weeks, if we call one witness, we're going to call witnesses requested by the president. >> and alan dershowitz serving on president trump's impeachment defense team argued that even if

former national security adviser john bolton's claims were true that the president did in fact withhold military aid to ukraine for an investigation into the bidens, they do not warrant impeachment. in fact, here's dershowitz's defense, at least part of it last night. >> now, it follows from this that if a president, any president, were to have done what the "times" reported about the context of the bolton manuscript, that would not constitute an impeachable offense. let me repeat, nothing in the bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense. that is clear from the history. that is clear from the language of the constitution. you cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words

like quid pro quo and personal benefit. it is inconceivable that the framers would have intended so politically loaded and pedeploy a term to be weaponized as a tool of impeachment. it is precisely the vague, open ended and subjective term that the framers feared and rejected. >> so trump's defense attorney ken starr took to the senate floor to warn of the dangers of a presidential impeachment, although that is precisely what he pushed for as independent counsel at former president clinton's trial. >> significantly in this particular juncture in america's history, the senate is being called to sit as the high court of impeachment all too frequently. indeed, we are living in what i think can aptly be described as

the age of impeachment. like war, impeachment is hell or at least presidential impeachment is hell. those of us who lived through the clinton impeachment, including members of this body full well understand that a presidential impeachment is tantamount to domestic war thankfully protected by our beloved first amendment, a war of words and a war of ideas. but it's filled with acrimony and it divides the country like nothing else. >> all right, joining us onset, nbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, and gabby orr, great to have both of you with us. danny we tried to play a little bit of what was a very long day from the president's defense team, alan dershowitz, ken

starr, two different legal styles and they seem to have contradicted themselves about the role of abuse of power and what is impeachable and what is not. let me get your thoughts, first of all, how did it play out, what was your big take away in terms of the president's defense. >> the big take away had to be the giant elephant in the room in the form of john bolton that went almost completely unmentioned by the defense except for a brief snippet by alan dershowitz, the defense focused on putting hunter biden on trial, a risky proposition for two reasons, it smacks of what about -- what aboutism, you're suggesting that the reason that president trump ever got involved with ukraine and making this phone call is he was a crusader of corruption. that's a really tough sell. it's been a tough sell since the beginning that the president bypasses the normal channels to

fight corruption and hones in on someone he particularly believes to be a threat to the united states that just so happens to be the son of his newly announced political rival. that's the challenge in putting hunter biden on trial. it's a gamut, it's a risk, and the republicans have doubled down on it. >> we began to see wavering from a lot of republican senators with the fact of calling witnesses as we heard from lindsey graham, it's the first time we're hearing from someone like senator lindsey graham, there is a possibility of calling witnesses of course with the witness exchange is what he would like to see hunter biden on the stand. also bring up msnbc contributor, barbara mcquaid, basically saying the president waived his right to executive privilege yesterday when he in fact tweeted about john bolton's manuscript, disputing the claims that had been made by "the new york times" in the reporting of his manuscript. what do you make of that? >> privilege is something that comes up with lawyers a lot.

attorney/client privilege, privilege is not a default. privilege has to be carefully maintained. if you talk about a matter at a cocktail party where everyone can hear it, it's waived. if you discussed it in public, it can be waived because you have given it to a third party. courts have said when it comes to executive privilege, you shouldn't assume or infer a waiver lightly. there has to be an actual waiver of it, but discussing the actual content of conversations could constitute a waiver of this privilege. after all, privilege is designed to protect these communications so there's free discussion between people about anything that may come to mind. but if they're out there talking about it, there's no longer any need. >> before we get to gabbie, i want you to weigh in on this. is there precedent to see which way courts normally rule when it comes to executive privilege? >> there isn't a lot, but some courts, like the d.c. court have held that you don't automatically infer a waiver.

there has to be something akin to actually waiving that privilege, so it's not something that just happens accidentally, but in this case, if president trump is raising the content of his conversations, then you do have a potential waiver of that privilege, which again, is designed for the president to protect his confidential communications. >> gabbie let me get your thoughts on this. what can you tell us about the white house's political strategy since the bolton revelations is taking shape, if at all? >> the white house has absolutely been forced to recalibrate its entire strategy since the bolton bomb shell came out sunday night. mick mulvaney's the president's chief of staff, and of course attorney general william barr's spokesperson made a statement denying the allegations in john bolton's forthcoming book, so they are launching basically a full court press against these allegations but at the same time, behind the scenes, they're

circulating talking points to republican senators and trying very hard to placate republican senators who frankly felt blind sided by the revelations in john bolton's book. a lot of republicans complained to the white house yesterday and the past 24 hours based on what sources inside are telling me that they essentially just felt like these allegations came out of nowhere and it has completely changed the calculus of this impeachment trial. >> danny cevallos onset, thank you very much, gabby orr, we're going to talk to you again in just a little bit. still ahead, joe biden says she spilled the beans, what iowa senator joni ernst said about the president's defense, and the impact it could have on biden's chances at next week's iowa caucuses. we are back in a moment. caucuses we are back in a moment. hello, son.

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iowa caucuses next week. here's how she put it. watch. >> iowa caucuses are this next monday evening and i'm really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the iowa caucus voters, those democratic caucus goers, will they be supporting vice president biden at this point. >> so the biden campaign responded to the republican senator's comments saying in part quote senator ernst just said the quiet part out loud. republicans are terrified that joe biden will be the democratic nominee. donald trump himself was so afraid of running against joe biden that he became the only president in american history who tried to force a foreign country to lie on behalf of his struggling reelection campaign. biden himself also responded on twitter writing in part, iowa caucus goers take note, joni ernst just spilled the beans, she and donald trump are scared to death i'll be the nominee. the iowa caucuses will take

place on monday, february 3rd. president trump's defense team spent its second day of arguments on the senate floor focused on tearing down former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. >> when the house managers gave you their presentation, when they submitted their brief, they repeatedly referenced hunter biden and burisma. when the house managers gave you their presentation, when they submitted their brief, they repeatedly referenced hunter biden and burisma. they spoke to you for over 21 hours and they referenced biden or burisma over 400 times. and when they gave these presentations, they said there was nothing, nothing to see. it was a sham. this is fiction. the reason they needed to do

that is because they are here saying that the president must be impeached and removed from office for raising a concern. and that's why we have to talk about this today. hunter biden had no experience in natural gas, no experience in the energy sector. no experience with ukrainian regulatory affairs. as far as we know, he doesn't speak ukrainian, so naturally, the media has asked questions about his board membership. why was hunter biden on this board? >> so in response to the attacks, biden's campaign released a statement reading in part this, we didn't realize that breitbart was expanding into ted talk knockoffs here on planet earth. the conspiracy theory that bondi repeated has been refuted. the diplomat has blasted it as self-serving and not credible. joe biden was instrumental to a

bipartisan and international anti-corruption victory. it's no surprise that such a thing as anathama to president trump. >> also argued that it shouldn't be president trump getting impeached but president obama for supposedly receiving help from russia in the 2012 presidential election. >> using the powers of his high office, president obama solicited interference of a foreign government, russia, in the 2012 united states presidential election. he did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the government of russia to give him space quote unquote on missile defense that would benefit his reelection and influence the 2012 united states presidential election to his advantage. in doing so, president obama used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the united states and undermined the integrity of

the united states democratic process. he thus ignored and injured the interests of the nation close quote. does it sound familiar, house managers, it should. as the case against president obama would have been far stronger than the allegations against president trump. >> oh, to be a fly on the wall during the strategy sessions as they were planning their defense. >> just throw everything at it and see what sticks kind of approach. >> basically. >> the supreme court hands the president a victory on his immigration policy. and secretary of state mike pompeo gets revenge against npr. what the state department is doing after his clash with a reporter. we're back in a moment. his clasa reporter we're back in a moment and wondering if that was the last time i was going to do that thing. i thought i'm not letting anything take me away from my family that loves me and needs me without a fight. when i came to cancer treatment centers of america, it felt so different from any other

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ruling, the supreme court is allowing the trump administration to begin denying green cards to those it considers are likely to become overly dependent on government aid. in august, the department of homeland security said it would expand the definition of quote public charge to apply to people whose entry could be denied because of a concern they would require federal assistance such as medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers. in the past that assessment was largely based on if the immigrant would be dependent upon cash benefits. the newly revised rule expands the criteria to include noncash benefits providing for basic needs such as housing or food used more than 12 months in a 36 month period. roughly 544,000 people apply for

green cards annually. according to the government, 382,000 are in categories that would make them subject to this new ruling. and after secretary of state mike pompeo's spat with npr host mary louise kelly, the state department has removed a different npr reporter from the secretary's trip. the initial interview was a tense exchange with kelly repeatedly asking the secretary about the firing of un ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. said pompeo launched out on her after she pressed him on that and other issues. he claimed he agreed only to talk about iran, attacked kelly saying she lied about the interview topics and their private encounter after the interview being off the record describing her actions as shameful, kelly said she never agreed to talk to secretary pompeo off the record. the state department's

correspondence association responded days after secretary pompeo criticized the work of an npr host, the state department is retaliating against national public radio as a result of this exchange. in response, nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent tweeted this out saying previous secretaries have fought for press freedoms as a foundational principle around the world, what about here at home. the state department has not responded to requests for comments. >> incredibly troubling developments to say the least. >> it's safe to say this administration has had a lot of animosity towards american journalists in general. it comes from the president. we're now seeing it manifested at the state department with secretary of state pompeo. the language he's using and more importantly, expelling reporters from an upcoming trip i think is something that a lot of americans would be troubled by. let's switch gears and get a check of your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> good tuesday morning, all the problems are in the middle of the country. that's where we're having a storm system. a little bit of snow for friends

in areas of kansas and oklahoma. dallas you have rain if you're heading out early this morning, san antonio, eventually into houston and all of eastern portions of texas. the area of greatest concern is where we have had the snow overnight. mini snowstorm from garden city to dodge city, kansas and eventually trying to work its way towards wichita. we have a large area here under winter weather advisories, even a winter storm warning from woodward, oklahoma, northwards, and this sliver, we think we could get an additional 4 inches of snow. probably school cancellations and significant delays there. some will move to joplin and spr springfield, missouri, but nothing too bad. the dallas area by about noon today you should be about all clear. houston, afternoon showers and storms. this is at 6:00 p.m., are the rain towards texarkana, and then tomorrow morning, new orleans into areas of southern mississippi will get some of that, and we'll have a little bit of snow possible in areas of

missouri, and nthen tomorrow during the day, atlanta and florida. the east coast looks gorgeous, no problems at all. mid-40s, pretty mild for this time of year, not quite as warm as yesterday. all the troublesome weather is in the middle of the country. remember i was saying yesterday, the weekend storm would miss and be off the coast. a fewer have closer to the northeast. i'll break that down and show you. >> the snow could be in the forecast. >> you have to wait about 25 minutes from now. >> you are going to revise your forecast, basically is what you're saying. >> that's how we stay in business. >> keep us guessing, thanks, bill. still ahead, more revelations from john bolton's book. what he's saying about his private conversations with attorney general bill barr. how the fight over impeachment witnesses could soon end in a deal, who's involved and how it's all shaping up. we'll tell you about that and much more. you about that and much more. and the clock could be ticking towards bad breath, receding gums, and possibly... tooth loss. help turn back the clock on gingivitis with parodontax. leave bleeding gums behind.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin, we begin this half hour with new revelations from former national security adviser john bolton's upcoming book. detailing his unease over trump's foreign policy and not just with ukraine. "the new york times" is reporting that according to the unpublished manuscript, bolton privately told attorney general bill barr last year that he had concerns that trump was effectively granting personal favors to the autocratic leader of china and turkey. barr pointed to justice department investigations of companies in those countries and said he was worried that trump had created the appearance that

he had undue influence over what would typically be independent inquiries. backing up his point, barr mentioned conversations trump had with the leaders. president erdogan of turkey, and xi jinping of china. nbc news has not seen a copy of the manuscript or verified the report which cited multiple sources. an aide for the former national security adviser has issued a statement categorically denying any coordination with the "new york times" or anyone else regarding the appearance of information about his book. however, nbc news reports that a single hard copy of bolton's book was delivered last month to the white house for a national security review. what happened to the copy of the book is unknown to john bolton's team, but it appears copies of it were made. bolton's team said it submitted the book quote in good faith, and now feels that process was corrupted. bolton does not intend to speak publicly about the ukraine issue until questions about his potential testimony are resolved f. he were to testify, he plans

to do so as a fact witness. >> and mounting pressure for witnesses to be called at president trump's impeachment trial has reportedly led to a potential agreement among republican lawmakers, citing gop officials, "the washington post" is reporting that senator pat toomey has confined to republican senators including mitt romney that proposing a one for one deal with democrats may be necessary at some point, arguing that such an arrangement could force democrats to accept the republican witness against their wishes or else risk having republicans move ahead to acquit trump. according to the post, the proposal came up in private conversations at yesterday's closed senate lunch. instead, mcconnell told senate republicans during yesterday's launch to wait on any witness deal proposal until after trump's legal team is done making its defense on the senate floor. republican senator john toomey projected that the vote on witnesses will happen on friday or saturday at the latest. >> let's talk day two of the

president's defense team yesterday as president trump's impeachment trial, the lawyers for the president latched on to the no quid pro quo argument as a defense tactic. watch this. >> president zelensky and other ukrainian officials repeatedly said there was no quid pro quo, and no pressure on them to review anything. >> how could the house managers claim that there was a quid pro quo for a meeting with president trump when the two presidents actually did meet without president zelensky announcing any investigations. well, the house managers moved the goal posts again. no one testified in the house record that the president ever said there was a connection between a meeting and investigations. those are the facts plain and simple. so much for a quid pro quo for a meeting with the president. if the evidence doesn't show a quid pro quo, what does it show.

there was no linkage between investigations and security assistance or a meeting on the july 25 call. the ukrainians said there was no quid pro quo and they felt no pressure. >> and president trump's defense attorney alan dershowitz spent much of his time during his opening statement yesterday discussing his own contradictory reviews on impeachment today versus 1998 during the impeachment trial of president bill clinton. >> during the clinton impeachment, i stated in an interview that i did not think that a technical crime was required but that i did think that abusing trust could be considered. i said that. at that time, i had not done the extensive research on that issue because it was irrelevant to the clinton case, and i was not fully aware of the compelling counter arguments. so i simply accepted the academic consensus on an issue that was not on the front burner at the time. but because this impeachment directly raises the issue of whether criminal behavior is

required, i have gone back and read all the relevant historical material as nonpartisan academics should always do, and have now concluded that the framers did intend to limit the criteria for impeachment to criminal type acts akin to treason, bribery and they certainly did not intend to extend it to vague and open-ended and non criminal accusations such as abuse of power and obstruction of congress. i published this academic conclusion well before i was asked to present the arguments to the senate in this case. my switch in attitude purely academic, purely non partisan. >> dershowitz obviously spending a significant amount of time trying to explain something he was on the record saying during the clinton impeachment trial. joining us once again, white house reporter for "politico," gabby orr, major moments yesterday, to say the least, i want you to weigh in on that. what do you make of dershowitz's

opening statement and his comparison between the clinton and trump impeachments? >> well, it's definitely something that he had to take time to explain, and the statement that he made yesterday actually contradicted what he said over the weekend when he was on the cable news circuit telling people that his position actually was the same as it was during the clinton impeachment trial, that there was no inconsistency, and then yesterday during that opening statement that you just played, you heard dershowitz saying, actually, i took in a lot of information, i read a lot of academic papers. i think at one point he referenced former supreme court justice benjamin cur ttis who played the role of defense attorney in the johnson impeachment trial, said he learned from he. now he has taken out a different position on this. the fact that he even had to dedicate any portion of his opening remarks yesterday to explaining this position distracts from the entire trump

defense strategy, i believe. >> i don't necessarily think it looks good optically as well to admit the fact that i didn't do my due diligence and research then, when i made an on the record statement to something as huge as impeachment of a president of the united states. >> what will happen for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle? >> right now, republicans are definitely trying to make sure their conference is all on the same page about moving forward with witnesses. mitch mcconnell is making every effort to ensure the republican congress is in lock step with him. they want a speedy trial. they want to wrap things up, and if there is a vote on witnesses later this week, either on friday or saturday, it could potentially open up a can of worms for both parties. republicans and democrats, the idea that they could get this one for one witness deal that we just talked about that senator toomey was proposing is highly unlikely. instead, both parties would be trying to make a play for the witnesses they feel would boost each of their cases the most.

>> i find it interesting what's happening with the defense argument, is that they're omitting the role of rudy giuliani in all of this because the lot of this was based on what the president instructed giuliani to do, and giuliani was the one saying i want the meeting reportedly telling others the aid will be held up if this doesn't come through. >> which is also very much part of the reporting we have seen with regards to bolton's manuscript. gabby orr, appreciate your voice on this. 2020 democrats take aim at senator bernie sanders as new polls show the vermont independent surging ahead of the field with less than a week before the iowa caucuses begin. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. is back in a moment.

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happens. the latest e-mail echoes the buttigieg campaign that began this weekend to question sanders electability against president trump in november. buttigieg said he stood by the e-mails but yesterday dodged questions about them on the trail. >> you obviously think that they're the best candidate to take on donald trump but do you think bernie sanders would lose to them. >> my focus is on the fact that my campaign is the best position. >> you sent out a fundraising. >> we had a conversation about him with regards to policy. >> no, we didn't. >> my focus, while reporters, i'm sure are eager to get me to do others is to remain as focused as possible on my own campaign. >> why send a fundraising e-mail and not speak about him in the press. >> i'm focused on my own campaign. >> while senator bernie sanders surges in the polls, some democrats who are afraid that he could secure the party's nomination, they're discussing a potential push to attack the vermont senator.

"the daily beast" reports this, a group of loosely affiliated operatives have been in discussions about putting together an effort to attack sanders if he wins the iowa caucuses and new hampshire primary next month. according to two sources, the talks which are in its early stages have been driven by the fear that sanders could win the nomination early in the campaign without having faced much push back. the sources say that the talks have hit a snag as big democratic donors and institutions associated with the party are reluctant to fund an effort to take on sanders on fear of backlash or the possibility of him becoming the eventual nominee. according to fec records, as of monday, a little over $32 has been spend by independent groups directly targeting sanders so far. however, that amount is expected to increase in the coming days. and a new set of polls show that the democratic primary race in iowa narrowing with less than a week before the caucuses begin, and the latest emerson poll, senator bernie sanders sits in first place at 30%, up 8 points since december and 9 points ahead of the rest of the

democratic primary field. former vice president joe biden at 21% falls to second place. senator amy klobuchar with 13% of support sits in third place, up 3. senator elizabeth warren has 11%, down 1 point. former mayor pete buttigieg falls to 5th place, down 8 points since december. klobuchar, warren and buttigieg are statistically tied in the poll's 5 point margin of error. the newest usa today suffolk university poll shows biden leading in iowa, 6 points ahead of the field. sanders at 19% and buttigieg at 18% are statistically tied sitting within the poll's 4 point margin of error. warren has 13%, falling 4 points since october, and klobuchar rounds out the top five with 6%. she is up 3. let's switch gears and bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins with a quick check on your weather. you promised to give an update on the weekend 45 minutes later. >> that will be at the end. >> what? >> not the end of the show.

>> i was like all right. >> let's get into this warm weekend, this warm winter we have been dealing with. this is the amount of ice that's typically on the great lakes this time of year. usually it's cold, the ice is forming. notice the 51% on lake erie, let me show you what the ice is right now on all the lakes. we have 1% ice coverage right now on lake erie. that's kriincredible, the lowes recorded. if we have cold shots in february, we have a chance for significant lake effect snow. that's not in the cards at least yet. snowfall deficits, washington, d.c. hasn't had an inch yet. 6 inches behind normal. new york city, 4.8 inches, philadelphia .3, and boston, 14 inches of snow. what's going to happen this upcoming weekend. our storm system, the storm in the making is going to be in the gulf here as we come out of friday so it looks like on friday, rain throughout the southeast, rain through florida.

then the storm friday evening begins to move up with a rainy friday evening for your plans and beautiful charleston, myrtle beach heading up through wilmington twarld toward the ou banks. saturday, this is our european model, takes the storm in two pieces, along the coast, the little blue area made brushing areas from hartford to providence, out on cape cod but the majority of the storm at least on the european model is off the coast and heading up toward nova scotia and halifax could deal with a blizzard type storm. the european model does have a little storm behind it that's going to bring snow into the areas of the great lakes saturday evening and that should dive through saturday night the mid atlantic possibly with a little bit of light snow. it's in two pieces, the energy and the atmosphere is not all together to consolidate into one big storm, and that's why it looks like kind of a glancing blow type scenario. we have that snow today in areas of kansas but the bottom line is right now, at least on the european model, guys, it does

not look like a big snow event for the northeast. still five days away, plenty of time to change, and in case you're wondering, our u.s. long range model which isn't as accurate. >> that's what i was going to say, the european model seems more accurate. >> the u.s. one does have more snow in the i-95 corridor. >> we need to do a segment on what the difference is between the european and u.s. model. what does it mean, why do they get it right more often. >> they have better sampling. >> you just killed my segment idea. >> we don't need a whole segment. they have better computing power. they spent more money on it. >> bill karins, thank you very much. >> we're working on it, though. >> still ahead, bill karins is working on it. the economic -- in his basement. the economic impact of the coronavirus as chinese manufacturing is put on hold, u.s. markets experienced the sharpest decline since october. plus, while the world mourns the loss of superstar kobe bryant, one sector appears to be

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welcome back. the deadly coronavirus now claimed more than 100 lives, and the business world is starting to react across the board unsurprisingly. joining us live from london, juliana give us an update. how the global stock markets are reacting in regards to the coronavirus. >> it's fair to say the

coronavirus sent shock waves through global markets. yesterday the s&p 500 and dow both saw their worst trading day since october. the nasdaq, tech-heavy index saw its worse trading day since august. investors pausing and taking a cautious approach to trade as we monitor the situation closely. the virus outbreak also prompted action from automakers who have evacuated workers from the affected regions in china, prompting delays at chinese factories. meanwhile, boeing, this is away from the coronavirus, boeing reportedly secured more than $12 billion in financing from banks to try to help whether the fallout from the 737 max crisis, seen as a vote of confidence to some degree in the plane maker. >> and i know quickly sneaker capitalizing on kobe bryant's unexpected death. what more can you tell us about this? >> yes. we've seen a surge in prices of

a kobe bryant, kobe bryant's gear on the marketplaces in the wake of his tragic death on sunday. these resalers are facing a huge amount of criticism. peel effectively saying we wan to mourn the death of this superstar who transcended basketball and don't think you should be profiting from his death. >> all right. live from london. thanks. up next a look at axios' "one big thing." coming up on "morning joe," as president trump defense team lays out its case, reaction from the lead impeachment congress leader adam schiff, our guest. and the 2020 presidential candidate amy klobuchar will also join the conversation. "morning joe," everyone, just moments away. with type 2 diabetes like james lower their blood sugar. a majority of adults who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. here's your a1c. oh! my a1c is under 7!

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>> good. talk to us about axios's "one big thing" today? >> yesterday i was leak add handful of emails from the democratic committee's war roomy essentially works on anti-trump messaging among other things. interesting to me, these emails show add revealing twist how democrats are vying the senate impeachment trial. on clear defense over the bidens especially hunter biden. watching the way in which republicans and trump's legal team try to drag hunter biden's character through the mud, try to muddy the waters saying that joe biden and hunter biden did something sketchy in ukraine and while we all know that hunter biden, there's no evidence of any wrongdoing with him, democrats know that they're trying to win over the court of public opinion. now we're seeing a way in which the party is sending essentially talking points to their top pendants and surrogates how to mount a rebuttal. they don't want people tuning in to see the misinformation and start to believe it and

ultimately hurt joe biden's candidacy in 2020. >> the senate is bracing for a possible vote to call witnesses and documents in trump's impeachment trial. some saying as early as friday maybe even saturday. how could the votes afford vulnerables particulars chamber? likely to see more than four or just the vulnerable four? >> we know the four who are most likely it vote in favor of having more witnesses and documents. lisa murkowski, susan collins, lamar alexander, mitt romney. if those four vote other vulnerables republicans will feel free to vote in favor of that as well. like cory gardner, and a handful of others and that worries republicans. they know once those four vote in favor of this, harder to keep

their caucus in control and in line. a lot of these senators have to look out for their own personal political fortunes and whether or not they're going to win re-election this november. >> we saw yesterday, alexi, basically in the elastic 30 minutes of the president's defense team addressing john bolton's yet to be released book. how has the defense strategy changed in general with regards to this unpublished manuscript. >> it's interesting, as you mentioned, his legal team didn't bring up john bolton and his forthcoming book until the last 30 minutes of the hearing yesterday, because we're hearing republican senators and their aides are frustrated about the way in which john bolton's manuscript leaked to the "new york times," was showing up in the media and that's the way a lot of these republicans found out about what was in this book and what john bolton is alleging, and that ultimately makes it more difficult for trump's legal team to get ahead of this, when they are constantly arguing that trump

had no idea about what was going on in ukraine and wasn't withholding military aid for his own gain when john bolton's manuscript says completely otherwise. if he become as witness, then senators and others will have lots of questions for john bolton that will ultimately put trump's legal team in a tricky position as they're just trying to help president trump and not really following the facts. >> i was going to say, our kasie hunt reports even mitch mcconnell did not know about the bolton book arriving at the white house. i'm really curious to see what other republicans on the hill have been kind of saying about the fact that the white house kept this from them and whether or not this could have helped them at least prepare some talking points about the book going forward. >> exactly right. we've heard from various republican senators and aides who say they're frustrated that they learned about this an mu script from the "new york times" rather than from folks in their own party. this follow as pattern we've seen which is that trump's team hasn't really had a clear

strategy how to handle impeachment and this is another part of that. >> hoping if you don't talk about it, just goes away. nerve are the case in washington, d.c. alexis verify canal. >> especially when you're on the record for all your interviews. lots of cameras. >> reading axios a.m. in a bit. you it sign up for the newsletter at signup@axios.com. that does it for us. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. not a single witness testified that the president himself said there was any connection between any investigation in security assistance, a presidential meeting or anything else. >> jay sekulow, meet john bolton. 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 there helped with investigations targeting joe biden, his son hunter, and other