let's bring in ali risk ali is a middle east expert let's bring in ali risk ali is a middle east experts and friend of the program ali just almost lost her point moscow has written a friend of the program ali just all not lost her point moscow has raised doubts about what bae dubey was doing in an area controlled by al nusra those 2 days darts about what baghdadi was doing in an area controlled by al nusra those 2 groups have been vying for supremacy in that region for quite some time. groups have been vying for supremacy and not reaching for quite some time do you share those dots. do you share those dots. it is so a little bit strict and. i think it is so a little bit strange but i think that in the end. who were there. to seek refuge in those areas you have to remember that the isis was largely in a state of in those areas you have to remember that the isis was largely in a state of defeat you know at this current phase so it might have made sense defeat you know at this current phase so it might have made sense for the to make some concessions or to join forces for the to make some c

to do for you over the guys or slices of the fun thank you very much ali ali thank you why is homelessness such an intractable problem experts would tell you it's because it encompasses so many other issues mental health family breakup social security breakdown now that any and all of these things are important however few would seriously argue that homelessness that is those without permanent accommodation and still less rough sleeping is a positive life choice so why is it therefore that one of the world's wealthiest most powerful cities rob sleeping is remorselessly rising not falling as we have seen politicians are passing the parcel and of course the responsibility however no one can see to sleep claim that the level of power to a quarter to this you amass allocated to breaks it are in any sort of proportion and therefore those at the front line of initiatives to face during the crisis you tell encouragement and support. no one in the bricks and soup kitchen believes that their actions alone can tackle the issue but equally no one believes that their individual successes are anything

destination for german businesses but sealing deals is no longer as easy as it once was even for ali amare ali kerry who's medical technology company isn't directly affected by the sanctions. can relate to those difficulties he runs a company that makes medical devices used for lab tests the products are exported to armenia afghanistan and iraq but europeans seem to be interested in them too and they are surprised when they see or pulled out something for iranian products it could have a very good day to eat don't have a negative post were of sanctions even i heard some countries deal a lot of iranian companies to stand an exhibit in other of our main problem which is monitoring aspirin to try to find waste continuing our business. back to the construction site allium mario is hoping to have about 100 people working here in a few months from now he's not concerned about demand but he is worried about how his foreign customers will be able to pay him pressure from the u.s. has discouraged most international banks from facilitating bank transfers with iran . we need to solve this problem have we

>> i think they will be very unhappy, because all of your ali alies, partners, australia, new zealandd, all treaty, have china as the biggest trading partner. if you ask them to prove, and therefore i must cut off my links, that puts them in a very difficult position. singapore is not an ally, but a close partner to the united states, but we also have the biggest trading links with china, as well as the united states. >>> what do you think the world of technology looks like if the united states continues on the path of the trump administration, which is banning huawei, fearing there's going to be, you know, the chinese technology will have within it a kind of espionage component. will you end up with a bipolar world of two technology systems? >> it was heading in that direction. i think if you take this attitude, it cannot stop with huawei, because it's basically you don't trust them, and you have reason to doubt whether everything can be taken at face value. by the same token, they are unable to trust you, and they will ask why do we allow your operating systems, your chips, your tec

ali velshi. ali, you know we love this topic. >> yeah. >> i checked to see when was the last time president trump actually spoke about the economy and his legislative agenda. it was monday at that cabinet meeting. but he didn't talk about anything specific. >> no. he talked about how great it is. >> all he says over and over again is how great the economy is. so let's go back in history for a moment. joe biden and barack obama presided over an economy that came out of complete financial ruin from the crisis. and it is true. the auto industry improved. obviously wall street improved. banks improved. but there were holes in america that still suffered. those holes helped propel president trump to win the election. here's the issue. those holes are still empty. >> yep. >> president trump hasn't delivered. will joe biden and other democratic candidates be able to expose that? the president can't just go on slogans. this is his watch and these areas are still suffering. >> people without jobs, people without wage increases, people in towns where factories close, where they can't sell their house, they know. the slogans don't help. they know what their situation is. and that continues to be the intractable problem for the next president. good to see you, friend. see you in the morning. >> see you tomorrow. >> all right. right now katy tur picks up our coverage here in new york. hey, friend. >> hey, alihank you very much. it is 11:00 a.m. out west and 2:00 p.m. in washington where we've now been told by a high-level diplomat that there was a quid pro quo with ukraine and that the president directed it. today is day 30 of the impeachment inquiry. here's what's happening. diplomat bill taylor confirmed that while the president denied a quid pro quo with ukraine over military aid he nonetheless demanded a clear this for that exchange. "president trump said it was not a quid pro quo. ambassador sondland said that he had talked to president zelensky and mr. yermak and told them that although this was not a quid pro quo if president zelensky did not clear things up

if you wanted to be muhammad ali, muhammad ali said i got no quarrel with the vietcong. he went to battle. he raised his title. he risked his life and liberty in the united states to fight for something he believed in. lebron james had an opportunity here and this is what so disappointing to me. if you want to be political, lebron james last night had an opportunity to say you know what, i'm an american, i came from nothing, i one day might be a billionaire, that's because america embraces liberty, we embrace human rights, we embrace freedom of religion, freedom of speech, all these things, and i believe that all of the world, including 1.4 billion people in china, should have the exact same rights that i had as a kid growing up in akron, ohio. he didn't say that though. >> tucker: the left does not get credit for being as greedy as they are. it's clinton and obama, all of them, bernie sanders, they agreed heads. travis, great to see you tonight. thank you. senator josh hawley of missouri just returned a few years ago from his visit to hong kong for the night he tweeted

but they need to work with ali and support us and get kayla home and the other boys. >> you -- you've been working. you talk about ali. it's ali sofan, former special agent who you've been working with. you told fox news this morning that that effort has uncovered things that apparently the u.s. government didn't even know about. >> yes. when we went to irbil, kurds, and part of that was because they didn't directly ask about kayla. ali went over there with us to ask about kayla. and when he did and talked with him, he got more information. >> marcia, what do you want people to know about kayla? >> oh, my. she -- her heart for people. i think we could all learn from kayla. she's taught me so much about just people are precious. and you've got to learn to work with each other. you've got to learn from other people in order to make yourself better. and that'll make the world better. >> carl. >> well, i think marcia pretty much said it all. kayla had a good heart and she -- she could not turn her back on suffering. that's why she went over there. she was working in turkey with the refugees and she went in to help at a hospital an

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ali velshi. ali, it is a lot. >> yeah, and what i have difficulty with is the idea that there is this allegation that everything is behind closed doors, there is no evidence. but what just read is all public domain stuff. right? you don't have to be in a closed door meeting. we're not there, rewe're not hearing it, but the stuff that we do know about is enough to cause a normal person to think that there might be something amiss with the president and rudy giuliani's dealings in ukraine. >> let's just say i'm not a normal person but i am a person who follows the facts. lij lindsey graham just said that it is plea fosterrous that bill taylor, career diplomat, a guy who came out of retirement as per mike pompeo's request, he gives a 15 page testimony and lindsey graham are says it is completely untested. there was no chance for cross-examinatio cross-examination. reminder, it was not a room full of just democrats. there are 47 republicans in the room who are welcome to ask whatever the heck they want. >> yes. the impression that you are left with is that it is democrats in a room privately taking these depositions. and that is not the case. >> there are a lot of democrats and they have the majority, but there are also republicans. >> all right. coming up next, the push to get attorney general bill barr to recuse himself from the impeachment inquiry. we'll explain why. and talk about his role in the ukraine matter. >>> plus, new polls show -- what new polls show about how americans are feeling about impeachment. >>> but today congress is honoring the late elijah cummings, his body is lying in state. he is the first african-american lawmaker to it lie in state at the u.s. capitol. soon members. public will pay their respects. earlier lawmakers including 123eer 123 speaker pelosi and congressman meadows paid tribute to cummings. >> elijah was truly a master of the house. he respected its history and in it he helped shape america's future. i have called him our northstar, our guide to a better future. thank you, elijah, on behalf of the fult of oture of our childr america, to be true to our beliefs. we say this to you as we are gathered here today in the old house chamber where lincoln served. >> for me i was privileged enough to be able to call him a dear friend. some have class filed ified it unexpected friend ship, but for those of us who though elijah, it is not unexpected or are surprising. he is defined by the character of his heart, the honesty of his dialogue and the man that -- the man that we will miss. >> chairman cummings was integral to the impeachment inquiry. and here he is in august at the national press sclclub hear in washington. >> i'm reminded of a conversation that i had with my 10-year-old niece this weekend. she said uncle elijah, are they going to put us in cages? are they going to put us in cages? that is coming from a 10-year-old. we're better than that. we must stand together with those who we do not look like, with 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investigation. according to a white house memo of that now infamous july 25th phone call, president trump references bill barr five times including in this exchange. president trump tells president zelensky that he wants him to look into joe die debiden and h and says whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. so that same phone call, president trump says that he will have his personal lawyer rudy giuliani give -- sorry, did i skip one? all right. give zelensky a call and i'm also going to have attorney general barr call and we can get to the bottom of it. just last week in this bombshell press conference, mick mulvaney suggesting that it was legitimate to ask ukraine to participate in and ongoing investigation by the justice department. likely a reference to the legitimacy of the origins of the russia investigation conducted by john durham. and on tuesday, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, bill taylor, told lawmakers that he and eu ambassador sondland discussed the possibility that the ukranian prosecutor general rather than president zelensky would make a statement about investigations potentially in coordination with attorney general barr's probe into the investigation of interference into the 2016 elections. joining me now from the "washington post" blog, greg sergeant, he wrote a piece called an overlooked bill taylor revelation hints at worse to come from trump. and also former u.s. attorney joyce vance. joyce, the department of justice has a unique role in safe guarding the rule of law under the constitution. by failing to recuse position from review of the ukraine matter, attorney general william barr has undermined that role. we didn't know if barr actually did anything wrong, that is not the allegation. but it is clear that he is involved in the thing that the department of justice would be reviewing. what is your thought? >> so many of the ethical issue in situations like that that prosecutors struggle with involve the community or the country's perception of doj's integrity as much as an actual conflict. so i think that you are right to point out there is no evidence one way or the other right now that helps us understand what barr's ultimate role in this situation was. but because people will be left with questions if he continues to participate into any sort of criminal investigation in this area whether of rudy giuliani or anyone else, it it is imperati that he recuse. and this sort of statement from a bar association is very unusual. i can't recall another bar association calling for an attorney general of the united states to recuse. it does come from the new york city barb, n, not the state bars would ultimately have some sort of responsibility for discussing bill barr's bar membership if he in fact is a member of the new york bar. i don't know complain. but this is an unusual moment. >> and i want to make a referenceplain. but this is an unusual moment. >> and i want to make a reference to the piece you made. what is the overlooked part of his revelation? >> well, in the testimony, in the opening statements, taylor said explicitly that sondland told him during a conversation that they had a conversation about the possibility of potentially making a public statement -- that the ukranians would make a public statement declaring the investigations that trump wanted which question all know are completely political and sham investigations, and said something along the lines of this could be done in conjunction with bill barr's review of the origins of the russia investigation into what happened in 2016. now, we don't know much more than that because we don't really know whether they would make a joint statement or whether the investigations would be fused in some sense. but the key point here is that two senior u.s. officials were talking about the attorney general of the united states in some form or other lending his legitimacy or validating in sham investigation by ukraine that trump was pushing for. now, barr wants his review of the origins of the russia probe to be seen as apolitical and legitimate, but we keep seeing hill pop him pop up in the scheme. and you would think that the justice department would make a much more forceful and clear statement about the fact that, you know, about this effort to use barr and the justice department's review. but we don't hear that much from them and that is because we don't really though whether there is that -- what the overlap is. i think we need to know more. >> that is a good point you make. joyce, whether or not the justice department or anybody has a position that bill barr doesn't need to recuse position or it is not bill barr's fault the president talked about him on this phone call, whatever the case is, there is a question and many times when people recuse themselves from something in a legal setting, it is not that there is wrongdoing, it is that there is a perception that something may not be fair. >> that is exactly right. and what the attorney general owes the country at a minimum is an explanation for why he continues to be involved. for instance, this entire extremely unusual investigation where doj is putting its resources again in trying to resuscitate this debunked myth that ukraine rather than russia played a role in the 2016 election, we know that barr has been traveling around the world putting an awful lot of attention for an attorney general into a matter like that. there is plenty of reason to believe that he should step away, that he should recuse. he of course led the department that failed to open a criminal investigation into the whistleblower's complaint. and we now see that there is plenty of potential criminal content to that complaint which likely warranted merited investigation by doj. so bar r at a minimum should gie us xan mexplanation but certain should consider recusing. >> two senators wrote an op-ed in which it says if called upon to hold another presidential impeachment trial, we hope senators of both parties will put aside partisan considerations and approach the task with the same spirit of fairness that served the institution of the senate and the country so well decades ago. it is not unusual that people watching this might say that is not likely to happen. >> well, i think we're seeing today a very clear indication that that is extremely unlikely to happen. i believe just moments ago the news broke that lindsey graham is going to introduce some sort house impeachment probe for its closed door nature. i think our only hope is that mitch mcconnell feels that the senators facing tough re-election battles need to be associated with some sort of process that has at least the appearance of legitimacy. that may be our only way that we might get something of a reasonable process. but otherwise i would think that we should be pretty pessimistic that they do anything even remotely fair. >> greg sergeant and joyce vance, thank you. >>> up next, a new poll 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and also jonathan capehart. steve, biggest takeaways.that c kornacki and also jonathan capehart. steve, biggest takeaways. >> you mentioned quinnipiac, the newest one out this morning. this is by far the best post-debate poll that elizabeth warren has gotten, accept point le seven point lead for her. and the other one, this counts for debate qualifying.point seven point lead for her. and the other one, this counts for debate qualifying. amy klobuchar, that is the magic number for her, she will thousand qualify. she will thousand qualify for the next debate. that is the one coming up here on msnbc in a couple weeks. now, this one may look good for warren but keep in mind about 24 hours ago we were all talking about a different brand new poll that was by cnn, radically different result. from warren up by seven, to warren down by 15 in this one. again, this also a post-debate poll. biden here 34%. this is the best he's seen since that debate. sanders you see there in the mid teens. buttigieg, the rest of them. when you start seeing polls that are all over the place like this, do i believe this one, do i believe that one? average them all together, so take a look if you look at the current polling average all the different polls out there on the democratic side, here is what it looks like. biden about a 5 1/2 point lead over warren for second, sanders in third. suggests a couple things. obviously, biden, stability. there was a lot of questions going into that debate, could he give a bad performance. but seems to have stability at least for now. and warren, is she reaching a plateau? we will see. and again sanders, there were all those questions heading into the debate after his health scare, but he seems to be steady as well. so some interesting story lines. but that is the average, and i think that is the one that i'd look at. >> and there is another interesting part of the story line that stuck out to me. in the quinnipiac poll, even though warren is leading, joe biden scores significantly higher as the democrat most likely to defeat president trump. look at that. biden at 42%, warren at 20%. what do you make of that discrepancy? >> well, the discrepancy is what we've been seeing from the moment vice president biden got into the race. and that is people look at joe biden as the person who they think can beat president trump. and also the reason why vice president biden is so steady and stable is i think the word steve used in this race is the super strong support he has among african-americans. and african-americans want to back someone who they think is going to win. so unless and until elizabeth warren is able to pull away african-american voters en masse is the word i'm thinking of, her numbers are not going to go -- are not going to go higher than we see. i think it was the cnn poll you were talking about temperature and when it comes to that cnn poll, the one thing that bothers me about that pollure and when it comes to that cnn poll, the one thing that bothers me about that poll is the margin of error. 5.8%. and i don't remember much from my statistics class bei clas cl margin of error, you should look at it with a lot of skepticism and that is why i think that the quinnipiac poll and to steve's point averaging all of these polls is really the way to look at all of this. >> and also pete buttigieg are has a piece out in the "usa today" where he is now saying as president he would it nominate at least 50% women to his cabinet and judiciary. what do you make of that? >> look, that is a great pledge to have. it is not like there aren't qualified women for it a president's cabinet or for the judiciary. what has always been lacking is leadership to actually do it. and get it done. and, you know, if i'm pete buttigieg and i become president of the united states and i have that benchmark hanging over my head, 50% women in my cabinet and 50% women in the judiciary, that is a good measure to try to hold yourself up because anything that you do will be better than what has come before. >> all right. jonathan, steve, thank you both to making us smarter. and you better be sure you will watch the next democratic presidential debate wednesday, november 20th, hosted by our very own kristen welker, rachel maddow, andrea mitchell and ashley parker. it will be a night to remember. >>> now i turn you to ali velshi? d.c. >> do you remember in 2015in tr minister in canada, he said it would be half women and someone asked why and he said because it is 2015. so we will see. >> and more than 50% of the population is women. so math who make it make sense. >>> a new warn fwrgt secretau ey of defense mark esper says the in-situation is hevasion is hea direction. but does that match what the white house is saying. but does that match what the white house is saying. let me tell you something, i wouldn't be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your 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ali wolf is live with their concern and what pg&e is doing about it, ali. >> reporter: yeah, well, jessica, some people here at rossmoor tell us that birds are eating away at this pg&e power pole, and squirrels are sparking fire in that location. meantime, there is not much people here in this area can do because the pole is actually outside of the gated community. but pg&e is now promising a fix. >> that's what i'm talking about. >> reporter: jim brennan has lived in the gated senior community of rossmoor for over a decade. >> the fire starts pretty quickly it comes up the hill. >> reporter: in that time, he's seen multiple fires on the hill near his home. neighbors say their fire fears all center around this pg&e pole just outside of rossmoor's gates. >> the pole itself is just riddled with woodpecker holes, which has compromised the stability of the pole itself. >> reporter: anne peterson, rossmoor's director of communication says woodpeckers caused damage and squierls have caused fires when they climb up the pole. >> unfortunately, they're getting electrocuted, hitting the ground and causing the fires. >> reporter: there have been six fires near the pole in the past 12 years. pg&e confirms at least the most recent fire last month was caused by a squirrel. the community has been asking and waiting for the utility to do something. >> we were told at the end of 2017 that the pole was going to be replaced, and then it wasn't. and then we were told at the end of the year, it would be replaced, and then it wasn't. >> reporter: now pg&e says work is being done this month. a spokesperson told us we plan replacing the poles. additionally, all vertical connecters and connection also be covered when we replace the new pole. this will prevent faults from animal contact. the work is expected the take place in the coming weeks. frustrated rossmoor residents are eager to see it happen so they can rest easy. >> we expect them to honor their latest promise and to end this madness. >> reporter: pg&e tells us the utility is going to be removing 20 power poles in rossmoor that are in a high fire danger area. as for the power pole that residents are concerned about, they tell us they do plan on removing that one as well. they might have to use a helicopter, though, because it is on a slope. and if that happens, neighbors will lose power for a short time. reporting live in walnut creek, ali , baya news. >> ali, thank you. >>> she was a tech ceo from utah, found dead in san jose. now her mysterious death centers around her family and the san jose police department. today the santa clara county coroner's office officially confirmed the identity of erin valenti's body. but the medical examiner says the cause of death is still pending. nbc bay area's robert handa joins us at sjpd headquarters with new information about this case. robert? >> reporter: well, that's right. and that new information comes from friends who came out here from utah to help with the search and told us what they saw when they found their friend. at holy spirit church in san jose this morning, condolences were expressed to family members of utah tech executive found dead saturday who are all in attendance. the body of 33-year-old erin valenti was found in a rental car in the almaden neighborhood. she had been missing since monday, october 7th as she headed to the airport to return home to attend an awa

ali, i think these are conversations over the next three months that will continue to play out as elizabeth warren and joe biden maintain their standings on top of the polls out here in new hampshire. ali. >> vaughn, stand by. alisitting with me on the t set. great to be with you. so we just heard the next democratic debate is going to be moderated by a great team of our colleagues. ashley parker from "the washington post." rachel maddow. andrea mitchell. and kristin welker. the stage got yet more crowded when we heard amy klobuchar has a new poll made the cut. >> yeah. so that makes one more person on the stage. we're seeing it get less crowded. we're not going to be at a dozen. but we're certainly going to be one more than we were. and clearly, amy klobuchar is someone who is taking the momentum from the last debate stage that we saw her on and really trying to par lay it in a significant way in this race. she was in danger of not being on this debate stage next -- next month. now, clearly we know she's going to be there. her campaign is out with a tweet today saying see you in atlanta. but we've seen a lot of these candidates get sort of sugar rushes out of good debate performances. i'm thinking kamala harri

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ali vitali at the scene ali. >> parts of the building behind me deemed safe enough to send in search and rescue in hopes of finding those still missing. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: panic and mass kuchgs in the heart of new orleans. this morning the upper floors of the hard rock hotel currently under construction suddenly began to crumble. first responders scrambled to the scene. >> i need as many units as i can to my location. we need to move this crowd back as far as possible. >> reporter: dozens of construction workers inside the build as the building collapsed. modest of reyes on the 18th floor. >> i seen people climbing off the back of the building. if there was a window they would have jumped out the window. i was scared. i didn't think i was going to make it. you know. >> reporter: 18 people rushed to the hospital. nearby building evacuated as search and rescue used drones and canines to search for the missing witnesses zrib what they saw and heard as the debris rained down. >> lots of noise. we saw workers up there. it was crazy. >> sounded like a train was coming. >> reporter: louisiana governor at the scene warned curious on look tors stay away. >> this remains a fluid and dangerous situation. and every few minutes something is falling off this building. >> reporter: officials say it's too early to tell the cause of the collapse but hanging over the mangled metal and conkret, a massive crane with a metal slat suspended from it. officials watching that closely. jose. >> ali, thank you very much. >>> in southern california tonight firefighters struggle to kent a big wildfire that has droid dozens of homes. already of course the evacuation of tens of thousands of people. sam brock is in port of ranch tonight and has late details sam. >> reporter: good evening. we are entering a new phase now with fire officials telling me a significant amount of people are going back home. but look what some are encountering. roofs collapsed, cars burned down to shells. the total number of homes destroyed at this town now bumped up to 21 with many grateful they have their lives. for 48 hours, more than 1,000 firefighters have worked tirelessly trying to contain the flames tearing through the san fernando valley. now finally the raging red turning to smoky white. though the fire far from out with flare ups festering. already destroying nearly 8,000 acres. residents fearing for their lives. >> it felt like lain rain of ashes. >> melvin o fled under fire but went wak last nig

ali vitale. so ali, she said she's not going to sign a bill into law that doesn't reduce health care costs for regular average families. that's still not saying whether she would raise taxes. and i'm just curious, has she come out with a plan yet? i know we were supposed to have one this afternoon. >> reporter: yeah, no plan yet. that's coming in the next few weeks, we think. but she did tell us yesterday in iowa that the plan was coming. and that of course after all the pressure that she got on the debate stage and after last week from other 2020 candidates who were asking her basically how she was going to pay for this medicare for all program that she supports. but you pick up on something really important, katy. when she talks about -- when she's asked about taxes, she talks about costs. and i asked her about that here. listen to what she told me. >> i spent most of my adult life working on one central question. what's happening to america's middle class? why is it being hollowed out? why are families who work hard and play by the rules going bankrupt? and a big part of the answer to that question is the cost of health care. when i was studying it, about two out of every three families who filed for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem had health insurance when they got sick or when they were injured. we live in a country right now where the costs of health care just keep going up and up and up. >> reporter: and katy, that's the answer that i've heard from senator warren when i've asked her this question before. obviously, the same thing she's talking about today. she turns to the things that she's studied in terms of how american household costs goes in terms of health care. i'm not sure that's going to satisfy the other 2020 candidates who are in this race and asking for specifics. among them pete buttigieg, who a new poll in iowa shows is surging up seven points from the last time the poll was taken. i know you and i talk about this race as a trifecta, bernie, biden and warren, but pete buttigieg showing that in iowa anyway he's really making a run for it too. >> i talked to some of the campaigns and they do point to pete butd grig as being someone to watch out for, that they're not -- they don't believe that he's going to just be a short-lived candidate, they believe he could really operate in that moderate lane if something happened to joe biden. >> reporter: yeah. that's exactly right. and he has the money to keep going, which is really the important piece of this, right? is that as the campaign goes on yes, it's important to make these debate stages, it's important to continue showing momentum in the polls, but it's also important to be able to keep the lights on in your campaign. so many of these candidates believe that once the field winnows they'll be able to have a fair look from voters. you think of how many people we even started this race with. once the field winnows down and once the debate stages get a little more focused, a lot of these candidates think that's when they can get a fair look from voters. but the key is being able to have the money to get you there. we saw the f.e.c. filings last week. aught of the money that these campaigns do and don't have on hand. so certainly it's going to be a question of can you go the distance? pete buttigieg of course has a lot of money in the bank, so he should be able to do just that, katy. >> we will be watching out for warren's plan when she comes out with it in the next few weeks. ali vitale. next up how the impeachment inquiry is push iing this white house into damage control mode. and later, reddit co-founder alexis ohanian joins me to talk about why he is joining the fight for paid family leave on capitol hill. married to a very famous woman. you might know her. us woman you might know her are you on medicare? do you have the coverage you need? annual enrollment ends december 7th. now's the time to get on a path where you can take advantage of all the benefits of an aarp medicare advantage plan from unitedhealthcare. call today to learn more. these medicare advantage plans can combine your hospital and doctor coverage... with part d prescription drug coverage, and extra benefits... all in one plan... for a low monthly premium, or in some areas no plan premium at all. and you'll get more for your medicare dollar. take advantage of $0 copays for primary doctor visits... free preventive dental care and an eye exam. plus, earn rewards for completing preventive care

people like to talk about ali and they like to quote ali but don't like to acknowledge the fact ali sufferedcomical zip you know, one-liners. he suffered on his path to greatness. in order to be a true social justice warrior there will be suffering, true sacrifice. it's not just about lebron james. james harden is popular. kobe bryant is very popular in china. china has been a pipeline for a lot of nba players in latter stages of their careers. so it's going to be interesting to see how many of these players who are very willing to speak out in the comfort of their multimillion dollar homes risk losing money because they sell their shoes, jerseys and what have you. >> last question. do you think, though, there is a benefit to have this, you know, connection with china that, you know, an american presence in a country such as this and our american values perhaps seep into the culture? how we roll? >> it's an exchange. this is what, not just the nba is dealing with but american culture in general. yes, we are exporting a certain degree of freedom of expression. but we also are importing commun

ali velshi. celebrating his birthday. ♪ happy birthday to you happy birthday -- dear ali happy birthday to you ♪ >> thank you all. you are terrific. that's it for us. i'll be back here at 3:00 eastern. >> now it's time for katy tur. >> alishi. >> i can't see. >> one hour ali. stuff your face with cake and come back. >> good thing we tape this handover so we can edit it later. >> you know what, he's getting old, that's the problem. >> it's katy tur. >> all right. all right. all right. thank you guys. good afternoon. i'm katy tur. 11:00 a.m. out west and 2:00 p.m. in washington where a current white house official and decorated war veteran said he was on the july 25th call and he was worried the president was manipulating ukraine for his own domestic political benefit. it is day 36 of the impeachment inquiry and here is what's happening. army lieutenant colonel vinman the national security council's ukraine expert is behind closed doors with lawmakers. he's the first person to testify on who was, excuse me, who was actually on the call between president trump and zelensky. according to his opening statement, he will tell lawmakers quote, i was concerned by the call. i did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign g

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ali velshi is back. ali velshi, my friend, take it away. >> are you done?ursday, you can't be done for the week? >> for the week? tomorrow is friday. >> it feels like a long week. it feels like we've lapped ourselves. >> it does. we have a lot of work to do. >> you have a good afternoon. >> you too. >> it's thursday as katty and i just established it's thursday, october 3rd, a groif

ali velshi is back. ali velshi, my friend, take it away. >> are you done? no, it's thursday, you can't be done for the week? >> for the week? tomorrow is friday. >> it feels like a long week. it feels like we've lapped ourselves. >> it does. we have a lot of work to do. >> you have a good afternoon. >> you too. >> it's thursday as katty and i just established it's thursday, october 3rd, a grow testifying choi grotesque choice of lies and truth over self-and the country. that's joe biden responding to president trump's comments that ukraine and china should investigate biden and his son, hunter. >> i would think if they were honest about it they'd start a major investigation into the bidens. it's a very simple answer. they should investigate the bidens because how does a company that's newly formed and -- all these companies -- and by the way, likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens. because what happened in china is just about as bad as what happened with ukraine. i haven't, but certainly something we can start thinking about. >> house democrats have strong reactions to what president trump had to say before he left for florida. >> i find, once again, the president inviting another country to interfere in our presidential elections repugnant. and a fundamental breech of his oath of office. >> now the president's comments game as three house committees heard from a central player in the whistle-blower complaint former representative to ukraine, ambassador kurt volker. the complaint described kurt volker as trying to contain the damage by rudy giuliani to press ukraine to investigate the bidens. rudy giuliani continued to defend his actions today, tweeting what he said are screen grabs of text messages he exchanged with kurt volker. he says they show that no one did anything wrong. the former new york city mayor said he was the one that gave secretary of state mike pompeo a file of documents with unproven allegations against biden. he said he was told the state department would investigate the claims. this comes a day after the inspector general handed this package of documents over. there's a lot to get to here. a lot to unpack. we begin coverage with white house correspondent kelly o'donnell, who's traveling with the president in florida. the president is in florida talking about strengthening medicare but he's brought up the impeachment inquiry and other attacks on his opponents. >> reporter: he certainly did, ali, this was an official event where he talked about medicare, prescription drug prices, signed an executive order, but as the president so often does he veered back and forth from the official text of his speech here to hammering democrats. and this was a friendly crowd at the villages, a senior community here in florida where he's seen a lot of support. and there were times he was attacking the democrats saying under his watch the united states would never be socialists, hitting candidates like elizabeth warren who he said he thought was gone after his attacks on her. and joe biden. making references to the impeachment inquiry, using sort of a soft curse word, if you will related to that. talking about what he calls the hoax, the allegations against him. the democrats' work to try to investigate the president. this was one of those occasions where the president mixed official business and campaign business back and forth back and forth. he's now attending a closed fund-raiser before he

ali velshi is here. ali. we're missing a lot. >> we are missing a lot.re was all that stuff in lebanon last week. seems to calm down a little bit but people getting upset about the same things. this is a global phenomenon. as you said, 4% price hike doesn't seem like a lot, you know, for transit fares but most people don't see a 4% increase in their wages. so when you take all the things that they pay, 4% here, 4% there, that's more. >> it's young people around the world who don't have the same economic ability or opportunity as their parents or grandparents. it's happening -- it's happening in a lot of places. it's partially responsible for the rise in populism and it's partially responsible for the rise in desire for democratic socialism. >> it's part of the problem when you said there is a lot going on and we're missing it, we are. the world is spinning at the same pace and maybe faster right now. but donald trump and what's going on politically, domestically, is taking up so much oxygen that there are stories that people don't know until they are big

ali vitale and washington post reporter dave weigel. ali, you watched the debate last night up close or at least from a room next to the debate on a tv screen next to the rest of us. what did you think of the i if es the strategy to gang up on warren? >> reporter: well, katie, i feel like i have been in ohio so long, when i leave you can call me former ohio something. in the debate last night, look the warren team knew they were going to be under fire after the debate her communications director put out a statement saying we did take heat tonight. but they feel like warren was able to stay on the issues and what's wrong in the country and how she plans to fix it. look at the numbers, there were 26 attacks launched open the stage. 16 were at elizabeth warren. think of how that's different from every debate stage we have seen to this point. all the attacks were focused on joe biden. it's the most concrete examples of how the dynamics have changed. how the polling infuses the way every single candidate on that stage views who the front runner is, they clearly based on the number attacks joe biden got last night is two, clearly they think that person is elizabeth warren. >> i have been in a lot of conversations about warren's strategy when it comes to healthcare. she is somebody who has so many plans and flushed out idea. she says how she will pay for everything. the one area where that doesn't seem to be the case is on healthcare. she won't answer the question whether it will raise taxes. any further insight about why that is? >> well, she prefers to reframe the whole topic and talk about costs, which i think if there were not a lot of democrats attacking her, she were the nominee against trump, they'd let her get away from that. there is a separate white paper with a bunch of pay fors, different taxes, different options. even when bernie sanders says i'm willing to raise tax, you can't pull out a card and say how much will people be saying. she talks about it as a framework. she puts out a decision that looks awkward to say i'm not engaging on the tax question. i don't want a clip of me fall on the tax question. if you pay $2,000 in a premium, you pay $2,000, $100 in taxes, do ira iz your taxes? >> does she risk looking like another politician or refuses to say things bluntly? >> she risks that. i don't think connected apart from some exchanges with pete buttigieg yesterday. the mystery of these democratic debates is voters so far have been really resisted to praising a candidate that went negative. they have not been awarded. julian castro was praised when he went negative, there has not been a candidate who went negative in a sustained way and voters said, great, i like that. they like to see are you tough enough to take on donald trump in different ways in the exthanks, warren looked like somebody that could take on trump and bute dpig with a different strategy looked like he could take on trump. >> some of the strategy looking who can take on elizabeth warren when it comes down to the stretch, if it is hers as the nominee. by taking the gloves off or nost touching joe biden during the debate and not focusing so much on him, focusing on her, instead, are we seeing a line of democrats who are basically saying i want to step into the more moderate, the more realistic role going forward if joe biden doesn't last as long as people thought he might have? >> reporter: yes. and we've seen jockeying in that lane for the entirety of this primary. but i think the perk for a lot of the moderates, really, you'd call the people in the moderate lane. the people like amy clone char and pete buttigieg who are really launching a lot of those attacks. they were people that needed new moments, especially amy klobuchar who has not qualified for that debate. it was sort of kiss mat in a way elizabeth warren is the one in the front runner position, center stage. it allows someone like amy klobuchar who has long said he wants to be a pragmatist and contrast and talks about big structural change. so clearly that was something amy klobuchar and several others on the debate stage felt comfortable highlighting yesterday. if biden is not getting the speaking time there maybe they could emerge in the minds of voters as someone to take up that moderate lane and voters found they weren't missing biden's word on the debate stage last night. >> we'll see if what happened last night on the debate stage translates into enthusiasm down on the ground, which these candidates that aren't polling really well, they need to excite voters when the pollsters give them a call. guys, thank you very much. >>> senator tammy duckworth says the president's decisions around turkey and syria show its quote incompetence has fatal consequences. she'll join me coming up. >>> first another man is in custody in the campaign finance investigation involving rudy guiliani's associates. where does that leave rudy guiliani? 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>> basically, he's involved every step of the way. this is one of the things that tells us here there is a lot about this case that prosecutors and federal investigators know that we don't. typically, when we get an indictment out of the southern district of new york. it's lengthy. it details the specific payments who did what when. we don't necessarily have it in this case. all we know is that according to charging documents, kour rhea, fruman parnas and another person involved in this skrooem scheme, they usually lump them altogether and say they're the ones communicating with foreign officials such as the former ukrainian prosecutor to try to direct the effort to get rid of the then ukrainian ambassador. it's those types of things they lump everybody in together with. but they don't specifically say, okay, except for a few instances, this is what correa did or specifically what parnas did. they are looped together in a lot of the charging documents here. so i expect we will hear more as time goes on as far as what correa's role was and his ties to the primary people you have shown on screen the ones associated with rudy guiliani. >> igor fruman and doug parnas, doug, they're associates with rudy guiliani and now talk about rudy guiliani potentially being looked into by the southern district of new york, which is uncomfortable because he used to run the southern district of new york. how do you see rudy guiliani's -- or what do you see as his potential exposure? >> first, i read through the indictment. i agree with tom, while it's fairly lengthy, it doesn't layout the details. so we're scratching our heads. >> that indictment doesn't mention guiliani. he is not involved in that. however, there are relationships and story lines that the southern district of new york and as you point out rudy guiliani was the united states attorney for the southern district. but the point is they're going to look at it objectively and they want to see exactly what, if any, involvement he may have had in this, you know, the scheme enlisted in the indictment, eighth scheme to make significant political contribution, you know, to pro trump, a pro trump pac and then hide it and so on. but the story lines with mayor juliy guiliani are different an that's an attempt to get rid of the ambassador. and that's what they're going to look at. and any time just wrapping up in my thinking, any time somebody is looking at you, it's cause for concern number one. of course the big situation, katy, would be why didn't anybody cooperate? it's hard to tell, it's early, you know. >> i want to ask you this, how high is the bar to really go after rudy guiliani, who's president's personal attorney. he is the former mayor of new york. he's the former head of the sdny. at what point, how much information do they need in order to potentially indict him or charge him with anything? >> no, that's a great question. because there is two facets to your question. one is subliminal human nature, which is somebody very high up, very note annual, et cetera. is there a different standard? the technical answer is no human beings are human beings. however, the point is, there are doj policies in the united states attorney's manual talking about going after a different figure. political figures. he doesn't work right now. that's a very significant part of my answer to your question. so i mean again not to sound corner corny, you hope that will be looked at fairly and accurately and to the extent that it's warranted. but to answer your question, the bar is not that high, katy, honestly. >> technically it's not that high, doug burns, tom winter, thank you as well. >> my pleasure. katy smplts senator tally duckworth call's trumps defense to withdraw troops indefensible. shewith sheis with us next. sheis with us next hey there people eligible for medicare. gimme two minutes. and i'll tell you some important things to know about medicare. first, it doesn't pay for everything. say this pizza... 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they're headed for not just syria but also into iraq as well. let me make it clear. the president has now unleashed a string of events that is going to involve the united states military -- fight against isis and if he doesn't, then we're allowing isis free reign back into the middle east, back against american interest, american personnel, american businesses that are doing business in the middle east. this is just the height of malpractice by this president. >> nancy pelosi and chuck schumer will be meeting in the next hour. what do you want them to say? >> i want them to make it clear with the president what he has done. he has put american forces at risk. he's put american interests at risk. he has now destroyed any trust our allies have with us. he's also destroyed any type of intelligence asset we have in the region. do you think any of our assets that have been providing us intelligence whether now talk to the united states intelligence committee? no, because they know they can't rely on us when times get tough and we will abandon them the way the president has just abanded our kurdish allies. >> on impeachment, where does the senate stand? >> i support the investigation by the house and i'm just going to let the house move forward with the investigation. there is a lot of work that still needs too big done here in the senate that while we wait for that investigation to move on forward, we have a lot of work that we need to focus on for the maeamerican people. i'm working on a highway transportation bill, for example. we need to put money into lockes and dams on the mississippi. we need to help farmers who are in crisis right now. so let the investigation in the house move forward and in the meantime, the senate needs to do its job. we have a whole bunch of bills we should be passing here in the senate that mitch mcconnell won't let us vote on. things like universal background checks for people who buy guns, for example. i want to focus on doing the job here. let the investigation move forward and we'll see what happens once the house has done its job. >> what is getting done in the senate right now? you just mentioned a number of legislation. you're co-sponsor of the family act with kirsten gilibrand. which is paid parental leave, paid family leave for anybody who needs it, whether it's for a kid or an emergency. what is happening? are you guys able to get anything done? is there any bipartisan legislation being worked on? >> well, i've managed to pass some bipartisan legislation. i've passed the fam act, which is a related bill that i wrote that puts nursing rooms and -- and rooms for nursing mothers in airports across the country. i've also passed legislation to support infrastructure development and also for veteran owned businesses. so we are getting some work done. but some of the most critical things we should be working on, we're not going able to even vote on them. they've passed the house. if mitch mcconnell would allow us to vote on them like gun control legislation, like funding for our farmers, like ending the trade wars, we could actually do it. but unfortunately, mr. mcconnell's not allowing us to vote on those items. >> can i ask you to make the case for the family act as a mother, as the first woman to have a baby while being a senator? >> yeah. >> ever, right? it's ever? >> ever. yes. the men have been having babies for years but i'm the first senator to give birth in office. >> that's right. make your case for the act. i've made my case for parental leave. make yours. >> yeah. so the family act is really common sense and it costs very little money because what it does it creates an insurance program so that the employee would put in approximately $2 a week and employer would put in $2 a week to create a fund that when you need to take time off to take care of loved ones, whether it's for the birth of a child or sick family member, you can actually do that and get paid leave to do so. when i talk with employers and say would you be willing to put in two bucks a week? you know, a little over $100 a year, every employee i talk to says that makes sense. i would do that. frankly, we need to support our families. we need to support working families because we need to retain them in the work place. you know, women have to choose between taking care of their families and going to work, they're going to have to choose their families. we're the only developed nation in the entire free world that does not have paid family leave and i think this is really a detriment to our economic competitiveness, let alone support for working families who desperately need this legislation. >> and when they can't choose their families because financially they need to go back to work, the family suffers. so there's that as well. how's your baby girl? >> she's 18 months. she's doing very well. thank you. she said her first full sentence the other day. abigail, where are you? and abigail's her sister so it was really cute. >> love to hear that. senator, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. >> and we'll be right back. me >> and we'll be right back with e that's for sure... and when those changes might help more people, especially those in retirement, i think it's worth talking about! so, aag is introducing a new jumbo reverse mortgage loan so you can now access as much as $4 million dollars in cash, tax free, from your home's equity. aag's new jumbo reverse mortgage loan can give you more tax-free cash than ever before. if you've had your home for a while, it's probably worth a lot more today. so why not use that appreciation for anything you need maybe it's some home repairs, or updates to make it more comfortable so you can stay in the place you love. it's a viable effective way to support your other investments long into the future, and another way aag is working to make your retireme... better. don't wait. get your info kit now! >>> that will do it for me this hour here in washington, d.c. i will be back in new york city tomorrow. in the meantime, chris jansing is there filling in for ali you, katy. ali velshi remains out on assignment. it is wednesday october 16th and we start the hour with two play washington at this hour that are sure to be written in america's history books. right now, house democrats making their case for impeachment. former senior advisor to the secretary of state ambassador michael mckinley is testifying behind closed doors. one source telling nbc news mckinley is particularly outraged by the unceremonious ouster of former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, maria yovanovitch. >>> the president is meeting with top congressional leaders and key committee members amid strong bipartisan outrage against turkey's military offensive against the kurds in syria and of course the u.s. pulling troops away from the fight. in that meeting, speaker nancy pelosi, someone the president openly trashed during a photo op with italy's president just hours ago. >> i think that she's done this country a tre men dmendous diss. she's created a phony witch hunt. another one. t

estoy con ali brok ali: es maravilloso poder conocerte. carlos: mucho gusto. --alan: mucho gusto.lan: es muy interesante poder ver cÓmo lo decÍan que es una familia mexicana de los estados unidos y no estamos cuentan estos capÍtulos lo que es la uniÓn familiar y el ayudarse los unos a los otros y que si hay algÚn tipo de problema la familia estÉ mÁs importante. allie: es maravilloso porque la familia en el programa representa realmente nuestra propia familia. durante mi infancia tua una familia mexicoamerica y me siguen apoyando en todosos negocios a los que enfrentÓ. somos tan cercanos que para nosotros la familia es todo. es increÍble que se pueda representar en un programa de televisiÓn. es la familia y las diferentes situaciones que hay que superar. alan: muchas gracias isabella alvarez. jovencitas talentosas y que les vaya muy bien. carlos: queda menos para que todos los secretos queden al descubierto cortesÍa de raÚl gonzÁlez que fue a mi casa entrevistarme y ahora sÍ le mostrÉ todo de mi casa y de mi corazÓn. karla: no se lo pueden perder. ademÁs, les contamos que el puma l

investors are reacting in europe's biggest economy germany are markets correspondent ali barth is in frankfurt for us hi ali so finally something for a financial markets to cheer about how is this news playing out there. it. caused a collective sigh of relief i think you can see behind me the docks that's the market barometer for the biggest german companies listed on the exchange and it took a big leap as soon as the news flash came that there was a deal that had been agreed on and the share prices didn't go through the roof but they they clearly gained and i talked to just a few minutes after to a trader here he had a big smile on his face and he was visibly visibly relaxed more relaxed than at any point during the past days even though optimism at all already been there but then you know we just talked about the nitty gritty of the deal what can happen what must happen all the dealers are thinking about that too and that's why the initial share price gains are practically trickled away now right so investors are relaxed but what about all the companies that have essentially prepared for a no deal. i don'

ali, oprah. >> my favorite athlete, mohamed ali. >> stephen: maya angelou, her favorite athlete. >> yeah, i knowo. i think she would have. i loved her, too. she was amazing. i would just talk to her sometimes on the phone. >> stephen: did you really just call up maya angelou and talk? >> yeah, she used to have a radio show. so i called in one time so i had her number. she would do it from her house down south. so every once in a while i would talk to her on the phone. it was the most lovely thing in the world. >> stephen: what sort of things would you talk about because she's a giant? >> just normal things. just she would always be very proud of you. i could see why oprah looked at her like a mother figure because she was very loving, very kind, generous and, you know, she always had -- see, me at 19 at that age, that year, people doubted hip-hop. they doubted us. they didn't think we could accomplish the things we were trying to do. somebody like maya angelou would have been, like, yeah, you keep doing that, that's great, go for it! so there are people like that that supported us back then and

ali vitali and shaquille brewster. ali, you've been following elizabeth warren all around the country. this is the first time we have really seen her get attacked. how does her camp take it today? >> reporter: that's exactly right. i mean, stephanie, it's pretty clear from the way that the rest of the field was treating her on the stage last night that they think that she's the front-runner who needs to be taken down a peg, and that's exactly what we saw. i think everyone on the stage, except for julian castro and bernie sanders went after elizabeth warren. and so, clearly, there's a dynamic shifting in the race there just based on what we've been seeing in the polls, in the way in which she's been rising. but you also watched the way in which she dealt with those attacks. she really doubled down and didn't cede any ground, whether it was on medicare for all or defending a wealth tax. that's something that i'm not necessarily surprised that she did, because as she's been pressed on these issues, even by us on the campaign trail, that's exactly how she's dealt with it. a lot of the responses that i heard last night are things that i have been hearing on the campaign trail for the last few weeks. the only question now is, now that they're in the limelight, now that they're held up to extra scrutiny because she's the front-runner, how do they hold up? and frankly, the other person i cover on the campaign trail is senator amy klobuchar, who was one of two people who went really hard at elizabeth warren last night. klobuchar seemed really itching and ready to make that comparison when i spoke to her on sunday night. she told me then she wanted to make the comparison that she was the moderate who could offer pragmatic policies. clearly, she didn't tell me elizabeth warren's name on sunday night, but obviously, when you watch her execution, that's exactly how it came down. and really, amy cloklobuchar ha been someone who's really not found her footing on these prior debate stages, but last night, obviously, in a really do-or-die moment, because she's not yet on the november debate stage, was trying to make the case for herself as the moderate option on the stage there. >> shaq, last night was big for bernie sanders. his first appearance since his heart attack. now getting an endorsement from aoc. he's got to be happy with that performance. >> reporter: that's right. and i spoke to his campaign manager just a couple of minutes ago, and they're really ecstatic by what they saw from senator sanders last night. first, the heart attack didn't come up as much as they perhaps expected and were prepared for going into this debate, but he also mentioned that we saw a side of senator sanders that we don't normally see on the television cameras. we saw senator sanders laughing, smiling, joking with the other candidates, and also had somewhat of that heartwarming or reflective moment as he thanked his other candidates there for their support as he was in the hospital and dealing with his heart attack. but if there's one thing the campaign was really trying to show yesterday, it's that bernie sanders is back and that he wants to be a force in this campaign. we saw that with the endorsements that were rolled out even before the debate ended. we learned that aoc, representative alexandria ocasio-cortez, is now going to be endorsing him at his big rally in new york on saturday. we have an endorsement from representative omar, and they also are celebrating their fund-raising numbers. so, they're really trying to show bernie sanders is back in this campaign and will be a force. >> ah, bernie sanders, that surprise special guest in queens, we quickly realized it was going to be aoy. thank you both so much. joining this conversation, jonathan allen, or as i call him, the birthday boy. nbc news national political reporter. victoria defrancesco soto from the university of texas, former deputy secretary of state and spokesperson for hillary clinton, and my dear friend tim miller, former communications director for jeb bush's 2016 campaign. jonathan, i follow you on twitter. your big takeaway, klobuchar, klobuchar, klobuchar, huh? >> yeah. stephanie, i think there were a couple people that had good nights last night, but amy klobuchar certainly stood out as somebody who came out fighting. she had, as ali vitali was saying, her back up against the wall, came out swinging not only against elizabeth warren but also against donald trump. i thought one of the key moments of the debate last night was very early on she gave a very concise answer about what she thought was wrong with the president, about impeachment, and also on the electoral battlefield, which was that he wasn't making america great again but was, in her words, making russia great again by putting the united states' interests second and putting his own interests first. it was perhaps maybe of all of the people in washington and on the campaign trail, the most cogent explanation for what the democrats are trying to say about what trump has done wrong that i've heard so far. >> victoria, what was your big takeaway last night? >> mayor pete. i mean, mayor pete really stood out as the person who the gop is going to come after, because he now has the mantle of the prime moderate. and i agree with jonathan, amy klobuchar was very

st stephanie rule and hle and ali will dig into that. and ali velsi will dig into that kraft.he win win. hey. ♪hey. you must be steven's phone. now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network... only with xfinity xfi. download the xfi app today. >>> and we have very exciting news to share about one of our nbc news colleagues and a dear personal friend. tonight the radio and television corespondents association will honor the great kelly o'donnell with the 2019 career achievement award. congratulations, kelly o. no one deserves it more. >>> and that does it for this edition of andrea mitch lell reports. andrea will be back tomorrow. and before we go, i'm so honored to announce that i will be co-hosting the democratic debate in georgia alongside andrea mitchel, rachel maddow and ashley parker. i could not be more excited or really mondre honored. >> that is a power group of women. congratulations. >> i'm going to start prepping right now. >> hugh about kelly oow about k? >> so well deserved. i'll be there cheering her

ali wolf in mill valley where how people are coming there. ali. >> well, janelle, an update about a minute ago we saw the lights come back on finally at this gas station that we are at in mill valley. you can see the lights on behind me. the neon lights lit up but people we spoke to today tell us they under the fire risk is very real but have been questioning why the out annual in this area has to last so long. cleaning up in the dark. mandy fernandez's family owned extreme pizza in mill valley. >> everything has gone bad. >> the business lost power around 6:00 p.m. during the public safety power shutoff. she came in this morning expected power to be restored instead. >> it was all stinking. >> she found spoiled dough and the light out. >> i have to throw the food, the cheese, dough. >> fernando says she feels terrible for everyone attacked by the kincade fire but wonders why the blackout lasted so long here. >> i have all the sympathy with them, all the feelings for them but at the same time, they are losing a lot of business. >> i can't go buy things. i can't get gas. >> losing power impacted daily life and work for eric roberts. he is getting tired of waiting for the outage to end. >> i think pg&e is taking their time turning it back on. >> in sand rafael neon signs lit and shopping centers full but even with power restored some businesses are recovering unable to reopen. fernandez says it's the same story at extreme pizza. >> it's taking hours to get on the normal track. >> reporter: so the official word from pg&e on the website their outage map says the 4,000 customers in this part of marin county without power expecting to see it come back on by tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. but at the gastation here it could happen earlier a well site for people living and working here. reporting live in mill valley, ali wolf nbc bay area news. >> fingers cross the power comes back on sooner thank you. >>> just into thes newsroom. moments when a fire erupted on the island. the pg&e transformer showering sparks on the grass below. the east contra costa firefighters now believe pg&e equipment was thes cause of the fire. a second fire broke out a few hours later. they say malfunctioning pg&e equipment sparked the fire. >> this is a statewide event preponderate multiple fires down in the l.a. area. among them north of los angeles in seemy valley. the easy fire raging out outside the presidential reagan ronald ray reagan library. horses warneding free symbolic in the rafrm area of the country. all kinds of livestock herded on trailers as animals were evacuated with the people. >> we currently have approximately 7,000 homes under evacuation orders most mandatory orders. some are voluntary. with an estimated 26,000 residents affected. >> now the fire has charred about 1,300 acres. but with winds gusting up t

reporting live in san francisco, ali wolf, nbc bay area news. >> thank you ali. >>> fall may have just started but in some places winter. the mountains are covered in about 4 inches of snow this weekend and they are expecting more to come today. also snowed in, yosemite. that looks great. the roads leading up to the park were closed this weekend but they are now reopened. rangers are asking drivers to be careful because the roads are covered in snow and ice. hard to believe. it's not even october 1st yet. >> i know. >> probably going to melt by the weekend? >> definitely. do you know what i did yesterday? pumpkin spice latte. >> you broke it out already. i did a week ago. >> i know, right? >> i did. >> so good. i saw it on the sign. i'll leave the name of the place out. so, so good. that weather may have you feeling like that with halloween just around the corner and of course the other holidays. let's bring you to our snow map. if you missed, this is a view of that snow today. it's a snapshot we took. you can see 8 inches at independence lake. isolated with that. echo peak 3 inches, b

ali velshi picks things up right now. ali, if a kid is hungry, a kid cannot learn. here in new york city, everybody gets free lunch. everybody gets free lunch. everybody. >> we figure today out. this isn't just about being hungry. it's about being unproductive. >> and don't finish the kids for the parents not paying for something if you believe the parents are at fault and many of them just can't afford it. but don't punish the kids. >> yeah. thank you for continuing to draw our attention to this important matter, katy. katy tur. i'm alii live from our nation's capitol. it is thursday october 24th and the headline from today's new york times editorial board is why did republicans storm the capitol? they're running out of options. after the president made a demonstrative call for republicans to defend him against the impeachment inquiry, it seems some republicans are answering. any minute now, republican senator lindsey graham is going to take to that microphone to announce a resolution condemning house democrats for conducting the inq

ali wolf, nbc bay area news. >> thank you ali. it took years to accomplish but california has it's first statewide rent control law which takes effect january 3rd. governor newsom praised it . caps increase at 10% a year. less depending on inflation. eviction requires a reason. the governor says this is the just the start. >> now we know this can be done. you're going to see this happening in states all across the country, not just one or two states. there's no doubt in my mind. >> the protections expire 2030 but they can be renewed by lawmakers. >>> it has been two years to the day since wine country fires levelled entire santa rosa neighborhoods. people who lost everything to the fire two years ago are now tonight preparing for these massive outages. nbc bay earmark matthew joins us. >> reporter: let me show you the video of the memorial service that happened at 5:00. the fire chief spoke to a rather sparse crowd and then 44 seconds of silence to mark the 44 who died on that night two years ago. they rang a bell 44 times, once f

ali, and bruce lee. who was another one who was really big. mohammed ali, bruce lee, richard pryor. i'm forgetting one person. he'll come to me in a second. >> stephen: there any alis? have you channeled any of that rasperation in your work. >there's a little brucely in your karate chop, obviously. >> i do bruce lee when i have to pull a gun up on the in the movie i'm doing a bruce lee. the first movie i did was "48 hours." ( cheers and applause ) and i had never had a gun before, never had to look, and the director was like-- you're going through this alley looking for people with the gun. so i just started doing-- acting how bruce lee was acting, making faces and pull the gun out and ( bleep ). so when i pull a gun out in the movie, i'm imitating-- i'm trying to do bruce lee faces. so if you said, "take a gun out and don't make a bruce lee face," i'd be like heey. to this day if i pull out a gun, i'm doing my bruce lee ( bleep ). >> stephen: is there any role you have done that you went i didn't know that was going to be such a huge part of my legacy? like, that role would grab everybody? because i have one in mind which is "donkey." >> oh ( applause ). >> steph

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ali vitali is back with us now. ali, this is obviously some unexpected information coming in from sanders' campaign. it looks like based on the timeline laid out this all happened just in the last 24 hours when senator sanders started to feel the chest discomfort. >> exactly, hallie. and we're getting the same information that you're getting right now. all of it rolling in pretty quickly that this happened yesterday evening. they say that he is here in las vegas, we had an event yesterday that was closed to press. this clearly all happening yesterday evening and they're saying that they'll be canceling the rest of his public appearances and events until further notice. and one of those public appearances was supposed to be here at this gun control forum. >> i was going to ask you was he supposed to be there, yeah. >> so we were expect to go hear from him on stage about those issues. >> have you heard formally and officially -- and i don't want to put you in a bad spot. do we know if he has formally canceled his appearance at the gun forum? based on what weaver said, they're canceling his appearances. i would presume that means this forum as well. >> >> i would imagine that true, hallie, just reading the statement saying that they're canceling all of the events, i would imagine that includes this today. of course if we get any other guidance, i'll let you know. but from what the campaign statement says, i wouldn't expect to see senator bernie sanders here. they do note in the campaign release and you said this as well, that the senator is in good spirits. but again, having the health issue last night and getting too stents put in and resting today. >> and it's encouraging for anybody who goes through a procedure like that that they are up and conversing. in your interactions with sanders and you kfcovering hip, any indication that he had been having health issues that we know of or not really? >> certainly not. i'm on the campaign trail with a lot of these cants. i saw senator cansanders about weeks ago and no signs of this at all. this is all happening in the recent, in the present. so obviously all of yesterday according to that campaign release. and if we get anything else on the timeline, we'll come back back to you. all of this coming in pretty quickly right now and all we know is that the senator is doing well, that he had a health issue yesterday and that we shouldn't expect to see him on the campaign trail today or in the foreseeable future. >> no timeline on when he might be coming back to the trail, with jeff weaver saying simply that we will give you updates as appropriate. this is definitely a story we'll be continuing to follow. aling to the camera with that. if you hear anything more about sanders formally canceling his appearance in vegas, please let us know. after the break we're going to head back to capitol hill because we are not just waiting for house speaker nancy pelosi any minute, but there are some new tweets from rudy giuliani you may want to see as it relates to impeachment. we'll be back in just a minute. if your gums bleed when you brush, you may have gingivitis. 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. parodontax. what do you look for i want free access to research. yep, td ameritrade's got that. free access to every platform. yeah, that too. i want to know what i'm paying upfront. yes, absolutely. everything you want. one low price. td ameritrade. ♪ gimme one minute... and i'll tell you some important things to know about medicare. first, it doesn't pay for ever

ali. >> and to you. happy birthday, katy. i'm ali velshi almost on my birthday. live in our nation's capitol.t's friday, october 25th. and i want to start this hour with news about her late husband's, the late congressman from maryland, elijah cummings. >> he would have told me, maya, i don't want to service at the u.s. capitol but i felt lik

ali pay has 900 million users. that is a global competitor, in my view, to facebook. you see ali and a we chat pay working. why not zwruste a facebook version of alin order to level this? >> congressman, i think you're right that they're certainly competing not just with us, but with all the american companies on this. part of the infrastructure that they're building on is a lot more modern than some of what we would have to build on here. as soon as we put forward the white paper around the libra project, china immediately announced a public-private partnership working with companies like that to extend the work that they'd already done with ali pay into a digital renminbi as part of the initiative they have. and they're planning on launching that the next few months. >> thank you. >> the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. maloney, also the chair for the sub committee on investor protection entrepreneurship in capital markets, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. mr. zuckerberg, you said on page 3 of your testimony that facebook will not be part of launching libra anywhere in the world until all the u.s. regulators approve. so which u.s. re

ali. >> and to you. happy birthday, katy. i'm ali velshi almost on my birthday. live in our nation's capitol. it's friday, october 25th. and i want to start this hour with news about her late husband's, the late congressman from maryland, elijah cummings. >> he would have told me, maya, i don't want to service at the u.s. capitol but i felt like very strongly that they were trying to tear him down. and we needed to make sure that he went out with the respect and the dignity that he deserved. this was a man of the utmost integrity. do you hear me? he had integrity. and he cared about our democracy. >> on this day, as the country honored one of its fiercest champions of civil rights, the president left washington where the house is now mosquing closer to taking the impeachment inquiry public. trump traveled to south carolina to visit a historically black college or university for the first time in administration. three days after describing the impeachment inquiry as a lynching. on criminal justice reform at benedict college. during that address, he made sure to celebrate the bipartisan effort on the issue. >> after years of waiting, we assembled a historic coalition and it was indeed historic. we had 'em so liberal, you wouldn't believe it and so conservative, you wouldn't believe it. and they got together. i said how did we do that one? but it was a beautiful thing to watch. we worked across party lines very strongly. after all of the work and effort, we passed the bill and i proudly signed it into law. the most significant criminal justice reform in many generations. >> but with the administration's ongoing attacks on the impeachment inquiry pitting one party against the other, a local paper in columbia, south carolina writes, quote president donald trump is trying to prove something some say. it's a great opportunity say others. and then there are those who ask what's the point of him coming to a black college in south carolina? to answer that question, joining me from south carolina are nbc correspondent hans nickels and msnbc correspondent tremane lee. hans, let's start with you. what's the point of the visit? >> well, the president wants to drive his message on criminal justice reform. white house officials and allies the white house think that this presents an opportunity to peel off some african-american voters not just here in columbia, right? the president's down here in south carolina. he's going to win this state. but in battleground states where you have high concentration of african-americans, so that's pennsylvania, that's michigan, that's wisconsin. and they feel, and i stress feel, they feel as though they're cutting through the media on this. and that is their strategy. now, the president speaking right now. he did mention lelijah cummings. paid his respects to his family and to the former congressman. but what strikes me so far, ali, about this speech is how traditional it is. the president's doing a lot of name checking. he seems to be sticking to the prompter. what they clearly want to do is drive a message on criminal justice reform and have that be very tailored to a specific community. ali. >> tremane, give us a little bit of context criminal justice reform and the fact that he's at an hbcu in what you earlier described to me as a rough week. >> that's right. while so many folks take umbridge with the idea that trump has said time again he has support for my african-americans. people have been turned off by that. but in reality, if there's any sliver of common ground between the black community and donald trump, between right and left, is this space of criminal justice reform. especially, coming out of the 1990s when so many black men and women were incarcerated under a wave of mass incarceration. throwing whole communities on to shaky ground. and now, for some of those folks under the first step back champi

ali wolf, nbc bay area news. >> let's stay in the north bay. thanks so much, ali. sky ranger is there at soskel avenue and imola. this is in south napa near napa valley college. traffic lights have been out all day, including ats intersection. a big backup at where the lights aren'turay sto. take your turn. be patient. make sure t is no traffic crash. >>> now, not only the city of napa, but parts of napa county are also in the dark. that includes the wineries which caught a lot of tourists by surprise. they're in the dark. we're going to show you how everyone there is handling it. plus the bold steps some other businesses are taking to stop potential looters. that's coming up in our newscast in about ten minutes. >>> let's take a look at our live cams across the bay area. not much wind. you can see the flag pickup there in fremont, the ride side of your screen. pg&e actually pushed back the timing for the second round of outages. let bring in our chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri. has the forecast changed a lot here? what prompted pg&e to delay this outage for the

ali, not his real name, tells me he regularly does them, sometimes just for an hour. to me, it sounded like prostitution. but ali said he wanted it to be halal. as we talked, he revealed some men were paying clerics for pleasure marriages with children. we were discovering one of iraq's darkest secrets. clerics making money helping men who wanted sex with very young girls. this man was prepared to talk about it. our reporter had told him he had met a 13—year—old virgin and asked whether a pleasure marriage would be halal. vaginal sex was forebidden, according to the cleric, but other things, he said, were permissible. he said he was a follower of grand ayatollah aliior shia cleric. he has in the past written that if a child under nine was promised in marriage or temporary marriage, sexual touching was religiously permitted. we approached the ayatollah‘s office to clarify his religious advice on this matter. in a statement he said times had changed, and this had been erased from his current books. to continue our investigation, we've come to the most important site for shia muslims. this is the biggest shia pilgrimage site in the world, tens of millions of pilgrims come here every year. we'd already seen how clerics helped men break the law and even do pleasure marriages with minors. we wanted to see if the religious authorities in this holy city condemned the practise. we've heard about pleasure marriages, muta'a marriages, do you do them here? but in the streets around the shine, some clerics were giving very different advice. this man said he was a member of one of iraq's powerful and well armed shia militias. our reporter pretended he'd met a

ali vitali has the latest from columbus, ohio. ali, thanks for joining us on this. very much appreciate it. what do voters want to hear from the candidates tomorrow night? >> reporter:ad minute, over the course of the past few months voters told me they wanted to hear candidates differentiate themselves. and when you consider the size of this debate 12 candidates standing side by side together we know how that looks when ten candidates are trying to get a word in. i think you are going to see a lot of them mixing in up with each other. because this is really the last chance to make an impression on voters and potentially get themselves momentum in the polls so that they can qualify for that next upcoming debate in november. but voters also would like to hear them focus in on president trump, how they would hold him accountable, how they are different from him. but at the same time they don't want to hear "i'm not trump." they want to hear policy plans and the big ideas. so i guess the shorter answer to what voters want out of these debates is frankly a little bit of everything, yasmin. >> i know you've spoken with some leaders from the ohio democratic party. we know what the impeachment inquiry is going to be that it's going to be a major topic looming over the debate. is the inquiry a concern for state party leaders there? >> reporter: i think less of a concern and just more an acknowledgment that this is the political reality now for democrats and republicans, despite the fact that not many republicans have come out and said that they think this is the way we should go on impeachment. but i do think that in talking to the party leaders this is just the reality now. listen to what one of the state party chairs here in ohio told me last night. >> our voters want to hear about what you're going to to save the plant in lordstown, what you're going to do about health care and failed promises all over the state. we would love to only talk about terrible policies, but at a certain point as the speaker has said if the president is going to sil impeach, you have to act consistent with your oath to the constitution. >> reporter: and when david pepper brings up the constitution, that's frankly what a lot of the 2020 candidates have said when they themselves have said that an impeachment inquiry is the right way to go, that it's above partisanship. but impeachment has also had a big impact on the 2020 field in that it's frozen it in place. so if you're not one of the top three candidates who we are dinl seeing in the polls, then this is really an important moment especially for those people who have not qualified for the debate. a lot of candidates see that media coverage as a way to help them with their momentum. so tonight's important, yasmin. >> it seems like there's always going to be an important moment as the stage is going to be widelled down. beth, thanks for joining us on this. i appreciate it. let's talk hunter biden. what do you make of the move? >> so, as you know, it's been this very awkward thing for former vice president biden. he is the frontrunner on the democratic side. people worry that he's a little bit of a shaky frontrunner, particularly now that the glare is on him and on his son because of the impeachment inquiry that is being planned by the house for president trump because president trump has actively sought information on vice president -- the vice president's son's business dealings in ukraine. we also know that hunter biden was sitting on the board of this private equity company with some chinese backing. he's been under relentless assault from many people in the conservative mediasphere on what that work was and whether this sort of smacked some sort of swampy behavior that of course president trump has vowed to get rid of. so it's took a while for vice president even to weigh in to talk about his son and basically say there is no evidence of wrongdoing that his son had, the fact that he was working in ukraine. then finally hunter biden himself stepped forward first through this letter that his attorney published yesterday saying that hunter would step down from this company. and then finally hunter biden is going to do an interview on another network abc news that's going to air tomorrow morning with his side of the story. >> does it seem as if this is what the president wanted to a certain extent is for moves like this to be made by hunter biden and the former vice president? >> well, the whole history of hunter biden's involvement in ukraine and former vice president biden's involvement in ukraine is very much in the past. but it's something that's been very fertile ground for people to just wonder why hunter biden was doing the work he was doing in ukraine while his father was involved in foreign policy and the obama administration. however, it's also i would say, yasmin, an interesting way for president trump to take away the many criticisms of him and his family that they are involved in all sorts of swampy business dealings to enrich the family, bottom line, and project it back out onto joe biden. and also to sort of do a, you know, what you might call sort of a reverse move here with making vice president biden's family which has been kind of his shield, his connection to voters because of the tragedies that his family have gone through and suddenly make it a negative for vice president biden rather than the really wholesome supportive image that vice president biden has projected all of this. president trump is basically yielding this as a weapon which nobody probably particularly expected and yet vice president biden should've known was coming because there had been so much focus in the conservative media leading up to his presidential campaign on this particular subject. >> all right, aliy much. appreciate, toys. cyntoia brown-long was released from prison in august after then-tennessee governor commuted her sentence back in january. her case received nationwide attention. brown-long was only 16 years old when she shot and killed a man she says picked her up for sex because she feared for her life. she was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison. her story was championed by celebrities like kim kardashian-west and rihanna. we sat down with an exclusive interview on her experience. lester, welcome to you. >> thank you. good to be here. interesting person, 15 years in prison and then suddenly this celebrity groundswell starts putting out all this attention about her. and one of the things i wondered about was that a blessing or a curse? let's hear what she had to say about that. suddenly, people like kim kardashian are tweeting about you and raising this issue of clemency. was there a part of you that was afraid of the attention that maybe it could backfire? >>

ali. >> is it emotional? >> it's definitely emotional and it's definitely shocking. >> ali has met some of her new siblings andtic testing, she expects to hear from others. >> my kids could potentially be friends with or later on date cousins. some siblings went to schools -- the same schools at one point. >> it could be churches, basketball games, potlucks. >> yeah. you just don't know. >> my grandkids will have to get dna kits before they seriously date. that's a problem. >> sperm banking in america is big business. >> dov fox is author of "birthrights and wrongs" how medicine and technology are remaking reproduction and the law. >> there's no meaningful regulation on this $6 billion industry. so sperm banks don't keep track of how many people are created from any particular donor. >> it's hard to be all that surprised when mishaps take place. in a statement it says it treats any allegation of misconduct with the gravity it deserves. in light of the patient privacy obligations and the confidentiality of protected health information we cannot comment on this case. >> what is your goal with filing the lawsuit?

ali vitali there. appreciate it. as ali was speaking, we showed you new video. highlight it for you as we rerack it and you can take the scene. video taken from inside of a trolley. ever been to new orleans, plenty of trolleys down there. watch this. >> get to the back. >> that's inside the trolley. you see people there running outside. for about 30 seconds they said you could not see 30 feet in front of you. what a frantic scene that must have been there in new orleans. appreciate the report from aling other breaking news right now out of pelham, new hampshire where a shooting occurred at a new england pentecostal church during a wedding ceremony this morning. the chief of police says the shooter was subdued by wedding attendees. >> today at 10:12 a.m. the pelham police department received a call for an active shooter at the new england pentecostal church at 9:55 bridge street pelham, new hampshire. responding officers arrived within three minutes of the call. upon arrival, a wedding was occurring at the church and the police officers discovered a suspected shooter detained and subdued by guests of the wedding. they placed that individual into custody and arrested him. >> and two people sent to the hospital with gunshot wounds. others suffered minor injuries. no deathed reported there in new hampshire. >>> still ahead, a fierce battle raging in northern syria. turkishs fors on the attack season towns and taking on u.s. allies. >>> plus, two massive wildfires burning in southern ca

ali velshi, live in jerusalem. and with us our michael mcfaul. ali, what do we know of reports of fighting in northeast syria. the president is saying there is a cease-fire but we just played some sound where you can clearly hear bombs still going off. >> yes. >> so we heard words of pause and i will tell you a second why a pause that was in fighting that meant to last about five days to allow these kurdish allies to the united states and the syrian democratic forces which are populated. now we heard about this about 24 hours ago. we got some confirmation. a little after that there had been an absolute pause to all the fighting. then we ended up hearing from our own staff of reports of fighting in the area. president trump tweeted that he spoken to erdogan about this and that it was sporatic figdic fig and it would come to an end. what's interesting is what mr. trump said, the kurds are happy with this deal and president erdogan are satisfied with it. the kurds can't be happy with any deal involving the united states pulling back from that border to allow the turks to do what they wanted to do and occupy that space. president erdogan got everything he wanted. he got america to leave the area, they started the fighting and president trump asked them to stop the fighting for vice president pence and mike pompeo in turkey, stop the fighting for five days so the kurds could leave the area. kind of remarkable than erdogan would be satisfied by that. he must be thrilled by this turn around by u.s. policies. yet more interesting than that is the fact that this started because president trump announced on october 9th that he's pulling u.s. troops back from the syrian border. he's taking credit for solving the crisis that many of the world believes may have been his creation. >> listen to what he said. >> without spilling one drop of american blood -- we all agreed on a pause or a sacease-fire in the border region of syria. it was unconventional of what i did. i said they'll have to fight a little. sometimes you have to let memory fight a little while then people find out how tough the fighting is. sometimes you have to let them fight. it is like two kids in a lock, you have to let them fight and pull them apart. >> for many, many years turkey and all fairness they had a legislative problem with it. they had terrorists and a lot of people in there that they could not have. they suffered a lot of loss of lives also. they have the habit cleaned out. >> reporter: like two kids in a fight, sometimes you have to let them fight. this is all remarkable given in the fight against isis it was the kurds who fought alongside u.s. troops. make what you will of what you heard the president says. >> the president is saying the kurds and turks are happy. how is this a win for the kurds? >> of course it is not. just because the president says they're happy, there is no evidence they are happy. they are being removed from the land they have been on. when he used the word "cleaning out," there is another phrase for that, "ethnic cleansing," that's what's going on here. it is embarrassing for me. this is complete -- it means that we'll just abandon our allies. when he says a drop of blood was not dropped -- well, 11,000 kurds died fighting our enemy, isis, right next to us. according to reports, 90 to 100 people already died and we are selling out our allies. it is not good for america's reputation around the world and not good for our sfwrinterests the middle east. >> is there any sort of diplomatic solutions whether or not it was the president deciding to pull troops that caused it. what can and should we do if the cease-fire does not hold? >> i don't think we have any great options now. he had capitulated. he given erdogan everything he wanted. erdogan wanted the safe zone for years and he wanted to achieve this for a long time. now that the president signals he's pulling out and lift the sanctions because of this so-called cease-fire and emphasis on the adjectives there. also it is as win for mr. erdogan and a win for assad. the worst dictator in the world, he butchered and killed half a million more. it is a victory for the iranians. i don't know what one needs to do to make business deals in real estate. this is really, really bad diplomacy. >> what portion of the american people consider this a win? besides the small group who says, well, we don't know the kurds anyway. besides that faction, who in the united states who understands this -- good news mr. president, great news for america. >> well, he had his loyal base and a lot of people in americans want us to be seen less engage in war in the middle east. >> there are places where we have far more troops. >> correct. that was what i was going to say. the paradox of this or the dishonest way the president is talking about, one, we are not pulling our troops back. we are sending them to other places, the middle east and including saudi arabia. well, they'll be in saudi arabia because the saudis are paying for them. when did we want the u.s. military to become mercenaries for somebody else. number two. this is really important. we are in syria because we are fighting terrorist organizations princip principally isis that wants to attack us. september 11th, al-qaida was also 7,000 miles away, they attack us. he forgets there are tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of americans, soldiers and civilians all over the globe. it is his responsibility, commander in chief to protect those people as well. when you pull back and you stop fighting terrorists and syria. it means we'll be fighting isis some where else. it is a really, really important move that we made. >> ambassador michael mcfaul. i think we lost my partner alii wish he's safe and i am glad he's joining us. >>> mark sezuckerberg is callin for free speech. coming up. you will want to see this right here on "velshi & ruhle" on msnbc. "velshi & ruhle" on msnbc. >>> welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." mark zuckerberg is facing criticism. zuckerberg gave a speech at georgetown university defending facebook's practices, painting his network as an arbitor of free speech. >> believe the long journey confronting ideas that challenged us. i am here today because i believe that we must continue to send for free expression. >> joining me now is facebook's vice president global affairs and communications, nick clag. >> thank you for joining me. mark zuckerberg is saying what facebook stands for is the celebration of freedom of speech. since from a business perspective, facebook has spent the last 12 years aggressively trying to do business in china. >> i think mark zuckerberg's speech was quite open. he did want facebook services to be available to focus i

ali ghodsi. thank you for joining me. walk me through your business model. ali: the way companies solve the world's toughest problems using data. we take massive amounts of data and do machine learning on it. we do that in the cloud. customers rent our service in the cloud from us and they pay us by the hour. taylor: congratulations on the funding. what are you using this for? alil invest over $100 million on the european center. a lot of a lot of it will be research and development. we have massive demand for our service over the last year or two. we will invest it back in r&d and looking at over the next three years investing in all these open-source projects. there will be dedicated teams for each of these in europe. taylor: why is there more demand in europe right now? ali: the demand is worldwide everywhere. we have a big headquarters in san francisco with engineers. there are difficulties moving engineers to san francisco, there are visa issues. balancing the two with europe and san francisco is a good plan. taylor: with those visa issues, how much of it is restrictions from the trump administration and how do you get around that? ali: we have seen in the last few years, more and more people get their visas rejected. some of the employees on visa get expired and cannot come back. we are trying to work around this and trying to expand around the world. tay

ali of his generation. more power to him for marketing ampurposes, but muhammed ali wet to prison and fought against a war.he really wanted to take a stand, could, right? he could say i believe that the 1.4 billion people in china deserve the exact same rights that many americans take for speech,-- freedom of freedom to get on the internet without censorship, all of these issues. but i think a big part of this growing and going forward, china is moving -- this is important -- from, hey, if you want to play the avengers movie want to play "the avengers" movie in our country, we're going to edit two minutes of it, it's for inside of ourit countr. what they're trying to do now is trying to propagate their communist world view into america and using the sports leagues, like the nba, as a conduit to do it, and the nba is allowing them to do it. it's absolutely pathetic that this is allowed to be taken place. >> laura: it's like they got rid of the nomenclature "owners" for the owners of the team. but they transfer that ownership to a communist regime. so the owners now are far away in beijing whose tentacles re

ali, was the latest to go home. >> i like to push myself. >> reporter: the late muhammed ali's daughter joined professional gamer and blevins, and johnny greer. their time on the show was limited, b the experience was worth it. >> i was like hey, i'm not going to be sad too long. >> i had the best time. not one regret, and i'm so excited that not only the audience and judges enjoyed my performance, but now america as a whole. >> reporter: the next celebrity to be unmasked happens tonight only on fox. >> >> again, tune into the masked singer tonight at 8:00. that will be followed by an all new episode of almost family at 9:00. then please, stick around for the 10:00 news, and the 11:00 news, all right here on ktvu. >>> well a new book reveals a new rape allegation against former today show host matt lauer. and he is coming out swinging against this claim. california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones, - (phone ringing) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. call or visit and accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. like this device to increase volume on