which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state led by its captain, chuck hillwho was a national paralympic and, and is now an assistant coach on the national big team. >> it is great to have this opportunity here in san francisco. we are the main hub of the bay area, which, you know, we should definitely have resources here. now that that is happening, you know, i i'm looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that needs -- that these people are here for everyone. i think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as able-bodied, to be able to see and to try different sports, and to appreciate trying different things. >> people can come and check out this chairs and use them. but then also friday evening, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., it will be wheelchair basketball we will make sure it is available, and that way people can no that people will be coming to play at the same time. >> we offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusion programming, but this is the first time we have had our own equipment. [♪]. >> let's ge

i worked for chuck schumer on the hill. i worked for the iran contra committee which at this point i run into people who don't remember it, but i worked for that. that was fun. and over the course of my supreme court clerkship, i'd begun to realize that i wasn't sure that i wanted to have a conventional legal career. while i loved it, i began to believe that for me, it would be more enjoyable and rewarding to commit not to expertise in and around legal law, but to commit to expertise around a subject matter then have a lot of optionalty around that over what i would do for the rest of my career. the area i picked was technology, media, telecommunications. there was a few reasons for that. my dad did emigrate here and became an engineer and i inherited some of that, you know, the love of tech. i'd always been an early adopter of kinds of technology, kind of in a happy coincidence when i was clerking, it was just at the very early days of the internet. so the internet was up and running, if you could find a computer in the ba

hill. democratic leader chuck schumer is not amused. >> these attempts to expose the whistle-blower are unfortunately not the only example of how if you of my colleagues are taking the defense of this president too far. seems that with each coming week, sometimes each coming day, the president's allies in congress come up with a new tortured defense of his actions. >> meanwhile, taking some heat for tweets he wrote in 2017 just after president trump's inauguration. that's put it on the screen. "the coup has started, first of many steps. impeachment will follow ultimately." explained a fox news "the coup comment referred to those working inside the administration who were already standing up to him to enforce organized rules of law. chairman schiff has sent a letter to the top republican on house intelligence devin nunes about witnesses the g.o.p. would like to have a peer in these upcoming open hearings. he has set a saturday deadline is still discussing their potential request. meanwhile, a leading senate republican is expressing his frustration. >> i think the whole process is out of line with what

hill. fellow new yorker chuck schumer call the king and principal lawmaker who stood head and shoulders aboveveryone else. squad member and freshman lawmaker, ilhan omar, feels differently paired she wrote, peter king is an islamophobic who held hearings targeting american muslins and said there are too many mosques in this country and blamed him for his own death at the hands of the police. good riddance, she writes. journeyman, congressman peter king. it's always great to have you with us congressman king. thank you for being here. at first of all, why did you make this decision, sir? >> i was there for 28 years, spending four years a weekend in washington, i loved every minute of it, don't get me wrong, i'm actually close to my family and i'm not a big vacation guy come if you are a note a notre dame football game or weekends with my grandkids and my daughter moved to north carolina so you're down with my graduate, i just thought after all these years, maybe it's time to spend more time with them and it's great so long as they are nearby but now we travel in everything, maybe it sounds tri

chuck. >> mike, i want to throw one more thing at you. fiona hill in her opening statement, essentially makes a request to say please be careful, essentially, taking russian created conspiracy theories and reiterating them. they got really defensive over that. and yet, let me play a montage here of russian created propaganda seeping into the hearings. here it is. >> so at the end of the day, the commander in chief concerned about 2016 election meddling by ukraine, sounds like just earlier testified that you weren't aware of that. >> at the same time, certain ukrainians did work against candidate trump. some with the dnc. and if that's debunked, why is it mr. schiff has denied alexander chalupa from testifying to come forward and debunk it. was it good for the country, the dnc, to pay christopher steele to dig up dirt with other foreign services on their political rival? >> devon archer, former board member from burisma, alexander chalu chalupa, who admitted she provided anti-trump information to the dnc and hillary clinton. nelly orr, who helped cre

hill, however. >> quickly, here, chuck schumer and others talking about all of this.e this or any social networking app is able to learn a lot about you when the information you put into the app to occasionalistics of the device you're using. remember, you're signing up for the service. it's possible that the chinese government could access to that stuff even though tick tog said repeatedly that's not the case. the real issue is content moderation. are the videos that you're seeing in some way affected by the values or by the censorship requirements that are in place in china? >> all right. well, appreciate you being here. on note right now that you have not appeared yet in one of the "washington post" famed ticktocks as of yet. thank you. >> thanks. >> all right. >>> staying in washington a moment. show you live pictures from washington, d.c. something that's never, ever happened in our nation's capital. a parade celebrating the world series baseball champions nats. players and coaches making their way along constitution avenue. it is a sunny day, you can see. a sea

could penetrate the republican bubble on capitol hill that might say, whoa, maybe we shouldn't stand by the president on all of this. >> all right chuck, thank you and we will be back with special coverage of the impeachment hearings tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. >>> an unprecedented move in the royal family to tell you about. rprise announcement that he'll leave public life amid a deepening scandal over his friendship with convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein. here's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: less than a week after an interview widely described as disas trust. >> you were staying at the house of a convicted sex offender >> it was a convenient place to stay. >> reporter: prince andrew, queen elizabeth's second son, made a surprise announcement he is stepping down from all public duties, writing in a statement, it has become clear to me over the last few days that the circumstances relating to my former association with jeffrey epstein have become a major disruption to my family's work. the prince, who expressed sympathy for epstein's victims and a willingness to work with law enforcement, also says in today's statement that he co

minority leader chuck schumer talks about investing additional resources into artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. fbi director christopher wray was on capitol hillintel officials to testify on security threats facing the u.s.. senators asked about counterterrorism efforts, stopping foreign influence in elections, and cybersecurity measures. this senate homeland security hearing is two hours 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. this hearing will come to order. i want to thank our witnesses for your service to our country.

with us to follow it is moderator more "meet the press" chuck todd and legal analyst -- let's begin with jeff bennett on capitol hill. what is sondland set to testify to? >> good morning. ambassador sondland is a key player. with a direct line to president trump. he's prepared to tell house investigators, in his view, mike pompeo and john bolton, the national security adviser were fully aware of what he, former ambassador kurt volker and rick perry, the so-called three amigos were doing as they worked alongside rudy giuliani, president trump's outside attorney to help run the trap in ukraine and democrats say to pressure officials that would be beneficial to president trump. sondland says this. he says they were working at the express direction, i'm reading from his opening statement. working at the express direction of the president of the united states. we did not want to work with mr. giuliani. we played the hand that we were dealt. beyond that, lester and savannah. sondland will tell this committee according to his opening statement that giuliani's demands of the ukrainians, this is a quote, arranging a white ho

chuck. >> a lot to unpack here. also, my goodness what fiona hills conducting business and how it became in her fear a national security threat. almost like waving a sign to say i'm a conduit to the president. anyway, quite a -- quite a -- quite a read there. jeff bennett on capitol hill. busy week. thank you, sir. up next, going to dig more into this. john bolton's lawyer says he knows a lot about that impeachment investigators do not. so will we ever find out what bolton has to say? he desperately seems to want to at least let us know that he has a lot to say. we're going to talk to a democrat on the oversight committee after this break. democrat on the oversight committee after this break ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. i need all the breaks i can get. line? liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. that's a lot of words. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ i thought i was managing my moderate to severe crohn's disease. then i realized som

. >> jeff bennett on capitol hill, thank you very much, my friend. i will bring in chuck rosenberg.e knows me the best. he's the lawyer to whom i can ask my dumb questions. have we not proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of public opinion, based on the release of the white house's own release of the transcript where donald trump says to president zelensky, i need a favor though, the testimony of a dozen witnesses, i think every single one of them having worked for more republicans than democrats, that donald trump conditioned, held up, withheld, sought to deny military aid until he had a promise of investigations into burisma in 2016? >> not a dumb question, nicole. to paraphrase the movie query mcgwim jerry mcgwire. you had me at the transcript. when the judge instructs the jury -- we talked about jury instructions the other day. the judge always tells the jury never abandon your logic, your common sense, and your experience. so we spend a lot of time -- i think appropriately so -- talking about the details of the case, the timeline, who said what to whom who heard it what

hill. in the senate, senate minority leader, chuck schumer is the lead sponsor joined by republican senator pat toomey. under the bills, the president could waive sanctions against reign state-owned banks if a foreign government is cooperating. this amendment's approach is similar. it says that the united states will oppose ex-im bank assistance to a government in the entities it controls if the president determines that the government isn't cooperating with us to stop the flood of opiods into our county. china and mexico have been identified by the u.s. drug enforcement agency as primary producers. this amendment is not targeting those who need assistance from the united states most. t would provide a waiver where government protection is needed for government goods and services. we want to help those that need assistance and we must protect the americans. according to the centers, the pioid deaths in america linked to synthetic drugs. areas in southwest ohio have some of the highest per capita opioid overdose deaths in the nation and this is an epidemic impacting us. 28,000 deaths in the

after chuck schumer and house speaker nancy pelosi all but dared him to come to capitol hill to refute allegations against him under oath. >> the president could come back before the committee and speak all the truth that he wants, if he wants to take the "to oath of office, or he can do it in writing. he has every opportunity to present his case. >> not surprisingly, lawmakers are skeptical about the prospects of mr. trump raising his right hand and standing before an adam schiff-let inquiry. >> just like the american people do, the process is completely unfair. >> i think the chances that the president would actually come and testify or answer our questions be deposed are slim to none and slim just left the room. i think it's a moot point. >> of the president did respond in writing to questions during the mueller probe, today we learned that even those answers are facing renewed scrutiny with the house now said to be investigating the veracity of the president's responses in the russia investigation. about which north carolina g.o.p. congressman mark meadows quipped "flailing," refer

as steve said all eyes on capitol hill as nancy pelosi and chuck schumer calling on president trump to in front of house impeachment investigators? ainsley: that's right it. comes as week two of public impeachment hearings is getting underway. steve: griff jenkins joins us live from washington. griff, when is the president going to sit down with nancy and chuck? that sounds great, right? griff: don't hold your breath. here comes another week of hearings as the president is fighting back on twitter brassing the inquiry. the crazed do nothing democrats are turning impeachment into partisan weapon. it's very bad for our country and not what the founders had in mind. one witness not scheduled is the president, though speaker pelosi is extending that invitation. >> the president could come right before the committee and talk, speak all the truth that he wants if he wants to. >> you don't expect him to do that. >> if he wants to take the oath of office or he can do it in writing. has every opportunity to present his case. griff: take a look the in all 8 witnesses. recalling jennifer williams

. >> and chuck, just to bring it back to sort of the conversation we were having about fiona hill, thecontrast doesn't help donald trump either. strength is being embodied during this 12-week period, since the whistle-blower complaint came out by people he likes to attack. they now look stronger than him. the whistle-blower is stronger than donald trump with his chest thumping big baby bully act, he couldn't beat the whistle-blower whose identity is still being protected, barely, by adam schiff. the whistle-blower's complaint went to a trump appointee, the watchdog for the intelligence community. that trump appointee investigated it, corroborated it, and even going through the justice department, managed to somehow transmit it to congress where the impeachment investigation commenced. and now a dozen witnesses are also proving themselves to be stronger, even than anonymous, someone who works for trump but isn't strong enough to come out from under trump's bullying and put his or her name to the allegations of abuse of power. there has not been a greater display of strength than we've s

liz: nbc chuck todd agreed with mississippi republican senator roger wicker that ukrainians did meddle in the 2016 election despite what fiona hills testifying. this is not about the dnc server and all of that, it's about ukrainians meddling. watch the. >> she is corrupt, russia tried to interfere in 2016, also ukrainians themselves try to interfere. >> the difference between the two, i understand there is individual ukrainians who were upset that donald trump wanted crimea to stay with russia. is that the same as the russian government and putin ordering a full-fledged interview. >> i'm concerned about both. we went to ukrainian courts ruled that the member of the legislator tried to meddle in the 2016 election. >> it is certainly something that we ought to be looking into. but remember democrats have totally cut off any investigation into that. they particularly refused witnesses that the republicans wanted to bring forward and for example to look into what hunter biden was actually doing, what did joe biden do to help cover up what his son was doing, they don't want that looked into and that is another clue to the american peo

both republicans and democrats on the hill who believe the social media video sharing could be used by china to gather americans data and misuse it. senator chuck told this week to be careful about using the china owned app. >> we had begun the review with army cyber command of the potential vulnerabilities associated with this app and likely any others beers will be receiving a breed from army cyber command right around the christmas holiday. >> cadet command which oversees rotc cadets told recruiters not to use the app while in uniform. the order was first reported by task and purpose, a prominent military blog. tick-tock pushed back in a statement saying we are not influenced by any foreign government, including the chinese government. tick-tock does not organize in china nor do we have any intention of doing so in the future. for $1 billion poses a threat to u.s. national security, dana. >> dana: jennifer griffin thanks and happy thanksgiving. an ingenious plan of attack solves two problems at once, hunter and america in the huge amount of wasted food. this extraordinary woman who made it all happen up next they answered 410 questions in 8

hill, thank you. let's bring in the political panel, host of the aggressive progressive podcasts and a former aide to senate minority leader chuckhumer. chris plante is the host of the crist plant show. i may have you listened to senator lindsey graham on a bit of a difference between what the report was trying to do and what they think adam schiff is trying to do. >> i let mueller do his job because i trusted him. i do not trust adam schiff to be getting to the truth. i don't trust to the process in the house is being fair. the president wants to call witnesses on his behalf, i hope you will to have a chance to do that in the house while the inquiry is going on. >> dana: on twitter this morning, chris plant is hilarious on his show this morning talking about these types of things so we wanted to have you want to get your take on things. >> there is so much to cover and obviously adam schiff is a dishonest man. for years, he promised the world that he had access to the secret information on russia collusion and if only you could go into the secret room and see what he had seen, you would know that president trump had colluded wi

chuck todd our "meet the press" moderator in washington. andrea mitchell is here. richard engel and former justice department prosecutor andrew weisman now an nbc news legal analyst. let's start on the hill. nbc's jeff bennett at his post with what to expect this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. marie yovanovitch has been a foreign service officer for some 33 years serving in six presidential administrations, three times as an ambassador in hot spots all around the world, two times appointed by a republican president including president trump, himself. house democrats say her testimony is key because she really, they say, put a personal face, a human face on the entire ukraine controversy since her testimony is that she was steam rolled, smeared, and ultimately sidelined once president trump's allies realized she would be an obstacle to his desired pressure campaign, yovanovitch saying she feared for her safety as a result. >> thank you very much. >> now to our nbc legal analyst and former doj prosecutor. help us understand where she fits. we saw the narrative laid out wednesday fairly clearly of what democrats claim the president did. how does she fit? why is her

here to help us navigate all of us, nbc's chuck todd and andrea mitchell as well as former justice department prosecutor and legal analyst. we want to go to the hill first, jeff bennett, what's the scene there? >> reporter: savannah, good morning. democrats have hoped what they will be at the end of the day an ironclad impeachment against president trump. as you know, democrats control the committee which means they control the focus of these hearings and they also control the format. let's start with the focus because storytelling is important here as democrats bring public the case they've been building against president trump in prooifivate now for so two months. they'll begin by telling the story from the beginning and lay out what is a coordinated pressure campaign getting ukraine's leaders to open investigations that would be politically beneficial to president trump. they also control the format, as i mentioned. this hearing will be unlike other congressional hearings in that after the witnesses are sworn in, after they deliver their opening statements, the top republican and top democrat on this committee will have 90 minutes to split betw

minority leader chuck schumer talks about investing additional resources into artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. fbi director christopher wray was on capitol hillith intel officials to testify on security threats facing the u.s.. senators asked about counterterrorism efforts, stopping foreign influence in elections, and cybersecurity measures. this senate homeland security hearing is two hours 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. this hearing will come to order. i want to thank our witnesses for your service to our country. 13 people lost their lives, 30 people were injured. it underscores what we are dealing with here in terms of a threat environment. this is my ninth annual threat hearing that i have either chaired or participated in. i often say i'm not the most uplifting character. those i could say that in nine years, i have seen tremendous progress being made and we have reduced these threats and all is well. unfortunately, we face the same threats. if anything, the threats are growing. nine years ago, we were talking about the blind use of drive -- drones or the use of social media. we face the same threats. they are evolving. terrorist groups

hill and the white house. our chief legal correspondent ari melber, plus our special guests, the former acting solicitor general neil kotial, claire mccaskill, michael mcfall, veteran of the justice department and the fbi, chuck rosenberg, and the historian and author jon meacham. today, the impeachment hearings of donald j. trump. >>> well, good morning from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i'm brian williams along with nicolle wallace. of the public impeachment hearings that could put this presidency in peril. we'll take you live to the hearing room on capitol hill, normally the home of the ways and means committee, where these once-in-a-generation proceedings will unfold. and if the democrats are going to convince the american public that the president should, in fact, be removed from office, the heavy lifting starts right now with these first two witnesses. >> bill taylor and george kent have provided some of the most dramatic and damaging evidence against donald trump that's come out of the impeachment inquiry so far. from ambassador taylor, a decorated vietnam veteran who spent five decades in public service to the u.s., the very first description of that quid pro quo conditioning military ai

chuck robbins. it's a little later this morning on "squawk on the street" at 9:00 eastern time. >> fed chair j. powell is back on capitol hillt of what he told the joint economic committee yesterday. >> i think the new normal now is lower interest rates, lower inflation, probably lower growth and you're seeing that all over the world. not just in the united states. you're seeing it to a much greater extent in many parts of the world than we're seeing it here >> today powell is going to speak in front of the house budget committee joining us now is the chairman of that committee, congressman jay yarmouth of kentucky congressman, it's been a while it's good to see you this morning. >> good to be with you, joe. good to be with you. >> what do you think that the most important things that the fed chair needs to get across at this point have we cut enough, do you think, in your view? and when does congress take on the deficit in ernest, the spending time, not revenue side? >> two great questions first of all, on the spending side and my ranking republican member steve womack will agree with me on this, we, in terms of the funding

hill and the white house. our chief legal correspondent ari melber, plus our special guests, the former acting solicitor general neil kotial, claire mccaskill, michael mcfall, veteran of the justice department and the fbi, chuck