says is really just its internal conclusions and decisions. >> danny cevallos, thank you. appreciate it. we will talk to you again in a little bit, danny, thanks. >>> a federal judge yesterday issued a preliminary injunction ordering the department of defense and the white house office of management and budget to release records relating to trump administration's hold on military assistance to ukraine that is at the heart of the house impeachment inquiry. now, according to axios, the decision follows a lawsuit by the nonprofit journalism organization, center for public integrity, over a freedom of information act request, for more than 200 pages of records that include communications between the pentagon, the pentagon comptroller, and the white house budget office. now, the judge ordered the release of half of the documents by december 12th. and the rest by december 20th. >> and mark esper is weighing in on the firing of richard spencer following a controversial war crimes case. speaking to reporters yesterday, esper explained that he was quote flabbergasted to learn that s

i don't know why it hasn't happened yet. >> danny cevallos, thank you. as always.ate it. >>> let's get a check of your weather now with our meteorologist. >> we are preparing for winter-like temperatures and the first snowfall for the ohio valley and the northeast. this is that well-defined cold front, you can see temperatures well below average, right now, and currently, 13 degrees for bismarck, no profit or freeze advisories in that area, for the front, it is going to continue to make its way through. ahead of this front is the rain showers that will be sporadic, for ohio valley, to new york city. even washington, d.c. this afternoon. with mild temperatures still in place. but behind that is a very strong cold front and that's going to cause that snow that we're talking about for the northeast. so today, expect scattered showers for the northeast. it will be kind of up and down, throughout your afternoon, and the heaviest will be for your evening commute. but by wednesday, we do start to see that storm system develop in the south. where we could see two to three

and joining me on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos and with us from washington, congressional reporter for the daily beast, sam brody. sam, good morning to you. i want to discuss some of your major take-aways first and foremost from the first day of thef public impeachment inquir hears and also this new information included in ambassador taylor's testimony with regards to this phone call between the president and gordon sondland, in this ukrainian restaurant. >> yes, i think it is going to be here this morning, few people including somefe of the lawmake i spoke with were surprised that bill taylori would show up and ultimately drop a really new piece of information that isn't necessarily a game changer, but really has a significant impact on themp case that democrats ar trying to make here. he tooifed another person with apparently first, he identified another person with apparently firsthand knowledge of the president'sfi direct involvemen in a plan to get ukraine to investigate his political rivals.in that person, bill taylor's aide is going to come in on friday, for a close

joining me now, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos and daniel lippman.laiming his own intelligence agencies have spied on his campaign for a while now. take a listen. >> they were spying. they were spying on our campaign. yes, i think they were spying on the trump campaign. you can't say it any better than that. i'll go a step further, in my opinion it was illegal spying, unprecedented spying. the fact is they were spying on my campaign, using agencies to -- intelligence agencies to do it. it went right up to the top. and everybody knows it. spying, surveillance, trying for an overthrow. >> he's also been demanding an investigation into his claims. is this a classic example of be careful what you wish for? >> yeah, because he has his own justice department inspector general saying this is categorically false and that there's no evidence that the fbi spied on the trump campaign. the fbi only was looking into possible russian interference in our election. and they had this intermediary who was promising a trump campaign adviser, george papadopoulos, that r

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joining me now to talk through this, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. ing to you for joining us. >> good morning. >> what do you think is the factor here, even owe the supreme court is leaning here? >> two things can be true at the same time. first, daca can be unlawful. and also, the trump administration may have arrived at this decision unlawfully or violated the administrative procedures act. and these are the two main arguments in this case. one, the government is saying, look, you can't review our decision court, it's not even within your power. because this is an administrative policy decision that we made. on the other hand, as pointed out by one of the justices in oral argument yesterday, if they made a legal decision, then that must be reviewable. after all, that's what the courts are for. but ultimately, it may all be for naught, if daca can be removed by the current administration. after all, it was just an executive order created by a prior administration. with executive orders each successive president giveth and he can taketh away. >> what

. >> joining me msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos and also senior adviser from the hill scott wong. scott, let's talk about this question of loyalty when it comes to vindman. i think it was pretty tasteful across the board, questioning someone who has served this country selflessly as he has. what has been the reaction so far, and what were republicans trying to gain from all of this? >> well, i think you alluded to it earlier in the statement there was a lot of gossip and innuendo suggestions about loyalty. and republicans were sort of in a box. they could not attack vindman directly and, you know, say are you loyal to this country? but they cloaked their questions in various ways to try to just draw at some of those suspicions to try to question his credibility. and his loyalty. obviously, the man appeared at the hearing in uniform. and so it made it very difficult for republicans to attack him direct directly. but you saw that vindman was ready for those attacks. he had some zingers in his pocket when devin nunes, the top republican on the panel called him mr. vindman. vindman ca

campaign against former ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, joining mes in nbc legal analyst, danny cevallo. what's in the documents that's potentially damaging? >> the potential allegations against hunter biden and now i guess generally not believed or generally debunked, allegations that hunter biden and others were involved in corrupt acts. and this is the critical link between what giuliani provided the state department, provided to pompeo that formed the basis of the investigations supposedly requested by trump. in the ukraine, which were more than just investigations into burisma allegedly, but focused specifically on biden. this provides another link to that theory. >> okay now hang on. so you're saying that these were debunked allegations in the state department documents? >> the allegations that rudy giuliani provided about obviously marie yovanovitch and hunter biden, are allegations that are generally not widely believed now. they're mostly believed to be essentially trumped-up for lack of a better word. and those were the same allegations now it seems that the state department m

washington reporter for "politico," daniel litman and joins us on the set msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. great to have both of you with us. danny, let me begin with you if i may. the impeachment inquiry ramping up against this week and you expect to see some folks from the omb dragged in front of this. they say they will defy the subpoena. and the "washington post" is saying it is kind of a little bit of favor with the president. what happens if the director, or one of the senior members of the omb actually ignores this subpoena, and does no go through. >> congress has three tools, and we have heard a lot of them. criminal contempt. civil contempt. and inherent contempt. wer theoretically they ask the sergeant of arms of congress to physically arrest the person and bring them before congress. it is not a realistic option with the president. it might be with individual members of the executive branch. but criminal contempt takes time. civil contempt takes time. criminal contempt, the crazy thing about it, the statute says that in order to enforce criminal contempt, you know who has to en

let's bring in now msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos.ided stone was guilty on all charges. >> sometimes these cases are difficult because it's difficult to prove whether a statement was false and that it was intentionally so, but in a case like this where there's just so much evidence that the statements he gave about what he knew and when he knew it, that they were false, it wasn't too difficult for a jury to convict him on these counts. >> and stone is a first-time offender, so how much time is the former trump associate facing now that the jury has convicted him on all seven counts? >> there's a real confusion that arises when you take the only real known number that you can know at the time that somebody is charged with a crime, which is the statutory maximum. it's usually arrived at by adding up all the potential maximums, and that ends up in decades and decades of prison time. the reality is the federal sentencing guidelines will recommend a sentence far, far below that, and most of these white collar type crimes have sentences sur

. >>> joining us on the set is danny cevallos and senior writer at roll call, niels lesniewski. so in april, the readout of the call, the word from the white house was to implement reforms that strengthen democracy, increase prosperity and root out corruption, but according to "the new york times," the memorandum of the call shows the two men praising each other's political acumen and predicting an era of warm relations. how might these discrepancies in these two separate phone calls from the white house play a roll in the impeachment inquiry? >> well, first of all, i would assume the national security counsel staff actually works on sundays, so -- >> we would like to think so. >> updated because it took place on the weekend, that is kind of a problem at the outset. but i think it will raise more questions about the accuracy of information. and probably more fights, whether they're in court or just in the court of public opinion, over the accuracy of statements that are made by the white house and the accuracy of records that have been kept by the white house. because certainly,

. >> and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. >> and senior staff brightwrite the hill, scott wong. nny, i want you to weigh in on the twitter controversy. did they or did they not? what is the legality whether or not the white house can actually freeze john bolton's twitter account if in fact they did just that. >> first, i'm not entirely sure what exactly happened on w-john bolton's twitter account. did the nsa process, or as bolton suggested, software to do it or did he have his password on a yellow post-in note that he had on his desk and couldn't access to the twitter account, especially if he gave shared access to the white house. it may be a case, can you give me the post-it note with my passwords and the white house delayed in giving it back to him. we don't really know. even his language is kind of vague. so it is really not first amendment suppression if they delayed in giving him back wherever he wrote down his passwords. but is it something more nefarious than that? possibly. >> and they talk about the twitter account but the pertinent question is will john bolton testify

joining us on the site, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. as amin walked us through some of, that the prosecutiondon necessarily accuse the president of any crimes, but is saying that there was direct contact, has evidence of direct contact between roger stone on some of those very important days and the president. how is this going to affect the impeachment inquiry, if at all? going forward. >> not necessarily. for two major reasons. number one, the roger stone indictment has been out there in the ether for at least a year so people have known about some of these allegations. and number two, the indictment doesn't charge roger stone for any of his actual conduct in communicating with people associated with wikileaks or randy credico, he is not charged with espionage, he is not charged with computer hacking or anything like that, and all of roger stone's charged crimes arise after, and as a consequence of the mueller investigation. they are crimes he allegedly committed when the mueller investigation and the house intelligence committee came

. >>> joining us on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos and with us from washington, d.c., congressional reporter for the daily beast, sam brody, danny, great to have you with us, and yesterday, some people were saying on social media, gordon sondland pretty much threw everyone under the bus and everyone was in the loop, president trump, the vice president one meeting, secretary of state mike pompeo. he had the receipts, he has the emails to back up his claim, at least on that exchange. how significant is it now that he has implicated all of these individuals in what he has described, a quid pro quo scheme, run by rudy giuliani? on behalf of the president? >> it likely changes the trump position from there was no quid pro quo, to there was a quid pro quo but so what? so what if we were investigating corruption generally, and that big morasse included burisma, and it may have included the bidens, but why not? the bidens were an actual problem when it came to corruption. that's going to be where this defense is heading. president trump will continue to say, there was no quid pro quo. but o

danny cevallos, thank you so much. always a pleasure, my friend. good to see you. >> thank you. >>> let's switch gears and bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins for a quick check of the weather. >> what a halloween storm. ruining plans for many. knocking out power to half a million people right now. greensboro, north carolina, you saw the storms rolling through. we had wind gusts estimated between 50 to 60, even 70 miles an hour. with some of these thunderstorms. and this is the story through much of the mid atlantic. into the northeast. from the storms. high gusty winds. there's a lot of trees still had their leaves on them. and then with the soggy soil over the last week, they gave way. there's just hundreds and if not thousands of trees down along the eastern seaboard today. that's the main reason for all of our widespread power outages. so here is the map that shows that these are all of the blue dots, that show you all of the wind gusts reports that are high or wind damage reports, and 207 of them, for the mid atlantic, all the way through th

now, joining me now is msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos and melissa murray who clerked for supremert justice sonja sotomayor. how big of a fish is bolton here? and fiona hill testified that bolton is not quote of whatever drug deal sondland and mulvaney is cooking up. >> he is definitely a big fish in all of this john bolton is no fly by night partisan. he is someone who has deep conservative roots. everyone knows this. and he is someone, if he comes out to say that in fact, there was some kind of drug deal that mulvaney and others were cooking up, it would have a lot of credibility and the democrats would really run with it. so this is a huge catch for the dnls if he is brought in but he is caught between the white house who would woo do anything to keep him from testifying before congress and the pros spect of a subpoena. >> bolton's attorneys also representing his former deputy charles kupperman in court questioning whether he must comply and how necessary it is to have testimony from kupperman and bolton because the judge won't consider the lawsuit until december. >> this is th

but those are the next immediate steps. >> danny cevallos, thank you. meredith mcgraw, thank you as well. >>> still ahead, president trump appears to up end the navy decision to strip a chief petty officer of his credentials. >>> and more on high crimes and misdemeanor, and chill out, a check of weather when we come back. when we come back we have to be able to repair the enamel on a daily basis. with pronamel repair toothpaste, we can help actively repair enamel in its weakened state. it's innovative. my go to toothpaste is going to be pronamel repair. my go to toothpaste the holidays are here and we want to keep you connected to those you love, with the new iphone 11. hurry into t-mobile today, to get up to four iphone 11's on us. only at t-mobile. ♪'cause no matter how far away for you roam.♪ys.♪ ♪when you pine for the sunshine of a friendly gaze.♪ ♪for the holidays you can't beat home sweet home.♪ the united states postal service goes the extra mile to bring your holidays home. is your business still settling for slow internet? well time is money. s

legal analyst danny cevallos is joining me for that story, and new overnight, the president of afghanistan announces a prisoner exchange with the taliban, and one of the people who may be set free is reportedly a u.s. citizen. those stories and of course a check of your weather, when we come back. montez sweat. is he right for old spice? montez's name is sweat. he's also a powerful defenseman in the nfl. old spice is a powerful sweat defense in the nfl. is he right for old spice? yeah. whether your beauty routine is 3or 57,... make nature's bounty hair skin and nails step one. it's the number one brand uniquely formulated for silky hair, glowing skin and healthy nails. nature's bounty, because you're better off healthy. i am all about living joyfully. the united explorer card hooks me up. getting more for getting away. traveling lighter. getting settled. rewarded. learn more at the explorer card dot com. beyond the routine checkups. beyond the not-so-routine cases. comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. all working with a new generation of technologies powered

. >> joining me now is msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos and let's break this down. first, what sur response to the testimony? >> this testimony paints a damning picture of rudy giuliani's activities. rudy giuliani does enjoy a potential exception under the foreign act for foreign registration of agents for acting as an attorney, but that's a very limited exception. it applies in my case, for example, i've represented foreign nationals, and if you are doing it in a criminal context only, you're essentially advocating for them, and arguably, even advocating for u.s. attorneys and federal agents in that sense, but that's part of the exception. you're representing them in a criminal context. anything more than that, where you're lobbying, or doing anything to convince, or this government to do anything for a foreign government, that gets into the fara act and rudy giuliani should have some real concerns. >> and under the rule of law, what are the limitations here for attorney-client privilege? does that defense now become inadmissible because rudy giuliani was not funct

joining us now, tom tiwinters a danny cevallos. >> tom, how significant is this, followed by danny, are we actually going to see them in. >> it is significant. a little around the presidential immunity. we talked about this. the president's attorney was look, while he's there, he's protected and immunity over state prosecutions that we believe the president has protected by article ii of the constitution. that plays to the third party subpoena. that applies to something looking into his business and not to him specifically. the judges here is saying not so fast. any presidential immunity from state criminal process does not extend to investigative steps. some of this process can continue and can go forward. it is a little bit of a precedent. it is a little bit of a defining piece of this opinion. it is something that should this go onto further legal fight, it will be something that it will be the core of that fight. >> part two of your question, the answer is yes, we are likely to see these tax records some day because at this point trump has lost at two different federal courts on the

joining me now msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos and danny, how will these hearings differ from theelligence committee hearing? >> it is expected that at these hearings, you're going to hear at least initially witnesses talk about the impeachment process generally, and historically. we don't have a lot of historical basis or precedent to guide us in impeachment hearings, or the entire procedure itself. so for a public show of what exactly impeachment is about, expect some witnesses to explain that to the american public through televised hearings. >> so danny, if the president decides to send his lawyer, or call witnesses, how could that impact the hearings? >> first, he should. he should use the option of counsel, send somebody to at least question witnesses, or ask to call his own witnesses to bolster his case, to at least counter the democrats' case against him. otherwise, it will be a completely one-sided show. on the other hand, the president may be thinking if i don't send anyone at all, this entire process will look even more one-sided, and unfair. >> what legal arguments do

. >> joining us here, msnbc an lift danny cevallos.uite the turnaround by gordon sondland in his testimony, his deposition yesterday. essentially announcing that there was a quid pro quo. where do things go from here? is the quid pro quo enough of a leg to stand on for impeachment? or can the president and his circle and his supporters like lindsey graham still hide behind the fact that it was an anti-corruption quid pro quo? >> first, so many times in court, i've seen a witness wrongly think they can get up on the stand and say i don't remember, i don't recall, or i never knew the answers to that question. what those witnesses often find out that circumstantial evidence can show that, in fact, you probably knew what you're claiming not to know. that's why this is so significant. to the extent it tends to show that there was a quid pro quo, ultimately, all of this is going to boil down to a question. because it seems pretty clear that there's going to be evidence that trump directly asked for an investigation. not of corruption general

. >> joining us, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos and also from the hill julia manchester.elcome to you both. julia, i'm going to start with you on this one. what do you make of the tweet from the former national security adviser yesterday john bolton, and what do you think could be holding him up from testifying? >> well, yasmin, it's hard to say what's holding him up from testifying. i think a lot of democrats are confused as to whether bolton is trying to tease them as to what's going to come next. whether he will testify or not. or whether he's simply taunting them. bolton has an interesting relationship with the white house. there appears to be quite a bit of tension there. and he appears to have left on negative terms with the president. just last friday he was accusing the white house of essentially freezing his twitter account. there's definitely or seeming to be bad blood there and it would be questionable as to why he wouldn't testify before house democrats. but at the same time, his lawyer has said that he will not testify unless subpoenaed. so, i think democrats

. >> danny cevallos, thank you so much. >>> with public hearings beginning next week, we'll look at where impeachment inquiry is going and what's next for the president. watch "impeachment: white house in crisis" tomorrow, 9:00 eastern, here on msnbc. >>> and we've got a primary shakeup. michael bloomberg's possible 11th hour bid to join the field of democratic contenders and why he would skip the first four early voting states. early voting states. i have one kid in each branch of the military, but i'm command central. i'm a father of four. my wife's currently deployed in iraq. i talk to my wife at least once a day, even though she's on the other side of the world. (announcer) they get a special rate on unlimited plans that they can mix and match. them being able to connect with me means everything. (announcer) and they also get a year of amazon prime on us, featuring tom clancy's "jack ryan." because the network more people rely on, gives you more. that's verizon. 25 cent boneless wings at applebee's. ♪ born to be wild... born to be wild...♪ get 'em while they're hot. a new buick? for m

. >>> joining us on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos, good to have you with us. how incriminating do you think the state department official david holmes testimony, based on what we have seen from the closed door deposition, is likely to be in the public forum. he is given a very accurate account, at least by his own words, of what he heard on that phone call between sondland and the president as we just recapped there. it may sound like a minor thing but there is a major piece of homes' testimony that will affect the testimony of gordon sondland coming up this week. and it's this. gordon sondland largely testified that hey, i was told to go talk to rudy giuliani, i was told to ask ukraine to investigate corruption. that would have been fine. but i didn't know anything really about this whole biden burisma stuff. i never would have been behind. that that's how sondland appears to be threading the needle, that corruption investigation, fine, biden, not so fine, but i didn't know about that. now, now you have holmes saying essentially after this phone call that son

joining to discuss this, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos pap key star witness steve bannon came yesterdayuctantly. >> says stone "was the access point to julian assange." legally damaging, or what does that mean? those words, access point, and how could that come back to hurt him. >> very damaging, because one of the things roger stone is charged with is lying to a congressional committee about whether or not, saying he did not share wikileaks information with the trump campaign. here comes steve bannon, the government's witness and testifies, roger stone said he had all kinds of contact with wikileaks. so he was our access point, in a sense, to wikileaks. that puts the line to roger stone's defense, that he, against that charge. in addition, roger stone claimed that his only access to wikileaks was through an intermediary named randy credico, a radio host here in the new york area, and the reason that is significant is that the government says randy credico didn't even know or have contact with anything related to wikileaks until much later. so that suggests, again that roger stone was d

. >> danny cevallos, thank you. >> thank you. >>> and new efforts to bring the g7 summit to a trump propertye showing contradicting the president's previous claim thats. >>> another controversy brewing at the white house. this one over trump's main adviser stephen miller and a new cause for his resignation. anpss 24/7 with a strain of bacteria you can't get anywhere else. (woman) you could say align puts the "pro" in probiotic. so where you go, the pro goes. (vo) go with align. the pros in digestive health. and try align gummies. with prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestive health. but in my mind i'm still 25. that's why i take osteo bi-flex, to keep me moving the way i was made to. it nourishes and strengthens my joints for the long term. osteo bi-flex - now in triple strength plus magnesium. ♪ do you recall, not long ago ♪ we would walk on the sidewalk ♪ ♪ all around the wind blows ♪ we would only hold on to let go ♪ ♪ blow a kiss into the sun ♪ we need someone to lean on ♪ blow a kiss into the sun ♪ we needed somebody to lean on ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ all we need is someone to lean on ♪ >>>

relations and author of the book, a world in disarray, richard haass, and msnbc legal analyst danny cevall cevallosment the president is using to stonewall the impeachment investigation. a federal court judge has rejected the white house claim of absolute immunity, ruling that former white house counsel don mcgahn must testify in the impeachment inquiry. the house judiciary committee subpoenaed mcgahn earlier this year for testimony on possible obstruction of justice in the mueller investigation. when the white house blocked his appearance, the committee sued, and yesterday, a federal judge sided with congress, writing in her opinion, this. quote, stated simply, the primary takeaway from the last 250 years of reported american history is presidents are not kings. this means that they do not have subjects bound by loyalty or blood whose destiny they are entitled to control. that ruling by judge jackson in court. and an official tells nbc news they will seek a stay to stop the ruling from taking effect immediately. the white house says this contradicts long standing legal precedent established by adm