garrett haake? >> reporter: the trial picks up this morning at 10:00. we'll start to hear from the -- >> we seem to be having some problem with garrett what are we anticipating in terms of the response that we're going to get, the reply, as it will, from trump's lawyers? we've heard parts of it all week, but really we've heard much of it for months. you're going to hear an echo of what donald trump has been saying, and that is not that what the president did is not impeachable, but the president actually did nothing wrong? >> that's right, the president's lawyers, jay sekulow and pat cipollone, the two lead attorneys, are expected to come before the senate and have about a three-hour display. it's going to start at 10:00 and go until 1:00 and we're going to hear a truncated version of them talking about the fact that the president is a target of the partisan attack. they're also going to be talking about joe biden, making the case that his family was making millions of dollars off of the fact that he was vice president of the united states and his son wa

i heard garrett haake say that he has a hard time counting that fourth vote.ou know, i think there's a better chance of that fourth vote now than there was three or four weeks ago. >> michael, there were various reviews of the president's remarks on iran from the hallway at the white house this morning. we never miss an opportunity to hear from lindsey graham. here's his review of the president's speech this morning. >> this speech will be talked about long after his second term. the president said this is the an evil empire in iran that's bent on destroying the world, killing the people in israel and coming after us, and i will no longer tolerate it. so this is on par with reagan's tear down this wall speech. >> so michael, on the reagan comparison there, has senator graham slipped the surly bonds of the -- >> he did not. he's smoking stuff none of us should get our hands on because it clearly does something to the brain. no. this speech will not be remembered much beyond this weekend, let alone beyond a second term. this speech was stilted. it was not in my

garrett haake, set it up for us. what is america going to see as the very beginning ceremonies of this trial take place? >> today you'll see a very formal process playing out. the house impeachment managers coming back across the capitol. they will present these articles of impeachment. adam schiff will get the opportunity to read them on the floor. remember, last night the managers came across for this transmittal. there were very few senators on the floor, maybe a dozen or so democrats, almost no republicans on the floor. now starts have just finished up a vote on this trade deal. they will remain on the floor. this will be the start of a process where senators are a captive audience for this. again, unlike in the house, where members could pay as much or as little attention on what was going on the impeachment issue as they felt necessary. senators will have to be in the room, in their seats, paying attention without their electronic devices starting at noon for every major step along the way for this process. thi

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garrett haake, coming to capitol hill, this is a very high-profile team. alan dershowitz also controversial for some of the people and cases he's been involved with and for his very, very vigorous public defense of the president. >> reporter: i think lawmakers in both parties will be relieved by who's not on the team and some of the house republicans who are very vocal defenders of the president during the house portion of the impeachment proceedings. some republican senators had singled they did not want to see the same kind of attitude that was taken to the defense of the president in the house brought over on the senate floor. democrats thought the republican defense of the president at that stage was unserious. at least now you'll have serious attorneys, folks with lots of courtroom and litigation experience. ken starr knows his way around an impeachment. whatever his other baggage may be. senators are helping to elevate the proceedings above what they saw in the house and i think this team is a reasonable expectation among members of both parties that

i am garrett haake. team trump. the white house reveals the identity of the president's counsel for the upcoming impeachment trial in the senate. there are more than a few names you might know. >>> ukraine document dump. house democrats release new details from lev parnas, including emails, photos, calendar appointments, including one with donald trump himself. what impact could it have on the case against the president. >>> winter weather, a massive storm bringing snow, ice, high winds, blanketing a big portion of the country today. we'll tell you what areas will be hardest-hit. >>> and the impeachment trial of donald trump has reached the senate. after taking the oath himself, supreme court justice john roberts swore in senators, swearing them to, quote, do impartial justice, something several republicans, including the majority leader have already publicly said they won't do. the president, meanwhile, marked the occasion by tweeting in all caps, i just got impeached for making a perfect phone call. he described t

garrett haake, nobody we have spoken to in the last two days that think it's legally important even if trump wanted to fire, isn't it important in terms of the argument that we need to hear from people who heard in what his determinations were in holding back that $391 million in congressionally approved aid to ukraine because that apparently wasn't legal and whether that was a bribe or quid pro quo. >> the tape in and of itself is interesting in part because he's the president of the united states. if he wants to fire an ambassador, he can do it with a phone call. weird the tape existed a year before yovanovitch was forced out where there were so many other players involved. what the tape speaks to and might be important about it, it shows the president interested in what is going on in the background of ukraine more before this whole scheme started and what you don't hear anything about in that tape is any questions about corruption within that country and any questions about, you know, who is providing aid. whether the eu is doing enough. whether or not enough safe guards in place f

i'm also joined by andrea mitchell and garrett haake on capitol hill. richard, i know you're on the phone as you're making your way to the area. talk to us about the significance of the attack and what you've learned. >> reporter: well, i think it's absolutely significant. it could be a pivotal moment. he was not just the top general. in many ways he was the architect of iran's foreign policy. he was the man who was in charge of building the relationships, maintaining the relationships, and often guiding the relationships of iran's proxies. of iran's malitia groups and powerful allies, like hezbollah in lebanon, like malitias in syria, groups that have carried out numerous attacks in the past. this is an almost shadow army that iran has used to expand its influence all around the world. qasem soleimani was in charge of it and how to deploy it. and now he's been killed and the big concern is what will happen and how about those malitias react now that he has been killed. malitias in baghdad have told us that they're on a state of readiness and they are e

i want to go right to nbc's garrett haake on capitol hill.ot even just during the commercial break that we just took. can you talk us through what you're hearing from lawmakers definitively on timing here. >> that's right. so democratic lawmakers are trying to set ina floor vote tomorrow. to move the articles over the senate and they're voting on naming the impeachment managers. that's the vehicle the legislative vehicle by which this happens. they're trying to get this set up for tomorrow and that means officially the senate has to take this up on thursday. now that doesn't mean we'll see anything that looks to you and i like a trial on thursday. it just means that they have to start the process. the very next legislative day when they're in session. what we don't know yet this morning is who those impeachment managers will be. we know that speaker pelosi told her caucus this morning they're ready move forward. by the time they vote tomorrow that the managers' names will be in the resolution, but even those managers have not yet been told wh

garrett haake, let me go back to you. chuck grassley is presiding because the constitution says the president pro tem needs to do this. he is the basically the guy that is third in line to the presidency by the way holding that title. and you heard mitch mcconnell lay out the next couple of days. and then the trial begins in earnest on tuesday. so what happens thursday and friday and we heard there the usmca, is that a small victory for nancy pelosi, too, garrett, she did want to see that passed before impeachment. >> reporter: yeah. i think this is an opportunity for everyone to claim victory. it is the rare moment in washington where both parties, both legislative houses, and the white house, are going to call it a victory for themselves here on usmca. last piece of business the senate completes before the trial here. noon the managers will come back, read the articles on the floor. 2:00 p.m. the chief justice will have an escort committee, two senators from each party will be part of that. and then there's the formal n

more breaking coverage with garrett haake out there on capitol hill. garrett, it is official for those tracking it. it is in the 1:00 p.m. hour east coast, washington time. that the house articles are headed over. and they will be received by the senate today. walk us through it. >> yeah. for all but i guess eight members of the u.s. house impeachment is now over. continue at 5:00 the speaker will sign the engrossmenter is moan nir. one last role for her and the seven managers walk the articles to the other side. this is a formalized part of this process that will happen tonight. bringing the articles to the senate side. and tomorrow the senate picks up the ball again with more formal elements to this. the managers will read the articles on the senate floor. we'll see senators get sworn in. i suspect we'll see before the end of the day, probably later in the day the chief justice on the senate floor in his robes. the formal elements of this happen tomorrow. then there's housekeeping things that have to get done. for example, they are not allowed to have

joining me now from capitol hill is my colleague garrett haake. garrett, thank you very much.hat we have seen all the swearings in, all the pomp and circumstance what is are we going to see next? >> next week we will see the start of the trial in earnest. they have to agree upon some kind of rules package essentially an outline for what the trial will look like. we have been told repeatedly by republicans it will look like the clinton trial, in terms of time limits on both sides although no one outside of mitch mcconnell's leadership team has had an opportunity to look at the resolution yet. as for the new information we got today and how it will be included in the impeachment trial that's a bit of an open question. i asked chuck schumer at a news conference about an hour ago whether he would like to see lev parnas called to testify. schumer has been hammering home this idea they want four witnesses and relevant documents. i asked if he would want to have a fifth? he said it is not sure yet he wants to see more documents and thinks that what parnas said in the interviews stren

. >>> and we'll begin our coverage today ton capitol hill with cnbc's garrett haake. garrett, this is a big deal. at about 5:00 today, we'll be looking at these house impeachment managers doing something they call engrossment or the engrossment is before they walk it over, when it goes is into a wooden box and they take it over to the senate. i think the sergeant at arms is involved. this is going to be a visual, but symbolically and technically important matter. >> reporter: that's right, ali. and i can tell you even as we speak, those distinguished impeachment managers, as nancy pelosi called them, are having their first meeting together as a group, starting to outline their strategy and tactics for the tasks that will be before them. really starting tomorrow. what she talks about tonight, this engrossment ceremony is a formality, but it's an important one. it's the last act that really the house, other than the managers, will touch. the speaker will sign off on these impeachment documents, the managers walk them across -- through the rotunda over to the senate side,

joining me now from capitol hill is msnbc's garrett haake. rrett, how -- what do we know about who was briefed? who's being briefed about this operation? >> well, ali, it appears that perhaps the only member of congress who knew anything about this in advance might have been lindsey graham, who while a close ally of the president, is not someone in a leadership position that would typically be informed. he says he was told about the possibility of this strike back earlier over the holiday break when he was visiting mar-a-lago. likewise, kevin mccarthy, the top republican leader in the house, was at mar-a-lago last night as this was all going on. so he might've known about it. lawmakers are -- were otherwise caught off guard by this. democrats, quite angry about the fact that at least the gang of eight, the top leadership in the house, senate, and intelligence committees, appear to have not been informed in advance. that being said, today, the democratic leaders of those two committees, both adam schiff and mark warner of virginia on the senate

msnbc's garrett haake is on capitol hill. nbc's hans nichols is at the white house and a.b. stoddard joins me as well, associate editor and columnist for real clear politics. garrett, let me start with you. historic week, another one there in washington. what are we expecting to see happen? >> the speaker will meet with her conference tomorrow morning, get the final word on go on moving the articles over to the senate. what they're voting on here is the naming of the impeachment managers, folks who you'll be on a first-name basis with by the end of the next few weeks. these are the folks prosecuting the case against the president in the senate. if they vote on the floor on this on tuesday, the senate is required to take it up the very next day. it could be tuesday or wednesday of this week. it doesn't mean the action will look like what you would expect of a trial right away. the senators have to get sworn in as jurors, the chief justice of the supreme court sworn in for his role. frankly, these sides may need more time to prepare. it's our understanding the folks who will be

. >> joining me now from the capital, garrett haake. >> mcconnell came out of the republicans' weekly luncheon here. republicans senators walked through some of the process. the senate can start some of the preliminary work as early as the next day. that would mean the chief justice getting sworn in, likewise administering the oath to the senators. then mcconnell said he hopes to give a little bit of prep time, work time and start the trial in earnest tuesday, following the martin luther king holiday. it looks like we're probably a week away from what you and i would recognize as a traditional trial starting in the united states senate. >> garrett haake, thank you very much. we're keeping an eye on that news conference right now as senate republican leaders take questions, we'll go there. more than one republican has signaled they favor hearing from additional witnesses in the impeachment trial against president trump. >> we're not just going to dismiss the case. we're going to hear the case. yes on a guaranteed vote on whether we need witnesses. >> i support the clinton impeachment m

. >> msnbc's garrett haake is on capitol hill. great to see you. and look, as you know, collins and murkowski might have sent a warning shot to mcconnell about his comment he's working in lockstep with the white house on impeachment, but on the big issue about these witnesses and when they should be called, democrats want them called before, republicans for the most part say if they're going to be called at all we'll make the determination once the trial begins, on the two issues, on that big issue, these two senators, collins and murkowski, appear to be noncommittal at best. >> warning shot to mcconnell for sure, but it's not going to be enough for democrats. democrats will probably not be heartened by the comments of these two senators over the holiday break, particularly from susan collins, as she lays out her concerns and says she is open to witnesses also says in the same interview she would like the impeachment trial of donald trump to follow the same model that the senate set in the trial of bill clinton, of which she was a senator then, one

let's go to msnbc news correspondent garrett haake who joins me live from capitol hill. as you know, lindsey graham says he was briefed about this days ago, on monday, in fact, about the soleimani operation. yet we understand the so-called gang of eight wasn't notified. those are the eight lawmakers including nancy pelosi who have access to the most highly classified information. they're usually briefed by the executive branch. what is the house speaker saying this morning about the strike? >> reporter: another tradition, another norm of governing not generally followed by this white house. we've seen this happen a couple of times. kevin mccarthy was at mar-a-lago. pelosi put out a lengthy statement complaining about the way in which this was done. she writes this attack was carried out without an authorization for the use of military force, aumf, against iran. she says this action was taken without the consultation with congress and the full congress must be immediately briefed on this serious situation and the next steps under consideration by the administration includ

nbc's garrett haake joins us from capitol hill. you've been tracking the speaker around the hill all morning and she is now made it clear, tuesday is the day. >> that's right, andrea. the speaker has said for a while she's transmit the articles when she feels the time is right. and we know that time will come next week. in a letter to colleagues, sent after the house was done with its business for the week, after members had left the floor and many of them starting to leave d.c. for the weekend, the speaker said that she will call for the judiciary committee to appoint managers and have this vote on the floor that sets up the transmission of the articles next week. she says she'll consult with the caucus on tuesday morning when they're all back. the rules around voting on the impeachment managers is already laid out. it's a short debate and pretty much a straight up or down vote. that could happen as early as tuesday or wednesday of next week. now, also in this letter, pelosi lays out some of the things that were accomplished by ho

joining me from capitol hill, msnbc correspondent garrett haake. happy new year, garrett.ened fears surrounding president trump's next move and you have impeachment. what is on nancy pelosi's to-do list this week? >> reporter: busy start to the new year. pelosi and democratic leadership will be back in town starting tomorrow. i don't think we'll hear more, if anything, about the articles moving until pelosi and democratic leadership meet. you look at the rest of the week, a standard week on the house side. on the senate side they're stuck waiting on these articles. if you look at the democratic strategy to pressure republican senators, particularly mod rats to support what democrats say would be a fair trial, the guarantee of witnesses up front, to get the senate to subpoena witnesses and documents they weren't able to get during the house impeachment process, while it appears to have moved public opinion, is has not moved some of the moderate democrats. we heard from lisa murkowski and susan collins over the b break. both said they were concerned about the ways mitch mcco

president, the senate -- >> msnbc's garrett haake is on capitol hill with the latest on when the democratic leaders are going to get the intelligence briefings they're asking for. >> reporter: well, andrea, these briefings are starting today on something of an ad hoc basis. there is a staff briefing that was previously scheduled about the protests that have been going on in iraq. that briefing will now include information about this attack. also adam schiff, who is one of the first members who just happened to be back here today ahead of congress, so the house rejoining officially their business on tuesday, said he will receive a briefing today. mitch mcconnell on the senate floor told those of us watching that just now he's trying to set up an all-senators classified briefing for early next week when folks get back. so they are trying to get folks up to speed even now, after the fact. that's not going to be good enough, particularly for democrats who are very frustrated to have been left in the dark on this process up until now. on the impeachment front, just to put a button on all this, y

msnbc's garrett haake he friend and colleague on capitol hill has been following this story.k us through what we expect this week. you've got tomorrow shaping up to be a pivotal day, that's when the speaker will huddle with fellow democrats and then what? >> she'll get the go sign from fellow house democrats to go ahead and take this vote. it's a proscribed vote it names the impeachment managers and send the articles as early as tuesday night or wednesday. if it happens on a day that the senate is in session they have to start essentially immediately. the next day. the senate has to take this up. but this doesn't mean what we'll see right away. it will look like you and i consider to be a trial. you will have the senators, the chief justice getting sworn in. but it might take a couple of days for the impeachment managers to get the ducks in the row for the senate to transform into the courtroom. they have to build out office space behind the chambers to get ready to go. so we might not see that trial action until early next week. then that all important vote on the question o

garrett haake is with us. what more do we know about the wheels turning?: this will be a straightforward resolution. rules were laid out when they started the preemt process. they can do it in a short period of time on the floor. looking ahead to the calendar, the house is back on monday night really tuesday morning. they'll have their caucus meetings on tuesday morning. you could potentially see that vote to name managers and start the process of transmitting the articles as early as tuesday or wednesday. i expect we'll see somewhere between a half dozen and a dozen managers named. then the ball goes to the senate's court. at least now we have movement. >> let's talk about how quickly after that happens. what -- are there mechanics about how quickly it starts or is it dictated by process? >> it's dictated by process, but there are logistics. they have to get the cameras working in the senate. they have to set up work spaces for the lawyers working in the office. there's stuff there's only one mode modern precedence for. they have to turn the senate into a

garrett haake on capitol hill, mieke eoyang, please stand by because i want to bring in somebody who was actually an impeachment manager during the impeachment trial we're talking about. of former bill clinton. congressman bob barr. thank you for being with us. ken starr is somebody who's familiar to you. what's your reaction to the president's team here? >> i think both teams with one exception that i can talk about in a moment if you'd like, but i think both teams are very strong. the house team has a group of trained litigators. they have their work cut out for them in trying to convince a small number of senators that might be wavering that you can impeach a president and remove him from office even without proving that a crime was committed. the president's team with ken starr in particular is very well attuned to the senate and to the process and to the prodder public -- broader public relations of this impeachment trial which is what it's all about ultimately. >> how do you see the match-ups here? we know obviously the seven names of the democrats who will be prosecuting the c

. >> joining us now, msnbc correspondent garrett haake on capitol hill and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. garrett, let's start with john bolton. john bolton saying he's got something to say. but leaving it in the hands of republicans to issue a subpoena. if john bolton really has a story to tell, why not just come out and say it? we don't have to wait for his book, which he's been paid hand similarly for. he can come on tv with us. he can go on any network. he can put out a public statement. >> that's exactly what i've heard from a you couple republican senators today saying this is a person who throughout his public career has never had a problem speaking out when he had something to say. and if he's inclined to say something now, he ought to just go ahead and do it. you heard from mitt romney there in the lead-up to this. he was one of the last senators to really come out and say what he thought post-bolton. he's a senator who said all along that he does want to hear from john bolton. but what he also told reporters a few minutes ago is that he's perfectly fine with

let's head over to msnbc's garrett haake on capitol hill.g about the trial and the trail, right? >> reporter: that's right. my sources on capitol hill and on the campaign trail have all talking about what the five senators still running for president are going to do when this senate impeachment trial starts right in the lead-up to the iowa caucuses when they'll be expected to be in the u.s. senate, essentially sitting on their hands for six days a week for the trial, not out campaigning. those sources are largely looking at bernie sanders who has the best advantage because of all the money he's been able to race. he's talking about having a private plane fly him back and forth the iowa at night so he can still campaign in the early states. that's an advantage to amy klobuchar, cory booker, michael bennett don't have. elizabeth warren has it to a certain extent, not on the same scale as bernie sanders. the other senators are trying to come up with ways to be creative with their campaigning whether it's video conferencing, using surrogates eve

bill neely, tom costello, kelly o'donnell at the white house and garrett haake is on capitol hill. this isn't the first time we'll hear from the state department about what pompeo doing because the state department said he spoke with ukraine's president to express his condolences. what else are they saying? >> yes, that's right, mike pompeo offered the full support of the united states in the investigation. and within the last hour president zelensky of ukraine has said he's very grateful for that support. and that any information the u.s. has to offer will be useful in the investigation. he has also called on the u.s. to release all the information that it might have. he did meet this afternoon just a couple of hours ago with the main top u.s. diplomat here in kiev and the ukrainian foreign minister said after that meeting that data had been released by the u.s. but there was no detail on what that was. president zelensky said at the minute the missile theory cannot be ruled out. but it can be not confirmed. now, ukraine of course is central to this investigation and it is the cou

garrett haake is on the hill for us. we have some indications earlier today that we might here from nancy pelosi who basically said yesterday she was going to send those articles of impeachment over to the senate when she was good and ready. but it would be soon. now she sent a dear colleagues letter? >> reporter: good and ready and soon. we now know next week. in a letter to colleagues released simultaneously to reporters as the speaker was leaving the floor, as house members were leaving town for the weekend, speaker pelosi says she's calling for there to be a resolution next week that does two things, appoint house managers for impeachment, which is the necessary next step, and then transmit those articles ahead to the senate. so the time of being coy is now over. the speaker says this will happen next week. the house goes home for the weekend. next week, you will have a small debate on the floor. this is written out in the rules when they started on impeachment. very short debate on naming these managers. the house w

let's go first to capitol hill, where nbc's garrett haake stands by live for us. good sunday to you, my friend, on what is a little bitters of theier -- tempty ier emptier ha. >> reporter: the democrats were happy with the holes they were able to poke in the republicans' counterargument. you saw the democratic impeachment managers coming out afterwards saying the republicans were cherry picking facts to defend the president. republicans still feel like they have the votes they need and feel like they're playing defense, trying to keep everybody on board on the question of witnesses first and the question of acquittal later on. the white house defense lawyers' presentation on saturday, while it was short, gave republicans i think a little bit more of a boost, they felt like they got a couple of new rhetorical arguments they can make. and they're feeling pretty strongly about the politics of it as were laid out this morning. take a listen. >> what happened yesterday, in two hours the senate -- uh, the president's defense team destroyed the narrative created in 21 ho

let's bring in msnbc correspondent garrett haake. ng, she was also reading a book. what was the book? >> reporter: this was the book by kimberly strosel about the resistance, it's a pro-trump book. she had another one in her desk underneath it i suppose in case she was able to finish the first book during the course of the day, during the day. look, the disparity in the senators who are still paying attention and those who are not is getting more and more obvious by the hour. we had thom tillis come up and sit in the press gallery for a little bit yesterday he was so bored apparently of sitting on the floor during the day. there is no bigger dichotomy between two senators than blackburn and lamar alexander who sits in the front row on the republican said and has been one of the closest listeners to all of this including and especially during schiff last night. if you go back and watch the schiff video, to schiff's left-hand side every time he looks down and to the left, that's right where la mark alexander is sitting in the chamber an

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garrett haake is outside murkowski's digs. what can you tell us?e would announce at some point today before they got restarted in the chamber how she would vote on witnesses. we've not seen that yet. late last night, we know that she huddled with lamar alexander off the floor. she was seen in conversations a couple of times with mitch mcconnell throughout the course of the day. but she has kept her own counsel on this. the wrap on murkowski has been that she's not someone who republican leader likes to try to whip. they like to give her as much information as she can ask for and let her make her decisions. you would think that would lead her toward wanting to hear from witnesses but you're left to wonder if perhaps she comes to a similar place as lamar alexander to hearing enough. all of that is a long way of saying she has not yet said which way she'll vote. and she's good at avoiding her cameras when she does not want to talk. we're going to try to make that challenging for her today. >> all right, garrett haake, thank you. a couple of pieces of

following this on capitol hill is garrett haake. tting up what we'll see today. but i want to take a moment for everyone to reflect on what we heard yesterday as mentioned. the abuse of power part is the bigger thing. all articles are technically equal but not really because cover-ups and obstruction and those things matter less if you didn't begin and prove what the whole thing was about. what did you think about what was a miniclosing on abuse last night? >> right. they're arguing for the history books and the political calculations, people are going to be referring to this in future decades and future centuries, this is not something that happens all the time. but the thing that struck me about this, i like many people or a good number of people who are paying attention to this had to go back to the federalist papers and look at federalist 65 and what alexander hamilton was talking about. and it really does seem like this is something that would be torn from a history syllabus. if you're looking at the exact sorts of questions tha

attorney, michael steele, former rnc chair and mike rosenberg, and we also have garrett haake we go toather definitive i thought. it looked like there's only two solid yeses for witnesses. where does that stand now? >> reporter: i think that's right. i think we have mitt romney and susan collins. lisa murkowski, i don't think we're going to know which way she's going to go until all of these questions have been answered. she's one of the few senators who have been asking questions that are sort of actually open ended, not meant to score political points necessarily but to get more information out of the house managers and out of the white house counsel. but then getting to four seems harder and harder every moment. more of these senators who have been at least publicly on the fence about the question of calling witnesses have come off the fence and i was just talking to republican senator who put it to me this way, this is some of conversation that may be happening among the republicans in their conference, which is whether or not you want to hear from john bolton is one thing and i th

also have you covered over with chief white house coordinator hallie jackson and nbc's garrett haake.th the picture. i think we can put it back up. you don't have to be a huge news junkie, everyone knows those people. they certainly have "snl" impressions. if you can tell us what your reporting suggests, what do you think these two were thinking? we've had other reporters that some republicans acknowledge adam schiff has been one of the most able opponents. >> that photo by our senate producer frank thorpe who has been everywhere during the trial. graham complimented schiff, backhanded calling him very well spoken. we have heard, i have heard from a number of republicans who have been impressed by schiff's mastery of the material. all of us who do this for a living know how hard it is to keep an audience for a protracted period of time. these managers have quite literally a captive audience in the senate chamber but they are trying to keep them focused on complex details, many of whom have not followed it closely so far. jason crow, one of the more junior members laid out the challeng

trials aren't trades for witnesses. >> garrett haig, te-- garrett haake, tell us what you're hearing.tness straight they're discussing, isn't it mixing apples with oranges? isn't this about whether or not the president shook down a foreign leader for dirt on a political rival? >> right. this idea of a witness trade started with ted cruz and really more of a poison pill on a question of a vote for witnesses than it is a serious effort to get hunter biden into the room, and the idea here suggested by cruz was, reciprocity. democrats get one witness, we get one witness. essentially hoping to scare away democratic votes for witnesses. if a democrat thinks we're not going to convict trump anyway, why bother to drag in joe and hunter biden and potentially weaken our front-runner. where the idea came from. you see the top democrats involved in the process both dismiss it completely. interesting to see whether white house lawyers try to do anything like what democrats have done to make a case for calling hunter biden. i mean, look at schiff yesterday using negative space for argue just gettin

garrett haake on capitol hill, lit's start with you. tomorrow we expect to have, to learn the names of the impeachment managers and tomorrow, a vote on these articles of impeachment. >> that's right, so we will start to see all of this come together by this time tomorrow. we will see a vote tomorrow at some point during the day on naming those impeachment managers. we will probably find out who they are between tonight and lunchtime tomorrow. and we'll have this vote naming the managers for the impeachment trial that kicks things over to the senate. what we just learned from mitch mcconnell is that the senate is going to spend the next couple days thursday and friday, clearing the decks for this, finishing up the last pieces of business we can do. we'll see the swearing-in of john roberts and of senators. there's a lot of small motions. the senate has rules against there being audio video equipment on the floor of the senate. >> there are a bunch of small things that have to get done by the end of next week. after a long weekend for mlk

i'm garrett haake in washington. and 3:00 out west and we watching a lot of breaking news all over the world this morning including our continuing special coverage of the fallout from a u.s. strike against one of iran's top generals. president trump delivering new warnings to iran about the consequences of retaliation for solei m soleimani's death. vows of vengeance. how will it end? in the u.s. raising their voices. more than 70 anti-war demonstrations were held across the country overnight. also, australia on fire. how the dire situation there

let's turn to my colleagues garrett haake on capitol hill and hans nichols at the white house. what are the chances that the war powers resolution or any resolution of that nature gets passed in this congress? >> reporter: slim to none. an expert on shiite militias is heading up the effort in the house and will pass. the effort in the nat is more complicated factor. there you're liable to see the democrats vote in favor of senator kaine's resolution but the republican party again as we talk about on so many other issues is liable to hue close to the president. the defections might see from mike lee potentially or rand paul, sort of have more anti-interventionalist stances in the first place. that's not enough to get democrats there on the votes. the debate is important in and of itself. we see this happen time and time again where america involves itself in something, whether briefly or longer term overseas, the debate arises over whether we need another authorization for u.s. of military force and then so quickly the things die out. we are still operating on authorizations for

we'll start with msnbc's garrett haake. so, garrett, give us a sense of what we expect to happen when the white house has its turn to mount a defense for president trump. >> so this is preview day for the white house. and remember, the bar is a little bit lower for the white house defense attorneys here. in part, because they are very confident that democrats don't have the votes yet to impeach or remove this president. so they don't have to do as much. they just need to keep their senators home. they need to put on a defense that looks like a real defense, in part for the country, in part for these republican senators, and in part for the president of the united states, who i think we all assume is going to be watching very closely the performance put on by his attorneys in this matter. every republican senator has their own view about what would be the most effective thing for the white house lawyers to do here. some would rather they just sort of sit down and let the time pass. others want to see them go aggressively afte

. >> joining me now from capitol hill, msnbc's garrett haake. i want to start with the first piece of news of collins an small group of republicans. as we know, we only need a small group of gop senators in order for mitch mcconnell to decide to allow impeachment witnesses. what do we know about the story? >> reporter: well, look. we know that this is not a formalized operation here. collins isn't whipping other senators of this but there is discussion of she and other senators witness curious, let's say and mitt romney saying publicly and to me yesterday he does want to hear from john bolton and see who else once this trial gets started. a lot of this is gong to come down to the rules that the senate sets up and i know this is kind of in the weeds but get ready to hear a lot anlt how the senate chooses to structure the trial. so much is made of following the clinton rules. one difference of senators like collins and romney to see from the clinton rules is after both sides presented the arguments under clinton a motion to dismiss, then there was

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i'm garrett haake in new york.ith the start of his senate trial looming, president trump is waking up at his florida resort and later set to speak in texas and tomorrow the white house will deliver his legal trial brief to the senate. yesterday the house impeachment managers kicked off the senate trial proceedings filing their own lengthily legal brief outlining the quote overwhelming evidence that says trump abused the power of his office and obstructed congress. as for the senate's trial, the festivities on the floor begin on tuesday. senators will debate and then vote on the rules governing the trial. these are expected to include how many hours a day the proceedings will last, how long the prosecution defense and senators will get for questioning and other details. the question whether or not witnesses will be called is expected to be addressed, but not definitively decided. joining me this morning is peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "new york times" and barbara mcquaid. both are msnbc contr

. >> with me now is my nbc colleague garrett haake. this impeachment purgatory could soon be coming to an end. the strategy of house speaker was a bid to buy time for chuck schumer to work out a deal with mcconnell, that didn't happen. it was also in part to extract some concessions from mcconnell. help us understand how this power dynamic has shifted. what's the latest. >> it was fascinating to watch those two news conferences back to back today with mcconnell saying he whipped his caucus, he has the voights. they can't vote on anything until the articles come over. he's got the votes to start under the clinton era rules package. or something similar, then you had chuck shoom ar come out. this is a loud time for more information to come forward. and it's prevented mcconnell from anything else what you saw here was ultimately a democratic pressure campaign that was not able to pressure enough republican senators to come over to their side. the only republican senator i've heard is mitt romney. they want witnesses. the pressure couldn't

joining us from capitol hill, maya hill and garrett haake. welcome to both of you. t, best guess now on timing, first. is there a senate trial possibly starting next week? >> oh, absolutely. i think by next week we'll be in full swing. impeachment manager's resolution. it will be a very quick vote when they decide to do it. when they hand it over to the senate, the senate has to take up impeachment as the next thing they do. but that doesn't mean we're seeing something that looks like a trial. there's a lot of logistic work that has to be done. the managers might need time to prepare. i'd say you're into opening arguments by early next week. >> let's talk about john roberts' role. yes, he is presiding over this, but at the end of the day, this is mitch mcconnell's show. he sets the rules. what can justice roberts really do? >> roberts' power is fairly limited here. he's going to gavel them in and out every day and swear the senators in. he can make rules on procedural issues. as you pointed out, he can also be overruled by a majority of the senators. that means while

garrett haake starting us off. joined now by chris coons of delaware. nice to see you sir. >> thank you. >> i want to get you to respond to mitch mcconnell from this afternoon, and it's this idea on the issue of witnesses, here's his statement, you're going to hear it in your ear, and i want to get you to react to it on the other side. >> some in your conference have suggested if democrats are calling witnesses like john bolton, they may also want to call witnesses such as hunter biden. would you support calling hunter biden? >> i think we'll be dealing with the witness issue at the appropriate time into the trial. i think it's certainly appropriate to point out that both sides would want to call witnesses that they wanted to hear from. when you get to that issue. i can't imagine that only the witnesses that are democratic colleagues would want to call would be called. >> senator coons, what's your best understanding of how this is going to work. >> i'm less -- i'm a bit more confused now than i was before senator mcconnell spoke. >> there's a tension b

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i'm garrett haake. for the past four year, the women's march has been a symbol of protests against the presidency of donald trump. at its beginning, the 2017 women's march was among the largest in history as people walked together highlighting the fight for women's rights and equality. but last year the march and its organizers struggled facing accusations of anti-semitism and criticisms of leadership. and creayet they are back and w to strengthen their movement. there won't be big stages and musical guests, the organizers say the emphasis will be on three issues. yk, immigration a climate change, immigration and reproductive rights. kathy park is live at one of the marches. it is cold, are people showing up? >> reporter: good morning. we have seen a couple folks showing up with their signs in tow. and the program officially kicks off around 11:00 today. and then there will be speakers on the stage behind me. and then they will eventually march from central park to midtown manhattan and they are anticip