geoff: 7,000 coolers.ou have the right amount of a particular sku? geoff: 'cause i track the inventory, and then we do physical counts periodically. lemonis: and how much in total dollars is in inventory here? geoff: right now, i don't know off the top of my head. it's on my sheet. lemonis: what are the top skus you sell? geoff: the 12-pack black. lemonis: how many do you have in stock right now? strud: honestly, i do not know how many black 12-packs we have in stock right now. lemonis: how many do you have? geoff: zero. lemonis: you don't think that's a thing you should know? geoff: we don't have the funding to stock what we need at this moment. strud: what'd you do? you didn't piss him off, did you? yeah, tell him about that. why do we have so many 6-packs? geoff: these will be gone in about a month. strud: that's too long. i agree with you. lemonis: well, don't agree with me, and don't pick on him. here's the funding. here you go. here's some money. essentially, they've piled up a bunch of cash in their

geoff bennett has had a couple of minutes to look at them. anything that stands out, geoff?really? >> reporter: yes. to refresh people's memories, fiona hill was the russia director at the national security council. the reason why her testimony was important is because she is the one that told congress that rudy giuliani and gordon sondland circumvented the national security council and the normal white house process to pursue this shadow foreign policy on ukraine. she also says that the two of them sidestepped john bolton who at the time, as you well know, was the national security adviser. we've reported that. the transcript adds in a number of crucial details. so she says here in her testimony that there was a meeting on july 10th. i'll come back to why july 10th is important, but she says this. ambassador bolton, john bolton, immediately ended this july 10th meeting with ukrainian officials after ambassador sondland blurted out that we have an agreement with the chief of staff, in this case that would be mick mulvaney, that we have an agreement with mick mulvaney for a m

geoff, flash forward to this time tomorrow. we actually won't be on the air because you will be seeing those public hearings happening. the camera is rolling and ukraine's top diplomat inside. you are getting a new look at the strategy of the parties. walk us through it. >> reporter: that's right. and i'll start with the democrats first, hallie, if that's okay and then move to the republican rebuttal. as you know, house democrats are intentionally core graphing these public hearings to build what they hope to be an ironclad case for impeachment against president trump. they are intentionally stitching together the narrative that they hope to tell. and any good story has a strong beginning, middle and end. and house democrats hope to start at the beginning. they see the beginning as this ukrainian bribery plot, this pressure campaign that they say was orchestrated as president trump's behest. and to tell that story, they're bringing in ambassador bill taylor and george kent. these are two widely respected career officials. bill

. >> another page from his playbook, geoff, is president trump saying he's not afraid of the details we're seeing from these transcripts. but next week we will get that public testimony that democrats believe will be a game changer. the president said a short time ago they shouldn't even be having public hearings. are republicans on the hill worried that these public hearings could move the dial with voters? >> publicly they say they aren't, chris. but it's hard to tell what to make of it because for weeks republicans have been calling on adam schiff to open up the impeachment proceedings, yet today president trump says there shouldn't be public hearings at all. i would like to clear up something that i think could be confusing for people, because president trump again is talking about this phone call. he says the july 25th call was perfect, he now says he might introduce the transcript or the summary of another call he seems to think would be exculpatory. democrats debate that point, though, because on the july 25th call, when president zelensky, if you go back and read it, when he

pete williams, geoff bennett, garrett headache, thank you. i appreciate it. one of the bombshell revelations in the memoire from former u.n. ambassador, nikki haley. according to her former secretary of state rex tillerson and the white house chief of staff at the time, john kelly, tried to undermine, ignore and circumvent the president when they served in the administration. the "washington post" obtained a copy of the book, quoting, kelly and tillerson confided in me when they were resisting the president, they weren't being insubordinate, trying to save the country. it was their decisions that were in this best interest of america, they said. the president didn't know what he was doing. with us, covers foreign affairs for the "wall street journal" and you covered nikki haley's tenure. there was an interesting response this morning and i want to pull it up from john kelly. he basically said if providing the best and most open legal and ethical staffing advice from across the government so he could make an informed decision is working against trump, kelly sa

nbc's geoff bennett is at the house. and mr. haake i'll start with you, it is going to be a very busy week there. one question, one of many questions, i should say, that still lingers, perhaps the biggest right now, will's former national security adviser john bolton testify, what do we know about that? >> it's looking less and less likely that john bolton will testify despite his attorney leaving bread crumbs suggesting he's got more knowledge about specific meetings and conversations about ukraine. democrats want that knowledge but they don't want to wait for it. bolton has made it clear he went testify without a subpoena and he won't testify until this court case in d.c. circuit court is settled involving a former deputy of his, raising constitutional questions about whether or not he could be compelled to do so. that won't happen until mid-december at the soonest. that does not work with democrats' timelines, they are prepared to move on without him and we are relying on testimony of others who worked with him to describe hi

jef geoff, what's the latest? >> reporter: republicans seem to think that the more narrow the focus of this ukraine question the better it is for president trump. you mentioned that republican staff memo that i'm told was circulated last night from you read through the latest line of defense from republicans, they're all entirely focused on the finer points of this july 25th phone call between president trump and his ukrainian counterpart. so the first part, the first key piece of evidence that republicans point so is this. they say the july 25th call summary, the best evidence of the conversation shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure. here's the thing. these talking points, this spin, does not exist in a vacuum. house investigators have interviewed some 15 witnesses behind closed doors. they've released the transcripts of what? 11 of them that the american public can read through. and if you read through this tapestry of testimony, when you're left with is that the majority of the witnesses to varying d

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i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett.>> we begin with president trump who had a campaign rally in the swing state of florida last night, once again denying the military operations were tied to military aid. documents released from the office of management budget shows that the white house initiated the move to freeze the aid on the same day as the july 25th phone call with the president of ukraine. at the same time, two sources telling "the new york times" that the president was aware of the whistle-blower complaint when he released the aid. also notable, the president is putting distance between himself and his personal attorney rudy giuliani. talking to bill riley. >> what was rudy giuliani doing in ukraine on your behalf? >> well, you have to ask that to rudy, rudy, i think he cancelled the trip. rudy has other clients other than me. >> so, you didn't direct him to go there on your behalf? >> no, no -- but you have to understand, rudy is a great corruption fighter. he felt penally insulted by what happened during my ca

joining me now, geoff bennett live on capitol hill.geoff, an historic day once in a generation coming tomorrow. you got a hold of a memo throughout lining the republican talking points going into the hearings. walk us through it. >> reporter: the republicans for the most part according to this memo that they circulated last night, they are echoing president trump who says time and time again he is trying to broaden -- trying to go narrow the focus of the entire thing to focussing just on his interaction with his ukranian counterpart during the july 25th phone call. so president trump says over and over again that the call was perfect, republicans in this memo, they make the point that the july 25th call summary shows no evidence of pressure or conditionality. and democrats have been making the point that the phone call did not exist in isolation, that the pressure campaign was part of a coordinated effort at president trump's behest to lean on ukranian officials to open investigations that would be politically beneficial to president t

one of them is -- >> hang on, geoff, i'll put them up on screen while you read them. go ahead. >> reporter: when i say these talking points don't hold up that, is not a partisan statement but statement of fact based on the reporting we've been doing for a month of witnesses that have come before investigators. the july 25th call summary, best evidence of the conversation shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure. point number four, president trump met with president z zelensky and the aid flowed to ukraine without the investigation into the president's political rivals. the president's assumption that the july 25g9 call was perfect. when president trump said on that call i want you to do me a favor, though, when zelensky brought up the purchase of these american tanks that the word "favor" was interpreted by the ukrainians as a demand. and this notion that ukrainians felt no pressure, they also speak to the power dynamic between the president of the united states and the president of ukraine. to this last point where they say there's really nothing to see here b

joining me now, nbc's geoff bennett on capitol hill and nbc's countrikristen welker at white house. geoff, adam schiff came out and explained what's going to happen with the public hearings and the importance that have. >> reporter: i'm told there is a fair amount of political choreography that has gone into the scheduling of these hearings. next wednesday at 10:00 a.m. the american public will hear directly from ambassadors bill taylor and george kent. bill taylor is important because he's one of the four witnesses who testified behind closed doors speaking directly to the existence of a quid pro quo. taylor, according to his testimony, told house investigators that president trump directed officials to tie the foreign aid meant for ukraine to the demand that ukrainian officials open up an investigation that would be beneficial to president trump directly. taylor also told committee investigators, according to our reporting, that he was concerned well before the july 25th phone call in question, that he had concerns in late june, early july, that this $400 million meant to counter

kristen welker, geoff bennett, thanks very much. matt miller, stay with us, we have some more to come on other issues. >>> coming up, the "i" word. is the impeachment inquiry hurting democrats in red states? we'll talk to democratic montana senator jon tester coming up. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc moderate o severe rheumatoid arthritis, month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. ongoing pain and stiffness are signs of joint erosion. humira can help stop the clock. prescribed for 15 years, humira targets and blocks a source of inflammation that contributes to joint pain and irreversible damage. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections including tuberculosis, and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fun

geoff, any idea when we'll see the new transcripts? i think it was around 11:50 when we saw the transcripts. are we expecting the same time frame? >> reporter: good to see you, craig. house democrats haven't said when to expect the release of these next transcripts. if today is anything like yesterday, i could be talking to you again at the end of this hour if democrats choose to release them around that time. what to watch for, remember, volker and sondland were referred do in other witness testimony as being two of the three amigos, the two of them plus energy secretary rick perry were deputized to be responsible for the shadow foreign policy that was being run in ukraine. we have really reported on the broad outlines of most men's testimony. the transcripts will fill in a lot of important details. sondland is an interesting character because we knew at the time that his testimony was self-absolving. in his testimony he was pointing the finger at a lot of other people for being responsible for this ukraine correspondent very see. we'

i want to start with geoff bennett and peter alexander over at the white house. >> we've got a couple of developments, not just david hale who has shown up for the closed-door deposition, but also an accusation from fiona hill's attorney against gordon sondland. >> reporter: let me explain that. because gordon sondland in his testimony which we got yesterday, the transcript of that was shared by house investigators. he describes a meeting in which he says he met with fiona hill and he says that hill, when he encountered her, was railing against trump, bolton and the disorder. he also says that her anger resonated with him because he had never seen anyone so upset. well, today fiona hill's attorney put out a tweet and he said sondland has fabricated communications with dr. hill, none of which were over coffee. dr. hill told sondland what she told lawmakers, the lack of coordination on ukraine was disastrous and the circumstances of the dismissal of ambassador yovanovitch shameful. so our team has reached out to sondland's attorneys about whether he's going to refresh his recollection a

geoff, have democrats decided that they have enough without bolton and kupperman's testimony, is is it that they think that it is a bad idea to drag it out and force them to testify, is it both? what is the strategy here? >> all of the above. since the very beginning, democrats have said that this impeachment inquiry needs to be fast and it needs to be focused. how democrats because they control the committees, they control the hearings which means that they control the focus of the narrative. they control the story that they are trying to build, the case they are bringing against president trump. what they have less control over is how fast this process moves. especially when you have these two potential key witnesses, charles kupperman and john bolton, essentially kicking to the courts this question of whether they need to comply. now, to help explain this to people because i will admit this is confusing to those of us who are even paid to follow this, a couple weeks ago charles kupperman filed a lawsuit and he said basically to the courts on one hand you have the white house telling

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so i want to -- kristen and geoff, i'm going to ask you to stay next to your cameras. it is unpredictable when the president may wrap up speaking. it may be in ten seconds, ten minutes or 30 minutes. i want to go to mike, who is joining us as well as ali vitali. because the president likes to talk about joe biden. he is one of the front-runners in this race, along with elizabeth warren. you know who else the president may want to be talking about is mike bloomberg. given that the president enjoys taking on his political opponents and mike bloomberg is signaling he may be one of those opponents, talk through what you're hearing from biden folks and bloomberg folks as this all develops. >> hallie, if you remember in february and march when we were in full stand by mode about whether joe biden was going to enter the race in the first place, as was the case with michael bloomberg. when he ultimately said he wasn't going to run, he was staying out of the race because it was clear to him that joe biden is getting in. so it's hard not to look at the renewed speculation as any

there's a terrific soundtrack by geoff barrow and ben salisbury, whose soundtrack all the way throughge things are at work here. what i really liked about it is that it's actually hard to sustain a movie in which, right until the very end, you are questioning people's motives and characters. but you also start to realise the film won't tie itself neatly up. it will leave questions unresolved. i thought it was very, very well played, a great performance by kelvin harrisonjr, octavia spencer is terrific. it is a very satirical take on the middle class couple and their presumption about things. the white saviour stuff? yes, but one of the things it does also is wrong—foots the audience. it plays to the audience's expectations, or does it? all the way through this, i kept thinking, "this has the sense of ambiguity and uncertainty that the film before didn't have". i don't think it will have a huge cinema audience, but it was well worth seeing. my only reservation is that it is quite stage—y. but i thought the story was really well told. 30 seconds for best out? best out is monos. this ext

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geoff: yeah. closed door hearings are not a new thing with respect to these kinds of impeachment processes. people talk a lot about due process. as i say in the book, due process in theory is about government arbitrarily acting against regular people. so criminal defendants. can't throw them in jail without a process. in the grand jury process, people that could end up in jail don't get their lawyers in the grand jury. cross-examine to and call witnesses. the most protections you would get you don't get what the president has already gotten in connection with this process. that is people within his party have been able to attend these closed door hearings. have been able to cross exam witnesses. we'll also see not only are we going to have open hearings about the democrats have announced the transcripts of the closed hearings are going to be made public. it had to be done that way in order to have an orderly, unfolding of the actual facts because as we indicated there is not a special prosecutor,

there's a terrific soundtrack by geoff barrow and ben salisbury, whose soundtrack all the way through there are strange things at work here. and what i really liked about it is it's actually very hard to sustain a movie in which, right up until the very end, you are questioning people's motives, you're questioning people's characters. but also, you also start to realise that the film isn't going to tie itself neatly up. it is going to leave questions unresolved. i thought it was very, very well played. i think it's a great performance by kelvin harrisonjr. octavia spencer is absolutely terrific. it is a very sort of satirical take on the middle class couple and their presumptions about things, and one of the things that... kinda of the white saviour stuff? yeah, but one of the things that it does also is it wrong—foots the audience. it plays to the audience's expectations and then it wrong—foots them — or does it? all the way through this, i kept thinking, because i saw it immediately after watching the good liar, "this has the sense of ambiguity, the sense of uncertainty that the fil

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett.e begin with a shake-up at the pentagon. navy secretary richard spencer has been fired after the case of a navy s.e.a.l. accused of war crimes in iraq who was later acquitt acquitted. according to a statement from the department department secretary mark esper lost his trust and confidence in spencer over the handling of the case of chief petty officer eddie gallagher. he had been accused of committing war crimes while he was deployed in 2017. he was acquitted of murder but convict instead july of posing with the corpse of an isis prisoner for which he was demoted. president donald trump reversed that demotion, and on thursday tweeted that gallagher would keep his trident pin signifying his status as a member of the elite navy s.e.a.l.s. a day later spencer told reporters he reviewed the view process over gallagher's status should go forward. the defense department says spencer had privately proposed to the white house that gallagher's rank be restored and that he be allowed to retire

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i'm geoff bennett in for nicolle wallace.s the hits keep coming from donald trump and his allies, just a little over an hour ago, a new story in the "new york times" says a report president trump himself has been anticipating for months from a justice department watchdog will undercut trump's claim that the fbi spied on his 2016 campaign. the theory trump's attorney general bill barr also fuelled in his testimony before congress what he claimed that, quote, spying did occur. but the "new york times" reports this. the justice department's inspector general found no evidence that the fbi attempted to place. as agents investigated whether his associates conspired with russia's election interference operation, people familiar with the draft of the inspector general's report said. now the finding is one of several by mr. horwitz that undercuts conservatives' claims that the fbi acted improperly in investigating several trump associates starting in 2016. the blow to a one-time favorite trump talking point comes on a day of developm

geoff bennett, nbc news, the capitol. >>> and that is our broadcast for this friday night and for thishank you for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> i walked in like i normally would. i noticed kim lying at the base of the bed. face down. then i saw zip ties tied around her ankles and her feet. i still can't wrap my head around it.

geoff bennett is there and hans nichols is at the white house. geoff, we expect at some point today a couple of other key transcripts kept secret until now to be revealed by the house investigators and a couple of witnesses ended up being no-shows? >> reporter: this is a developing trend of white house officials who are now thumbing their nose at congress who are not showing up for testimony when summoned or in most cases subpoenaed. so today house investigators were set to hear from wells griffith, a national security council official. his behind closed door deposition was supposed to start at 9:00. 9:00 came and went, no sign of him. jamie raskin who is a member of one of the committees just came up and told reporters that deposition is not happening. later this afternoon house investigators were hoping to hear from michael duffy, an official with the white house budget office. i was told yesterday that he is not going to appear. so the two of them are the latest in a long list of officials who have been called for testimony this week, who are

michael, and geoff and eli and smegma dogmatic stew, and you try to top that one. so, the documents were subpoenaed as part of the investigation into potential hush money payments to two women prior to the 2016 election. joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. can you explain to us this decision? >> sure. it is a three-judge panel of the 2nd circuit court of appeals, and they say for several reasons the president's argument fails here, and these materials must be turned over, and they are subpoenaing documents from the president's accountants and the trump organization, and what the court of appeals says that there is no blanket immunity for that would stop investigating presidents, especially as here when abstate court is seeking materials not from the president himself, but from other parties, third parties, and the trump organization and the president's accountant and those materials have nothing to do with this official performance in office and therefore they are not covered by executive privilege. and now, the court goes on the note th

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katie. >> geoff bennett, what a week. i hope you get some sleep this weekend. nick, always good to see you, my friend. thank you so much for your insight and expertise. joining me colorado democratic senator and 2020 presidential candidate michael bennet. he is a member of the intelligence and finance committees. senator, thank you for being here. we are -- you are learning about what the house is doing at the same time that we are learning about it, and i'm sure that if you haven't read all of the testimony you would be forgiven, but i'm sure you have read much of the headlines and excepts we have read. what is the conclusion you are coming to? >> i think the conclusion day after day after day is that everything that the whistle-blower said in their whistle-blowing complaint has been corroborated by witness after witness after witness, that president trump asked the ukrainian president to start an investigation against his political opponent, joe biden, and he threatened to withhold aid if the ukrainians didn't do it. the facts are quite plain. >> if this goes

i'm geoff bennett in for nicolle wallace.m donald trump and his allies, just a little over an hour ago, a new story in the "new york times" says a report president trump himself has been anticipating for months from a justice department watchdog will undercut trump's claim that the fbi spied on his 2016 campaign. the theory trump's attorney general bill barr also fuelled in his testimony before congress what he claimed that, quote, spying did occur. but the "new york times" reports this. the justice department's inspector general found no

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fellow at the king feisal a center for research on islamic studies also on skype from rhode island geoff clark colgan he's an associate professor of brown university and the author of petro aggression when oil causes war welcome to you all just a question i'll start with you in beirut so it's no secret that the proceeds from the i.p.o. will be used by the kingdom sovereign public investment fund to be reinjected into the saudi economy as part of hamad bin sandman's a vision 2030 so would you say that there is a lot at stake for mohamed been sidelined personally with this i.p.o. since vision 2030 is really has baby it is that it will also help with great deal the kingdom of saudi arabia that it has to address the challenges that it faces and there is no denying the fact that you have a workforce of 40000000 people who only 4000000 are natives which means that. over 50 percent of the population be less than 25 years old the economy has to create a lot more jobs in the future so this i.p.o. will help alleviate adds to the economic engine of the kingdom and it will allow for the complete to

nbc's geoff bennett has the latest on this one. geoff, good morning. >> reporter: hey, craig, good morning to you. mayor pete buttigieg is having a major moment in iowa. the latest poll in iowa shows the south bend, indiana, mayor with a resounding lead for the first time in the democratic presidential primary. and that's unfolding as former new york city mayor michael bloomberg makes a significant reversal as he considers jumping into the jam-packed democratic presidential field this morning, a big iowa boost for mayor pete buttigieg the democratic presidential hopeful rocketing to the top of the latest "des moines register"/cnn poll with 25% of iowa's likely caucusgoers now picking mayor pete as their first choice for president. >> i have been feeling momentum, and a sense of when people hear the message, they connect with it but we're not getting carried away by a poll results. >> reporter: buttigieg le leap-frogging over senator elizabeth warren, who was polling at 16%, and joe biden, and senator bernie sanders both at 15% each

every friday for the rest of the year. >> i know this is going to make a difference. >> reporter: geoffty for a purpose. >>> let's head back out on the plaza for another check of the weather from dylan. >> thank you. guys, i'm a little distracted. there's a thousand lucille balls out here. what's the celebration? >> well, it's her birthday. we're from jamestown, new york, the hometown of lucille ball and the national comedy center. >> and you all took a bus to get here. >> awesome. so nice to have you all here. it's overwhelming, right? let's look at what's going on across the country today. we're going to see heavier rain through the southeast. a little wintry mix on the northern side of this system. we're looking at above-average temperatures in the northern plains. temps will be running about 15 degrees above average. it looks nice and sunny out west. tomorrow, we're looking at a nice day through the middle of the country. we're looking at, perhaps, some travel delays, with not only the rain in the northeast but the wind. we could see gusts up to 40 or 50 miles per hour. the interior

there's a terrific soundtrack by geoff barrow and ben salisbury, whose soundtrack all the way throughwhat i really liked about it is it's actually very hard to sustain a movie in which, right up until the very end, you are questioning people's motives, you're questioning people's characters. but also, you also start to realise that the film isn't going to tie itself neatly up. it is going to leave questions unresolved. i thought it was very, very well played. i think it's a great performance by kelvin harrisonjr. octavia spencer is absolutely terrific. it is a very sort of satirical take on the middle class couple and their presumptions about things, and one of the things that... kinda of the white saviour stuff? yeah, but one of the things that it does also is it wrong—foots the audience. it plays to the audience's expectations and then it wrong—foots them — or does it? all the way through this, i kept thinking, because i saw it immediately after watching the good liar, "this has the sense of ambiguity, the sense of uncertainty that the film before didn't have". i don't think it's go

geoff, good to see you, i thank you.ecial night on december 11th, because i'll be taking part in a forum. mob museum.org, go on their web site and see what they've got. i mean, they've got -- it's amazing. who even knew we even had that in this country? also watch our special here tomorrow night on the fox news channel, the real search for james hoffa, 10 p.m. eastern, and also on fox nation online. we're trying to solve the case and get the files released which i think will finally solve this case. release the fbi files, please. arthel: eric, i know that you grew up in new york city. when did you, when did your fascination with the mob begin in. eric: when a guy came to my house with a baseball bat. that's a joke. [laughter] i'm an old reporter, i'm a crime reporter. arthel: gwen if it was something as a child just growing up, being in the city, if that was just a fascination. eric: no, and geoff actually touched on that, not only is it the greatest case in american history, you have a loving husband and father, his dau

i want to start with garrett haake on capitol hill, and geoff bennett at the white house, and pete williamsis covering a court hearing today that could affect all of the impeachment proceedings. garrett, let me start with you and set the scene. i know that it is a federal holiday, but members of congress are getting ready for a big week and we may see some new transcripts today, too. >> reporter: that's right. democrats have spent the last couple of days trying to burnish the resumes of the star witnesses. they want to talk up these are career diplomats, folks who have spent their lives in service of this country and they should be believed when they show up for the first hearing on wednesday and friday, and describe the

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>> great question, geoff.ng with other colleagues, demanding that we have a vote, asking for unanimous consent to move forward on universal background checks. i raised the red flag or emergency risk protection order statute that we have proposed along with republicans. and, frankly, there is a fair degree of unanimunanimity. he listens to wayne lapierre of the nra more than he listens to those who favor the common sense, sensible legislation. lindsey graham and i are at the three yard line. we've reached virtual agreement on an emergency risk protection that would save lives by taking guns away from dangerous people. universal background checks, i think, we could do as well, preventing dangerous his opposition is relied on by the leader of the united states senate, mitch mcconnell, majority leader. he controls what comes to the floor. and he is behind the inaction of the united states senate, which will make us complicit if it continues. tranlgcally and unfortunately, there will be more mass shootings. and we

that echoes republican talking points that were distributed overnight, our colleague geoff bennett was able to obtain those talking points. nikki haley made note of the fact that, as you say, the president of ukraine indicates he didn't feel pressured and that ultimately the aid was given. but democrats are going to point to the fact that a number of these officials who will testify in public starting tomorrow are going to say that they weren't comfortable and that they did feel as though aid was being held up, and a white house visit also, in exchange for investigating the bidens. >> nikki haley was ignoring the fact that at the time of that phone call, the aid had not been given, it was released after the whistle-blower. the legal point here is also that you don't have to either withhold or receive the aid, it isn't the issue of what happened afterwards, it's the pressure, it's the, quote, extortion, as democrats would say. >> that's right, andrea. and as we all know, in the legal system, you don't actually have to have a completed crime for a crime to have been committed. you can at

two democratic congressman geoff van drew of the state of missouri and peterson, broke with the resolution, and are districts that president trump won't in 2016. and justin amash voted with the democrats. up until this point, republicans have complained about the proceedings behind closed doors but adam schiff says the process of releasing transcripts could begin soon. >> one of the aspects of the resolution that we passed today authorizes me to begin releasing transcripts and i would expect that process will begin as early as next week. >> the house speaker nancy pelosi defended the resolution on the house floor during a news conference, and with an appearance on late night television, she framed the investigation as a constitutional duty that must be carried out fairly. >> it provides the president and his council opportunities to participate including presenting his case, submitting requests for testimony, attending hearing, raising objection to testimony given, cross-examining witnesses, and more. and contrary to what you may have heard today, we give more opportunity to his case than

you suggested to me geoff you came on, you're warming up to the market?> shifted from defensive to value four or five weeks ago. charles: forked audience explain what that means. what is defensive and value. >> 17 times forward earnings. energy, industrials, materials, financials are trading well below that they are the fastest growing p-e ratios in the s&p 500. it is coming out of utilities and real estate, out of sectors overpriced to begin with. names i talked about. wrote down names for audience. my most recent purchases are amgen, merck, abb, can caterpillar, dow chemical, city group and at&t telephone. charles: wow. that is pretty electric. >> dividend payers. trade at lower valuations. >> did i hear energy in there? >> i've already been in energy. that was part of my long term -- charles: reason i bring that up, erin. it is crushing it. up 3 1/2% the sector. sector up 3 1/2% for the whole year. worst-performing sector, west texas intermediate edging higher. in some of the names getting crushed. getting hammered in some names, even with pioneer up 7

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i'm yasmin alongside geoff bennett.ink i'm shaking because i'm nervous, but this is just my signature quivering bang. >> america, i see you. and i see the faces you all make when i talk. you're scared. scared i'll say something off-color or even worse, on color. >> hi, guys. i'm billionaire tom steyer. and i'm running for president for a simple reason. it's fun. and it gets me out of the house. >> did somebody say billionaire? >> mayor bloomberg, how did you get in here? >> well, i tipped the doorman $30 million. >> that is "snl," "saturday night live." fred coming back with the big gulp as mayor michael bloomberg. we have a packed house this morning. msnbc contributor -- a little closer than i'd like seated next to me mike barnicle this morning. jonathan lemire. former chief of staff to the dccc, adrienne elrod. she's an msnbc contribute tosor reverend al sharpton. david drucker, who is also a contributing writer at vanity fair. and in washington, susan page and former chief of staff of the cia and