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

we needed to inform a broader level of activity across the government. >> geoff: we like to think of it as a supply and demand challenge. shelby discussed a lot of the work of the fbi and the intelligence community and cyber calm that really targets the supply of what the bad actors are providing in operations. we have a much more actor-agnostic responsibility in this space. it is to reduce the supply reduce the demand, those consumers of foreign influence, reduce their engagement with this type of information. we have the media literacy aspect, where we are putting out products that help to recognize risk or walk through the tactics that foreign adversaries might be using, all for the purpose of bettering the environment on which these operations land and reducing the spread there. >> of course, as you are familiar, dhs is not always the best voice in this community, so we have to partner with some experts across the community, experts that can help to shape and amplify this message with a trusted voice across targeted sectors. >> suzanne: i think that fits so nicely into cisa's sec

geoff: i have nothing to add. we are preparing for resilience measures to combat any type of actor in this space. certainly there is always the big three plus two or however you want to do the math, but when it comes to network security and public resilience, voting resilience, we can be actor agnostic. ransomware is one that we have not seen, but we are conscious of in targeting state and local governments in other capacities, and if >> timed correctly, can be challenging for election offices, so we have done a lot of work at the same local level to provide those security practices to help resilience toward ransomware. shelby: as you know, we have traditionally talked about the topic as infrastructure, and influence. i think one of the things that we also want our constituencies to be aware of, that cyber operations on the infrastructure can also acquire voter registration data that could be used not just at the ballot box, but to enhance those influence operations because it has a level of detail, it has demogra

geoff: weaker.t earlier, down to 100 levels like that. 1.28st up toward euros-dollar, 1.40 in cable. enough,eally cannot say the diversions that we are seeing in interviews on "bloomberg surveillance," the conversation about the u.s. dollar. professor, what kind of currency is the chinese renminbi? floating, is it fixed? is it traditional, or is it a beast of a different character? i: as being a non-economist, , theviously the currency chinese government wants to show it has overall control on the flow of the currency. so in a way, what kind of renminbi does the chinese government want? it is a benchmark to how -- to judge how much capacity the chinese government has toward its own economy. francine: do you agree with that? say itthe pboc will is a political tool, just to look at the messaging of the pboc and relative authorities are trying to provide. of capital outflows, in the context of china's report, china is hoping foreign capitals to go into managing the outflow. one of the things we were lo

>> reporter: geoff, a couple new developments this hour. number one, the president is answering this criticism at least through the retweet that he didn't read in congressional leaders and suggested they might have tipped off the iranians. he's not directly saying, but suggested they weren't informed for the same reason congressional democrats were informed. quite an explosive allegation. we also have the president seem to be opening up a new front hinting the the government in bagdad, the government in iraq that the u.s. pays billions of dollars, been there a long time, almost a warning not to take any action. there's been some reporting about having a bill in parliament and iraq to have the u.s. troops leave. finally you have the actual legal justification. secretary of state mike pompeo saying this was clearly the doctrine of pre emery self-defense. have a listen to how he put it. >> the american people should know that president trump's decision to remove qasem soleimani from the battlefield saved american lives. this is a man who has p

geoff? >> nbc's richard engel with that incredible access there and that air base. with us is a white house senior director and senior adviser at the state department under former president obama and megan o'sullivan, deputy national adviser from iraq and afghanistan and former assistant to george w. bush. thanks to both of you. let's return to president trump saying that there was a threat against four embases as he put it. is there any way that the national security adviser wouldn't be aware of this? >> only in the trumpian universe and for two reasons. first, the process is so broken as we know in national security. we don't have a director of national intelligence right now and also we know that this is not a president who does not trust the apparatus of national security. so normally this would be run through a process. all of the principals would talk to each other and then go to the decision to the president. i would say that this is a president who does not trust civilians when it comes to military matters. he trusts the folks in uniform. i can see a univers

stan in washington, d.c., hopefully we'll have yasmin and geoff back with us.the meantime, i would like to bring in editor at "buzzfeed" hayes browne. what are your take aways after last night's closing. >> after a long 24 hours, and three days, the house managers made the best case they can with the amount of evidence they were able to get from the white house and the testimony they had. i think that in their closing, they are making the point that, yes, we have all of this evidence that the president committed abuse of power, that the president has obstructed congress, not just the house but the senate now, and that in this appeal that adam schiff had to the various senators in the room to actually take up the mantle of a jury, to actually take up their job, and actually try and get the white house and executive branch writ large to turn over more evidence, was a compelling one. in his closing, adam schiff mentioned a cbs report that said the white house threatened republican senators. they seemed to take offense to that. given the president's history of bull

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>> geoff bennett at the capital tonight, geoff, thank you >>> now to the latest twist in a mystery surrounding the disappearance of two siblings who vanished months ago tonight investigators are calling out the children's own mother and her new husband for refusing to cooperate with authorities. catie beck has the details. >> reporter: investigators tonight say these siblings, 7-year-old joshua vallow and 17-year-old tylee ryan are in danger, vanished from rexburg, idaho, last seen more than three months ago >> we're trying to stay positive and hope for the best for the kids >> reporter: police now focused on the children's mother and her new husband. lori vallow and chad daybell who they say refuse to cooperate. lori knows either the location of the children or what has happened to them it is astonishing that rather than work with law enforcement to help us locate her own children, lori vallow has chosen instead to leave the state with her new husband. the couple married just weeks after chad daybell's former wife died under suspicious circumstances last fall, according to authorities. her bo

lawrence, geoff just said something interesting here. there are a lot of audiences for today's proceedings, on the republican side, there's one audience member, that's the most important that's the president of the united states, and the republicans have tended to conduct themselves with his approval foremost in mind. there are of course the audience of the senators who are serving as jurors, sworn to do impartial justice, and then of course there's mass public opinion as geoff was noting which has its own kind of dynamics, and it seems to me that one of the dynamics today is republicans thinking most about the audience of one and democrats thinking as much as possible about both public opinion and what kind of senators they may be able to nudge over the line from the republican party. what do you think? >> exactly. so i think the democrats, the managers two audiences are those senators right in the room with them, mitt romney, susan collins, lamar alexander and others, and the viewers in maine, the viewers in utah, the viewers in colora

the hacking of the phone of geoff -- jeff bezos.ne of the richest people on the planet, associated with amazon, but he is the owner of the washington post. this really comes down to it. his relationship with the saudi arabian crown prince. there are allegations that basically he sent through what looked like a video through what looked like a video through whatsapp and it was something which allowed people to hack his phone and then there was a story that came out about an alleged affair as story that came out about an alleged affairasa story that came out about an alleged affair as a result. this now is becoming an even bigger story and we might see later on that there are questions about boris johnson might see later on that there are questions about borisjohnson having whatsapp him as well, the crown prince. clearly he is on a lot of people's phone numbers. when you have the richest man in the world and the owner of the washington post, the saudi arabian embassy deny any impropriety. they say it is ludicrous. the un are very conv

the boss of a masonic geoff pazo is‘s phone, this exclusive investigation by the guardian suggests thatas hacked by saudi arabia. whyjeff bezos, justin pickett for us. this actually happened back 2018 and i don't think it is just a warning for a few you want to be friends with because apparently they were having a friendly chat with the crown prince of arabia and geoff pazo ‘s. they were having a friendly chap on what's up and then a video was sent on the what's up message which was somehow infected, this is what the story says and they were then able to tap into the conversations of what bezos was conversing using his phone with others. a bit alarming but it seems to me that there is something far more political under here. the guardian later goes on in this article to say that bezos, who bought the washington post some yea rs bought the washington post some years ago and still owns the washington post of course the khashogi journalist was reporting for the washington post and they read a lot of articles about saudi arabia. as usual, there are some very political things happening here

. >>> geoff bennett has towelled off and is ready to go. he will speak to the color coverage behind the scenes tonight, what we couldn't see on camera as we watched the senate chamber on another momentous night, when our coverage continues right after this. covee continues right after this robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. it's timcan it helpltimate sleep nukeep me asleep?he sleep number 360 smart bed. absolutely, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. plus 0% interest for 24 months on all smart beds. only for a limited time >>> we are back as part of our breaking coverage of what we have just witnessed in the senate chamber and attached hallways tonight. i don't think correspondent geoff bennett will mind if i say that i could see hi

nbc's heidi przybilla on capitol hill and geoff bennett life at the white house. geoff, the white house has until the new deadline to file a brief with the senate outlining its arguments. what should we expect to see in that brief? >> reporter: craig, good to see you. i tell you what. over the weekend, the house democrats, house impeachment managers filed their brief, their written plan for how they intend to proceed through a senate trial. president trump's defense team issued a six-page written response that included the all-too-familiar republican talking points about how they say impeachment has been a rushed process, they've tried to subvert the will of the american people by overturning the results of the 2016 election. republicans say although we should be clear, if president trump were to be removed from office, it would be mike pence that would take his spot. not as if hillary clinton would trot into the oval office. come noontime when the white house has to release its legal brief, we hoped the president trump's legal case would speak to the substance of

i'm geoff bennett. in for hallie jackson. it's 2020, which means we are now officially in a presidential election year and the candidates are in a fundraising frenzy. new numbers out show a huge boost for bernie sanders and the best quarter yet for president trump. we'll break down the campaign dash for cash. nearly a month until the iowa caucuses. joe biden picks up a key endorsement, while another democrat drops out. in just the past hour, julian castro announcing his exit. our nbc news team is on the ground from the early voting states and also here in washington. let's begin with our 2020 nbc news road warriors. shaquille brooster in chicago, mike is in iowa, and von is in iowa. a road warrior trifecta. some of the new campaign fund raising numbers out, what do they say? >> that's right. let's start with the democrats. senator bernie sanders, a big impressive number, raising about $34.5 million in the fourth quarter of last year. that's a quarter that began with him being sidelined from the campaign trail because of a hea

joining me to talk about it, geoff bennett, kasie hunt. geoff, i know the 110 pages were only released in the past minutes, but what are we learning about the white house arguments and the strategy? >> great to see you. our team of producers and i have been reading through this document. what it offers is a sweeping condemnation of these two articles of impeachment. the president's defense team makes the point that a rigged impeachment process, as they put it, led to those two flimsy articles of impeachment that they are trying to characterize. in the first one, abuse of power, to some arise president trump's position, the position of his legal team, it's show me the violation. show me the broken law. it makes the point that president clinton, former president clinton, his violation was lying under oath. andrew johnson, with 17 th president, his violation was running afoul of the tenure of office act. here they're saying the coordinated pressure campaign does not represent an impeachable offense. on obstruction of congress, you have the pr

he championed progressive policies but was unable to catch on with democratic voters, lester >> geoffbennett, thank you. >>> now to a story that hits close to home for us. the husband and parents of carley mccord, the sports reporter for nbc affiliate wdsu killed in a plane crash on her way to the peach bowl, are speaking out to our sam broke about their unimaginable loss and carley's legacy >> reporter: the connection between carley mccord and steven ensminger jr. was instantaneous. it took steven just a few months to propose. >> high cry, oh, my gosh >> words can't describe the kind of person she is. >> reporter: a lifetime of love for family, community, and sports, suddenly up-ended last week when a private plane carley caught a ride on crashed shortly after takeoff, killing five people on board, with one survivor critically injured that morning, steven says he missed a text from carley telling him one last time she loved him. >> did you message her back after that, knowing everything that had happened? >> yeah. i message her back every day. >> reporting from the saints practice fa

>> geoff bennett, thank you. >>> let's talk about the weather now. a bitter cold night ahead. temperatures well below average for the southeast to new england and a storm threatening to cause a travel nightmare dave price is tracking it all. what are you watching tonight? >> lester, it begins with cold temperatures enveloping the northern tier of the country, with windchills all the way into the teens, stretching all the way into new england that is, of course, tuesday. wednesday, we have a storm system developing through the central plains heavy rains through texas pushing eastward, slick on the roads and in the air rolling on into thursday as this storm system continues to move rough weather for chicago, st. louis, new orleans and kansas city where air travel could be sloppy lester >> dave price, good to have you with us tonight. thanks. >>> we'll be right back in just 60 seconds with a potential major break in an infamous cold case dating back decades. >>> and prince harry making a new appearance after breaking his silence about that royal split. >>> we're back now with wor

i'm geoff bennett. turning now to the race for the white house.just 23 days and counting until the all important iowa caucuses, there's a new leader in the hawkeye state when it comes to the battle for the democratic nomination. the des moines register's headline reading sanders ahead. this latest polling has bernie sanders out in front with 20% followed by elizabeth warren at 17%, pete buttigieg who had been the front runner dropping to third with 16%, while joe biden is the only other remaining candidate in double-digits at 15%. that said, 45% of surveyed caucus goers say they could be persuaded to support smblts. joining me now is republican strategist rena shaw, arena shad former spokes person for the house oversight committee and think contributor at nbc news. does it come to you as a surprise as we're just a couple weeks away from iowa? >> i can't say much surprises me anymore buzz this field is not at all looking like what democrats thought it would look like. where did the diversity go and it's very wealthy. let's not forget that. is this

geoff, it was suspense, genuine suspense during the wait for lamar alexander. needs to remind you, susan collins dropped her yes vote statement. but again, net/net, we have one republican crossover, and that is all we know at this hour, correct? >> reporter: you're right. those statements dropped, brian, almost as if this entire thing was choreographed. the one senator we're paying closest attention to now is lisa murkowski of alaska. on her way out of the senate chamber as she got in her car to head home, my colleague kyle stewart, who is a producer here, caught up with her, and says she has a 1 1/2 notebooks filled with information, notes she's been taking over the last week. she said that when she gets home, she plans to put some eye drops in and to read some more as best that she's able because she wants to be able to put out a well thought statement in the morning about where she stands on this key question of inviting more witnesses and more evidence into this trial. i will say, though, that house democrats, democrats' best chance, the thing that they're

geoff bennett, thank you. >>> a massive winter storm is barrelling across the country. tens of millions under weather alerts al roker is here al, how does this time out? >> lester, we have 64 million people under winter weather advisories as we put the radar in you can see an icy mix in texas and heavy rain down to the south. this system makes its way to the east with 48 inches of snow by friday six inches or more into interior new england and saturday upwards of an inch of rain, wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour, airport delays tomorrow for minneapolis down to dallas and on saturday on this holiday weekend, looking at airport delays from new york, cleveland, chicago down to charlotte. lester >> sounds ugly. >>> there is fallout from that tense moment between elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. turns out it was captured on a hot mic. andrea mitchell reports. >> reporter: elizabeth warren and bernie sanders shying away from the feud. a he said/she said after sanders denied telling her a year ago it would be tough for a woman to beat donald trump. >> i think you called

here is geoff bennett. >> reporter: in the sprint to the iowa caucuses, a pause in the peace pact between the progressive democratic presidential contenders senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren sanders tonight slamming new reports he told warren during a private meeting in 2018 that he didn't think a woman could win the 2020 presidential election. sanders in a statement to nbc news saying it is ludicrous to believe that at the same meeting where elizabeth warren told me she was going to run for president, i would tell her that a woman couldn't win a senior sanders aide tells nbc news they believe warren's campaign intentionally leaked a false description of the conversation the warren campaign did not respond to nbc's repeated request for comment. the two also trading shots over a politico report that the sanders campaign instructed its volunteers to paint warren as the candidate of elites in conversations with voters. >> i hope bernie reconsiders and turns his campaign in a different direction. >> i have never said a negative word about elizabeth warren who is a friend of mine. >

face off following her claim that he told her a woman could not win the presidency in 2020 here is geoff bennett on the growing feud. >> reporter: tonight family feud. progressive democratic presidential contenders bernie sanders and elizabeth warren sparring over questions of gender and electability warren now confirming sanders once told her that he didn't think a woman could win the white house.or more than two hours in december 2018 to discuss the 2020 election, our past work together and our shared goals, warren said in a statement to nbc news came up was what would happen if democrats nominated a female candidate. i thought a woman could win. he disagreed sanders fiercelys an sad. his campaign going further, calling warren's account a lie.>> they clearly have different recollections about this senator sanders never said a woman could not win the race in 2020 hillary clinton beat trump by 3 million votes. how could you say a woman couldn't win for the presidency >> reporter: sanders and warren set to share a stage at tonight's democratic debate in des moines, the final face-to-face

here's nbc geoff bennett. >> reporter: tonight hillary clinton unleashing on her one time rival bernie sanders clinton, in an interview with the hollywood reporter tearing open old wounds from their protracted 2016 primary that pitted clinton against the independent senator from vermont. "he was in congress for years. he had one senator support him. nobody likes him nobody wants to work with him he got nothing done. senator sanders today unfazed by clinton's comments ay, my your response wife likes let's clear the air on that one look, right now today i am dealing with impeachment. >> reporter: why do you think the secretary is still talking about 2016 >> that is a good question ask her. >> reporter: it comes as sanders consistently polls at or near the top of the democratic pack. it's just the latest dust-up for the senator. there was that clash with fellow progressive elizabeth warren and sanders now apologizing after a campaign surrogate wrote an inflammatory op-ed about joe biden. sanders tonight fighting fallout from this presidential race and the last geoff bennett, nbc news, was

geoff, thank you >>> as the wildfires in australia rage on, almost no one can escape the severe impact tonight even athletes are struggling as they compete to take part in the australian open our janis mackey frayer is there. >> reporter: tonight thick smoke over melbourne, literally choking players at qualifying matches for the australian open. >> unable to continue. >> reporter: some questioning why matches were held with such poor air quality. the wildfires here unrelenting. >> all hands on deck >> reporter: as more american firefighters join the front lines >> we're going to do what needs to be done. >> reporter: more than 15 million acres gone. thousands of people and countless wildlife now homeless we traveled to kangaroo island where an estimated 25,000 koalas are feared dead it's hard to grasp the scale of the destruction here, but this island is about the size of delaware, and nearly half of it has burned all of these animals still at risk of starvation survivors treated at a makeshift hospital how hard is it to not be able to help all of them >> it's vo very hard but we will

i'm geoff bennett in washington. right now hundreds of u.s. soldiers are making their way to iraq where a highly volatile situation threatens to get worse. for a second straight day, pro iranian protestors swarmed the u.s. embassy. and the latest on the u.s. military response and what president trump is saying about it. >>> plus it is only the first day of the year, but it will surely be one of the biggest stories of 2020. the looming trump impeachment trial. the defiant new comments from the president and a preview of what we can expect once the senate reconvenes in just days. >>> and now officially an election year. how the candidates are sharpening their messages before the iowa caucuses. >>> and we begin with breaking news out of iraq. the u.s. is on high alert for a second day as protestors remain outside the u.s. embassy in baghdad a day after thousands of iranian backed xwlglo demonstra stormed the embassy. this is unfolding as defense secretary mark esper announced tuesday that the administration is sending 750 troops to the region. pr

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nbc's geoff bennett at the white house. capitol hill correspondent and host of "kasie d.c." is with us. >> reporter: i miss you. >> this is a big deal. you are there because this is the final preparation before the trial starts tomorrow. what is going on at capitol hill? >> reporter: well, ali, we just saw the president's legal defense team make their way from where geoff down at the white house over to the capitol to kind of make sure the "i"s are dotted and "t"s are crossed. they did a walk-through making sure that the technicals a pecks are set up, everybody's been checking out the workstations, seeing where they will be sitting as the trial starts to unfold. so they were talking about the timetable. they want it to be as fast as possible. quite frankly, we know that's been what the white house has been pushing for and everything that we're hearing suggests that mcconnell is also trying to accelerate that timetable from his end and so this opening day is going to be remarkable in that it's unlikely to see how the trial will unfold. the rules that mcconnell is setting for

. >> geoff bennett is on the hill for us. normally he's part of our white house correspondent team. but this being the only story in town, has focused his attention. jeff, give us some color and try to take a swipe at answering the question. i started with senator mccaskill. and that is any evidence that any minds were changed during this long day's journey into night? >> reporter: well, brian, i'll tell you, i spent the final portion of the evening in the senate gallery, which is basically the senate balcony. we're about 10 or 20 feet above the senate floor. and my eyes were trained, of course, on those 100 senators watching silently from their seats. and so adam schiff was delivering that emotional ending, that really lyrical recitation of all of the facts and evidence where he moved from that into this portion where he implored the senators to invite in more evidence and more witnesses into these proceedings. i can tell you that all of the senators were watching him and paying attention. my colleague frank thorpe, who is a producer here on the senate side of the capitol, happened

widely, with chris clode e—mailing: but others had a different view, such as rosemary wild: and for geoff notjust what's on the news which elicits comments from newswatch viewers, but also the bits in between the news. like this: bbc news theme plays that countdown sequence familiar to all viewers of the bbc news channel is a pet hate of rosy bubb. she explains: thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions on bbc news and current affairs or even appear on the programme, do e—mail us, and do have a look at our website, where you can watch previous discussions and interviews we've broadcast. that's all from us. we will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello there. despite some strong winds in the far north of scotland on friday was a better day in terms of sunshine across the country. you can see this from the weather watch picture in surrey, hardly a cloud in the sky. those clear skies by day, they have stayed with us through the night so it means a chilly start to saturday morning, particularly in the south—ea

jonathan allen at capitol hill, geoff bennett at the white house. we mentioned at the top of the show, got breaking news in terms of how the trial might proceed. what can you tell us? >> credit lee ann caldwell who is working hard this morning, over the weekend, along with others. what we're hearing is that the resolution that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is working on which has been seen by some republicans, not all of them, certainly none of the democrats, is going to set up to basically have democrats present their arguments, house managers over a two day period, 12 hours each day, which would run each of the days well into the evening, basically into the midnight hour, probably into the wee hours of the morning, and the president's team present after that. you're likely talking wednesday, thursday for the democrats, friday and saturday for the president's team. this will anger democrats and maybe anger the president who wanted to have attention to this. that is a tension point with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who wants to ge

geoff bennett joins us with three things to watch today.rats and the white house, preparing to spar on the senate floor, with opening arguments in the president's impeachment trial expected to kick off tomorrow the house impeachment managers huddled on capitol hill this weekend, planning and strategizing how they'll prosecute the case against president trump. democrats released their outline for the case, writing, in part, that the president's conduct regarding ukraine is the founders' worst nightmare. president trump, for his part, is pushing back. look at this >> we're achieving what no administration has ever achieved before and what do i get out of it? tell me. i get impeached. that's what i get out of it. by these radical left lunatics, i get impeached. >> reporter: the president leaves this evening for the economic forum in davos. and lastly, a duel endorsement for the first time ever, "the new york times" editorial board endorsed two presidential candidates senator elizabeth warren and senator amy klobuchar. it says that radical and

we begin with geoff. we expect to hear in this press conference that really kicks off everything leading to the senate trial? >> right, well, ari, good morning to you. well, look, some four weeks after the house adopted the two articles of impeachment against president trump the house speaker is formally bringing the house portion of the proceedings to a close. by doing two things. naming these house impeachment managers and then ultimately transmitting both articles of impeachment over to the senate. as you mentioned, the house impeachment managers that's the group of house lawmakers who will present and then prosecute the case against president trump on the senate floor. as i know you know back in the '90s during the '99 impeachment trial house republicans who were in control at the time they picked 13 members of the house judiciary committee. all of them at the time happened to be white men to prosecute the case against then president clinton. this time around, house speaker pelosi will settle on a gro

geoff, what do you have? >> reporter: hey, brian. first i can tell you this serves as a reminder that senate time is very much unlike actual time. we have exceeded the hard five minutes that mitch mcconnell said that this break would last. but in that time, you have white house legislative affairs director eric euland talking to us reporters, still not ruling out the potential for the white house to bring forward this motion to dismiss. they have until tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern. that's the deadline. so they're holding that card in their back pocket. he also says that the white house, when they do present their opening arguments on the case, that they will mount a robust and substantive debate -- defense, moving beyond sort of the process arguments that we've heard. and i suspect just in listening to him speak, that we will see the white house -- president trump's legal defense team do what house republicans did during the house portion of this impeachment process. and that is rather than look at all of the evidence in full and pr

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i'm geoff bennett. in for hallie jackson.t's 2020, which means we are now officially in a presidential election year and the candidates are in a fundraising frenzy. new numbers out show a huge boost for bernie sanders and the best quarter yet for president trump. we'll break down the campaign dash for cash. nearly a month until the iowa caucuses. joe biden picks up a key endorsement, while another democrat drops out. in just the past hour, julian castro announcing his exit. our nbc news team is on the ground from the early voting states and also here in washington. let's begin with our 2020 nbc news road warriors. shaquille brooster in chicago, mike is in iowa, and von is in iowa. a road warrior trifecta. some of the new campaign fund raising numbers out, what do they

geoff: what shelby has referenced is worth echoing. the posture of sharing incomplete information early is far better than complete information after the fact. this is a seismic shift in the way we are approaching information sharing across this community. whonne: and the issue of gets notified is not in anyway way a trivial issue. one of the things we have learned again in 2016 is we thought we were notifying all of the states. well, it turns out the governor sub office and the secretary of state's offices do not always talk to each other. who knew? i have lots of questions, but we have some really smart people in this room and i want to give you an opportunity to ask questions of our panelists as well. throw it open. if you have questions? yes? >> thank you very much. thank you for holding the event. i am wondering -- i know we are in an open setting, but if you can give us a sense a little bit at this stage who the main players are, by volume of sophistication, if you would rank them and turns of -- in terms of their efforts so far

>> i don't think that there is, geoff. i think they could have mike pompeo and rudy giuliani and john bolton testify and that wouldn't move the needle one bit. they are so baked into where they are, there's no abandoning that. >> thank you so much. appreciate that. >>> a live look at capitol hill where we are two hours from the president's defense team, teasing its case for acquittal. a tease only they say, why? because as we know with this president, ratings matter. >> that's all the time we have left this hour of ms nbc live. let's go to msnbc's ali velshi to continue our coverage. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. glucerna. everyday progress while helping you manage your blood sugar. frustrated that clean clothes you want to wear always seem to need an iron? next time try bounce wrinkle guard dryer sheets. just toss it in the dryer to bounce out wrinkles. we dried these shorts with bounce wrinkle guard, and a pair without. the bounce wrinkle guar

i'm geoff bennett in washington, d.c.hat the country's military unintentionally shot down that ukrainian passenger plane on tuesday after initially claiming that mechanical trouble had doomed the jet liner. in a statement, the islamic revolutionary guard cor p,s blamed human error for the deaths of 176 innocent people adding they had been on highest alert after launching strikes against american assets in iraq. those strikes came as retaliation for the american attack that killed qassem soleimani. the administration has argued multiple times there was an imminent threat posed by soleimani and they would have been highly culpable if they didn't take action. yesterday the president very broadly addressed the situation. take a look. >> don't the american people have a right to know what specifically was targeted without revealing methods and sourc sources? >> well, i don't think so, but we will tell you that probably it was going to be the embassy in baghdad. you saw that happening. you saw it with all of the men, very few w

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lets bring in from iraq nbc news chief foreign country richard ennel, ali allowsy, and geoff bennett. ali, the ayatollah has promised that this wasn't the end of it. what are you -- yesterday when we were talking to you a couple days earlier, you said the iranians feel that a revenge is a dish best served cold. to drag the phrase out a bit, we're still in the warm zone. should we be expecting something else down the line maybe through a proxy? >> reporter: definitely. i mean, things haven't really changed, katy. for now in this scen areaio iran is billing this as a victory. they're saying that their message got across. they are saying we're going attack some u.s. sites in evej for qassem soleimani and don't attack us otherwise we'll enflame the region. that message got received by president trump. there was no attack here. for their domestic audience here, they're saying this is a victory. they attacked america. there was no reprisal. but nothing has really changed can be katy. today, the prem leader made a fiery speech again saying that attack last night was just the slap in the face