>> it's not all clear what john bolten would say. i think there are risks, this is someone on the years that have decleared himself part of it, i think it is very hard to say if i was john bolten. i think the unimpeachable foreign service officers. i think it is clear they will stick to what they know. oi think for that reason they should go there, but they have to have people directly hearing what he is saying >> after the mueller report, the greatest thing that happened to the president was bill barr coming out just days later basically saying nothing to see here, no bad behavior. talk to us about your reporting and how the president was trying to push bill barr to basically do that for him again. hold a press conference and say that phone call as the president likes to put it was "perfect" and the president didn't break any laws. >> that is a interesting trend, he asks his aids to get out and tell everyone that he is perfect. he asked bill barr to tell people it was a perfect call. my colleagues and i learned about this in an inte

joyce, this is that question, as we look at those, rick perry as well as john bolten.sentative out in connect that they may have issued, he said on fox news today, they may have issued a subpoena for him. he says i will wait until i get a ruling from a federal judge. is that where we are at? many are just waiting for the one ruling. >> reporter: i think we're in a very uncomfortable place for the rule of law because there is a federal statute that makes it a crime for someone who had been subpoenaed by congress to not show up. and that's what we're seeing a number of witnesses doing. yes, they have the excuse that they filed a lawsuit in a court to ask that court to decide what they have to do, but that's not the way that the law is supposed to work here. i suspect, though, richard that you're right because john bolten has the same lawyer. they will hang their hat on the fact that they filed a lawsuit asking a federal court ultimately to determine whether or not they have to show up and testify. i think it's unlikely unless that court moves very quickly. >> so scott, b

obviously one key witness could be john bolten. and we don't know whether he'll testify or not. nbc news says bolten will be willing to testify if the court orders his long-time deputy charles kupperman to testify and of course kupperman is fighting it, right, filing a lawsuit to determine whether he has to testify. it's possible. looks like now we may not get an answer from the courts until january. will you move forward with a full vote on articles of impeachment without testimony from people like john bolten who was obviously at the core of every other testimony we've gotten thus far? >> that remains to be seen. we're not going to play rope-a-dope with the administration and their continuing effort to withhold all the documentation that we have subpoenaed and to instruct administration employees not to come before us. that's obstruction of congress. that, to me, is a tacit acknowledgment of guilt and will be included in any deliberation about whatever report we may submit to the judiciary committee when they get to the point of drafting articles of impeachment. but just again

mentions there is that pending litigation now as charles kupperman, i believe his lawyer is also john bolten's lawyer, bolten's former deputy there, that is going to slow this process down obviously to some degree. democrats, nancy pelosi, the house speaker talking about beginning hearings this month, you know, what is the time line that is emerging here? is there one in terms of hearings, in terms of articles of impeachment potentially being introduced, in terms of the house actually having a debate and vote on articles of impeachment? is there a sense of a time line for the process now? >> well, they're moving as fast as they can. they want to move it forward. adam schiff talked about not wanting, not going to allow these court hearings to delay their process. he said he is not going to get into or they're not getting into a rope-a-dope with the white house by allowing these court hearings to move forward. they are moving forward. they just had the vote on the resolution, which will lay out new ground rules for open hearings. they have not said who yet specifically they want to talk to but t

john bolten also scheduled to testify today but he was so no-show. bolten is willing to testify publicly under subpoena if a federal court resolved conflicting orders from congress and the white house. >> as democrats move toward the public faze, those hearings are scheduled to start next week. president trump requested attorney general bill barr to declare publicly that no laws were broken during the call with president zelensky. he declined this earthquake and according to the washington request, the request from trump travelled to the justice department. the president mentioned barr's demurral saying he wished barr would have held the news conference. the president disputed this account on twitter earlier today. joining us now is garrett haake. how does vice president pence factor into this? >> she is the third person revealed on this call. they want to layer on information that confirms what they heard before. williams can do that about the call. she can also tell us what, if anything, vice president pence knew about that call and knew about the

if a guy like john bolten shon told the truth that backed what they said up, what could that do? >> i think that could be pretty powerful. i think you're right there was part of the hearing yesterday where witnesses were asked are you never trumpers? they said no. but a lot of americans, americans are going to work not sitting there watching the hearings on tv and they may come home and hear reports from sean hannity and from other people. so it depends, you're seeing it through the political ko licoll- kalidescope. a lot of people would hear about that, but given where bolton is saying he is going to wait for a court ruling, saying he has to comply with a system, that could push this even later and it pushes this thing further down the road into 2020 t gets harder to pursue impeachment as it gets harder. so it is my understanding that they're not going to fixate on that and not do anything to delay that process. >> thank you, gentleman, we're going to tlaef there. we just talked a little 2020 and another democrat has thrown his hat in the wing. he officially entered the race thi

secretary of state mime pompeo, vice president mike pence, and former national security advisor john bolten. we will have live updates here on mornings on 2 and we will carry the hearings live and uninterrupted over on ktvu plus. >>> happening today in san francisco former president barack obama will speak today. the former president will share the spotlight with mark beniouf. later today the former president will be in loss altos for a democratic fundraiser where he's also expected to be there. $10,000 to $355,000 for a ticket. >>> i'm sure traffic's been busy around green forest this week. >> as the week goes on more people adjust. and people have been using the ferry. so as the week wears on i think we're getting used to it but i think next week is going to be a whole talk about driving into san francisco and right now traffic is okay. i have a lot of people who say they're my friend. anyway they give me traffic information and one person said yesterday was a little easier than getting out of the city. thursday might be a little easier as we look at some of these pictures. it looks like

official timor son who testified that there was a meeting between former national security advisor john bolten and president trump specifically about releasing the aid. why not wait for john bolton to testify? the courts can't get to it until december. >> i flip it, why not -- why is it mr., why isn't mr. bolton testifying? why wasn't he whistleblower? he thought rudy giuliani was a hand grenade, if he was so offended and he was so offended he called it a drug deal, these other folks with lesser power, you can argue, came forward and risked a lot to tell the american people -- >> brennan: wouldn't you make your argument that much stronger since he could deliver this to the president's door. >> with the amount of evidence we have right now, any single witness is going to be essential, that without them we wouldn't know what took place. i would love to hear from mr. bolton, i would love to hear from mr. mulvaney, for those republicans seeming to imply they want the americans to know everything, well then why are they blocking their testimony. >> brennan:. >> we have seen how damaging through the

office of management and budget officials on their request list, and finally they want to near from john boltenext week. that is highly anticipated testimony, it does not look like he will appear. his lawyer was in court on behalf of another former administration official and they want a judge to rule on whether or not he can go before the committee. >> but bolton says he might consider it if he is subpoenaed. let's talk about the stunning dell suggestions. he is quite about the call he is on between the president and the ukrainian counter part, that call that sparks the whistle-blower complaint. what more can you tell us about that testimony and how it is having a ripple effect? what he was telling lawmakers helps with what happened behind the scenes in the white house. after this call between president trump and president zelensky. he says he raised concerns to the top lawyer, john eisenberg. he told him not to mention the call to anyone else and this is significant because it helps flush out the scandal. it is unlikely that he will appear. and now vindman's testimony was crucial because he t

there is also john bolten who says he won't show up without a subpoena.s is all comes as the white house struggles to forecast a strategy to fight impeachment. joining me now to discuss is michael zeldon. good to see you. so let's start with the president's strategy to fight this impeachment, do they need a so-called war room? >> i think they would be well adviced to have a strategy and a team of specialists to address what will be a very public display of alleged wrong doing in these upcoming hearings. so for the president to just defend himself on twitter is not sensible in my opinion. >> so the democrats vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry, right? so what does this vote change? >> right, so principally what has been going on is the house committees are conducting a private investigation in the way that mueller and ken star and archibald cox has. and then it goes to the public hearing stage, and then if the census is that the conduct alleged to have been committed, the house judiciary committee will recommend that and they will vote and if approve

. >> the democrats have eight more witnesses their calling next week including john bolten. but we don't know who is actually going to show up. at the same time adam schiff said he may start releasing transcripts of past depositions as early as wednesday. the president is convinced that people don't understand that phone call and after tweeting about it 40 times in the last few weeks, he may opt for something a bit more dramatic, he says, at some point i'm going to sit down, perhaps as a fire side chat on live television and i will read the call to everyone. it is a strait call. peter as i like to call you now, kevin bacon, let's start with you. it seems like the president says people simply don't understand the call, is that their bens defense right now? >> yeah, i think the president is still haunted by that call. bens defense or not, it is his strategy here. among the challenges this parade of witnesses who have now testified that president trump wanted military aid held from ukraine until they committed to investigations. he said this was a good call. he tells the examin

. >>> former national security adviser john bolten is scheduled to testimony before the impeachment committee. next week several others are schedule to it was taylor's und the u.s. would withhold military aid if ukraine did not investigate joe biden's son hunter. it appears democrats and republicans have different interpretations of the testimony they've heard so far. >> i think you will see throughout the course of the testimony not only their testimony but many others, the most important facts are largely not contested. >> testimony that we're hearing today is actually getting easier to defend the president from a standpoint there is no link age between aid. >> the public televised hearings are set for next wednesday and friday the time is 6:10 still ahead. airbnb is making big changes to increase safety at short-term rentals. what the company is doing across all listing after five people were killed at a rental in orinda. >>> and a negotiation between the oakland as and the city over buying the coliseum. >>> a don't see a lot of fog in lafayette and orinda. clear as you drive towards the t

host: let me turn to "the new york times," the front page -- as the aide disclosed a meeting wtih john bolten the president. this is what it looks like. i want to share with you their reporting. john bolton, the national security advisor, met privately with the president back in august as part of his bid to persuade the president to release $391 million in security assistance to ukraine. the meeting which has not been previously reported, came as mr. bolton sought to marshal the cabinet and top security advisors to convince president trump it was in the best interest of the u.s. to unfreeze the funds to help defend the ukraine against russia. mr. bolton, who left the white house in september, has emerged, over weeks of interviews, as the single most important witness who has evaded house democrats as they build a case against the president and the abusive powers of the presidency by withholding vital military assistance until it delivered investigations that the president wanted. the new disclosure only making clear the significance of john bolton's potential testimony. your reaction? guest:

in the meantime former national security advisor john bolten did not appear for his scheduled depositionsay it strengthens their case of obstructwith that >> no matter who ends up testifying whether it's behind closed doors or in puthing wron >> democrats also released transcripts from the deposition of a key witness yesterday. state department official george kent said president trump wanted , quote, nothing less then president zelensky to go to a microphone and say investigations, biden and clinton. >>> the owner of a well-known san francisco shopping mall is considering an expansion project. nothing to do with stores or restaurants but rather housing. the project will include a mix of market rate and affordable housing at stone town galleria. the property owner has heard calls for senior housing, family housing and units for college students. stonestown is near san francisco state university. >> the only way that we are going to create a more affordable city is by creating more housing at all income ranges and a place like this on the side of the city would be a natural place to look

meanwhile, the questions continue about the story john bolten could tell and the likelihood we might it. and the anticipation

that is the ballots behind the scenes between john bolten and mick mulvaney brought to life in newly cluding many relevant meetings that haven't been discussed in the impeachment inquiry as well. somebody who has been in the inner sanctum of the white house is anthony scaramucci, if only for a few days. he is now amongst the president's most vocal critics. we will get into michael bloomberg's

secretary of state mike pompeo, vice president mike pence and former national security advisor john bolten. >> everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. everyone was informed via email on july 19. days before the presidential call. >> reporter: this morning president trump defended himself recanting what he said in a september call with sondland about ukraine. >> i want nothing. i want nothing. i want no quid pro quo. tell zelenskyy to do the right thing. >> reporter: the president has been tweeting during the testimony declaring the impeachment witchhunt is now over referring back to his phone call with sondland. thernoon testimony will continue with laura cooper, a defense department official and david hale, a state department official. greg leeb,news. >>> you can watch the impeachment hearing underway uninterrupted live on ktvu plus. >>> now developing as this hour in san pablo where police are investigating a deadly shooting this happened on 19th street between broadway avenue and run real boulevard. police responded to a report of gunshots around 5:30 am and found a man dead inside

meanwhile, the questions continue about the story john bolten could tell and the likelihood we might ever hear and it the anticipation for tomorrow. gordon sondland, the lead witness, a man with a lot of explaining to do as "the 11th hour" gets underway this tuesday night. good evening from our headquarters in new york. the latest round of republican impeachment hearings wrap up a short time ago. it was a marathon day. the questioning was relentless again today. it will be again tomorrow. four witnesses testified for nearly ten hours before the house intel committee about what they knew about president trump's request to ukraine's president to investigate democratic political rivals. the day was divided into two sessions. the first set of witnesses saw jennifer williams, a state department employee detail to vice president pence's office on you're a eurasia matters. the afternoon session heard from two officials the republican side called as witnesses. kurt volker, the former u.s. special envoy for ukraine and the peace talks there, and tim morrison, a senior official overseeing russ

. >> congress also wants to hear from john bolten. he shares an attorney with kupperman. we don't know yet if he will show or follow kupperman's lead. how crucial is their testimony? >> bolten's testimony i think has the potential to blow this whole thing wide open. bolten was a very senior official. obviously national security adviser. he has a very substantial reputation and i think if he came forward and decided to go negative on the president, that could really change the direction of the inquiry. as it is now i think the democrats have very substantial evidence if not overwhelming that there was a quid pro quo. that is why you're seeing some republicans start to acknowledge that publicly and say, well it's not impeachable but there was a quid pro quo. >> now we are moving into this public hearing phase where the american public will be able to hear from these witnesses. donald trump jr. has a new book coming out. in it, he criticizes robert mueller, saying democrats put mueller before congress and the public, quote, so he could stutter and babble his way through five

one day after john bolten the president's former national security advisor also was a no-show. the president released the transcript. i can read it in black and white and everybody else should too. >> reporter: in the meantime a new phase of the investigation kicks off next week with first public hearings beginning wednesday with testimony from top diplomat bill taylor and start department official george kent. >> and what they will describe i think is pretty consistent and consistently shocking and that is that you had a regular foreign-policy channel led by the career diplomats and you had an irregular channel. >> reporter: chairman adam schiff has given republicans until saturday to submit a list of names of potential witnesses that republicans would like to see testify during next week's hearing. mark narrative, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> former new york mayor michael bloomberg may enter the presidential race. bloomberg will reportedly file papers to run as a democratic president candidate in the alabama primary today. the last day the candidate can do so. an advisor says bloombe

that being said, multiple witnesses from the national security council talked about john bolten.nvestigations into the president's political rivals, as being illicit, that he called it a quote/unquote drug deal and so forth. i think that -- i hope that he would come forward and testify. obviously, he could really educate members of the committee as to exactly what was happening and his concerns about what he called a drug deal. >> thank you very much for being on the show this morning. we'll see what happens. >>> what happens when tragedy knocks on your front door? three gold star families help answer that agonizing question. that is straight ahead on "morning joe." that is straight ahead on "morning joe." ll my favorite shs right there. i wish my trading platform worked like that. well have you tried thinkorswim? this is totally customizable, so you focus only on what you want. okay, it's got screeners and watchlists. and you can even see how your predictions might affect the value of the stocks you're interested in. now this is what i'm talking about. yeah, it'll free up more t

acting today as if that's not a decision he would be personally involved in, but saying he likes john bolten of polls, the president was asked by reporters about the number of polls that show that the sentiment in the country has moved toward impeachment and including removal from office which is the second step of the process that would happen if there were a senate trialñr and if a sufficit numberñr of senators voted to remove him. here is how the president described it to usñr earlier today. >> you're reading the wrong polls. the fácnn polls are fake. the fácnn polls are fake. ¤4 lousy. @/-you look at the polls% out this morning, people don't want anything to do with impeachment. it's a phony scam. it's a hoax. >> reporter: we've seen this tactic from the presidentfá for years now where he will repeat what he believes is his best májue1 counterw3 argument. we know the pollsjf are always snapshot of times. they are one measure of the sentiment. and the president may have acsays to polls from his own campaign that tell him something different. what he's also stressing is that republicans ha

that is the ballots behind the scenes between john bolten and mick mulvaney brought to life in newly leased transcripts and alluded to in a letter from john bolton's laurs to lawmakers teasing all that he knows about including many relevant meetings that haven't been discussed in the impeachment inquiry as well. somebody who has been in the inner sanctum of the white house is anthony scaramucci, if only for a few days. he is now amongst the president's most vocal critics. we will get into michael bloomberg's play to enter the presidential race. why? >>> and a new book, a warning about the president and the reviews are out and new excerpts are available today. >>> joining me, john lemire, catherine mangu-ward, don calloway. the impeachment inquiry will be televised starting next week. it goes public in just a few days with televised hearings after 110 hours of closed door testimony. in the latest treasure trophy of transcripts released on frooip vinman tells lawmakers there was no doubt president trump sought a quid pro quo. he and fiona hill also implemented mick mulvaney the acting w

think it's worth it to spend more time -- >> to hear from a john bolten and do a more extensive investigationat is -- that looks like how they're proceeding. >> nancy pelosi seemed to be kind of opening the door or at least discussing other charges from the mueller report? >> right. she did. she seemed to be today, curious to me. she seemed to be broadening her reach a little bit, and she also seemed to be broadening her messaging, which was, it's not quid pro quo complicated for people to understand much more simple, it's bribery. this is clearly what year heal from democrats over and over again now. it's bribery. we know because adam schiff said it over and over again. every time you have somebody refusing to testify for us we're going to add it to obstruction charges believing it's obstructive and she made the case every democrat has said, talking hearsay guys and say the whistle-blower is hearsay, you not getting the whistle-blower but be you want firsthand knowledge what the president said bring those people up before us to testify anytime. we'll take them. >> departure from quid pro quo

. >>> former national security adviser nate boulton is bolt john bowl ten is bolten is scheduled to testimony today. it appears democrats and republicans have different intrepgsz of the testimony they've heardintrepgsz the testimony they have heard so far. >> i think you will see the most important facts are largely not contested. >> testimony that we're hearing today is getting easier to defend the president from a standpoint there is no link age between aid -- >>> now the public televised hearings are set for next wednesday and friday. >>> all right, pam, time is 5:10 still ahead. he says he looks at life in a whole new way. we hear from a man that was pulled off a train tracks seconded before a train almost killed him. >>> and facebook in trouble again with the california lawmakers. still ahead what the attorney general is requesting from mark zuckerberg. >>> and fog may make it tough to see as you drive in the east bay. fog is an issue in oakland and all over the bay plus we have a crash on highway 4. we want to update you on that. >>> while i'm requesting rain but mother nature is not li

john bolton. >> ambassador bolton abruptly meded the meeting. >> reporter: over the two weeks ep hearings, his name kept coming up. >> ambassador bolten had looked pained. >> this drug deal, as bolton called it. >> reporter: john bolton broke a lto-month silence today, wnnouncing that his twitter tccount had just been liberated after being suppressed unfairly in the aftermath of his resignation as national security adviser. in a series of cryptic tweets, e suggested the white house had done it out of fear. >> so did you guys freeze his account? t? no, of course not. of course not. ig reporter: bolton, who recently signed a $2 million book deal, skipped out on his gzpeachment deposition, even as his lawyer suggested bolton was personally involved in many relevant meetings and conversations that have not yet been discussed. but house democrats say they may already have enough evidence that president trump pressured ukraine to investigate his ampaign rival, joe biden. >> it was inappropriate. >> was there a quid pro quo? the answer is yes. >> reporter: the house intelligence committee, which held the hearings, will now spend the thanksgiving recess

john bolton. nbc's tracie potts joins us now from washington, d.c tracie, do we expect ambassador bolten and these folks to actually testify >> so the other folks, dom, probably not bolton a wild card because through his attorney he suggested that he won't show up without a subpoena 11 trump administration officials are scheduled to testify in the impeachment inquiry this week. four of them today most are political appointees not expected to show up as the white house refuses to cooperate. >> i think this week is going to be a big disappointment for those looking for new evidence. >> reporter: john bolton could be the exception the former national security adviser who reportedly had issues with president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani directing ukraine policy bolton's attorney has suggested he'll only testify under subpoena >> it's really up to the lawyers. i like john bolton i always got along with him, but that's going to be up to the lawyers. >> the white house telling people that under their employ you can't show up doesn't apply to john bolton. >> reporter: the whistle-blowers offeri

john bolton who was her boss. it is also through hill that we get all of bolton's colorful commentary, it was bolten,on, accordinghill, that said he wanted to part of the drug deal. it is bolton that said giuliani was a hand grenade that would blow everyone up. and another witness saying he raised red flags twice after listening to the call and after a july 10th meeting at the white house where gordon sondland was talking to ukrainian officials. these are two key witnesses. si vi vindm vindman is willing to testify. we have greg brouwer who is a form former affairs office member. thank you for joining me, greg, we mention thad 11 people have been called to testify who have not complied. what are the chances that maybe some of them would come forward in the public portion? are they needed to help make the case by franly the democrats? >> chris, don't think that we will see witness who's have been summoned and some subpoenaed, but who have not shown up appear during the public hearings. i don't think they believe their testimony is needed at this point. the cumulative evidence from the witnesses that have cooperate