paul rosenzweig, your thoughts? guest: well, it is very difficult for me because -- and he is an old and dear friend. i worked for him. i think he was deeply and unfairly maligned by president clinton at the time. i continue to believe that the actions he took, that i took while working with him in investigating president clinton were proper and appropriate. that having been said, most of what he just said is unfortunately not really persuasive, and in some cases wrong. for example, the house rules do not require a vote of impeachment. so his structural point is in error. the house has in fact proceeded without a formal vote of impeachment. it is many of the judges that have been impeached. he is correct that there have been 63 impeachments and only eight impeachment -- eight convictions per that is because many resign. that is a meeting -- eight convictions. that is because many resign. most notably, if the standard is that there shouldn't -- that you shouldn't proceed with an impeachment inquiry unless you are cer

paul rosenzweig gets tonight's last word, and that word is "idiot." ank you, paul, for joining us once again. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. that is tonight's "the last word". "the 11th hour with brian williams" starts now. insider now plans to tell all she knows about the arms for dirt deal, including that phone call where the president asked for a favor. >>> plus another scene out of the movies. two guys get arrested at the ut airport, trying to skip the country on one-way tickets resulting in this mug shot. in real lives, they're connected to rudy giuliani.he >>> in the meantime, trump goesi after the whistle-blower again. the democrats have now bl subpoenaed a cabinet member and think of it, all of these stories have to do with one thing, ukraine. the story that is now encircling the president as "the 11th hour" on a thursday night gets under way. >> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 994 of the trump administration, and just as the president was about to hold his first rally since this impea

paul rosenzweig, your thoughts?: well, it is very difficult for me because -- and he is an old and dear friend. i worked for him. i think he was deeply and unfairly maligned by president clinton at the time. i continue to believe that the actions he took, that i took while working with him in investigating president clinton were proper and appropriate. that having been said, most of what he just said is unfortunately not really persuasive, and in some cases wrong. for example, the house rules do not require a vote of impeachment. so his structural point is in error. the house has in fact proceeded without a formal vote of impeachment. it is many of the judges that have been impeached. he is correct that there have been 63 impeachments and only eight impeachment -- eight convictions per that is because many resign. that is a meeting -- eight convictions. that is because many resign. mostotably, if the standard is that there shouldn't -- that you shouldn't proceed with an impeachment inquiry unless you are certain the

paul rosenzweig gets tonight's last word, and that word is "idiot." thank you, paul, for joining us once again. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. that is tonight's "the last word". "the 11th hour with brian williams" starts now. >>> tonight the floodgates open a bit wider as a white house insider plans to tell all she knows about the arms for dirt deal, including that phone call where the president asked for a favor. >>> plus another scene out of the movies. two guys get arrested at the airport, try to skip the country on one-way tickets resulting in this mug shot. in real lives, they're connected to rudy giuliani. >>> in the meantime, trump goes after the whistle-blower again. the democrats have now subpoenaed a cabinet member and think of it. all of these stories have to do with one thing, ukraine. the story that is now encircling the president as "the 11th hour" on a thursday night gets under way. >> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 994 of the trump administration, and just as the president was

about what has happened and it makes you believe the truth of what they said even more all right paul rosenzweig we thank you very much for joining us on the al-jazeera news hour. well the european council president has warned boris johnson not to play games this is the deadline for bracks it inches closer with no sign of a deal on the u.k.'s departure on tuesday the british prime minister held a quote frank exchange with the german chancellor angela merkel and british media are quoting an unnamed downing street source who says merkel made it clear that a deal was overwhelmingly unlikely following that call donald tusk sent a tweet to johnson warning him not to play a stupid blame game saying the future if europe and the u.k. was at stake the news that talks are close to breaking down word investors and sent the british pound to a one month low let's bring in lawrence lees joining us from london so it looks like the u.k. government has given up on the deal lawrence. well they they they certainly want it to be seen that they're playing hardball with the europeans i mean the european points of vie