william barr, you'll be talking about with my colleague pete williams as well. the president pushing back today, saying that the whistle-blower has, quote, secondhand information, and that the information is wrong. but we heard overnight the inspector general saying a rare rebuke, saying this was not secondhand information and he was able to deem it credible in less than 14 days. >> thanks so much, peter. i want to show part of that letter from pompeo that we just received today as he's an in italy. he posted this on twitter. i have also been made aware that committee staff has been sending intimidating communications to career department professionals. let me be clear, i will not tolerate such tactics and will use all means to protect the professionals whom i lead. anne gearan, that includes the ousted ambassador to ukraine, marie i don't have to yovanovit scheduled to be deposed tomorrow. is she not going to cooperate with house intel tomorrow? >> we don't know what her goal is here or her level of interest or willingness to appear before the committee. it's a

pete williams, nbc news, washington >>> tonight mexico's presiden is defending the aborted mission to capture the son of a notorious imprisoned drug king "el chapo" after a deadly gun battle broke out in the streets. we get more from miguel almaguer. >> reporter: the fire fight exploded on the streets in the city. mexican military out gunned by a drug cartel with families caught in the crossfire. just before the bloodshed spilled into the streets, mexico commandos stormed a home cornering guzman lopez, the son of "el chapo" but the 28-year-old, one of the heirs of the sinaloa cartel, would soon be released. as authorities took on a relentless counter attack resembling a war zone, cartel members in black masks fired machine guns onto the street. people running for cover as vehicles erupted in flames. dozens of inmates escaping in the chaos. forcing mexican security forces to retreat. mexico's president says the capture of a criminal cannot be worth more than people's lives this decision was made to protect citizens. tonight at least eight are dead and dozens injured and "el chapo's" so

if the supreme court agrees, that protection would apply nationwide lester >> all right pete williams at the supreme court tonight, thanks. heart tack, senator bernieered a sanders talked about his health today. the democratic presidential candidate said he should have paid more attention to the warning signs. >> i must confess i was dumb i should have listened to the symptoms so if there is any message that i hope we can get out there is that i want people to pay attention to their symptoms. >> and we're going hear much more from senator sanders in an exclusive sit-down interview with our own harry smith that's tomorrow right here on "nbc nightly news. >>> in dallas, the suspect is in custody and police are searching for two more men in the killing of a witness who testified in the murder trial of former dallas police officer amber guyger our morgan chesky is in dallas >> reporter: tonight a multi-state manhunt to find the man police say murdered joshua brown. >> these suspects are to be considered dangerous because they're armed. >> reporter: authorities issuing capital murder arres

nbc justice correspondent pete williams has a preview >> reporter: in one of the term's most important cases, the supreme court will decide what's to become of daca. >> the dreamers united we'll never be defeated. >> reporter: the obama-era program that lets children of undocumented migrants stay in the u.s. iunde16 when parents brought them here it covers 700,000 young people, including claudia, a college student who came here as a young girl with her mother from bolivia. >> daca truly changed my life. you know, i have a social numb. i have the ability to work i have the ability to contribute and pay taxes. >> reporter: president trump tried to shut daca down but lower courts blocked the move. in another high-profile case, the justices will decide whether existing federal law makes it illegal to fire employees because they are gay, lesbian, or transgender this man lost his job. >> i lost my livelihood, my source of income, medical insurance. >> reporter: the question, does the civil rights law that bans sex discrimination also apply to sexual orientation the law will decide whether st

pete williams, nbc news, supreme court. >>> simone biles is making history again, the olympic phenom wowed the crowd with two moves that have never been done before. and, get this, each of those new moves are going to be called the biles, which may get more confusing to future gymnasts because four different moves have that same title. anne thompson has more. >> reporter: what a way to open. >> there she goes. and there it is. she's done it! triple twisting double. >> the incomparable simone biles, flying into history in her first tumbling path, landing two moves that will bear the biles name. the first, twisting two times while doing two flips in mid air, now officia known as the biles 2 in gymnastics competition. the next on the balance beam. >> back flip. there it is. that's the biles. >> two somersaults, two rotations bouncing off a four-inch wide platform with two moves already named for her, one on the vault at last year's world's and this on floor exercise. >> double layout with a half twist also known as the biles. >> reporter: in germany the minute the 22-year-old walked int

i expect to be okay next term. >> pete williams, nbc news at the supreme court. >>> just days after a former dallas police officer amber guyger was sentenced to ten years in prison for killing botham jean in his own apartment, police are searching for the killer of joshua brown brown lived across the hall and testified in the murder trial. brown was found shot multiple times in a parking lot here is nbc's morgan chesney >> we can take a moment. we're not in rush. okay >> yeah, i need a moment. >> reporter: in the murder trial watched by millions, joshua brown one of the few able to describe the moments before amber guyger shot and killed their neighbor, botham jean. >> how soon after this did you hear the sound of gunshots >> after. >> right after >> right after. >> it was quick? >> quick. apartment complex after someone shot brown multiple times and drove off. witnesses reported a silver sedan speeding out of a parking lot. soon after in a nearby hospital, joshua brown was pronounced dead the shooting in the aterra apartments six miles from where brown lived last year when he heard t

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and i would predict that's probably what they'll try. >> nbc's pete williams. thank you very much for bringing us breaking news. as soon as we hit a commercial break i will text the president's attorneys and see how they plan to respond. our team is working on that. also checking in on a response, i want to bring in the top democrat on the foreign relations committee. bob menendez. are you for being on the show. >> good to be with you. >> we want to talk to you about syria. i have to start with the series of developments that we have heard this morning. let me start with what we just heard from pete williams, what appears to be a win for democrats in getting the president's financial records. are you confident that democrats will prevail if this were to go to the supreme court? >> they should. at the end of the day this is a fundamental test of our constitution. it's clear in my mind also as a member of the senate finance committee that access to these documents is totally a legitimate request of the congress. and so they should prevail at the end of the day. t

nbc news justice correspondent pete williams is in our washington newsroom with more. the national emergency to build a border wall? >> right, this is the action the president took earlier this year after congress failed to give him all the money he wanted for border wall along the texas, mexico border. today a federal judge in texas declared the president's efforts to take money for the border wall violate the law, that he's using money that congress didn't authorize. he says that because this emergency proclamation seeks money for the border wall in violation of the law, it is unlawful. now, the judge, this is a lawsuit that was filed, one of the first challenges to the emergency declaration, el paso county, texas, and border network for human rights are the ones that filed the lawsuit. the judge doesn't say in his ruling today what must happen now. he is asking the parties that filed the suit, el paso county and border network to file a preliminary injunction. i have given you ten days. tell me what you want me to forbid the government to do. as a result of the rulin

joining me now, pete williams and alma adams. nificance of it is that the court said this is a partisan gerrymander. base clay what the state did is draw the maps to maximize the number of republicans and keep the incumbents in office. ten republicans and three democrats. this was one of the most transparent partisan jerry mohannaders in the country and the republicans who did this made no secret of it. they said the only reason we didn't make it any worse was because we couldn't figure out how to do it. what the complaint here was as the phrases go pack iing and cracking. take the democrat, jam them into a small a number of districts as possible then take the rest and sprinkle them out so they can never form a majority. the real interesting thing about this is that the people who challenged the district in here tried this r very same thing in the u.s. support and in june, they said you know what, federal courts aren't confidence enough to decide how much politics is too much so r forpartisan i gerrymandering claims because you ca

joining me now, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, how did this come up?hy did it come up? >> well, of course it came up, it was raised actually by a lawyer for cyrus vance. now, this was a hearing before a three-judge panel of the 2nd circuit court of appeals. this is a fight over a subpoena issued by the d.a.'s office for two things, for eight years of records in president trump's accounting firm and about three years' worth of records from the trump organization. the d.a. is investigating whether any laws were broken in the hush money payments that were paid to the two women who claimed to have sexual relations with donald trump before he was elected, a claim that he has denied. so what the position of the trump lawyers is, he is immune from the criminal process. now, a lawyer for the district attorney said, well, that can't possibly be true. if the president were to shoot someone on 5th avenue, surely he could be questioned, he could be arrested, maybe he could even be charged. and this is an issue that no court has ever actually decided. there are man

justice correspondent pete williams joins me now to put the whole thing in perspective. a deal is this. >> we'll see. we'll see how this shakes out. this is clearly not the last chapter in the book. here was the fight, ali, michael cohen testified before congress that president trump sometimes inflated the size of his assets, sometimes reduced them, depending on his needs. trying to get insurance or getting taxes reduced. they say his congressional ethics forums, wanted to know if he was accurately filling them out because of that, and secondly, cohen said the president wrote a check to reimburse him for hush money payments, and that that was not reflected on the financial disclosure form. in other words, congress said we need these accounting forms to see whether president trump is accurately filling out his ethics forms. his lawyers said that's not a legislative purpose, and that's your only authority for issuing subpoenas is a legislative purpose. but today the appeals court in a 2-1 decision said congress has authority to seek the documents. the dissenting judge was

our peen pete williams joins us now with more. pete, lay this out.ow strong is the president's argument here? >> reporter: so the argument is about over here and let me just tell you what's at stake. first of all, what does the district attorney in manhattan want? there are so subpoenas here. one was direct to the president's accounting firm, the other to the trump organization for three years' worth of records from the organization, and then trump-related business records, eight years of those. and what trump's lawyers have said here and the argument that was rejected by the trial court, is that a president is absolutely immune from indictment, and that means really anything to do with the criminal process. so they say that he's not subject to this subpoena which was issued by a grand jury, which is part of the criminal justice system. i think it's fair to say that the three judges on this panel of the second circuit that are hearing oral arguments are treating both side with a certain amount of respect here, knowing that they're going into an area

pete williams is joining us.es go back to 1964 and whether gay rights should be covered. >> reporter: title vii made it illegal to discriminate on race, national origin, religion and sex. and the e question now is does that also include transgender status. and arguing for a man who was fired in georgia after he joined a guy softball team says yes, this is sex discrimination because he was fired as being a manda dating other men whereas woman dating other men would not have been fired. so that is the basis of the argument saying yes title vii does cover sexual orientation. the trump administration says no it didn'oesn't, that when congr passed the act 55 years ago, sexual orientation was not on anyone's mind and a majority of the court seemed to agree with that, but ruth bader ginsburg said also that nobody was thinking that it covered sexual harassment and ultimately the court said it did. so the best hope for the people to get the supreme court to rule this way, and that is that reading of the law, a reading of

nbc justice correspondent pete williams joins me now. this indictment a big surprise today. there are court appearances coming up shortly. what more do we know? >> reporter: they were arrested, as you say, at dulles airport, on their way to take a flight outside the united states. federal officials say that's why the arrests were made last night. this investigation has been going on since three of the february. attorney general william barr has been briefed on it and is supportive of the investigation. in addition to the ones you noted, andrea, they gave a total of $373,700 illegally. the two pacs that you mentioned. the government also says $2,700 to former texas republican congressman pete sessions, seeking his help in getting the ambassador recalled. $11,000 to another fundraising committee. a total of $20,000 to two candidates in nevada to state political candidates in their efforts with two other people who were also charged today to try to set up a business to sell marijuana in states where it's legal to sell and consume. so those are the charges. they'll appear on the

pete williams, nbc nuews at the supreme court. >> a lot of monumental decisions to be made over thisext term. >>> still ahead, reporting that gop senator ron johnson winced when he heard ukraine aid was being tied to the investigation of the bidens. >>> former secretary of state collin powell has a message for the republican party, get a grip. those stories and more coming up. . >>> welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. a second whistle-blower has come forward with information about president trump's phone call with the president of ukraine. while attorneys say this new whistle-blower has firsthand knowledge of the events, the white house is dismissing it. >> we get the very latest from nbc news white house correspondent kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: good morning, the whistle-blower whose story led to the impeachment inquiry is getting some backup. lawyers for that cia employee tell me they are now representing, quote, multiple whistle-blowers. they wouldn't be more specific about the number, except to say it's at least two. a second witness is ch

nbc justice correspondent pete williams covers the high court for us, joins me now from outside the supremert. pete, tell us what happened. >> reporter: well, the court, as you say, wiped out a ruling from a three-judge panel in april that had declared the map that was drawn by republicans for state house, state senate and congressional district boundaries in michigan to be an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. the court said there was no doubt that republicans were rigging the system to perpetuate republican reelection in those districts and disadvantaging democrats. and they ordered the state to redraw the maps and actually hold a special election next year for the state senate, state senators serve four-year terms there. but today the supreme court wiped that ruling off the books and frankly this was not a big surprise. here's why. the three-judge panel issued its ruling in april but then in june of this year the supreme court said that these questions about partisan gerrymandering are really off limits for the federal courts, that it's beyond the authority of judges to decide in ess

that's what barr is interested in looking into. >> pete williams, thank you. geoff bennett, thank you. hans nichols there at the white house. please keep us posted. let me bring in felipe reines former deputy assistant secretary of state and former hillary clinton spokesman. kimberly atkins, washington news correspondent for wbr, also an msnbc contributor oop. kimberly, rudy giuliani, what are your sources telling you? is the white house in any universe want rudy giuliani to testify? >> no. it's for obvious reasons, we've seen him in his performances on television, and he raises a great deal of concern there, but the issue is, it's hard to see how he doesn't. as you've pointed out, the investigation has changed now where stonewalling and trying to put up various defenses of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege just for the sake of dragging this out will no longer work anymore. there will be a swift and very real consequence to that which will be an article of impeachment. so having him, rudy giuliani, who is at the center of this entire ukrainian q

here is nbc's pete williams. >> reporter: it's one of the enduring images of world war ii as u.s. marines storm the island of iwo jima, six raise the american flag on the highest point. that moment captured by an a.p. photographer became a moral boost back home and the inspiration for the u.s. marine corps memorial one of the surviving marines, private first class posed for the sculpture and took part but the marines say he was not one of the six in the photo. the man thought to be him was corporal herald p. keller. the man on the backside of the flag pole. the mistake was discovered by armature historians. >> it's important to remember this is someone's grandfather and great grandfather and it's important we get history correct. >> reporter: he was at iwo jima and brought up the big flag and revved a smaller one used in an earlier flag raising there. >> this is keller, a square jaw there. >> reporter: among the telltale evidence it was keller, distinctive element and shirt collar outside his jacket and the way he carried ammunition, corporal keller's daughter says it's a big surp

pete williams joins us from the supreme court with more on today's arguments. teresting argument, pete. interesting in that it is not talking about whether somebody is gay or straight, it's talking about whether as a man or woman who might be gay or straight are you treated differently than someone of the opposite sex. >> reporter: yeah, the question is does title 7, that makes it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sex include orientation. the courts seemed divided between the conservatives and liberals. conservatives say clearly congress didn't have sexual orientation on its mind 55 years ago when it passed title 7 of the civil rights act, and president johnson signed it. and neil gorsuch said it may created social upheaval to rule it does. but justice gorsuch seemed sympathetic to the notion, you can't take the sex out of sexual orientation. that's what lower courts that ruled in favor of plaintiffs are saying, that's departure from the way the courts ruled the past five decades or so. they recently said yes, sexual orientation is covered by title 7 by th

joining us now, nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams, and former assistant watergate special jill with us. >> right here in person. not in a studio. great to have you here. pete, let's start with you. when do we expect to see the first public hearings for the house intelligence committee, which would be the next step? >> i don't know. i think they don't know that yet, either. some of this, you know, some of this is still in court, for example. they want to hear from cupperman, the national security council staffer. he has sued both the house and the white house saying, what am i supposed to do? i've got this house subpoena that i'm supposed to testify, but the white house has exerted executive privilege and said i'm forbidden to testify. so, judge, you tell me, which is going to happen. the judge, by the way, will have a scheduling hearing on that this afternoon. but i think all that's going to do is ask for written briefs to try to make that decision. there's lots of this stuff still in court. there's an appeal now on whether the house judiciary committee can actually get th

i want to bring in nbc news justice correspondent pete williams and elizabeth holtman who voted to impeach president richard nixon when she served on the house judiciary committee. she is the author of "the case for impeaching trump." pete, let me start with you. the house, in theory, then votes on it. and if they vote, it's a simple majority required in favor of impeachment. the president is impeached. but what does that mean? >> it simply means that he's been charged by congress with an impeachable offense and then there would be a trial in the senate on whether to convict the president. if -- that -- that's a simple majority in the house to impeach. the senate conviction would require a two-thirds vote of all those senators present. and if that were to happen, then the president would immediately be removed from office. the vice president would take over. and then someone else would be confirmed by both houses of congress to be the vice president. that's -- none of those things have ever happened except the part about putting somebody in as vice president. that happened when richard nix

pete williams, thanks for that. we appreciate it. >>> happening right now here in washington, four democratic presidential candidates are making their pitch for the same voters. the left leaning jewish advocacy group holding its annual conference. pete buttigieg who you see on stage right now, talking to members of the pro-israel group that supports a two-state solution in the middle east. later on today, julian castro, bernie sanders will address them. jared kushner is visiting israel to work on peace negotiations. so who is not at j street? joe biden. the former vp is making m headlines this weekend, dealing with his son hunter aidan beeps dealings with ukraine. >> he says the only thing you said to him was i hope you know what you're doing. >> i said i hope you thought this knew, i hope you knew what you're doing here. i never discussed my business or their business, my sons or daughters, and i've never discussed them because they know i have to do my job and that's it. and they have to make their own judgments.

here's pete williams >> reporter: it's one of the endurings of world war ii as they stormed th leat cantured first class posed for the sculptorer and took part in bomb drives after the war. but it turns out he was not one of the six in the iconic photo the man thought to be him was actually corporal keller the mistake was discan covered by amateur historians who spent years figuring out who actually raised the flag. >> this is someone's grandfather. this is it going to be omeone' great grandfather and it's important we get hist rae correct. >> reporter: he was at uwajimaya. he brought up the big flag raised in the photo >> this is harold can kellerer kind of a square jaw >> reporter: among the tel evidence, distinctiveb creases on his helmet, his shirt collar outside his jacket and the way he carried ammunition. >> it gives you an amazing -- i get emotional here it gives you an amazing feeling that i just can't describe to look up and think whoa, that's my dad >> reporter: three years ago the historians discoved the man second from the left in the photo was also misidentified the muarene cor

new term does existing law protect lgbtq employees on the job here is our justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: with pro-gay rights demonstrators spilling out into the street in front of the court -- [ crowd chanting ] >> reporter: the justices heard the case of gerald bostock, fired from a county job in georgia after joining a gay softball league. >> i lost my livelihood, my source of income i lost my medical insurance. i was still recovering from prostate cancer. >> reporter: he sued but lower courts threw his case out. >> the civil rights act of 1964 -- >> reporter: they ruled that the 1964 civil rights act signed by president johnson, which bans job discrimination on the basis of race and sex, among other factors, does not cover sexual orientation. bostock's lawyer says firing someone for being gay is discrimination based on sex. >> and you can't think about a person's sexual orientation without thinking about his sex, right? a gay man is only a gay man if he is a man attracted to other men. >> reporter: the court als heard the case of aimee stephens, fired after she told her

so today's ruling, while it's certainly bad news for the challengers, is no surprise. >> pete williams, great to you. appreciate that. we've got a lot more ahead, including a new poll just out this morning, showing one of the trailing 2020 democrats surging to the top tier in iowa after last week's debate. we'll have more on that. plus several more trump administration officials set to testify this week in the impeachment inquiry. including the top u.s. diplomat to ukraine who called the quid pro quo over military assistance crazy. congressman jerry conley, a member of the oversight committee is live with us next to talk about it. i've been plotting to destroy you. sizing you up... calculating your every move. you think this is love? this is a billion years of tiger dna just ready to pounce. and if you have the wrong home insurance coverage, you could be coughing up the cash for this. so get allstate and be better protected from mayhem, like me-ow. fidelity has zero commissions for online u.s. equity trades and etfs, plus zero minimums to open a brokerage account. with value like this,

justice correspondent pete williams has a look at what we can expect. >> reporter: in one of the term's important cases the supreme court will decide what's to become of daca. >> the dreamers united will never be defeated. >> the obama era program that lets children of undocumented migrants stay in the u.s. if they were under 16 when their parents brought them here. it now covers more than 700,000 young people, including claudia quinones, a college student who came as a young girl with her mother from bolivia. >> daca traininged my life. i have a social security number, the ability to work and contribute and pay taxes. >> reporter: president trump tried to shut daca down but lower courts blocked the move. in another high profile case the justices will decide whether existing federal law makes it illegal to fire employees because they're gay, lesbian or transgender. gerald lost his county job after joining a gay softball league. >> i was fired for being gay. i lost everything. i lost my livelihood. i lost my source of income. i lost my medical insurance. >> reporter: the question, does t

pete williams. >>> today pope francis talks about the opening mass and hundreds of cardinals and bishopsthere. francis urged them to shake up for the status quo and do more to care for the rain forest and the indigenous tribe were also today. coming up, use your phone for a lot of things, could those apps be putting your information at risk? we'll explain that. >>> the apps on your phone can access your number and e-mail address and your precise location. what happens when that data goes beyond the app you signed up for to third party company. vickie nguyen reports on how some of your apps are collecting personal data and tracking your every move. >> reporter: your smartphone is constantly in action even when you are not using it. the app on your phone can access your number and e-mail address and precise location tracking information about you to build a profile. what was when that data goes beyond the app you signed up for to third party tracking company? >> your phone is sending this extra data to these people that you don't know exist. >> reporter: patrick jackson is the chief techno

they were arrested last night in dulles airport according to reporting from myself, pete williams ande arrested in -- at dulles, they had an dooimts filed under seal for the u.s. attorney's office in manhattan. those charges and documents should be unsealed shortly and we believe they're going to be charged with campaign finance violations. the two men have given to republican candidates and causes including the trump campaign and pro trump super pac. >> specifically support giuliani in trying to go after joe biden? >> giuliani is a little bit -- is a little bit separate from this. according to reporting from my colleague ken, they were apparently involved boasting about their connection to the trump campaign n discussions about issues in ukraine and on top of that, they had serious reservations about the former ambassador to ukraine who as we now all know was relieved of her duties. >> before we go. foreign born. i'm guessing not denmark. >> probably not denmark. we need to find out what their nationality is. it's illegal as you and i have discussed somebody who is a foreign national

pete williams who covers the supreme court joins us now. the biggest cases you're watching and interested in this term? >> the ones you just mentioned. starting with the title 7 case tomorrow. title 7 of the civil rights act of 1964 which prohibits job discrimination on that familiar list of race, national, origin and sex and the question is, does that also cover sexual orientation and transgender status. the court will hear three cases on that term. the lower courts have been divided on this for about 50 years the lower courts said, no, it doesn't. then in the last couple years, the lower courts, the courts of appeals have started to say, yes, you can't consider sexual orientation without considering sex. now, this is one of the high profile cases of the term. i would ask dave just to pan over. these are people camping out. some starting yesterday to hear this argument that won't start until tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. the court will hear those cases tomorrow and then next month the court takes up another high-profile case, daca. the program fo

. >> pete williams with that great reporting. pete, thank you. we're going to head down to capitol hill now where nbc's jeff bennett is posted. since we talked just about 24 hours ago there's been a lot of stuff that has come out about secretary of state mike pompeo. what pete just discussed related to the attorney general, how is this all playing out where you are? >> reporter: i'll tell you, hallie. house democrats haven't really fully digested all of the reporting around the pompeo issue. what we're focused on primarily right now is the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani. house democrats are adding more deadlines and depositions to the docket. you've got the house intelligence committee in consultation with the house oversight and foreign affairs committees yet subpoenaing rudy giuliani for any documents he might have regarding his communications with ukraine. now, rudy giuliani over the course of his colorful tv appearances over the last couple of weeks has acknowledged that he has the text messages, he has the evidence that democrat

our own pete williams, you can see his byline is keeping an eye on this.r sources are saying. alex sytes is here. we're talking about the whistle-blower's attorney, right? >> that's right. mark zade, a fascinating guy. his home looks like the outside of any other home outside washington, d.c. from the inside he runs what has to be one of the more unusual legal practices. he's carved out this niche with whistle-blowers, journalists, even a comic book agent. he's now representing the whistle-blower at the hard of this case that kicked off the whole impeachment inquiry. he got into this work through a very unusual way. he was interested in kennedy assassination, conspiracy theories and interested in debunking some of them. met a guy who worked for the intelligence agency. he's done all these hoe profile cases from the lockerbie bombings, princess diana, the diplomats in cuba with health issues, benghazi and now the biggest case of his career. >> that's fascinating. i want to encourage people to head over to nbc news to chikt out. alex seitz-wald, thanks for j

here is how pete williams described that ruling.dge ruled friday that president donald trump violated federal law when he used his declaration of a national emergency. trump also today lost in three other federal courts in three different states where judges blocked his attempt to overhaul immigration policy so only immigrants with lots of money would be let in. trump lost his wall today. he also lost on that immigration change today, too, three times over. and none of those rulings i just described today are about impeachment directly. but on the taxes one, the president has a couple of really big problems now here. separate and apart from getting one step closer to having to hand over his taxes, which he seems desperate to not do. he's lost all of the federal cases. he's lost all of those at the district level so far. now he's lost his first one at the appeals level as well. he will try the supreme court eventually, but this has not gone well for him. and even today it was two judges that voted essentially against the president an

here's how nbc news's pete williams described.d friday that president trump violated federal law when he used his national declaration of an emergency to get a wall. he lost in three different states where judges blocked his attempt to over hall immigration policy so only immigrants with lots of money will be allowed in. trump lost his wall today. he also lost on that immigration change today three times over. and none of those rulings i just described today are about impeachment directly. but on the taxes one, this appeals court one, the president has a couple of really big problems separate and apart from getting one step closer from having to hand over his taxes which he seems desperate to not do. he's lost all of the federal cases and all of those at the district level. now he's lost his first that appeal''s level. he'll presumably try to the supreme court eventually but this has not gone well for him. two judges ran against the president and one trump-appointed judge who voted in his fav. but even her descent was terrible for

pete williams, our justice correspondent to talk all things justice. jeff, let's start with you and the news just breaking in the last few minutes, the change to the schedule, nothing tomorrow, but walk us through what we know. >> so, in just the last five minutes or so, chuck, our team has learned from two committee adds that marie yavanovich, he's postponeing her appearance. speaking to the joint house intellige intelligent, oversight and foreign affairs committee. she's saying she will appear to appear next friday, october 11th. that is the agreement between the committees and her counsel. we should be clear. that is her specific counsel, not the state department counsel. kurt volker, who was scheduled to appear thursday, rather, now confirms that, yes, he will appear on thursday, as was planned. our previous reporting on this was that he resigned abruptly last friday after the whistle-blower complaint was made public, in part because he wanted to be able to speak more freely to congress. so, there are five current and former state department offici

well, there is a new development in just the last couple of moments and that is our colleague pete williams reports that a decision on whether charles kupperman will have to testify, again, he is the deputy to john bolton when they were here serving the president in the national security space. that won't come for at least a month. so that is according to peach reporting that there will be another hearing in december. so if we were expecting to have some quick resolution on some of the most high-profile names, we won't be getting it. >> let me ask you. kelly, let me pause you there. is the white house happy to have this stuff dragged out? or do they want to see this stuff resolved so they know what they're dealing with? >> in a larger way, they have been really arguing on their actions for dragging it out. in part, because the closer it gets to what is exactly the election year 2020, the easier it is to fashion this as being purely political instead of an inherently political process because impeachment is, by definition, a political solution to a problem. and that is, in part, what the whi

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pete king from new york, great to have you with us tonight. you have weighed in on the characterization of what william barr is up to and how things are portrayed in the media. i want to reuse something from matthew miller who used to be eric holder's spokesperson at the doj under the obama administration and he says one thing about this investigation to personally oversee. what is the predicate? there's never been a credible allegation that a crime was committed, your response? >> there was never a credible accusation by the trump organization, the trump campaign and get the justice department and jim comey began an investigation of the trump campaign. they are real issues as to why the fbi and cia were involved in the investigation of the trump campaign, was this a coming together to have an investigation of the presidential campaign. when you look at carter page, or an advisor application in the steel dossier all of which were the genesis of the 2016 investigation by comey and all of them. to me it is a necessity. i have great respect for attorney general william barr but i don't care who the attorn

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magazine, they push those reviews and cultivated pete hamill to embrace this book for a couple of months before it came out. magazine. playboy if robin williams was here, he does this hysterical rest for he pulls out a medicine bag and is the sacred object, which is this playboy magazine. i want to second what robert said earlier. play by was at this moment a place where some pretty intense political writing actually took place. in this 19 sick the five interview with martin luther king was on for pages and pages. whoghly commended to anyone is interested in king's legacy. it was incredibly revealing. and king speaks extemporaneously on this. these playboy interviews would take place over several days. what they said is that they want to break down the subject, past the august things they say, and then get them to say other kinds of things which are axley more interesting. you can see -- which are actually more interesting. there's an incredible interview with ramsey clark, attorney general at the time. you firstwhen did find playboy. for me it was my neighbor buck way onho was just on the monroe street. a working class guy who worked at coor

like you heard from mayor pete -- this is jerry nadler and adam schiff, these reports if true raise profound new concerns of the department of justice under attorney general williamnce and has become a vehicle for president trump's political revenge. if the department of justice may be used as a tool for potential retribution or to help the president with the political narrative for the next election, the rule of law will suffer new and irreparable damage" a lot of reaction to that statement. former white house press secretary ari fleischer, leslie marshall democratic strategist and jonah goldberg editor in chief of the dispatch. it's interesting to hear some of the reaction -- we don't even know all of the things that are in these investigations but there are some organizations that have reported on them from the beginning. >> political investigations, congress always runs political investigations. but when an investigation particularly a criminal one begins in the department of justice, it is always serious. i remind you, under william barr, this is the same department of justice that just indicted two of rudy giuliani's close associates that may intentionallpo

. >> so pete sessions, who by the way, is the son of a former fbi director who served in the fbi. >> yes, william sessions. >> was appointed by reagan. was there through the entire bush xli presidency until bill clinton replaced him with louis freeh. so this congressman is the son of a former fbi director, why isn't he being charged? >> well, i think one of the things -- if you receive donations, there has to be a quid pro quo, chuck. >> is the letter the evidence of the quid pro quo or not? >> you know, chuck, i would need to go back and double czeheck t indictment papers and double check with the case here, because it's not -- you know, if you were running for office and i said, you know, chuck, i'm going to donate to your campaign, but i've got a real issue with sewers on the street that i live on here in manhattan, do you mind taking a look into that or talking to some people on the hill and see what we can do about it? it's kind of a situation where that wouldn't be a direct quid pro quo. if i said, chuck, i'm trying to build a skyscraper here in manhattan and i'm going to give you some mone

they cultivated pete hamill to embrace the book for a couple months before it even came out. so here is the "playboy" magazine. if rob williams was here, he would do this riff where he pulls out a medicine bag and the object which is the "playboy" magazine. i just want to second what robert said earlier that "playboy" was at this moment a place where some pretty intense political writing took place. this goes on for pages and pages and pages. i highly commend it to anyone who is interested in king and king's legacy. it is incredibly revealing and king speaks extemporaneously on this. these "playboy" interviews would take place over the course of two or three or four days to the point where what they said they want to break down the subject, pass all of the obvious things that they say and get them to say other things which are more interesting. so you can see this is just a very partial list. there's an incredible interview with ramsay clark, the attorney general at the time. as a kid when did you sort of first find "playboy"? well, for me it was my neighbor, the smiths family and my neighbor buck smith who lived just down th

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