brent: joining me tonight from jerusalem is our correspondent, peter hille. ter, it is good to see you. i want to talk about what we are seeing here. this is going to be one of the biggest diplomatic events in israel's history. what is already happening today? peter: well, jerusalem was already a diplomatic beehive today. you could see motorcades with black vans running back and forth through the city, and that is because many of the more than 40 presidents, prime ministers, and crown princes have already arrived here in jerusalem and they were here for diplomatic talks today with the prime minister netanyahu, also withh the palestinian president. among them was emmanuel macron, the french president, who stated after meeting netanyahu that he considers those denying israel the right to existence also as anti-semites, and i think that was an important signal here today. and of course also frank-walter steinmeier, the german president has been here today for talks with the israeli president. brent: we just saw the german president in those images. here is part o

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in the studio is the abuse of correspondence a key brady and in jerusalem is our correspondent peter hill and i want to go to jerusalem 1st if i may appear german presence of hundreds of stier my hair in the advice the 1st time that a german leader has given an address how was his speech received. the reactions i've heard so far very positive 5 i think that stunned i found the right words here and yet the sham at the ceremony today. commemorating 75 years since the liberation of the all should check him. he cited the jewish blessing and i spoke to one of the holocaust survivors a german holocaust survivor who were present here today and he told me that he was very moved that he was all will almost moved to tears by this german president the president off the people that he felt he still belong to but had had perpetrated these. these crimes that one can't even the matching in their scope that almost moved him to tears so i think she found the right words talking about german guilt and as we just heard killed and a responsibility that will never go away that was also something i think that

there you can see it the question is do you mean it keep brady here at the big table with me and peter hill on the story for us in jerusalem to both of you thank you and here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the impeachment trial of u.s. president double trump has resumed for a 3rd day in the republican controlled senate democrats are pressing their arguments for the conviction of the president and for his removal from office he's charged with abuse of power and obstruction of congress connection with his dealings with ukraine he denies any wrongdoing the syrian defense force claims troops loyal to president bashar al assad have continued their offensive on rebel held areas despite a cease fire agreement and observer group has released video which you see here of government helicopters dropping a barrel bomb on a village earlier this week. the international court of justice has ordered me in march of take all measures in its power to prevent genocide against the were huge of people and to preserve evidence of alleged atrocities the verdict comes a

lester >> peter alexander, on capitol hill, thank you. let's bring in pete williams pete, so we saw the chief justice step in today refusing to ask a question or read a question tomorrow the vote whether to subpoena witnesses can end up in a 50/50 tie what are the chances we could see him step in to break a tie? >> well, that's the question of the hour, lester many people wondering about it and there is precious little history to go on but it's highly unlikely he would do that the rules don't give him authority to break the tie. the constitution says the vice president can break senate ties but it doesn't give the chief justice that power and besides a 50-50 tie is a vote. it means whatever the question was failed so there is no need to break a tie. gressive thing for john roberts to try to do and that's not how he sees his role, lester >> pete williams, thank you. >>> now to our nbc news exclusive, at a time of heightened tensions with iran, new information tonight about how the recent showdown nearly escalated to war here is nbc's richa

gradually the rain in hill snow peter out.we got more rain and more strong winds to come in late in the day. the wins ease for a time but they back up on the south and west. it's here that will have that mild our pushing more rain in. it will feel cold for the northern half of the country. some wet and windy weather over southern parts of england, east anglia and across the channel islands, fairly lively wins but high pressure builds in retirement at high pressure will settle for the down, meaning that friday will get off to a cold start, more widely, some ice issues following the rain but at least it looks like a quieter day. yes, we will have some cloud thickening, wins strengthening to the western rain arriving towards teatime but the most part, a decent day during daylight. not particularly warm because it will be a cold start. the rain really starts to then take hold. the mild atlanticare we've talked about, some snow on the hills but it will rain 36 hours per some parts of scotland and northern ireland. also the north—we

today's commemoration is moshe cunto the president of the european jewish congress did obvious peter hill spoke to him and asked him how important is it that the german president as a representative of the country that perpetuated the holocaust is speaking at today's ceremony this was his reply. you know and it was exactly. the results are gathered here it's our mission to greet the platform for uniting. that was untrue and returning to michelle a coup for and a shiny resigned we heard what he said it's bringing us together it's uniting but from your perspective you as our chief political editor how important is it that stan meyer is present at the ceremony well i mean really it's an honor that germany couldn't have hoped for and it's also something that has been said by several leading politician including the german chancellor merkel what what luck germany really has to have been able to build this relationship with the state of israel i mean just imagine that the jewish state invites the german head of state as the 1st head of state to yad vashem that is quite something 75 years after

president trump is defending thi the democrats on capitol hill demand answers. nbc's peter alexander has more on the back and forth. >> reporter: president trump this morning just ifying his decision to order a drone strike to kill qassem soleimani. >> we are much safer because of it. >> reporter: but many democrats are unconvinced including house committee chairman adam schiff. >> i think it is a dangerous roll of the dice by the president. >> reporter: schiff telling nbc news that the house should hold public hearings on the death of soleimani and the ripple effect. >> why we are sending more troops to the region, and the prospects is of war, and thatin >> reporter: today the so-called gang of eight will be briefed on the attack in iraq, and saying that soleimani posed an imminent threat. >> if the facts were not before them, it would be negligent. >> reporter: the democrats are pushing for a resolution to require the presidency congressional approval before taking further military action. >> every member of congress should vote and then be accountable for the question of

of both chambers of congress it would still face a potential presidential veto peter castro reporting live from capitol hill let's gets reaction from the oval office now bring in our white house correspondent kimberly how could i was the president reacting to all of this can be. well the u.s. president is defending the withholding of intelligence from congressional members something that has made both members of the democratic and republican party quite unhappy they say they want proof that there was an imminent threat to ordinary americans that was would require the assassination of iran's general saloon mahdi but the u.s. president is defending it saying that he wants to keep that information at a high level and also he argues that he doesn't believe that he should have to seek congressional approval because it sometimes required the president's react within a split 2nd we caught a total monster and we took him out and that should have happened a long time ago. we did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy we also did it for other reasons that were very obvious somebody died one of our milita

gradually, the rain and hill snow peter out.ugh the evening and overnight across southern parts of england, east anglia, across the channel islands and france as well, some fairly lively winds. but then high pressure builds in for a time behind, and that high—pressure will settle the weather down, meaning that friday will get off to a cold start, more widely, so some ice issues following the rain, but at least it looks like a quieter day. yes, we will have some of cloud thickening, winds strengthening towards the west, and rain arriving towards tea—time, but for most parts, it looks like a decent day during daylight. not particularly warm, with because it will become a cold start as i‘ve already mentioned. then, friday night into saturday, that rain really starts to take hold. now, it‘s mild atlantic air i‘ve talked about, so perhaps a bit of snow on the hills, but it will rain, potentially, for 36 hours for some parts of scotland and northern ireland. so we could see over 100mm of rain in these areas, and also the northwest of

peter: to help us delve into those issues, our guest host this afternoon is emily birnbaum of "the hill." emily: thank you for having me. so you are talking about foreign threats and the threat of another nation dominating in this space of enormous technological innovation. zperts say that huawei and ger at this point dominating the "race" toward 5g. concern regarding these companies, and what do you think we can do to stave off their growing influence? rep. spanberger: the bill we passed in the house recently, my "5g and beyond" bill, it doesn't call out china or huawei or zte specifically. recognizing in the future our challenges might come from other countries, but when we look at huawei and zte, there are significant indicators that because of huawei's close relationship with the chinese military and chinese intelligence services, that the use of wally technologies could -- backdoorsors for areas of access to consumer data that from american an american perspective, we would find unacceptable. there are others who would maintain even if it is not intentional and doesn't come from di

hill. but i will say and it is so true what peter and you were talking about, is that the president here -- it is not very difficult to make members of congress feel like they're worthwhile and the president and the administration for some reason. >> and it is not clear why, did not talk to members of congress and build coalitions on capitol hill before this incursion or this assassination or killing or whatever you would like to call it. they had the opportunity to go to people on capitol hill of stature, republicans and democrats and bring them in the fold, tell them what they were going to do. either shortly before or shortly after it happened. they pointedly decided not to do that and kellyanne conway said on the record on the white house driveway or at the white house that adam schiff in her estimation would have run to the cameras. well we know from history that that's not the case. these are people, the gang of eight and the larger leadership on capitol hill is quite adept at keeping secrets. why? because they've done so for decades and nancy pelosi has been on the intelligence commi

and then a bit later on with peter find out who held their nerve to win the 4 hills tournament in all straight. we got more wet swindell but mild weather pushing into western parts of europe and down into the southeast we got some rather lively showers longer spells of rain here in between it is quiet we are still having missed info problems into the central areas but to the main where the action remains either side of that so here's the next band of cloud that's waiting out into the atlantic and that will push its way further east which as we go through the next couple days choose to have a blustery day across northern ireland scotland northern areas of england pushing across into norway some right and some snow pushing for here over the high ground and it's rightness now to the high ground for turkey eastern side of the med seeing some very choppy waters gal force winds and some very heavy rain pushing in here as well as you go on it's wednesday that will snow just for a little further east was sought for still in the mix there still quite into those central parts and cloud and rain

nbc's peter alexander is following it all from capitol hill. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. house impeachment, prosecutors back at it today, with the focus on the first charge, abuse of power, accusing president trump of trying to cheat to win the upcoming 2020 election. warning the senators in the chamber that if they don't hold the president accountable for his actions, that it would set a dangerous precedent. in effect, saying the american elections and national security would be at risk. today is round two for democratic house prosecutors after laying out in painstaking detail the case for president trump's removal from office. among wednesday's top takeaways, democrats delivering evidence they say proves an overwhelming and damming case against the president. the senate's top democratic ruling out any deal with republicans where they trade hearing from hunter biden or other witnesses in exchange for testimony from former national security adviser john bolton. all of it as the president's lawyers insist the democrats' case

hill. also tonight, before his rally, president trump caught up with our own peter doocy, well, for a pretty wide-ranging interview and peter joins us live from des moines, iowa. let's see. i see you running into quid pro quo joe. you're a news person. joe biden a lot. now you're getting interviews with the president. joe got hostile with you. i hope it didn't happen with president trump. >> no, but we did want to check in with the president because we've been hearing democrats talk about him here in iowa for the last couple months. we spoke for a few minutes here in des moines. the president, in between other things he's got going on, has been paying attention and checking in with his republican allies on capitol hill. he told me tonight that he thinks there's going to be bipartisan support for him, as both come up on things like witnesses, acquittal, or removal. listen to this. >> i got to watch a little bit. it's very boring to watch. i have to say that. it's very boring. i call it the impeachment hoax. that's what it is. it's a hoax. should've never taken place. should have never been al

hill as well. joining me to talk about why this matters to you, anna palmer, co-author of the politico play book. peter baker, chief correspondent for "new york times," jeremy peters, political reporter with "new york times." here with me in studio. jeremy, what do you make of the change, midnight, 1:00 in the morning, obviously mitch mcconnell has a strategy here. >> right. well his strategy is first and foremost to protect his members. he has a number of republican senators who are up for re-election this year who could be in some tough races if they are allowed to force certain votes to look like they're reflexively siding with president trump. this is why susan kcollins, lamr alexander say i am open to the idea of witnesses with conditions. they haven't specified what the conditions would be in saying i'm open to calling witnesses, that's a lot different from saying i will vote to have witnesses. >> you also have cory gardner who doesn't want to talk to anybody about anything. >> that's exactly right because this is tricky. for the last three years, the republicans have been followed around the cap

, if any, on capitol hill with regard to the president's comments yesterday from davos, switzerland, basically talking about withholding evidence, we have all the evidence. and peter alexander asking jay sekulow about that, wanting to get reaction, the president's attorney dodging the question. what are you hearing? >> well, what i'm hearing and what i see one of the biggest problems that donald trump has is that he has this issue where his mouth opens before his brain takes over. and he says things that he probably shouldn't say. once again, this is from a political standpoint is pretty bad. and who knows what he may have wanted to say. he may have wanted to say we hold all the cards, they don't hold the cards, something to that effect, but he says the materials, and that leads to people talking about documentation, information that they refuse to hand over and now they have it. what that does is, you know, adam schiff when he said it, it was hard for him to kind of like keep from smiling because politically it worked out so well for them to sit there and say, look, here's the president on television admitting that he's withholding evidence that could lead to his

peter, thanks. the air strike in iraq has pushed impeachment off the exclusive center stage for now, but glands are still being made. accusations traded back and forth. senior capitol hillr chat program shows us from capitol hill. >> even as they grapple with the fallout from the strike on soleimani to buy the future of a impeachment trial as part of the agenda. senate minority leader chuck schumer realtors and hand calling for witnesses, saying new evidence demands new testimony. >> when leader mccullough suggest both sides call their witnesses and we'll deal with evidence, he's proposing to conduct a whole trial and once the trial is basically over, consider the question of evidence. that makes no sense. that's "alice in wonderland" logic. >> majority leader mitch mcconnell kept to his guns, but there is a working model in place since the clinton impeachment. >> the senate passed a bipartisan resolution 100-0 that set up the initial logistics. it stayed silent on trial questions such as witnesses until the trial was underway. >> nancy pelosi continues holding the impeachment articles in her next steps close to the vest. demands the senate first establish what she cons

peter alexander on the impeachment front. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. we want to take you to capitol hill, give you a live look where we will within moments hear from house speaker nancy pelosi, announcing the houseman jerusalem. the lawmakers who will prosecute the case against the president. it comes ahead of the vote where they'll formally turn over the articles of impeachment to the senate. meanwhile, house democrats have been trying to press their hand, try to reinforce their case, releasing new documents. pelosi arriving earlier today, saying that the president has, quote, fought tooth and nail to keep thousands of documents away from the public. documents she says shows the president was at the center of that campaign to pressure ukraine. >> reporter: president trump bashing the democrats ahead of the democrats handing over the articles of impeachment. >> democrats are wasting the american people's time. >> reporter: it's been a long-anticipated trial. mitch mcconnell says it'll begin next tuesday, likely with opening arguments. still refusing to commit to calling witnesses. >> if

hill. you have the supreme court taking up the case about the president's tax returns at the end of march. so, you are right, susan, here is the president talking to peterl you what he said. he said i'm leading everybody in iowa. he goes on to talk about mini mike did a very poor job in that last term. he was terrible. and he goes down the list including joe. and he says that bernie is surging. for republicans, they would like to see bernie win in iowa and new hampshire and wherever else he can right? >> i think. so i think that's reflective of the fact that president trump has been talking a lot about bernie and saying that maybe the democrats and the dnc is trying to rig the system against bernie again. he would like to have somebody up there on the stage who he can say very clearly without any challenges to him i'm running against a socialist. because bernie sanders identifies as a democratic socialist. and one of the biggest applause lines that president donald trump gets rallies and elsewhere under my watch we're not going to become a socialist country. >> bret: that's what's going to play out over the next couple weeks really, couple months. >> if

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hill today. host: thanks. the john bolton tidbits, the barely a few excerpts. peteraker with a piece published within the hour. news analysis with the headline, john bolton's account up in strom's denials. -- upends trump's denials. this ends the serious to closure -- disclosure on his political career. new york, brian on the independent line. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i think this whole thing is a farce. i watched all of the house thing. the first thing they did was change the rules. a lot of hearsay in there. on juries before and they don't allow that. the prosecutor and defense, when they start asking questions, -- host: when the members of this senate ask questions? caller: they start asking questions and it goes to the asks the the judge defense and prosecutors, do they have to be sworn in? host: they were sworn in ahead of time. caller: i am talking the defense and prosecutor team. they are the ones answering the questions. will they be sworn in? host: to the best of my recollection, they were sworn in at the beginning of the proceedings

hill. i mean he has his people there in the senate. will he stood up next to peter who was at the drake event last night to keep america great rally, and peter asked the president about signals he is getting from senators regarding what's going to happen today. here's what conversation. >> i call it the impeachment hoax. and that's what it is. it's a hoax. it should have never taken place. should have never been allowed to happen. buff i have great confidence in republican senators and probably some democrats from what i understand. brian: getting desperate and peter did a great job last night. i watched the whole interview on shannon's show hosted by mike emanuel. steve: i will say this about the peter interview. he called me yesterday and said should buy black shoes to go with the suit? i said what's everybody else wearing in iowa because he only has a pair of boots. i said wear your boots if that's what everybody is wearing. ainsley: suit with cowboy boots or. steve: snow boots, it's iowa. brian: at the last minute on the floor. i know if you think you give me wi

peter doocy is in des moines covering last night's big debate, but we begin with mike emanuel and capitol hill this morning. hey, mike, good morning. >> today marks a significant step in the soul impeachment process. house speaker nancy pelosi expected to announce her impeachment managers in an hour. those of the members of her democratic team who will prosecute the case against president trump in the united states senate. it's a very high profile assignment and pelosi has had four weeks to pick her lineup. later today, a brief debate and vote on the house floor to send president trump say house democrats failed to make their case. >> democrats in congress are wasting america's time with demented hoaxes and crazy witch hunts that have been going on, by the way, from the day i came down the escalator with our future first lady. but that's why this november we are going back and we are going to win the house. republicans are going to enact the house. [cheers and applause] >> with the scene shifting, key members met with majority leader mitch mcconnell late yesterday to discuss impeachment trial

hill: madam speaker, i yield yself such time as i may consume. 2398, in support of h.r. and want to thank my friend from california, mr. peters, for his work on this legislation, and my the house rom financial services committee, mr. stivers of ohio. we love working together to in the our veterans veterans' affairs committee and house financial services committee. simply said, man congress should not rest until a ry homeless veteran has roof over their head. despite all of our efforts and ll the leadership we've contributed for three decades, it's still shocking to hear ms. say that 37,000 veterans are reported homeless on any our country.n the idea of partnership between he department of housing and urban development and the department of veterans affairs 1990's.ck to the it was a pleasure to serve then george h.w. bush, secretary jack h.u.d. jack camp of new york and senator kennedy who worked for all over this country, particularly for communities that are struggling to make sure they had access to better future, jack camp a lot of leadership in outlining this partnership h.u.d. for v.a. and housing vouchers dedicated to v

peter baker. chuck rosenberg. let me get right to where things stand now as the trial picks up today. start with garrett haake on capitol hill. garrett, on the witness question did alan dershowitz, was he so effective for republican senators that somehow the calls for witnesses are less today than they were at this same time yesterday? >> i don't think so. when i left saturday afternoon when all of the senators left saturday afternoon, looked like this was on a glide path to being over by end of the week. republicans were singing from the same him nal with exceptions on witnesses. bolton is a hand grenade in this. you could tell that by the theories and options how to deal with it. republicans aren't on the same page. there's an effort to get everybody to calm down, take a breath, wait and see where we are when the vote happens before end of the week. the way this is moving, who knows what else we know by the time it is put before senators to vote to have witnesses. >> garrett, is there breach in trust between rank and file senate republicans and white house legal team or is it between mitch mcconnell and republicans or betw