right now, though, "andrea mitchell reports." >> thank you, craig melvin. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," barr closed. as damaging impeachment testimony continues to pile up, president trump is vehemently denying reports that he asked his attorney general bill barr to declare him innocent on ukraine. it would be an extraordinary breach of legal protocol. >> he asked bill barr to get out on the screen and tell people that it was a perfect call. we view it as significant for two reasons. one, the use, basically, tapping an attorney general to be your public relations aide, and second, it's significant because barr said no. >>> saudi spy plot? the justice department charging two former twitter employees and an associate of saudi arabia's controversial ruling crown prince with collecting information on saudi dissidents in the u.s. >> the complaint also alleges twitter employees provided private information like email addresses, ip addresses, and dates of birth. >>> and back in sessions? former attorney general jeff sessions planning to run for his old senate seat in alabama. but can

i'm andrea mitchell in washington. president trump is kicking off his thanksgiving holiday in florida with a round of golf and a work of art for his 67 million twitter followers. yes, that's the president's tweet today, sending this masterpiece to the masses, after touting his good health to a raucous rally tuesday night in florida and choosing to ignore new details about the timeline regarding military aid finally get to go ukraine. in new reporting from "the new york times," two people familiar with the matter say president trump had already been briefed on the whistle-blower complaint before he decided town freeze $391 million in aid. this raises some big questions including why did the president repeatedly tell ambassador gordon sondland that he wanted nothing from ukraine and no quid pro quo, just two days before the aid was released? joining me now, msnbc white house correspondent kristen welker, former u.s. attorney joyce advanced, and ben rhodes, former national security adviser to president obama. welcome, all

right now andrea mitchell starts. >> thanks so much. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," errand boys. public hearings end with star witnesses detailing a campaign to withhold a white house meeting and vital military aid from ukraine in exchange for political dirt on the president's opponents. led by rudy giuliani and a big trump donor awarded an ambassadorship. >> he was being involved in a domestic political errand. and we were being involved in national security foreign policy. and those two things had just diverged. >>> fast track. republican senators talk to the white house about a possible strategy to shorten the senate impeachment trial. >> mitch mcconnell has two very important options. one, not to even hold a trial because the evidence coming from the house just isn't sustainable. or two, to hold it but then we know what the road is going to be because it's already locked and loaded. >>> and hurd no evil. republican congressman will hurd, a frequent trump critic, will not support impeachment, dashing democratic hopes of getting some republicans on board. >> an impeachabl

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lester >> all right andrea mitchell, thank you. >>> the parents of a university of utah student allegedly murdered by a man she dated while on the phone with her mom are accusing the school of not doing enough to protect her after she raised rla demanding justice. >> it's been over a year since our smart, beautiful and murdered on the university of utah campus. killed last october by melvin rowland, a 37-year-old convicted sex offender she ended her brief relationship with him after learning he had been lying about his name, age and criminal history now, her parents are suing the university claiming campus police ignored their daughter's pleas for help. >> my daughter is a university of utah and she just called us and looks like she was being attacked. >> reporter: the lawsuit alleges lauren contacted university police several times about roland's intimidating behavior weeks before she was killed. >> they did not believe her, and they were dismissive the university repeatedly and consistently ignored its university filed the motion to dismiss the suit arguing rowland wasn't affiliated wit

andrea mitchell has the big celebration. >> the washington nationals the world champions. >> reporter: in a city needing heroes, a cinderella team bridging the partisan divide defying the odds given only a 1.5% chance of winning it all last may, this team was down but never out. boosting morale with "baby shark. their signature dugout dance moves. coming from behind in five post-season eliminatioen peoplef >> other sluggers like juan soto, so young he couldn't even buy a drink when the series began. 36-year-old howie providing the clutch go ahead two-run homer. max surger playing hurt in june sidelined this week with back spasms but willing himself to start game seven. >> that was our motto. it was the next guy up whoever -- everybody came with their all. >> reporter: how magical are these nats ey're the first team to win the series after losing all the home games on average, the oldest players in baseball. you could say more likely to drink geratol than gatorade. nbc steven strassberg coming out of his shell this year. >> they had me doing things i never thought i'd be doing. >> like

andrea mitchell with details. >> reporter: leading in iowa, elizabeth warren today is putting a price tag on medicare for all. $20.5 trillion in new spending over ten years paid for by taxing billionaires and big business. dicare for all without raising taxes one cent on middle class families. eliminate all private covering more than half of all americans. no more premiums, no deductibles. how would she pay for it employers would pay the government almost $9 trillion over ten years, similar to what they spend now on employees' health care. she would boost billionaire's wealth tax, impose a new tax on stock trades, higher taxes on investment gains for the top 1% and cut military spending. the harvard professor has 54 plans on her website but medicare for all that is drawing fire from her rivals joe biden on the news hour tonight with judy woodruff >> she's making it up. nobody thinks it's $20 trillion. it's between 30 and $40 trillion. contain medical costs, but at a political price. >> elizabeth warren is being very aggressive here in pushing down prices paid to doctors, hospitals and

right now, "andrea mitchell reports." >> craig melvin, thank you. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," going public. house intelligence committee chair adam schiff confirming public hearings in the impeachment inquiry start next week. >> those open hearings will be an opportunity for the american people to evaluate the witnesses for themselves. >>> kentucky derby. despite an election eve rally with president trump or perhaps because of it, kentucky's republican governor apparently loses to a democratic challenger in a state the president had won in 2016 by 30 points. >> it's a message that says our elections don't have to be about right versus left. they are still about right versus wrong. >>> and cold-blooded ambush. mexican authorities say they have arrested at least one suspect in connection with the horrific attack that left nine people including six children dead, as their families search for answers to who murdered their loved ones. >> it's really hard to look at those charred skeletons and to see or to even think that that's my family in there. it's been this horrible, horribl

hello, i'm chris jansing in for andrea mitchell. blocker in chief. the president says he will release the transcript from yet another call with the ukraine president as he blocks his chief of staff from testifying to the impeachment committees. here is his reasoning. >> i don't want to give credibility to a corrupt witch hunt. i would love to have mick go up, except one thing. it validates a corrupt investigation. >>> late bloomer. billionaire businessman mike bloomberg takes steps to declare a run for the presidential nomination. could he unite the democrats and beat president trump? >> i have reservations about the people running and the way they're campaigning and the promises they're making that they can't fulfill. >> i don't think democracy should be about people coming in and buying elections. >>> black voters for trump? african-americans in atlanta weigh in as president trump launches an effort to win black support. >> unemployment is the lowest on record. it is off the charts. i would say that's good for black people. >> i don't agree with hi

" andrea mitchell. msnbc chief legal correspondent and host of "the beat," ari melber. andrew weissmann, former head of the fraud section at the department of justice, now an msnbc legal analyst. and former democratic senator from missouri and current msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill. we're also still joined by former u.s. ambassador to russia, ambassador michael mcfaul, who, lucky for us, is also an msnbc international affairs analyst. i will start with you. reset what we have seen today, for anyone who missed this dramatic opening statement, a complete indictment from fiona hill of the conspiracy theories and those who spread them. >> to me, right, nicolle? >> yes. >> it's very clear, we've been talking now for days and days about whether there was linkage, a quid pro quo, an "if you do this, i'll do that" kind of relationship between an oval office visit and the investigations of burisma slash biden and this cockamamie, crazy conspiracy theory about the ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election

right now "andrea mitchell reports". >>> right now with friends like these, as new questions swirl about whether or not the top republican in the house intelligence committee spoke to ukrainians at the center of the impeachment inquiry. senate judiciary chairman lindsey graham goes after joe biden and his son. >> he's the nicest person i think i've ever met in politics. >> is that right? >> he is as good a man as god ever created. >> despite their decades long friendship. >> joe biden is a good friend. but if we're going to look at corruption in the ukraine, we're going to look at both sides. >>> ship wrecked. the president fires the secretary of the navy for trying to punish navy seal eddie gallagher who mr. trump had reinstated. >> this is all about ego and retaliation. this has nothing to do with good order and discipline. >>> and big apple billionaire. former new york city mayor michael bloomberg jumps into the democratic race but is skipping the early states. >> elections should not be for sale, not to billionaires, not to corporate executives. >> multibillionaires like mr. bloomber

andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington >> oh, they're going to be riding that high all the way through saturday >> beyond that they deserve it. >> the parade forecast looks great. there will be people everywhere. it will be good. hopefully if they lost their power in that area, they'll get it back. we had half a million people, the latest number i saw, from the storm. from north carolina in the mountains all the way up through the northeast. about a quarter million of those people without power are in new york state alone here's the peak wind gusts we expect during the day today. buffalo is going to be 50, 62, syracuse, new york philadelphia area, we're going to have more airport delays, too. the rain and everything else is getting out of there so that's the good news. as we go throughout the day, the winds will begin to relax a though.it still dealing with frigid temperatures in areas of the midwest all the way through the rockies. >>> and here's that friendly reminder daylight saving time ends. turn the clocks back at 2:00 a.m. saturday night into sunday morning. also we do recommend

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hello, i'm chris jansing in for andrea mitchell. blocker in chief. the president says he will release the transcript from yet another call with the ukraine president as he blocks his chief of staff from testifying to the impeachment committees. here is his reasoning. >> i don't want to give credibility to a corrupt witch hunt. i would love to have mick go up, except one thing. it validates a corrupt investigation. >>> late bloomer. billionaire businessman mike bloomberg takes steps to declare a run for the presidential nomination. could he unite the democrats and beat president trump? >> i have reservations about the people running and the way they're campaigning and the promises they're making that they can't fulfill. >> i don't think

i'm andrea mitchell in new york on this veterans day. we're saluting generations of men and women who have served the nation. president trump is here in manhattan, the first sitting president to attend the traditional veterans day parade as he prepares for public impeachment hearings this week. the president has been trying to rally congressional republicans to counteract damaging testimony from officials who say he withheld military aid from ukraine in order to pressure the ally to help him damage his political rival joe biden. to set the stage for this important week, top white house and political correspondents, "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker. robert costa, national political reporter at the "washington post" and moderator of washington week on pbs. here with me onset my colleague white house correspondent kristin welker. the president arallying republicans trying to rewrite the narrative of that fateful phone call. >> he is. he's saying stop saying that what i did is not impeachable. start saying what i

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at andrea mitchell reports. >>> hi, everybody, it's monday, november eighth. coming up on this hour on "velshi & ruhle," another week of public impeachment hearings. we're talking eight witnesses in ten days. president trump says he'll consider testifying himself. >>> plus, new polling out from iowa showing mayor pete buttigieg surging to the lead. gut he stand a chance against donald trump in a nationwide matchup? >>> and hundreds remain trapped inside of hong kong. we're live with developments on the ground. >>> a new key witness could be stepping into the impeachment hearings. president trump himself. speaker nancy pelosi suggested he testify during an interview she did on sunday. president trump took to twitter today and said he likes the idea and will strongly consider it. that would wildly change the course of the hearings. and we'll dig into that possibility in just a moment. >> as

. >>> andrea mitchell reports starts right now. >> right now, defiance. the president loses a court decision on his tax returns and will appeal to the supreme court as the white house defies impeachment subpoenas and targets the whistleblower. >> the whistleblower gave a very inaccurate report about my phone call. my phone call was perfecto. the whistleblower should be revealed. >> battlegrounds. joe biden breaks through against the president in key battleground states but slips farther behind in iowa and new hampshire while warren and buttigieg climb. >> on day one there's going to be no chance for on the job training. >> here's the good news. i have the biggest anti-corruption plan since watergate. >> if i get elected and we're not able to transform this country, then i will have failed. >> i think people want to see us demonstrate that we can succeed. >> under fire. the president threatens to withhold aid for combatting wildfires in california blaming the state's new governor. >> the governor doesn't know. he's like a child. he doesn't know what he's d

let's bring on andrea mitchell and chuck todd, the political director and moderator of "meet the press. let me begin with you. does this move the needle acknowledging there are more public hearings to come? >> they did today because they got an additional piece of new information that frankly makes you want to see the next episode, which is gordon sondland, the ambassador to the e.u. and the second phone call, here is an eyewitness account or ear witness account of overhearing the president on the phone with gordon sondland. it makes his testimony crucial, lester, to the point of it could be make or break type of crucial i think for the longer portion of this but look, the other part of this is what do the democrats want out of this if you're looking at today through the lens of did they make the case to remove the president from office? it's way too soon to tell on that but they did have a decent enough day one to make you want to see day two. >> andrea, we can't forget about the 2020 race for president. these two are colliding. >> they are colliding because that is why the democrats

"andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. >> and thank you very much, craig melvin. >>> on the "andrea mitchell reports," feeling the heat. as more damaging testimony about ukraine comes out of the impeachment inquiry, president trump is targeting the whistle-blower with a strong assist from a u.s. senator. >> the whistle-blower said lots of things that weren't so good, folks, you're going to find. >> we also now know the name of the whistle-blower. i say tonight to the media, do your job and print his name. >>> americans ambushed today. at least nine members of a mormon family including six children killed in mexico, prompting the president to declare it's time for americans to wage war on the cartels. >> these are u.s. citizens. >> it's not just getting caught in the gunfire, in the wrong place or time. this is a whole new level of cartel violence. >>> and warning signs, as voters head to the polls in off-year elections in three kicritical states today. we're one year out from

right now, though, "andrea mitchell reports." >> thank you, craig melvin. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," barr closed. as damaging impeachment testimony continues to pile up, president trump is vehemently denying reports that he asked his attorney general bill barr to declare him innocent on ukraine. it would be an extraordinary breach of legal protocol. >> he asked bill barr to get out on the screen and tell people that it was a perfect call. we view it as significant for two reasons. one, the use, basically, tapping an attorney general to be your public relations aide, and second, it's significant because barr said no. >>> saudi spy plot? the justice department charging two former twitter employees and an associate of saudi arabia's controversial ruling crown prince with collecting information on saudi dissidents

. >>> thanks let's bring in andrea mitchell and chuck todd now chuck, i begin with you. it's day two of the historic public hearing, did the former ambassador's testimony move the needle >> it may have and frankly it shouldn't have i think the initial plan that the republicans had which is to remind folks she wasn't there for the most controversial parts of what if president may have done with the aid and with president zelenskiy and they had an opportunity to sort of minimize the impact of her, but the president's attack on her i think elevated the importance of her. i think she actually gave more credence to the issue of why we're here at an impeachment proceeding better than any other witness so far. >> yeah. andrea, yovanovitch said she felt personally targeted by the president. did she put a human face on this >> absolutely. here you had a career veteran diplomat who had served in conflict zones since the reagan years. yanked from her post in the middle of the night on a call, with no cause. an at the same time, being told that she is in her testimony today being at

nbc's andrea mitchell takes a look at the details. >> meeting in iowa, elizabeth warren is putting a price tag on medicare for all, paid for by taxing billionaires and big business. >> i have a plan that shows how we can have medicare for all, without raising taxes one cent. on middle class families. >> warren would eliminate all private employer-based insurance. now covering more than half of all americans. no more premiums. no deductibles. how would she pay for it? employers would pay the government almost $9 trillion over ten years. similar to what they now spend on employee health care. she would boost her billionaires wealth tax. impose a new tax on stock trades. higher taxes on investment gains for the top 1%. and cut military spending. the harvard professor has 54 plans on her web site. but it's medicare for all that is drawing fire from her rivals. joe biden on the news hour tonight with judy woodru if. f. >> she is making it up. nobody thinks it is $20 trillion. and it is between 30 and $40 trillion. >> warren's plan would contain medical costs but at a political price. >> e

right now andrea mitchell starts. >> thanks so much. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," errand boys. public hearings end with star witnesses detailing a campaign to withhold a white house meeting and vital military aid from ukraine in exchange for political dirt on the president's opponents. led by rudy giuliani and a big trump donor awarded an ambassadorship. >> he was being involved in a domestic political errand. and we were being involved in national security foreign policy. and those two things had just diverged. >>> fast track. republican senators talk to the white house about a possible strategy to

right now, "andrea mitchell reports." >> craig melvin, thank you. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," going public. house intelligence committee chair adam schiff confirming public hearings in the impeachment inquiry start next week. >> those open hearings will be an opportunity for the american people to evaluate the witnesses for themselves. >>> kentucky derby. despite an election eve rally with president trump or perhaps because of it, kentucky's republican governor apparently loses to a democratic challenger in a state the president had won in 2016 by 30 points. >> it's a message that says our elections don't have to be

i'm andrea mitchell in new york following the breaking news from california. authorities responding to another school shooting. this time at saugus high school in santa clarita. that is just north of los angeles. police responding after seven people were injured. at least three of them from gunshot wounds, in an incident that began just the past hour. the suspect fled the scene. all schools within santa clarita's district are now on lockdown. los angeles county sheriffs are methodically moving students from classrooms and auditoriums in saugus high school out to safety. law enforcement in the area have also surrounded a home near the school. you're seeing areas of that now. joining me now, nbc justice correspondent pete williams. pete, you were just describing the scene there, preparing to move in and following safety procedures despite whatever information you have as to what the actual situation may be. do we think it is one suspect, pete? >> reporter: that's what the authorities have told us. a 15-year-old male who was all dressed in black who opened fire a

. >> andrea mitchell reporting. bloomberg is not entering the early primary waiting for super-tuesday in march but he needs the support of african-americans who have criticized stop and frisk his program found to be unconstitutional for targeting people of color. the former mayor apologized but it is already an attack line for his rivals. >>> we're following new details about the scare in the nation's capitol. an unknown aircraft entered restricted air space near the capitol building in d.c. and it forced the white house to go on lockdown. fighter jets were on stand by. it was lifted less than 30 minutes after put in place. the american aerospace defense command tweeted they don't believe the plane was a threat and continuing to monitor the situation. >>> well, coming up, devastation in albania. a strong quake hit the country destroying buildings and trapping people inside. a look at the rescue efforts happening now. >>> and winter weather hampering thanksgiving travel. already the delays and cancellations fell acro

that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." here is "velshi & ruhle." today is the one day that andrea is not going to miss watching the news at 1:00 p.m. >> i will be watching. >> i watch you guys everyday. >> we know. thank you my friend. hello everyone, it is monday, november the 4th. coming up on "velshi & ruhle." president trump has just lost a major appeal in the fight to release his taxes. will he have to turn them over or is this battle headed to the supreme court? >> we have explosive new development into president trump. moments ago, the house released transcripts of key witnesses testimonies. we'll dig into the damming details and the coming hours, hundreds of inmates will be released from oklahoma prison, a number of them will be at one women's correctional facility as inmates prepared to reunite with their loved ones on this historic day. >>> the federal appeal court denies president trump's appeal and ruled that the president's tax returns must be turned over. the da had subpoenas and documents from the president's accounting firm as part

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it is already an attack line for his rivals craig. >> andrea mitchell for us in washington thank you. >>> now to some breaking news, a strong earthquake struck albania overnight, killing at least 14 people and injuring 600 others the magnitude 6.4 quake collapsed, at least three apartment buildings while people were sleeping. rescue crews are digging through the rubble looking for survivors. countries across europe are sending personal help with recovery efforts >>> also this morning a jewelry heist, seemingly straight out of a hollywood movie. there's now a massive manhun for two brazen thieves who were caught here on camera stealing priceless treasures from germany's state museum nbc's kelly cobiella has the latest on the investigation. kelly, good morning. >> reporter: craig, good morning imagine the anguish of that security staff at the museum watching all of this play out right in front of their eyes on those security cameras the alarm sounded, police were on their way, but in just minutes, the thieves were gone inside the green vault museum, one of europe's oldest, precious gems

"andrea mitchell reports" starts right now, hey, andrea. >> thank you, chris, and a great weekend to you. >>> right now to all of you, this is a house divided, with americans split down the middle on impeachment. democrats trying to keep the momentum going after their vote to launch an official investigation. >> we have the inquiry and we will have the public hearings coming up soon. >>> apples to oranges. why lifetime new yorker donald trump is heading south, trading in mar-a-lago as his official residence for trump tower. >> i'm a big resident of florida. this is my second home, in many ways it's my first home. >>> and she has a plan for that. topping the polls in iowa, elizabeth warren rolling out her medicare for all plan with more than $20 trillion in new spending, vowing she can do it all without one penny of middle class tax increases. >> medicare is the least expensive way to provide health care coverage for everybody in the country. we know it. >> your signature, senator, is to have a plan for

that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." >> happy thanksgiving to all of you. >> casey always has a great thing to say, helpful thing to do. we are not going to miss her because we'll see her some where else but we'll miss her on your show. andrea, thank you. >> coming up at this hour on "velshi & ruhle," we got new critical information about the timinging of the whistleblower' complaint and president trump release of aid to ukraine. we'll tell you what trump knew and when this could be big for the impeachment inquiry. president trump keeps on losing the battle, is he winning the war? we'll dig into the strategy. dire new warnings on tclimate change. can the next administration save this or is it too late? bomb shell new report from "the new york times," president trump knew about concerning of dealings with ukraine when he chose to released aid to ukraine, lawyers from the white house briefed the president about the complaint in late august. the timeline is important. that means that president trump knew about the whistleblower's complaint at two key moments, when he d

mitchell. we have stanford on the board with our own rachel maddow. and we have harvard for good measure, kristen welker. and i said tonight they were announced they could also host jeopardy, all four of them. the candidates are behind their lecterns, their podia. did i get that right? >> yes, you did. we've been down this road before. podia i believe is the correct plural for podium. >> big time for latin. quid pro quo and podia. steve schmidt, one last prediction going into tonight. i always love to hear them. always love to hear if they hold. you looking for anyone to have a good or bad night specifically? >> i generally agree with chris. i think that the trump presidency is an emergency for the country. i think there is no higher issue than his removal from office. and that calls for a candidate who has the ability to assemble the broadest, widest possible political coalition that includes some republicans, independents, democrats, to win an election that will be the most consequential elec

andrea mitchell is tireless and we don't know how she got back to new york in such a short period of time. also nbc news analyst neil catchall is here this morning. jeff, set the scene for us for this testimony. >> savannah, good morning. fiona hill is a key witness because in her private testimony she said that she was so disturbed and concerned about what she perceived to be wrongdoing by rudy giuliani, the president's outside attorney, and ambassador gordan sondland as she says the two of them pursued a shadow foreign policy in ukraine. that stands in contrast to what sondland testified to yesterday. he said there was one policy, one channel, there was no secret and everyone knew about it. but hill is integral to the case that democrats are making because she was so intimately involved in russia and ukraine policy and she will in many ways today be a stand-in for john bolton. it is three fiona hill's testimony that we got all of john bolton's colorful commentary about the entire ukrainian gambut. it was john bolton who referred to it as rudy giuliani as a hand grenade that was abo

. >> andrea mitchell, rachel maddow will be moderating. >>> coming up, a viral moment in impeachment hearings. we're going to speak to denny heck who gave an emotional speech while questioning former ambassador yovanovitch. >> one group of teachers is not waiting for the laws to change. they're taking up their own arms. you're watching "velshi & ruhle." teacher with guns. needles. essential for the sea urchin, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. because there are options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz xr, a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections like tb; don't start xeljanz if you have an infection. taking a higher than recommended dose of xeljanz for ra can increase risk of death. serious, sometimes fatal infections, cancers including lymphoma, and blood clots have happened. as have tears in the stomach or intestines, serious allergic reactions, and changes in lab

i will be joined by andrea mitchell and kristin welker and ashley parker of the washington post. we will be moderators tomorrow night. eek! we'll be right back. ht back. >>> what a day this has been. that's going to do it for us tonight. remember, tomorrow morning, 9 a.m. eastern the impeachment hearings pick up with the very interesting case of e.u. ambassador gordon sondland. tomorrow night at 9 p.m. eastern it's the democratic debate here in atlanta. msnbc coverage starts at 7:00 p.m. the 11th hour with brian williams is up next. >>> a long day's journey into night after an almost 12-hour day in the hearing room. the news tonight is about four public servants, all of whom swore an oath to the constitution describing their discomfort with the effort by the president of the united states to get a foreign leader to go after the bidens. plus, one of today's witnesses adjusts his story in the face of a flood of other testimony as the white house attacks their own plus, one of today's witnesses adjusts his story in the face of a flood of other testimony. as the white house attacks t

andrea mitchell host of andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. ashley parker white house reporter for "the washington post." and kristen welker is nbc news white house correspondent. >> we'll be covering a wide range of topics tonight including national security, race, and climate. each candidate will have 1 minute, 15 seconds to answer our questions and 45 seconds if we need to follow-up. and we ask the audience to respect the candidates and please don't interrupt. >> there's ten candidates here tonight. no time to waste. let's get right to it. we're in the middle of the fourth presidential impeachment proceedings in our nation's history. ambassador gordon sondland delivered testimony today in the house impeachment inquiry that buttressed the case that president trump withheld military aid to yukraine and a white house meeting with president zelensky because he wanted the ukrainian president to announce investigations that would benefit president trump politically. senator warren, you have said already that you've seen enough to convict the pres

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. >> thank you, andrea, have a great holiday. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," what he knew. "the new york times" reports that president trump already knew about the whistle-blower complaint when he unfroze that military aid to ukraine. that contradicts the president's repeated line of defense. >> i have never had a direct link between investigations and security assistance. okay. what that means, you know what it means? it means we did zero, we did nothing wrong. >> how