yes, there are new revelations about devin nunes. he has been under scrutiny since donald trump came into office. his star rose with donald trump. everyone started paying attention to him. a tacit reference was made he was under scrutiny for having revealed this information early. >> run to the white house. . >> exactly. devin nunes is able to weather the storms is the function that donald trump is can weather the storms. the fact that donald trump hasn't taken a beating makes me think that devin nunes is okay. >> with associates like this, who needs friends. you have rudy giuliani at the center of all of this. his lawyer is making allegations about this meeting between devin nunes and the former prosecutor. i feel like every time you're on the show, this is the question i ask you. the mayor of new york and was the u.s. attorney here for the 7th district of new york, what do you make of what he's doing and how he is framing his role in all of this? >> every time his conduct gets more and more outrageous and unbelievable. it is intere

adam -- guest: adam schiff and devin nunes. adam schiff will control how the hearing goes and he will have to operate within the bounds of the resolution that the house passed last month regarding the procedures. how manylly controls 45 minute rounds that he and devin nunes get, during which they are expected to yield much of their time to staff attorneys who are more effective questioners than lawmakers. host: we have not seen devin nunes come to the cameras while the closed-door depositions have been going on. what role do you think you will play? guest: he has become skeptical of the press. he used to talk to us all the time on the record on background and off the record. awadays, he has gone on certain network and tried to disparage the press and he does not trust us. that is his view. other republicans have filled the void like jim jordan and others eager to defend the president on camera. devin nunes has not been as eager to do that. host: jim jordan is the top republican on the house oversight committee has secured a pos

what's fascinating is we haven't heard a word about this from devin nunes. >> devin nunes is sitting there during the impeachment hearings throwing out conspiracy theories and being referred to as, you know, the ranking member, right, and the gentleman from adam schiff, right, who is the chairman. i just want to play some of what we heard from congressman devin nunes during the impeachment hearings. play it. >> no conspiracy theory is too outlandish for the democrats. you would think they would take some interest in burisma and you'd think they'd be interested in joe biden. we need subpoena hunter biden. i think the mother of all conspiracy theories is somehow the president of the united states would want a country he doesn't even like, he doesn't even want to give foreign aid to, to have the ukrainians start an investigation into bidens. >> so according to your reporting he knew a lot more than he was letting onto. what does he have to say about this? >> well, he was extremely rude to two of my colleagues who went to physically confront him. his exact quote was to be perfectly clear

certainly directly hits at devin nunes. really bad news for devin nunes. the sheer hypocrisy shown up on his high horse over the last couple weeks preaching what's right and wrong and conspiracy theories, turns out according to parnas he was trying to do the exact same thing that's on trial here. devin nunes according to this report was meeting with a corrupt prosecutor, somebody everything knows this area says was corrupt, shokin be, all the experts, we heard from trying to dig up dirt on joe biden. it's a arguably a crime. a federal crime for a person to try to solicit something of value to a political campaign from a foreign national. >> all right, so democrats could impeach by christmas, sources tell cnn. there are eight days on the house calendar between now and christmas. that's a great job if you got eight jobs to work between now and christmas. put that aside. a lot to do. whae what's next in the process? >> the next big step, adam schiff, the intel committee has to submit documentation. i imagine schiff will want a public chance to appeal directly

marshall has more on congressman devin nunes' trip to europe. marshall, good morning to you, what are you learning? >> good morning. as you mentioned, cnn reported last night this very critical development that the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, devin nunes, did meet with this former ukraine official, viktor shokin, in vienna last year in search for dirt on the bidens. now that's all according to the attorney for a man named lev parnas, an indicted associate of rudy giuliani. he's a soviet-born american businessman who has been working with guiliani over the past year to use those connections in ukraine to try to get whatever information he can on the bidens. he was indicted in new york. he is clearly in a tough spot and trying, as hard as he can, to make himself useful to investigators so he and his lawyer are now saying that they have this critical information about devin nunes which, of course, could throw a wrench in the impeachment inquiry because devin nunes has been a key player in the impeachment inquiry. he was a fi

lev parnas is willing to testify against devin nunes. he's a key trump ally and a ranking member of the house intelligence committee. parnas said it was to dig up dirt on joe biden and his son something that nunes brought up time and time again during the impeachment hearings. >> no conspiracy theory is too outlandish for the democrats. to think they would take some interest in barisma and you would think they would be interested in joe biden. we need to subpoena hunter biden. i think one of the mothers of all conspiracy theories is that somehow the president of the united states would like a country he doesn't even like, to have the ukrainians start an investigation into bidens. >> cnn's marshall cohen is here. marshal, what do we know about this meeting, alleged meeting between the alleged congressman. >> this meeting is coming from the attorney of lev parnas associate of rudy giuliani. lev parnas is indicted. he's in trouble fighting a criminal case up in new york and it looks like he is trying to tease out this information that he mi

i don't know i heard devin nunes speak about this or speak openly. that said you're getting information from the lawyer of lev parnas, a guy who's been charged with election offenses. how do we feel about the information that you're getting from the lawyer of lev parnas or the information that originates with lev parnas? >> look, people are at their most credible when they're speaking under oath. i have no reason to believe that the information that bondy has told me on the record is incorrect. but it goes without saying without question at the statements bondy has made would carry significantly more weight were parnas to say them on the record and under oath to congress. so a big question that's open right now is whether parnas will end up going before congress, taking an oath and sharing what parnas' lawyer has shared with me. now, for parnas to do something like that, it would be incredibly risky in part, of course, because he's been indicted in the southern district of new york. so one possible avenue that his lawyers could potentially pursue and

lev parnas is willing to testify against devin nunes. he's a key trump ally and a ranking member of the house intelligence committee. parnas said it was to dig up dirt on joe biden and his son something that

rev can devin nunes. nunes was literally participating in the hearing leading the republicans questioning witnesses. here's what we know. this man, lev parnas, he and another man were arrested trying to flee the country, arrested after lunch with president trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. he worked with giuliani to push claims of corruption. lev parnas says exclusively to cnn that hean

the focus on devin nunes. he has attacked the media repeatedly throughout this process, he used one of his opening statements, to suggest that the media was in cahoots with the democrats in this entire impeachment process. so it is not a surprise that that is his tactic, but i think it certainly raises questions about devin nunes's conduct, and whether or not he was meeting with shokin in ukraine about a possible biden investigation back in, as early as 2018. i thought the date of that certainly was interesting. devin nunes, when we return after thanksgiving, i'm sure reporters will be hounding devin nunes, and asking him about these allegations, and whether or not they're true. >> and you say that nunes will be hounded about this. do you think he is actually going to be called to testify now. >> well, adam schiff, it looks like the public portion of the hearings are closed. you know, we've wrapped up the two weeks of public hearings in this impeachment probe. it would be highly unusual to have the ranking mem

here's what rudy giuliani said about the situation. >> devin nunes said he didn't meet with shoken. i have no reason to believe he did. in fact, if he did, there would have been nothing wrong with it. he should have met with shoken. shoken had relative evidence of massive corruption in the ukraine that was being covered up by the ambassador, being covered up by the state department and not being investigated by the fbi or the justice department. >> >> okay. >> joining me is jackie and david roe, the executive editor of the new yorker website and kahne analyst. welcome to you both. >> thanks. >> jackie, let me start with you. rudy giuliani is saying he never heard of this apparent meeting and i'm wondering, do you buy it? >> well, as we've seen over the past really six months now, rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney, is not the most credible witness right now. his stories have been all over the place. his various hits on fox news and house investigators are still -- you know, haven't even really made a push to have him come in and testify but the cnn reporting that your

rev can devin nunes. nunes was literally participating in the hearing leading the republicans questioning witnesses. here's what we know. this man, lev parnas, he and another man were arrested trying to flee the country, arrested after lunch with president trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. he worked with giuliani to push claims of corruption. lev parnas says exclusively to cnn that he wants to testify that the ranking member on the house intelligence committee, congressman nunes, personally met with former ukrainian officials and that they also talked about investigating joe biden, the president's rival in next year's election and his son, devin nunes is the top republican on that committee that spent the past two weeks questioning career diplomats about what they've seen, heard, and interpreted around president trump's phone calls with the president of ukraine. nunes angrily and often called the impeachment inquiry a circus. nunes had no answer for this and he said that this entire report is, quote

ha what is your latest reporting on devin nunes? there's new reporting, i gather, on not only the controversy over whether or not he actually went to vienna to meet with ukrainians, but your reporting is that he actually had either facetime or some phone conversation with these ukrainians. >> right. i'll walk through this chronologically because i think it is difficult for people to understand. the first reporting is that lev parnas, the indicted associate of rudy giuliani, according to lev parnas's attorney is prepared to tell house investigators that victor showkin met with devin nunes in the late 2018, in december of 2018. now, you saw there devin nunes wouldn't really engage on the substance of the question when asked directly. but i dug up congressional records. they're public congressional travel records that show that devin nunes, in fact, in europe from november 30th to december 8th, 2018. at the time he was chairman of the house intelligence committee. now the congressional records don't show precisely where he was or with

>>> an indicted associate of rudy giuliani is willing to tell congress about meetings devin nunes had last year with an ex-ukrainian official to get dirt on joe biden. >> this whole impeach innocent is abo -- impeachment is about shadow -- devin nunes is a drama in this himself and yet has not told yin. >> ousted representative john bolton accused the -- >> somebody of advanced age may not understand all you have to do contact twitter and reset your password. >> stop you from testifying? >> you'll have to ask the white house. >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >>> so glad to have you with us on this saturday morning. guess what? while you were sleeping, two huge developments that could have a huge development on the impeachment proceedings against president trump right now. >> first, devin nunes top republican on the house intel committee who led the defense of the president during the hearings went to vienna last year reportedly to dig up dirt on former vice president joe biden. >> a lawyer for rudy giuliani's indicted associate lev parnas

at which point -- parnass' lawyer said he wants to testify that devin nunes and an aid to devin nunes recruited parnass by giuliani to be a part of their discussions. this is messy. >> will democrats hear from him, hear from the lawyer from rudy giuliani's associate. you will stay on this case, and we appreciate it. >> i so will. >> a manhunt underway after one of the biggest jewelry heists in modern history, involving a castle and a billion dollars worth of jewelry. >>> a sheriff approaches a car over loud music and is shot to death by the son of a deputy. the chilling new developments straight ahead. to cover the essentials in retirement, as well as all the things you want to do. and on the way, you'll get timely investment help to keep you on the right track, without the unnecessary fees you might expect from so many financial firms. because when you have a partner who gives you clarity at every step, there's nothing to stop you from moving forward. who gives you clarity at every step, wean air force veteran made of doing what's right,. not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usa

this man, devin nunes. another of parna srksz's lawyers, told the "daily beast" that parnas quote helped arrange meetings in europe for representative devin nunes in 2018. the lawyer said which were arranged to help nunes' investigative work. he didn't specify what those entail. this was entered the to the congressional record during the public impeachment hearing. she's still work ogon the story. she's a politics reporter for "the daily beast." also with us and we've got comp ljted legal messes is barbara mcquaid from the eastern district of michigan and an msnbc legal contributor. let's start with you. what is this new information about lev parnas? >> i can tell you i spoke with bondy, the lawyer you referred to, earlier this evening. the first thing he said is that an aid to congressman nunes told parnas that nunes and his team were investigating the biden family and ukrainian energy company called burisma where hunter biden was a board member. those topics were of paramount importance to president trump

and that's devin nunes, the ranking on the house intel committee. we have the reporting today that he allegedly went to ukraine trying to get dirt on joe biden and was speaking with ukrainians. this is something that has never been i did closed as he's part of the -- never been disclosed as he's part of the investigation, congress speaking and asking witnesses questions. does this go to show that there's a lot more investigating needs to be done? >> yeah, certainly. this is a bombshell in the sense that you have devin nunes, republican from california, who has certainly been a bulldog defender of the president from the beginning, throughout the russia investigation, and obviously now. we now know, and this seems like decades ago, but nunes was involved in the so-called midnight run to the white house, if you'll recall, during the russia investigation where he went and actually briefed, gathered information from the white house, held this press conference about alleged abuses by the intelligence community, and then went back to the white house to bri

now to devin nunes. point man for house republicans during the impeachment proceedings. as ranking member of the intelligence committee nunes has repeatedly and sometimes angrily sparred with witnesses but there are new allegations that nunes himself traveled to vienna last year to dig up dirt on joe biden. allegations nunes says are demonstrably false. cnn's senior reporter is joining us now. you have much of this exclusive new reporting, this breaking news this hour. tell us more about what you've learned. exactly what devin nunes the congressman, the chairman rather ranking member in the house intel committee is alleged to have done as it pertains to this ukraine scandal and the impeachment inquiry? >> right. ana, devin nunes went to vienna last december to meet with former disgraced ukraine prosecutor, the man who claims he had evidence of corruption by joe biden. remember he has an ax to grind against joe biden because joebt along with western leaders had him fired in 2016. basically for not doing his job. after that meeting devin nunes returns and he and an aide ge

those are the words of devin nunes. chris wallace, a look from you at what you expect when we move over to the opposition side here. >> well, that's going to be interesting to see the degree to which the republicans go after taylor on the substance and was this just a political dispute. aid to ukraine or not aid to ukraine and that kind of thing and to what degree. you saw this. i was a little bit surprised at how political devin nunes' opening statement was because he basically said that this has been an attempted coup by the democrats ever since donald trump raised his right hand on january 20th, 2017. and that as he put it, you know, you try first with mueller and the russia investigation, you, adam schiff, talked about that you had evidence of collusion. that failed, so now, as you say, a low rent sequel on ukraine. it will be interesting to seat degree to which they try to make this just a political effort by the democrats to find some way to get donald trump or not. and not really go after the evidence. >> bret: t

we see devin nunes appears to have been meeting with victor shoken in 2018 in vienna. the activities of the republicans to dig up dirt on the biden, if these stories are correct, seem to be wider than we thought and it does seem many more people were in the loop than want to admit that. >> that was a clear take away from his opening remarks when he used that word in the loop. let's back up and talk about the testimony that we saw in the past few weeks. and we know that it's been said an impeachable offense should be compelling, overwhelmingly clear and unambiguous. did the testimony live up to that, in your opinion? >> we have a classic situation where people are going to be making sense of ambiguous information in terms of theories they already have in their mind. so i fear the facts as they were presented are not going to change the mind of the president's supporters and i fear that they're going to only enhance the conclusions in the mind of the president's critics, but i'm not certain they're going to really change many opinions. of course, the important group that

adam schiff has the four dell devin nunes, the ranking member, that he cannot have any other member on that committee have time to ask questions. in every committee today, it doesn't mattered what tissue, is you can use your -- yield your time to another individual, but not now. will the public be able to see what's inside these four new seek ratted depositions in the basement? no. 75%, three-quarters of the entire congress cannot be included. >> brennan: so who is it that you want to see? that was the question i asked. >> well, i think the very first person, we should bring adam schiff and his staff. he's the only individual in america -- >> >> brennan: for a public hearing? you want to question the chairman of the house intelligence committee? >> yes, i would, because he's the only person who knows who this whistleblower is. he refers to himself as a ken starr. how many times did he meet with the whistleblower? what did he talk to the whistleblower about? because when the whistleblower even went to the inspector general, he never mentioned that he went with adam schiff. remember what

we're talking about devin nunes there. >>> and she's the best gymnast in the world. next, why simone biles is calling for another investigation into the team's former abusive doctor. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, i'm natalie allen. thank you so much for joining us. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> thank you again for joining us. developing overnight, we have new developments for you on this same story regarding the impeachment inquiry. newly released documents give us a clearer view of how president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani coordinated his efforts in ukraine, through the white house. and it's coming directly from the u.s. state department. the information results from the freedom of information lawsuit filed by the group called american oversight. email exchanges spell out how the white house helpedarrange a phone call between giuliani and u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo. this took place the day after giuliani handed over materials with unproven claims about former vice president seen here, joe biden and his s

of course questions from republicans including jim jordan and devin nunes. i am at the cannon house office building directly next door to the longworth house office building think after nicholas longworth who by the way was a congressman from ohio. speaker of the house from 1925-1931 and the longworth building band after him back in 1962. i want to share with you a headline from the "washington post," democrats charge bribery house speaker next bluesy sharpening her rhetoric after president trump, and this is the escalation of the charges, bribery by the way specifically make it in the constitution including high crimes and misdemeanors and, of course, that is what members of the house intelligence committee will be gathering today. should also point out the hearings will continue into next week and then the committee or write a report that will then be submitted to the house judiciary committee and voted on and then to the house floor for the articles of impeachment. if passed a coast to the use senate for a trial expected to begin sometime in early to mid

>> well, so if you watch devin nunes for five minutes in these hearings, you know he has given other to the defense of the president and to the propagation of fantastical conspiracy theories like this notion that the crowdstrike company, which apparently is a ukrainian company, despite the fact as you pointed out it's actually a california-based company, devin nunes has given himself over to the search for and propagation of wild conspiracy theories which, by the way, at their source are about russian intelligence. so this whole ukrainian meddling in the election of 2016 has zero evidence for it and it is deliberately propagated by the russian state in order to create confusion. so is it credible? look, i don't know what happened on that trip. but the allegation is that devin nunes used federal funds to fly himself and a couple of staffers over there in the search of dirt on biden. that's actually what the president is accused of doing, misusing public dollars for a political purpose. look, i haven't seen evidence one way or the other, but obviously mr. parnas may be able to cast som

republicans, led by devin nunes,

as we get ready to hear the other side of the fence here from devin nunes, going back to what he said initially, he will no doubt sort of try to bring in some of these origin questions with ukraine and also with russia. he claimed in his opening statements that ukraine had participated. here comes marie yovanovitch, walking in for round two after a bit of a break that she got. look for done dominic devin nunes to bring up that he believes the ukraine participated with russia in 2016 meddling. alexandra chalupa, working on behalf of ukraine and dnc. he said the democrats have ignored ukraine meddling and were blind to hunter biden's position. so we are going to hear definitely some of that coming from devin nunes when he gets his next shot at the microphone and the questioning. >> bret: let's head back into the hearing room, as you see the committee chairman, adam schiff, the ranking member devin nunes, and now ambassador yovanovitch getting settled there at the table. this will be 45 minutes of questioning from the republican side. stephen castor is the g.o.p. questionnaire. there are

. >> new reporting from several outlets including nbc news about devin nunes. lev parnas an associate of rudy giuliani who has been indicted is willing to tell lawmakers congressman nunes met with an ex-ukrainian official to get dirt on joe and hunter biden. >> they have only confirmed what we already knew, that trump did indeed want something from ukraine, namely an announcement that ukraine would investigate joe biden and his son. >> nearly 100 pages of state department documents released overnight by a watchdog group appearing to show a clear paper trail from trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani to secretary of state mike pompeo. >> we have this new additional batch of documents as you just reported from american oversight that further confirms what sondland said, that everybody knew what we were doing and why we were doing it. >> more breaking news to get to right now as vice president mike pence indirectly addressing the impeachment inquiry today during an unannounced visit to iraq. >> partisan politics and endless investigations have slowed things down

may be seeing i can testify that devin nunes, again, the ranking member of the house intel committee, the republican, that he may have met with ex-ukrainian officials. what do we know about that? >> yeah. so i think when we to be careful because lev parnas is kind of like a michael cohen figure, very bombastic, not the most credible person in the world and is trying to be has helpful to the democrats on the committee because he is undergoing a criminal investigation out of new york. so i think that his lawyers are probably diplomat for him to have any kind of impact that he could and get good will from the democrats on the committee to somehow help his case. but devin nunes was in europe last year around the same time that lev parnas said he was meeting with the former prosecutor in ukraine to get dirt on joe biden. if that's the case, then the democratic representative adam smith said on msnbc this morning that it's quite likely there will will be an ethics investigation because devin nunes has been making a biss fuss about the idea that ukraine interfered in the election. if it's tr

devin nunes. that devin nunes met with a shady ukrainian prosecutor last december. according to parnas' lawyer he told him of the urgent need to launch investigations into biden. and said pranas was willing to testify. nunes has loyally defended the president throughout the impeachmenthe hearings, pushing one discredited conspiracy theory affanother. and when asked about the reports on trump tv this weekend, nunes naturally went after the reporters. >> bottom line. were you in vienna? >> yeah, so look, maria, i really want toma answer all of these questions and i promise you i will come back on the show and answer these questions but because there is criminal activity here, woor arer wie're with the appropriate law enforcement agencies. >> he's not wrong. it's unclear what he meant by that. no noteworthy he's not denied it. but the kiss of the lev parnas media blitz is that the thous houses intelligence committee is in possession of video, audio recordings. that's right the house committee investigating the president of the united states now has audio, video and pho

where to begin on devin nunes? this is an allegation that is being made by lev parnas, the attorney for lev parnas saying this. nunes is trying to say it's all a bunch of huey and how suing media over this. fiona hill was last week saying it's a problem to keep forcing this narrative that ukraine was meddling. did you find any evidence that ukraine was systematically meddling in our election in 2016? >> no katy, we did not. and this has been -- i've never seen the intelligence community more unanimous in its view that the russian government interfered in our democracy in 2016. that was the view we reached in october 2016, the director of national intelligence and i issued our statement on october 7th. that was the view of the intelligence committee in january 2017. that's been the view of the committee chaired by richard burr as well as the two indictments issued by the special counsel robert mueller. even tom bossert, president trump's former homeland security secretary that any notion that the ukrainians interfer

>> i'm not sure who devin nunes is meeting with outside of the united states. if there is a suggestion or some evidence that he was abusing funds for political purposes, you could see an ethics investigation if somebody comes forward with an allegation, some complaint with the ethics committee, then you would see them open a probe into that and take a look to see if there's anything there. we know that congressman nunes was cleared of wrongdoing with a previous probe in his activities surrounding the russia investigation in 2017. but he's been somebody who has been out there in his political defense of the president and in his offense in favor of the president. >> you wrote about the impeachment inquiry that the house has a piled evidence towards quid pro quo. what was your take away from over 34 hours of testimony? >> dara, there's an amazing -- there's sort of an amazing fact pattern that these witnesses have testified to which is that the president put together an operation involving several cabinet secretaries. other senior administration officials with the

so devin nunes at the hearing saying this is crazy that the president would want ukraine to look bidens. the prosecutor, who was at the center of all the controversy, met with nunes in vienna last december. so before all this other is it stuff that they're saying was just about one call -- >> way before. >> shokin tells parnas, the shady guy at the center of all of this and nunes' staffer meets with lev parnas? >> so does nunes. >> several times. er that -- they're asked to merge operations this whole impeachment is about a shadow foreign policy that devin nunes appears to have some involvement in. >> so he knew it was going on, he knew they were looking for dirt on the bidens. >> he is a drama in this play himself and yet he has not told anyone about this. >> sourcing becomes everything. this comes from parnas's lawyer that this is what parnas wants to testify to. now you go the to go to nunes. what does nunes say? >> we've been trying to get in front of nunes in person. two of my colleagues went to see him on the hill. >> did they give him information about why? >> and this is word fo

the ranking member of the house intelligence committee devin nunes demanding the chairman adam schiff testify in private as part of the house impeachment inquiry. he has a lot of questions about any meetings with the whistleblower and what role shive played. president trump goes to alabama for the game of the century. alabama versus lsu. democrats preparing to make their public case for impeachment starting next week. the president saying there is no one we would rather run against michael bloomberg. the new york city mayor announces it's too late to focus on iowa and new hampshire. they are not happy. late entry highlighting growing anxiety among some democrats. the slate of candidates won't be unable to unseat president trump in 2020. >> ♪ >> shannon: welcome to fox news @ night. i am shannon bream in washington. president trump's visit to a college football match up causing a stir on camps. trace gallagher has the story. >> we tick tock closer to kick off in the huge alabama and lsu game. the university of alabama student government is retracting a warning it issued with presiden

the first public testimony now just days away, republicans on the intel panel -- led by devin nuÑes -- say they want to question the whistleblower at the center of the controversy, plus hunter biden and a whole bun of others who they -- bunch of others. chairman schiff calls autoof that a non-- all of that a nonstarter even as democrats insist the process will be fair. >> it is impossible to conduct an impeachment inquiry when the chief complaining witness is unknown to the president, not subject to cross-examination. >> i think we will end up calling some of the witnesses on that list, and my test is do these witnesses have important information, knowledge or evidence about the president's conduct. and if it passes that test, then we should call them, sure. ed: well, congressman nuÑes will have a chance to respond to all of this as my guest today. but fist, ellison barber is reporting live from the white house where she starts us off. >> reporter: president trump is joining republicans in calling for the first whistleblower to testify. public hearings are scheduled to take place thi

first, a big new development involving giuliani associate parnas and congressman devin nunes. parnas' attorney says he's willing to step that nunes met with a top ukrainian official. >>> new overnight, a rare release of almost 100 pages of state department documents, what they say about secretary of state pompeo and rudy giuliani and more. >>> what this all means for the major players involved, including rudy giuliani and what it could do to compel house democrats to extend the hearings. >>> plus we have impeachment and the race for 2020. how voters are reacting to the impeachment inquiry and how it may affect the minds of voters when they head to the polls. >>> and we'll take a deep dive into the articles of impeachment. what they could look like and how they might compare to the three other presidents who faced the very same process. stay with us. this hour we highlight what you need to know in terms of what happened this week in the impeachment inquiry. but first off, overnight two new developments to share with you. the first, the attorney for indicted giuliani associate l

devin nunes will have his chance to question witnesses along with the g.o.p. counsel in that room. what do you expect these republican strategies will be as this year and continues moments from now? >> martha: just on that note, i think it's really important and i think andy mccarthy waited out really well in terms of the different things we are talking about here. that the president of rudy giuliani hold onto that crowdstrike narrative for a long time. i think that's primarily what fiona was talking about. the difference in terms ukrainian policy. and the president also talked about back then that there were a lot of people in crimea who wanted to be part of russia. a lot of narratives that were disturbing to some people in that part of the world who had russia breathing down their neck and trying to continue its expansionist desires. one other thing i would just mention it is sort of the u.s. political backdrop here, especially on the republican side. you have mitt romney, centered around, senator susan collins, going to the white house today for lunch. this is part of a campaign

and he's not. >> it's almost as devin nunes didn't read -- >> it's almost as if devin nunes doesn't take this job seriously and doesn't what's going on. >> let's play devin nunes and adam schiff, the way they closed out the inquiries. >> what you've seen in this room over the past two weeks is a show trial, exploiting the intelligence committee as a venue for impeachment has been one of the grossest processes. >> if my view there's nothing more dangerous than an an unethical president who believes they're above the law. i would just say to people here at home and around the world, in the words of my great colleague, we are better than that. >> so? >> i mean, adam schiff, for him, that is incredibly worked up. he was saying that contemporaneously, not looking at notes. but the dichotomy is incredible. with the witnesses, to any absolve donald trump but two, would the republicans be effective where they have some new line of talking points. and what we saw this week, they don't. they have the same litany of hopes and alex chalupa and others don't understand. they didn't have anything speci

who knows what's going to happen in this devin nunes case. i mean as you know, jeff, when you try to approach mr. nunes, on capitol hill, he refuses to talk to any reporters. he's obviously, he obviously sees us as the enemy so he won't be answering questions, certainly from people like us, on capitol hill, maybe he will give an interview and provide more details to fox news, although that wasn't the case yesterday. but it's a very unusual situation, when you have the ranking member of the top republican of the intelligence committee, that is investigating the ukraine matter, and that top republican is somehow involved in that very matter itself. so not sure where this is going to go, but obviously, i think this underscores that we are learning new details and developments every single day. >> scott wong, thank you. >> thanks. >>> still ahead, the latest in the race for the democratic national come nation, an uphill battle for former new york city mayor michael bloomberg has he officially enters the race. plus this. >> i'm going to ask, due t

parnas was told by victor shokin, one prosecutor, that he actually met with devin nunes in vienna late last year. serately, parnas's lawyer has said that nunes was also planning to go to ukraine to meet with different prosecutors, and that's the scrapped trip. but nunes has sort of broadly said these stories are false, but he will not engage directly on the question, did he or did he not meet with mr. shokin. >> so joyce, again, we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves. but when you look at this and consume -- look, the lawyer for lev parnas says we've got the goods on this, is there in this some potential problem for devin nunes or is this just really a political story? >> you know, it could be a political and an ethics investigation type of a story. it could be something else. the important thing, as you say here, chris, is not to get too far ahead. because what we don't yet know is the full details of the purpose of these visits. perhaps it was a legitimate purpose. parnas apparently is suggesting that it was not. i think what's unusual is when we see nunes go on tv and say h

devin nunes has the goods. they tried to slander him. he is a strong man with a backbone and he isn't going to take it. >> lee zeldin from new york. come on back. 20 before the hour. stunning win for hong kong's pro-democracy movement after a landslide victory in the polls overthe weekend. the results putting pressure on elected leaders after months of violent protests. jonathan hunt live in hong kong with reaction today. jonathan. >> in the wake of that political earthquake there was some question whether the street protests here in hong kong would continue or whether the pro-democracy activists would call them off because of their success. a leading activist told us no way. the street protests were proof that they were winning politically. they want to keep it going. tonight an example of that. hundreds of students have been out on the streets here with just outside the campus of hong kong polytechnic university. i moved a little far for our cameraman but there are ranks of riot police on the walkway keeping a careful eye on the protes

about devin nunes's activities. so i do think that there's -- there's a reason for democrats to possibly slow their roll a little bit here. yes, they have enough. but i think that the case needs to continue to be pursued. i think there's more evidence. there's more witnesses. and, frankly, public opinion needs to marinate in some of the things that we've learned over the last ten days. >> joyce, what's the risk here? listen to what charlie said. marinating versus moving. >> you know, the real central question here is whose domestic political errand was gordon sondland running? was it rudy giuliani's? was it secretary pompeo's? or can it be attributed to donald trump? so ultimately, when we get into the senate part of these proceedings, the most important question will be not did the conduct occur, as charlie says it's very clear it occurred. but did it occur at the president's direction? that's what makes this timing issue so difficult. and it seems that over the last week or two, we've been getting new evidence. no

. >>> plus congressman and ranking member of the house intelligence committee devin nunes denounces reports that he met with an ex-ukrainian prosecutor to dig up dirt on former vice president joe biden. the allegation was made by one of rudy giuliani's indicted associates. >>> and it's official, former new york city mayor michael bloomberg has confirmed he's making a white house run, and he's kicking it off with a $30 million advertising blitz. ♪ good monday morning, everybody. it is november 25th. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett. we begin with a shake-up at the pentagon. navy secretary richard spencer has been fired after the case of a navy s.e.a.l. accused of war crimes in iraq who was later acquitt acquitted. according to a statement from the department department secretary mark esper lost his trust and confidence in spencer over the handling of the case of chief petty officer eddie gallagher. he had been accused of committing war crimes while he was deployed in 2017. he was acquitted of murder but convict instead july of posing with th

nunes to have all the witnesses testify. he said saying we will stick to them. john bolton didn't show up last week. there is a lot of excitement. he might learn something new from the interactions. how satisfied are you? how safd do you think lawmakers will be with the focus of this investigation being so narrow? are you content saying john bolton may not testify because he is waiting on the courts? put that in obstruction camp, we can move on without him? >> i don't think it's totally clear how narrow it will be. this set of hearings will be narrow. we >> tony: even how narrow -- what goes on before the intelligence committee, then to the judiciary committee to draw up the articles of impeachment. it could tpoepblly broaden at that point. there is value in keeping it narrow up front because it is -- the value of this story, or the reason that this is kind of a dangerous story for the white house is because it's simple. and the more you look into it, there are further and further complications and republicans are trying to

notably, he's the ranking minority member, devin nunes, first is parnas a credible witness? is there any chance that congress brings him in to testify? >> you brought up one of my favorite conundrums as a criminal defense attorney. is a cooperating witness's testimony or information he provides to prosecutors reliable? after all you start with the presumption that he's an alleged criminal. he's somebody who is charged, under indictment and cooperating witnesses will commonly say to a jury, will say anything and everything to save their skin. they are not to be believed. they're not credible. and then the government will get up and say -- no, they're believable because they are going to serve some time. they're going to be punished. and they have no motive to lie now, they're totally honest, trustworthy people even though we just got finished indicting them. this is a common, cooperating witness challenge for the government. is that, it's that these defendants are obviously telling the government what they are saying is the truth. but on the other hand, are they just saying i

will fiona hill get into this with devin nunes? will there be an engagement on this question in which she calls bs on devin nunes. >> looks like it. >> and by extension all of the republicans who embraced this point of view. >> the question today is going to be -- >> that the question. >> -- are they going to be on the side of vladimir putin or are they going to be on the side not only of fiona hill, but every intel chief that donald trump himself appointed? nominated, got appointed. jonathan lemire, whether it is the fbi director, whether it is the cia director, the nbi, acting nbi, whether it is military intelligence, it is u.s. military, everybody has told donald trump the same thing. whether it is department of hhs, everybody has told donald trump the same thing. the number one threat to the united states of america right now is not thermonuclear war from north korea, but the fact that russia is meddling in america's democracy. those are trump's intel chiefs. so why does donald trump and devin nunes and jim jordan, why do they

what does devin nunes has to say to this? listen to how he answer aid pretty direct question on fox business yesterday. >> bottom line, were you in vienna with shokin? >> so, yeah, look, maria, i want to answer all these questions and i promise i will come back on the show to answer these questions but because there is criminal activity here, we're working with the appropriate law enforcement agency, we're going to file all this. >> here with me now, former republican congressman from pennsylvania. as you know well, it is not hard to say no to a direct question like that if you so want to. you are, importantly for this conversation, former chairman of the house intelligence committee. at least one democrat is calling on house ethics to look into this now. if this reporting is true, what does it mean and what should congress do? >> well, kate, again, if true, then i would say representative nunes has a very serious problem, because one cannot use official resources or taxpayer resources for a campaign purpose. now, granted, he

lev parnas helped rep devin nunes' investigations from yesterday. first two paragraphs reading, lev parnas, an indicted associate of rudy giuliani, helped arrange meetings and calls in europe for rep devin nunes in 2018 parnas' lawyer ed mcmahon told "the daily beast." nun -- which were arranged to help nunes' investigative work. >> and now nunes could be facing a potential ethics review and a whole bunch of questions. now, one question is whether or not nunes took a taxpayer-funded trip where parnas' lawyer alleges nunes was looking for the same type of dirt that president trump asked for in that now infamous phone call with the ukrainian president. maybe that's why the congressman led the pack slamming the impeachment hearings maybe? >> whatever drug deal the democrats are cooking up here on the dais, the american people aren't buying it. it's an ambitious attack to deprive the american people. i'm glad you're here. i'm really not glad you're here, but welcome to the fifth day of this circus. you are here today to be smeared. an inquisition victim