that they decided to send perry there instead. >> rick perry could be going energy secretary. >>. you learned that from mr. giuliani. >> correct. >> was perry aware of what you were trying to do in ukraine, as far as getting the elections announced? >> i don't know about me, what he was told, but definitely he knew about rudy because he called rudy on his way there to ask him what to discuss. rudy told him to make sure to give them the message. >> giuliani told per way what you need to convey to the ukrainian government is they need to announce an investigation and joe biden. >> definitely. >> do you know if the message was also that ukraine would lose their military aid, they would lose their aid if they didn't announce those investigations? >> i don't resucall them having specific conversation about that. i don't know what conversation they had prior or after, but i know there was another conversation that perry called after the inauguration telling him that he spoke to zelensky and zelensky is going to do it. >> perry says, i spoke to zelensky and got him to agree and announce

tonight, join jimmy and his guests - tyler perry, yara shahidi musical guest black pumas, and featuring the legendary roots crew >> questlove: 1187 >> steve: and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: thank you very much, everybody. hello. thank you very much. welcome, welcome, welcome to "the tonight show," everybody. [ cheers and applause you're here. you made it. thank you very much. you guys, i'm excited about this tyler perry is my guest tonight. >> steve: yeah [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: tyler -- tyler is so busy, not only is he here now, but he also played every democrat at tonight's debate >> steve: really >> jimmy: very impressive. [ laughter ] that's right, earlier tonight in iowa was the first democratic debate of 2020. of course, the top candidates are still joe biden, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren can we see them? they look like a '60s folk band that reunited for one final tour [ laughter and applause ♪ the answer my frien is blowing i little jacky paper ♪ [ light laughter ] actually, i think joe biden was a

was going, that they decided to send perry there. >> secretary perry. you learned that from mr. guiliani? >> correct. >> was perry aware of what you and mr. guiliani were doing if you crane to get these announcements? >> i don't know about me, definitely he knew about rudy because he was told, he called rudy on his way there to ask him what to discuss and rudy told him that to make sure to give him the message. >> mr. guiliani told secretary perry what you need to convey to the ukrainian government is they need to announce an investigation into joe biden? >> absolutely. >> do you know if part of the message that mr. guiliani conveyed to secretary perry was also that ukraine would lose their military aid if they didn't announce those investigations? >> i don't recall them having a specific conversation about that. it was more of just telling him what he needs to do to announce it. i don't know whethat other conversation they could have had prior or after. but i know there was another conversation that perry called after the inauguration telling him that

was going to the -- they decided to send perry there instead. >> energy secretary rick perry would be going. >> correct. >> did you -- you learned that from mr. juligiuliani? >> correct. >> was mr. perry, to your knowledge, aware of what you and mr. giuliani were trying to do in ukraine of terms of getting these investigations announced? >> i don't know to what extent he was told about me. i don't know what he was told. definitely he knew about rudy because he was told -- he called rudy on his way there to ask him what to discuss and rudy told him that to make sure to give him the message. >> mr. giuliani told secretary ferry what you need to convey to the ukrainian government they need to announce an investigation into joe biden. >> absolutely. >> do you know if part of the message that mr. giuliani con y conveyed to secretary perry was also that ukraine would lose their military aid, they'd lose their u.s. aid, if they didn't announce those investigations? >> i don't recall them having a specific conversation about that. >> okay. >> it was more of just telling him what he needs to d

doors like rick perry. john bolton we already knew about, but we learned more from lev parnas that donald trump told john bolton to fire the ambassador and john bolton refused to do it. would like to hear john bolton's version of that. he's on your witness list already. >> he is. >> what about rick perry when you hear lev parnas saying rudy giuliani told lev parnas that he told rick perry -- rick perry's the person who knows the answer to those -- >> actually the department of energy is one of the agencies mentioned. when you look at the report that we got today from the inspector general where they have said that there is a legal issue here, that the trump administration violated the law. they're a nonpartisan agency in not providing this information and blocking the money from going to ukraine and not following the rules of informing congress and then you look at the counts of the indictment and there you have blockage again of information going to congress. it just keeps going. and one of those agencies

on the left, tyler perry studios. why is that so significant >> both signs mean something to me sylvan is where i was homeless, where i moved to atlanta off that road with my cousin, trying to make it in atlanta and now, the exit to the studio is right next to where it all started for me that's really, really an inspiring and powerful for me. >> it's crazy to see that to see where you were i see this empire. and i feel like i know about you. i read about you i interviewed you a bunch of times. i remember you talking and telling stories about being homeless going paycheck to paycheck and i watched you in that golf cart i thought, wow and i start thinking, why did that little boy think he could do that? what was it about you in that day? >> i have to acontributtribute mother, who constantly reaffirmed to me the power of who i am never apologized for being black. and never apologize for the stories we tell and who we are my mother was instrumental in that the tremendous amount of faith to get to where i am had it not bee

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please welcome back tyler perry! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> thank you so much. thank you. thank you. >> have a seat! have a seat! >> i'm gonna put this down here. [ cheers and applause continue ] th thk yo [ chuckling ] thank you. wow. thank you. >> okay. >> thank you. thank you. >> okay, y'all are acting like tyler came out here giving loans. i mean, this is amazing! >> i -- [ cheers and applause continue ] so -- so, i take it you just saw the movie? [ cheers and applause ] okay. okay. okay. >> i mean, okay, was that movie -- it is juicy thriller. i mean, today it drops, netflix. >> yes. >> the first movie filmed on the tyler perry studios lot. >> no, it's actually -- actually the fourth. >> fourth?! >> but this is the first one since the opening, yes, since the grand opening, yeah. >> so this is the first since that big opening, which we all attended. >> yeah. >> i said it was like "the saints come marching in." >> yes, exactly right. >> this is incredible. >> yeah. >> this -- i always think, "where do these stories come from in the mind of tyler perry?" were you watchin

perry leads the delegation to the zelensky inauguration. and then parnas is doing the bidding of giuliani who is doing the bidding of the president. he's said it many times, why would any of the ukrainian senior government officials meet with this no name businessman from america unless they thought he was representing president trump and president trump's lawyer. i think that was crystal clear in rachel's tremendously important couple of interviews. a credit to her for doing this. >> ambassador michael mcfaul, thank you. >>> up next, the impeachment trial pulling four of the 2020 democrats off the trail at a critical time for the campaign. we have new reporting from inside the campaigns on how this is already been felt in the early voting states. >>> plus as we track the new developments on the impeachment trial -- front, rather, we'll be joined by one senator turned juror. we have breaking news on who else besides the name we have -- names we just talked about will be part of the president's fight. that is breaking news, live after the br

both acting chief of staff mulvaney and secretary perry responded to the e-mail noting that the head of state call would be scheduled and secretary perry wrote mick just confirmed the call being set up for tomorrow by nsc, the national security council. and mulvaney responded i asked nsc to set it up for tomorrow. neither mulvaney nor secretary perry took issue with the fact that sondland coaxed zelensky to yield to president trump's pressure campaign but instead they took steps to connect the two leaders. everyone was in the loop. they were aware that during the july 20 call president trump intended to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election and press the ukrainian leader to announce investigations into former vice president biden and the crowd strike conspiracy theory. there was no focus on advancing america's foreign-policy or national security objectives. the only priority was president trump's corrupt demand for phony investigations in exchange for an oval office meeting. this, or that. in ambassador sondland's testimony confirming this. >> everyone was in the loop. it

i like rick perry to testify. i want everybody. but there are things that you can't do from the standpoint of executive privilege. you have to maintain that. so we'll see where it all goes. >> is the president justified here in his reasoning for exercising executive privilege? or to be frank, is that a load of huey? >> well, democratic lawyers would say it's a load and republican lawyers would say he's completely justified. look. i -- i -- i think when i'm reporting on this for this week, i'm struck by two things. one, the administration that right there you have that they want to move on from this. and -- and -- and that will activate their base. but speaker pelosi now, in handing off the two articles of impeachment, i'm struck to see whether or not she is giving up her leverage. and that's a question really i honestly think isn't going to be answered until this whole impeachment trial is wrapped up. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell now has a choice in the sense that he has to navigate whether or not he feels that he could h

secretary perry wrote mick just confirmed the call set up for tomorrow. and mulvaney responded i asked nsc to set it up for tomorrow. neither mulvaney nor secretary perry took issue with the fact that sondland coached zelensky to yield to president trump's pressure campaign. but instead, they took steps to connect the two leaders. everyone was in the loop. they were aware that during the july 20th call president trump intended to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election and pressed the ukrainian leader to announce investigations into former vice president biden and the crowdstrike conspiracy theory. there was no focus on advancing america's foreign policy or national security objectives. the only priority was president trump's corrupt demand for phony investigations in exchange for an oval office meeting. this for that. here's ambassador sondland's testimony confirming this scheme. >> everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. everyone was informed via email on july 19, days before the presidential call. as i communicated to the team, i told pre

thank you, tyler perry, i know you have a busy day. you can watch "a fall from grace" on netflix starting when. >> friday. >> fire ravaged australia finding injured koalas. there they go. coming up, how highly trained in a world where everything gets a sequel. it's finally time for... geico sequels! classic geico heroes, starring in six new commercials, with jaw-dropping savings. vote for your favorites at: geico.com/sequels ahhh, which way do i go?! i don't know, i'm voting for our sequels. with geico, the savings keep on going to a screen near you. not the leg! you dang woodchucks! geico sequels. vote and enter to win today! >>> the country is dealing with the worst fire seasons on record. more than a billion animals have been loss already. jimmy, you can show us how special trained dogs are being used to save these iconic animals. >> reporter: koalas are only found in australia. they have been hit particularly hard. here in now souknew south wales third of the population have died. that's why these dogs are so important, they sniff

perry: if the gentleman will yield. i wasn't in congress. i wasn't -- didn't have the-beer to be in congress at that time -- have the honor to be in congress at that time. maybe you were or you were more atune to things. i'm wondering, at that time, without a strategy, without a plan, firing on a sovereign nation, killing their leader, assassinating, well, their people -- mr. gohmert: reclaiming my time. president obama had our troops -- or had our forces, nato forces, but they were american, they bombed his convoy as he was leaving libya and that allowed the locals -- then he was assassinated there. mr. perry: so, to make the correction absolutely clear, the united states did not kill the leader of libya. but we helped facilitate it in some respect. mr. gohmert: in criminal terms, he was certainly an accessory. could not have been killed without president obama's help. mr. perry: if you were president, did somebody in this house say, this president is reckless, he's a destabilizing -- he's destabilizing the region, he

rick perry has asked me i would love to testify, please let me testify because he knows this is all a hoax. he understands better than most and rick perry would love to testify but we are dealing with national security. we are dealing with one other thing. our country has been tied up with his hoax from the day i came down the escalator. we have been fighting it. i have been fighting it from the day i was elected. i would say probably long before i came down the escalator. some people said that which is hard to believe. it is hard to believe. we have been fighting this. i would rather go the long route. is horrible for our country. our country has to get back to business. we have people that are corrupt like adam schiff who makes up statements, he had no idea i was going to release the transcript, he never thought i would do that and for that i think the president of ukraine because we got there approval. he had no idea i was going to do that. these are corrupt people, some of them and some of them are just playing the political game. if you look at the poll numbers my poll numbers ar

you know, he brought up rick perry as you said but there's other people who -- people have questions about. the democrats have questions about including what john bolton knew, what the acting chief of staff mulvaney knew and mike pence and the circle is wider and i think that that gives democrats a lot of ammunition to push for more witnesses and just more information. i think that the democrats challenge will be to try to slow that down and gather as much information as they can. >> according to "the new york times" the president frustrated that there was so much focus on impeachment and not the recent trade agreement with china. tell me about this. >> well, the president say that is sometimes but then he himself constantly tweets anlt impeachment. he talked about it at the trade signing. the signing of that trade deal the other day. so it's something that he is privately very consumed by, the idea of impeachment and the shadow over his presidency. and i think he does want credit for things like the trade deal, you know, he is frustrated lately by drug pricing, wants credit for poli

our arts editor will gompertz talking to grayson perry. and one last note — the portraits of the former us president barack obama and first lady michelle obama are going on tour for the first time. they'll be shown in five cities across the us from next year. the paintings have been a popular attraction at the smithsonian's national portrait gallery in washington since they were unveiled in 2018. that may needs again, authorities in china now save 25 people are known to have died from the outbreak of the new coronavirus. they have imposed strict travel restrictions on more cities across the province. a number of chinese patients suffering from the illness has risen to 830. much more on all the news for you anytime on the bbc website. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter. hello. six hours of sunshine in sheffield on thursday. much of the uk couldn't even manage six seconds of blue sky, with scenes like this. there are weather changes on the way over the weekend, and that will shake things up a bit, but until th

romaine: he did that, but the person standing beside was corey perry. we will let you know once we get more details. >> in the meantime, stock market closing higher. record highs all around. let's check in with our reporters as they monitor the different stories out there. >> i'm thinking about something ,ou and joe were talking about the week. we may have record highs, but there is some defense going on. the best sectors for the s&p 500, utilities up top, nearly 4%. even though we have all-time highs, the s&p 500 is coming on defensive sectors. real estate is up 2.5%. rates are about flat. typically these would do well if rates were going lower. of the growthome sectors here, tech and materials. this is a long-term chart. utilities tend to do better at the end of the markets. to2000, the peak was closer the end of 2000. 500 peaked in&p october. the fact that we have all this strength for the utility sector is worth keeping in mind, although there's not a clear pattern as was the case back then. we have defensive sectors leading on the week while we hav

. >>> this morning a popular show getting renewed and tyler perry's latest movie is coming to netflix. >> joy benedict has your eye on entertainment. >> reporter: tyler perry's newest project is a thriller called a fall from grace. >> hey. >> hey. >> these are beautiful. >> so are you. >> reporter: it features crystal fox as grace, a divorced woman who falls for and marries a younger man, then her life begins to unravel. cobb brooks plays grace's charming and conniving husband. phylicia rashad, tyler perry and sicily tyler co-star. >>> season 3 hasn't even aired yet but bbc america says killing eve is returning for a fourth season. the award winning sandra o plays eve, a british spy whose mission is to capture psychotic assassin villenell. season three of killing eve will premiere this spring. >>> listen carefully. you are now 5000 miles from land and you're descending 7 miles to the bottom of the ocean. >> reporter: kristen stewart stars in underwater, an underthe sea horror story. she plays an aquatic researcher whose crew has to escape from their underwater laboratory after the ear

i like rick perry to testify. i want everybody. but there are things that you can't do from the standpoint of executive privilege. you have to maintain that, so we'll see where it all goes, but especially a national security adviser, you can't have him explaining all of your statements about national security concerning russia, china, north korea, everything, you just can't do that. >> meanwhile, house speaker nancy pelosi yesterday said that she would not rule out subpoenaing bolton. >> we haven't eliminating the possibility of ever subpoenaing and going forward with bolton, but he has said in this two-week period as another piece of progress that we made that he would respond to a subpoena from the united states senate. >> if the senate does not subpoena john bolton, and other witnesses, will the house move to subpoena them? >> it's not excluded. it's not excluded, but we'll see what they do. but we do think that there's enough evidence to remove the president from office. >> joining us here onset, msnbc legal analyst, danny ceva

our arts editor will gompertz talking to grayson perry. much more for you at any time on our website and on twitter. hello. six hours of sunshine in sheffield on thursday. much of the uk couldn't even manage six seconds of blue sky, with scenes like this. there are weather changes on the way over the weekend, and that will shake things up a bit, but until then, plenty of cloud. the big picture shows high pressure giving way to this weather front, which will spread rain southwards across the uk during sunday, wind picking up as well. behind that, skies will eventually turn brighter, but it'll feel colder into the start of next week. but not looking at any frost, certainly not widespread, to start friday. plenty of cloud, damp, drizzly, misty and foggy in places too. particularly across parts of england and wales, poor visibility. now, some rain near the north coast of northern ireland, south—west scotland, pushing up across the western side of scotland during the day. increasing cloud in the afternoon in north—east scotland. until then,

our arts editor will gompertz talking to grayson perry. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm katie shanahan. coming up on this programme. liverpool's march to the premier league title continues with victory over wolves tranmere rovers knock watford out of the fa cup, to set up a home tie against manchester united. banished for breaking team protocol. finn russell will miss scotland's six nations opener. but is it the end for his whole tournament? and, jofra archer is fit again for the final test against south africa, as england deny suggestions he's being treated as an "outsider". hello and welcome to sportsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we'll start with liverpool, as the premier league leaders survived a scare against wolves to win 2—1 at molineux. that takes them 16 points clear at the top of the table and continues their remarkable run with 22 wins in 23 games. our sports correspondent, andy swiss, has all the details. how do you beat the seemingly unbea

secretary perry. brian mccormick, who is secretary perry's chief of staff at the time. ms. kenna, who is the acting-- pardon me, who is the executive secretary for secretary pompeo. chief of staff mulvaney, and mr. mulvaney's senior adviser rob blair. ambassador bolton. counselor ulrich brechbuehl. dr. hill. mr. morrison, and their staff at the n.s.c. >> stephen: "i'd also like to incriminate my agent, baby doll, i love you! marcie from wardrobe... everybody at the r.n.c. mick mulvaney. we couldn't have pressured ukraine without you... oh god, they're playing me off. ♪ ♪ i want to thank the whistleblower, everybody at hbo. ( cheers and applause ) crime is crime is crime is crime. this is for you, mom. we did it! good night!" ( cheers and applause ) supposed to go this way. now, it's no surprise who sondland says was the delicious nougat at the center of this conspiracy. >> secretary perry, ambassador volker and i worked with mr. rudy giuliani on ukraine matters at the express direction of the president of the united states. we did not want to work with mr. giuliani. ( l

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our arts editor will gompertz talking to grayson perry. some breaking news on our top story out of china, some new figures on the numbers affected. so the number of deaths is now at 25, which is up from 18, that's from the state media in china, according to reuters, and the number of cases is up to 830. that's up from around 600. do stay with us here on bbc world news. hello. six hours of sunshine in sheffield on thursday, much of the uk couldn't even manage seconds of blue sky, with scenes like this. there are weather changes on the way over the weekend. that will shake things upa over the weekend. that will shake things up a bit, but until then, plenty of cloud. the big picture shows high pressure giving away to this weather front, which will spread ran southwards across the uk during sunday. wind picking up as well. behind that, skies will eventually turn brighter, but it'll feel colder into the start of next week. but not looking at any frost, certainly not widespread, to start friday. plenty of cloud, damp and drizzly, misty and foggy

perry reeled off the final three frames to get over the line. mark selby is under way against ali carter. that one's over on the red button right now. carter has just taken the first frame. and after knocking out the new england patriots last week, the tennesse titans continued where they left off by surprising the baltimore ravens in the nfl play offs last night — running back derrick henry became quarter back, throwing a touchdown pass for corey davis in the titans‘ 28—12 win. tonight, kansas city play houston and green bay host seattle. after winning herfirst title in three years, serena williams donated her prize money to help the relief efforts for the australian bushfires. her straight sets win in the final of the auckland classic againstjessica pegula was also significant — her first since becoming a mum. 0ur correspondent katie gornall reports. the great champions are those who endure when they are tested. in two decades of dominance, serena williams has seen it all. two and a half years ago, she nearly died giving birth to her d

our arts editor will gompertz talking to grayson perry. that's it for now. thank you so much for watching. hello. six hours of sunshine in sheffield on thursday. much of the uk couldn't even manage six seconds of blue sky, with scenes like this. there are weather changes at the end of the weekend, high at the end of the weekend, pressure over the weei eventually high pressure over the weekend will eventually give way to this weather front which on sunday is going to bring rain south across the uk, with a colder, brighter, showery air mass following on behind. let's take a look at how friday starts, though, and we've got the cloud. with the cloud, we are for the most part frost free. there's missed, there is fog, particularly into parts of england and wales. it is damp, it's drizzly in places. there are some outbreaks of rain close to the north coast of northern ireland that will run northwards across mostly the western side of scotland during the day. which means eventually increasing cloud after early brightness in north—east scotland. still some sunny sp

also present were secretary perry ambassador volker and official dr. phil and lieutenant colonel vindman. or the end of the meeting the ukrainians raise the topic of an oval office meeting between president trump and president zelensky. ambassador bolton started to respond when ambassador sondland interjected and raised the demand of the investigation. here's how lieutenant colonel vindman recalled the conversation. >> to the best of my recollection ambassador sondland said in order get a white house meeting the ukrainians would have to provide deliverable investigation, specific investigation. >> and nasiter folk are separately confirmed this recollection during his testimony. >> i participated in the july 10 meeting between national security adviser bolton and then ukrainian chairman of national security council. as i remember the meeting was essentially over when ambassador sondland made a comment about the investigations. all of us thought it was an appropriate. >> ambassador volker also found ambassador sondland's reference to be inappropriate and

the newly crowned uk champion was surprisingly beaten 6—3 byjoe perry in the first round in london. perry rattled off the final three frames in a 6—3 win. mark selby faces ali carter in half an hour. and after knocking out the new england patriots last week the tennesse titans continued where they left off by surprising the baltimore ravens in the nfl play offs last night — running back derrick henry became quarter back throwing a touchdown pass for corey davis in the titans‘ 28—12 win. tonight, kansas city play houston and green bay host seattle. serena williams has used her first title win in three years to send a message of support to the victims of the australian bushfires. she won the auckland international and will donate her prize money to the relief effort. it's a significant win for williams — her first in three years as katie gornall reports. the great champions are those who endure when they are tested. in two decades of dominance, serena williams has seen it all. two and a half years ago, she nearly died giving birth to her daughter, alexis. understandably, the

. >>> joining us now from qatar, nbc news correspondent cal perry. cal, good to have you with us this morning. bring us up to speed on the protests and what you may be gathering from being in the region about what direction they're going in. are they growing? what is the ultimate end goal here do you think? >> reporter: certainly seems to be growing, bigger the second day than they were the first. it's also worth mentioning of course that the president of the united states, donald trump, in his first month in office tried to ban iranians from coming to the u.s. and in his last month tried to threaten that he was going to bomb cultural sites. let's be clear, those tweets are not going to matter to folks in iran who are taking their lives into their hands. it was last month when we saw hundreds, maybe thousands of protesters killed by government forces, they were protesting the economy, they were protesting gas prices. these protests seem to stem, as you said, from the do you think of that ukrainian airliner. 82 iranians were on that airplane, these pr

our correspondent cal perry is in richmond. cal, as we know so well here, there are those who do their rally and what they want to do. then you have outside groups that sometimes attend and can for a lack of a better word hijack what is happening. where are we in this conversation here? >> i think that is the key point that you are making. look, we are going to have people who are intense these new restrictions in virginia taking place. these are folks who are going to be protesting their right to bear arms. then you are going to have out of state possibly militias who are going to show up. then you have on the most extreme a concern amongst law enforcement officials you could have problems with both of these groups. the base found law enforcement officials plans to attack that rally tomorrow, to do exactly what you are saying, hijack a progun protest. it frank lee happened two years ago in charlottesville virginia where we saw the violence and the tragic death of heather hire. security is being set up around the capital. they

cal perry on the phone from florida, where the president is vacationing. and hans nichols, we will start with you. i think the big question with regards to this news breaking overnight, is basically why. why now? >> it was an opportunity. it has been a long part of the administration's list for a long time, and an opportunity, plus this idea, and this is what is interesting about last night, was the legal nature. and they're clearly couching this as self-defense. and there's something else, and that this was, suleimani was someone who had command and control, and was putting americans at risk. so you looked at the way the white house is couching this and the state house and the defense department as well, it is along legal lines. now what isn't along legal lines is how the world is going to respond. and that's what is starting to come in. an ambivalent statement also from the united kingdom, with both side, and one of america's closest ally, and you have the warnings from the state department, to americans, you guys had mentioned, and then the question tha

cori. >> thank you so much, cal perry, in cqatar this morning. >>> the palace is scrambling ta clear they want to livfe by their own rules. joining us from london is molly hunter what a historic day for the royal family if we could only be inside that room to see how it all went down. >> that's right. if only. the queen will host prince william, prince harry, and prince charles in the hopes of finding a resolution meghan markle who left last week is expected to join by phone, a palace source tells use th camee they will grow free in independence the royal palace said it's not quite a done deal discussing payments to housing to titles. sometimetoday the palace has hinted they want this wrapped up the days, not weeks. we could hear something very sign guys, we're seeing reports that meghan has signed a voiceover for disney for elephants >> molly, thank you. >>> let's turn now to the devastation down under where crews continue to battle deadly wildfires that have claimed the lives of at least 27 people and burned more than 15 million acres. fire officials say they're making progress to

cal perry is with us. ambassador wendy sherman, a former under secretary of state in the obama administration will join us, she was the lead negotiator on the iran nuclear agreement, and she's now an msnbc global affairs contributor. ned price is with us, a former director and spokesperson for the national security counsel in the obama administration. and a former state department and white house official in the obama administration is also with us. andrea, i want to start with you and i actually want to start with that interview you did this afternoon with the defense secretary. i watched every minute of it. it seemed as though things had calmed from his perspective, and there was no clue about what was going to happen tonight. >> well, there were some hints along the way because he had briefed pentagon reporters this morning as well and said there could be a preemptive strike if they felt that u.s. interests or certainly u.s. lives were at stake. but there's no real hint in our interview. we asked what w

i want to go to cal perry. cal, the question comes up -- i would also like to ask the control room to go back to the photographs we have of the scene tonight. that's some of what -- that's what you were seeing before. that is at baghdad airport. that is where this missile strike occurred. and cal, it raises the question of what was general soleimani doing there? why would someone that high-ranking, a military officer, that valuable, be in the line of fire tonight? >> well, i think it speaks to who he was as a figure in iran when i tell you that he did this fairly frequently, that he would visit the front lines. he would visit the battlefields both in syria and in iraq. and that his photo would then be circulated across iranian media and across the country. interesting to note it was his name being spray painted on the outer walls of the u.s. embassy during those protests. our bureau chief just handed me this. the former head of the irgc is vowing strong revenge against the united states. so, we're starting to g

secretary of energy rick perry ultimately led the delegation to the inaugural. accompanying secretary perry were ambassador to the european union gordon sondland, ambassador volker, and nsc director for ukraine lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, senator rob johnson, also attended many of the inaugural advance with the delegation. when asked if this delegation was a good group, holmes replied it was not as senior delegation as we might have expected. after the inauguration, ambassadors voelker and sondland let key have with a very favorable impression of president zelensky. ambassador volker said they believed it was important that president trump personally engaged with the president of ukraine in order to demonstrate full u.s. support for him. with the inauguration team returning to the united states, they had a meeting with president trump on may 23. the may 23 meeting with president trump proved to be important for two good reasons. first, with ambassador yovanovitch out of the way, president trump authorized ambassador sondland, secretary perry, and ambas

mulvaney's senior adviser robert blair, secretary rick perry and brian mccormack, secretary perry's chief of staff, and we should at least start with, if we're seeious about gse serious about getting to the truth, issue a subpoena for stat department emails. in the emails sondland stated quote, i talked to zelensky just now. he is prepared to receive potus's call. we'll ensure him he intends to run an investigation and will turn over every stone. he will greatly appreciate a call prior to sunday so that he can put out some media about a friendly and productive call prior to ukraine election on sunday. i asked nsc to set up a call for tomorrow, section days before president trump's infamous july 25th call in which he told president zelensky to conduct investigations into the biden and the 2016 elections. he sent an e-mail to the top aides updating them on the status of the scheme. again, quote, everyone was in the loom. august 11th, ambassador sondland e-mailed to asked him to brief secretary pompeo on the statement he was negotiating with president zelensky with the aim of, quote, making

. >> talk about being hopeful in terms of the entertainment industry, do you think tyler perry and his new enterprise which will bring so many people of color into various aspects of movie and theater production are a part of the answer to put more people out there quick. >> obviously people of color owned their own is always helpful. and tyler perry there was one started by ava there's a lot of activity of people opening their own studio. of course that will help does that help the systemic problem we talk about? probably not. that yes. it will help and employee some people than they will be traine trained. hopefully then they can go to other studios. but i'm not convinced the pipeline was ever the problem anyway. i don't think that will change the systemic issues i'm talking about. thank you everyone. [applause] >> this was an incredible discussion now my favorite portion of the night is the book signing. we have copies over there you can grab one and get it signed. . . . . members of congress about their reading list. >> senator marsha blackburn, what is on your reading list these d

neither mulvaney nor secretary perry took issue with the fact that sondland coached zelensky to yield to president trump's pressure campaign. but instead they took steps to connect the two leaders. everyone was in the mood. they were aware that during the july 20th call president trump intended to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election and press the ukrainian leader to announce investigations into former vice president biden and the crowd strike conspiracy theory. there was no focus on advancing america's foreign policy or national security objectives. the only priority was president trump's corrupt demand for phony investigations in exchange for an oval office meeting. this for that. here's ambassador sondland's testimony confirming this scheme. >> everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. everyone was informed via email on july 19th, days before the presidential call. as i communicated to the team, i told president zelensky in advance that assurances to run a fully transparent investigation and turn over every stone were necessary in his call with president trump. >> in

some of the things he said about rick perry are now. they feel in line of the narrative that's are already out there. republicans feel that the narrative out there is not hurting the president's support with republicans and for the most part split 50/50 between independence. a couple said they think they can use it to their advantage if lev parnas was called as a witness because they feel like republicans would be able to cross-examine him and attack his character that could backfire on democrats. bringing the fact that he's indicted and shady past and reiterating the argument that they made for other witnesses that he does not have firsthand knowledge or firsthand contact with the president. tonight we seem to get a sense of him being at dinner and having more of firsthand contact. i don't think they think it changes the dynamic too much. >> annie karni, what's happening in the past to members of the trump's circle when he makes a decision to hit the button and distance himself from a slew of different people in his life. >> i never me

tyrell perry. willis on the break after the be. he gets it to that kid perry again. and he's on the move. career best 24 points. snor-59 the cardinal. a perfect 4 and 0 in the pac- 12. >>> this is a good story. damian lee, scrapping, trying to make it in the snab. back and forth between santa cruz and had to deal with the thing of being curry's brother- in-law. he part of the party now. earns himself a three-year deal. he is a bona fide nba player. and he actually gives a lot of credit to his brother-in-law. >> one of the biggest inspirations in my life. just knowing everything that he's been through. how he's worked so hard to make a name for himself and continues to make a name for himself. and obviously to see what he's doing. i'm very proud and lucky to have him as a brother. >> there you go. >>> we got a little dramatic going on. the vegas knights and will san jose sharks, they don't get along anyway. the sharks about a month ago, they fired their coach. he's now the head coach of the vegas knights. that's just gonna be interesting to watch. so the knights fire

also present were secretary perry ambassador volker and official dr. phil and lieutenant colonel vindman. or the end of the meeting the ukrainians raise the topic of an oval office meeting between president trump and president zelensky. ambassador bolton started to respond when ambassador sondland interjected and raised the demand of the investigation. here's how lieutenant colonel vindman recalled the conversation. >> to the best of my recollection ambassador sondland said in order get a white house meeting the ukrainians would have to provide deliverable investigation, specific investigation. >> and nasiter folk are separately confirmed this recollection during his testimony. >> i participated in the july 10 meeting between national security adviser bolton and then ukrainian chairman of national security council. as i remember the meeting was essentially over when ambassador sondland made a comment about the investigations. all of us thought it was an appropriate. >> ambassador volker also found ambassador sondland's reference to be inappropriate and

and we just killed the -- probably the second most important person in their government >> nbc's cal perry joins us now from london. so, cal, iran vowing harsh response here. the big question is what that response is going to be. >> yeah. and in what form will it come? we should mention, of course, the iranians have these proxies all across the region. it's likely to come in the form of one of those proxies. the most powerful has to be hezbollan banon. we are keeping our on israel israel has gone to a heightened state of alert, as has the u.s the u.s. embassy in baghdad urging americans to leave as quickly as they can. we should talk about qassim soleimani. it's hard to overstate the state his fingerprints on the middle east for the u.s. he was a murderer, a man who killed hundreds of u.s. soldiers during the war in iraq through the use of these improvised explosive devices, specifically these shape charges that the u.s. military intelligence officers say came from iran. that is why the u.s. government is saying he was targeted, as well as a defensive action the pentagon saying they had wo

he provides a lot of information about conversations with rick perry and rudy giuliani. he suggests that there was an additional quid pro quo here to get dmytry firtash off. he's been under investigation for bribery and faces extradition. he offers an awful lot of information. but when you ask him about how he knows it he says things like everyone was in the loop. you can't really pin him down or we haven't heard him pinned down on tell me who told you this. where were you. what documents do you have to support it? are there other people who were present who can confirm this also occurred? so i'd want to spend a few days with him to pin down all of those things. and it may be that i would use those other people as witnesses and not lev parnas himself. >> finally, theit you once held, which we throw around in some form or fashion on this broadcast every night, united states attorney. that's a presidential appointment. put yourself in your old job. if you were u.s. attorney, and this guy whose investigation is part of your purview shows up for two nights on msnbc and then

saying that perry knew about this essentially this conspiracy to use the mechanisms of american foreign policy to extract a political favor for donald trump. and he's saying vice president pence was in on it. pence denied that, but parnas told rachel maddow that essentially parnas went to the ukrainians and said you have to do this, announce his investigation or there will be consequences and shortly after they didn't do it, trump tells pence to cancel his visit to president zelenskys inauguration in may. >> hmm. nod. >> now pence saying he doesn't know the real reason for that but it's a question you would think the senate would want answered, mika. the other news yesterday that the general -- the government accountability office formally ruled the trump administration broke the law when it withheld that more than $200 million from ukraine, you know, that sort of answers the criticisms republicans have been saying, where's the law that was broken here. well, here's a law. the law that says the president must spent money appropriated by congress. not a criminal statute but a clear rulin

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he provides a lot of information about conversations with rick perry and rudy giuliani. he suggests that there was an additional quid pro quo here to get dmitry furtaj off as part of this deal. that is someone who has been under indictment by the justice department for bribery and faces extradition. so he offers an awful lot of information. but when you ask him about how he knows it, he says things like, everyone was in the loop. you can't really pin him down. at least we haven't heard him pin down on when were you told this? where were you, what documents do you have to support it? are there other people who were present that can confirm this also occurred? i'd want to spend a few days with him to try to pin down those things and i would use those other people as witnesses and not lev parnas himself. >> and finally, the title you once held and we throw around in some form or fashion on this broadcast every night, united states attorney, that's a presidential appointment. put yourself in your old job. if you were u.s. attorney and this guy whose investigation is part of

award writing director, actor, tyler perry is the owner of a massive new studio in atlanta. perry gave me a tour of the 338-acre lot which he calls a toy store for his many creative projects. >> -- imagination is insane. when i'm starting to write a show, i can literally hear those people, what they want to say and how they want to say it. to have that ability to be able to finish one and shift right to the next, it's just -- i know where it was born from in my life. i know it came out of my upbringing and having to tolerate pain and escape in my imagination. that's where i go to write all of these stories. >> you can catch tyler perry's new netflix movie "a fall from grace" this friday on netflix. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ my body is truly powerful. i have the power to lower my blood sugar and a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it like it's supposed to. trulicit

you don't see that very often. ( as perry ) "dear lord. oh, boy. oh, jesus. oh, jesus god in heaven. i just-- oh, lord it's-- it's-- dear lord, it's-- never mind who it is. it's-- i'm praying for a friend who's in trouble. he'd-- he'd offer the prayers to you himself, but first, he'd like you to do him a favor, though." we've got a great show for you tonight. ( cheers and applause ) new zealand week continues, and i go to wellington, new zealand, and learn how to be a real new zealander from xena the warrior princess and a flight of concorde. but when we return, breaking news out of washington. and breaking wind. stick around! searching for a way to help stop your cold sore? only abreva can get rid of it in... ...as little as 2 1/2 days when used at the first sign. abreva starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. abreva acts on it. so you can too. brushing only reaches 25% of your mouth. listerine® cleans virtually 100%. helping to prevent gum disease and bad breath. never settle for 25%. always go for 100. bring out the boldâ„