trump park? >> trump park. >> it's actually pretty nice looking. this is the crown jewel of the donald trump empire. >> this is where he made his mark. >> trump tower is the home base for donald trump and his sprawling real estate portfolio. this iconic building has served both as the setting of his popular reality show that aired on nbc, "the apprentice" -- >> you're fired. >> i am officially running -- >> and as the launch pad for the most inprobable presidential campaign to ever succeed. i mean, it does make you feel something when you drive by. look at all the different windows. who's paying what money to where inside that building? this is trump international? >> yep, hotel and tower. so there are apartments here. but it is also a hotel. >> i've never heard of one person that stayed in that hotel. >> saudis have stayed there. and not just any saudis. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, officials traveling with crown prince mohammad bin salman stayed at the trump international for fiv

i the trump, watching trump, your theory first. why did he say alabama a state he will get in the next election probably, it could be close to the senate. he'll probably get it. >> i'm with jason, i think he made a mistake and has to stand by it. what should disturb us is there is a message sent to every civil servant in this government, you only say what we tell you to say even if it's a lie to the risk of your job, to those people, don't quit, make them fire you. make an issue out of it. tell the truth. >> easy for to you say, a good moral advice i got to tell you. my theory is trump wanted to argue that alabama was threatened by this storm but that he somehow saved it from the storm. that's what he wanted to do. trump is unbelievable. anyway, thank you david k. johnson. natasha, congratulation on that story about the errant air force platoon that decided to stop and make trump like them. anyway, jason johnson as always, coming up, trump is talking about a family political dynasty. remember the romanoffs, they are saying it. it w

it's not because trump -- not astonished trump would attempt to profit off of the presidency. we've seen lots of that. but the fact that the military is being enlisted in doing it. >> yes and that the military is apparently not peeping and helping as congress is trying to do oversight on this. i feel like the astonishment thing is almost clinical. let's try not releasing tax returns. you know? let's see. okay. i'm getting away with that. let's try not setting up a blind trust. okay. let's try not divesting at all. okay. let's try hosting official government events and world leaders at some of my properties. >> right. >> okay. i'm getting away with all of this. okay. finally like, no, mike if you're going to ireland you're staying 180 miles from where your meetings are so i can get paid. we'll put the g7 at doral and military transport fillets ligh to stop at the little commercial airport next to my golf course to spend their refueling dollars there at top dollar, a premium to refuel at a commercial airport, but that might keep that airport alive which is good for my bottom lin

trump. once again, the president of the united states is in big trouble. >> nbc news special report. >> good afternoon, everyone. we're coming on the air in this busy news day with breaking news, announcement from house speaker nancy pelosi of a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump. >> today, i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. the actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the constitution. the president must be held accountable. no one is above the law. >> trevor: holy crap. ( cheers and applause ) after two years of avoiding it, trump may finally face articles of impeachment, which, believe me, he's not happy about. it's impeachment which trump haircuts plus articles which he hates even more. ( laughter ) yeah, if his mom caught him with a playboy magazine, he would be, i swear, i'm not reading the articles, just looking at the boobs. ( laughter ) and if you thought trump was unhinged before, i can

plus a trump slump. a new cnn poll revealing what could be a great concern to the president and his re-election hopes, and polls about to close in a crucial special election that has national implications. results expected to come in this hour. let's go "out front". >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight. it was personal. we are learning more this hour about the bitter breakup between trump and bolton. a source tells cnn that president turned on his now former national security adviser john bolton because he thought bolton made him look bad this week. bolton wanted to humiliate bolton in an exchange. there's bolton at the white house 8:44 a.m. this morning, work as usual taking a phone call outside and he then went in and led a meeting with top administration officials and then, boom, a tweet. the operative part of that tweet, quote, i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house. well, that's not bolton's version. sources tell cnn bolton was li

trump 2024. your reaction. >> well, maybe he expects to eryone assumes if trump loses in 2020, we're done with him. why do we think that? you know? >> bill kristol, thank you. steve kornacki, that's why they pay bill kristol the big bucks. steve, this broader question, and i know you never do opinion. but if you're looking for danger signs for the republican party in the american suburbs writ large, i know a guy like you could find them. >> it's right there. it's mecklenburg county. i say it's geographically tiny. it's right here. dan mccready, it's a 12 point win for dan mccready. all the votes are counted there. this is actually better than mccready did last year. he won it by 10 then. he wins it by 12 tonight. in this same slice of the district, trump won by three in 2016. so this is a densely populated area that trump was able to carry as a candidate. but as president twice now in a congressional election, it's gone double digits for the democrat. if you have that happening in mecklenburg cou

trump cannot win. on the last day i was with him, we had to get on a different plane that didn't have wi-fi because of the earlier nights incident. just as our plane was coming get into pennsylvania dipping into cell phone range, every single persons phone on the plane put up with the lord that james comey had sent a letter to congress reopening the investigation into hillary clinton's industry and i will tell you, it's indelible in my mind. i can see it today, the were not many of us on the plane, i reporters and four owe five secret service and the vice president in five or six of the staffer we're all sitting there clustered, and until you kid on christmas morning does not begin to describe the looks on the faces of the pence people, because for the first type in anti-camping there was a flicker of hope. however fleeting but a flicker of hope that oh, my goodness, can you believe our luck? we might actually win. and i will remember that until the day i die. >> it's my recollection of the day the "ac

the reluctant trump voters. there a concern around the president that the reluctant trump voters are turned off by behavior like this? >> there is concern among the president's advisers in general about the path to 2020. i think they see a path. it involves winning all the states they won in 2016 or maybe they're very interested in minnesota right now as a place they can play offense. they see some ways around this. but there's real concern that this is not in the bag, that, yes, some of these reluctant trump voters who -- and you see this in the primary challengers he has. people like joe walsh who is a long shot candidate who is not going to be the republican nominee, but he was a trump supporter in 2016 because he hated clinton. and he says now i have seen him in office, and i've had a change of heart. this can't go on. and the idea for people like walsh is that this creates a permission structure for other people who voted for trump in 2016 to say, you know, it's not embarrassing to say he didn't -- i got it

and today donald trump is still at it. his alabama tweet count today stands at four but those numbers are expected to right as donald trump surveys the damage to his reputation, which now includes sharing a false weather forecast and doubling down on it. "the new york times" describes this morning's developments this way, quote, by thursday morning it was clear that mr. trump had no intention of conceding that he was wrong about alabama. at a tweet at 6:39 a.m., the president accused of media of not giving the hurricane the attention it deserves. and they said the president'sco harm's way and the president is focused on covering up a mistake he made. this is part of a pattern of two trump phenomenons, lying and doubling down. "the washington post" is out with a piece chronicling other low points in the trump administration's war on truth t began on day one of his presidency when trump sent his press secretary out to defend his claims about the inaugural crowd size. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inaugu

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trump is once again catering to mr. putin who's dedicated to undermining ukrainian democracy and independence but we're reliable bli told that the president has a second and more venal agenage. he is attempting to fort the president to intervene in the 2020 presidential election by launching an investigation of the leading democratic candidate joe biden. he's not just soliciting his help, he is using u.s. military aid the country desperately needs in an attempt to extort it. >> russia appearing to be growing increasingly aggressive in the arctic. nbc was given a rare look at intercept videos of nuclear capable russian aircrafts flying in international air space. nbc news correspondent kevin tibbles has more on this. >> reporter: they fly where american fighter jets do not, norway's aging f-16s on 15 minute alert 24/7 above the arctic circle, the front line for the u.s. and nato. pilots scramble each and every time russian military planes are detected. nbc news was given a rare look at the intercept videos they bring bac

trump did not discuss the aide in the july 25 call. so yes, as the times says, questions have emerged. we know the white house held up military aid that is intended to help the ukraine stand up with russia. we have reports that the president pressured ukraine to have a political rival. the question now, the question that reporters were furiously fitting into, whether or not that is an explanation or not, the effect may be the same. that is what they told andrea mitchell today. >> giuliani said he is trying to get the ukrainians to meddle. he says he had no intent to do that but he was very concerned about why the security aide was being cut off and even if there was not this explicit promise, that was certainly the impression. they could not help but connect these demands they were getting, and the sudden surprising cut off of security haid. >> that scenario is scary and repugnant on it's own terms no matter who the president is and what country he is putting the screws on. the ukraine is not just any country. they are at the center of

and we know the trump administration and the trump transition all the way back to the trump campaign they have been scheming quite aggressively to try to undermine or even unilaterally reverse those sanctions. so you look at all the things the u.s. government did to try to push russia back after it invated this neighboring country, ukraine, trump has tried to undo them all. he's right now trying to undo the funding for military projects in europe. he's trying to undo putin getting kicked out of the g7. he has long been trying to undo the sanctions against putin and russia. and there's one other thing, there's a fourth thing that the u.s. did in response to putin invading ukraine and taking part of that crown tri for itself. i mentioned it last night. we didn't talk about it in detail. the fourth one of those things that the u.s. government did that trump is now apparently trying to undo is that after russia invaded ukraine and took part of that country and started waging this on going war there, this on going occupation effort in another part of ukraine the fourth thing the u.s. gove

elizabeth warren ahead of trump 44-42. cory booker ahead of trump 43-41. kamala harris ahead of trump 45-44. the poll did not include any other democratic candidates in one-on-one match-ups against donald trump in texas. joining our discussion now is jason johnson. he's the politics editor at theroot.com and professor of politics and media at morgan state university. and jennifer rubin is with us. she's an opinion writer at the "washington post." both are msnbc political analysts. and jennifer, these are bad numbers for donald trump. and that's before john bolton's memoirs are published. >> yes, it is. two things jumped out at me. one is what he was surviving on was his handling of the economy. and in both those polls he's down on that measure. the other thing that's interesting is i've been watching white women and white college-educated women, for the first time you see white non-college-educated women abandoning trump in droves. so i think if you're a republican looking at this mess you're thinking, oh boy, are we in trouble. and if you're a democratic

president trump continues. let's move over here. first in mecklenburg county, charlotte is not in the district. but a good chunk of the charlotte suburbs and exurbs are. you see this blue. that's for dan mccready. 60%, 39%. that is a healthy lead. i want to tell you why that's so important. the suburbs have been moving away from the republican party during the trump years. this is now tonight -- let's go back to the presidential race. president trump, it was close, but president trump carried this part of mecklenburg county, the part of the county that is in the ninth district. president trump held on three years ago. as of tonight as we watch the votes, dan mccready winning there by a pretty healthy margin at the moment. move over here. union county, the second biggest county in this district. dan bishop's winning in a district the republican needs to carry. that's good news for him. that's about 16 points. it's good news for him but go back to the presidential race. that's 30 points. president trump won the s

trump is catering to mr. putin who is dedicated to undermining ukrainian democracy and exception, but says "the washington post," but we are reliably told that the president has a second and more venal agenda. he is attempting to force the new leader of ukraine to intervene in the 2020 u.s. presidential election by launching an investigation of the leading democratic presidential candidate joe biden. what? mr. trump is not just soliciting ukraine's help with his presidential campaign, he is using u.s. military aid that country desperately needs in an attempt to extort it. the news tonight is bananas. we have known president trump is holding up the aid to ukraine. we have known that is dodgy, given how much of a favor that is to vladimir putin and russia and given that the president is contradicting the pentagon in insisting holding back the money, given that the trump administration hasn't said anything about the fact they are doing this, they hope no one will notice. it's been obvious that something dodgy an

president trump is president trump and even before he was a president, he was trump. you knew this, so there is nothing new about him. he is who he is. you had to change his platform when he became president because that is what he is now. everyone should be happy for that because he is the only one. i don't know exactly that i would argue with except for changing his platform. maybe that is a political reference which, i would not necessarily comment on, but i actually think the thing that is striking since he became president is that there was this theme that, the presidency changes everyone. he will become more quote unquote presidential, he will reach out to more of america because that is what you do. the institution of the office has the effect on everyone and it is greater than any individual person. instead, he has continued to be in the way he deals with media, in the way he watches in response to television and tweets about it, the same way but much, much more. the influence of the institution of television on him has been far greater than the institution of

and the trump family and probably the trump wallet do you agree michel. i agree this is where united. we found it it's just it's just weird where you have someone who claims to be this close to the president is somehow an attorney and yet he goes on these television shows and gets everyone in more trouble every single time he goes on these controversies are up because of something he said but he's loyal to the president and we all know that donald wants loyalty more than anything else so that's why he can get away with it so do you think that he actually hurts donald trump or does it is this part of the tough long i think that it think that there is always going to be the 2 sides so for the left the people on the left they will take the rudy giuliani sound bites and they will be awful but for the diehard donald trump fans there to take the rudy giuliani soundbites and be like who are out of that some amazing so the question is what are the people middle thinking so what about bill weld and some of the other republicans who are challenging donald trump and

trump. until today. >> i've read the transcript of the conversation with the president and the president of the ukraine. concerning that conversation, i want to say, president, this is not okay. that conversation is not okay. and i think it is disappointing to the american public when they read the transcript. >> that conversation is not okay. not okay? how not okay was that conversation? >> the president of the united states has betrayed his oath of office. betrayed his oath to defend our national security and betrayed his oath to defend our constitution. for yesterday we were presented with a record of a call between the president of the united states and the president of ukraine in which the president, our president, sacrificed our national security and our constitution for his personal political benefit. >> and not one republican member of the house tension committee today said donald trump did not betray his oath of office. not one of them. they did not say chairman schiff is wrong. pre

barr -- trump needs william barr more than william barr needs trump? >> right. >> he's spending $30,000 out of his own pocket. of all of the expen at thditure the one i find questionable. >> mr. barr is a very bright person. he didn't take a long time hanging out there in this new role. he's one of the more recent cabinet members to figure out how it works and how to ingratiate. that's a chilling statement when we're talking about matters of literally life and death. i mean, who lives and who dies and who protects the prisons and how do executions work and his focus was not only in getting a holiday party planned and getting it leaked that he's spending the money that way. on a lighter note do you know how you can tell whether a continental breakfast is solid on the road? >> i do not, please tell me. >> my test. i love a free included continental is whether there's multiple types of juice. if i come in and it's only o.j., it's okay. if i see the grapefruit juice, this holiday inn, on the campaign trail. >> ari, breakfast was included at the dunebeg for

president trump and the ukrainian president, who said he felt no pressure from president trump. speaker nancy pelosi saying the transcript and the justice department acting in a rogue fashion confirmed the need tonight for an impeachment inquiry. and this evening, president trump before the cameras just moments ago, angrily denouncing pelosi's move, using familiar words, calling it a hoax and a witch hunt. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: president trump and zelensky all smiles today in ne. but tonight, all attention is on their phone call nine weeks ago. according to the white house summary of the call, president trump directly asked the new ukrainian president to coordinate with attorney general bill barr to investigate his 2020 rival, joe biden. early in the call, president trump says, "we do a lot for ukraine. the united states has been very, very good to ukraine." president zelensky responds, "you are absolutely right," thanking president trump and adding, "we are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps," including b

funds for trump's border wall. trump's wall will require over $18 billion in funding through 2020, far more than the administration has publicly disclosed. so how do they plan to make up for this new funding shortfall? if lawmakers refuse to allocate more funding, they plan to dip into the pentagon's construction budget for the second consecutive year to get another $3.6 billion. the post reports this was discussed last week by trump's son-in-law jared kushner. if the administration carries out the plan, the white house will have defied congress to divert a total of $7.2 billion in aid. the white house is proposing to double the funding cutting to u.s. military bases overseas and here in the u.s. but, hey, no one supports the military like donald trump. watch this space. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, every day can begin with flakes. it's a reminder of your struggles with psoriasis. but what if your psoriasis symptoms didn't follow you around? that's why there's ilumya. with just 2 doses, a majori

trump. "the times" adds this. quote, the leaders of a rugged militant organization deemed terrorists by the u.s. would be hosted in the mountain getaway used for presidents, prime ministers and kings just three days before the anniversary of the september 11th, 2001 attacks. the meeting was canceled by how else, a presidential tweet. but that hasn't stopped the president from lashing out at critics of the planned talks. some from within his own party. >> a terrorist organization that doesn't recognize nation states, it kills innocent women and children, that denies women to really even be in the same room as their husbands is just a minor part of the terrible things that they do. to have them at camp david is totally unacceptable. >> and as we head into the anniversary of 9/11, i do not want to ever see these terrorists step foot on united states soil, period. >> and just in the last hour, president trump defending the diplomatic chaos claiming credit for ending the talks that he pushed to hold at camp david. >> i

trump is a noninterventionalist and trump as the creator of a strong economy if they're able to destabilize oil markets. >> and it's important to remember that this confrontation with iran comes just days after the president was thinking about bringing the taliban to camp david to negotiate an end to the u.s. presence in afghanistan. that negotiation pursuit is really in line with who president trump was as a candidate and has been as president. but he's in the republican party. it's a hawkish party. iran has been there. and john bolton was seen as the shadow hovering over president trump. but the whole time the real influential hand has always been secretary pompeo. how much does he really push the president at this critical moment. >> and on iran, is there any disagreement? >> pompeo is so powerful because he lets the president be president trump. he's not someone who enacts his agenda in a forceful way. but he has hawkish instincts and the president is going to have to face a choice. does he really want to put troops in the ground, is there going to be a drone strike. does he try to have

we didn't hear anything about trump's u.n. speech on the news that night and you are undermining america. what foreign leader is going to take us seriously when they think the guy is going to get thrown out every two seconds. i think they know better that that is not going to happen bogus. all this stuff is let's have some real ground before we start impeachment hearings and queries. did these people go to college? did they ever? hear of separation of powers? that is in the constitution for their information. i don't think we all should be privy to every conversation this president has. host: dan up next out of new york, democrat, good morning. caller: good morning. how are you doing today? host: doing well. go ahead. caller: i really think people need to look good and hard at joe biden's son and what joe biden did for his son. putting him on air force 2, flying him all around, sweetheart deals not just in the ukraine, but also china. i heard they set up some deal for him and his company that amounted through -- amounted to ab

trump. [applause] >> ♪ and i'm proud to be an american, where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died, who gave game that right to me. and i gladly stand up and defend her still today because there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the u.s.a. ♪ mr. trump: thank you, everybody. some group. some group. [applause] mr. trump: winning is a good thing, isn't it? winning? [crowd chants "four more years"] mr. trump: thank you very much, it has been fantastic. a lot of power in this room, wow. a lot of power. thank you for your friendship and your devotion, to our nation. i am delighted to be here with so many terrific republican members of congress. you really are terrific people. i especially want to thank our amazing leadership team, republican whip and one of the bravest men i know, steve scalise. steve, thank you very much. [applause] pres. trump: conference chair liz cheney, thank you, liz. [applause] chair, tom: and our emmer. [applause] pres. trump: tom, thank

trump has increased our deficits faster than obama has. but all of my former t party colleagues, what do we hear from them, not a damn thing. one more example of the republican party faces trump and they forgot about every issue that they claimed to believe them. >> my motto when i was in office, no such thing as government money. there is only taxpayer money. has everyone forgotten about that. not just donald trump, there is nobody looking out for the taxpayers. the dems want to read spending by 5 - 10%. so they demonize each other to get reelected and then clear a special meeting to smoke the peace pipe and compromise by raising everything 20%. it's a total disgrace and trump has reset faster than anyone else. he hit a trillion dollars a month ten, he added $9 trillion. >> were duke make the tax cut? >> gifted zero-based budget and not assume you start with last years of procreation. you have to measure outcomes instead of input which is how much money was spent last year. that should be irrelevant, a good program, if it wasn't 0 it out.

trump's sons don jr. and eric do foreign business and his daughter ivanka is getting chinese patents and saudi grants to put all of that out there. >> it is a family affair it seems like at the white house. >> but hey, let's focus on hunter biden for a moment. it was a wild weekend of weather across the country as some states deal with an early taste of winter while others were dealing with record heat. nbc news's kendis gibson has more. >> a powerful and historic storm hitting the northern rockies. it's snow in september across at least six states just one week after the end of summer. in montana a blizzard and a state of emergency, more than three feet of snow in some parts. it's piling up on trees weighing heavy on power lines above. the northern part of the state socked in, storm chaser aaron jayjack in glacier national park. >> you can see the wind is blowing quite hard here, lots of snow. we do have whiteout conditions here. >> reporter: nearby wind pushed snow drifts onto city sidewalks, treacherou

that was donald trump, well, jr. down-playing concerns whether his father is profiting off his presidency. meanwhile secretary of state mike pompeo spoke today where he mocked the reporting on trump's conflict of interest. >> i look around. this is such a beautiful hotel. the guy who owns it must be successful somewhere along the way. that was for "the washington post" in the back. >> isn't that sunshine i'm joined by david farenthol who's done most of the reporting that the secretary of state was mentioning there, and harry fineman, msnbc analyst. he made fun of you for catching them at this as if it's a joke. that the president is pumping up sales at his various properties while he's president. >> i'm glad the secretary of state reads "the washington post." we had a story yesterday saying mike pence, the vice president, and secretary of state pompeo spoke this week to events put on by a paying customer of their boss, donald trump. this nonprofit rented out the ball rooms of the trump hotel which pays trump privatel

president trump lost the popular vote. there was not a giant trump coat tail effect as a president often has. six in ten americans say someone else should be put. approval rating under 40. that can change between now and november. next november. they have to make the decision run for reelection now in the next couple weeks. maybe months. the filing deadline in your state. they people thinking about should i retire in the house the minority is not fun. they think it's unlikely they get the majority back. now a district like this the excellent smart people the cook political report. if you're in another district, all the house districts you saw what happened in 2018. when the democrats changed the map. you're thinking this will be hard to begin with. is there a message from north carolina. without a doubt. more republicans think this is a hostile climate. other republicans will think long and hard about it. >> all right, john. thank you very much. tonight's vote comes on another day of chaos in the trump white house. let's d

this is t w news live from berlin tonight a phone conversation with the potential to end donald trump's presidency a memo a phone call shows trump pressing ukrainian president voted me out selenski to investigate trump's political rival joe biden and biden's son despite evidence of wrongdoing the potential quid pro quo got the attention of a whistleblower and his push democrats into pursuing impeachment. also coming up gets. a defiant boris johnson addresses a reconvened parliament and pledges once more to take the u.k. out of the e.u. . people who are supporters of the party or regardless of how the very few 3 years ago think the referendum must be respected right. dawn. breaks down and people will go on october 31st. and the school made out of bottles to students in kenya are learning that one person is trash is another's treasure. i'm william blue cross thanks for joining us u.s. president donald trump has called the impeachment inquiry launched by congressional democrats a joke but the latest details are no laughing matter a readout of the july phone call between trump. and ukrainia

in donald trump's own words. collusion with a foreign government to help donald trump's re-election campaign by hurting a candidate running against donald trump. there's a lot of talk about biden's son, that biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that, so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. whatever you can do. that's what the president of the united states wanted in that conversation from the president of ukraine. whatever you can do to help the re-election campaign of donald trump. that is the donald trump, jr., meeting at trump tower with russians during the presidential campaign on steroids. >>> leading off our discussion tonight is larry pfeifer. he's a former director of the white house situation room where he managed president obama's phone calls with other heads of state. he is also a former chief of staff to the director of the cia. larry, thank you for coming back tonight. we have the transcript. you've seen the transcript. and i just want to

that was a dejected president trump. we have seen him in much more sort of on his heels moments where he is fiery and fighting back, and punching back, and yes some of his words were doing that, but his overall tenure, how this president understands things on media and how things are playing. it seemed to ne a president who fully understood that he is in a world of hurt at the moment. >> dana, he did come across the president as rambling in his open statement and elsewhere and rather low energy. >> if he were watching somebody else give that, he would call them low energy trump. that's what he would do. i totally agree. he did seem maybe dejected, tired, it's exhausting, i think, being up tweeting to all hours of the night, in fact, never mind legitimately having a lot of very key meetings, including a very stressful meeting, again, just like many things in the trump world, you cannot write this if it were a script, with the guy who he was on the call with, this summer came out about, and having to dance around that, whi

that will not strengthen donald trump. that impeachment acquittal by mitch mcconnell and his cronies in the senate will be no better than an acquittal in 1965 by a clansman by an all white jury. that is no justification for refusing to impeach. it's time for speaker pelosi to demand an impeachment articles, be voted out of the house and start the trial in the senate now. we're tired of it. >> richard, as you remind us is a minnesotan, richard making the argument that democrats have, at least pelosi and the leadership have framed this the wrong way saying if you impeach and nothing happens in the senate, and nothing is moved, does that make sense. if you don't impeach, house leader starting with speaker pelosi would appear complicit. that's the language we're seeing from senator warren, if you do, it's mcconnell and others that appear complicit. with that in mind, i want to play joe biden who's obviously in the thick of this but who is not exactly with richard and you, i think, on the constitutional remedies. take a look. >

well where else but twitter total trump president donald trump says i have informed john bolton that is of course the national security adviser last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration and therefore i asked john for his resignation which was given to me this morning i thank john very much for his service i will be naming a new national security advisor next week i think we've got alan fischer actually to talk through this one alan what's going on the seems like a surprise. one a surprise and 2 this is pretty brutal for donald trump normally when people are fired by tweet and he's done that a few times in the past then it's we've had a disagreement or his resignation has come and we know the been fired but here this is pretty brutal saying i asked for his resignation there were a number of disagreements that we didn't agree with his point of view and that was the same with other people in the administration and so john bolton is out the door what is also a surprising is th

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this is some other element of the trump grift. it's an element of the trump scam. these are people who have obviously managed to corrupt folks down the chain and sent the signal at the minimum that if you stay at trump reporters, maybe he'll like you more. i think it's an extraordinary moment where we're seeing it in real time that they're forcing airmen to land their c 17s off military airfields somewhere close to a trump resort in order to stay there. it is an unbelievable level of corruption. >> rick, you do remind me we have a network of air bases with names like aviano. we have maintained with the french, brits, and germans for this type of thing. >> indeed. i don't even know the exact number u i think it's five in britain that would handle the c 17 off the top of my head. somehow landing at a trump golf resort is not like landing in bases operating in the u.k. it's very much a symbol of a corrupt and corrupting administration. >> i'll see you in milford shire. >> you will indeed. >> franco, this also bring us to the story of the wall, which also involves the

the incursions of donald trump's friends in russia, trump withheld that aid. we don't know why. we also don't even really know what's fully in the whistleblower report. i think there's been great reporting related to this call. but maybe there's even more than this call. we just don't know how far this really goes. i think congress has to decide that it is going to issue the subpoenas and it is going to go to court and force those subpoenas, and it is going to get to the bottom of this because this is an abuse of power by the president that really ranks up there. i don't think it's mello dramatic to compare to watergate. after all, richard nixon didn't go and break into watergate himself. this is trump inviting foreign interveerns into our elections. >> color me cautiously optimistic, i guess, that the sort of landscape has shifted. i don't know that i see it yet. what do you see? >> it doesn't seem like the landscape has shifted. it should be shifting. i think this is a big kind of flag that congress needs to be looking at and acting on. look, the thing that i look at with this

trying to find a trap for trump to go into i mean who in the world now is going to call donald trump on the phone maybe that's what the liberals want no one wants they don't want anyone to talk to trump but i mean he has you know here's a guy the most public figure in my lifetime has no privacy in his own administration is always. pushing him into potholes ok i mean again i am convinced that the his base will just get more angry how many times you get a wooden vest the gate this guy i read the transcript from what they have released from we shouldn't have said some things he was imprudent but it didn't seem like he committed any kind of crime and like maybe joe biden go ahead chris. well 1st and foremost i want to know whether the job that joe biden's son had was competitively bid because there's a lot of drug addicts out there that would have liked to have had a fair shot at applying for that job sound kind of like a good time but you know i think let's do this peter rob what's the name of that whistle blower who is that i don't think we know yet the reason i and the reason i ask th

mike pence took the meeting rather than donald trump. went to poland instead of donald trump. he's been intimately involved in everything that donald trump has done, and if not involved, he has i think a lot of people would say have been quite sycophantic towards donald trump and praised him no matter what he has done. would, in your view, vice president mike pence be equally culpable in whatever donald trump has done? and so if that is impeachable, what would you say about mike pence? should he remain in his office? >> yeah. i think that's a fair question. and i think we need to make sure that there is a deliberate investigation to bring forward all of the facts, make sure that members of congress are operating with the truth, and that that is shared with the american people. but your question also poses another one, this is, those around donald trump, do you want to go down with this ship? there is no limit on the number of people who can come forward to share information, who are eligible under the whistle-blower statute to share information and make sure that we preserve t

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they hate trump but also addicted to trump. what are they going to do when trump is gone? can you imagine a lot of lonely reporters. we will tell what you they have been saying today. coverage of the day's insanity continues next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: welcome back. so apparently we are on the road to impeachment. boy, did that happen fast with almost no warning. you have seen very few reactions from dissident democrats but not all of them are on board. we are going to be hearing more from some, no doubt, in days to come. as of today, one of the very few who seems definitely not on board is tulsi gabbard of hawaii who is also by the way running for president. today gabbard told fox news brian kilmeade that moving forward on impeachment would be, quote, terribly divisive for the country. a an attorney and democrat joins us tonight. robert thanks for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: what's your assessment of this. >> i think impeachment is increeisincredibly divisive. not a winner for the democratic party. what we have to understand every time we see impeachment inqu

cnn had trump during the hurricane -- howie: we mentioned that earlier. i mean, this is absolutely preposterous. everybody should know that. the point about source, that's cardinal sin for journalists, how many prominent journalists in dc burned source to get somebody during obama administration fired from the job, i think the answer is zero. howie: quick comment for you. >> what was i don't understand the bounds of the story that the post ran about his summer? >> i was referring to burning a source -- howie: all right, let me do turnout by playing beto o'rourke who said that we are going to bleep but wasn't bleep live on state of the union. >> 301 mass shootings a year, no other country comes close so this is -- howie: keep dropping f-bombs, do the media contribute the notion this is a cool thing that gives them street cred. >> using the f-bomb is lame, it is, i spend hours a day trying to excise the f word from his have cabbulation, -- >> what's your blanking opinion on this. >> look, i think beto o'rourke, candidacy has turned into something like a lau

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