trump: 100%. even the smart guys on wall street -- and i know all of them, and they are smart -- they have never seen anything like that one before. [laughter] pres. trump: i have called them. has that ever happened? never happens. guy walks in, no experience, no nothing, walks out with $1.5 billion. flies in on air force 2 with his father, the vice president. don't forget, that's when he was vice president. so china gives his son $1.5 billion. how would you like to have joe biden take over negotiations right now with china? i don't think so. [crowd booing] pres. trump: i don't think so. meanwhile, biden allowed china to rip off america for eight years as vice president, and barack obama let him just rob us blind, and we are not doing that anymore. those days are over. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: the bidens got rich, and that is substantiated. while america got robbed. that's what happened. sleepy joe and his friends sold out america. they did not have tough negotiations. i look at these tr

okay trump isn't everything. but after betrayal, betrayal, betrayal, i'll take some coarse language. point three, i think you are wrong that hispanics and muslims in this country are put off by this. i think white social justice warriors and college students are put off by it. and my example of that is -- because oh, my gosh they were hysterical about the mexican rapist speech. i often spend christmas in palm beach, i'm going around to christmas parties, this is 2017 after the mexican rapist speech, after all kinds of wild language used by trump, and people had warned me about this, i saw this going to christmas parties in palm beach, someone whose name you all know i'll tell you afterwards was walking around, they were all shell shocked in palm beach, but one in particular, he just kept going up to people at parties saying i don't understand. we were all for jeb. but the hispanic help is all for trump. and the reason -- part of that reason and why i grimaced when i said hispanic, i think hispanic is an invented

trump. [cheers and applause] ♪ mr. perkins: many of you this weekend have said we should pray for the president. [applause] mr. perkins: and we do pray for the president. i have asked the president if i can pray for him tonight, and i will ask andrew to pray for president trump. president trump: thank you, thank you, thank you. dr. brunson: father god, i ask now for not an impartation of your holy spirit. may the spirit of jesus rest upon president trump, that he be anointed with wisdom and understanding with your counsel and might, with knowledge and fear of the lord. and accordingly, may president trump not just decide by what he sees with his eyes, he what he hears with his ears, or lien on his own understanding, but recognize your prompting and move according to your guidance. i ask that you give the president's supernatural discernment to know who is trustworthy and who is not. bring into the light all deception and intrigue. expose and reverse the plans of those who would harm president trump and this nation. [ap

media since before trump was even sworn in this headline was published just 6 days after trump was selected more than 2 months before he took office then came the russia gate story out of washington and the latest on the russian best again on the alleged collusion between the trump campaign and the kremlin during the 2016 election the investigation into that by special counsel robert muller had many u.s. news outlets feasting on the story for more than 2 years in the american presidency right now is the product of collusion between the russian intelligence services and an american campaign i mean that is so profoundly big in the end it fell short of the high expectations that many journalists in their excitement had helped to create all of which has made it easier for the white house to argue that the ukraine story which is centered around a phone call between trump and president for more than it is a is just more of the same. the russian investigation that was such a complex set of facts that i think it was tough for democrats to really explain why trump should be impeached thank you very

very cool towards trump. romney may be immune from a lot of the sort of political, when you look at the other republicans in the u.s. senate do you see any potential as this plays out, a critical number of them, any number of them will end up turning on the president and if so, where would you be looking? >> well, you're absolutely right, it's all about the primary pliolitics, you know, t new logo is not just an elephant, it's an elephant running for the tall grass. they know trump is unfit, privately they talk about it, but they're afraid of primary voters. mitt is his own man, he has a strong compass. i think there are others. jeff flake said if it was a secret ballot, it would be 35, i would guess 30. so look, you kind of come up with the same calculus that bob did. you've got the folks from vulnerable places, purple states like colorado or lean blue states like maine, maybe even states that are declining for the gop like north carolina, arizona, so you have several members who are up in tough races where

will hence be removed with trump? pence be removed with trump, will he be impeached with trump? it is all moving very fast. host: he mentioned the vice president in terms of mike pence's conversations with the ukrainian president. here is a look. [video clip] pres. trump: impeachment for that? when you have a wonderful meeting or you have a wonderful phone conversation? that was theally, second conversation. i think you should ask for the first conversation also. i can't believe it. i heard there is a rumor out there that they want the first conversation. it was beautiful, just a perfect conversation. that i think you should do that. i think you should ask for vp pence's conversation because he had a couple of conversations, also. host: what do you suppose president trump was trying to do there in terms of pointing reporters to ask mike pence about that? guest: to me, it looks like he is trying to wrap his arms around him and not let go. no, look, i have heard two interpretations. one is that the official pence- white house version of this is that there is nothing to see here, a

she was recalled by donald trump. this is important because she was very critical of ukrainian prosecutor that giuliani and trump wanted to investigate both the bidens as well as this theory that ukraine was actually behind the theft of the dnc emails. it has been reported that marie yovanovitch had a very strange relationshipip with this prosecutor.. she accused him of corruption and he did not like her whatsoever. the trump administration had maria not a veg recalled. she was replaced by william taylor. william taylor is important because you will remember a couple of weeks ago we got the transcripts of text messages taylor,between william gordon sondland, and kurt volker about trying to create a meeting between -- a public meeting between ukrainian president zelensky and donald trump. it is william taylor, you'll recall in these text messages, that was raising the alarm. "are we withholding $391 million to force these investigations for political gain for the president?" he is the one that was raising the alarm. we

in trump world. today donald trump attacked the intelligence community whistle-blower and made it clear that donald trump does not care that he is endangering the life of the whistle-blower. bradley moss, a national security lawyer whose law firm is representing the whistle-blower, will join us tonight with reaction to what the president said about the whistle-blower today, and to clarify for us what contact the whistle-blower might have had with the house intelligence committee before the whistle-blower's complaint became public. donald trump said today that he believes that the chairman of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, wrote the whistle-blower's complaint for him. we'll see what bradley moss has to say about that one. secretary of state mike pompeo began his day early this morning trying to catch up with the truth. he finally admitted publicly, quote, i was on the phone call. the senate foreign relations committee has jurisdiction over the state department. senator chris murphy is

. >> so one of the points that's interesting about this memo is that trump, the memo says that trump, quote, did not raise security assistance. did he need to state it or was that part understood by then? when you think of a president about to have a phone call with a president of another country, there's a lot of prep work that goes into it, a lot of low-level communication that the groundwork and the subtle messaging is already put in place for the president to just not specifically have to reference security assistance. >> i think that's right. when you look back at the transcript, the original transcript that was released by the white house, the president had gone on at length about all that the united states does for ukraine. he reminded zelensky over and over again and made his case about all that the united states did. and so it was understood that part of what he was talking about was the security assistance that ukraine or that the united states gives to ukraine. and i think also what was clear from that is that fact that he felt that the united states wasn't receiving recipr

trump fantacists by breaking president trump's neck and killing him. many claim they knew nothing about this video, including donald trump jr., who was at the event where the video was shown. donald trump has not seen the video. that is code for his followers that he really does not condemn the video. when he's telling them he condemns the video without seeing it, he's telling them this is a political thing i need to say about the video, and i hope you watch and think of me this way, especially the thin part. fantasy. so far that is all donald trump has to offer in his defense in the impeachment investigation, and the fantasy is crumbling. donald trump is completely unqualified ambassador to the european union who purchased his ambassadorship to the trump organization has been subpoenaed to testify to the impeachment investigation on thunderstorms, and all indications are, as nbc news is reporting tonight, that he will finally testify by the state department last week. the "washington post" reported over the weekend what to expect in gordon sondland's

a lot of ink has been spilled on the pomp and circumstance of trump donald trump's summits in the ongoing love affair he claims with kim jong-un but what is actually been the result of nearly three years of trump's north korean diplomacy besides stroking his ego? the answer is, nothing. kim continues to fire missiles into the sea of japan, he continues to quietly move up his nuclear stockpile even though freeze on nuclear long-range missile test is temporary and the north koreans are warning they might resume that at the end of the year. meanwhile, we abandoned the south koreans we canceled our joint military exercises we nearly withdrew our troops entirely, kim got international recognition and essentially a free pass to keep building his arsenal in making it more deadly while we weakened all of our regional alliances. america and the world are dramatically less safe right now. all over the world in fact, dictators and would-be dictators are making up stunning records of human rights abuses right now because they know under president trump america will really raise no issue. no protest.

that is what caused trump himself to become the consumption of a trump obstruction. trump was not. and by the way, it did not begin with the is a lishs stesalaciour either. it has no actionable intelligence. it didn't say they be meeting next month to have further discussions of this or they're plotting another release of faked tapes. they could insinuate that, it is all stuff that happened in the past. it is odd, but some of it rings true. they are trying to say what really was going on there, i think the australians are one of the closest allies of the united states and the intelligence community. australia has the information that the russians had hacked e-mails from hillary clinton. they didn't do anything about it until it actually game true that yes, these things did exist, and only then did they bring this to the attention of u.s. intelligence agents. >> this group is filled with movie drama, including after you mentioned james comby wey was f, rod rosenstein was in tears. when we come back you can tell us who the two trump cabinet members were. who they believed were ready

at the direction of trump. to have the ukrainians investigate and exonerate the russians for the role in the 2016 election and to investigate the biden family. in exchange for security assistance from the u.s. to ukraine. >> what evidence did he provide to back up the testimony? >> amounts of text messages. and different e-mails and exchanges that he had with other state department officials and again we'll hear from the officials going forward. we have the best evidence yet that there was an ongoing scheme. the whistleblower described. to quote unquote play ball and have the ukrainians play ball with the president's request to investigate the bidens and exonerate russia. >> let's talk about this. cnn is reporting that voker told giuliani not to trust the ukrainians giving him dirt on the bidens. they were corrupt themselves. did he testify to that? >> i can say this, rudy giuliani had all the evidence in the world to not believe any of the misinformation about the bidens. it was made clear to him. he proceeded

donald trump's quid pro quo linking u.s. military and security aid to a politically motivated investigation makes his admitted solicitation of foreign interference in our elections that much worse. it is an abuse of power and betrayal of trump's oath to the constitution and promise to the american people. we have also learned that white house officials moved the transcript of the phone call between president trump and president zelenskiy from its typical electronic storage system to a separate system intended to handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. in orders there appears to have been an effort to cover up donald trump's wrongdoing. we're also witnessing extraordinary attacks by donald trump on the whistleblower who brought the matter to light. donald trump's attacks on this individual are so serious and so harmful that they may rise to the level of witness tampering and obstruction of justice. and they send a chilling message to others who may have information and are contemplating coming forward

donald trump is not well. donald trump's not emotionally fit to be president, republicans, and you know it. he's not mentally fit to be president of the united states right now and you know it. there are allies that sacrificed their lives, sacrificed their everything for us who are on the run this morning who are bleeding out, who are dying because donald trump decided on a whim to release them. there are women and children once again in danger of being raped and brutalized and tortured by isis. donald trump suggests that we can just let isis go and they can go back -- there are so many disturbing things, mika, it is more obvious than ever donald trump is neither emotionally or mentally fit to be president of the united states. that is without debate if the really is. just look at all the actions over the past several weeks and it just keeps getting worse. and the consequences are growing grimmer by the day. >> every moment. >> any republican that keeps donald trump in office, every republican that allows him

trump, trump, trump, trump! >> reporter: minneapolis, minnesota. a sea of red in a state that runs blue. >> trump will either be on mt. rushmore or they will build a mountain for trump. he is saving america. >> thank you, president trump, i love you! >> reporter: these are the faithful, the true believers. the mood here festive. many have said these rallies feel like a concert. excitement about being the trump's first time back on the campaign trail since the impeachment inquiry against him began two weeks ago. >> theacklash at the ballot box the likes of which they have never, ever seen before in the history of this country. >> reporter: most polls have public opinion shifting against the president. the majority of americans supporting the impeachment inquiry. even a fox newsol out today shogun% of americans now believe that trump should be impeached and removed from office. trump lashing out at that poll tweeting, whoever their pollster is, they suck. and tonight's rally, we heard similar sentiment in support

in your book you write that everyone around him seem to love donald trump that trump treats his people well and yet he has the highest turnover of staff of any modern president i and in fact i'll let you also why in fact when they resign or when he fires them he then attacks the yeah i don't like that he's a sloppy steve benen dumb as a rock rex tillerson iraqi owner as he called her a dog highly unstable not job scaramucci ironic clueless boneheaded drone power these are the people trump treats his people well you wrote how does that work look i don't like that he does that but i do like how does that fit with. your opinion as it has every description the trump treated people don't seem to treat as people i'm saying it's the people who are around him love him you know the liars them and then love the many so you know what prompt us he's a c.e.o. if people. use them and that's what a good c.e.o. should do year i'm president i'm pretty sure it is somebody who is able and don't want to go and get rid of 3 and call them a nickname or a dog i'll look that's a different issue how me saying

day 998 now of the trump administration. there's new reporting tonight from "the wall street journal." it indicates that the federal investigation into rudy giuliani and what he has been up to in ukraine appears to be more consequential and deeper than first thought. "the journal" writes the manhattan office of the justice department, in effect, are, quote, examining rudy giuliani's business dealings in ukraine, including his finances, meetings and work for a city mayor there, as well as giuliani's bank records. witnesses have been questioned about mr. giuliani since at least august and prosecutors want to know more about mr. giuliani's role in an alleged conspiracy involving two of his business associates. last week, giuliani associates, lev parnas and igor fruman were arrested on campaign finance and conspiracy charges, including trying to get the u.s. ambassador to eukraine fired. "the new york times" first reported that federal prosecutors were looking at giuliani. this weekend, trump made a show of standing by his man.

trump: was i what? >> [inaudible] pres. trump: china has to do whatever they want. if they want to look into something, they can look into it. if they don't want to look into it, they don't have to. frankly, if china wants to look into something, i think that's great. if they don't, i think that's great. that's up to china. >> [inaudible] pres. trump: trey gowdy is a terrific guy. is a problem where he can't start for another couple of months because of lobbying rules and regulations. you will have to ask about that. i just heard he can't start until after january because of the lobbying rules and regulations. so i don't know. but we will have to see. i have not spoken to him. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: perhaps the last one, i hope. i hope the last one. of the three i hope it is the last one. we have no soldiers in syria. we have won, we beat isis. we have no soldiers. the last thing i want to do is bring thousands and thousands of soldiers in and defeat everybody again. we have already done that. we have two choices, bringing in the military and defeating everyb

being trump. which on the one hand is an incredibly damning admission that you can't trust the president not to commit crimes. but the argument was he just made this one phone call and he's sort of verbally incontinent, he says all sorts of things and nobody takes him seriously. one of the things that fiona hill and bill taylor and now vindman have confirmed, this wasn't just one phone call. this was over many, many months. >> isn't that when you get into whatever's happening, maybe not today or tomorrow, if they hold this vote on thursday and if they ultimately impeach donald trump, the senate will have to deal with this. there may be senators who want to cover his or her heads and not discuss anything. but there may be other snrs ten that say we have to get into what is acceptable. there may be a defense that a terrible phone call is not impeachable if all you did was have one terrible phone call and afterward the generals came in and the security adviser came in and said you can't do that and t

let trump hear you say this. then everything will be okay. >> i don't want to express any lack of interest in that topic. because, but i don't know kurt volker, and there's a lot of psycho analysis that's involved in that. i just want to step back to the beginning of what you were saying, what's happened today, which is the president of the united states went out and has already confessed to this crime but then kind of doubled and tripled down on the crime. to your point, lawrence, he understands now i think that there are no facts and contention here. given that it's now been explained to him since there aro facts in dispute, you can argue process. you can say democrats are in league with the whistle-blower. somehow shichiff is shifty. the only way out for him now is to basically say, yes, i did this thing because it's clear i did. it's okay. and to make the point that it's okay is the best way to make that is just do it again and do it as publicly as possible in the most flaming gratuitous way as you can. and w

trump in the united states senate. also tonight, david pluff from barack obama's campaign will join us tonight with his look at the intersection of impeachment and the presidential campaign. new polling now shows that a solid majority of americans support the impeachment investigation of president trump. >>> on the day when two of his cabinet members became deeply implicated in the presidential impeachment investigation by the house of representatives, donald trump tweeted that one of the chairmen conducting the impeachment investigation, congressman adam schiff, should be arrested for treason. but the president did that in his typically cowardly way of putting a question mark at the end of the trump thought, arrest for treason, question mark. the one thing in this life that we are now guaranteed is that for as long as twitter exists and donald trump exists, donald trump will be tweeting a treason accusation at someone. and it is time for america to take a deep breath about treason, okay? get ready. no one has committe

trump: was i what? >> [inaudible] pres. trump: china has to do whatever they want. if they want to look into something, they can look into it. if they don't want to look into it, they don't have to. frankly, if china wants to look into something, i think that's great. if they don't, i think that's great. that's up to china. >> [inaudible] mr. trump: trey gowdy is a terrific guy. i think there is a problem where he can't start for another couple of months because of lobbying rules and regulations. you will have to ask about that. i just heard he can't start until after january because of the lobbying rules and regulations. so i don't know. but we will have to see. i have not spoken to him. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: perhaps the last one, i hope. i hope the last one. of the three i hope it is the last one. we have no soldiers in syria. we have won, we beat isis. we beat them badly and decisively. we have no soldiers. the last thing i want to do is bring thousands and thousands of soldiers in and defeat everybody again. we have already done that. we have two choices

rapport with president trump. that is obvious given all that, the flattering language. >> before being elected president earlier this year, volodymyr zelensky was an actor and comedian. his most notable role was playing a president on tv. he won office in a landslide with a campaign promise to fight corruption and to end ukraine's war with its vastly more powerful neighbor, russia. zelensky knows u.s. military aid is vital to his country, and he's eager for it to continue. i would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. we are ready to continue to cooperate for the next stages. specifically, we are almost ready to buy more javelins from the united states for defense purposes, he says. javelins are shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles ukraine's army needs to fight off russian-backed forces. so far, so normal. talks of bilateral relations and defense. but this is president trump, his response to the request for javelin missiles is personal. one white house official reportedly called it cra

a free donald trump is a donald trump who is in a lot of jeopardy legally. it's hard for me to imagine the attorney general of new york making any sort of a deal for donald trump. how does that deal go down? are we looking at a gerald ford situation, if it were to get that farther would have to be some promise of a fell pardon. >> that would have to between pence and trump. i don't think anybody in that party really likes donald trump and would care whether or not he got prosecuted once he was out of washington. i think what they're trying to weigh right now is the political calculus of standing by him as the news gets worse. and what more they could get out of him in a second term from a policy standpoint. >> judges. mitch mcconnell is still taking judges. >> they'll get that with pence. >> they'll get that either way. >> we're also making the assumption that pence will not go down with this titanic with the president. he's on the phone calls as well. so we can make a deal with mcconnell about pence. >> i think that's where pelosi starts to cash in chips. w

trump. this story and the impeachment process itself are still developing just as fast today and tonight as they have been over the past week. we'll get to all of that tonight including the new news from "the wall street journal" which nbc news just matched. "the wall street journal" now nbc news reporting that secretary of state mike pompeo was personally listening in on the call that has now led to these impeachment proceedings against president trump. i mean, unless mike pompeo is himself the whistle-blower, that means that he was aware in real time that president trump had personally blocked military aid to ukraine and then when that country's president brought up the need for u.s. military aid in a phone call with president trump, president trump responded by saying i would like you to do us a favor, though. that's when he asked that foreign leader for help with items on his personal wish list, including some sort of law enforcement or legal proceeding against his potential 2020 democra

the notes from trump's call with the president of ukraine, the call where trump responded by saying, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though, and that was after trump had just complained about the relationship between the countries saying, quote, the united states has been very, very good to ukraine. i would not say that it's reciprocal necessarily. every day brings us new reporting about the scope and also crucially about how freaked out people at the white house were. the people close to the call and close to the policy. fox news, yes, that fox news first reported that the whistle-blower who tipped off congress to the scandal wrote a different memo a day after trump's call with the president. a day after that memo the white house official who heard the entirety of the phone call described it as crazy, frightening and completely lack in substance related to national security. "the new york times" added to that according to the memo the white house official was visibly shaken by what had transpired. in the official's view the president had clearly committed a criminal act by

trump says he is on there, everyone says that in public but we also know what happens with trump's advises the get too much spotlight. >> host: we get lots to cover. what is his relationship with donald trump? >> guest: warm but a little aloof, not very close. i wrote about this in the book and it is still true. trump is close to a different hoosier, stephen hilburn, an insurance magnet from the 90s. they got close when working on casinos in the 90s. he is the man responsible for donald trump's arched hand, fittingly enough the owner of australian gold and according to my sources trump enjoys using australian gold getting products. hilbert is the one who connects mike pence with donald trump in june 2016. they don't have a real relationship before that and it has been tepid ever since. pence is absolutely loyal to donald trump based on everything i have seen but never entirely sure if it runs the other way, if trump is completely oral to him. >> host: the vice president's involvement, the reporting of that, let's hear calls from carol in mills river, north carolina on the republican line.

>> the on person who can beat donald trump is donald trump. i think president trump in getting through this impeachment process which they set up from the beginning to nullify the 2016 election. i think it will make him a better and tougher candidate than he was in '16. donald trump is the best candidate we had since ronald reagan. he ran a highly energetic race. he did 3, 4, 5 rallies a day. wisconsin, pennsylvania, iowa. it will be tough for any candidate to take that away from him. but hillary clinton, the people they have got out there. that was a tough fight in '16. we had to hammer that out to the last day. the first exit polls came out. we were getting blown out. it wasn't until 2:30 in the morning on the night we won. hillary clinton, particularly the trump supporters should not dismiss her. she is a tough war horse. if she decides to get in here. president trump will win. she is tough and she is smartr smart and she'll have a lot of money to back her. trish: there has somebody part of her that feels, i was so close. to walk away and s

after trump was elected. are they doing that to curry favor? you bet they are. they even say if we do not stay at the trump hotel, it is effectively double medic malpractice. so these are affecting our relationships with countries around the world and are undermined in, or should be undermining, the american divisions inh that this administration are made -- being made on behalf of the amerco people. host: paul on the democrats live from florida. caller: good morning. i would like to get back to the topic of the epa. appointing someone , who is ceo of monsanto pro-business. i get pro-business, but down in florida, we depend on tourism as our only business. the only source of money that comes into florida, for the most part, is tourism. when you take herbicides and pesticides and dump them in lake okeechobee, and that turns the water blue from a blue tide that runs up the coast -- everything is interconnected in florida. we have a series of ecosystems that are all interconnected, and when you allow all of thes

this is not the way trump followers imagine donald trump taking on joe biden. they think donald trump is tough enough to fight face to face. to be a trump voter, supporter is to be to varying degrees a fantasist. some businessmen supporting donald trump might like to live with the fantasy that they just vote to support his giant corporate tax cuts and not his racism, not his vulgar aity. not his rank ignorance. some trump supporters live in a world of complete fantasy about donald trump himself. the fantasy that somehow donald trump will still get mexico to pay for the wall. the fantasy that there will be a wall to pay for. the fantasy that donald trump is smarter than anyone else in politics. the fantasy that donald trump is a tough guy. even though he grew up a spoiled rich kid. the fantasy that donald trump is brave even though he got repeated draft deferments to avoid the war of his era. not once since then ever exhibited a single moment of bravery of any kind in his life. still, the trump fantacists see him as tough and brave and even thin and energetic as

trump. 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 that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today doubt there ain't no i love this land ♪d bless the usa from the lakes of minnesota to the hills of tennessee the plains of kentucky from sea to shining sea from detroit down to houston and new york to l.a. where there's pride in every american heart and it's time we stand and say that 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 that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today 'cause there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the usa 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 that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today 'cause there ain't no doubt i love this land usa ♪ess the [cheers and applause] >> usa! usa!

it closed inside of 2 with trump, so it moved towards trump between 12 and 16. the other thing republicans see, though, is this. the 2018 mid-terms you remember i was standing at this board election night and it was one district after another going from red to blue, flipping for the democrats. you had something in minnesota, you barely had anywhere else on the map in 2018. two districts, two congressional districts that went from blue to red. both of these districts were represented by democrats in congress. republicans managed to win them. this is the iron range, they call it. you're talking about districts with a lot of rural, blue collar white working class to them. these are the areas filled with the types of voters demographically trump has done best with. and that trump effect was very much in effect in the 2018 mid-terms. republicans were getting slaughtered everywhere, not in these parts of minnesota. so that's the opportunity trump and his campaign seek. the story is little more complicated than that, though, because look at this there were also two dis

he is kind of using a trump tactic. which is trump loves you until you insult him. well, that's what we saw from jim mattis. he was fine until trump called him overrated and all of a sudden, he counterpunched at the al smith dinner. >> it was actually a clever retort. >> it was. >> if you like meryl streep. >> wow. good luck on twitter tonight. >> no, i like her. i'm just saying. >> yeah. you better say you like her. good luck. >> interesting, though. the president's been talking about the general's overrated. i know more than the generals. they're political. and he's kind of proving his point through forcing them and snuffing them out a bit. in a way, it's really interesting that's working out. >> there is not a two-star or higher general ever that didn't have to play a little politics to get that second star. you earn the first one. everything else, you have to do a little politics that comes with it. jeff bennett, thank you, sir. have a good weekend on capitol hill. president trump claims that the kurds are very happy with the u.s. brokered ceasefire. let me get

>> rudy will not be very loyal to trump, but he is beholden to trump. there is a kind of -- they each have secrets on each other. if they split this fiction of what is going on here is an attorney client relationship, there's no meaningful sense of the word in which that is true. donald trump has not retained rudy giuliani. what rudy giuliani does is not exactly the practice of law. but there is the legal privilege. if they split, that begins to unfray -- begins to fray. it is striking and here's what is coming next. if you go low the list of how often donald trump has said something people go i know everything about it. donald trump will tell you i know everything about it meaning he knows nothing about it. when there's a guilty secret and he's done something wrong, he'd had them frequently at mar-a-lago. he was up to his eyeballs in promoting their schemes in ukraine. when donald trump tells you i don't know somebody, watch out. and just today he said he did not know for sure whether rudy giuliani was his lawyer or not. that is the sound of the bus be

noted when trump first made similar claims about bin laden. trump's book did not foreshadow a bin laden attack. that was incorrect. they wrote in part, quote there was nothing original or clairvoyant in the reference to bin laden. nor did it call for further u.s. actions against bin laden or al qaeda. >> almost did not happen due to one of his most widely criticized foreign policy decisions. multiple military and counter trac terrorism official. for months intelligence officials had kept him appraised of the hunt for mr. baghdadi, but mr. trump's abrupt withdrawal order from northeast syria three weeks ago disrupted the meticulous planning underway and forced pentagon officials to speed up the plan for the risky night raid before their ability to control troops, spies, and reconnaissance aircraft disappeared with the pull out. mr. al baghdadi's death occurred largely in spite of and not because of the president's actions. it allowed the formerly u.s. backed kurds to fend for themselves. however, u.s. officials telling the paper that the kurds

president trump's top aide just contradicted president trump, admitting trump pushed a quid pro quo plot, conditioning ukraine funding on a political probe involving the dnc. >> you were directly involved in the decision to withhold funding from ukraine. can you explain to us now definitively why? >> did he also mention to me in the past the corruption related to the dnc server? absolutely. no question about that. but that's it. that's why we held up the money. >> that's why we held up the money for ukraine. that's the president's chief of staff, who also runs the budget office, admitting to the thing trump has denied, that they did condition the money for ukraine on the political probe. this is astounding. this is important. this is rattling the white house tonight and we'll get to all of that. but i want you to see what happened. this quid pro quo bribe has now been admitted in plain sight by the guy in charge of the money. so there are tapes. we have them. and as reporters took in an admission so frank and self-incriminating it seemed more like a perry mason episode than real life, th

trump doesn't even drink. the other thing he said in the press conference was very important, what we got is a readout and what we say is a summary of the call, which he admitted to. but today he said the great stenographers, word for word, comma for comma, so is there a verbatim transcript or recording of this call or others? he's admitted to this collusion. but if you cop to a crime like this one, and glenn's a prosecutor so he knows this better than me, if you cop to one thing, what you are copping to might be something worse. so is he admitting there's a transcript or audio of this full call, if not other calls, where he's carrying out some of the same behavior or worse? and that further makes it -- it exposes him in the ongoing investigation. sure, he's scared. i will say one other thing too. i will go out on a limb and say while it may not look like republican officials will say as they did with nixon and turn on him, let's be clear, this is a man who took over a party, and many of them resented him at f

no one is an expert to donald trump more than expert to donald trump on anything he knows something about. >> it is amazing though that it took a whistleblower almost on the third year to disclose all of this. this is obviously the mo. >> it took a whistleblower to state the obvious about all the crazy and all the legality that defines donald trump's presidency. i still can't get over rudy giuliani giving the fake package to secretary pompeo and italy there is a picture circulating o on twitter how it was photoshopped. the white house's logo. a knock off version and it is kind of symbolic of how wrong everything is going right now with the administration that rudy giuliani is considered a serious person by donald trump that he's one of the only human beings on earth who is giving some credence to this theory that president trump's own former homeland security advisor went on network on sunday morning tv to say this is crazy. this is just nuts. >> maybe the general there before. maybe there were better guard rails than we realize. >> i don't know. >> when we come back, it will be the break

he called trump a phoney and fraud before groveling to be trump's secretary of state. resistance romney signaled he would be willing to support impeachment of the president as well if nancy pelosi and adam schiff can dig up enough top -- to remove him. the decision about our troops in syria last we are prompted senator lindsey graham to declare he would become the president's worst nightmare. well, apparently he's okay now with that withdrawal. graham telling fox this weekend that he has seen the light. that there is some out number of about the president's syria withdrawal policy. >> i'm increasingly optimistic we can have some historic solutions in syria that have eluded us for years if we play our cards right. lou: if you get the idea lindsey graham is a settled supportered of the president. get ready for this. graham is leaving the door open for impeachment. >> fit all comes out you could support impeachment? >> sure. show me something that is a crime. if you can show me trump actually was engage in a quid pro quo outside the phone call, that would be very disturbi

donald trump. he's distancing himself but it's always interesting to watch trump do this for the man who demands so much loyalty. as soon as he gets nervous that you're not in his best interest, you're gone. >> does it mean he thinks he can be in trouble himself about they are joined a eed at the hip? >> i think that's right. i would suggest that giuliani has been a liability to the president for quite some time. it's been building recently and now it appears that rudy giuliani is the subject of a criminal investigation, if not the target, and so he has some serious legal jeopardy and the president senses that. it will be awfully difficult for the president even if he pretends not to know him many the m coing days, which i predict will happen. it will be difficult for the president to distance himself in a real way from giuliani. it's too late for that. >> carl, rudy giuliani has changed the entire narrative of his career for donald trump. he was america's mayor. he's now trump's man. that is what

what does president trump do? a couple weeks after that decision he turns around and grants turkey something they've been pushing for for years, a green light to attack kurds inside syria. >> let's talk about the relationship between presidents trump and erdogan. the white house announced president trump's pull out shortly after his phone call with president erdogan. it marks the second time in less than a year that president trump announced a major troop withdrawal from syria immediately following a phone call with erdogan. those are just two instances in a trend in which erdogan has had his way with president trump. in may of 2017,s a mentioned just minutes after a immediate meeting with trump in the oval office, he was seen on camera ordering his security detail to assault a group of peaceful protesters on embassy row in washington. american protesters. trump still has not comment hand to incident and charges against the turkish saassail quadrants were dropped later. they took positions against the protest of t

so you like trump? no, you hate trump. they act like they are not hateful people, but if you are arava public and walking by or ask about trump, you see the true hatred in some of these democrats. rd ladythat the gabba from hawaii congress, she is like the old time democrat. host: tulsi gabbard? caller: yes. host: william is next in massachusetts. independent line. caller: yeah. enjoyam schiff seems to sequencing of events, so the question is when you call a staffer to an office like adam schiff's office, is that staffer an official member of the intel committee? so the whistleblower can share confidential information, it should be with a member of congress who was on the intel committee, so i do not understand how adam schiff who was saying it was all proper protocol, you played the clip where he asked the intel, the dni cheese about proper protocol. f -- dni-- dni fhie chief about proper protocol. so when do you think? host: it might not have been a personal staffer for the couldss's office and it have been a democratic

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schiff's take or trumps words. trump is wrong in saying schiff reported to be reciting actual words. he introduced it saying i'll give you the essence. he suggested that this was his own interpretation. >> thank you for your time. the american people need clarity not parody. we'll be right back. when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free. >>> house democrats are hours away from questioning a critical figure in the ukraine scandal. million dollars trump donor and u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondland will be grilled over the text messages tha

trump relented. sessions delivered the news. >> good morning. m here today to announce that the program known as daca that s effectuated under the obama administrati is being rescinded. >> jeff sessions makes it pretty clclr they will, in fact, be moving to possibly deport, um,o thousands of people re brought to this country as young children and who know no other home but america. >> thank you very much.a >> it'etty devastating blow to about 800,000 dreamers... >> protests erupting nationwide afthe trp... >> major change in immigration policy announced today... >> and immediately, it's like a bomb goes off in washington. >> immigrants are welcome here!r >> what thident called a case of heart now sparking emotional protests all over the country. >> can't go back home. they can't send me g back ho, because this is my hom >> as the community prayed over them, some broke down in tears. they were all da recipients now filled... >> protesters storming major cities all across the country... >> outrage afte