&a. president trump held a campaign rally in dallas thursday. the situation in turkey, criticized immigrants over the impeachment inquiry, and talked about his 2016 election victory. the rally was held at the american airlines center. it is just over an hour and a half. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president of the united states, donald j. trump. ♪ ♪ ♪ [cheering] pres. trump: thank you. [cheering] pres. trump: thank you very much. hello, dallas. it's great to be with you tonight. thank you. [cheering] pres. trump: i am thrilled to be here. deep in the heart of texas. [cheering] pres. trump: where we just opened a beautiful new louis vuitton plant. [cheering] pres. trump: but i'm with the freedom loving patriots of the lone star state. [cheering] pres. trump: there has never been a better time to be a proud texan. [cheering] pres. trump: there's never been a better time to be a proud american. there never has. [cheering] pres. trump: so i came from a small town, alvarado, texas. [cheering] pres. trump: we celebrated the incredible revival of american manufactur

president donald trump in the white house. like all of you, i am here because i stand with president donald trump. when this president stands up for american workers from the range, i the iron stand with president donald trump. when this president stands up for faith and freedom, and the american flag, i stand with president donald trump. when this president stands up to the radical democrats in congress trying to overturn the will of the american people with endless investigations and partisan politics, we stand with president donald trump. [applause] what began four years ago has grown into a movement. a movement of everyday americans from every walk of life. all of you believe we could be strong again. you believe we could be prosperous again. said yes to president donald trump in 2016. minnesota, i know you will say yes to four more years of president donald trump in 2020. when you think of the last three , it has been three years of action. it has been three years of results. it has been three years of promises made and kept. we are just getting started. president trump has sign

morning, your reaction to president trump's and when on the impeachment inquiry. join with your calls, texts, facebook comments, and we. -- tweets. join the discussion. announcer: campaign 2020, watch our live coverage of the presidential candidates on the campaign trail, and make up your own mind. c-span's campaign 2020. your unfiltered view of politics. president trump held a campaign rally at the target center in downtown minneapolis. it was his first rally since the launch of the impeachment inquiry. he nearly lost minnesota to hillary clinton in the 2016 presidential election. [applause] [crowd chanting usa!] [applause] president trump: thank you. thank you very much. thank you minnesota, this is a great state. we are going to win this estate in a very short period of time. this feels like the day before the election. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we have 20,000 plus people inside, we just set a new record. [cheers and applause] we have 25,000 people that we still love outside. [cheers and applause] -- pres. trump: and close to 100,000 people wanted to come tonight, thank yo

live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. your reaction to president trump's handling of the impeachment inquiry. join the conversation all morning with your calls, texts, facebook comments, and tweets. watching c-span's "washington journal" at 7:00 a.m. this morning. join the discussion. >> president trump held a campaign rally at the target center in downtown minneapolis. it was his first rally since the launch of the impeachment inquiry. lost minnesota at the hillary clinton and 2016 presidential election. ♪ i'm proud to be an american, where at least i know i'm free. ♪ i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me. ♪ ♪ i proudly stand up, next to you and defend her still today. ♪ ♪ there ain't no doubt i love this land, god bless the u.s.a. ♪ ♪ i'm proud to be an american, where at least i know i'm free. ♪ i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me. ♪ ♪ i proudly stand up, next to you and defend her still today. ♪ ♪ there ain't no doubt i love this land, god bless the u.s.a. ♪ [applause] [crowd chantin

national cable satellite corp. 2019] >> president trump addressed members of the young black leadership summit in the east room of the white house. the event was part of turning point usa's black leadership summit in washington, d.c., featuring conservative leaders and activists. [cheering] pres. trump: boy, oh boy. this is a group. so -- so, i've been doing this for a long time. that is the loudest i've ever heard anything in this room. [cheering] trump: you just broke the record. unbelievable. well, i want to thank you all. and i have a lot of friends, but -- and this is a place. 1799 it was built. 1799. started off with number six -- john adams, president. and so, it's a long time. it's the white house, and we love it, and it's an honor to have you. but you really did -- you broke the sound barrier. i've never heard that. i've never heard it quite like that, and i appreciate it. we love you. we love you. audience member: we love you! pres. trump: thank you. and i'm honored to welcome everybody and these incredibly talented and unbelievable, patriotic, young american leader

fast enough but not too fast and figuring in that resistance factor that the trump administration has built into it, which the house might just decide to kind of bulldoze. in effect just make the blocking of the subpoenas part -- make it an article of impeachment and go ahead. >> right, exactly. >> that could get you thanksgiving. >> could. >> i guess. what, with, like, a counterintelligence investigation now open to all this, like, everything new that's coming out, all these -- i don't know. we will see what they do. at this point i cannot guess. every day is like a whole new universe to me. >> it really is. >> thank you, laurwrence. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well, you've never seen anything like it and i've never seen anything like it and i've been in the room where it happened many, many times. but i never saw anyone in that room do what nancy pelosi did today when she literally stood up to the president of the united states and because donald trump has the weakest mind in the history of the american presidency, he released the photograph of that moment captured perfectly by a whit

trump speaks a campaign rally in lake charles, louisiana. this is an hour and a half. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, donald j. 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

>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president of the united states, donald j. trump. ♪ [cheering] [chanting] pres. trump: thank you. [cheering] thank you very much. hello, dallas. it's great to be with you tonight. thank you. [cheering] thrilled to beam here. deep in the heart of texas. [cheering] where we just opened a beautiful new louis vuitton plant. [cheering] but i'm with the freedom loving patriots of the lone star state. [cheering] pres. trump: there has never been a better time to be a proud texan. [cheering] pres. trump: there's never been a better time to be a proud american. but never has. [cheering] pres. trump: so i came from a small town, alvarado, texas. [cheering] pres. trump: we celebrated the incredible revival of american manufacturing and we opened up some beautiful places. i'll tell you, this place is doing great. created anted -- has extra 1000 jobs for texas. [cheering] since my election, we've created 775,000 new jobs across your state, including 70,000 texas manufacturing jobs. they said those jobs have disappeared, didn't they? [cheering]

donald trump's own employees, including some of his self-declared fixers, are now key in his impeachment probe and why democrats say it's that evidence from these people that has donald trump on the run like never before. it's a big deep dive that we've been working on. we have that tonight. and as if that wasn't enough, i have something even bigger. my colleague, rachel maddow, is here. she's live. she's talking all about the news, reactions to what we're learning today, and of course reporting from her new book, which also touches on ukraine. so all of that's in the show. but we begin with the action on the impeachment probe against donald trump. hearing from key witnesses another new person says they will testify and what looks like a stone wall cracking as that ukraine scandal engulfs donald trump's presidency. a fourth giuliani associate arrested this morning, taken into federal custody at jfk airport by the fbi. the man you see is linked to the other ukrainian businessmen who have those ties to giuliani indicted. all four due in court tomorrow. now, cnn is reporting the criminal pr

investigation of former new york mayor and current trump tv lawyer rudy giuliani. but first i want to take a step back and talk just a little bit about two countries that have been at the center of your and frankly my life for now going on four years. and which are both connected to each other by donald trump. this is ukraine. note that it is huge. ukraine declared independence from russia two years after the berlin fall in 1999 and ever since russia has been not just mad but big mad. ukraine is huge so when it left it made mother russia a lot smaller though it is still pretty huge too. it also sits on the border separating russia from europe. ukraine is a word that literally means border land and the southern part of it stretches across the black sea, a key water route for ferrying oil and natural gas to europe, which is russia's biggest customer for the stuff that keeps the lights on. curb sha and ukraine haven't been the friendliest of neighbors since ukraine declared itself an understood pen dindep. ukraine also had a lot of old -- the old soviet union's military nukes which they'

take you now to the white house where moments ago, president trump outlined a tentative new trade deal for china. i have had communication with secretary mnuchin and made substantial progress. and we are happy about it. we will continue to make efforts. and thank you for this pportunity for me to -- all my colleagues. president trump thank you very much. it's a great honor. i think because the foreign exchange agreement that we made will be tremendous, tremendous benefit both in terms of the magnitude and the simplicity. will make a complicated process much simpler. something we have all been working for. >> thank you very much. ould i see that? indiscernible] president trump this is for guys like john that aren't good with chinese. will have that magnified so fast, your head will spin. it's a tremendous message and thank you very much. i read this and i appreciate it very much. this is from president xi and we knew we were going to have a very successful phase one and took us a long time to get here but something that's going to be great for china and the u.s.a. we appreciate it very

today with certainty that donald trump will be put on trial in the united states senate if he's impeached by the house of representatives, which is becoming more certain by the day. donald trump's jury in that trial will be the 100 members of the united states senate. the trial will begin with all 100 jurors raising their right hand and taking an oath as jurors that has not been administered in the u.s. senate since the last impeachment trial in 1999. six of the jurors in the trump impeachment trial will be candidates for president. what will they do? will they suspend their campaigns? will they be able to fairly consider the evidence against the person they're running against for president? we have never seen anything like this. no united states senator has ever taken office anticipating this. no candidate for president has ever had to think about this. until now. one of those candidates for president who will be a juror in the trump impeachment trial will join us at the end of this hour, senator cory booker will tell us how he will handle his duties if he is sworn in as a juro

crowding out all else today. donald trump's obstruction of his own impeachment investigation which has the support of majority of americans. and the attack of the trail. america's ally in the fight against isis. two big lead stories and two crises both of donald trump's make. maybe that's part of problem, folks. maybe the fact that the president turned his back on american allies some who will die for the crime for standing by the u.s. and the fact that congress will, once again, be stymied in its effort to protect the country from foreign interference is part of the same story. the story we've been warned about. a story that we've seen play out before our very eyes. the story documented in the 400 pages of the mueller report. and in black and white every morning on donald trump's twitter feed. the story is this. the president lacks the stability and the confidence for the job he holds. those aren't even my words. that's a quote from former republican senator. again, not an original thought on my part. that is what mitt romney said back in january. on donald trump's new war on his own

against donald trump. >> wow! >> we will get bill bradley's view of the young william taylor who came to work for him. in the united states senate. >> a, that's a fascinating backstory and b, i am already riveted. >> stay with us rachel. >> i will. thank you. well, never trump republican rick wilson will be joining us at the end of this hour. it's going to take him that long to compose his thoughts to respond the way only a phrase-maker like rick wilson can to donald trump accusing hi these are donald trump's words, these two words -- human scum. the rest of this hour's discussion will take place on a decidedly higher plain, with president obama's ambassador to the united nations samantha power joining us to consider nancy pelosi's line that all roads lead to putin with donald trump on a day when donald trump once again gave vladimir putin everything he wants in syria. matt gaetz is one of the relatively few members of congress who has a mug shot. there it is. that picture was taken by florida police on the night matt gaetz was pulled over while driving his father's bmw. he was a rece

show up. she didn't necessarily leave on the best of terms with the trump white house and i don't like to use the short-hand terms but considered a russia hawk in trump world, that means you disagree with donald trump on just about everything involving russia. >> and, you know, the relationship of her sort of per view under the trump administration and what's happened with this ukraine proceeding, an interesting ask to ask the russia advisor to come in and talk about this ukraine scandal. i would love to hear what she has to say about this. i don't know what sort of leverage that will have to block her but we'll see. >> legally, they don't have any but we'll see what they do. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thanks, rachel. >>> donald trump has crossed a line in polling that no president running for reelection has ever crossed. no president running for reelection has ever had a majority of the american people say in a poll that that president should be impeached and removed from office. donald trump achieved that today in a stunning new fox news poll which shows that 51% of registered voters no

something can become more inevitable, it's donald trump, who finds out how to make it more inevitable every day. >> the city does feel different. and he does appear, at least today, to be making their jobs a little easier. >> yeah. he's doing their work for them. thank you, nicole. >> have a good show. >>> another day, another smoking gun. today we actually got two more smoking guns if you're counting. depends on how you're counting. in the impeachment investigation of president trump. three, actually. maybe it's three. you'll decide at the end of this hour. and we are going to have to spread out these three smoking guns throughout the hour. we have to find room in this hour also to discuss a new whistle-blower emerging at the irs who may be reporting something about the president's tax returns. and at the end of the hour we'll take a look at how vice president mike pence's week is going as he is now sinking deeper and deeper into the mud of the impeachment investigation of his boss. we begin tonight with the president's solicitation of re-election campaign help from ukraine. the smok

about immigration that donald trump had read. donald trump at that point was known for really one point of view, which is his advocacy of trade protectionism. that had been the signature issue since the '80s. i think he found ann's book and found his idea and that was the idea that he rode to overcome the republican field. what had happened in the aftermath of the great recession was that republican voters had decided what we want is more healthcare, less immigration, and no more bushes. and the republican establishment said right, got it, more immigration, less healthcare, and one more bush. and so it was a rotten floorboard and ann showed donald trump the way to pierce it, from my point of view, tragic consequences for the country, but great consequences for ann because she became really a kingmaker. >> and we're going to dig into that. one of the main topics we'll touch on today is immigration and in terms of format this is just going to be an informal conversation. now, both of you leading into the trump years and during the trump years have been immigration hawks, but since trump h

primary challenge to president trump. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: the congressional point person on the impeachment of president is california representative adam schiff, the chair of the house intelligence committee, which is leading the inquiry. house republican leadership has stepped up criticism of congressman schiff, some calling for his resignation. it is "washington journal" for thursday, october 3, 2019. we are going to ask how confident are you in congressman schiff's ability to lead the impeachment inquiry? .epublicans, 202-748-8001 democrats, 202-748-8000. independents and all others, 202-748-8002. you can text us your thoughts. that is 202-748-8003. tell us your name and where you are texting from and on twitter, we are @cspanwj. you can post your thoughts at facebook.com/cspan. congressman adam schiff has been in congress for 10 terms. he is a california congressman serving the 28th district, which is in the los angeles area. he served as ranking member of the intelligence co

witness. ambassador to the eu. a million dollar trump donor who by the way is set to testify before not one, not two but three committees. in the morning. first, president trump as usual was playing busy playing defense at the white house. cnn takes us through the biggest developments of the day. >> you can't impeachment a president for doing a great job. >> trump kicks off the week under pressure from an impeachment inquiry. and raging at the democrats. but he says he's thriving. >> what they did to the country is unthinkable. and it's lucky that i'm the president. because i guess i don't know what a lot of people said few people can handle it. i thrive on it. >> reporter: he claims he's thriving. house intelligence committee is taking extreme measures to protect the whistleblower from a president itching to learn his identity. >> this country has to find out who the person was. that person is a spy in my opinion. >> there are growing concerns about the whistleblowers safety. it's unclear when the whistleblower might talk to law makers a committee is considering using an off site l

immigration that read. trump had donald trump at that point was known for really one point of view, which is his advocacy of protectionism. that had been the signature issue since the '80s. he found ann's book and found his idea and that was the to overcome rode the republican field. what had happened in the aftermath of the great recession was that republican voters had decided what we want is more less immigration, and no more bushes. and the republican establishment moreright, got it, immigration, less healthcare, and one more bush. a rotten was floorboard and ann showed donald trump the way to pierce it, from my point of view, tragic country,ces for the but great consequences for ann because she became really a kingmaker. >> and we're going to dig into that. one of the main topics we'll touch on today is immigration and in terms of format this is be an informal conversation. now, both of you leading into years and during the trump years have been immigration hawks, but since have has been elected, you converged on your views on the administration's views on policies, one of tho

when he was in new hampshire today. watch. >> donald trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation, and committed impeachable acts. he should be impeached. >> martha: politico, just to give you a sampling out there, says much of the white house staff is paralyzed by democrats' impeachment inquiries as trump directs the trump 2020 teams as the controversy is "jet fuel" for his campaign. and on the biden side, he's slipping in the polls. see this headline in the new republic. joe biden's case for the presidency is collapsing, they write tonight. two people who will disagree with those assessments on both sides, simone sanders sr. advisor to the biden campaign, and lynn patton, close ally to the trump campaign, and we began with simone, thank you very much. good to hear you this evening. why didn't joe biden come out with a strong stance in favor of impeachment when prior to that he had urged restraint to this issue. >> thank you, busy day. look, i think it's a fair question, why today and why now, frankly. i think the acts of the last 15 days are what move to vi

"the beat." next a special presentation of richard engel's "trump and ukraine: fact and fiction." >>> it started a as a 30-minute phone call between two presidents. it erupted into a full-scale scandal that now threatens to bring down donald trump. >> today i'm announcing the house of representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. >> our president sacrificed our national security and our constitution for his personal political benefit. >> they've been trying to impeach me from the day i got elected. and you know what? they failed. >> you've seen the headlines. tonight we'll dive deep into the part of the story you haven't heard. and key players will reveal for the first time what really happened. as we go on assignment. the conversation just after 9:00 a.m. on july 25th started out friendly. president donald j. trump calling his newly elected counterpart, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. this is from the official notes of the phone call released by the white house. congratulations on a great victory, we all watched from the united states and you d

trump donor and novice state department official that appears to have been directly involved in the scheme to pressure the ukrainian government into helping the government with date of birth for the democrats for 2020. in advance of that they are reporting that a dozen house democrats are calling for the resignation for the state department. he is due. we'll see you again tomorrow, now it is time for the last world with lawrence o'donnell. >> it will be the "call me" deposition. all about the when do you decide in a texting flow to say "call me." that is what the sondland contribution to the texting flow is. >> i will say if you are having a conversation with somebody by e-mail, or by text, and it occurs to you this is something we should not put in writing, the thing you don't do at that moment is say "hey, let's stop putting this in writing." you just stop writing and you call the person. you don't say let's talk about this on the phone and stop texting about it. you think that, you don't actually type it out. and i just, i don't know -- >> good, that is helpful, i will stop texti

. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> the operating principle of donald trump's presidency is to govern by lie and so he lied today when explaining why he surrendered to the resistance once again. this weekend donald trump surrendered to the resistance that rose up after he announced his illegal and unconstitutional plan to bring the next g7 meeting to a trump hotel so that the american government and foreign governments would be paying donald trump directly at the same time. we'll get to that later in this hour. trump lies and stupidity go hand in hand. donald trump depends on a sort of collective stupidity for people to believe his lies and sunday morning, he issued a deeply disturbing tweet about the situation in syria and the kurds and in the tweet he lied about bringing our soldiers home. he also got the secretary of defense's name wrong. and that's what makes it a classic trump presidential tweet. the combination of deceit and stupidity with carelessness. calling defense secretary mark esper mark esperanto got trump a lot of ridicule on twitter yesterday and a lot of laughs but i couldn'

have been ordered to retreat. all of it, of course, the result of one trump phone call and the green light it conveyed as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a monday night. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. 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

for someone else but in the end, it is driven by selfishness. words on c-span two. >> president trump was asked about media reports that the justice department has opened a criminal investigation into the origins of the russian probe. he took questions from reporters as he departed the white house for south carolina as he discussed criminal justice reform. president trump: hello, everyone. hello. the stock market is doing very well. the economy is booming. we have a new record in sight, could happen even today, it could be a new stock market record, it will have been 118 times we have broken the record. jobs are phenomenal. we are doing well in syria and with turkey and with everyone else we are dealing with. we have secured the oil. we have a lot of oil. we have secured the oil. we have a couple of people that came knocking and we said -- don't knock. and i think i would say things are going very well. i noticed people are still in a secure room in the basement, trying to make us look as bad as possible, but that is not working so well. a lot of things are happening very good and i a

trump's resume as he went through a brief and very unsuccessful period as a corporate raider. this is when he bought the trump shuttle airline he was making threats at other airlines and how to cover m&a and a routine part of my job i called him up and said can i interview you. he said definitely. come see me but it must be completely off the record. no one must know you are meeting me. i said all right. i went to trump tower and went up to the marble lobby and i was shown into his office and we were chatting briefly when his secretary came in and interrupted and said, mr. trump, mrs. so-and-so is here. he said show her in. i said so much for the completely secret meeting with me. she came in and he said, james, i want you to meet, i don't remember her name, mrs. so-and-so from the philippines. he said, she is the richest woman in the world. i thought the queen of england was the richest woman in the world. but who knew. he turned to her and said mrs. so-and-so, this is james stewart. he's the most famous journalist in america. [laughter] at which point i knew she was not the richest

legal wrongdoing that came to light after the elections. with donald trump, we have an election a year away, and what makes what the democrats are doing so repulsive is, just beat him. the campaign has already started. we are watching democrats run around the country, even a few republicans, raising money, asking for votes. we are going to be voting in iowa and new hampshire soon. just beat him if you do not like him. but just because -- but the reason they are going to impeachment, they cannot beat him. democrats have said that. that is a disgusting use of the constitution. go win an election. donald trump won fair and square. i know they wanted to upend the election results for three years, and it is all about a coup, anything, something to drag the man down just when fair and square. host: just a minute ago you called impeachment a political exercise. do you think that for democrats it is part of the 2020 campaign? guest: totally. it is all a part of it, and it is all part of what is happening in the democratic party, which it is becoming increasingly radicalized. go to gallup polli

this week donald trump and fox news there are signs that the president's biggest supporter on the american airwaves is having some serious 2nd thoughts he draws crowds that will put bollywood superstars and indian cricketers to shame india's no rent remote and the art of the overseas mega rally one year after the killing of jamal khashoggi the saudi crown prince gets a grilling on american television and comes up short and gratitude and berg's climate speech as a swedish death metal song somehow. strikes the right now. as the impeachment inquiry in the u.s. congress gathers steam president trump tweets about a crew and talk of a looming civil war there are signs of an in-house civil war at the biggest most influential news network in the country fox news the complaint at the center of the impeachment story filed by an anonymous whistleblower alleges that trump abused his powers by asking the government of ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden a possible opponent in next year's presidential election fox has been a bedrock of support for this president and there were some signs before

what he stands so firmly beside donald trump. that is the piety part of this book. have his religious beliefs evolved over the years? guest: yes. this is something i noticed when i was talking with evangelical ministers, practitioners. he will talk -- he has talked about this occasionally, in 1978 is when he had the salvation experience. he was a freshman in college. what i found out in the research is that he does not lead the catholic church until 1994. that is when he starts going regularly to the greenwood community church. baptisthe southern style. it is not like that. they don't get into that style. it is a long conversion. to the viewers here, check out -- i write about this in the book. this is really fascinating. he writes a senior thesis at hanover college in 1980. host: this is not a seminary. guest: is a presbyterian college. 1980, he votes for the evangelical in the race. jimmy carter. one month later, he submits a thesis to his professor. the religious expressions of abraham lincoln. it is already seven pages of great research on lincoln. lincoln isbout how struggling wi

all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you if for watching. >>> president trump orders the withdrawal of all remaining u.s. troops from northern syria, left out on a limb the kurds have now made a deal with russia's backed bashar al assad. >> another big week in the trump impeachment push, the u.s. ambassador is expected to testify this week. >>> and joe biden and his son hunter announce new plans as they try to manage the president's ongoing attacks over hunter's foreign business dealin dealings. >> tr >>> good morning, we begin with the fast moving developments in the middle east as president trump orders the withdrawal of all remaining troops from northern syria. the decision was revealed by the secretary of defense who says turkey's invasion has increased the risk to u.s. forces on the ground there. we get the latest from nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. >> reporter: the u.s. is getting out of syria at the worst time, just as turkey is making rapid advances in its war against u.s. allies,ed kurd of syria. u.s. officials tell nbc news and th

nicolle wallace begins right now. ♪ >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. donald trump's impeached this strategy came into full view today when he stood before cameras and asked for dirt on his potential opponent, not one but two foreign governments. apparently banking on norm busting to clear him from law busting when it comes to trading foreign relations for political favors. the comments described by the "new york times" is nothing short of, quote, extraordinary presidential request to a foreign country for help that could benefit him in the 2020 election came after trump faced an entire night of criticism over yesterday's foul-mouthed impeachment meltdown. and his refusal to answer this simple question. what were you hoping the president of ukraine would do about biden? today reporters took another crack at mason's question, and this time trump answered with the response that the lawmakers investigating him could only have dreamed of. here's the exchange. >> well, i would think that if they were honest about it they'd start a major investigation into the bidens. it's

under president trump until he submitted his to russia under president trump until he submitted his resignation letter in august. that resignation is effective tomorrow. the exact reason why he resigned and the timing of it all remains somewhat of an open and interesting question. i have to tell you, though, i have a beat on a good source. i'm going to be on "the view" tomorrow, his daughter is one of the hosts of the view. do not tell her i want to ask her about that. that's tomorrow at 11:00 eastern time. that does it for us. i'll see you tomorrow. now it's time for the last word is lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> jon huntsman is going to be one of the most interesting along with bolton's from the trump administration. there are so many questions for the ambassador, including why did you stay as long as you did? and then why did you leave? >> why did you go when you went, yes. >> both of those things are, are fascinating. >> yes. >> and he's got a story to tell. >> well, i'm going to -- i've got my source, my sneaky source. i'm going to try t. >> thank you, rachel.

should stop tacking about this right now lawrence. >> all right, thank you. >> the trump administration spent the weekend reeling. it already has the president on the road. and then a second whistle-blower was confirmed. for the "new york times" and tonight, the breaking mitt romney news of the night is from vanity fair where gabe sherman is reporting from a romney advisor. a romney advisor believes that romney has more potential power as a senator that will decide trump's fate in the impeachment trial. he could have tremendous influence in the impeachment process as the loan voice of conscious. the advisor said that romney has been reaching out privately in key players in the republican resistance according to a person briefed on the conversations. romney is the one guy that can bring along susan collins. romney is the pressure point in the impeachment process. that's why the things he is saying are a freaking republican's out and freaking out trump who called for the impeachment of the united states senator mitt romney which is of course impossible. there is no such thing as impeachme

all of the c-span products. c-span's campaign 2020 coverage continues as president trump posts a keep america great rally in minneapolis. live tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. c-span.org andn listen wherever you are using the free c-span radio app. before departing for minneapolis, president trump spoke to reporters on the south lawn of the white house. >> we just completed a negotiation with china which went very well. we are having another one tomorrow. i am meeting with the vice premier at the white house. i think it's going really well. i think it's going really well. we had a very good negotiation with china. they will be speaking a little bit later. they are basically wrapping it up. we are going to see them tomorrow right here. it's going very well. [inaudible] >> who took 900,000? >> [inaudible] pres. trump: i hope it's not true that joe biden took $900,000. i haven't heard it. i hope it's not true. for the sake of the country, i hope it's not true. i don't know anything about it. >> [inaudible] pres. trump: what? who? >> [inaudible] pres. trump: i know the whistleblowe

republican pollster who worked for the trump campaign to let me begin with the quinnipiac poll. 55% of those polled support the impeachment inquiry of president trump. 43% said no. when they talked to independents, they saw the number jumpe. this is a dramatic 14 point shift over just the last week. you are president trump's pollster. saying. let's say you are. you come to him with these numbers, what advice do you give him? guest: i don't know. i don't know if it would matter. he seems to move to the beat of his own drum. nothing i see him doing is coming from the advice of consultants or people that are trying to take more traditional ways of winning campaigns. he seems to be doing his own thing. i don't know if it matters what anyone tells him. we are seeing the same types of numbers. we are doing daily tracking on the views on impeachment. we are not saying that big of a jump. the numbers do not look great for where this is heading. i think you see with republicans they kind of know this. the white house seems to think their best approach is to attack the process versus the facts.

, national journals joins us to discuss the politics of impeachment. against president trump. ♪ host: president trump yesterday appeared to widen his appeal to foreign governments to investigate his main political rival. this time it was china. the morning and welcome to c-span's "washington journal" for friday, october the fourth, 2019. we will start the program asking about the appropriateness of seeking foreign intervention or assistance. what is appropriate? republicans, your line is 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. for independents, all others, that is 202-748-8002. if you are watching or listening outside the u.s., that line, 202-748-8003. you can also use that line if you want to text us, 202-748-8003. make sure you include your name and where you are texting from and on twitter we are @cspanwj. facebook, your thoughts, facebook.com/cspan. we will get to the president's comments, the story about china in a moment. there is new news from the wall street journal and their headline, ukraine to review investigations into firm link to biden's son. it is reviewing past investi

later was the investigation of links between russia and the trump campaign. donald trump investigation to some sort of sinister conspiracy by the deep state. nebulous network of career bureaucrats and intelligence agents. military officers and law enforcement officials on protecting their own power. is there anything legitimate about this claim or are the attacks simply acts of obstruction meant to cloak his own illegal conduct? these are are among the questions. he performs an important service i just hope attorney general and anyone else who continues to tap the origins reads deep state. please join me in welcoming jim stewart. [applause] >> thank you. thank you for coming. thank you for having me. thank god we still have bookstores like this supporting authors like me who can still go out and get to the bottom of things without fear, without any influence, without threats to be put in jail. as you are going over my increasingly long biography, you left out take few things. three key characters in some way , haunted my journalistic career. they are rudy giuliani who i figured in my s

at the hangar there. the trump rally, just about to start.us >> a>>ally for donald trump is about to...ve >> air one is livethe trump rally, and... >> you know, we'd be on the plane, and he'd say, "is tonight the night fo snake?'" >> ...frontrunner about to speak to a big... ternal discussion, which would last about ten seconds, and we'd either say "yes" or "no." and he'd say, "i'll put it i the pocket, if iant it, i'll take it out." now, has anyone ever heard, has anyone ever heard "the snake," that i read every once in a while? i can do it if you'd like. should i do it or not? should i? ah. h >> aused that analogy, very much for the issue of immigration. >> on her way to work one g morning down the path ale lake, a tend-hearted woman saw a poor, half-frozen snake. (crowd murmuring) "take me in, oh tender woman, aktake me in, for heaven's take me in, oh tender woman," sighed the broken snake. she wrapped him up all cozy in a curvure of silk and then lai him by the fireside with somene and some milk. now she stroked his pretty skin, and then she kissed him and held him tight. but

, trump's plan in the middle east backfires, neil brennan explains how to take america back, and we find out which profession has the most sex. let's catch up on today's headlines. let's begin in the world of man on this running. most just run so they can brag to their friends about running marathons. though that's not why i run them. i do it for the tiny cups of water. anyway, one man ran straight into the record books. >> in vienna austria a runner from kenya made history going the distance for two hours for the first time. >> 59 minutes and 40 seconds but it won't be counted as a new world record because it wasn't an official race. all of it stage nangd forensic detail, a special chosen flat six mile circuit in vienna. the runner wore white nyc vapor flies and there were three dozen pacers, some of the world's best marathoners who took turns pounding the grueling pace in formation. >> trevor: wow, that is amazing. elliott ran a marathon in less than two hours, which was thought to be physically impossible. you know this guy's a freak athlete because he kept running after he crossed the fi

going to do with it in the future. amy: as president trump announces sanctions will be lifted on turkey following its invasion of northern syria, he admits some u.s. t troops will remain in the region to protect oil fields in syria. we will speak to andrew bacevich , president of the newly formed quincy institute for responsible statecraft. then to capitol hill where republican lawmakers stormed into a secure room at the capital to disrupt the impeachment proceedings against president trump. >> the tactic start in an effort to delay the inevitable. they are a response to just damaging and pulverizing testimony yesterday from a courageous ambassador bill taylor. but they will not stop us in pursuing t the truth. amy: we will go to capitol hill for the latest on the impeachment proceedings. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump said wednesday sanctions will be lifted on turkey as a ceasefire remains in place in northern syria. turkey invaded the region earlier this month after trump with

start with donald trump's impeachment kries. a stampede of gathering facts gathered by the day, and a legal defense that appears increasingly erratic. trump was pressed on his stonewawing of congress and his refusal to comply with the subpoenas. he suggested the fight could go all the way to the supreme court. >> the whole thing is a scam. it's a fix. and we wrote a letter yesterday, and probably ends up being a big supreme court case. >> all right, so at this point, trump's strategy, it's pretty clear. obstruct, deflect, confuse. if all else fails, hope the supreme court, to of which he appointed two justices, come and save him, even as new facts emerge today. the full memo from the first whistleblower released with new details about the call and "the new york times" pointing out with details about what went down inside the state department as frustrations grew over trump blocking military aid for ukraine. now, against that drumbeat, trump supporters are pushing increasingly bizarre narratives. one trump ally and former adviser appeared on a fox news panel with rudy giuliani where he

house releasing rough transcripts of your conversations with president trump? and he said look, i will be relaxed about that and even suggested the kremlin had offered to help the white house release transcripts of the conversations in helsinki. so we will see if that happens. >> yes, we shall see. keir simmons, great work in moscow. thank you for getting up for work so early in the morning, let alone late. that's all we have for tonight. we will be back with more "mpt daily" tomorrow. we're late. my apologies to ari. >> no apology necessary. >>> we begin with breaking news. democrats are on fire, just out of a briefing by president trump, with propaganda aimed at diversing this campaign foe. and mike pompeo admits he was on the call and as congress showed today starkly than ever how things are changing, with this scene. speaker pelosi you see walking out to the lectern showing she's in this fight. she's in the lead. she's making clear who the democrats are positioning as a top prosecutor in any case against president trump, intelligence chairman adam schiff. it's his committee wh

immigration and when we saw the presidential campaign that donald trump ran, it became clear to us that this was a central element of his -- of his message, of his presidency if he were to win which none of us expected that he would but once he took office, once he won the election, we realized that this is going to be really the issue that really drove a lot of his focus in his first term. we both as white house correspondent covered a lot of the initial moves on immigration, starting transition when they quietly put in place a set of executive orders and potential legislative proposal that is they wanted to see move and i think it was very strike to go us from the very beginning how unusual his approach was, how unusual his rhetoric about the issue and then as the presidency got underway, what i think both of us noticed was that the things that made president trump approach immigration unusual, the things that made his -- his moves on the issue controversial were in many ways the same things that made his entire presidency so unsubstantial, the sort of shoot from the hip style th

our democracy so when we are confronted with evidence that president donald trump abused his power and violated his oath of office and seeking foreign interference in our elections, and sought to cover it up, we have a constitutional obligation to investigate. the evidence we have already seems volume dates speaker pelosi's decision to open an impeachment inquiry and reento,s this to run unimpeded. indeed, donald trump himself confirmed key evidence. just look at what we know so far. we know that donald trump asked a foreign policy, ukraine, to investigate his political opponent, the president admitted it on live television and release add transcript showing it had happened just as a whistleblower alleged that it did. that is not in dispute. we also know that donald trump then doubled down subsequently admitting on camera that he wants foreign governments like ukraine and china to investigate his political opponents. that is not in dispute. so instead of focusing on the latin phrase quid pro quo, the president should be saying mea culpa, my fault. but he is not. and with each passi