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 manufacturing and we opened up some beautiful places. i'll tell you, this place is doing great. it created in a very short period of time an extra 1000 jobs for texas. [cheering] pres. trump: 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] p

trump: so much. hey, folks, the greatest buyer of advertisements in the history of the world, michael lindau, my fellow. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: i have never seen so many ads. i think he is the greatest ad negotiator in history. i told him, i said, "would you do me a favor? all the money we spend on these political campaigns, if i gave some of that money to mike, i think we would have ads every single minute of every single show." i never saw so many. anyways, but the lawless political establishment will try to frame you. they will persecute you. they will swear up and down that they are telling the truth. when nancy pelosi was on television the other day -- [crowd booing] pres. trump: i have to say, i have to say, i was very proud of george stephanopoulos. i was very proud. not often. she said no, no, shifty schiff told the truth when he said that. stephanopoulos said, "no, it was a false statement." and she really believes it, so she either has one of two problems. she's either really st

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.

the trump presidency. donald trump does business in turkey at trump tower in istanbul and puts the united states interest ahead. bloomberg is reporting donald trump did that in 2017 when he asked then secretary of state rex tillerson to do something tillerson believed is a crime. what donald trump wanted was a favor to both the president of turkey and a favor to rudy giuliani at the same time. bloomberg reports president donald trump pressed then secretary of state rex tillerson to persuade the justice department to drop a criminal case against an iranian turkish gold trader that's a client to rudy giuliani according to three people in the oval office. tillerson refused arguing it would constitution interference in an an going investigation of the trader. according to the people. they said other participants in the oval office were shocked by the request. tillerson immediately repeated objections to the chief of staff john kelly in a hallway conversation outside the oval office emphasizing the request woul

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!

trump touches dies." and rick, there's the laugh reaction and then there's this. that's what donald trump calls the most honorable republicans of our time. >> donald trump is a man without honor. so i take his insult as a sort of backhanded compliment. you know, a lot of republicans who are out there who sort of breathe a sigh of relief, like oh, i'm not on that list, that prickling feeling they experience sometimes is their souls trying to get back into their bodies. but look, donald trump, the insults from this guy are par for the course right now because he is desperate, he is terrified, he wakes up in a pool of his own sweat every night. he's in a very unpleasant situation every day. he recognizes his world is turning to a very bad place very quickly. and nothing is going to change that because he's the cause of all of these things. he's a weak, sick, sad little man. >> and he uses language that only the most extreme rabid trump worshippers could possibly embrace. >> right. right. and the form of that

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 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 bannon dumb as a rock rex tillerson iraqi owner as he called her a dog highly unstable not job scaramucci ironic clueless bonehead jerome powell 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 people i'm saying as 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 there's an issue

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

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

trump in the united states senate. also tonight, david plouffe 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 commit

this is trump about trump. i have a little conflict of interest because i have a major, major building. and then he shows that he can count to two. this is -- talk about pattern recognition. this is the pattern. >> he is who he has always been. let's remember that his first reaction -- >> but now people are dying. >> his first reaction was to note that he now had the tallest building in lower manhattan. and also there are real, real world dangerous consequences of this decision here. the president right now in fact is having an event in the white house. he's been fielding questions from reporters in the white house. he was asked whether he was concerned that turkey's assault in syria could lead to the liberation of isis fighters. he says, quote, they are going to be escaping to europe. which he put it as a spin, well, that means they won't be coming to the united states endangering us here. but that is endangering the capitals and cities and towns of our allies there. these isis fighters shouldn't be encouraged

trump? (cers) >> narrator: miller got close to trump... >> we will build a gldat wall ..ong the southern border. >> narrator: ...jotting ideas... >> mexico!oing to pay for the >> narrator: ...keeping track of the musings... >> anyone who illegally crossesh border will be detained. >> narrator: ...stoking the anger... >> he's going to drive the carse overllegals. >> narrator: ...writing the fragments at became the speeches.ra >> zero toe for criminal iens. zero, zero. >> the polls were brutal for donald trump. clinton leading in every singlen the campaign was in trouble.st, >> ...showhat clinton now has a double-digit lead over trump, 46... >> nationally, he's down by large margins in swing states. >>rump is down in national polls... >> narrato then bannon got a call from the candidate. >> breaking news this morning, donald trump is changing his campaign's...al >> ...inng firebrand conservative breitbart news boss steven bannon as chief executive...w >> he has a brand-mpaign c.e.o., which is

administration and for president trump. so i mean, rouge has certainly been one of the presidents's greatest advocates and defended him in a very trump like manner in sort of the same kind of style we see from the president himself. i think that's one of the reasons why the president likes rudy giuliani, but at a certain point, if it starts to become a problem for president trump, it could benefit him to distance himself from rudy giuliani, so there is more focus on him saying maybe rudy was the one pushing the ukraine investigation into hunter biden, maybe rudy giuliani was the one suggesting some of these things. in that sense it could benefit president trump. perhaps there's a little bit of that going on right now. there are some questions about how close contact that rudy giuliani and president trump are in since it took a day or two to really figure out is rudy giuliani still the president's personal attorney, which turns out he is. but that is shaky ground has not bode well for rudy giuliani. >> let's talk the upcomin

because of donald trump. leading off our discussion tonight, democratic congressman peter welsh of vermont, member on st house intelligence committee. he was in the room today during william taylor's deposition. also with us, democratic congressman andy levin of michigan. he's a member of the house foreign affairs committee. he was also in the room today during william taylor's deposition. and with us is evelyn farkas. former secretary of defense in the obama administration. she served on the staff of the senate armed services committee for seven years and she also served on the staff of the house foreign affairs committee. she's an msnbc national security analyst. and we are going to break with protocol tonight because as in congressional hearings, we usually go by congressional seniority here, but i want to start with the freshman. i want to start with representative andy levin because you said today when we were just a couple hours into this testimony that this was your -- how did you put it? your worst da

but when push came to shove, trump looks out for donald trump. and, in fact, we have these associates of giuliani who have been indicted. and they've got this weird series of connections. and sometimes giuliani's giants, other times they're helping him with his cases. other times they're donating lots of money to concerns like trump's superpacs and inauguration committee. other times they're broke, they don't have a lot of money. so it's really weird like where these guys are getting this money. it seems extremely nefarious. and if they are that tight with giuliani, and if they're exposed, then a prosecutor is going to say, you want to make a deal? give the stuff on giuliani and then if giuliani gets caught up, prosecutors are going to go to giuliani. you want to make a deal, give us the big guy. >> we're going to stop it. we're going to take a quick commercial break and pay the bills. we'll be right back and continue this conversation next. ♪ work so hard ♪ give it everything you got ♪ strength of a lioness ♪ tough as a knot ♪ rocking

your crew had the me first approach to trump that trump has. republican senators and members of congress also have a me-first approach, and they worry about breaking with trump and what that is going to do for them with their base in a primary. until republican primary voters turn against trump, it is going to be very, very dangerous no matter what they privately think, no matter how much they might privately grouse about trump in syria or trump giving himself a big contract or trump in ukraine, no matter how much they complain about that in private, they're not going to break with him in public until it becomes politically safe for them to do that. >> i wonder what sort of precedent they're sending, peter, about what they will accept going forward. mitch mcconnell in "the washington post" had a scathing op-ed against the president's decision to withdraw from syria. he called it a grave administration and will leave the people less safe, embolden our enemies and weaken important allies. i guess where do they go from here? >> well, i think they'

it's called trump towers. >> reporter: the truth is, donald trump doesn't own trump towers istanbul, he owns a licensing deal. in 2008, a major turkish developer agreed to pay trump in a multimillion dollar deal to use his name to build two towers, a residential and an office building, along with a shopping mall underneath. trump's daughter ivanka helped with design, picking out the finishes, as trump said at the opening in 2012. trump towers istanbul is not owned, developed, or sold by the trump organization or any of their current or former principals or affiliates. it is a trump property in name only, and that name continues to pay him. during the presidential campaign, financial disclosures by the trump campaign stated income from trump istanbul between $1 million and $5 million. last year the president's financial disclosure brought that figure down to $100,000 to $1 million. a source familiar with trump's business telling cnn the fee fluctuates on condominium sales and the strength of the turkish economy. and despite trump telling turkish reporters in 2012 that he was looking t

he's trumps personal lawyer. out running this rogue shadow shake down for donald trump. >> what about this statement that volker and another envoy were drafting a written commitment from ukraine to investigate the bidens? >> we understood from the testimony today that as soon as ukrainian president went into power. he was made to understand the only way to get a meeting with the white house was if he were to investigate and exonerate russia in the 2016 election and investigate the bidens. we also had further evidence today that again the security assistance your taxpayer dollars, $390 million, was being with held because we were leveraging that against the ukrainian supporting president trump for a political campaign. >> okay, a couple things. you know he said in a meeting he didn't feel pressure from the phone call. at least the transcript. if he didn't feel pressure, he could only get a meeting if he agreed? can you -- >> we had clear evidence now that the ukrainians understood that the only way to get a meetin

trump to more fully support the ukrainian government. as we said, all of this comes on a day when president trump asked yet another country, this time china, to investigate joe biden, erasing all doubt about whether he could or would or will happily collude with foreign powers in plain sight to boost his re-election prospects. with the idea that the president's mind is being poisoned against an allied country and that u.s. diplomats were scrambling to try to contain the damage is a frightening prospect on its own. joining us, mike schmidt is a washington correspondent with "the new york times." take us through where this report fits into the rest of the fact pattern that we have now about if you take the rudy dossier that the state department inspector general turned over to congress yesterday, you take this effort, that conspiracy theory had filtered down. >> you have to put all that aside. you have to look at this in the context of the july call. in july, the topic of these investigations is brought up by trump on the call with zelensk

trump. , our friend, the 45th president of the united states, donald j. trump. [cheers and applause] ♪ [cheers and applause] mr. perkins: many of you this weekend have said we should pray for the president. [applause] do pray for and we 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. mr. perkins: father got -- 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 just decide by what he sees with his eyes, he what he hears with his ears, or lien upon 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

in syria as president trump orders all remaining u.s. forces to leave the north of the country. turkish forces hammering america's kurdish allies with the help of radical militias. ease cay light violence forcing 100,000 people from their homes. turkey's artillery exploding 250 yards from an american special forces post on the border. >> it appears turkey used alleged terrorists as shock troops against u.s. allies the kurds unthey will collapsed and that did to call on president assad to be their savior. amid this chaos, i.s.i.s. is trying to regroup. hundreds of i.s.i.s. members and supporters have broken free of detention camp. >> trevor: sweet jesus. donald trump is the only way to find a person -- is the only person who can find a way to make the middle east more chaotic. the middle east was already a geopolitical jen cay tower with everybody trying to figure out the right move and trump comes in and says, why don't we move the whole table? trump justified his decision to pull out of syria by saying this is part of his larger plan to

trump: thank you everybody. here, grab this. [applause] pres. trump: i love that. i love those guys. bikers for 45, these guys. [applause] pres. trump: they've been there from the beginning. pass these around. attorney general, get over here. lieutenant governor, please both of you come up here. they are doing a good job, should begin them a pen? i think so. [applause] pres. trump: come up here. [applause] pres. trump: really special time and this is very meaningful for me and for you and everybody. thank you all very much. [applause] >> ♪ you can't always get what you want. ♪ you can't always get what you want. you can't always get what you want. you can't always get what you want. you can't always get what you want. you can't always get what you want. and if you try sometimes, you find you get what you need. ♪ >> ♪ i saw her today at the reception a glass of wine in her hand i knew she would meet her connection at her feet was her footloose man you can't always get what you want you can't always get what you want you can't always get what you want if you

trump: thank you. and i'm honored to welcome everybody and these incredibly talented and unbelievable, patriotic, young american leaders. you're going to be the leaders. somebody -- i would be almost willing to bet, maybe even willing to bet -- somebody in that audience, right here, right in front of me, is going to be standing here someday. [cheering] pres. trump: you've got a good shot. you're going to have a good shot. you've done incredible work to get to this position, and i have tremendous respect for it. we're glad to be joined by our terrific vice president, mike pence. [cheering] pres. trump: and many of our cabinet members are here. they wanted to be here. i told a couple of them, "don't have to. don't worry about it. what the heck. these are my friends." they said, "no, we want to be here." so we have a lot of our cabinet members here. and to every young person: you represent america's future. you are the best and the brightest, the bravest and boldest, and someday you are going to be settin

administration, the trump administration tried to do in much more aggressive ways to figure out ways to deter people and if you come you'll be sent back and obama got criticism for that but i do think that, you know, this idea of having candidate who was going to take a populist message national and having trump be that person that was what really drove the immigration issue to the core of the 2016 election and that's why i think it's been such a driver of his presidency because i think his advisers and president trump himself felt very strongly that he could never kind of lose faith with that message if he had a chance of being reelected. >> i was going to say, one to have people that we talked to during the course of the book told me at one point that there's -- that the way he distinguished what president obama did in terms of confronting the migration crisis and what president trump and his administration did was that the steps that the obama people took to try to as julie said deter folks toward them up inside, we talked to a lot of the obama -- both julie and i covered that per

said in this statement, if donald trump and the trumped administration did not cooperate with congress' investigation and that they constitutionally have the rights to do, then this'll be a tragedy of donald trump's own making and congress would have no choice other than to start the impeachment inquiry. over the last 15 days, martha, regardless what side of the aisle anyone sits on to him it has been a remarkable time in american politics and political history. we have seen the president stand on the white house lawn and openly invite interference into our election to help him politically. he asked ukraine and china on the white house lawn. we have seen a whistle-blower complaint now that confirms that donald trump's allies and folks of the administration moved to cover up a phone call that we also saw from reports, a transcript of the white house put out -- >> martha: understood, we reported all that you just talked about over the course of the last couple of weeks, to be sure. one of the questions in terms of vice president biden's tragedy is whether or not he had to come out strong

be trump, and trump will be trump. democrats are now saying the same thing. trump is being trump. >> right. joni ernst may have summed it up best when she says i can say this or that and he's going to say whatever the heck he wants. >> everyone can agree, trump is going to be trump. >> when we come back, unemployment is at a 50-year low, so why is the income gap growing? motor? nope. not motor? it's pronounced "motaur." for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. for those who were born to ride, you don't let a cold ruin your day. you take dayquil severe liquicaps and crush it. dayquil severe. the daytime, coughing, aching, stuffy-head, fever, sore throat, power through your day, medicine. doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacist-recommendeding? memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. - when you're volunteering, "it's not my job."r that's because right where you live, there's a need for your time and skills and effort and ta

trump never changes. the only question is whether the american people are ready as a proud people to stand up to him. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us tonight. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> what do you know about those conversations? >> the first big showdown of the impeachment era. >> so you just gave me a report about a i think whistleblower complaint, none of which i've seen. >> tient why democrats are accusing the secretary of state of trying to stone wall and obstruct the inquiry. then -- >> is it time to dare i say lock him up? >> new alarms over the justice department and the state department investigating the president's enemies. >> we have found many crimes on the other side. >> then new evidence republicans may be misjudging the politics of impeachment. >> trump should come out and say you want to impeach me, knock yourselvesut

we see it in trump's own words. but we have to remember that impeachment isn't only, isn't only about what the president's done. it's about the threat the president poses to the nation. and f-allowed to remain in office. he believes he can and will get away with anything he does. we all laughed when he said he could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot someone, and get away with it. it's no joke. he's shooting holes in the constitution. and we cannot let him get away with it. >> so unsurprisingly the president responded on twitter saying in part that he did nothing wrong and that biden's quote failing campaign gave him no other choice but to call for impeachment. >> joining us now once again reporter for the "washington post," eugene scott, eugene, great to have you back with us. let's talk a little bit about joe biden here, what do you make of his call to im people im people president trump? what impact could it have on his 2020 campaign. >> there has been quite a bit of criticism towards biden which some

we now continue with my exclusive interview with president trump. let me ask you, 2020 is here come all right? you said publicly you don't think joe makes it. and elizabeth warren, hers to lose. you have bernie, mayor pete, whatever. then you look at their positions, top marginal tax rates 70%. >> president trump: much higher. >> sean: 90% corporate tax rate, the new crane deal had a $6 trillion, medicare for all, no private options. in running against one of those? do you think of this? >> president trump: i don't want to talk about this because last time i took on elizabeth warren i thought she was gone. bernie, pocahontas. there is only one. it is not her. so what happens. and she rose from the ashes and i give her credit for that. but i don't like to talk about it. as far as i'm concerned the green new deal, fine. all of it is fine. paying 96% in texas is all fine. i want them to keep talking about it. and when it's time to run, i will run. but i don't want to talk them out of it, sean. it is too early to talk about. and not only that, can you b

trump: thank you. before we take questions, something happened that has been going on for many decades, and we came to conclusion, can i ask ambassador pence to come up and explain what is going on, and the importance of what just took place because this has been , going on for many years. this is ambassador pence, no relationship to our great vice president. hard to believe nobody believes , that, but it is true. [laughter] amb. pence: i have been introduced as his father, his brother, his cousin, his uncle. we are friends. [laughter] amb. pence: when i arrived in helsinki a year and a half ago there were , stacked papers on the desk, one of which concerned the indigenous people from southwest .nited states, colorado including perhaps predominantly, generically i will refer to them , as hopi indians. in 1895, a lot of their remains had been excavated and removed, along with 500 artifacts, to finland, and there they have remained, despite a lot of activity to get them back. i will just jump to the end

they're smears and lies, that the trump campaign, president trump and his henchman rudy giuliani have said about vice president biden and his son and his family are lies. they're smears and unfounded and have been debunked. vice president biden is understandably frustrated when folks in america, folks in the media and o'crocross the countr asking donald trump's breach of oath of office reflects badly on joe biden. that doesn't make sense. a couple weeks ago you heard vice president biden on the campaign trail told reporters ask the right questions. that's the posture we've taken and will continue to take. this is not about joe biden. this is about donald trump. >> and it's about obviously in your opinion joe biden becoming president and you have to ask the tough questions and i understanding the viewpoint you come from as well. >>> coming up, three of president trump's biggest supporters, defending the white house for stonewalling congress, but that wasn't that long ago they felt very differently about oversight. >> article 3 of impeachment against richard nixon, the article was based

istanbul, you've seen the picture of ivanka trump and donald trump going and opening up trump towers. >> they had a news conference. >> in istanbul. >> they celebrate being there and it's clearly in their business interests to be there. >> right. so you take that. you say, wait a second, that doesn't make -- and then you look, it's business there. the same thing with the philippines. >> yeah. >> you look, a trump tower in ma nail if t manila. >> there's a lot of countries he's catering too but with russia there's a connection. and at this point people are seeing the obvious and connecting the dots. isn't it kind of alarming that russia has such a hold on president trump that ultimately might be a question that we're addressing? >> night kind of alarming, this is extraordinarily alarming and -- >> it's remarkable. >> trump supporters have to understand that donald trump betrayed israel, donald trump helped isis, donald trump betrayed the united states of america and our closest allies in that region. and donald trump helped vladimir putin. >> former manager editor of "time" magazine na

why do you feel donald trump should be impeached? >>>> donald trump is a threat to our republic. he defies the e constitution and the rule of law almost on the daily basis and really from the moment he took the oath of office, he showed this disregard for the constitution, refusing to divest from his business interest all over the world and directly colliding with the anticorruption provisions of the constitution, foreign and domestic i'm i'm its clauses. enforcement, the impeachable offenses did not stop there. he repeatedly has been abusing his power and the oath of office beach meant proceedings. juan: and yet the house is looking basically at one issue, what hapappen with the phone cal in ukraine and chris hedges, you said the fatal mistake that trump made is trying to take down a fellow member of the ruling elite. >> it reminds me of the watergate hearings where the activities that were carried out by the nixon white house against the democratic headquarters in watergate were directed at t the elites. all of those activities have been carried out before, including break-ins

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

and trump knows it. but the old method he has used very well since he was a businessman, repeat, repeat, repeat the lie. my insistence that a prosecutor who was viewed as corrupt be replaced was the official position of the president of the united states, the united states government supported by republican senators who sent a letter sent a letter in 2016 calling for the removal because of corruption. supported by the european union. the international monetary fund. our allies, including the u.k., france germany. what trump did in ukraine was to carry out a secret policy for his on personal political benefit and hope that he wouldn't have to face me and my guess is anyone else who he thought was likely to win. what i did was to seek to replace a weak prosecutor with one who we helped would go after corruption that was holding ukraine back. the rest of the world was threatening not to continue to support ukraine, unless they dealt with the corruption. what trump did was hold hostage political support and

trump. well, these aren't rich dudes. so one question is where does the money come from? again, if they've got the goods on giuliani, giuliani might want to make a deal if he's looking at jail time. and, again, he only gets a good deal if he can give up someone higher in the food chain. i think we all know who that person would be. >> and we're probably getting ahead of what's been reported. but mike schmidt, take us through what you reported about the investigation out of the southern district of new york, now including an investigation of rudy giuliani's lobbying work. >> yeah. well, this is, you know, this indictment comes out last week, and we basically are saying that there is more here on giuliani that is being looked at, that his conduct in this is important, and is something that is being examined. it's just another distraction for the president. you saw him sort of struggle to deal with it at the end of last week, basically not committing to giuliani being his lawyer saying -- i gue

trump. all of it against the background of an active impeachment inquiry, all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a monday night. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. and what a back-to-work monday this has been. it's a lot. the breaking news started late today and it really has not stopped as we bring to a close day 984 of the trump administration. and it turns out, a phone call by the president had the power to do what the russia investigation and the mueller report failed to do, and that is, to launch an official impeachment inquiry -- a phone call. and the breaking news we are covering tonight has to do with that phone call between donald trump and the president of ukraine, when trump pushed the ukrainian president zelensky to do him a favor and look into his likely democratic rival, joe biden. for starters, the "wall street journal" reports and nbc news has since confirmed that secretary of state mike pompeo was on that call. he was among

it is literally a statement close to trump that trump said we're cutting off money that trump does not legitimately have the right to cut off. and with one tiny loophole, right -- not a tiny loophole, that is you can withhold fvrmt money is going to be incorrectly spent in the country to which it's going. >> so is it impeachable? >> sure. what we have here is a piece of evidence layered on top of the three other things, so we have a contemporaneous report at the time that trump's intimate. the person he turned to to help do this sort of back door quieter diplomacy, saying to him, we're holding up the aid unless sdpzelensky does this fo us. impeachable, absolutely. >> i'm going to go back to -- you say yes, impeachable. interesting. i want to show you where lindsey graham is. take a look. >> what's going on in the house are behind closed doors depositions. they tell half the story. we still don't know who the whistleblower is, and nobody can have a 15 minutes in prison. so i think we fwheed to tell america that it is unamerican. >> is that a good argument for conservatives or not. >> if

donald trump has not been subpoenaed. he's filing a lawsuit to prevent third parties from complying. >> great point. >> one of the constitutional arguments about investigating a sitting president is it will somehow disrupt his ability to do his job. well, he doesn't have to do anything because these are subpoenas to third parties. all he needs to do is sit back and watch the news. >> that is a great point. to maya's point, harry, about maybe congress can do this, they have but running this three-card monty when they go to court, they say congress isn't a law enforcement body, it has to have some legislative purpose. and then when an actual law enforcement body like the manhattan d.a. goes -- they go, no, no no, this isn't a criminal, maybe congress can do it they're trying to get it both ways in both tellings of the argument. >> that really is a perfect analogy. and today the music stops and behold, in fact, they're not holding the card, and it matters. their thinking to date is what the heck will have these meritless arg

>> [applause] president trump: beautiful. we a slight you thank you very much, isabella to safeguard the rights of students my administration has taken historic action to withhold taxpayer dollars, we're talking about billions of dollars by the way, from schools that infringe on students first amendment, freedoms and other people's first amendment freedoms. do you notice they've been treating us much better lately and say we got to let this person speak. we got a lot of millions of dollars every year these schools they are all of a sudden letting them speak but they still don't speak properly about us, we don't like that, but it's really had a big impact to support american families, we double the child tax credit and cut a record number of job-killing regulations. >> [applause] president trump: we've created over 6 million new jobs since the election nobody would have believed that. if i would have said that, tony, the media back there, the wonderful people in the media would have said he's exaggerating. i would have never s

donald trump says this is a bad but i don't see the same passion in president trump to this as to other issues. this is ethnic cleansing and the invasion of one country by another. and by the way, it is not just president trump. the nato chief says that he will call president erdogan friday. friday. >> remarkable. >> he says i call on turkey to act with restraint. we've just seen jets take off from the air base and bomb places that we know from turkey's attack last year that they do not act with restraints. >> and this air base is used by nato forces. and this is a complicating factor. turkey is a nato ally and kurds are an ally. don't go anywhere. i want to join in graeham wood, staff writer for the atlantic. you wrote prior to this happening but as a result of the decision allies and potential allies will watch this as far as of geopolitics and again wonder what an alliance with america is really worth if it can be flushed away one night and restored the next or if there is always a part where trump says something and then the part where he takes back. this is not as bill says what co

with trump. he, himself, is the leader of this criminal conspiracy to coerce a foreign government to interfere in our election. what's been interesting, though, is every single piece of information not only corroborates that, it just broadens the extent to which this conspiracy brought in other people. so you take gordon sondland, what on earth what he was doing in ukraine policy, anyway? ukraine is not in the european union. what he is is a political person who purchased apparently was the only person willing to go along with this scheme. a lot of career people like ambassador mckinley who testified today, like a career a academic, analyst, like fiona hill who testified, they don't want to go down with this ship. we're seeing a sorting here, career foreign service officers, people looking forward to a lifetime of potentially future public service, don't want to go along covering for this so all the information that's coming out is painting a more damning picture of a criminal conspiracy led by d

very trump: thank you much. we have had some big news and good news today but i would like to hold this for china -- there is nothing bigger than what we are doing with china. i think it is important that these are the questions that are asked. as you know, we have the vice premier of china, wen of the most respected men in all of china and the world. we have great respect for him and friendship with him. we have come to a very substantial phase one deal. and i will go through some of the points. and then, i will ask the vice premier to say a few words. and any comments you may have. deal, prettyto a much subject to getting it written. it will take probably 3, 4, or five weeks. we are going to be in chile together at the summit. maybe it will be there or sometime around then. we have come to a deal on intellectual property. financial services. a tremendous deal for the farmers. from $40 billion up to $50 billion in agricultural products. to show you how big that is, that would be 2.5, three times what china has

he will pardon trump. , he willpardons trump make him vice president. when he becomes vice president, he will then resign, and then trump will be back as president. how stupid is our democratic people? host: how did you come to that conclusion? caller: i was very impressed with his speech last night, and i am so impressed with all of his -- host: from last night, how did you come to that conclusion that you stated about people resigning and being appointed? caller: how did i what? host: how did you reach the conclusion that if the president is impeached, the vice president will be put into place and then resign? stupid, normal stupid but can be so the democrat party not to predict together. host: got the point. from michigan, independent line. hello. caller: thank you. and iwatch part of that, am listening to your callers, and it is amazing how different he is speaking, the interpretation of what he said. we are talking about substance and what he did for health care. what did he do for health care? my husband pays astronomical for health care. as far a

donald trump cannot afford to lose fox news. as you mentioned at the top of the segment, he can maybe lose senators but the key constituency he has to hold is the fox news audience. that's why we saw him jump on this news and celebrate. >> that's why it's such a media story at least in donald trump's television presidency it is the ultimate constituency story. gabe, you're one of several intrepid journalists who's jumped in on a friday night for us. good luck and good reporting this weekend. >>> i want to tell you one other thing. a programming note for this weekend, i am hosting a special this sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on trump and ukraine, the impeachment crisis. we have a deep look at where the impeachment probe is headed. i'll be joined by special guests including a federal appeals judge and the u.s. senator who cast a vote on impeachment. we're going to go big and deep. i hope you'll join us 9:00 p.m. eastern on sunday night. and right after, richard engel on assignment, trump and ukraine fact and fiction which look

trump. >>> overseas, despite perhaps his most serious face ever, vice president pence gives turkey virtually everything they wanted in a deal that assures the end of kurdish lands. >>> but back in washington, mitt romney roars to life, tore into the trump administration. now people are wondering if we'll hear more of that. >>> meanwhile, another insider tells congress what he saw and another cabinet secretary is leaving. part of an 80% turnover at the top as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday night. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 1,001 of the trump administration. it was a bad day for the trump administration. and in plain english here's why. the president's chief of staff speaking out loud in front of the press corps in the white house briefing room reversed everything the president has been saying about the call with ukraine. he said military aid was held up over politics, said they do it all the time, said we should get over i

and president trump ordering them that the very ones president trump ordered into abandon. and turkey attacking the very people they fought alongside of. that's when we need one in the oval office who understands the gravity and the consequences of their decisions. trumps quote, his great unmatched wisdom, end of quote. my god, what a delusional man. [ applause ] >> the great unmatched wisdom. that great unmatched wisdom has undone the hard won progress across two administrations including the fight against isis in abandon the kurds and the kurdish partners by making the ridiculous, uninformed, crazy comment, they didn't help us in the second world war. they didn't help us in normandy. i mean, can you believe it? i mean, you think about it. what a global embarrassment. well, guess what? they helped us smash isis. a direct threat to the united states of america and our friends all around the world. and that didn't happen during world war ii. but some of it happened during trump's first term. you know, you think he'd remember. he bragged about it at the time. he said the kurd