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

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

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 his ambassadorship with a million-dollar contribution to donald trump and 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 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

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.

at a trump hotel in florida. and this time, the resistance was bipartisan. this weekend, republican members of congress let donald trump and his white house staff know that trying to defend his illegal scheme to enrich himself by having the federal government and foreign governments pay him at the same time for the privilege of staying at a trump hotel was just too much to bear even for republican members of congress. when asked today about why he changed his mind about trying to get away with the obviously illegal scheme, the president blamed the democrats only for complaining too much about it. and while he was at it, he mentioned, quote, this phony emoluments clause, end quote. the emoluments clause in the constitution like everything else in the constitution is not phony. for a better or worse, the words of the constitution are the words we have to live by in this country. there are things in the constitution that people have disliked from the start, like slavery and a number of other things that were changed

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

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

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

he supports trump. he worked for trump. he wants trump to succeed, but bolton won't do the dirty work. and apparently he's not standing for it, either, because saying to your president or his shadow advisers are cooking up a drug deal is the ultimate indictment. which brings us full circle to the cost of donald trump's dirty work. it may propel him in the short run. we've all seen some of that. but in the long-term, people are talking. consider how, as things got hot, trump's business employees, they began talking. some flipping and going to jail like cohen. others merely cooperating, like mr. wieselberg. others talked a bit, pleaded guilty, and went back to lying during investigations. you remember them. and others, of course, out of their public service work, stood up and said "no," including law enforcement officials like mr. comey and miss yates. that's all up until, say, a month ago. boom, then you have the ukraine scandal kicking off with what you see on your screen are not faces, but the absence of faces, two anonymo

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

trump: we just made one of the biggest deals that have been make -- that has been made with china. we have a great deal. hopefully, it will get finished in the next few weeks. a tremendous benefit to our farmers. the financial services. the banking industry. know prettyow you much that we have had a very, very good couple of days with china. it looks like that deal is very much on its way. it will be the largest deal ever made for farmers. $40 billion-$50 billion purchase. it is an incredible deal for farmers. i think they will have to go out and buy more land and bigger tractors. we will hopefully get that done pretty quickly. reporter: our special forces were bombed today. pres. trump: we will take a look at it. we will take a look at it. reporter: [indiscernible] pres. trump: this will go a long time into the future. this is a big buy. $16biggest deal made was billion and this could be $50 billion. thantimes more and bigger any deal ever made for the farmers. reporter: [indiscernible] pre

because of donald trump. leading off our discussion tonight, democratic congressman peter welch of vermont, member on the 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 d

not vote for trump, will not vote for trump. nts,ave independe libertarians. you are free to write as you want area no one is telling you how you should write a story. we are careful about facts. be told i am spreading fake news. we are careful about the sources we use. there is a long process before a story makes it to print. we are pretty good about it. we hardly ever get it long -- wrong. host: you had a sit down with rudy giuliani last week. what was your big take away from that sit down with former mayor giuliani? guest: the former mayor is very frustrated because he is under attack. the president is under attack. he feels like when we are talking about ukraine and corruption we should be talking about the bidens. this is something he has been looking into for quite some time and he feels like he has gathered a lot of information. if you look at the story on its face, it does not look right 's son when he was vice president was working for this energy company in ukraine, making so much money, when he did not really have any

from republicans over the years, oh, that's just donald being donald, trump being trump. they're not even throwing that defense out there right now but that's clearly was trump was going for today with the helicopter behind him yelling these crimes into the microphone was, i want them to do the that's just trump being trump thing. >> i think it's clear that there are multiple layers of potential cover-up involved in this ukraine scandal, right? but in trump's mind, i think he's he he'sahistorical. he knows a couple of things about watergate. he knows, follow america. also, the worst crime is not the crime itself, it's the cover-up. if you believe that's one of the shibbolets from that experience, you kind of making the claim, it can't be a cover-up if i'm standing in front of you saying it. somehow confessing to it in that overt way, in trump's mind he's dispelling any sense he's covering something up, he has nothing to be ashamed of, saying it over and over again. there are cover-ups but i think there's something in trump's mind, you're right, there's no question that he

trump of those mainstream evangelicals. and they talk about it in a noncritical way but trump was fine with it which doesn't surprise me but then there is a guy. >> the liberty university guys so that stuff is out there. >> only that people define it without knowing that's what they are doing. so god can use anyone with the issue to say the problem with trump is that you don't only say that is true about hillary you are defining that. >> the other part of the new good news is much more prevalent someone is the way that the trump evangelicals have compartmentalized what do you mean by that quick. >> they're not just the most common but the most understandable in the most rational but still abused and compartmentalization is part of that. out necessarily need to bring religion into this issue so it's fine but what a lot of christians do not just donald trump but they will look at what they think is the most urgent issue between politics and religion whatever religious considerations they have that are still there they will pi

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: 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

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

trump and mr. giuliani and normalize relations between the two countries as ukraine faced continuing conflict with russia. mr. sondland and mr. volker believed that mr. giuliani was, quote, poisoning mr. trump's mind about ukraine and that eliciting a public commitment from mr. zelensky to pursue the investigations would induce mr. 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 reelection 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." he helped break the story tonight. help us through the rest of the fact patter

, and trump's voters were bothered by what trump did. that will move them. >> i want to ask you one of the things we just heard him say, because he's not supposed to do that, obviously, the president is not supposed to be enriched by foreign interest. this was an international summit of nations that is going to happen in the u.s. that he was having happen at his property in doral. he dismissed what governs this kind of behavior by a president, which is the constitution, he called this the emoluments clause, what do you think about that? >> he's clearly never read the constitution, but he doesn't read, someone should show him a picture of the constitution, but again, that's it. look, everybody around donald trump, they treat him like a child, and republicans in congress are nervous. because they know he's becoming more unhinged, more reckless, more air addict every day. and this is always important to remember. they don't like him, the republicans in the senate, they don't like him, they don't fear him, they have no respect for him. if th

from the trump administration appeared on any of the sunday shows to definite the trump phone call to the president of ukraine, soliciting the president of ukraine's help in the reelection campaign by investigating joe biden. but republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin took a kellyanne conway pill, went on meet the press and this happened. >> i have my third letter into the inspector general of the intelligence committee asking to confirm, just to confirm are you investigating those leaks? that peter strock strzok talked about --? >> senator i have no idea why -- why, why a fox news conspiracy propaganda stuff is popping up on here. i have no idea why we're going here. senator, i'm asking about -- i'm asking about -- >> president trump is upset and his supporters are upset with the news media. this is not about the media. senator johnson, senator johnson, please. >> no one can explain what happened on "meet the press" yesterday better than james b. stewart who explains it all in his new book "deep state." he will join us later in this hour. ly show him more of what ron johnson sai

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

it must have hurt trump. that's like if gayle said she was 51% against oprah. ( laughter ) while the ukraine scandal continues to engulf president trump, vice president mike pence is doing everything he can to stay clean >> i never discussed the issue of-- of-- the issue of the bidens with president zelensky-- >> what i can tell you is all of our discussions internally-- i mean, the president and our team in our context in my office with ukraine, were entirely focused on the broader issues of the lack of european support and corruption. >> but you were aware of the bidens being investigated and that being tied to aid to ukraine being held up. >> that's your question. let me be very clear. >> trevor: goddamn! ( laughter ) oh, mike pence avoided that question like it was a woman with her ankles showing. that was extreme. ( laughter ) i like how he says, "well, that's-- that's your question." yeah. and now you answer. that's how questions work. mike pence is out here trying to pull conversion therapy on a questi

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

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

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

now it's not just a defense of trump, it's a defense of their defense of trump. to indict him is to indict themselves and to indict their own judgment. that's hard for any human being. and trump supporters are not doing it. they -- they will defend him, you know, regardless of what happens come hell or high water. >> peter, thanks for being here. check out peter's column in "the new york times" and "the atlant atlantic." we've been talking about trump's enemies. i think we're going to hear more from them on tuesday. the president portrays democrats as his enemies. the democrats are going to be on stage for this debate. tuesday night, a cnn/"new york times" debate in ohio, tuesday at 8:00 p.m. eastern time on cnn. >>> up next, ronan farrow's book "catch and kill" is out on tuesday. already there's new controversy at nbc as a result. we'll talk about what it means for the network right after a quick break. biopharmaceutical researchers. pursuing life-changing cures in a country that fosters innovation here, they find breakthroughs... like a way to fight cancer by a

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

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

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

it's president trump. and so they can just completely shut out and ignore anything that is said by anybody else because erdogan could go to trump himself and get the answer he wanted to hear, which is, go ahead. come on into syria. we'll pull back. we'll pull out. so it's kind of extraordinary to see these officials now talking about sanctions on turkey for the very operation that trump green-lighted to erdogan. and i think putin, erdogan, and others have sized up trump and realize they can roll right over him and get what they want. >> i bet you've had cause to think back on your eight years in the west wing, especially tonight with "the new york times" reporting on john bolton. so shocked was he about what he witnessed and overheard, he told colleagues to approach lawyers. this quote is, i'm not part of whatever drug deal rudy and mulvaney are cooking up. that's the national security adviser, former, to the president of the united states, ben. >> yeah. and if the most senior national security official in

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

, to ingratiate themselves in the trump campaign and in trump world. i mean, there are little pieces in here that raise lots of questions about how did this happen? who knew about it? who was behind it? who is this russian that is putting in over a million dollars that's not named in here? is this another attempt by vladimir putin to insert himself in the 2020 election? i kind of think so. >> right. and all we know is that the feds say this is a crime and they say their investigation's open, and these are two impeachment witnesses who have bigger problems than congressional subpoenas. what a story, and we haven't even covered all of it. always good to see you sir. >> good to see you new subpoenas for rick perry as white house aides are shell terg tering in . and trump's meeting with rupert murdoch, more on what that could mean. >>> new video of the senate republican who won't answer a straightforward question about things that are basically against the law. later we have a special guest who actually met with one of these newly indicted giuliani associa

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

schiff's take or trumps words. trump is wrong in saying schiff reported to be resiting actual words. he introduced it saying i'll give you the essence. he suggested that this was his own interpretation. >> thank you for your time. the american people need clarity not parody. we'll be right back. ♪ do you recall, not long ago ♪ we would walk on the sidewalk ♪ ♪ all around the wind blows ♪ we would only hold on to let go ♪ ♪ blow a kiss into the sun ♪ we need someone to lean on ♪ blow a kiss into the sun ♪ we needed somebody to lean on ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ all we need is someone to lean on ♪ those darn seatbelts got me all crumpled up. that's ok! hey, guys! hi mrs. patterson... wrinkles send the wrong message. sorry. help prevent them before they start with new downy wrinkleguard. it's got all my favorite shows turn oright there.boom, i wish my trading platform worked like that. well have you tried thinkorswim? this is totally customizable, so you focus only on what you want. okay, it's got screeners

trump's rivals. a former doj official pulls me there was no anti-corruption agenda in the trump administration internationally or domestically. that is a crummy cover story and a confession to the crime of tying the aid to a condition. >> yeah. so while we're all ringing our hands over the doj policy or memo that you can't indict a sitting president, here comes mulvaney wide open to criminal exposure here. if he's the guy who essentially orchestrated the quid pro quo, if he is the guy holding back the money implying a threat or that, you know, we will do something in return for this, he's wide open for criminal exposure. and i would assert someone's looking at him right now in terms of that. >> greg, let me just bring you back in, your colleague writes of that revelation. this is supposed to be exonerating mulvaney's claim about fighting corruption. but it's an important concession. if it's true, mulvaney is privately acknowledged a direct link between the freeze of the military aid and trump's press

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

[inaudible] president trump: what? >> [inaudible] president trump: we are doing well in afghanistan, we are slowly bringing things down to a certain level, but we are doing very well in afghanistan. >> your top diplomat in ukraine said you held up military funds because you wanted ukraine to investigate the 2016 election and hunter biden's debt. are you calling him a liar? president trump: here is the problem. he is a never trump her and his lawyer is a never trumper. >> why would you hire him? president trump: everybody makes mistakes. mike pompeo, everybody makes mistakes. he is a never trumper, his lawyer is a never trumper, they are a dying breed and they are still there. the other problem, you are with cnn and you are fake news. >> [inaudible] well, thetrump: democrats don't have any time to work on anything. they have to do usmca, they have to do guns, they have many things. we want to reduce drug prices even more. workn go so far but we can on drug prices. the democrats, the do-nothing democrats have no time to

president trump wants the u.s. government's position on this to be that russia definitely didn't do any of that. that's from gordon sondland's opening statement we don't know what happened in his deposition today after he made those opening remarks, but in his printed opening statement, he says the president did it. this scheme that the president and giuliani were enacting using the three amigos, gordon sondland, rick perry, and volker, who has already resigned, the scheme was to hold up a white house meeting for this foreign leader unless he coughed up stuff that trump could use for his re-election effort against joe biden. and in addition to that, interestingly, he needed help unblaming russia for the 2016 election attack. why would they want to unblame russia for the 2016 election attack? i mean, russia's having kind of an amazing run of it right now when it comes to stuff they're getting from the trump administration. i mean, this weird plot that's emerging over the impeachment proceedings, we've got trump and

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

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

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

taylor testified president trump wanted president trump zelensky, quote, in a public box by making a public statement and ordering the investigations. >> reporter: a key impeachment witness telling investigators he was told aid to ukraine would not be released until ukraine publicly announced the the political investigations trump was demanding into the biden family and 2016. the top u.s. diplomat to ukraine bill taylor offered the details in the opening statement obtained by cnn. he explained what he expected trump of taking part in a quid pro quo. something the president has denied. taylor told veefrs the ambassador from the union gordon sondland talkehi

his contacts with trump. what was trump telling him to do? what did trump say to him about whether ukraine policy had to go through giuliani? what was the impression that the president gave them about the power giuliani had for the work that they were trying to do. if you take sort of their perspective, these sort of diplomatic perspective of perry, they were trying to assuage trump and giuliani by trying to get ukraine to do the investigations. so what did those conversations look like? obviously perry could shed a whole lot of light on that. my guess is that we'll probably never hear from him though. >> mike schmidt, thank you for spending some time with us. frank figliuzzi, let me ask you to pick up on that thread. those set of questions seem like they could pertain to just about anybody subpoenaed. did donald trump tell you to run through rudy giuliani, whether or not you gave military aid, for example, if you're the pentagon or the secretary of state, did ruth bader ginsburg tell you it was conditioned on dirt on the bidens? i mean, it w

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

against trump. after helping to corroborate the first whistle blower's allegations which are now backed by those damning text messages released on thursday. they reseal how trump's minions sought to leverage military aid in order to put pressure on ukraine. those involved in the messages include volcker who until recently was the u.s. special envoy to ukraine. bill taylor, the u.s. envoy to ukraine. sondeland and on the ukraine side, andrier mack, an aid to ukranian president. the morning of the phone call between trump and zelensky, volcker texted saying heard from white house assuming president z he will investigate/get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to washington. good luck. see you tomorrow. by now thanks to the first whistle blower complaint and a rough transcript of trump's ukraine call we now know that on that call trump pressed zelensky to launch -- everyone involved in this text messages only one career ambassador bill taylor pushed back texting on