it did not end with russia's support for trump in 2016, which president trump invited by asking for his opponent to be hacked by russia. and it did not end when his ukrainian scheme was exposed in september of this year. president trump also engaged once this investigation began, in an unprecedented effort to obstruct the inquiry. i look forward to answering your questions about that unprecedented obstruction. but in conclusion, i want to say that the intelligence committee has produced to you a nearly 300-page report. and i am grateful that you have offered me the opportunity today to walk you through some of the evidence underlying it. admittedly, it is a lot to digest. but let me just say this. the president's scheme is actually quite simple. and the facts are not seriously in dispute. it can be boiled down to four key takeaways. first, that president trump directed a scheme to pressure ukraine into opening two investigations that would benefit his 2020 re-election campaign, and not the u.s. national interests. second, president trump used his official office and the official tools o

trump. [applause] [cheering] we are so blessed to have a present didn't in the white house is surrounded by such a strong, steady, and supportive family. large trump is one of the leading voices in today's conservative movement. she is someone who is been a champion of the american first policy. lara is a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a sister. she works tirelessly every day fighting for us, her selflessness and devotion to our country is truly amazing. i remember campaigning around michigan when my husband was running for attorney general, and we had little kids, and i can tell you it truly test your limits. eric enlarges welcome their second child, caroline into the world, and she continues to travel our country to battle for a better america for you and me. [applause] [cheering] [applause] she currently serves as a senior advisor to the president's reelection campaign and is the producer and host trump productions real news update. lara you really truly inspire and empower americans eve

trump. they are in lockstep because they are afraid of his voters. they think donald trump is a moron. they think he is a liar. they are afraid of donald trump's voters. we talk about the fact that 90% of republicans support donald trump. i think that is deceptive. i think that support is soft. i am in new hampshire today. i was in iowa a couple days ago. i am not exaggerating when i say of theout 70% to 80% republicans i speak with sadie same thing, i'd like some of the things donald trump has done but i am tired of him. i am exhausted. i am tired of his bs. i am tired of his cruelty. i do not for more years. i hear that over and over. from republicans. steve: what did you need to do in iowa and new hampshire -- i know your competitor is also bill weld of massachusetts. you have talked to him as well. what are you looking at? mr. walsh: i have to let these republicans who are genuinely isk of donald trump -- this really important, because they tell me this -- they will acknowledge like i wi

trump: never. [chanting "usa"] we will always defend our beloved constitution, in the face of the belligerent left trying to crush organized religion, we are standing strong for religious liberty. we are protecting the conscience -- you know this -- and the rights of doctors, teachers, nurses, and groups like the little sisters of the poor and we are fighting for the lives of the unborn. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we are also firmly protecting the second amendment and your right to keep and bear arms, and it is under siege. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: it is unders siege , but we are protecting. don't worry. in addition, we're safe guarding your first amendment right to free speech, including online and on campus, and charlie kirk knows that very well. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: i've issued an historic executive order stating that any college that refuses to let you, meaning you, but anybody, speak, stands to lose billions and billions of taxpayer dollars. [cheers and applause

president trump alleged to have ork strafltd. the attle -- every ambassador interviewed in the impeachment inquiry acknowledged the president has an absolute right to call on ambassadors for any reason or no reason. it's apparent the president lost confidence in ambassador yavonovitch and it's not an abuse of power for him to recall her. beyond that, the trump administration replaced ambassador yavonovitch with ambassador bill taylor who became one of the first state department officials to voice concerns discussed during the course of our inquiry here. in fact, ambassador taylor made a prominent role in some of the hearings last month. if president trump truly sought to remove ambassador yavonovitch as part of a nefarious plan, he certainly would not have replaced her of someone of the likes of ambassador bill taylor. second, the three u.s. officials who comprised ambassador volker, sondland and secretary perry could not be called outlandish. the three kept the state department and the nfc informed of their activities. finally t

against president trump. in the sense they are alleging something that goes to the core of his constitutional function as president. which is the protection of the national security of the united states. president clinton was accused of essentially lying and misleading the american public perjurying himself not in the conduct of official duties. this is in terms of the allegation against president trump it's hard to see them anything other than extremely serious. i agree with your introduction. that he seems to be extremely rattled by this. 105 tweets on sunday. that's a trump record for those who are keeping track. this is a man who has impeachment on the brain. >> i haven't tweeted 105 times in 105 days. wow. >> nuts. do you think democrats should have gone bigger and broader with these articles? they kept them narrow. it's thin. is that a good thing to keep them narrow? >> there's basic conflict between tactics and strategy. and history and constitutional norm on the other hand. the practical side won out.

later the trump re-election campaign announced in an e-mail to supporters that donald trump will launch the evangelicals for trump coalition at an event in january. but what donald trump doesn't know is that he just gave a group that has stuck by him reason to think twice about his behavior. donald trump's tweeting has amplified the words of a small publication that argued that his actions in coercing ukraine's president to smear his political rival are, quote, profoundly immoral. mow from the article. we believe the impeachment hearings have made it absolutely clear in a way the mueller investigation did not that president trump has abused his authority for personal gain and betrayed his constitutional oath. the impeachment hearings have illuminated the president's moral deficiencies for all to see. none of the president's positives can balance the moral and political danger we face under a leader of such grossly immoral character, end quote. the editorial concludes by posing an important question to evangelicals who have dismissed trump's behavior in exchange for policy wins like gett

we're going to look at how she trump trumped coming up. and psychiatrist warns impeachment is making donald trump worse, but says delaying sending the articles of impeachment is an important step. we're going to talk about that with a long time trump observer in tonight's "last word," but we want to begin this hour with the one thing that has been dominating donald trump's mind other than impeachment, house speaker nancy pelosi. now with the uncertainty of his senate impeachment trial looming over his holiday vacation, donald trump has spent every day of the last seven days blastic democrats and impeachment in dozens of angry and misleading tweets. this morning for example speaker pelosi reminded americans that, quote, the facts are clear and every witness told the same story despite the president's attempts to cover it up. president trump abused his power for his own personal gain. trump escalated his attacks on speaker pelosi and her decision to hold the articles of impeachment until majority leader mitch mcconnell commits to holding a f

trump to the white house? >> reporter: and later on trump's campaign miller was in constant contact with her pushing stories that fit an anti-immigration narrative. stories she wrote for breitbart without question. were you a white nationalist? >> i think i'd call myself that. >> reporter: that's what you were? >> yes, but that part is dead. >> do you think this was solely political to let his star rise because he could manipulate you or do you think he actually is white supremacist? >> i believe he wanted access to power because he's a white supremacist. those e-mails, you can read his own words. >> reporter: she says these are some of his own words and e-mails to her. she saved over 900 or so exchanges between her and breitbart staffers. in 2015 not long after a white supremacist slaughtered nine black americans praying inside their church, he called and e-mailed not with sympathy for the victims but instead on ofocus of changing the narrative to outrage over removal of the confederate statues and retailers

president trump stated, the other thing. there is a lot of talk about biden's son, that biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that. so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution. so if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. witnesses unanimously testified that there was no factual support for this claim. rather, they noted that vice president biden was acting in support of an international consensus and official u.s. policy to clean up the prosecutor general's office in ukraine. despite these facts, by the time of the july 25th call, mr. giuliani had been publicly advocating for these two investigations for months while also using back channels to press ukrainian officials to nashiate them in support of his client, donald trump. ambassador sondland understood mr. giuliani's role very clearly. he testified, mr. giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states. and we knew these in

trump for abusing his powers. >> mr. chairman, there are 23 is and 17 noes. >> the article is agreed to. >>> abuse and obstruction, that is the core of the argument as this week the entire congress is set to vote on whether to impeach president trump on those grounds, which would tee up a senate trial on whether to remove donald trump from house. this is expected to begin as soon as the first week in january. speaker pelosi moving forward uniting her caucus with what many are calling the narrowest case against donald trump. one article on abuse of power, one on obstruction of congress, all about the ukraine plot. tonight we will dig into the evidence for these articles. this is what the house is currently on the precipice of using to try to impeach the president and it is what the senate will ultimately evaluate. they will begin with the first article, abuse of power and that is of course the whole show because it is about the accusation that donald trump, quote, used the powers of his high office to solicit the foreign

published an op-ed in the hill criticizing candidate trump. other senior ukrainian officials called candidate trump a clown and other words. they allege that he challenged the veryat values of the free world.re one prominent ukrainian parliamentarian explained that the majority of ukraine's politicaljo figures were on hillary clinton's side. a january 2017 politico article lays out in more detailed efforts by the ukrainian government officials to oppose president trump's candidacy. the article notes how ukraine worked to sabotage the trump campaign byge publicly questiong his fitness for office. ther article detailed how a ukrainian american contractor paid by the dnc and working with the dnc and the clinton campaign treatedca information and leads about the campaign with the staff at the ukrainian embassy in washington. she explained how the ukrainian embassy worked corredirectly wi reporters to point them in the right direction. witnessesct in the impeachment inquiry testified thatwi the allegation of ukrainian influence in the 2016 election

donald trump accepts vladimir putin's belief of ukraine doing this because that benefits donald trump. because all the evidence shows that russia sought to help and did help donald trump in the last election. if you can essentially take russia off the hook and put it on ukraine, then donald trump thinks that gives more validity and more affirmation to his election. it's always, always, always about donald trump. it just happens to be that vladimir putin is one of his biggest supporters. >> donna, i want to get you in on this conversation. the idea that the leverage that the democrats have is being used for something that 71% of the public wants. seems like, you know, especially in today's washington, the most noble use of political leverage. >> well, my good friend eric swalwell not only have people been called to jury duty, but all of us have watched "law and order." trials mean you call witnesses and people present their cases fairly, and then a jury gets to decide. and a judge is there as a referee. and so we understand that, which is why i'm not surprised by the 71% number. and i

wanton, president trump -- president trump wanted, president trump withheld a coveted oval office meeting and $391 million of the central military assistance from ukraine. president trump sought to undermine our free and fair elections and poses an imminent threat to our national security. fourth, faced with the revelation of his pressure campaign against ukraine, nresident trump directed a efforts to obstruct congress's impeachment inquiry into his conduct. with that context in mind, i would like to turn to the evidence of president trump's conduct concerning ukraine. my colleague, mr. cap store, just said it revolves around eight lines -- easter caster -- just said it revolves around eight lines but that -- a month-long scheme invest -- by the president. i want to start with that phone call because that is critical evidence of the president's involvement and intent. it was on that day that he held his second phone call with the new ukrainian president. the first in april was short and cordial following the ukrainian's president election success. this second call diverge dramatically fro

they would all say about donald trump what i say about donald trump. they are afraid to say it publicly now. but that is what they believe. they are all trump enablers right now. steve: and would you put sean hannity and fox news in that same category? mr. walsh: yeah, sean hannity is an idiot, but yeah. sean hannity is probably in the same category, they are just cheerleaders. people like hannity, fox news, and look, let's be real, it is the world i come from, conservative talk radio. if i were still a congressman, i would vote to impeach this president. they would be enormous pressure put on me as a republican congressman if i impeach this president. but i lived with three years of enormous pressure on me being a conservative talk radio host. my radio companies, the company i work for, they busted my chops every week to only sing trump's phrases and say that donald trump is the reatest. that is what you have to do in conservative talk radio if you ant great ratings, that is what hannity does, that is what all the rest do. i could never do that, becau

letter that donald trump sent to nancy pelosi, so much of it told you so much about donald trump. but so much of it spoke to his relationship with nancy pelosi. it was clear the white house counsel was not involved in the drafting of that letter. there was an anger and resentment and weirdness. what impact is nancy pelosi having on donald trump? >> i think she triggers some of that insecurity she feels, which is why he performs his masculinity in such a way. she reveals that to all be a con. and i think that gets under his skin. i also think that women in this particular moment, since the women's march, have essentially stood up and said this particular man said you can grab a woman by the you know what, you can do anything you want to a woman. it was that line that got to me the most. i channelled a certain amount of rage since then. but i'm not the only one. i think what nancy pelosi's strength rchts is women standing up to the male bullies, whether they're cat calling you in the work plsz or in the white house. i think nancy pelosi is a good example of how tostand up for yourse

joining me, trump campaign manager and senior advisor to the trump campaign. corey lewandowski, happy holidays. great to see you. to what extent are hunter biden's escapade and suspicions of corrupt acts going to damage joe biden's chances of being elected president. >> clearly hunter has been the focal point of the biden campaign now. the president that joe biden has gotten. nobody -- the pass he has gone the on his activities. no one talks about burisma. he's the subject of an ongoing lawsuit. the woman is asking how much money he has made the last seven years. the interesting part here is the mainstream media is ignoring this ebb tire story. when joe biden is asked by the, he says it's a family matter and that's the end. can you imagine for one second if donald trump or mike pence had the same issue potentially transpiring and their answer was it's a family matter? there would be merciless attacks on him. gregg: joe biden has been wrestling with his son's activities for years. there is video of tom brokaw calling out potential corruption by his son and it d

january 6th at trump tower. jim comey briefs president-elect trump on the dossier, the dossier the fbi knew was false. they do it to leak it to the press and the press writes that he was briefed. the president was told he wasn't under investigation when in fact they were investigating him and trying to trap him at the meeting. of course they continued the investigation after the inauguration. when we deposed jim comey in this committee last it was greps he said after ten months of the fbi investigation they didn't have a thing. comey fired on may 9ing, 2017. eight days later bob mueller hired and two years of the mueller investigation. 19 lawyers, 40 agents 500 warrants. 2800 subpoenas but zero collusion. but the democrats don't care about the facts and never going to stop. whistle-blower's lawyers said ten tais after the president was sworn in the coup has started impeachment to follow. 16 democrats op this committee voted to move forward with impeachment before bob mueller ever sat in front of the committee an

of trump said position and lack of leadership as he perceives it- coming from united states since trump was elected- what is nato go if trump remains to think. i don't think that it has a dramatic effect that some people might anticipate i do think that donald trump has done an extraordinary melts. either wittingly and in some cases unwittingly to undermine relations between the united states government and the governments of our closest allies. but i do think that there is a larger mission of nato stands for and i don't see donald trump- being able to. fundamentally underminene that now i do think it's problematic of course that again from has been so. i'd'd shami with at autocrat of sorts like air wanted i think that also- child. trump's permissiveness- towards- the- regime. presents a myriad of problems or- nato member states certainly- b but baback to your question i don't think that it. significantly has a damaging impact on there are some e problems with t trucs all sees.. whichch i think-- mae him a non credible actor. in waways similar t to what we see with their to one- but- ag

you see, president trump did give them offensive weapons, president trump did nothing wrong. we will talk about that all day long today. we went on process and we went on facts because the american people see through this. before i close this first part, i have to recognize that even the senate, the minority leader in the senate recognizes that the house did not do their job because he can't make the case to his own member's always having to ask for witnesses, ask for more time. even yesterday, i thought it hilarious, the minority leader in the senate went out and did a press conference and they denied my witnesses, they denied my request. welcome to the club, mr. schumer, that's exactly what's happened over here for the last three months. so today we are going to talk a lot about impeachment, we are going to talk a lot about our president and talk about two articles of impeachment. abuse of power because they can actually pin anything of factual basis on him. the president did nothing wrong in this issue, and they are going to talk about obstruction of congress. obstruction

president trump shows not to show. he may not have much to say in his own defense but cannot claim he did not have an opportunity to be heard. finally, as we proceed today we will hear a great deal about the speed with which the house is addressing the president's actions to the members of the committee, and members of the house, and two of my fellow citizens i want to be absolutely rsclear, the integrity of our nt election is at stake, nothing could be more urgent. the president welcomed in foreign interference and election in 2016 and demanded it for 2020 and then got caught. if you do not believe he will do it again, let me remind you that the president's personal lawyers spent last week back in ukraine meeting with government officials in an apparent attempt to gin up the same favors that brought us here today and forced congress to consider the impeachment of a sitting president. this pattern of conduct represents a continuing risk to the country. ce evidence shows donald j trump, president of the united states, h

amazingly inside that poll 12% of the people who voted for trump, 1 in every 8 trump voters said he should be removed. that is an amazing turn around among people or even trump supporters. so i'd be arguing the law, i'd be arguing politics to try to get those republicans to put together a fair trial. >> it's remarkable how quickly that shot up to a week before the holidays. let me go back to what you were talking about a week before an acquittal and an exoneration. walk us through the difference here and what is the argument you're making between being acquitted and being exonerated? >> so if you're acquitted by a senate where mitch mcconnell has already promised no matter what happens we won't remove you, in and of itself that process is suspect. but the real problem comes in article 2 of the impeachment which charges him with obstructing congress, and that means very simply he's completely failed to comply with subpoenas for documents. for instance, e-mails that might shed light on internal deliberations in the white house over the ukrainian affair. he's refused to provide key witnesses

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell before the house even voted to impeach donald trump went on trump tv to promise total coordination with the white house and trump's defense team in the upcoming impeachment trial in the senate. mcconnell is basically like the fix is in, we're just not going to pretend to go through all the pomp and circumstance. and then in response house speaker nancy pelosi said, fine, i'm not going to send the ar articles of impeachment to the senate until you, mitch mcconnell, agree to set a fair trial. fear is never a word used with me, you should know right away i'm never afraid and i'm rarely surprised. today speaker pelosi invited president trump to give the state of a union speech. probably not by chance she begins the invitation, quote, in their great wisdom our founders crafted a constitution based on the administration of powers, three coequal branches acting as checks on each other. the state of the union will be the day after the iowa caucuses and will also probably happen after the president's impeachment trial. although who knows really. it's also a

who knew trump. this was a completely different ecosystem. nato is a good thing, allies are a good thing. vladimir putin is a bad thing. they have that kind of a view of the world. and over time, these policy differences really began to add up. you had h.r. mccaster being force forced out of office early. mattis was no longer on speaks terms with the president or chief of staff. that doesn't work well. >> and trump turned around and got on the board of a company that's caging children. that's a whole other conversation. peter bergen. thank you very much, congratulations on the book. good luck. >> thank you. >>> coming up, a political trend we haven't seen since 2004. i will tell you what that is in our next hour of "am joy." fine, no one leaves the table until your finished. fine, we'll sleep here. ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. [ "turn around, look at me" ♪ there is someone ♪ walking behind you ♪ turn around ♪ look at me ♪ there is someone ♪ look

i'm elizabeth pradhan and with extended coverage of the impeachment against the us president donald trump it is $22.00 g.m.t. that's 5 pm in washington d.c. and we are now 5 hours and to the final debate of whether to impeach the president of the united states so democrats and republicans in the house of representatives are making their case about whether donald trump violated the constitution trump is facing 2 articles of impeachment he's accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it and to investigating his political rival he's also charged with stonewalling the investigation by congress the democrat controlled house is expected to make trump the 3rd president to be impeached in u.s. history. but let's have a listen now to some of the arguments made from both sides those who voted against impeachment and not just endorsing president trump's past actions but his future ones as well democrats have delivered 2 week articles of impeachment abuse of power not according to the ukraine president selenski confirm many times that there was no quid pro quo no action taken and significant m

president trump even sought to with f in line with president trump putin's lies. the leader invaded ukraine. the second demand that president trump made of president zelensky was to investigate the front runner for the democratic nomination for president in 2020. former vice president joe biden. and his son hunter. president trump stated, the other thing, there's a lot of talk about biden's son that biden stop the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. witnesses unanimously testified that there was no factual support for this claim. rather, they noted that vice president biden was acting in support of an international consensus and official u.s. policy to clean up the prosecutor general'sth call, mr giuliani had beenvo f these investigations for months sf hi client, donald trump. ambassador sondland understood mr. giuliani's role clearly. he testified mr. giuliani as wa

the trump white house has reportedly locked up the call records in which president trump is recorded as having spent a solid ten minutes on a phone call with then british prime minister theresa may, trying to talk her out of the idea that the russian government was to blame for that assassination effort in britain where an ex-russian spy was targeted with a russian military-grade nerve agent. trump apparently spent ten minutes on the phone trying to convince theresa may that russia didn't do it, that it must have been somebody else. the trump white house also reportedly locked up the records of the meeting that the president took with the russian foreign minister in the oval office in 2017. immediately after that meeting with the russian foreign minister, in may 2017, a number of disturbing elements of that meeting leaked out. that's where we got word that president trump had shared super top secret information that he wasn't supposed to give them and that our allies didn't know he was sharing with anybody, let alone the russians. we also found out shortly after that meeting that he

it it was donald trump. if you remember nancy pelosi and many in the democratic caucus caucuses-decided that, as pelosi always said that trump wasn't worth this. that he-probably done impeachable things but he wasn't worth putting the country through this. and then he did the ukraine scheme, the ukraine bribery scheme capped by the phone call and then the whistleblower came forward. and immediately the whole thing changed. and it became not unlikely that there would be impeachment. but really became inevitable. it forced the hand of the house and the house-to respond. >> nancy pelosi, when she was saying donald trump wasn't worth it as impeachment, which is an odd thing to say about the president. she also said it's something else that sounded strange at the time, which is donald trump will self impeach. now we know what she meant. >> look, i mean you think about the behavior that brought us here. ritsz not just that he did these things. it's that he got away with the russia thing. he got through mueller. mu

to investigate trump's political rival, joe biden, and how trump then tried to cover up his actions to thwart a congressional inquiry. after a six-hour debate on the house floor, the democratic-controlled house is expected to vote for impeachment by the endnd of the day, which would mark only the third time in u.s. history that a president has been impeached. today's vote comes after the house rules committee approved the terms of today's debate, which will allow no amendments on the floor. president trump lashed out at democrats tuesday in a six-page letter to house speaker nancy pelosi, accusing her of "declaring open war on american democracy." trump called the impeachment process an "illegal, partisan attempted coup." he also claimed, "more due process was afforded to those accused in the salem witch trials." the mayor of salem, mamassachusetts, slammed trump's comparison, telling him to learn some history. trump reiterated it was a witchhunt during his speech tuesday. pres. trump: they know it is a hoax, it is a witchhunt. it has been going on now for almost three years and it

trump's base is going to be trump's base. if we can have a conversation about how his tariffs are hurting people, how when he controlled both houses of congress, all he wanted to do was get rid of people's health care, that is the democrat -- is the conversation the democrats want to be having in november. host: apologies, but one of the conversations also being had right now is that it is a strong economy in the united states. historically, incumbent presidents oversee a strong economy don't lose an election. would this be any different? john: there are a lot of numbers that measure our economic performance that look nice. there are a lot of americans that are not feeling that. even though you have record numbers in the stock market and unemployment is low, four out of 10 americans don't have money in the bank for a relative emergency. six out of 10 americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck. there is over performance. gainson's share of those are going to the few at the top of the economic ladder. there is the oppor

trump. we know this because they proudly boasted about their intention to impeach our president before he was even sworn into office. out of disdain for the president and for those of us who elected him, the house of representatives is considering two articles of impeachment that are so very weak that they even fail to include specific crimes. the people that i represent in south central and southwestern pennsylvania know the truth. the american people know the truth. this impeachment circus has never been about the facts. this process has always been about seeking revenge for the president's election in 2016. and attempting to prevent him from winning again in 2020. madam speaker, i wholeheartedly oppose this partisan and shameful effort to impeach our democratically and duly-elected president for the sake of our nation. i urge my colleagues to join with me and vote no on the articles of impeachment. thank you. i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. gentleman from new york. >> madam speake

and trump does not understand that. if you look at that let everter said she doesn't really pray for me, he unleunless it is to prayt me. he can't conceive of wishing well on an opponent. >> unbelievable. after the break, william barr's role as donald trump's chief defender. s donald trump's chief defender >>> i was spied on. it was illegal. >> do you still stand by your statement that the campaign was spied upon? >> it was clearly spied upon. >> they knew right at the beginning that it was all a frameup, a setup. but they hid it so that nobody could see it. >> remember, there was and never has been any evidence of collusion. and yet this campaign and the president's administration has been dominated by this investigation into what turns out to be completely baseless. >> don't forget, ukraine hated me, they were after me in the election. >> i am confident that the russians attempted to interfere in the election. i don't know about the ukranians. i haven't looked into it frankly. >> all those alarming claims from the pre

trump's time will come and go. but i hope we understand that what happened here can never happen again. because what happened here is not a few irregularities. what happened here is the system failed. people at the highest level of our government took the law in their own hands. and when i say defraud the fisa court, i mean it. to your team, you were able to uncover and discover abuse of power i never believed would actually exist in 2019. how bad is it? it was as if j. edgar hoover came back to life. the old fbi. the fbi that had a chip on its shoulder and wanted to intimidate people and find out what was going on in your life and the law be damned. martin luther king and just fill in the names. so, who ran this thing? the people were handpicked by mccabe. the number two guy at the fbi. the supervisory agent, the deputy assistant director for counterintelligence is peter strzok. he's a big player and all things crossfire hurricane. lisa page, you may have heard of her. who is she? she was an fbi lawyer working for

president trump: and i will say this. three weeks ago when we got al-baghdadi, turkey was very helpful. we flew over areas that were controlled by turkey and we said we're coming. they were very supportive, actually. we didn't tell them what we were doing, where we were going. turkey could not have been nicer, could not have been more supportive and that's important. and i want to just say in keeping the oil, isis was trying to, as you know regain control of the oil. we have total control of the oil. and frankly, we had a lot of support from a lot of different people. but right now, the only soldiers we have essentially in that area are the soldiers keeping the oil. so we have the oil. and we can do with the oil what we want. reporter: turkey buying russian missiles - president trump: well, they tried to buy ours. the obama administration said you can't have them. the obama administration said you can't have the patriots. you can't -- we are not going to sell them to you. they said that a number of times. and then turkey

trump is beatable. that being clear, the democrat who runs against him, how can a democrat lose to a president who has for his entire term been rejected by a consistent majority of the american people in to lose next november, even in the low depths to which this president has taken us would be unforgivable and it can only happen if the democrats choose a candidate that lacks the wit, the guts, the basic appeal to be a major party candidate in any year. if you presume to be trump's strongest challenger, you'd better well defeat him. no one wants to hear that you lost in a noble cause. history has already written that cause. it is for a country that is better than donald trump to show it. that's "hardball" for now. all in with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in" -- likely new charges for rudolph giuliani's ukraine crew. >> i don't know those gentlemen. >> as the impeachment of donald j. trump proceeds. >> here's what i think they will advance. one is bribery. >> tonight what we know abo

not just in order to win, in order to beat donald trump and end this trump era, but in order to make sure we can govern in a way that will leave our country more united and not more divided. >> let me ask you about the health care debate. i thought a lot about this heading into the last actual debate that msnbc and nbc were involved in moderating. just thinking about the thrust of those questions and the amount of time to spend on that and the real nature of the divisions between you and your fellow candidates on that. i am troubled by what i see as -- what feels to me as sort of an observer of the process, feels to me like a focus on the fight between democratic candidates there that is out of proportion to the real differences in goals among the candidates. it seems to me all of you want universal coverage and reduction in costs. >> absolutely. and so for the democratic primary to be about sort of making a bogeyman out of some of the candidates' approaches would be and how scary that would be and how unelectable, you've really led the charge about medicare for all being a political

president trump after years of enormous trade deficits and intellectual property theft, president trump put china on notice that the era of economic surrender is over. we just secured phase one trade deal with china. it's actually a big win for agriculture all across this country and it is the beginning of the step in the direction of releveling the playing field with china. but we also kept hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs in place to make sure china knows we mean business and we're going to stand up for american workers. we're working on a new trade deal with japan. we're in discussions with the eu. once the uk gets done with that brexit thing, we'll have a trade deal with them. it's all going to put american jobs and american workers first. but i think all of you know closer to home, it was right out of the gate three years ago this president said that we could do better in our trading relationship with canada and mexico. and he took decisive action to renegotiate the nafta agreement. and after two years of negotiation and one year of delays on capitol hill, this week the h

un nacimiento en la era trump. un inglÉs en california muestra a josÉ, marÍa jesÚs en tres jaulas diferentes, en protesta contra la polÍtica separa funciÓn familiar. se espera que maÑana los demÓcratas apliquen artÍculos de juicio polÍtico contra el presidente trump, por abuso de poder y obstrucciÓn al congreso. una jueza federal bloquea la medida trump que buscaba eliminar la exoneraciÓn de hago de trÁmite de ciudadanÍa para miles de residentes legales de bajos recursos. ♪ ♪ locutor: este es su noticiero univisiÓn, edición nocturna. con enrique acevedo y patricia janiot. patricia: una gran polÉmica ha desatado la instalaciÓn de un pasebre en una iglesia de california que muestra a marÍa, josÉ y jesÚs en jaulas. una aparente protesta de la situaciÓn de los indocumentados que llegan a la frontera. parece reflejar la polÍtica separaciÓn de familias del presidente trump. el responsable de esta representaciÓn dice que su intenciÓn es mostrar a la familia refugiados mÁs conocida del mundo.

trump for president. it should be that video. >> if i thought this was part of the corn pop video and someone found the second half of it. i didn't realize it was a separate event. steveevent.steve you are saying it's real. steve: i like kids jumping -- what's he talking about? >> it's nonsensical. >> all i can say is bless his heart. steve * what's he going to do with that? >> this is the democrat frontrunner? this is the best they have? he's supposed to have the nuclear codes? they are worried about trump? steve: because he has the hairy legs. >> seeing biden on this trail gave me a new respect for the obamas. the obamas kept the lid on joe biden. there are rumors obama didn't like biden and didn't want to take him on as the running partner. can you imagine all of the crazy stuffed joe biden has said to the first black president of the united states over the years? steve: we like to end with it because it's so british. we don't have anything for this week and it just turns up because it's joe biden. we'

trump, the f.b.i. lawyer in charge of supervising the fisa process tweets out to friends -- viva la resistance. what are the odds that this guy might do something wrong? would you have to be part of a right wing conspiracy to predict in the future maybe this guy will get off script? folks, if these are a few irregularities, the rule of law in this country is dead. and here's the good news, these are not a few irregularities, these are a few bad people. that could not believe that wanted to win, and when he wo, couldn't tolerate the fact that he won. and all these smelly people elected him. this is bad stuff. report -- out of this lawful investigation with a few irregularities, it says more about you than mr. horowitz. how in the hell did this whole thing start? what got us here today? they open up the counterintelligence investigation in july. we know the russians are missing in our elections. and it was the russians, ladies and gentlemen, who still the democratic national committee emails, podesta's e

that's exactly what president trump is doing. the united states has record low unemployment, historic performance in the stock market, president trump is rewriting failed trade deals of the past to put america first. he's rebuilding our military. he helped create the space force and the list goes on. i implore my colleagues to end this spectacle now. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. mr. collins: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from new york, mr. nadler. mr. nadler: mr. speaker, i'm hearing a lot from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle combept a defense of president trump's -- except a defense of president trump's conduct which is indefensible. i now yield two minutes to the gentleman from florida, mr. deutch. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. deutch: some say this impeachment is about eight lines in a call transcript. but there is so much more. this is about a sc

president trump could rest easy. but if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. i count 17 honorable public servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. is that right, mr. goldman? >> yes. there was 17. >> and i counted dozen career state department and national security officials who served republican and democratic presidents alike over decades who came to testify. in fact, four of president trump's own national security council staffers, hill, vindman, morrison

s prime minister boris johnson is frequently compared to that of us president donald trump the johnsons want to resign ending victory in the u.k.'s latest general election u.s. politicians are paying very close attention to what happened and it's opened up a major debate amongst the democrats presidential candidate joe biden the liberal platform of johnson's main opponent jeremy corben for labor's defeat and he's warning his poncy against moving too far to the left ahead of the 2020 presidential election he and all those doggy britain's election result should serve as a wake up call for their party. well let's take a closer look at some of the democratic front runners 1st up is joe biden after nearly 4 decades as a senator from delaware he served as vice president under former president barack obama is also at the center of president trump's impeachment inquiry then there is elizabeth warren she served as a u.s. senator for massachusetts since 2013 she is a leader of the party's liberals and has proposed counseling up to 50000 dollars of student debt for millions of us citizens there's

trump. and i need the american public to really let that sink in that even with all of these facts out, all the evidence out, he is still in ukraine doing trump's bidding like nothing happened, like none of this matters. and ultimately this really aligns with what pelosi, what schiff have been saying of this is an active threat to our democracy and the upcoming election cycle. that's why they're forced to take action. >> you laid it out clearly. the report has a lot of material we're going to continue to make sense of. it's just a lot of information to shed light on what everyone thinks of it. juanita tolliver, thanks as always. >> i want to turn next to a fiery clash on the campaign trail next. y clash on the campa trail next i am all about living joyfully. ♪ hello. the united explorer card hooks me up. getting more for getting away. rewarded! going new places and tasting new flavors. rewarded! traveling lighter. rewarded. haha, boom! getting settled. rewarded. learn more at the explorer

inside the trump's white house. from the rose garden talking about what he is thankful for this year and living in the white house. >> this thanksgiving we bow our heads for the newfound prosperity in spirit taking place all across america the country has never been morea. successful the military has been rebuilt the captured and killed the number one terrorist in the world aku bakr al-baghdadi and i want to thank oured military because there's nothing like our military. i want to thank almighty god rafor shedding his grace on our nation our nation is special and we send our love to members of the united states armed forces playing all over the world we are thankful for those who where the nations uniform in the family that supports them they are so important it can never be the same without those great families many fellow americans are celebrating another wonderful thanksgiving in safety and in peace a very special country a very special place at the rose garden and the white house if you're looking back here it's

and my goal is when this is over, whether you like trump, hate trump, don't care about trump, you look at this as more that happen a few irregularities, because if this becomes a few irregularities in america, then god help us all. now, the people that were in charge in this investigation were hand picked by mr. mccabe, who is now a cnn analyst, high up in the fbi, the number two guy. the first question i will ask in a bit, is this the best of the best? are these people normal representatives of their department of justice and the fbi? i hope you say no because i believe it to be no and if i believed otherwise, i would be incredibly depressed. so, ladies and gentlemen, i'm going to assume something for the sake of argument. that there was a lawful predicate to open up a counterintelligence investigation. and i want you to know that the standard to open one up is about like that. i also want you to know that a counterintelligence investigation is not a criminal investigation. they're not trying to solve a crime. they're trying to stop foreign powers from interfering in america. that a c

trump's campaign? >> we found no use of human confidentials and placing them in the campaign or trying to place them in the campaign. >> i yield my five minutes. >> you'll get your ten minutes. >> no, i was taking her remaining five minutes. >> i just want to let senator grassley go. >> sure. >> thank you. >> has anybody been prosecuted or charged with any -- in this russia investigation? >> i'm sorry. on this matter that i'm -- >> yeah. >> -- handling? no one that i'm aware of. >> okay. following up on a question senator feinstein asked, did the obama administration or president obama himself is the one i'm interested in, know about the counterintelligence investigation? >> i don't know the answer to that definitively. our authority was over the fbi and to look at the fbi department activities. >> in january of 2018, chairman graham and i wrote to the fbi department, interfering christopher steele for potential investigation of lying to the fbi. we told the fbi, the department -- and the department th

president trump: a wise guy. mr. van drew: it kind of hurt because for years i have given everything that i could to my people in my district. you asked why i win, truthfully because i'm a crazy man. when people have a problem, when we need something, when we want to help them, i have the best staff in the world and we doing everything we can to make it better. that kind of hurt it. kind of made me think a little bit, is this really what i want to do? because there were other times in my life when i thought about this. i thought about it when i did legislation and actually it was in the state senate. i don't know this if this is going to be relatable or not but i want to say it anyhow. i think it's important. this was not a complex bill. it was not something that was very difficult to understand. it isn't intellectually stimulating to some people. i understand. but i did two bills and one of them, unusual for new jersey, would allow in any public or private building to have in god we trust on the wall. and the second

president trump is the first president you voted for? >> yes. >> reporter: originally from mexico, this 20-year-old became a u.s. citizen five months ago and will vote for trump again in 2020. >> someone is going to throw eggs at me or i'm going to be shuned from the hispanic community. >> shuned by some. that's what ray baca and trump are counting on. >> we need to get our hispanic veteran to quit voting democrat simply because that's what they've always voted. >> reporter: nick valencia, cnn, el paso, texas. >>> benjamin netanyahu abruptly escorted off stage. we are live in jerusalem, next. nobody likes a tight squeeze. leanfire supplements from force factor contain ingredients clinically shown to help increase energy, burn fat, and double your weight loss. don't struggle to fit in. unleash your potential, with leanfire. available at retailers nationwide. o♪ ozempic®! ♪ oh! oh! (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered t