trump and the goofier donald trump gets -- the goofier donald trump gets the more dangerous he becomes because he's president. it is well documented that donald trump is the laziest president in history. he's also the most the most ignorant president in history. and he absolutely doesn't care about details. to compound the danger, all of that is also true of his white house staff. that's why donald trump and his white house staff produce an endless stream of typos and incorrect statements like no other white house in history. i'm not talking about their deliberate lies here, i'm only talking about their mistakes, things they wish they hadn't said. donald trump is in the trouble he's in tonight because he does not know how to care about details, even when he's trying to obstruct justice during the mueller investigation and even when he's trying to force ukraine to help him in his re-election campaign. donald trump does not know how to care about details. just ask mark esperanto. that's next. hestra) ♪ performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-fren

this wasn't donald trump's idea. i want to listen to something else donald trump said today about his finances. let's listen to this. >> when you see my financials, which i'll give at the right time, you'll say, man, he was much better than we even thought. this guy knows right here, mnuchin, because he was in the private sector. he knows very much what i have. he would tell you. someday, maybe he'll tell you. >> someday, maybe he'll tell you. >> which means let's translate that as never. i will never, ever tell you. and steve mnuchin knows nothing about how much money i have. that's how we should translate that. in that same tape he also said at some point -- >> it begins with -- he's talking to reporters. "when you see my financials." >> yeah -- >> which they know they're never going to see. >> which he's been saying, his taxes and financials. during the course of that same conversation, he said i've taken a huge hit being president, it's cost me somewhere between $2 billion and $5 billion in lost revenue being pre

all of this is on donald trump. all of this happened because donald trump decided to allow it to happen and no one knows why. the president of the united states has not explained his decision to the american people. he has not explained it to anyone in congress. donald trump abandoned american allies and has left them to die, and no one knows why. one element of this story that links it with many other decisions donald trump has made as president is that it is very good for vladimir putin. after this break i'll ask former undersecretary of state, wendy sherman, why she thinks donald trump did this and what she thinks will happen next. ♪ ♪ applebee's new pasta and grill combos. choose from up to 12 combinations starting at $9.99. steven could only imaginem 24hr to trenjoying a spicy taco.burn, now, his world explodes with flavor. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day all-night protection. can you imagine 24-hours without heartburn? like very high triglycerides, can be tough. you diet. exercise. but

donald trump has not committed treason, and no one donald trump has accused of committing treason has committed treason because they cannot commit treason. the law defines treason as making war on the united states or giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the united states. enemies is a legal word. the courts have interpreted the word enemies to legally mean only the countries that are declared enemies in a congressional declaration of war. since the united states has not had a congressional declaration of war since world war ii, we also have not had a successful treason prosecution since world war ii. so it is in effect legally impossible to commit treason these days involving russia or any other country, but there are other laws you can violate as president trump appears to in his phone call with the president of ukraine where he's asking for help in his re-election campaign. it is a crime to solicit help in a campaign from a foreign country. in a tweet he said, again, the president of ukraine said there was no, zero, pressure put on him by me, case closed, exclamation point. as

donald trump is not. she had just rallied an entire -- an overwhelming majority of the house in both parties, trump's as well as her own, to rebuke his policy. she's about to lead the house to impeach him, and that does not feel very good for donald trump. and the other thing i would say is that when she says all roads lead to putin, i notice that kevin mccarthy had his head down in that picture as well as the generals. remember that kevin mccarthy is the one who told the republican caucus in private a couple of years ago, i'm convinced that putin pays donald trump. >> yeah. >> i think he recognized the situation as well. >> and is it true -- is it accurate that inside of that meeting, when donald trump said he just wanted to bring the troops home, that the speaker asked him, well, is saudi arabia home? because you're putting more troops in saudi arabia to defend their oil. is that accurate reporting, john? >> yes. >> you know, we have a situation here, tara, where donald trump's interests seem to be prim

isn't the real reason the donald trump if we could agree. to get some agreement without a reason but also you know the real reason we have to change our asylum policy because what's going to accept your refugees is what is what steven miller 10 while i don't agree with steve miller and the by the way that's not the trump assertion ok the one who has a well founded fear of persecution should be able to con unless a rough minister from syria. here is that well he's closer to the syrian refugees are compassionate but i am not a foreign policy expert on if there isn't a real reason donald trump is fighting this war on immigration is that he's a racist if when the president tells 4 women of color members of congress to quote go back to where they came from even the 4 of them all of them are u.s. citizens and 3 of them were born in the us is that not racist i know donald trump i've spent a lot of time no that is not a race ok he's not a racist is that comment racist people can interpret only. we can you tell us about him is it not a sense of why w

there's donald trump confessing that military aid was being when would by donald trump and, of course, william taylor did, in fact, testify in his opening statement that ukrainians were very much aware that military aid was being when would. from "the new york times," saying that word of the aid freeze had gotten to high-level ukrainian officials by the first week in august, according to interviews and documents obtained by "the new york times." the problem was not bureaucratic. the ukrainians were told. to address it, they were advised, they should reach out to mick mulvaney, the acting white house chief of staff. the associated press is reporting two months before president trump's phone call with the president of ukraine, when president trump asked the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden, the president of ukraine was already worried about that issue. the associated press reports on may 7th president zelensky, in a meeting with a small group of his advisers, spent most of the three-hour discussion talking about how to navigate the insistence from trump and his personal law

donald trump is the president. we're talking about how they are going to blow that up. >> and tiffany, the spectacles. >> she looks so much smarter. >> girl power. the reality is hillary clinton had a 63% approval rating after she finished her tenure of secretary of state. between the media's obsession with emails and the way trump characterized her, this guy who's foundation had to close in new york managed to get the whole country to focus on her corruption and emails, how would it be different for biden. >> he got the country to focus on emails and there was also russia helping. now they have iran and china. so, the election should be something we should watch. look i take your point jason. i think the biden campaign has to be smart enough and not let donald trump lead them around and goat them into a fight. we saw this fail with elizabeth warren with the native american -- it's a bad idea. the media also. you have to -- there are no innocent bystanders here and you have to fault the media for this. you cannot a

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

trump a little bit of credit because after all donald trump very famously and he's even said so use twitter to you know directly reach the american voter to communicate very directly to the voter without you know a lot of the mediating media i mean media being mediating. and you know c. of course has use that tactic that technique instagram twitter to great success well i guess what i would say is maybe they are both reaching people directly but i think what i.o.c. is doing is making intricate policy proposals that are typically quite dry or insider e very digestible and accessible and seeking to empower people with information and appeal to voters to give her power and certainly no one could have done. so lauren who do you like on the democratic side in the 2020 field right now i am very transparent about being extremely excited by elizabeth warren i would also say oh i think this is an exciting period for there to be a conversation of ideas and we get so caught up in the rat race and the polling and just the binary of wins and losses and this is a moment to talk about what is the

fathers separated from those children by donald trump. she was standing up for kurds in syria being killed tonight by forces unleashed by donald trump. she was standing up to the lies and racist poison that donald trump has been spewing since he first opened his mouth about president obama's birth certificate. she was standing up for all of us against all of that. and so, of course, it was impossible for donald trump to understand the moment, impossible for him to understand what that photograph represents to the world. that's why he tweeted it into history today. what nancy pelosi was saying to donald trump then was "all roads with you lead to putin." those words will be forever memorable. former cia director john brennan will join us tonight. we'll ask him about the trump roads that lead to putin. including donald trump's abandonment of the kurds and how that serves vladimir putin. a point that was made strongly today by some republican senators. speaker pelosi stood up to donald trump and said "all roads with you lead to putin." after

heather: let's look at donald trump's approval rating since the election. he has been trending up since may 2019. what is your take on the ground in minnesota? >> the president's approval rating considering how many hits he has taken not just from democrats but from the media overall are on the up which is nice to see and hear in minnesota like many others the president is positioned to win because what democrats are offering is socialism as the alternative. heather: 19 counties in minnesota voted for donald trump in the 2016 election after previously voting for barack obama in 2012-2008. in terms of flipping it red or blue we can take a look at the voting history it self. democrats have had the upper hand. >> we haven't won the state in decades, can't deny that. we lost in 2016 and what it is going to take is 2020 to win places like minnesota. some of these suburban voters that don't necessarily like the president's tone or rhetoric as it is often referred to. they will look at the big economic issues and historically low unemployment rates and ask if they

trump over his strategy for turkey and syria. >> what donald trump is done because of that phone call with erdogan is giving 10,000 isis fighters a get out of jail free card. heather: aaron:hundred terrorists were living and said there is a resolutions from democrats, he joined us next. three members of the squad made their 2020 2026, alexandria ocasio cortez, ilhan omar and rashida tlaib are endorsing for president. ♪ still the one i want for life ♪ >> this president is turning the moral leadership of this country into a dumpster fire. >> new york times and cnn have smeared veterans like myself are calling to a end to is regime change war. >> isis is going to come here. they are going to damage the united states of america. jillian: 2020 candidates jumping a chance to slam the removal of us troops to syria but at the same time offering few alternatives to the crisis. a former israel special operations council chairman has more reaction. in terms of foreign policy, syria specifically did you hear anything that will make a difference? >> i didn't hear anything, just slamming trump.

trump because the presidency of donald trump undermines the supremest see the removal of the additional establishment in the elite in american politics now while walker is departure at least the trumpet ministration pretty much without any senior official with the expertise in these part of the world i mean. fiona hale then called. john bolton they are all god the united states still has no on baster in ukraine and the american ambassador to russia is said to resign within the next couple of days and october 3rd. how do you take it does russia have reason to be concerned about these brain drain when it comes to u.s. policy in ukraine. on the one hand the departure of volcker could have played a positive role because indeed from the russian perspective the role of all code was apparently negative right walker prevent the implementation of the means good and persuaded ukraine to continue to subsidize the implementation on the other camp in the current situation of scandal i truly don't believe that the departure of walter will matter for the american pull we see towards ukraine because th

candidate to take on donald trump in 2020. alexandria ocasio-cortez endorse sanders. rob: called liz warren a capitalist that might have sealed the deal with the squad. jillian: we will be watching the polls. "fox & friends" starts right now. bye bye. ♪ >> i will not sign a bill into law that does not lower costs for middle class family. >> your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything. except this. >> somebody who wrote the damn bill, as i said. [laughter] i do think it is appropriate to acknowledge that taxes will go up. >> at least bernie is being honest here and saying how he is going to pay for this. >> i called on twitter to suspend donald trump's account that you did not agree. >> i don't just want to push donald trump off twitter. i want to push him out of the white house. that's our job. but the way. >> join me in saying that his twitter account should be shut down. >> no. >> no? >> every candidate here i

donald trump's presidency visit the ukraine. which volcker can see the right and which reflected the interests of certainly ukrainian politicians you know ukraine in its current state from the political perspective for you think volcker will be protected by the by the democrats by their establishment republicans which still exist because for them ukraine is the friend everyone who supports ukraine is also a friend. of the right will say. i think volcker will be excused right walter will be used as an instrument against donald trump it's interesting you say that because i mean they conflict compare this situation to something that happened to for example general flynn who was a man who was decimated politically for simply appearing at artie's dinner and sitting at one table with live near put of a doubt even exchanging any any war it's imagine him running involved in trying to arrange meetings with u.s. presidents associates all be have of president putin i mean he would have been in prison. the end of his days well of the whole

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

these are the sanctions that donald trump is always wanting to increase and here was donald trump trying to help someone who was accused of violating those sanctions because that person was close to the president of turkey who very much wanted him not to be prosecuted. when reporters interviewed rudy giuliani for this story they got classic giuliani. giuliani said suppose i did talk to trump about it. so what? if he spoke directly to tillerson, he declined to say if he spoke to tillerson about the case saying you have no right to know that. there is also big news tonight about the whistle blower and it is news that you can completely ignore because the whistle blower no longer matters. what matters is that every relevant fact that the whistle blower wrote in his whistle blower report has proven true and everything the whistle blower wrote in a two-page memo to himself in which he quickly wrote down the very first things that he heard about the president's phone call with the president of ukraine, those things have also proven true and we know that because cbs news has obtained and publis

all of this is on donald trump. all of this happened because donald trump decided to allow it to happen and no one knows why. the president of the united states has not explained his decision to the american people. he has not explained it to anyone in congress. donald trump abandoned american allies and has left them to die, and no one knows why. one element of this story that links it with many other decisions donald trump has made as president is that it is very good for vladimir putin. after this break i'll ask former undersecretary of state, wendy sherman, why she thinks donald trump did this and what she thinks will happen next. d this thinks will happen next. ♪ the calming scent of lavender by downy infusions calm. laundry isn't done until it's done with downy. ithere's my career...'s more to me than hiv. my cause... and creating my dream home. i'm a work in progress. so much goes into who i am. hiv medicine is one part of it. prescription dovato is for adults who are starting hiv-1 treatment and who aren't

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

donald trump has done this all along. it's just because the optics got to be so horrendous they felt they had to step forward. but this is why they're in a heap of trouble. it used to be republicans, way back when, were the party of national security, were the party that appreciated law enforcement and now they're throwing rocks at these patriots. and i don't know how this is going to go over well with middle america. >> edward mcmullen, you know many of these republicans well, house republicans. have we found the line most of them will not cross, an attack on colonel vindman? >> you know, lawrence, i'm not sure there is a line. so i'm not going to say this is it. but i'll tell you, when you see liz cheney come out like that, she leads messaging for house republicans and i can tell you from experience when someone in that position comes out to sort of correct something that some republican member or some republican advocate or media person has said, it's because they're worried about how it's going to play with constituen

we've come to expect this of donald trump. i was actually galled to see lindsey graham co-sign this thing. >> lindsey graham should be ashamed to have failed to call the president out over something that is just completely reprehensible. i don't know how lindsey graham manages to look his african-american constituents in the eye the next time he's down in south carolina. he probably just doesn't care. the way that he responded, it shows that he really didn't think that it was that big of a deal when i hate to say if you are not cognizant of that history. >> you have talked about the danger of donald trump's rhetoric to real danger in this country. >> my first assignment in the fbi was to the state of georgia. i have worked clan rallies, cross burnings and violent beatings of blacks by corrupt police officers. i find myself at times trying to explain the president's behavior by either saying it's ignorance. this is a deliberate strategy. he knows what a lynching is. he has chosen to do this. he has chosen to press the race butt

donald trump just lost a big case. he lost a federal appeal over a subpoena for his financial records, so it doesn't seem like the courts, even stacked by donald trump and mitch mcconnell, are necessarily going to support him, say that he can defy subpoenas. could defying subpoenas buy the impeachment inquiry itself, that become impeachable? >> well, it certainly was in the case of richard nixon in article three. and when the white house laid down the gauntlet and basically said, we spit on congress, we don't want anyone to cooperate, that signal in itself, even though it's not going to be heeded by everybody, that signal in itself is a defiance of congress and an obstruction of the impeachment process. and as you said, the courts are beginning to hold that the president is violating the law, although it must be said that in the recent d.c. circuit decision, one judge -- the judge who was appointed by donald trump -- had a rather remarkable descent in which she basically said that congress has to stop investigating the

donald trump knows he's going to be impeached by the house. that's why he's acting like he is. that is why he is lashing out. and the urgency with which he is trial-ballooning different theories of the case, it stands a marked difference with the mueller report. we have heard him throw out the notion that, yes, he was pressuring the ukraine, and then, no, he wasn't pressuring to investigate because he wanted more multilateral money. that's what he was waiting on. then he's attacking pt bidens, he is attacking the whistle-blower, he is attacking schiff. donald trump knows he's going to be impeached by the house. the only question is, as jake said, how far does this reach. because mike pompeo could also be impeached as the secretary of state of the united states and that's where this investigation may go. the flailing we are seeing is because though he likes to convince people with superlatives how great he is, he's already convinced himself. donald trump believes that he is the best president to ever serve in the united states. so he doesn't un

that person was donald j. trump. she's revelations from within trump's administration formed just a part of the narrative that's now shifting public opinion when it comes to trump's impeachment, despite the president's pattern of obje obfuscation. a full 63% of americans think trump should now cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. joining our conversation "new york times" editorial board member and msnbc contributor mara gay. i keep saying this because we sat here day after day after day even after mueller's report came out, find 150 contacts between team trump and the russians, found ten acts of criminal obstruction of justice, public opinion really didn't sway. 63% support this investigation. >> i think what's happening is the effect of the impeachment inquiry requiring multiple, actually government officials to come forward and testify. these are names that americans may not know or haven't heard before. but, you know, trump may regard them as the deep state. but these are clearly sound public officials, and the

but fundamentally, donald trump will use this as a campaigning tool. an election is just a year away, and as commander—in—chief, he's notjust claiming victory but personal credit for this. you listened to the language — it was personal and vivid, and you could argue it was triumphalist. he talked, for example, about al—baghdadi crying and whimpering in a state of panic, dying like a dog, and a coward. that is language we are not used to from an american president — well, at least until this administration. and with an election coming forward, you can imagine trump will be saying time and time again that he has been responsible for killing the world's most wanted terrorist leader. our security correspondent, frank gardner, explained how al—baghdadi was able to establish a caliphate in areas of iraq and syria back in 2014. the shiah government had adopted a very discriminatory policy against the sunnis. al—baghdadi capitalised on that and said, "we are your champions," and they swept into mosul, the second city, and took it over with just a

have to understand that donald trump betrayed israel, donald trump helped isis, donald trump betrayed the united states of america and our closest allies in that region. and donald trump helped vladimir putin. >> former manager editor of "time" magazine nancy gibbs has a new piece for the "washington post" entitled "it's clear trump doesn't want to be president anymore" she describes the piece as more of a thought experiment than a prediction and she writes in part this. consciously or not, might donald trump include that impeachment and removal is his least bad option for escaping the great white jail? resigning is out, that's for quitters. defeat in 2020 is worse, losing is for losers. but being impeached and removed from office is the one outcome that preserves at least some ability to denounce the deep state and the are the ones in the senate that stabbed him in the back. maintain his bond with his tribe and depart the capital and launch a media business to compete with fox news. >> that's all he's ever wanted to do. >> impeachment let's him go down fighting and he will call it ri

i think donald trump knew that. because what does donald trump want, right? he wants loyalty, which is what he's getting from pompeo, you know, what he's getting from pence. and it's a one-way street with donald trump. he will throw them under the bus, as he tried today do with pence -- >> yes. >> -- after that press meeting where he was just kind of like, you should go look at pence's -- >> look at his phone! >> -- his phone, yeah. and threw him under the bus. so, this is where we are. and republicans have to really think about this. they have to think, are they really going to really grab onto this wagon, this unstable wagon that trump is having now, who is a one kind of doing this, you know, this kind of war room on his own, hell-bent on doing it, and it's a twitter deck, and it's really, that's it, and watching cable news tv. and this is where we are right now. i mean, republicans really have to step up here. and you know, the other thing, too, is we don't know how this is going to end up. we've never been in this place before with impeachment on national

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

of donald trump's foreign policy. that diplomat marie yovanovitch who the trump administration sought to block from appearing today claiming in her opening statement that her removal was corrupt. she writes this. quote, i was incredulous that the u.s. government chose to remove an ambassador based as best as i can tell on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives. she added a warning about the risk to the country posed by the trump administration's conduct. quote, the harm will come when private interests circumvent professional diplomats for their own gain, not the public good. the harm will come when bad actors in countries beyond ukraine see how easy it is to use fiction and innuendo to manipulate our system. yovanovitch was also targeted by rudy giuliani's business associates who were arrested yesterday pictured there with rudy himself arrested yesterday for campaign finance crimes. they are smiling and waving. yovanovitch was also name-checked by donald trump himself as he pressed the

beyond fast. >>> no one blows the whistle on donald trump quite like donald trump. >> and by the way, likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens because what happened in china is just about as bad as what happened with ukraine. >> donald trump's defense about colluding with foreign governments for his presidential campaign has gone from i didn't do it to i would do it again to, okay, everybody, watch me do it. after committing that crime on live tv today, donald trump told reporters that he had not previously asked president xi to investigate his political rival. but cnn is reporting tonight that donald trump raised the subjects of joe biden and elizabeth warren during a phone call with the chinese president on june 18th. and donald trump said in that phone call promised that he would stay quiet on hong kong protests for freedom while trade talks continued with china. according to cnn the record of that call was also placed in that highly secure server where the transcript of his call with the ukrainian president still sits. joining us now is john harwood, the edito

in a tragedy of donald trump's own making. this war began after trump's call with turkish president erdogan where he essentially gave turkey the green light for their military operation. finding out exactly what was said on that call is crucial, as former special envoy to the global coalition to defeat isis, brett mcgurk, noted on twitter writing this, "given the predictable consequences now unfolding before the entire world, if it's true that trump warned erdogan not to invade northeast syria, release the transcript. let's see." meanwhile, the president just announced vice president pence and secretary of state pompeo are heading to turkey tomorrow. joining us now from the turkey/syria border, nbc news senior international correspondent keir simmons. keir, tell us everything you're seeing and picking up. >> reporter: well, you know, nicolle, when you and i talk, when i'm in the studio there, or places around the world, we always try and tell it straight, don't we, and just cut through the diplomatic niceties and the nonsense

donald trump. when we start to see all of them fall in line behind him, it's not just the president's judgment we have to question. it's also congress and the republicans in congress which looks like they're being in the arm of the executive office instead of check and balance on the executive. that is what should be concerning all of us. >> chris, i quoted bob corker because he really was the canary in the coal mine. speaking out i think it was early 2017 as the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee position that gave him, i think, an up close and personal view that would appear to have alarmed him very much. he was very disturbed by the dismissals of rex tillerson and the departure of jim mattis. he described donald trump as lacking the fitness for the job he holds. and that only seemed to come truer and truer and truer. how does that play into impeachment? >> i think what's notable here is that i think i can count four republican senators who have spoken about the president's commen

nancy pelosi stood up to donald trump in a way in a no one who has ever worked for donald trump has ever done, she did something donald trump's wives are not allowed to do and his children do not know how to do. and 24 hours later it was mick mulvaney's turn in the white house press briefing room to do something we have never seen before and say things we have never heard in that room from a white house chief of staff. >> the president wants to fire me today and hire somebody else, he can. >> the president must be thinking about that right now. tonight. as he watches this show and other cable news shows and sees the overwhelmingly negative news coverage and commentary about mick mulvaney's soiling of the white house press briefing room today. "the washington post" reported this afternoon that one person who spoke to trump said that he was pleased with mulvaney's performance. but that was before mick mulvaney was forced to release a written statement in which he attempted to rewrite what he did today in the white house press briefing room and what he did at that microphone in the briefing

trump that certainly look i'm a big fan of donald trump's i made that clear but i will say this. that what i wish he would do i wish he would bring us together more and be last divisive and i've told them that i think you know i think he's his performance has been spectacular with respect to getting jobs back and so on but he's got to be the president. of a not races that's your preferred word probably divisive not racist is your preferred way he has to go to devices you should be should be the president of all the people he's got to work on that isn't the problem stephen that you're sitting here defending the president's what many would argue are blatantly racist comments when you yourself had to withdraw your nomination for c. on the federal reserve earlier this year partly because of mr john istic remarks you made you say you made 1020 years ago really and partly because the race is coming you made that cause a lot of problems you about the obama's just run years ago that caused a lot problems for you. the comment you made about that almost i mean i had 6 full time investigati

they've enabled donald trump. they have bowed to the way in which he has intimidated them with pressure including from that base that is in their states. and they've sat through what we now see as a level of corruption that is unparalleled in our history. it's like you go into a house and there's a body and suddenly in every room and under every table there's another one and it's cascading and it's going to get worse and we're going to see people turning. sondland now going to give a deposition despite what the secretary of state said, the ambassador to the eu. more rats will leave the sinking ship and it's going to change the dynamic here. maybe moral cowards will get a little bit of spine but not because they've become moral, only because they're cowardice turns them in another direction. >> in contrast to h.r. mcmaster, let's take a look at mike pence. it's vaughn hillyard who is just putting a very simple question to mike pence. let's watch this struggle. >> were you ever aware, mr. vice president, the interes