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 president i 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 benen dumb as a rock rex tillerson iraqi owner as he called her a dog highly unstable not job scaramucci ironic clueless boneheaded drone power 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 as people i'm saying it's 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

let trump hear you say this. then everything will be okay. >> i don't want to express any lack of interest in that topic. because, but i don't know kurt volker, and there's a lot of psycho analysis that's involved in that. i just want to step back to the beginning of what you were saying, what's happened today, which is the president of the united states went out and has already confessed to this crime but then kind of doubled and tripled down on the crime. to your point, lawrence, he understands now i think that there are no facts and contention here. given that it's now been explained to him since there aro facts in dispute, you can argue process. you can say democrats are in league with the whistle-blower. somehow shichiff is shifty. the only way out for him now is to basically say, yes, i did this thing because it's clear i did. it's okay. and to make the point that it's okay is the best way to make that is just do it again and do it as publicly as possible in the most flaming gratuitous way as you can. and w

trump in the united states senate. also tonight, david pluff 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 committe

trump. this story and the impeachment process itself are still developing just as fast today and tonight as they have been over the past week. we'll get to all of that tonight including the new news from "the wall street journal" which nbc news just matched. "the wall street journal" now nbc news reporting that secretary of state mike pompeo was personally listening in on the call that has now led to these impeachment proceedings against president trump. i mean, unless mike pompeo is himself the whistle-blower, that means that he was aware in real time that president trump had personally blocked military aid to ukraine and then when that country's president brought up the need for u.s. military aid in a phone call with president trump, president trump responded by saying i would like you to do us a favor, though. that's when he asked that foreign leader for help with items on his personal wish list, including some sort of law enforcement or legal proceeding against his potential 2020 democra

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

she was recalled by donald trump. this is important because she was very critical of ukrainian prosecutor that giuliani and trump wanted to investigate both the bidens as well as this theory that ukraine was actually behind the theft of the dnc emails. it has been reported that marie yovanovitch had a very strange relationshipip with this prosecutor.. she accused him of corruption and he did not like her whatsoever. the trump administration had maria not a veg recalled. she was replaced by william taylor. william taylor is important because you will remember a couple of weeks ago we got the transcripts of text messages taylor,between william gordon sondland, and kurt volker about trying to create a meeting between -- a public meeting between ukrainian president zelensky and donald trump. it is william taylor, you'll recall in these text messages, that was raising the alarm. "are we withholding $391 million to force these investigations for political gain for the president?" he is the one that was raising the alarm. we

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

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.

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

trump in the election. but this isagree, again my big concern for democrats. everything on paper says trump should not win this reelection. host: when you say everything on paper. guest: he has a tough time going over 42%. you see african-americans are voting 90% for whoever is the democratic candidate. you see where the population growth is. i can chart out why trump is going to lose this election in a heartbeat. in 2016, we saw the same thing. almost too much comfort on the democratic side. we've got this. there is no way he is going to win. we have to go into this election, assuming he is going to win, what can we do to make sure that is not going to happen? we have to win these three states. we have to do whatever we can to win these states. don't even worry about the other states. triple fund these three states. any money left over, go somewhere else. the new york times had a great article last sunday about the advantage the republican campaigns had in digital marketing. as someone who worked on the ob

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

donald trump, jr. in particular has gone on the offense tweeting and retweeting multiple calls for the senate to hold their own hearings. but a senior senate aide told the daily beast there has been little that the white house has offered that have given members either direction or confidence. and here's what lindsey graham said to reporters today. >> yes, the clinton white house had a coordinated effort for people who would deliver the message of the day where they would answer impeachment inquiries and they would run it pie people who are trained in the law. that's not going on. >> as i mentioned earlier bloomberg reports the president knew about it, gave his blessing to that house republicans plan to storm a secure hearing room today. but the president seems to have a communications issue with the most powerful republican in congress, senator mitch mcconnell offered a shocking fact check to the president. that's up next and that's coming up next. thank you. and that's coming up next. thank you. colo

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 wanted money. erdogan wants to be able to walk willy-nilly into northern syria and isolate and wipe out the kurds. what does trump want in return? well, he already has a building in istanbul with his name on it. >> two i think, right? >> yeah. more money. so i think in all of this, the reason that trump is putting himself in these situations where he's getting manipulated is there's something on the other end for him and it's a big sack with a dollar sign on it. >> right. >> real quick, last word. >> and i would point out when he is doing those deals, there's always an enabler around ready to make his sick twisted, corrupt vision a reality and in the testimony today from ambassador taylor, sure looks like one of those people was ambassador sondland. >> right. >> all right. ashley parker, we had a teleprompter malfunction, so thank you for taking us through that stunning reporting last night. stopped everything to read it. >>> after the break, a shocking comment from the president that at least one

bad news for president trump. all around today from his tax returns to hopes for his border wall to the scandal that could find him impeached. president trump wauns called her bad news on the ukraine call and today the diplomat delivering a blistering attack upon the very people that could vote to impeach him. and breaking minutes ago, turkey nearly bombing u.s. special forces apparently by accident after president trump opened the door for that country to go into syria, so why does it seem like president trump is bending over backwards to do turkey's bidding? >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. and we start with breaking news. a series of devastating news today for the trump administration. including losing three court rulings. president trump lost his appeal to stop a house subpoena to obtain his tax returns, a federal judge in texas ruled that the national emergency declaration to build a border wall is unlawful. and yet another federal judge today blocked the tru

this struggle is not just between trump and democrats it's also between trump and the traditional establishment which is represented also and primarily by the security services by the bureaucrats they are using different methods to undermine the president from the outright sabotage to these please investigate show me which basically numerous media leaks there is apparently a positive vibe about every n.f.l. coming out of religious sorts of media leaks eve all these methods become in effect of even the eve it comes out that all these scandals the minds of jewels of by them or the normal trump which you think will be the case i won't excludes that the ventura leaves some more extreme versions of political struggle instruments of political struggle will be utilized mentor before we are accused of being conspiracy theorists let's take a very short break we'll be back in just a few my. statement. rather than proof a lot i know comes out of. this sort of one among what i would are them. a fondness for matey way too high is not the high i might be heard. of this month when the sun shone. full of so cl

is not just between trump and democrats it's also between trump and the traditional establishment which is represented. also and primarily by the security services by the bureaucrats they are using different methods still on the mind the president from the altar rights. to these bleeds over investigation which basically live in numerous media bigs there is very good they have positive vibe about every n.f.l. coming out of some religious sorts of media leaks eve all these methods because in the fact of even they even solved that all these scandals the minds of jewels of by them more than normal trump which i think will be the case i won't excludes that the eventually some more extreme version so full of the can strong go instruments of political struggle will be utilized while mr before we are accused of being conspiracy theorists let's take a very short break we'll be back in just a few moments stay chant. in 2040 you know bloody revolution to include the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or

there's no two trumps. there's no good trump and bad trump. this is trump. that's the group that's most interesting right now. >> julian, what we're finding out about is just the tip of the iceberg. we have a lot of information here. >> julia makes a good point. to summarize what she's saying, when you lie down with dogs, you get fleas. trump has surrounded himself with hacks and people who will tell him what he wants to hear but have a three stooges quality to them. theic whichens are coming home to roost. there are -- the first thing you do with had you're any administration -- before i was the chief counsel of the judiciary committee i ran the house oversight committee. the first thing you do when you're in a problem is you get all the bad facts out, then you pledge cooperation, then you try to tell your story. and that's -- it's a pretty simple template when you're in the middle of a scandal the way this administration is right now. what this administration is adopting the bob strategy. donald trump is standing on the line saying everything is under cont

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

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trump's testing of america." also with us retired general mccaffrey, heavily decorated combat veteran of vietnam and ground commander in the gulf war, and he has been to this region many, many times before in uniform. and anita kumar, white house correspondent and associate editor for politico. good evening and welcome to you all. carol, for these two phone calls to have been made, it almost means by definition the president would have cast off the rigor and the expertise and the advice of the people on the payroll who are supposed to be around him to counsel him in these areas. looking at what this has touched off, remembering this is the issue mattis resigned over, can you find anyone in the administration willing to talk this up with a straight face? >> nobody on the record, brian. and i'm so glad you brought up that this is not the first time that expert advice has been rejected by this president on this exact issue. the withdrawal or the threat of withdrawal of u.s. forces in december of 2018, which the pres

seems he did what is trump is trying to do. take all questions related to ukraine and pivot to biden. the key here to your point, brianna, yes, hunter biden, joe biden's son was on the board of a ukrainian national gas company. it that is true. everything else donald trump has said about, or alleged, is false. there's no connection of any sort in corruption. go ahead. i'm sorry. >> pence is, and i know, and you know, and we all know for having covered pence for so long, that pence is lying, and that he knows that he is, because he says that the president was raising issues that were appropriate. i do not believe that mike pence believes the president, in his heart of hearts or even, you know, just superficially believes what the president was saying was appropriate. >> hard to imagine a governor pence, a house republican pence, under any other circumstances, any other president, seeing this exact conversation would say those things that it's appropriate, but this is the, this is the cross that he bears. this is what he decided

so you like trump? no, you hate trump. they act like they are not hateful people, but if you are arava public and walking by or ask about trump, you see the true hatred in some of these democrats. rd ladythat the gabba from hawaii congress, she is like the old time democrat. host: tulsi gabbard? caller: yes. host: william is next in massachusetts. independent line. caller: yeah. enjoyam schiff seems to sequencing of events, so the question is when you call a staffer to an office like adam schiff's office, is that staffer an official member of the intel committee? so the whistleblower can share confidential information, it should be with a member of congress who was on the intel committee, so i do not understand how adam schiff who was saying it was all proper protocol, you played the clip where he asked the intel, the dni cheese about proper protocol. f -- dni-- dni fhie chief about proper protocol. so when do you think? host: it might not have been a personal staffer for the couldss's office and it have been a democratic

trump said. chased by u.s. special operations dogs, baghdadi fled into what the president called a dead-end tunnel with three of his children. baghdadi then detonated his suicide vest ending all four lives and collapsing the tunnel. the commando spent two hours tote until the compound collecting highly sensitive material, trump said. to be certain of baghdadi's identity, the operators had a team on-site with samples of his dna. no american was injured in the raid throw, and a military dog was wounded. >> during the announcement president trump compared taking out baghdadi to the death of another notorious terrorist, osama bin laden, although according to the president, bin laden only became known after the world trade center attacks and trump falsely claimed that he predicted a terrorist attack from osama bin laden in a book. >> osama bin laden became big with the world trade center. if you read my book, it was before the world trade center, i never get credit for this, i never do, but here we are. i wrote a bo

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? (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

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

, they can cross trump. they can go across him when they care about the issue. they clearly do care about this. they do care, it just shows what they do and do not care about. >> although you have lindsey graham on a phone call now -- i don't know if your viewers have seen the russian pranksters who got lindsey graham on the phone where he thinks he's talking to the turkish minister and he said oh, yeah they're a threat to you and we never should have allied with the people protection units who are now under assault. so lindsey graham surprise surprise is saying one thing in public and one thing in private. so, yes, this is mess, chris. and it's a mess because that part of the world i don't just your viewers may quite get the contradictions and paradoxes involved here. in the last few days we've heard a lot of people say for example, the kurds, america's allies are being betrayed, and they are. but at the same time turkey is also an ally of nato and hosts 50 u.s. nuclear weapons on its soil. u.s. nuclear wea

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 2020. if you scroll through the video you'll see he appears with president trump a few other times throughout the years. trump does take photographs with a lot of people. however he posted a photograph of a thank you note. thank you for your friendship and dedication. signed president trump and melania. >> signed president? >> after he became president. a thank you note to a donor. love on his instagram feed and caption claim to be quite close to the president. >> october 2015. trump was doing well in the poll. his team was relatively small. yet, there he was. >> his team was small. he was self-funding and not raising a lot of money at that point. he did become quite a big donor for trump and the gop. and a huge supporter from 2015. >> another photograph. after the special counsel report. he is at a working dinner with giuliani and trump attorney jay sekulow. he captions this. congratulations team trump. job well done. even during our celebration dinner everybody hard at work. trump 2020. w

and erdogan has played president trump in the same manner that kim jong-un is playing president trump and trump thinks, you know, he's on top of the world and it's just the opposite. >> let's talk about general mattis who was at the annual announcement dinner tonight, a funny event. but here he is with a quote from lincoln. watch this. >> no, lincoln went on, it was not the press we must fear, it was corrosion from within, the rot, the viciousness, the lassitude, the ignorance. anarchy is one potential consequence of all this. another is the rise of an ambitious leader unfettered by conscience or pres dependent or decency who would make himself supreme. >> listen, that was a quote from lincoln, but it seems to be a clear message for today. and is there any doubt who he's talking about as far as you're concerned? >> absolutely not. knowing jim as i do i thought unlike in previous segments i thought this was a very significant coming out for jim mattis. the occasion called for humor, and i thought he, you know, threw some real jabs at president trump. and a serious comment, the lincoln

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

two problems that trump has. number one, this dissent by the judge is not worth the paper it's printed. on it is unconvincing to the sentence that he hoped for some sort of rationale that would buy him traction in the u.s. supreme court. i don't think he got it today. that's problem number one. then number two is, to the sentence she identified a problem, it was paper problem that congress hadn't used the magic word impeachment. of course we all know congress is going toward using that magic word. so you're right in saying that even the dissend gives the democrats basically everything they want. that's how it should be in the constitutional system. the president is asserting preposterous arguments that he cannot be indicted, he cannot be investigated because he's a sitting president. now he's saying this week by his white house counsel, he can't even be impeached. the only person in our history that has ever been like that is king george iii and that's what our revolution was against. even the minimum accept oper

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

has democrats are turning up the he's on donald trump's personal lawyer. giuliani has been ordered to turn over text messages phone records and other communications related teen crane. it's a significant step by the house intelligence committee as it examines whether trump abused the office of president when he asked ukraine's president to dig up dirt on political rival joe biden this country trump has been pushing back aggressively firing at verbal barbs against democrats leading the impeachment probe reports on the whistleblower that prompted it probably figured i made a call the call was perfect whether the whistleblower reported it he made it senator and then you have that i'm sure of who even worse made up my words which i think is just horrible that never even think that they are going to but the allegations against the president are mushrooming the australian government has confirmed that trump recently urged prime minister scott morrison to help him discredit the miller inquiry another instance of trump pushing his own personal political interests

trump is donald j. trump is now president of the united states. [applause] >> oh -- donald trump. how has trump changed your life so far? [bleep] is that it? >> yeah. [laughter] president trump literally driving democrats crazy they're spit, screaming, shoving that i even throwing punches. so we want to help them out with anger a issues so we sent anthoy tall to a rage room called break bar. home of the wrecking club just to work through trump derangement syndrome.tc watch. >> what makes you mad? our president. the the president and his tweets in the morning. that's what he's doing to our environment. all of his constant lie he's dividing our country not uniting our country. we need a change in the president. >> mad n as hell and i'm not gog to take this anymore. >> rage? >>let go. ♪ day one, this president has taken the country to a place i've never thought it could be taken to. every day trump changes opinion and constantly aligned. are you talking to me. psychological trauma on the country as well as me. because i don't know what is going to happen g in the morning when i wak

cashes trump's checks. and facebook came under scrutiny for allowing trump to run an ad about joe biden which biden's camp says is full of lies meantime all of the other candidates are fighting to say relevant but one might not scramble for the spotlight. the dhc's criteria to be on stage takes the power away from the voighters and gives it to polls. >> the dnc partnered with the core rat media to hijack this election's process, away from voters, to run their own kind of pre-election, to tell you well here is the people that we think can "win." it's absolutely wrong, unacceptable and undemocratic. >> but amy klobuchar for one certainly does watch the spotlight and she said last night on bill maher acknowledging she hasn't had a vital moment and she made a jab with kamala harris. >> you're right. moments don't make -- >> yeah, and i think moments work when they actually happen that people don't manufacture them. >> the debate is on thursday. >> it's going to be one to watch yes. >> jackie, thank you. >> one

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

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

it's all trump. from the beginning of covering this presidency the tweets and retweets may end up dooming him in the end. this kind of statement about the civil war has to anger a lot of republicans. they're just staying mute and let's hope that they will speak up. you can't give allow trump to be that reckless. he has to pay a cost. somebody like mcconnell has to say don't retweet crap like that. but he won't. >> thank you. we'll be right back. hopes you drive safely.y but allstate helps you. with drivewise. we'll be right back. . we'll be right back. we'll be right back. , we'll be right back. we'll be right back. g we'll be right back. e we'll be right back. n we'll be right back. t we'll be right back. e we'll be right back. l we'll be right back. m we'll be right back. e we'll be right back. n we'll be right back. . we'll be right back. >> woman: what's my safelite story? >> vo: my car is more than four wheels. it's my after-work decompression zone. so when my windshield broke... >> woman: what?

he was trump's political appointee. he's been there since the beginning serving under both secretary tillerson and secretary pompeo. he is a reliable republican figure, well respected, well known and sort of part of the mainstream of republican foreign policy community here in washington. so for him to break with the president i think is significant. it also points to this larger issue which came out in the testimony today you saw, for example, kurt volker's advisers were up on capitol hill and we are going to be talking about that. but i was struck in the context of sullivan by chris anderson said that they prepared in november 2018 a statement condemning russia for its aggressive actions. and that was explicitly prohibited from being posted on the internet by the white house. >> well, let's move on to the impeachment witnesses today. we started with mr. sullivan because it's just, i think, a preview of how the public phase of this is going to be so much more damaging to donald trump. but you're right. there were two m

, trump campaign, paul manafort, and russia. according to people with direct knowledge of the situation. now, hang on a second. we just spent three years, the media mob, democrats, breathlessly reporting, screaming about election interference and this is a big deal and we can have this in the country. okay. and they should all be thanking president trump for getting to the bottom of the dnc colluding with interference in the eighth 2016 elections to help hillary. by the way, it's important to remember one more thing about the president's phone call with ukraine. the president said, i would like you to do us a favor. okay. that's a statement paired okay, there were no strings attached. zero quid pro quo. doesn't exist. during the call, the government of ukraine had no idea the u.s. had temporarily delayed aid. they still got the aid. plus, the aide was never attached to anything. nothing. and that's clear in the transcripts. especially related to sleepy creepy crazy uncle joe. especially related to the 2020 election. and let's be

brand-new reporting on the trump/ukraine scandal. "the post" says quote, at least four national security officials were so alarmed by the trump administration's attempts to pressure ukraine for political purposes that they raised concerns with a white house lawyer both before and immediately after president trump's july 25 call with that country's president. they go on, "the nature and timing of the previously undisclosed discussions indicate that officials were delivering warnings through official white house channels earlier than previously understood, including before the call that precipitated a whistle-blower complaint and the impeachment inquiry of the president." that's saying a lot. "the post" is also reporting tonight that michael mckinley, career diplomat, senior adviser to the secretary of state mike pompeo is out. he's resigned, largely over pompeo's failure to support personnel ensnared in the ukraine controversy. and there's more. nbc news reporting it this way tonight. fiona hill, who was until recently president donal

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

when trump ran for president. before he got elected, he said he did not file taxes on seven or $900 million. which filed a grub seat multiple times. i heard yesterday on tv that he raised 132 million or 232 million in the third quarter for his reelection. can that money be applied to his bankruptcy. >> don't know the answer to that when it comes to the reelection, what did you think of the rally last night? >> i thought it sucked. >> you know, i don't know what to think of him. >> let's go to marissa in montana. >> good morning. thank you so much. i am so grateful for you. you guys do and endowed -- invaluable service. left, left, right, black, white, macaque, republican. please, america, open america, open your eyes. c-span had another very interesting story. why are you not headlining that. why do we have to see the trump entities spewing his lies and hatred? please, do not hang up on me. please, america, can you not see it's a puppet. everything for the russian president. his wife is his handler. it is so obvio

he was afforded every opportunity that they are denying donald trump. it is an illegitimate, unconstitutional process to me. your thoughts? >> i was down there most of the day in this meeting with ambassador taylor and once again, it was the same thing because something makes up to "the washington post," narratives are built. amn,truth is, in 2 minutes,os john ratcliffe destroyed this witness. there is no quid pro quo. in addition, it continues to be alarming to me, the lack of the understanding andmi the state department by the bureaucracy there about how much the ukrainians were involved opposing donald trump as a candidate. so, just not understanding that the democrats had paid christopher steele for the dossier, which he got information, according to nellie ohr, from ukrainians, this is really frightening that people in the state department wouldn't have a clue, wouldn't understand -- why would a president send rudy giuliani to ukraine? perhaps because they dirtied him up, and it would be his lawyer's responsibility to get over there to ukraine and