and for daniel goldman, it is very clear, as you said ate the beginning, it's abuse of power. it's that he's a clear and present danger. >> right. >> to the american public and to democracy and on the other side just to boil it down, one of the words that i think sums up what castor said, the republican, it's baloney. >> hold on one second. ross gasher and our legal analysts to weigh in as well because in many respects, yes, it's political, but it's also legal. give me your thoughts on the case that was made by daniel goldman, the majority counsel the house intelligence committee spent 45 minutes arguing in favor of impeachment. we're about to hear from the republican, the minority counsel steven castor once again around will spend 45 minutes arguing this is a waste of time. >> yeah. i think sometimes we try to talk about whether impeachment is legal or it's political. the reality is it's both. it's mostly political, but it's also legal. you know, i thought barry berke and dan goldman did a very good job of sort of laying out the case in pretty simple terms as jeffrey noted, t

in making that case, daniel goldman made a factual statement that every republican in the room today and every republican in the house and the senate has refused to admit. president trump got caught. >> by early september the president's scheme was unraveling. on september 9th, the intelligence oversight and foreign affairs committees announced an investigation into president trump and mr. giuliani's efforts in ukraine. later that same day, the intelligence committee learned that a whistle-blower had filed a complaint nearly a month earlier related to some unknown issue, by which the president and the white house knew was related to ukraine and had been circulating among them for some time. then two days later on september 11th in the face of growing public and congressional scrutiny, president trump lifted the hold on security assistance to ukraine. as with the implementation of the hold, no reason was provided. put simply, president trump got caught, so he released the aid. >> president trump got caught, so he released the aid. every democrat making the case against the president s

my understanding of the republican case is the facts as laid out by daniel goldman are simply one dot in a constellation of personal feelings about donald trump. >> i've red the responad the re today's proceedings. it's echoing russian propaganda and saying ukraine meddled. they're confusing a few ukrainian officials who preferred hillary clinton over trump and they're conflating that with russian hacking and social media propaganda. the two are not the same but it's right up front in the republican response. >> mostin alarming about that w to hear senator richard burr, who investigated the russian attack, found that russia did indeed do it. the truth is 60% of americans didn't like or support donald trump either on election day and yes a couple ukrainians fell in that category as well. >> it's putin propaganda. they have been briefed reminding them that this is russian intelligence service propaganda and they are spitting it back out to us. >> an unbelievable state of affairs. chairman nadler now gaveling today's hearing back into session. let's listen in. >>> we'll reconvene. when w

goldman to take his place. >> daniel goldman will now take the seat for the democrats. >> what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition. >> parliamentary inquire. >> state your inquiry. >> the chairman is allowed to administer an oath, not mandate to. it's been the practice of this committee to administer oaths to witnesses. i'm wondering why we have not administered the oath. >> i'm going tois to the two witnesses who are now coming before us to make presentation. the two gentlemen who just testified were not witnesses. they were making opening statements for the committees. we will now administer the oath to mr. castor and mr. goldman. >> we administer oaths before opening statements. >> for witnesses. for witnesses. mr. castor we will now -- >> that's something we're going to explain there. >> mr. castor was here with mr. berke presenting the report of the committee. that's the opening statement for this committee. they were not witnesses before this committee. mr. castor now and mr. goldman are witnesses before this committee and i will administer the oath. >> mr. chairman, if t

daniel goldman is a career prosecutor with the southern district of new york, the federal prosecutor's office in manhattan. he's going to be sort of laying out the prosecution case. steven castor, who is representing the republicans, is a professional congressional staffer. he has worked for the republicans on capitol hill since 2005. barry berke, who was also representing the democrats, is a very successful criminal defense lawyer in new york city. so it will be interesting to see how their professional backgrounds inform how they express themselves before the committees today. all three of them are very good. i think they will be able to put the best foot forward for their sides but they will be really pressed here because as we have been discussing, this is a very contentious partisan process and so each one is going to be closely cross examined by the party in opposition. there you see berry berke shaking hands with steven castor. this is -- ross, you're familiar with these witnesses as well. >> yeah. and, you know, we've seen a bit of each one of them before and i -- you know, i t

you heard daniel goldman, the counsel for the house intelligence committee tick through that. that the president's attempts and chairman nadler speaking now. kick it back. we should n w he's doing an event at the white house and we'll get some of his early comments on that inspector general report today looking at the 2016 russia investigation. so we'll be standing by for that. in the meantime, back to the the hearing. >> president trump's requested to ukraine earlier this year. >> yes, when vice president biden pressured the ukrainian president to remove the corrupt prosecutor general, he was doing consensus as part of u.s. policy, the entire european union supported that. the imf supported that. the imf which also gave the loans he was referring to and so he did that as part of the entire international community's consensus. and when president trump is asking for this investigation of joe biden, all of the witnesses that had nothing to do with >> and vice president biden's request had no personal political benefit whereas president trump's request did? >> yes, in fact, the w

one of the exchanges yesterday was with the democratic counsel daniel goldman in an exchange with one of the democratic members of the country taking a look at the impeachment report. what it means for the 2020 election. >> as you can see from the deutsche bank case, or the mcgann case, it takes months to go through the appeals court. that is effectively what the president wants, to delay this as long as possible. >> let's take a look at that exact case. the mcgann case. we are all aware of it. on april 22, this committee served a subpoena for testimony to white house counsel don mcgahn. after don mcgahn refused to testify on may 21, the committee filed a lawsuit on august the seventh. even though we did request expedited rulings, it was another -- it was another three and a half months before judge jackson found to the constitution does not allow the president to kneecap investigations because, as the judge wrote, "presidents are not kings." as you know, mcgann has appealed, and a hearing is set for january the third of next year. as we sit here, eight months before we issued the sub

barry berke and daniel goldman for the democrats and steve castor attorney for the republicans. we get a lesson -in-law. we'll get a lot of information from the questions posed and always important in these matters. >> i would push back a little bit as chadber gram. this is the closing arguments in the trial. the witnesses were all heard by the intelligence committee in the five days of hearing, 30 hours, 12 witnesses. what you'll do now is hear from these lawyers first two lawyers for the judiciary committee, then two lawyers for the intelligence committee, republican and democrats in each case who will make the case this is what the evidence shows. making an argument to the jury, if you will, the judiciary committee, what should you find in terms of articles of impeachment? then in a sense you will have what chad called the mark-up where the judiciary committee meets with itself and argues out what the verdict should be. whether or not there should be articles of impeachment against donald trump. but it is curious that the people who will be rendering the verdict whether or no

just quickly though, as we recap what we heard from daniel goldman. the democrats -- >> i just want to listen in and hear -- allow our audience to hear back and forth. you heard daniel goldman who has been adam schiff's side on the intelligence committee saying that this was an unprecedented campaign of obstruction by the president of the united states directing a scheme himself to pressure ukraine into opening two investigations that would benefit his presidential election in 2020. >> a scheme uncovered and then attempts to obstruct the discovery of that aforementioned scheme. that's the essential argument. no new evidence. in the sense of .n't have expec there would be brand new evidence. this is taking what the intelligence committee found, giving it to the judiciary committee and saying does this meet the standard of impeachment. this weekend the majority staff said, high crimes and misdemeanors involve conduct that is recognizably wrong to a reasonable person. there's a 50% or 45% of people who regard themselves as reasonable who say the evidence

the fireworks you were if it were adam schiff in the witness chair instead of daniel goldman. >> you can never rule anything out as we've seen in the weeks leading up to this and martha fox is told that much of today's hearing will function like opening arguments in a trial both sides laying out their cases and here we go another important week in washington, and the timing of all of it as we head towards christmas, martha, and when nancy pelosi might actually take this up for a vote. >> you wonder when jerry nadler 's interview yesterday, he said they could get a conviction in three minutes flat if this was in a regular courtroom. i thought there's probably a lot of americans that wish it would happen to this point because i think it's kind of a rip the band aid off moment where people feel that they know essentially how this is going to play out and they expect two to four articles of impeachment to be laid out, whether or not bribery is one of them which is one of the strongest arguments for impeachment, it's something that adam schiff gave a little bit of like to. he said over th

president donald trump this is the house judiciary committee and we're listening to daniel goldman right now who is the legal team for the democrats laying out the evidence that has been presented so far in the case for impeachment not only from intelligence community experts but from his own national security team that russia not ukraine interfered in the 2016 election for the benefit of donald trump president trump still pressed the ukrainian government to announce an investigation into this conspiracy theory and why because it would help his own political standing president trump even sought to withhold an oval office meeting from the president of ukraine until he fell in line with president putin's lies the leader who had actually invaded ukraine the 2nd demand that president trump made of president selenski during the july 25th call 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 son biden stop the prosecution and a lot o

as daniel goldman pointed out today. >> despite 24 public discovery of the scheme, he has not given up. he and his agents continue to solicit ukrainian interference in our election, causing an imminent threat to our elections and our national security. >> rudy giuliani just got back from ukraine where he was tweeting open threats that cooperation would not proceed until they delivered on thought president-been trying to extort into doing. president zelensky still has never got his white house meeting. so can ask yourself what conditions have to be met for that meeting to happen? and on top of, he will meet with the foreign minister of russia, a day after unsuccessful peace talks with russia and ukraine. i want to bring in one of the members of the house judiciary hearing that will be responsible for drafting articles of impeachment. what was your take away from this nine-hour hearing today? >> well, i think you summarized a lot of it really well. number one, there is a serious body of uncontested facts that the president abused his power to get a foreign ally to interfere in the electi

it's going to be the democratic majority counsel, daniel goldman, and i suspect that the white house is not going to participate, not not going to examine a lawyer for the house democrats. there are some damaging evidence out there but it hasn't really had a lot of chart, contraction with 50% of the country that supports the president. no bipartisan buy-in up on capitol hill. there is a feeling in the white house, they don't want to lend credibility to a process that they think a lot of their supporters don't have much credibility. so i would be surprised if they participate in the actual hearing on monday. they might issue a report, or is send a report which indicates their view of the facts and, as the articles of impeachment themselves, that's very interesting. the feeling on the part of nancy pelosi, and why she decided to go ahead with this in september, and that was easy for americans to understand. you remember what robert mueller reported last spring and held that not very successful hearing on july 24 come the day before the trump-president zelensky phone call. if you open t

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republican counsel steve castor and director investigations daniel goldman knead closing arguments about trump's dealing in ukraine. here are the two attorneys with wildly different takes. >> democrats have been searching for a set of facts that could impeach president trump since his inauguration january 20, 2017. >> president trump pressured ukraine to open two investigations to benefit his election campaign. not the u.s. national interests. the president used u.s foreign policy to pressure ukraine to meet his demand. every one was in the loop, his chief of staff, sake were and vice president. fourth, despite the public discovery of this scheme which prompted the president to release the aid, he has not given up. kennedy: then the lawmakers got to cross-examine the lawyers which took longer than a drive from philly to boston. louie gohmert said something that ruffled jerry nadler's feathers. you state your point of order. >> there is no rule nor precedent for anybody being a witness then giving a question -- >> i have ruled. >> the point of order is he's inappropriate to be up here ask

democrats led by counsel daniel goldman put forward a clear case. >> the president's scheme is actually quite simple. the facts are not seriously in dispute. it could be boiled down to four key takeaways, first that president trump directed a scheme to pressure ukraine to open two investigations that would benefit his 2020 campaign, not the national interest. second, president trump used the official tools of u.s. foreign policy, withholden an oval office mean and security assistance to pressure ukraine into meeting his demands. third, everyone was in the leaf, chief of staff, secretary of state and vice president. fourth, despite the public discovery of this scheme, he has not given up. he and his agents continue to solicit ukrainian interference in our election, causen an imminent threat to our elections and our national security. >>> that part seems key, doesn't it? it's the reason i think this is all happening, the impeachment i mean, that president trump has still not given up. the crime is not at the over. the democrats did offer the president the chance to have his own lawyer rep

at today's committee hearing, democratic counsel for the house intelligence committee, daniel goldman, will present evidence for impeachment, while republican lawyer stephen castor will present evidence against impeachment. this is house judiciary committee chair jerrold nadler speaking sunday on n nbc's "meet the press." >> some of these things are very clear at this point. there is overwhelming evidence, uncontested by the republicans, that the president put himself above the country, that the president sought foreign assistance in elections, sought to cover it up, completely defied participation in the congressional investigation in order to hide his role that he sought foreign assistance for the next election. amy: in florida, the fbi is conducting a terrorism investigation after a shooting at n naval air station pensacol, in which a saudi air force ofofficer killlled three sailord wounded d eight others on the base. the fbi says the gunman, mohammed alshamrani, carried out the shooting using a glock 9 mm pistol that he bought legally. president trump said he received a phone call

with a lawyer, daniel goldman, no, they're not quite a fly. of >> bret: to moderate democrats exposing some angst, speaker pelosi singh democrats did not punch through on the issue of impeachment meaning that they be looking at some numbers. >> absolutely, and what you've got is 215 votes in a couple of vacancies. they passed the articles of impeachment, and they have 31 democrats who want president trump. they need 15 of them to go long. if they pass on the strict party line, 216-215, the infeed impeachment of the president, i think they need five or ten more than that. >> >> bret: i'll be talking tomorrow, and john, a lot of the focus is on the high tech to determine the russian and the china. the news. >> what's clear after the defense form is that they want to look at what the new technologies that they can buy, so that they can confront china and russia. they been wanting to pivot to out of the middle east and the china and russia from some time. as we saw with the news today, this is a saudi pilots and insider and clearly and insider thr

goldman and that is a strong sign that they will put forth an article of the obstruction of justice mueller volume two in addition to the ukraine matters, so you believe that the items from the mueller report will be included, and what do you think that the ramifications are going to be? >> that is my speculation on burke making a separate presentation, and on that, they framed what he is going to be doing is an opening statement, and maybe he is going to talk about the abstract legal issues in that report, and they put on saturday and not get into obstruction, and on the other hand, that is a lot of time, and there are a lot of republicans, i mean, democrats including nadler who want to do that and the judiciary committee has gone into the federal appeals court here in washington in the case over the mueller grand jury evidence and talked a lot about their need to have this information, because they are thinking of impeaching trump in part for misleading mueller and for obstructing his attempts to get to the bottom of things, and so they went out on the limb if they don't. we will

democrat legal counsel daniel goldman tweeted back at president trump in august of last year, quote, nothing in the christopher steele dossier has proved to be false. your take on that. we keep finding antitrump bias throughout the democrats key sources and witnesses. >> absolutely. and this obstruction charge is a bad charge to bring. if a criminal defendant asserts attorney-client privilege, you don't charge that individual with obstruction. it is ridiculous to charge this president with obstruction while the courts are deciding how broad the executive privilege is that he is asserting. elizabeth: we also have this, as we're looking at for example, the democrat legal counsel, talking about, you know, impeachment in december 2016, before even the president was sworn in. we have a harvard professor, lawrence tribe, cited 20 times in the impeachment report talking about impeaching trump, right around a couple years ago. it goes on and on. and the lawyer representing the whistle-blower tweeted ten days after inauguration, quote, hashtag, the coup has started. impeachment will follow ul

we spent the last hour with the republicans going after daniel goldman, the lawyer for the democrats on the intelligence committee about the issue of the phone calls that were disclosed involving devin nunes, and whether that was like an attack leak on another member of congress. it is about as far from weather donald trump should be impeached or not than i can imagine. >> it was a tale of two stories, the republicans were going after the democrats on process. and that was clearly part of the process. and they were saying as mr. castor said the democrats have been obsessed with impeaching donald trump since day one, and they were setting out to prove that, and the democrats were there with their attorney was saying, actually, the president remains a clear and present danger to the united states of america, because he has tried to influence the 2020 election. and they went back and forth on that i mean, you know, goldman says the evidence was overwhelming and uncontested. and the republicans say no. it's not that at all. i mean, my favorite part of this was when mr. castor was trying

amy: and this is daniel goldman, the house intelligence committee lawyer who led the ukraine inquiry, testifying to the evidence foror impeachment. >> president trump directed a month-long campaign to solicit foreign help in his 2020 reelection efforts, withholding official acts from the government of ukraine in order to coerce and secure political assistance a and interference in our domestic a affairs. as part of this scheme, president trump applied increasing pressure on the president of ukraine to publicly announce to investigations helpful to his personal reelection efforts. himselfeded this pressure and through his agents working within and outside of the u.s. government. comes as thehis justice department's independent inspector general, michael horowitz, released a long-awaited report that concludes the fbi acted without political bias when it opened the investigation into links between trump's 2016 campaign and russia. the rereport debunks trump's ofn rerepeated claims that he was targeted by a politicized conspiracy. the report did find serious and systematic problems with t

goldman. aiesident trump launched an unprecedented ca of obstruction of congress, ordering executive branch agencies and government officials to defy subpoenas for documents and testimony. >> reporter: republicans argued the demoats had failed to prove their case. republican counsel stephen castor: > the inquiry has returned no direct evidence that president trump withheld a meeting or security assistance in order to essure president zelensky to investigate former v.p. biden. >> reporter: republicans also pointed out that, despite aai delay, ukr did receive the military aid it wanted, and didn't feel pressure, including on his july 25 phone call with president trump. 'vand vethere arloe t ofeople in russia, in the west and in ukraine who would like to influence me. >>resident zelensky never vocalized any discomfort or osupre co rary to democrat allegations, president trump not asking for a favor that would help his reelection. he was asking for assistance in helping our country move forward fr

president donald trump this is the house judiciary committee and we're listening to daniel goldman right now who is of the legal team for the democrats laying out the evidence that has been presented so far in the case for impeachment not only from intelligence community experts but from his own national security team that russia not ukraine interfered in the 2016 election for the benefit of donald trump president trumps.

>> representative swalwell's line of questioning to counsel daniel goldman was the most effective moment of the day. you had him staccato rapid fire responding that president trump was the answer to all of these questions, and he was the central figure. and of course, then many points of order, and parliamentary inquiries, really flushed out a larger argument for the republicans, which was that the process here, they say, has been unfair. we haven't had enough time. we haven't had any procedural protections. it really is sort of a story of we're not going to argue the substance as much but the procedure, very much like in a criminal case, when the procedure is unfair, that can taint the entire prosecution itself. >> danny cevallos, appreciate it my friend. i want to dig now deeper into the report among the key findings that the investigation into russia and the trump campaign was not politically motivated. back with us from washington, nbc news correspondent julia ainsley. julia, take us through what stood out to you first and foremost in the report? >> i think what stood out to me is th

goldman, counsel for the intel committee, right away following this meeting, perhaps in advance of that hearing on monday. now, the hearing on monday will be the intel committee's chance, and this will be goldman presenting, the counsel, chance to present the report more formally to the judiciary committee. i don't anticipate any bombshells there but it's an important box to check to make sure the judiciary has all the facts gathered by the intel committee. i would imagine most members or those actively engaged in the process have read that report but now they'll sit down and be confronted with it as will the american people, who are not keen to sit down and read a 300-page report. now they'll get a presentation of the facts laid out in that report starting first thing monday morning. >> and susan page, as we go into this, against the backdrop of 2020 and all of the politics surrounding this, and we'll be talking about that later, "usa today" and you are launched a new study, a survey of how divided americans are based on a lot of polling. and you wrote the lead, let's talk to you about

. >> reporter: the democratic side, represented by former prosecutor daniel goldman, arguing they have shown that the president's demand that ukraine carry out investigations into the bidens and the 2016 election was a quid pro quo and a threat to national security. >> president trump's persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections and to our national security. >> reporter: the republican side, represented by gop lawyer steve castor, argued that the infamous july 25th call in which the president asked ukrainian president zelensky for a favor and those investigations was about corruption and not the 2020 election. >> to impeach a president who 63 million people voted for over eight lines in a call transcript is baloney. >> reporter: castor continued to push the republican talking point that ukraine meddled in the 2016 election, conspiracy theory shot down by the intelligence community which has repeatedly singled out russia. >> i'm saying that both countries can work to influ

goldman laid out all the evidence placing trump at the center of this scheme >> who sent rudy giuliani to ukraine to smear joe biden >> president trump >> who fired the anti-corruption ambassador in ukraine, marie yovanovitch? >> president trump >> who told ambassador sondland and ambassador volker to ru -- to work with rudy giuliani on ukraine? >> president trump >> who ordered his own chief of staff, mick mulvaney, to withhold critical military assistance for ukraine >> president trump >> wef president zelensky in the oval office >> president trump >> who asked president zelensky for a favor? >> president trump >> who personally asked president zelensky to investigate his political rival joe biden? >> president trump >> seth: oh, my god, the answer to every question was president trump. i want to do one who stands like he's playing the leaning tower of pisa in a school play? president trump. the democrats diligently laid out every piece of evidence linking trump to this scheme and republicans rebutted none of it. the facts here are actually very simple yes, it was a quid pro quo and

goldman about a revelation that seemed both important but also potentially controversial. that someone on the very intelligence committee, devin nunes had these phone calls with rudy giuliani, and whether any of this was potentially inappropriate. obviously, you don't want the wrong people coming up in surveillance. let's look at that exchange. >> you came out with a report that actually showed these people, such as chairman nunes and others were actually on these calls? >> yes. >> now someone, and you and i, we're not going play cute here. somebody took the four records that you asked for, at least four, took those numbers and then said hey, let's play match game. who ordered the match game for members of congress and the press? was it you? >> i don't think anyone did, sir. >> who did it? was it chairman schiff or was it you? be careful. you're under oath. >> i know i'm under oath, sir. i'm going go on record and tell you that i'm not going to tell you how we conducted this investigation. >> that's the problem we have this entire thing. i'm done with you for right now. we

daniel goldman will be back. he worked ten years as a u.s. attorney, and welcome joined by barry berke, investigating this president. on the republican side, you will see steve castor return. he's the chief investigative counsel. he has done a lot of the questioning in the closed door depositions that the american people are very familiar with his face as well. one face we'll see new to us but not congress, ashley callan. she's been an investigator for more than a decade. >> the judiciary committee will go first. diary committee.rom the 90 minutes from the house intelligence committee, and there will be questions and statements from the chair. oonw wid tte cardoza. prensheth narrative that begins before 2016 and extends through this july 25th phone call in the events before and after, and whether it will be focused. each side will make a choice in terms of its opening presentation that might give us some clues about that, but it's all going to come out in the drafting and i don't know that even the committee knows how they will proceed. >> it

daniel goldman will present the case for impeachment, viewers will remember him from the intelligence committee hearings where he served as majority counsel, he is the former deputy chief of the organized crimes unit in the office of the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and has his law degree from stanford and one new face, barry burke, he will present the opening argument for impeachment for democrats. he is the majority counsel and joined the judiciary committee as a consultant in february. his hiring was announced at the ivan.ime as norm he helped guide the committee during the inquiry related to the mueller probe. bio, he is recognized as one of the leading trial lawyers and white-collar criminal defense lawyers in the country and holds his degree from harvard law. when it comes to barry burke, he has appeared before the house judiciary committee throughout this year and throughout the investigation into the trump administration since he joined in january. notably was back in september when he questioned corey lewandowski as part of his appearance on capitol hil

they were just the opening act for daniel goldman for the republican counsel and now they're going back and forth about this definition of what constitutes as witness. so right now i believe they're going around the panel here with a role call vote on a motion connected to this back and forth that we saw about what constitutes a witness coming before this committee. these are attorneys giving reports. did you hear any new ground broken? >> not new ground. it's surprising that they haven't worked out this difference between witness and staffer beforehand and i think that just goes to show how many things people have been trying to do quickly over the weekend. but not a lot of surprises. i think that the presentation pretty much tracks the report that the intelligence committee put out earlier last week. and the presentation was one you would expect in this opening statement or closing argument. even in the opening statement, ranking member collins did not really make a point by rebuttal. didn't put up a defense at all. >> he had a very limited amount of time and didn't know what the othe

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goldman testified earlier and also are answering questions from all the members, the 41 members of the house judiciary committee. you're watching live coverage here on c-span3. >> committee will come back to order. we were -- when we recessed, we were engaging in questioning of the witnesses under the five-minute rule. we'll continue doing that. e recognize -- >> mr. chairman, i have a unanimous consent request before we start. >> gentleman will state his unanimous consent request. >> i would request that we enter into the record the fisa applications and other aspects of the fbi's crossfire hurricane -- >> i reserve a point of order -- >> i think if we're going to continue to -- >> what are you entering? >> the fisa report that just came out. >> oh. the -- we need -- >> the inspector general's report -- >> we'll -- >> this whole thing. >> we'll take that until we can review it, we'll rule on it late e i mean we'll hopefully grant it later. >> i withdraw my reservation. >> mr. sensenbrenner. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i'd like to follow-up on the two series of questions the

goldman, former msnbc analyst, will be front and center making the case. but, yeah. >> all eyes certainly on that, michael isikoff. thank you. always good to talk with you. >>> a little more on this, everyone. talking about what the president's personal attorney is doing now in ukraine. that's next. (kickstart my heart by motley crue)) (truck honks) (wheels screeching) (clapping) (sound of can hitting bag and bowl) (clapping) always there in crunch time. what are you doing back there, junior? since we're obviously lost, i'm rescheduling my xfinity customer service appointment. ah, relax. i got this. which gps are you using anyway? a little something called instinct. been using it for years. yeah, that's what i'm afraid of. he knows exactly where we're going. my whole body is a compass. oh boy... the my account app makes today's xfinity customer service simple, easy, awesome. not my thing. >>> it's 2:00. i'm out of time. i'm alex witt. see you tomorrow at noon eastern. up next my colleague kendis gibson takes it away. >> good to see you. >> thank you. >>> l

barry burke and daniel goldman for the democrats and stephen castor for the republicans. our c-span campaign 2020 bus team is traveling across the country asking voters what issues should presidential candidates address? for thisp issue election campaign cycle is the national debt. it is not being talked about enough. mark stanford got into the race just to bring that issue to the forefront. itis over $22 trillion and does affect our foreign policy and what we are able to do as a nation. it affects what we are able to do for our children and future generations. it should be curtailed. >> i would like to see washington stressed some of the foreign policy issues with a more analytical approach. i am currently pleased with president trump's choices and his actions in that area. i would hope all the politicians would approach it more analytically. >> i think in 2020 what the candidates should address are some of the crises in the united states, namely climate change, gun violence, right now the , weed states and humanity are at a crossroads between a potential disaster and a

the committees will testify, barry burke and daniel goldman for the democrats and stephen kastor for the republicans. six 2020 democratic presidential candidates spoke at a forum on labor issues hosted by the international brotherhood of teamsters union in cedar rapids, iowa. the first candidate to speak his former vice president biden. ♪ >> ok, i want to introduce our first candidate who will tell us why we should elect him, former senator from the great state of delaware, former vice president joe biden. [applause] [cheers and applause] mr. biden: ok. >> welcome. mr. biden: thank you. it is good to be home. >> vice president biden, we are in a room full of teamsters and i want you to tell all of them here and all of them watching, why they should vote for you. but no malarkey. [laughter] mr. biden: no malarkey. i tell you why. first i should thank you. the only reason i am sitting here is that in 1972, i was losing in the polls the sunday before the election, the newspaper went on strike. you guys had put on a gigantic insert in the sunday paper to go out on the republican party.