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congressman elijah cummings of now. baltimore. >> god truly blessed america with the life and legacy of elijah cummings. >> our distinguished colleague truly has gone home, home to his father's house. >> those gathered here today have lost a dear friend, and our country has lost a giant. >> perhaps this place and this country would be better served with a few more unexpected friendships. i know i've been blessed by one. >> an important moment there and an important message, especially as we begin the hour with the partisan divides that will, without a doubt, soon return. the impeachment fight. president trump today taking to twitter to praise the roughly two dozen republicans who barged into that interview uninvited yesterday. the president said too much of the impeachment inquiry is happening behind closed doors

and away from the scrutiny of the public eye. it is a process argument that ignores the damning substance of that private testimony. the president, though, praising the disruptors as tough, smart and understanding. but not all republicans are comfortable with this stunt. republican congressman franklin rudy, for example, sharing a little advice for both sides. >> part fortunaof the reason i' really cut out for this work is i'm not really theatrical. >> what would be your advice to the democrats? >> as soon as they go public and have a more spirited public debate about this would probably be in their interest. i just can't take an idealogical position without facts. it's not really serving the president well to not get the facts out there and let the facts stand. >> the process is methodical and careful. congressman eric swalwell who sits on the intelligence

committee says democrats believe witnesses now getting a little too chatty. >> we have evidence very recently that there are witnesses in our case who are talking to each other. that's exactly what we don't want to happen until we have that preliminary investigation. we don't want them to tailor a new quinnipiac university poll today gifves us a fresh lok their testimony to each other. at the 2020 democratic field. that's why we're doing this in a closed fashion, closed to the public, not to the 120 members it also reminds us of one piece of congress, republicans and of advice, never invest too much democrats, who have access to the room. in one poll. >> sources telling cnn public senator elizabeth warren on top in today's quinnipiac poll. hearings could begin as early as joe biden leading in cnn's poll mid-november. it's also possible, democrats say, this could slip, though, released again just yesterday. exact numbers aside, the until sometime around thanksgiving or after. manu raju on capitol hill. warren/biden/sanders grouping manu, what are you hearing from has been on top for months. lawmakers today after a very there is a lower tier that's moved up. tense yesterday? amy klobuchar is 3% in the >> they're taking a break in honoring elijah cummings, the quinnipiac poll which is good news for the u.s. senator. closed door hearings to begin again on saturday with a senior that is expecting to make her state department official followed by two people next

the ninth candidate to qualify week, including tim morrison who on the debate stage. is a top national security that's not only good for senator council official expected to klobuchar, it's also helpful, at come from behind closed doors to least for now, to vice president answer questions. bill taylor, the top diplomat of biden in that you have another moderate voice that has been aggressive in challenging the ukraine, rather damaging testimony to the president, that testimony saying he had been warren/sanders approach told that the president of the specifically on health care but united states withheld vital also how high can you take the military aid in other efforts to party. >> senator klobuchar has been strengthen the relationship with ukraine, announcing making the argument as has pete investigations that could potentially help the president's reelection campaign. now, at the same time what you're hearing again from republicans is an attack over buttigieg. amy klobuchar was planning to go the process. lindsey graham, the senate through this process without judiciary committee chairman, being specific on medicare for told me earlier today that he plans to introduce a resolution, all. along with senate majority it has been questioned to her leader mitch mcconnell, to throughout the debate. essentially condemn what the house democrats are doing, she has successfully dodged calling it a sham. those questions. senator klobuchar has a very >> i'm doing a resolution to important place in this race. is she going to emerge as the focus in on the process. winner of iowa? we'll have to see how that goes. so senator mcconnell is now the right now she is playing the role of shaping with the conversation. co-sponsor. we have a resolution urging the

house to adopt the same procedures that clinton and so for hershey, she's relieved s nixon had available to them to in, obviously to that debate call witnesses to defend themselves. you have to remember the house voted on an impeachment inquiry and it failed. stage. what they're doing in the intel >> dan has some news of a committee is not a viable sub candidate apparently saying goodbye. stude -- substitute for that because dan? >> reporter: tim ryan will now it basically shuts the president drop out of the race and return out. >> reporter: i asked about the substance of his remarks and he to his house seat. pushed back on that saying hear what he posted on line and essentially this was hearsay, because bill taylor did not hear sent to supporters. >> i am announcing today that i directly from the president that the president wanted to withhold am withdrawing from the that military aid in exchange presidential campaign. after seven long months of hard for announcing those investigations. so you're hearing a republican work, i'll be returning home to my family and friends and defense starting to sharpen to community in ohio to run for defend what the president is reelection for my congressional alleged to have done, john. seat. i got into this race in april to >> manu raju with live reporting really give voice to the on the hill. here with me in the studio, forgotten people of our country. the workers who have been left vivian solano with the "wall behind, businesses who have been street journal," jeff zeleny left behind, people who need with "politico" and margaret health care or aren't getting a quality education or saddled by taylor with axios. tremendous debt. i wanted to give voice to the

he is not on the committee here, forgotten communities that have been left behind by so he doesn't have a right to be globalization and automation. in the room. a number of his cohorts do have and i'm proud of this campaign because i believe we've done that. we've given voice to the the right to be in the room. they have every right to be forgotten communities and the there, they can ask questions, forgotten people in the united they can focus on witnesses if states. and while it didn't work out they like, but they just want to quite the way we planned, this scream foul. matt gaetz is holding himself up voice will not be stifled. here as historic? >> we were like the 300 standing i will continue to advocate and in the breach to try to stop the fight for the working people of this country, white, black, radical left from storming over brown, men, women. our democracy. those people who get up every i think we made the point that day, take a shower, go to work president trump deserves the process. >> did the president tell you to sometimes. >> tim ryan basically ran out of do this? money at this point. >> no, i haven't chatted with he ended q3 with just $425,000 the president, though i suspect he might have a view he'll want in the bank, and in the entire to share after today. campaign he only raised $1.3 >> we are going to go with the million and he had nthe amount house democrats in the hopes they'll change this procedure. he had going into the fourth if they don't, who knows what quarter was just $160,000. he got into the race saying he will happen. wanted to raise the voice of >> that's chairman matt gaetz.

there are the foreign affairs midwestern americans, midwestern committee, the intel committee, democrats, thinking he could the oversight committee. break out into that field. he was drowned out not only by they have 58 democrats, 48 the size of the democratic field but also the fact he just didn't have the money to fund the republicans. they have the right to be in there. they make the argument this is campaign that could actually win in 2020. >> he got outhustled by pete impeachment. we want a different process. this is not just oversight. that's a fair question for buttigieg, another one in the people to debate. but this idea they have no race as well. rights and they have no presence we had 20-plus candidates at one is horsepucky, correct? point. it's tough and it's expensive to >> absolutely. run for president. a quarter of their conference is a lot of good candidates simply don't end up making the cut when allowed to sit in on any of these depositions, hear them. things happen. we have a graphic of all the some of them are allowed to ask questions. so the fact they say they've candidates struggling at 2% or been shut out is totally false. more. they include cory booker, beto several of the members who were barnstorming yesterday are actually allowed to sit in, about a dozen or so. o'rourke. so what this was was a julio castro said if he doesn't distraction. bill taylor's testimony was very raise $100,000 by the end of the damning on tuesday. he connected the quid to the quo month, next wednesday, i think it is, that he'll get out of the and trump was right in the middle of it, so they needed race. tulsi gabbard has struggled, something to do to avoidancing questions about substance, i think. >> and the president all week long has been saying, come on, bennet has struggled.

guys, where are you, where are it just can't get any traction in this crowded field. you? this is entirely a show that was >> i think for someone like klobuchar who is on the fence, filmed by tmz, because that's like you said, she's painted what it was, it was a show. herself as an aggressive foil to it was not a substantive thing. what if all the democrats that warn, but that ends up aren't on the committee would benefiting someone like biden in come in, what if the squad would the long run but not klobuchar, come in? right? this is all about making sure you're the attack dog but that only lasts so long, so we could the president know that they have his back there. but at the end of the day, it's going to slow this down, not see her dropping down below. speed it up. >> she's raised some money, >> it's important politics in which always helps, and she's the sense that was on tmz. going to tv to try to keep her i bet you see a lot more of this numbers. on fox news. as this field shrinks a bit, it impeachment is a political argument. the polls have been moving will be interesting to see if against the president. they are trying to hold what the ones on the bottom keep they ever and hold republicans shrinking. as being against this by dpla biden is hoping he stays on top. complaining about the process. biden has a money problem. you don't hear a lot of hearsay, he has much less money than warren or sanders heading into you can say, that's why taylor this vital fourth quarter. gave him to other people. we're 102 days from iowa voting, here's the phone call, here's how you can get it firsthand. that's what democrats say they're going to do. >> this also comes on the heels and there is something that will become an issue in the next of a number of policy decisions debate. start a superpac.

pushing back on the president's decision to withdraw from syria so if they want to give more, they have to find a superpac. and a number of things that mick mulvaney announced from his bernie sanders' campaign manager press conference from hosting overnight saying democrats the g7 in doral, the president's shouldn't be doing that. what do you thiknow? resort in florida, to holding >> a lot of alumni in the obama military aid which he later walked back. a lot of that was getting pushed administration said they are trying to form a superpac to back by republicans. defend joe biden. the president wanting to show that he still has the support, i'm told that it's almost in the and so that's why we understand final stages, but there is still that protest received his some worry among donors. are people going to give to blessing, because at the end of this, or is it going to give him the day, he wants to show that he does still have those people some issues in the primary? backing him. >> it's a safer place for the but i spoke to one democratic president's allies in the sense that so much of what the white top strategist who supports joe house has said was later proven to not be correct. biden and says he needs the their factual presentation, help. they've had to take a lot of trump is outspending him here, so that's why they're doing things back or the witnesses are this. we'll see how this plays outgoing forward. superpacs are sometimes helpful, but in this environment when you look at the amount of money that contra dictiona contradicting it. trump has, $158,000, and joe >> it was interesting hearing lindsey graham talk about the

process, because his red line has been the quid pro quo. he said in an interview with axios that aired over the weekend also, if you could show him a quid pro quo, he might be willing to reconsider this. but now that we've seen sort of biden, $158,000. some more damning testimony on that's a problem. that front, the conversation is shifting back to the process. >> we see the priest he praised we kept hearing from democrats and republicans on the hill about how adam schiff was sort in baltimore, elijah cummings. of the ken starr of today. we're trying to figure out, what amen. ok everyone! does that even mean? why is that important? so we reached out to a bunch of lawyers, and lawrence stribe who, granted, has his issues with trump, said that the justice department made that decision not to treat that complaint from the cia as anything that would go forward through doj. so because you don't have an independent prosecutor in this case, it is left to the house to kind of play that dual role right now of independent prosecutor who would conduct an

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could become an important impeachment witness. >> there are a number of challenges going on here, but what you're getting to is there is really an unresolved question inside the trump white house right now. do they need to build up a war room, do they need a spokesman who is not the chief of staff, do they need an outside counsel who is not going to be trey gowdy and cannot be rudy giuliani? these are all unresolved cable tv as the impeachment questions at this time, so for debate heats up. now the holding pattern is to the president's television lawyer, rudy giuliani. try to organize the house republicans and a couple senate cnn has learned giuliani is republicans who can kind of hold himself looking for a lawyer, a the line even as the line criminal defense attorney, as shifts, but i think these his activities come under questions about what is the scrutiny not only in congress white house trying to communicate? but by the feds. is the white house trying to communicate that there was no quid pro quo, or is the white this from the initial whistleblower complaint. house trying to communicate a meeting or phone call between that, yes, there was a quid pro quo but there is always quid pro the president and president zelensky would depend on whether quos in diplomacy and there is nothing wrong with that. the president showed willingness the strategy has been shifting and continues to shift as we to play ball on issues that had speak. >> it works when the president been publicly aired by mr. does this. yesterday we heard when john

lutsenko and mr. giuliani. thune heard about the bill taylor testimony and found it to the hand-picked ambassador to be troubling. he wanted more information, he the european union told congress wanted to see it in detail, but that the key to changing the what he had seen was very troubling. manu raju noticed that today and pltpl president's mind on ukraine was mr. giuliani. the former ambassador to ukraine noticed it was the shift. told congress she thought >> the picture he painted of the giuliani was central to her president wasn't great. being recalled, pulled out of >> i missed the reporting of that job by the president. what you guys were saying about it, but i went back yesterday marie yavonovitch saying i do and actually read what was said, not know mr. giuliani's motives and there is, there is a lot of for attacking me, but she said secondhand information, a lot of sort of hearsay -- not hearsay, there were associates working but in the sense that it was passed on, it wasn't a direct conversation. so i think that, you know, the with him that she believed he president needs to have the opportunity, and republicans, frankly, for that matter in an had her activities stymied. open setting have the opportunity to respond to some of these accusations that are being made and questions that are being raised, and until we and fiona hill saying, he was a get that, i think, like you said, i think it's premature to jump to any conclusions. hand grenade about to blow up. >> moving back to a more cautious, safer space there. >> it seems to be a theme that -- we even heard it from mick mulvaney last week where the only testimony they were

and bill taylor in his testimony giving credence to was ambassador sondland of the eu said, the push to make president saying everything else was zelensky publicly commit to basically just leaked to the investigations of burisma and media and we can't verify it as fact. allowed interference in the 2016 these are allso the republican election showed how official talking points circulating policy of the united states was around capitol hill where they undercut by the ir rell efforts led by mr. giuliani. say, we don't know this is the truth of the matter and we mr. giuliani insisted he worked should use it moving forward. with these people, not over a lot of democrats wanted this them. >> i discussed with them. hearing from the beginning, the statement is clearly from since donald trump took office, the text, they're idea, not my she can't hold weight on it. idea. they asked me my advice about the text. i didn't tell them, he must, he >> those republicans who know should, he has to, he must. who bill taylor is, who know who fiona hill is, these are serious i gave them my advice about what people who are viewed very would give everybody comfort that the corrupt ukranian credibly and viewed as very government that's been corrupt for a long time was on the right detail-oriented people who have road, that it was willing to really meticulous notes about root out corruption no matter everything that happened. who it hurt, without fear of >> even republicans are having a hard time, especially these old favor the way our agencies bulls responding to questions like, do you believe that bill taylor is human scum because he should be able to do but don't.

is a 50-year public servant, >> senator michael warren joins our conversation. he's a veteran. a couple points there in that it they would say, maybe that's not what i would say, but this is contradicts what rudy giuliani said in interviews. hearsay. if bill taylor comes and testifies publicly, they will so there's that. have a hard time attacking him. and rudy giuliani is not there. he has some problems right now. he did bring evidence to back up >> he does. his claim so it's not just october 8 seems to be the last time he was on tv. he was on fox news. hearsay. we could see that in a few bewes he's basically been dark now for over two weeksme. publicly. >> two that are testifying next we know that he did meet with trump two saturdays ago at week, these are both john bolton trump's golf course, had lunch guys, and i don't mean they're with him. against trump, i just mean these we don't know what exactly they are credible national security talked about. and he isn't speaking much to professionals that are not reporters these days as well. loyalists to the president, nor there is a lot of pressure now on giuliani. are they opponents to the president, they ever a we know that the federal longstanding track record in investigators up in the southern district of new york are national security on the hawkish certainly looking into, side, and as part of the bolton scrutinizing some of giuliani's work, so he's clearly laying low. but as you pointed out, he's all contingent that was really upset over this testimony, and he can about this. say these things, like, i was >> they all worked for this

president, they were hired by his people. working, i was giving advice up next, another democratic these government officials who were asking for my help. candidate secures a big spot on but it's also clear from those other testimonies that there were people in the government the debate stage. who did not appreciate what giuliani was doing, who thought he was inserting himself in the three amigos, bill taylor, gordon sondland and rick perry, were operating outside those lines they should be. hi, my name is sam davis and i'm >> he said saying that to out going to tell you about exciting plans available to anyone with medicare. many plans provide cra -- the ukranian president was broad coverage and still may save you money on monthly premiums and prescription drugs. accepted. he said, if you could speak to him, that would be great. with original medicare, you're i'll have m giuliani give you covered for hospital stays and a call and also william barr and doctor office visits, but you we'll get to the bottom of it. have to meet a deductible for the president blessing this each and then you're still responsible for 20% of the cost. other testimony from other people everybody keeps saying is next, let's look at a medicare hearsay.

there you have the president on the phone saying, giuliani is my supplement plan. as you can see, guy, not these other people. they cover the same things as >> and you have republicans now original medicare and they also saying, if it didn't come cover your medicare deductibles straight from the president's and co-insurance. but they often mouth, how do we know that it really happened? have higher monthly premiums and giuliani is the answer to all of those questions. no prescription drug coverage. giuliani is the person who the president was talking to. now, let's take a look at and we know that the national humana's medicare advantage plans. with a humana medicare security council kind of was plan, hospital stays, doctor very uncomfortable about this. office visits and mere i don't think we have as clear a deductibles are covered. and, on knowledge of how pompeo felt about it. he rolled with it, but he is the secretary of state. and giuliani, the question still unanswered, when was giuliani doing the president's direct bidding and when was he freelancing his own operation, or when was he acting in a way he was trying to convince the president that he was trying to do the right thing? it matters what happens to the president, it matters in the impeachment question, but it is a separate matter for himself, and that's why he needs a

lawyer, to understand whose game was he running and to what end? >> because his former office in the southern district of new york, the current u.s. attorney, his former law partner, looking into whether he had shadey business dealings here. >> it's problematic for him to say he was doing all this as the president's attorney and he was just doing this for his client. he wants to use that defense to say those conversations are protected under attorney/client privilege, but it raises these questions about why the president did what he did. there is no scrutiny in those questions as well. >> we'll see if that relationship continues. and vice president pence.

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vice president mike pence picking an interesting fight this hour, in so many words calling the nba and nike cowards for not defending protestors in hong kong. >> and some of the nba's biggest players and owners who exercise their freedom to criticize this country lose their voices when it comes to the freedom and rights of the people of china. and siding with the chinese communist party and silencing free speech, the nba is acting like a wholly-owned subsidiary

of that authoritarian regime. >> his own boss, the president, really hasn't stood by those. >> i actually reported a couple weeks ago that the white house, the president specifically, ordered that all his officials take a measured response to hong kong because he didn't want to alienate and ruffle feathers with beijing, so it is a little bit ironic that the vice president would say something like that for sure and taking that position. >> i think he said a couple small things like that, so i'm not sure what the vice president is doing there today. thanks for joining us on "inside politics." it's a busy day. brianna keilar starts right now. have a great day. i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. underway right now, the president thanking republicans

for storming a hearing room delaying the impeachment inquiry testimony for hours, making them think they were cut out of the testimony even though they weren't. the president has troops going to iraq to protect the oil fields. katie hill, an allegio