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the testimony is clear. >> was there a quid pro quo? the answer is yes. >> he was being involved in a domestic political errant. >> now they brace for a senate trial. >> plus the 2020 contenders. >> this is impeachable conduct. >> we have to establish the principle, no one is above the law. >> that shatters a long friendship. >> and lindsay is about to go down in a way that i think he's going to regret his whole life.
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>> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. the trump impeachment process now in a new chapter. democrats must decide the specific charges they will frent to the full house and there is a debate among them about how many articles of impeachment should be drafted, about whether to make it a broad or more narrow case, alleging presidential corruption and abuse of power. this is thanksgiving week in the united states and the current plan is to finish the house impeachment process by christmas, so giant decisions and giant votes loom in the next 30 days. the current math not in dispute. house democrats have the votes to impeach. the president has the votes to avoid senate conviction. the basic facts also are not in dispute. 12 witnesses over two weeks of public hearings painted a very damning picture.
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president trump wanted ukraine to announce two investigations that had nothing to do with u.s. national security and everything to do with his domestic political interests. until ukraine complied, no white house meeting for its new president. and later a delay in sending vital u.s. military aid. the policy experts complained it was wrong and playing into russia's hand. the president prefers the ukraine advice of his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, and would not be swayed. >> i was concerned by the call. what i heard was inappropriate. it is improper for the president of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and a political opponent. >> i then heard president trump ask, so he's going to do the investigation. ambassador sondland replied that he's going to do it, adding that president zelensky will do anything you ask him to do. >> was there a quid pro quo? >> as i testified previously, with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is yes. >> he was being involved in a domestic political errant, and
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we were being involved in national security foreign policy and those two things had just diverged. >> with us this sunday to share their reporting and insights, rachel of the "washington post," cnn's phil mattingly and politico's lauren lopez. so now it's decision time. we've had these public hearings and the democrats believe they made a compelling case. we're back in a private phase where they have to meet and decide how many articles of impeachment, what specifically are we going to say, how quickly are we going to move? >> yeah, democrats, we talked to about 20 lawmakers on thursday before they all left town on friday morning, and basically the notion that we heard from a lot of these democrats is that they feel like they've heard enough. they feel like they have enough evidence that they can charge the president with abuse of power, potentially obstruction of congress for ignoring subpoenas and they're basically putting together a report in the intelligence committee that's going to go to the house judiciary committee, where they're going to be drafting and
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marking up the articles of impeachment for the next few days. there are questions about are there more people they should be talking to. for instance, rudy giuliani's former associate lev parnas who has been indicted and is being investigated for interference in the 2020 election and 2016 election, he actually has been trying to get congress's attention, saying call me in. i have information that could be helpful to this investigation. but this is again one example where congress wants to move forward right now and so far they haven't shown any interest in calling him in. >> you also have mick mulvaney who has said no and john bolton who has popped back up on twitter saying i have things to say. "the new york times," which leans in favor of the democrats, says it is essential for the house to conduct a thorough inquiry, including testimony from critical players who have yet to appear. it should not be rushed for the future of the security.
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but speaker pelosi making clear this week, no, maybe the senate will bring in additional witnesses, but here in the house we're going. >> head down, moving forward. and i think adam schiff has said the same thing. the next stage is going to be a report and drafting articles of impeachment. there are some rank-and-file democrats who are saying there are very important people out here that court cases may decide we can hear from in the next couple of weeks. should we wait. and i think the reason why is this. rachael makes a great point. democrats feel like they've got plenty to move forward but there's a hole. and the hole is did the president directly order the hold on the security assistance and was it because of the same reason the white house meeting was held up. and the people that can speak to this in john bolton and mick mulvaney and they hasn't heard from them yet. i will note as pelosi has said, they're not going to play rope a dope and every person who comes in finds their name in an
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article related to obstruction. >> and to that point, ambassador sondland said the president new, he was acting on the president's orders, everyone was in the loop. but republicans tried to make that point consistently and you can hear it that a lot of this sounds bad, but none of you heard it directly from the president. >> did the president of the united states ever say to you that he was not going to allow aid from the united states to go to the ukraine unless there were investigations into burisma, the bidens or the 2016 elections? >> no, he did not. >> did the president ever tell you personally about any preconditions for anything? >> no. >> so the president never told you about any preconditions for the aid to be released? >> no. >> that is the -- the republicans say, sure, this was messy, maybe rudy giuliani shouldn't have been involved here. but no one can say the president told me to do that. >> right, and look, the math that you put up at the beginning of the show suggesting both that the democrats have the votes for impeachment and that the republicans have the votes to
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avoid the president being removed from office. the reality of that math means that what both sides are playing for is less the kind of voting that's going to be happening over the course of the next two months and more the voting that's going to be happening a year from now. everybody is looking to affect public opinion as we head toward the 2020 campaign, and so they're searching for the sound bites. and if the democrats think they have the sound bites they need without john bolton and mick mulvaney, they'll do that. the republicans obviously think they have some of the sound bites that they need. and so i think part of the motivation on everybody's side to move this more quickly is to get past this and to the sort of appeals court, which is the american public. >> and to back up the point, as the hearings wound down, everyone is watching the retiring house republicans to see will two break, three break. one on the committee is will herd of texas who is not a fan of the president when it comes to immigration and not a fan of
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the constant attacks on the intelligence community. but at the end of the hearing he said this is bungle, this is a mess, i don't see a case to impeach. >> the american people have learned about a series of events that in my view have undermined our national security and undercut ukraine. an impeachable offense should be compelling, overwhelmingly clear and unambiguous, and it's not something to be rushed or taken lightly. i've not heard evidence proving the president committed bribery or extortion. >> the president is never happy when he's criticized, especially by republicans and will herd right there called it bung ling and he said it let down ukraine and it was no the interest of the national security, but the president has to be happy that a republican who could have been a beacon, that if he broke other republicans might follow, seems to be in line. >> and when i watch that i also wonder if will herd is thinking about his political ambitions for eight years from now, because he has telegraphed that he's interested in running for
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the presidency eventually. and if he does do that, then he will definitely want republican votes. and as we all know, the republican party is very much with trump, the base very much supports him, and that has not wavered throughout this. >> and the president viewing impeachment, no president wants to be impeached. but he cease it as inevitable, so he's working the senate. the reporting this week said the case being made is that a full trial provides the president with the ability to clear his name and the lawmaker notes cutting off the process early could make it look like he has something to hide. have they convinced the president of this? there was talk early on and a lot of the president's allies have been pushing reporters and saying the senate could vote to dismiss. the majority leader has said no way. >> there's a point that seems to be missed in the debate. the trial is coming. mitch mcconnell has said as much. the length of the trial is up for debate and it will be negotiated between mcconnell and
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schumer. i think the point that has been made by republican senators who have met with the president and pat cipollone has been this is coming, you need to prepare for it and you need to decide how you would like us to attempt to structure it in the negotiations. and they have made the point that you will have an opportunity to defend yourself, and if that comes then perhaps you should take the opportunity to have a robust defense of yourself. and the white house has fixated more on who you can call to testify. i think the republicans want the white house to be prepared. a trial is coming and you need to be prepared to defend the president, because we're not all with you necessarily on dismissing this out of hand early on. >> and the reflex tells you the witnesses they've withheld could clear the president, we would have heard this them. that's what makes the calculations about who does the president have as witnesses in his own defense. interesting. we'll talk more about this later as it collides with the early part of the 2020 campaign. up next, rudy giuliani's central role in the impeachment drama. as we go to break, here's to
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rudy giuliani's controversial ukraine role came up repeatedly in the impeachment hearings and there's fresh evidence this weekend of white house support for the role. documents released by the state department friday night detail two conversations in march between giuliani and the secretary of state mike pompeo. the documents show the second call was arranged with the help of the president's personal assistant at the request of a giuliani aid. the documents are clear, the former new york mayor insists it didn't happen that way. >> no, i'm capable of making my own calls. i actually know how to use the
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phone. of course i'm not going to discuss my conversations with the secretary of state. >> those calls came in the same week giuliani shared with the state department a packet of documents that includes unproven allegations against the bidens and against then u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. giuliani not only led the smear campaign against yovanovitch, he also pushed the conspiracy theory that it was ukraine, not russia that hacked into the emails in the 2016 election. >> did your boss, ambassador bolton, tell you that giuliani was, quote, a hand grenade? >> he did, yes. >> what do you think he meant by his characterization of giuliani as a hand grenade? >> what he meant by this was pretty clear to me in the context of all of the statements that mr. giuliani was making publicly about the investigations that he was promoting, that the story line he was promoting, the narrative he was promoting was going to
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ba backfire. i think it was backfired. >> she was scathing in her criticism of giuliani, making the point she believes he was ju pedaling crazy stuff to the president. that u.s. foreign policy was undermined or taken over by rudy giuliani. >> the thing that's remarkable about the giuliani situation and notwithstanding documents and emails that sort of people are looking at in the last 24 hours, rudy's role played out in public. this isn't the case of a sort of presidential aide secretly going about doing something that we're all having to piece together. he was out on television, he was quoted in news articles saying exactly what he wanted. he wanted the investigations, he connected them to the bidens. and of course the president connected to rudy in real time as well, in tweets and in
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comments embracing rudy as well. so in some ways, it's the scandal that sort of has played out right in front of our faces. >> i think the really interesting thing there is that a lot of people when they were hearing rudy giuliani talk about this on tv, they sort of dismissed it. this is crazy rudy. it has nothing to do with what we're talking about here in washington. that just shows how we've gone from the conspiracy theories that he's been talking about being from the outside edge, far right, what have you, so the ma mainstream, because it's not just rudy giuliani anymore. it's republicans who are defending the president in the house. fiona hill specifically said you are playing into russia's hands right now. >> let's listen to that. candidate trump said during the campaign maybe russia can just keep crimea. there was nothing. that was a small criticism game. russia had this systematic from putin on downcoordinated
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campaign to hack emails, spread propaganda and try to hack into machines around the country. it's a squirt gun versus a big army here. fiona hill told republicans on the committee stop listening to this. >> some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia security services did not conduct against our country, and that perhaps somehow, for some reason, ukraine did. this is a fictional mnarrative that vb prop gated by the russian security services themselves. i would ask that you not promote falsehoods that so clear advance russian interests. >> that was her appeal, but it was ignored. a lot of republicans afterwards saying they both did it. and i just want to read the headline. putin says u.s. political drama is diverting focus from russia. thank god, no one is accusing us of interfering in the u.s. elections anymore. now they're accusing ukraine.
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one result of this has been a big gift to vladimir putin. >> and hill also said that russia has been engaged in a long pattern of deflection, trying to pin the blame on ukraine. and of course trump and republicans have given them a gift by going along with the conspiracy theory. and we also find out that senators have been briefed from the intel community and the intel community has told them that all of this is a conspiracy theory, that ukraine did not interfere in the way that trump is saying and that it's dangerous to push this narrative. >> it's dangerous and wrong and not factual to push it. they believe if you just dust everything up, it's hard to see straight. one of the questions is will the president bail on rudy giuliani here and say he went too far. in the fox interview the other day, no indication of that at all. >> no indication of that. and one of the things we've seen over the last four years that's been effective for the president
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and his allies is take threads of something, combine them into something much bigger and pitch this as the major defense of yourself. that's what's happening. there were individuals in ukraine who were frustrated about the president's comments about crimea and made those concerns public. that is not the same thing. that is apples to oranges of what russia was doing. and yet that's kind of the defense here. i think on rudy's point -- there were a lot of details in the testimony, is that across the board, regardless of who came in, kurt volker, tim morrison, same thing, every single person said what rudy giuliani was doing was problematic and undermining national security and rudy giuliani was not operating as a rogue. rudy giuliani was connected across the board with everybody. that is what gordon sondland made more clear than anything else. and the idea that rudy giuliani is going to disengage or be removed from the president's orbit, i think it's been made clear simply is not going to happen. even though everyone who
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the democratic race for president is getting a $37 million jolt this week. courtesy of michael bloomberg. the former new york city mayor has purchased at least 37 minutes of air time. if you take tom steyer out of the equation, that is more tv ad spending just this week than the other candidates have spent in the entire campaign so far. mayor bloomberg barely registers in democratic polling and his entry is risky. but his resources not unnoticed by his rivals. >> elections should not be for sale. not to billionaires, not to corporate executives. >> there are billionaires who are either in the race or thinking about getting in the race, and it gives them a competitive advantage. literally money gives people a competitive advantage. >> he's decided because he's worth $55 billion that he can
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run for president of the united states and spend more money on tv ads, i suspect, than any candidate in the history of the united states. >> you get why they're unhappy, because even the ones like senator sanders who can raise a ton of money cannot compete. the question is, and we won't know the answer for maybe two weeks, is spending $37 million in a week, is that going to do it for michael bloomberg? will it bring him up in the polls? >> the issue is that he already is missing out on iowa, new hampshire, alabama, michigan, he didn't file in time in those states. whether or not, even with the amount of money he can pour into this, he can somehow put together the delegates and the coalition that he needs to win is another question. but this ad by finance experts said it could be like one of the biggest ever. it's larger than ones that obama placed. >> the last week of the general election campaign, obama spent close to $30 or $25 million and this blows that out of the water and it's the first week.
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>> and ultimately i think the answer to your question of will this really be the thing to move the needle, is really a question of whether it's sustained, right? i mean, he has the money. if he wanted to put $30 million in every week for the next ten weeks, he could probably do that, right? but will he -- is this more of sort of a vanity play where you sort of make an effort, but then don't really sustain? >> rich people -- no one likes to waste their money. they're doing this because they think they can build. they're also doing this, not going to compete in iowa, new hampshire. normally someone gets momentum. bloomberg is counting on the fact that there will be a mixed verdict and people will be looking for someone to step in. he's also counting on a joe biden collapse. he's counting the party will suddenly look like, oh, no, we need a more moderate. joe biden says wishful thinking. >> why am i so far ahead in the
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national polls? why am i so far ahead here? why am i so far ahead in nevada? tell me why. if everybody says the people are thinking, people are thinking, okay, the pundits may be thinking, but that's not where the people are. >> that's what he hopes. that's what he hopes. but some of the early state pools show signs of biden weakness. the interesting thing is if he starts to fall a little bit, he does not have the resources right now to compete with bloomberg. >> that's the bloomberg play and it's a gamble. but it's a gamble that a lot of campaigns to be predicting, that there's a softness in biden's numbers and he'll be exposed in the first couple of states that that will create an opening, whether it's for pete buttigieg. he has the money to do this for the next ten weeks and through the election and it's a drop in the bucket for him. i think the real question is this will be the baseline.
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let's see what the numbers do after the $37 million ad buy. and then after that, let's keep an eye on joe biden to see how real this becomes. >> if he thinks there is a situation where there's not a contender that really pushes through, not a clear winner, that he can be the one to sort of fill that void. michael bloomberg is not exactly a charactkharismatic figure. by pouring all this money in, i would imagine a lot of democratic primary voters are probably not happy with this. it makes it feel bigger and it confuses voters and that doesn't help their case in determines of finding the democratic -- >> this is a 60-second ad. his hope is that democrats say, you know what, we want to beat trump. we're worried about this field. if this guy says this things and is willing to spend this kind of money, maybe they can actually beat him.
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>> mike bloomberg became the guy who did good. and now he's taking on him to rebuild the country and restore faith in the dream that defines us, where the wealthy will pay more in taxes and the middle class get their fair share. and all of those thin-- michael bloomberg tends to make good. >> he's saturating ads in the majority of the states and they could potentially sway voters. the number of primary voters that said that they just want the field to shrink, they don't want any more to jump in. they weren't interested in duval patrick. they were hearing whispers about bloomberg and were just like please, no, because they want to be able to decide on a candidate and so far they feel like they could vote for three of the -- they have top three and they're still deciding between them. so there appeared to be no
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appetite for anyone else. >> the question is can bloomberg create it, and the performance of the other candidates. you mentioned mayor buttigieg is leading in iowa right now. a lot of people think he's got a moment there. a mayor from small town indiana. but the calendar then does move on and he has had a consistent problem. joe biden is hoping this is his salvation. if you have a moderate choice, look at south carolina. new poll out last week, joe biden on top with 33% overall. the basis is the african-american voters. look at pete buttigieg. 6% overall in this poll. still does not register in a state where 50% or 60% will be black. still does not register. he has been promising for months he'll fix this. >> when you're not somebody that people feel like they've known for a long time, nor a person of color, you've got to work extra hard to get to know folks. >> there's a lot of voters i need to get to know and who need
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to get to know me. there are especially black voters in south carolina who haven't formed an opinion about me at all. i welcome the challenge of connecting with black voters who america who don't yet know me. >> it's the same answer for month after month. it's hard. it's hard to get known, especially when you have people like biden, when you have two black candidates in the race. but -- >> but he still has consistently registered at zero% among black voters. although, he isn't doing well with latino voters and he was just in california and nevada. in nevada, he registers at about one percent with latinos. they say that they're doing more outreach, but there hasn't been any uptick in the polls at all. >> when we come back, our sunday trail mix is next. joe biden wants to revive bipartisan cooperation, but at the moment he's in a nasty impeachment battle with a long-time republican friends. this seat sits at the center of the arena...
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supreme court justice ruth bader ginsberg is hospitalized after seeking treatment for chills and a fever. they was treated friday and then transferred to baltimore. she responded well to treatment and is expected to be released from the hospital sometime day. joe biden unloading on his former colleague and one-time friend, republican senator lindsay graham. as chairman of the senate judiciary committee, graham opened an investigation into the bidens and ukraine, asking the state department for records related to then vice president's calls and meetings with the ukrainian leader at the time. >> i am disappointed, and quite frankly, i'm angered by the fact. he knows me, he knows my son. he knows there's nothing to this. trump is now essentially holding power over him that even the ukrainians wouldn't yield to. >> what do you say to him?
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>> i say lindsey, i just -- i'm just embarrassed by what you're doing for you. >> senator graham has, shall we say, evolved in his feelings about the former vice president. >> you can admire joe biden as a person. he's the nicest person i think i've ever met in politics. >> is that right? >> he is as good a man as god ever created. >> how did as good a man has god has ever kree yitd become let's get some documents? >> it's all because of the pressure from the white house. i had colleagues who talked to graham less than three weeks ago and asked him point blank are you going to be investigating the bidens? this is when trump allies were saying we have to go after hunter biden to try to divert the accusations against trump. and graham's response to both of them was there's no way i'm going to do this in my committee. my committee doesn't have jurisdiction.
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this is not something i'm interested in. and now all of a sudden he's subpoenaing documents dr dr or not subpoenaing yet but asking for documents. and he even admitted at the time he was getting a lot of pressure from trump allies to move forward. >> biden said in the interview, give him the documents. you won't find anything. you'll find the entire world wanted me to do what i was doing. but you see biden get his irish up there a little bit. >> first of all, everybody knows that if you go after biden's family, biden is going to get his irish up. and that might be the least of what he does in this case. one thing that will be really interesting to find out is how does biden utilize what's going on right now? and i understand he thinks it's absurd, but what can you do to utilize this to help your campaign, to make a point of who you are and what you bring to the table? and i think that was really the first time i saw him seize on something, and show emotion and maybe be able to transfer it into what's going on right now.
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predicting how the impeachment debate will play politically is risky business because we're still far away from the finish line. the headlines are not good for the president and critical is his 2020 map. ambassador sondland's quid pro quo testimony was front-page news in arizona, north carolina, florida and more. but an important but, republican voters remain loyal and some recent polling suggests independents are growing more wary of impeachment. lawmakers are having a break right now and that allows them to give a local pulse. for many democrats that means testing the effectiveness of republican impeachment attack
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ads. >> their partisan impeachment is a politically motivated charade. joe cunningham promised to be different, but he's not. instead of working to secure our border, fix health care and pass a new trade deal with our neighbors that creates real jobs, he supported the partisan impeachment investigation. >> it is fascinating for both size here. the politics are risky and the thing is we don't know where we are today versus where we're going to be dcome the nominatin process and next november. >> and the republicans have spent $8 million or more on the anti-impeachment ads and compare that to democrats who have only spent about $3 million or so. so the vulnerable democrats expressed concern ahead of the thanksgiving break saying we don't want to be playing catchup, we're worried. >> the ad is an interesting kind of echo of what the democrats did two years ago in the
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midterms when they were the ones arguing that the president is obsessed with the border and invasion and the caravans coming up and what we should be talking about is health care and the issues that sort of really matter to people. so the republicans in this sense are turning that on its head and saying, no, no, this time it's the democrats who are obsessed when we should be sort of moving on to other issues. >> i think what we're starting to see is when the impeachment inquiry was first announced and they started to do the depositions, a lot of people were asking can nancy pelosi peel off any republicans. and i think in this final impeachment vote. and i think increasingly the question is becoming does she lose more democrats. because republicans have unified behind the president, and although two democrats voted against the impeachment inquiry rules that they voted on a couple of weeks ago, we are hearing behind-the-scenes there are moderates getting cold feet and it comes back to these ads and people being afraid for being punished for voting to impeach the president. >> and are democrats happy with
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the intelligence committee public hearings. they moved from drafting to the judiciary committee, and to the full house. some of the more moderate members are going to watch to see if the politics change. the president feels good right now, the republican support seems rock solid. there's some indication in some polling, and let's see how this goes over the next several weeks, that independents' reluctance is rising. he tweeted more than 100 times. thank you to mitch mcconnell for the great leadership, never been such unity in the republican party. 100 tweets since tuesday tells you he may think the politics are good for him right now and he's going to do everything he can to keep it that way. >> it's not just the tweets. it's having met with more than 40 republican senators over at the white house, having the team very involved. and they're talking about issues for various republicans senators, whether it's susan collins or mitt romney. >> imagine if they had done that
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on health care policy, for example. you make a great point, the way they're working inside-outside now, they never did that on policy issues. weir up next, how the white house is turning camp david into a playground for republican lawmakers. they never stray from their predetermined path. but this season, a more thrilling journey is calling. defy the laws of human nature. at the season of audi sales event. when i needed to create a better visitor experience. improve our workflow. attract new customers. that's when fastsigns recommended fleet graphics. yeah, and now business is rolling in. get started at fastsigns.com.
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one last time around the "inside politics" table. all i'll have our reporters to share something from our nobody books to get you ahead of the moel news around the corner. rachel. >> president trump has naefr been a fan of camp david. he would rather go to mar-a-lago. so mick mulvaney has turned camp
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david into this weekend retreat center for house republicans where he's lobbying them on impeachment very softly sort of in a wooing style and hiking and shaking s'mores and shooting skeet and talking about impeachment and legislation all in an effort to make house republicans during family and calls them during dinner and compliments lawmakers and so far it is working that the weekend getaways are the envy of the house. >> s'mores with mick mulvaney. >> i'm not sure i could top that. over the weekend top appropriators in the senate and house reached a deal on topline spending numbers. not to get into the weeds but that is important because there are still 12 unpassed appropriations bill to avoid a christmas shutdown and reaching a numbers should spark the process to start moving forward. they should move forward quickly on the noncontroversial bills if
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anybody remembers the shutdown from last year. and the president's wall, there is a very real possibility of a shutdown come december but the fact they were able to reach an agreement on saturday, something they've been working on for months is positive news and shut kick start the process. both mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi have committed to getting this done before the end of the year and the big question is where is the president on all of this. >> we have enough going on. we don't need a government shutdown right now. >> so president trump is engaged in a high-stakes face-off with the secretary of the navy and the admiral in charge of the navy s.e.a.l.s have threatened to resign if they are not allowed to expel a commando from the navy s.e.a.l.s unit and eddie gallagher was acquitted of accusations of committing misconduct other than posing for a photo with a isis fighter and the president trump siding with
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conservatives who saying he was just acing in the heat of battle. now the conflict most recently came when the president tweeted that he didn't want the navy to be able to go ahead and remove him from the navy s.e.a.l.s. that is what prompted the threats to resign. now the secretary of the navy said he didn't. he's denied that threat to resign but they're move ago head a -- moving ahead and not going to present the tweet as a formal order. and i'm watching in the days ahead, what does the president do when the navy ignored what he said he wanted in his tweet. >> we'll watch it. there is a lot going on at moment. laura. >> on the 2020 trail democrats descended on atlanta a majority black city and a lot of candidates made race a focal point. not so much ideology but minority voters they are trying to woo closer to the primary so
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kamala harris and cory booker talked about how they could recreate obama coalition a bit of a digs at joe biden if they think he can't make it across the finish line or pete buttigieg but playing up the fact that as black americans they could speak to voters in a way that obama did and the other candidates can't. so it is interesting to see how campaigns progress closer to iowa how much they continue to hammer that point. >> campaigns getting lost in the impeachment conversation. i'll close with this. a bit like phil said. there plight be bipartisanship in town. but watch the house speaker in the week ahead to see if she gives a green lice to the u.s./mexic u.s./mexico/canada trade agreement and many house democrats support it and would like to prove that impeachment has paralyzed washington. on thursday the speaker is worried it is getting too late to resolve the maining issues in
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time for house action this year but on late friday they were confident that they planned to meet this week and if all goes well in the talks the expectation is that speaker pelosi will issue a pre-thanksgiving statement embracing house action in december. that is it for "inside politics." catch us week days at noon eastern. don't go anywhere. jake tapper with "state of the union" just ahead and his guests include adam schiff and republican congressman lee zeldin. thanks for sharing your sunday. have a great day. (contemplative synth music)
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game, set, match. democrats set to move to the next stage of impeachment after two weeks of public witness testimony. >> was there a quid pro quo? >> the answer is yes. >> but with no house republicans apparently on board, have democrats convinced the american people? house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff joins me next to discuss. and preparing for battle. republicans on capitol hill remain in lock-step against impeachment as the president said he's ready for a trial. >> they're doing something that the founders never thought possible and the founders didn't want. >> can president trump do no wrong in today's gop? i'll speak to republican congressman lee zeldin next. plus cash is king. former mayor michael bloomberg opens his wallet to drop

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