♪ i want to be a billionaire so freakin' bad ♪ >> featuring bruno mars. i'm michael smerconish in new york city and wondering why all the hostilities towards michael bloomberg. he entered the presidential race this week. he was greeted with a torrent of nasty headlines. no other democratic candidate was so coldly welcomed into the race. bloomberg got no honeymoon. think about it, when elizabeth warren announced the initial coverage speak to her baggage. did the first round of bernie

sanders address, quote, the huge barriers. anyone say grown with kamala harris, anyone say disqualify soon after amy klobuchar announced? no way. a double standard, with much directed at bloomberg's wealth. instead of focusing on the fact he's the son of a middle class accountant that earned the money himself. by not accepting donations he did not prostitute himself to political process, his uniquely american story largely ignored. well, i have a different perspective. i say, welcome, mr. mayor, and thank you for your willingness to enter what t.r. described as the arena. you've been in this race just a week and already your faces marred by dust and sweat and blood. you don't need this. you can spend the rest of your years with your feet up in bermuda. hell, you could buy bermuda but you choose to continue to contribute, both with your donations and with your talents.

your ethics seem above approach. you're a data driven nonideologue. by most accounts new york city benefited by the leadership of 12 years. i say good luck. you can have any salt shaker and sugary drink, just make the trains run on time. joining me professor from sterns school of business and wrote this piece for "business insider." bloomberg shoop run, elizabeth warren is put on a master class in campaigning but the u.s. is still wildly sexist. professor, why all the hostility toward michael bloomberg? >> thanks for having me, michael and good morning. just north of here in florida you can go to universal harry potter world for $25 per person and wait in line for popular rides. or you can opt to pay $4,000 which entitles you and four friends to meet a high eq person

who not only takes you to the front of the line but through an employee entrance and you can go on the ride several times. i think there's a great type of resentment against that type of wealth and cutting the line. i think people have mistaken michael bloomberg for cutting the line and there's resentment. it's a bit unfair. as you referenced at the out set of the show, this is an individual who governed a city by gdp the 10th largest or 1212th largest nation in the world. a bit unfair to say he's cutting the line. he's getting in late but i think there's resentment in the belief, if you will, he's cutting the line. >> i guess i would respond as follows. the $4,000 that michael bloomberg is paying to be at the front of the line for harry potter is his four grand. the 120 the others are bartering is other people's money to whom -- special interests -- they are now indebted.

i see it as an asset, not a liability. but professor, i said the same thing about howard schultz when he was tempted to get into the race. same type of hostility. there's a class resentment i sense in all of this. >> also, if you were to look at the 12 years, i think people from new york saw leadership that resulted in not only a decline in prison populations but a decline in crime. new york became a global note of creativity, social tolerance. he showed an ability to thread the needle between the world's largest corporations in the world and some of the most progressive unions in the world. you have an individual whose philanthropy wasn't used to shape public policy to his own benefit but a lot done anonymously. this is an individual on the first-name basis with majority of world leaders. if there's anyone who can kind of slip into the shoes of a world leader and has a proven ability to bring people with much different backgrounds and

much different agendaas together and lead what i'll call an evidence-based govern k, data, and appreciation for outcomes. you would think -- i, too, am shocked the mayor hasn't received a more welcoming entry into the race. but in 30 days, he's going to -- this will all be forgotten and we'll see where he is. we have a centrist, a new centrist, a huge impact on the race. i can tell you as a local new yorker, a lot of us, even those of us who may not have loved the mayor, are happy to see him in the race. >> i wonder if electability might change some of this conversation. "politico" addressed head on the quote, unquote, crazy nature by which he's doing this, skipping the first four. i want to put up on the screen and read to you what they said. the evidence for the alleged noncraziness, meaning bloomberg's argument, is based on polling. emphatically low regard for the current field of democratic candidates and emphatically high

regard for bloomberg's purported assets. these include compelling life story, record of accomplishment as mayor, credibility on activist gun control and climate change andability to nationalize the race this coming winter and early spring with a historic money and messaging. i guess my question to you is do you think this can work? >> i'd like to think so. a lot of us who live on the coast have been accused of being in a bubble. but just from a marketing perspective, if you look at the number of times an incumbent president has been voted out of office when there isn't a recession, that happens 0% of the time. i think what we're seeing in the democratic race a recognition of democrats who put near the top or at the top, in terms of a priority, and that is putting someone else in the white house. if there is sort of this mother of all pivots to the center, and there's beginning to be a recognition that if we were to try to reinvent or reconstruct the economic model of capitalism

to health care, vastly different taxation, that might be a blue line path to re-election for the president. so we're seeing a big move to the center. i think what this really says is michael bloomberg and his colleagues and supporters and polling have said there's a huge opening in the middle. i think a lot of people on the left have someone they prefer to michael bloomberg. the strategy here isser people will coalesce around the most s centrist person and shown the ability to bring different constilt waneses together. his candidacy seems to be president biden will falter, elizabeth warren will win the nomination and cannot be elected. that's a subject you dealt with in your essay. briefly address that. >> yeah, look, i think elizabeth warren is a fellow academic, an incredibly impressive person. unfortunately, this is deeper and a deeper problem for our

society, polls come back that she's not likable. quite frankly, it's sexist. she's having trouble getting past a certain high watermark. this is disturbing but the reality we face. the notion that joe biden or vice president biden hasn't inspired the type of passion that we're going to need is one factor. in addition, if the democrats are going to take back the white house, they need two cohorts. they need the base, and it looks like trump is going to turn out the base for the democrats and they need to go after the middle, largely white, largely male, largely disaffected voters. there's very little chance senator warren will probably appeal -- or bernie sanders -- the notion steve schmidt, sociopath beats a socialist seven days and on sunday in this economic environment. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> what are your authorities. tweet me at smerconish.

i'll read some during the program. this comes from facebook. i don't want another billionaire new yorker. rey frankly deciding forever all billionaires from new york are out of it. painting too broad a brush, i would say, rey. i wouldn't hold the man's finances against him. he earned it himself. ahead, throughout eight years through barack obama's presidency opposition attacked him as a socialist. recent signs suggest they got him wrong, which leads to this week's survey question and we'll explain in just a moment. former president barack obama is a conservative. agree or disglagree at smerconish.com. about vehicle quality. and when they were done, chevy earned more j.d. power quality awards across cars, trucks and suvs than any other brand over the last four years.

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leaning twitter feeds or the activist wing of our party. that's why this piece in the "washington post" caught my eye. barack obama, conservative. the left and the right still misunderstand his politics. joining me the author, assistant editor for "the washington post" outlook section. david, were you trying to be provocative or do you really believe that president obama is a conservative. >> good morning, michael and happy thanksgiving. i do think president obama is a conservative. not a conservative as we discuss it so often nowadays, but i think to start this discussion you have to have a definition of terms. republican doesn't mean conservative, doesn't mean right wing, certainly doesn't mean trumpist. i think where you situate obama and where i've tried to situate him, as others have, is someone certainly between the 40 yard lines idealogically.

the only question in my mind is which side of the 50 yard line he's on. i think he's slightly to the right of it, and that's what i talk about in this piece. >> you cast him in in the same light as t.r., bush 41, why? >> that's another way to look at him and others have described him that way. he's sort of the heir in this era to the moderate rockefeller wing of thought and style of governance. george romney, rockefeller, ford, nixon, the first president bush, as you said, michael. president obama was an snaul snaugsallist, establishmentarian. believed in government to change people's lives. he always, starting going back a decade further, was looking to do it in a way that preserved the way his predecessors had done things and also preserved a traditional american sense of

the american dream. he was looking to improve america, not to sort of turn it upside down and fundamentally change it despite, i know, that there was sometimes rhetoric in the way he campaigned that made it seem like he wanted to do that. >> this is from your essay. the former president was skeptical of sweeping change, bullish on markets, sanguine about military force, high on responsibility and faithful to a set of old-school personal values. compare that to proposals from would be successors, medicare for all, the green new deal, free college, a wealth tax, universal basic income. i don't know if in the survey question today, because you have framed the issue for us, i don't know that you're going to carry the day, but i think if i worded it differently and said by comparison to this 2020 field obama is a conservative, i think you would have won. >> i think you're right about that. a lot of the sort of response i

got to this piece was people saying, well, obama was wasn't a conserve, a pragmatist, centrist, a moderate. i think that is certainly a fair way to characterize him. part of this piece was a fact check. the debate is between moderate and conservative. i think looking back on obama now, it is fair to say that the idea that he was ever a socialist, which was always ludicrous or somebody from the left certainly in the way he governed or carried himself in office over the last decade is just not the starting point of this discussion. let me just zero in on one thing from the piece you read there, michael. president obama was good for business, and that is something that republicans then and now worked hard to downplay. but president trump just in afghanistan this weekend said to the troops, i think inappropriately, isn't it good to be fighting for something that's working for you and went on to cite the stock market. as of yesterday's dow close the

market is up 42% since trump took office. on the same day in president obama's presidency the market was up 45% and when he left office it was up 149%. obama made plenty of mistakes, didn't do everything right on the economy but in terms of big business, he was good for business. >> take our final 30 seconds and try and convince the audience with regard to the affordable care act obama is a conservative. >> sure. two things. one, it was aversion of romney care, governor romney's plan in massachusetts. before that a version of a heritage foundation plan. more than that, it was the idea that president obama wanted to do things incrementally. he said when he campaigned, michael, if i was starting from scratch, i'd do it differently. since i'm not, we're going to do it this way, stick with a market-based plan. part of being a conservative is

recognizing realities and governing not as you want to in your fantasy world but as the real world fits. that's why he went for that instead of, i think, the public option, which democrats really wanted. that's why i think it has remained in place all these years later. >> i think his mistake in terms of the rollout, the technical issues aside, was in not casting it as an issue of personal responsibility. all right, david. be prepared to lose the survey question today. i think that's a forego conclusion. it will be very interesting to see how high you've moved the needle, so thank you. >> thanks, michael. >> let's see what you're saying via twitter and facebook. this comes from facebook. regarding obama, compared with the far left candidates today, yeah, i mean, carolyn, that was the point i was making to david. had i worded it slightly different and said in comparison to elizabeth warren or bernie sanders or a slew of other candidates now running on the democratic side of the aisle, yeah, he's probably the most

conservative in the crowd save maybe joe biden. go make sure you're voting at the survey question today at smerconish.com. former president barack obama, this is david's theory, is a conservative. you've got to agree or disagree. i'll give you the results at the end of the hour. up ahead house judiciary committee is holding a hearing to determine if president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors as described by the constitution. i'll talk to a scholar who testified on both sides of the issue at the impeachment of bill clinton. before an nfl player and magicians who made the finals of "america's got talent," he suffered an unthinkable tragedy. when he was just 12, his father killed his mother. how did he survive and thrive. [♪]

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committee set a deadline of friday to decide whether trump's attorneys will participate in impeachment proceedings. this starts the clock for the white house to decide if it will take part in the impeachment process which they have claimed is unfair or wait for a potential senate trial to make the case to congress and american people. latest cnn reporting is the white house probably won't participate in wednesday's

hearing on the constitutional grounds for presidential impeachment. a panel of expert witnesses will testify whether the president's alleged conduct falls under high crimes and merchandise as cited by framers in the constitution. well, my next guest has valuable experience on the subject. in 1998, michael gearhart testified about similar impeachment of president nixon. the only expert invited by both parties. here is part of his testimony. >> the ultimate purpose of impeachment was not to punish but to protect and preserve public trust. framers did not exhaust list of potential imbeachable offenses instead left it to subsequent generations, subsequent congresses to decide on case-by-case basis. michael gerhart joins me now. look at you, you haven't aged a

bit. >> i wish that were true. >> i know there's been this total reversal by the parties since the last go round. in other words, it was 1998, it was the democrats who say, the country wants taos move on, and it was the republicans saying we have an obligation. we need to pursue the case. do you note the same thing? >> yes. the parties have switched. that's not surprising. this happens not with respect to impeachment but other important issues. back in -- as you said, back in 1998, the house republicans were pushing the idea that impeachment had to be used against president clinton and democrats responded that it's just all politics. now, of course, it's just reversed where republicans are saying it's all politics and democrats are saying we're doing this to vindicate the rule of law. >> it seemed to me from reading your testimony, professor, that members of the congress were trying to draw you into the

question of does president clinton's behavior rise to the standard of impeachment. you were essentially saying, hey, i can tell you what the framers had in mind but that's really your job. is that a fair summation? >> i think that's a very fair estimation. it's exactly what i was trying to do under those circumstances. i was trying to sort of underscore the fact that the ultimate choice isn't mine as a professor but it was one to be made by the members of the house. of course they ultimately did. my job, i thought then, and i still think now, is to talk about the law and particularly the constitutional standard for impeachment a president for certain kinds of misconduct. >> the framers really did not enumerate exactly what high crimes and misdemeanor means. treason and bribery, able to be easily defined. but relative to high crimes and merchandise, why the vagueness, if you agree that's how they did it? >> i don't think they were being purposefully vague. they were using language, high

crimes and misdemeanors taken from the british system before the constitution was ratified. in the british system those words had meaning and certainly had meaning for the framers. the meaning was these words referred to what was understood as political crime. not the kinds of things you'd go to jail for but offenses against the country, serious abuses of power, serious kinds of misconduct that might not be criminalized but ensemble a president or high-ranking official could get. that basic understanding is clear. we take that understanding and try to see how the facts we have before us fit it. >> i've been wondering if this conversation will turn slightly towards censure. i know in 1998, this, too, came up in your testimony. here is what "the new york times" wrote about what you had to say on the subject, "views on sense you're not widespread are uniform. the law professor at the college of william and mary and the only

one of the 19 witnesses to appear under the spokenship of both parties said censure had been used. you're quoted as saying i think censure has a textual and historical pedigree we shouldn't ignore. >> it means censure might be an to address presidential misconduct. censure basically is an expression of disapproval by the house or the senate. just that. just an expression of disapproval. for example, the president did something bad. abraham lincoln introduced a resolution criticizing james polk for illegally starting the mexican war. my thinking is that it was good enough for lincoln, lincoln thought it was permissible, it's something we ought to take pretty seriously. >> finally i had a conversation with chris coons of delaware who made the point to me that the senate has experienced an impeachment, more experience,

perhaps, coming from federal judiciary. members of the federal judiciary. is there guidance in the impeachment process of federal judges you think applies to what we're currently looking at? >> yeah. great question and really important point. it gets overlooked a lot in the discussion about impeachment. the house impeached 19 people in american history. the only people convicted and removed from office are lower court federal judges. so we can look at those situations and learn a lot of things, such as what's the burden of proof, no rules of evidence. we also can learn the valuable lesson people may be impeached, convicted, removed for things not indictable offenses, things not laid out as crimes in federal statutes. as i said in the beginning, offenses against republic, serious abuses of power. the judges that have all been

impeached, convicted, removed, were all liable or guilty for those kinds of offenses against the country. >> professor gerhart, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. i want to remind you to answer the survey question at smerconish.com. former president obama is a conservative. are you agreeing or disagreeing with that statement? in comparison to the other members of the field this year, i think you'd have to say yes. anyway, go vote at smerconish.com. ahead he played for philadelphia eagles, finalist on "america's got talent," achievements made all the more remarkable because when he was 12 his father shot his mother. i'll talk to jon dorenbos about how he overcame that tragedy next. when the food you love doesn't love you back, stay smooth and fight heartburn fast with tums smoothies. ♪ tum tum-tum tum tums

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magic." my inspiring journey from tragedy to self-discovery. tragedy, to which the title refers, refers to the fact when he was 12 his father killed his more than mother. jon dorenbos joins me now. jon, the book is remarkable. i won't dwell on this part of it. august 2nd, 192, you get out of bed, your father laid out your baseball uniform, puts you in the neighbor's car without any hint he killed mom the night before in the family garage. >> that's where the journey starts. that's where i drove away. >> was there any history of violence, explanation, anything that can make sense of what transpired the night before? >> no, that's crazy. we were kind of like "the brady bunch." he coached my teams. president of little league. my mom volunteered at school. we were loved by the community.

this was completely out of the blue and shocked not only the neighborhood but shocked my family. >> you're very praising of your therapist, john, you give him a shout out, many shoutouts in the book. something i'm wrestling with, the therapist when you are 13 thinks it's important you be given the opportunity if you choose to do so to see the autopsy photos, and you did, and you're glad that you did. speak to that. >> you know, at the time everybody thought he was crazy. i'll never forget the moment he ended up going back to court. we got a court order. my sister and i first minors, it was super intense. i remember the moment he said look, either not about whether i want you to see it, you should have the choice. it should be your decision. this is your reality. he said if you look at these pictures, there might be a day you want to see your dad, 20 or 30 years down the road. if you do look at these pictures and do decide to sit one day and have lunch with your dad, it will be for reasons other than wanting to know what happened. this kid, this is what happened. i basically took his advice.

i went through the pictures and looked at them, and that was my reality. >> if anybody had a right to grow up angry and hostile, it's you. yet the book is called "life is magic." explain. >> life is magic. this is my journey. i believe this, that we need to find motivation in the worst things that happen to us. instead of repeating history we can make it better for people after us. i want to make this better for my daughter. when i look up in heaven, i talk to my mom every day. i can be a choice, be what she wants to be or live in circumstance. i choose to live in vision, make this world better, be the dreams my mom wanted to be and not repeat the negativity. >> your escape became both magic and athletics. you explain in the book that your life became a mission of sorts to cleanse the dorenbos name. in other words, you wanted folks to think dorenbos associated to your athletic or magical talents and not that tragedy that took place outside of seattle.

>> you know, i found this, my name means something, and it means something to me. every team i was on became family. every time i would see a magic trick, the world quieted. i would see two, the world would be quiet and i would be the kid i wanted to be. during the day i would play football, which means i could hit you and not get in trouble, take our my aggression. more importantly it was about the owners or coaches or whatever person decided to have me on their team, i wanted them to hear my last name and be proud of it. i want them to say there's nobody else i would rather have on my team than you. what that means is i want to bring pride back to my family, when they think of dorenbos, they think of something other than my dad. >> you made it to the nfl as a snapper, thank god for pam anderson sex tape or maybe that wouldn't have happened? >> yeah. i learned how to edit vhs tape. that's when the tape was going around in high school. long story short, i was a good player.

i lacked some footage. i didn't lori loughlin this thing. i knew i could do it and knew i was capable. i took some teammates, borrowed their footage, put it on with my footage and sent it out and the rest is history. >> the book begins, the memoir begins, and it ends with you seeing your father for the first time in 26 years. why were you interested in seeing him at this stage of your life? >> there were years that i wanted to see him, i thought about it, that i was curious but nothing in my life estimatsteme action. my daughter was born and i realized it was time to become full circle. i had lunch with my dad. that lunch symbolized a relationship that could have been, should have been, i wanted to sit across, feel the pain, feel that time in my life, reflect on all the things a father and son missed out on and find motivation in the worst thing that happened to me. i never said three words out loud. i never said i forgive you.

at the end of five hours i said i forgive you for being lost, making mistakes, both of which i've made many. i realize all those things we missed out made me more excited to be a dad, be a husband. i wanted to find motivation to be everything for my daughter that my dad was not for me. >> john, we just showed the photograph. now we're showing the photograph of you, your wife and gorgeous daughter. we showed a moment ago the reunion picture from your book. i can't help but notice he's got a big grin, not so much you. i don't know what to read into that. what should i read into that? >> i think that was a moment where i reflected on this just happened. i never thought i would sit there and say i had lunch with my dad. i called my wife right after this and i said, babe, i have something to tell you. it was reflecting on a lifetime of pain and mourning and finding forgiveness. it wasn't about him. here is what i learned of

forgiveness was i'm okay with what you did, rekindling my relationship it was about being okay wit. it was all about me. not an issue of hey, now i'm waving the white flag and surrender. a lot of people think forgiveness is winning and losing. in that moment i think i was just reflecting on probably the hardest journey i've been on and the most intense conversation i've ever been a part of. >> will that relationship now continue? >> no, and i wasn't there for that. i didn't need validation. how about this? i was on the plane heading there. there comes the moment i thought about my therapist. that was the moment i remember him saying, hey, if you look at these autopsy pictures and you decide to do your dad one day it will be for other reasons other than wanting to know what happened. sure enough, there it was. i was going there for reasons other than wanting to know what happened. in that reality i realized i don't need excuses, stories, answers from him. me being there had nothing to do

with him. it was about my journey, about trying to become the best father i could for my daughter and best husband i could for my wife. i'm glad that i did. >> notwithstanding my eagles bias, the book is tremendous. thank you for being here. >> thank you guys so much. >> jon dorenbos. still to come, we all accumulate too much stuff. i'm guilty of that which is why i'm an avid fan of marie condo's they are. on her website she's selling more stuff. [♪]

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but the disposal of any possessions that do not spark joy. as we say in our house, things that end up in the next garage sale. kondo's tutelage allowed me to release concert t-shirt, loungewear like college hoodies, countless books, even ones i wrote and lots of political efemara. when i heard she had opened an online store of her own, i naturally assumed it was for storage related items, things that would facilitate her principles of tidiness. yes, there's some of that. trays, desktop boxes, simple storage containers. but she's selling more than things that will keep you organized. tuning forks, bud vases, a candle, a mirror and a tissue box cover to name just a few. don't get me wrong, they all look awfully nice, and frankly just the sort of things i would have bought for someone or hope

someone would buy for me before i read her book. now i'm not so sure. that tuning fork, it looks like just the sort of thing that starts out on display and ends up in the kitchen junk door or at least was the junk drawer. i'm trying to give gifts that the spark joy. kondo's book will make the cut, not her bricabrac. smerconish.com, question, former president obama is a conservative. agree or disagree. ♪ introducing a razor that works differently.

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time to see how you responded. barack obama is a conservative. agree r or disagree. what have we got? wow. man, i am floored by that. 7,419 votes. that's not the part that floors me. the part that floors me is you know it's like within the margin of error. i said to david, you're not going to carry the day. but i'm shocked by how close it is. really a sign of the times, huh? in comparison to the rest of the field, i bet it would 90/10. what else came in? what do we have from social

media? smerconish, i voted no. barack obama may be conservative, but he is not a conservative. i guess you're picking up on what i just said. it's a relative term perhaps in this climate. but not a conservative. he's not a conventional conservative, but he's not that which he was cast as during his eight years in office. that we can agree on. what else? wouldn't you agree that the left has gone further. bald head man, i need that handle. yeah, i'll give you that. and you need to give me that the right has done likewise and leaves the rest of us the exhausted majority, somewhere in between. look, the data says and take a look at morris from stanford because he's done a lot of this research. the data suggests that most americans have not changed their

political views in the last 30 or 40 years. we're pretty much where we were in the 1970s. the leaders in the media, oh, they've got adrift. what's next? smerconish, bloomberg is so tone deaf, that's where the hostility comes from. he is the r very opposite of what we want. no more white guys? what are you blanking me? so now we're going to, linda the liberal. so now all white guys are now disqualified by the nature of their skin kocolor? you don't deserve to have linda the liberal as your brand. you can't say we can't have people of one demographic. why would we rule him out? i'm not here to carry his water, but why would we rule him out at the outset? because he's a white guy?

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