that wraps up this hour. look who is here live and in person in new york city. great to see you. >> great to be with you. the i word. nancy pelosi slows down the push for impeachment as 2020 candidates look for words. >> i believe there's a basis to proceed. jared speaks. jared kushner calling the russia investigation a distraction and nonsense in his first interview since the mueller report. >> i thought the whole thing was

kind of nonsense. we ran a very untraditional campaign. we had a lot of outsiders coming in. normally in politics you have people who are known by all the different entities and we were very unknown to everybody. london calling. the queen invites president trump for his first visit after protests in london downgradesed last year's trip to the united kingdom. >> the state visit includes an elaborate welcoming ceremony, a state dinner with some 100 plus guests. meetings with the prime minister and other high profile politicians and possible an address to parliament. good day. democrats are divided on the hot issue of impeachment with party leaders and most 2020 candidates still weary of the likely political backlash. overnight kamala harris followed elizabeth warren's lead by

delaying the house should start impeachment proceedings against the president. >> this president and his administration engaged in obstruction of justice. i believe congress should take the steps toward impeachment. >> i believe that every person in the senate and the house ought to have to vote and to say either yeah, that's okay with me. yeah. just step in. >> bernie sanders ahead in early polls and out distancing the competition in fund raising is taking a very different approach. >> for the next year, year and a half going right into the heart of the election, all the congress is talking about impeaching trump and trump and trump and mueller, mueller, mueller. we're not talking about health care. we're not talking about raising the minimum wage to a living wage. we're not talk about combatting climate change. we're not talking about sexism and racism, all of the issues

that concern ordinary americans. what i worry about is that works to trump's advantage. >> all this while nancy pelosi is trying to buy time. joining me now nbc capital hill correspondent kacie hunt and robert costa. how is this issue ramping up especially as we hear for the first time jared kushner just within the hour speaking at the event. let me play a bit more where he was asked about the mueller probe. >> what happened was all these people thought trump was going to lose. they all predicted trump was going to lose. they were wrong. the american electorate and this great democratic system chose

the opposite. i think of saying we got it wrong, they said maybe it was russia. now we have spent two years going through that nonsense. >> to both you and kacie. he's diminishing the report. he's assuming that people listen to william barr rather than reading the report. is that working for the trump white house? >> jared kushner is echoing his father-in-law, president trump. this message of defiance in the wake of mr. mueller's conclusion. this is the message the white house wants to keep up between now and the 2020 election. not delving into a long discussion about the president's conduct or possible obstruction of justice which is the conversation many house democrats and some republicans are having on capitol hill. rather framing it all as something that was against them. that poses them as this anti-establishment force in american politics but it is a more complicated story than the way mr. kushner describes.

>> kacie, nancy pelosi with her conference call with her members really is trying to slow this down. >> yes. one thing i do think about nancy pelosi is she'll be in the spot where most of her members are. she is very good at understanding the politics within her own caucus. this is a position she's taking, that tells me that most house democrats are still with her. she wants to win above all else. she wants to hang onto the house ma yojority and beat donald tru in 2020. an impeachment will not remove this president from office. it's clearly not going anywhere in the senate. the challenge is to try to keep their focus and i think leadership has been relentless about this. focusing on the issues like bernie sanders was talking about. health care and all the things that democrats ran on in 2018.

the problem is they have a liberal base angry with the president and a few high profile members in the caucus who want to take a different path. i think they will take an aggressive investigative path and perhaps this will change but right now i don't see this. >> the politics of this is pretty clear. there's investigation fatigue and robert costa, what pelosi knows and the 2020 candidates aside from kamala harris and elizabeth warren are understanding is this could help re-elect donald trump. he will gin up the base and his campaign fund raising against robert mueller. >> for months they have been lead by speaker pelosi in terms of the political strategy. that will continue for the

months to come. it's been clear what the statements by senator warren an harris that there's a clamor on the left side of the democratic party to be a more aggressive in going after president trump and a little bit of political tension between that view from capitol hill and the view from the campaign trial. for those running for president trying to generate enthusiasm for the campaign. >> there's an op-ed from the former white house press secretary in the new york times today. just to reference one part of this, he is saying that allowing mr. trump to lead the republican party for weak willing leaders is the greater prize than removing him from office. democrats have a once in a lifetime opportunity to realign american politics along progressive like ronald reagan did for republicans in the 1980s. his strong argument is don't impeach.

let him serve out his presidency and use limb as thim as the tar. >> the reality is the republican party is divided as ever among those who are turned off by president trump's character, by the way he conduct himself in office from the base of his party. the more democrats can move into what can be portrayed as attacking this president, the more a lot of those people who remember that's the party home. we saw that in the midterm elections with brett kavanaugh. there were a lot of people who looked up and said, right, i might not like donald trump but i'm not with those guys either. that is the political calculus for democrats. >> great to see you. >> thank you so much. >> robert costa, you as well. moments ago i was sitting down with democratic senator

kirsten gillibrand about the whole question of impeachment. here is more about our conversation. >> welcome. thank you for being with us. impeachment, it's the hot topic. where do you stand? do you think it justifies the house proceedsing now with impeachment? >> i think it's important to keep that on the table. i think we need a process and what i'm looking for is an unredacted version of the report. i'm looking for testimony from robert mueller as well as mcgahn and the attorney general. i think it's really important that the american people get the truth and get all the facts. i think it's an outrage that this administration tried to change the purpose of the special counsel statute by having the attorney general place himself between the report itself and the american people. first with the summary. second with trying to have a press conference and third with multiple redactions.

the congress must have a fully unredacted copy. once we have that we can decide whether we must proceed. i think it's important that we get to the truth. >> you're a lawyer. you read the report. from the report itself there are 11 instances that many say would rise to obstruction of justice if not for the justice department's prohibition against taking a prosecution of a sitting president. why not proceed now? >> i believe there's an obstruction of justice and proceed to impeachment proceedings based on what we know. i would like to have the report fully known before reproceed. i think what congressman nadler proprosed is wide and appropriate. i support that fully. >> elizabeth warren and kamala harris are saying go to impeachment now.

don't wait. there's a moral issue. are you afraid of the political backlash with a solid argument this would only help re-elect the president? >> no. i think it's important we leave impeachment on the table but i want to have a process to get there. i do want take this testimony and have the full unredacted report produced to congress first. then we can look at all the facts and make an informed decision. for myself, having raead the unredacted parts, i think there's numerous basis to find obstruction of justice. particularly by asking mcgahn to fire mueller, asking him to lie about it and write a memo. there's three examples of what i would view as obstruction of justice and the basis for obstruction of justice impeachment proceeding. >> jared kushner was interviews and asked to respond. >> quite frankly the whole thing

is a big distraction for the country. you look at what russia did and it's a terrible thing. i think the inslvestigations an speculation that's happened for the last two years has had a much harsher impact on democracy than a couple of facebook ads. >> he said this is a distraction and what russia did was a couple of facebook ads. >> he clearly hasn't read the report himself. what he said is outrage. for him to make light of a foreign adversary purposely trying to undermine our elections is untenable. i'm gravely concerned that this administration continues to not take this seriously and those statements are highly inappropriate. >> now you have released, today, your principles. you have 2020 pledges that include not to participate, aid or encourage hackers or foreign actors in any attempt to

influence elections or competitor's campaigns. never seek out information from foreign adversaries. so where would you stand based on what rudy giuliani said this weekend? what's wrong with having foreign interference? it's not against the law. what's wrong with it? >> it is against the law. i think it's an outrage for any campaign to knowingly accept hacked material from a foreign adversary. if you look at what president trump did in his own campaign and what was revealed to the mueller report, we know that this is very harmful to our democracy. i hope every candidate for 2020 will take this pledge because the truth is, we should not be allowing foreign countries to interfere and undermine the basis of our fair elections in this country. >> just looking at the polls, early polls are misleading,

obviously. right now bernie sanders first in new hampshire. pete buttigieg moving up. joe biden has name recognition. why do you think white male candidates are doing better than any of the women candidates? >> well, i don't know. this is a marathon and not a sprint. i know that i have a vision for this country and the experience to get it done and plan to get it done. my vision is for things that simple as national paid lead, as pr broad based as national public service. really trying to get to full employment. we're dealing with under employment across the country and making sure people can get a better education. that kind of vision, you need know how to get it done. getting money out of politics. making sure the greed and

corruption doesn't prevail. that's why i'm running on publicly funded elections and have a record of actually bringing people together. i started my public service career in upstate new york where it was a two to one republican district. i not only won that district twice, last time with a 24-point margin but brought my state together with highest vote threshold in the history of the state. i don't just bring the red places and the blue places together. i also do it legislatively. that's why even in the last congress, i passed 18 bills with republican house, senate president and passing big bills like don't ask, don't tell repe repeal. >> you did when you were representing a very republican district, you had different positions on guns. we have litigated that. >> interestingly, i haven't lost those votes. those ten counties of my first house district, i've won them by a higher margin since becoming a senator and in last election, i won back 18 trump counties that

went for trump in new york state. >> the entire democratic delegation and not the governor or the senator? >> i can promise you the presidential election is not about who endorses you. it's about whether you connect with voters about the things that affect their lives. this an election not about the elites, it's about the people. i've been on the ground in iowa now four times. i've been in new shamp hihampsh. the people want someone to bring this country together. we have never been more divided. i have a record of bringing the red places and blue places together to get things done. >> joe biden will be announcing thursday, i've been told, and will make the same claim to bring people together, red and blue states.

several women said he was too familiar. do you think that should be disqualifying or an issue in the campaign? >> it's not disqualifying but it is an issue that i'm sure voters will want to ask him about. when he becomes a presidential candidate, which he expects to do shortly, those are questions that he'll have to answer for the voters. >> do you think it's unfair to conflate that as some do with the metoo that is arguably very important. >> metoo was about creating space for men and women to come forward to talk about sexual violence, sexual assault and sexual harassment in their lives and not only raise their voices and be heard but have a possibility for justice. the metoo movement is part of a much broader conversation. the moment they were in, you know, it's much more about givigive

ing opportunity for women to be heard, to be believed and have an opportunity to be valued. it's why this conversation is broader than just sexual assault and harassment but also equal pay for equal work. it's about affordable day care and universal pre-k. >> you still believe bill clinton should have resigned? >> i've said all i'm going to say on that issue. we have a president in the white house who has over 12 allegations for sexual assault and that we as society have to look at these issues far more broadly and hold people accountable. the truth is, this moment that we're in isn't just about sexual harassment and sexual assault. it's about whether we value women. that's why we need a leader who will bring ideas to the fore like national paid leave, affordable day care, universal pre-k, making sure we have equal pay for equal work and making sure you and i don't have to accept a standard of harassment

or assault or having to assign mandatory nondisclosure agreements as a measure of employment. we need a leader who is willing to stand up and fight for all americans and make sure all of us can be heard. >> kirsten gillibrand, thank you very much. >> thank you. we have more break news on 2020. mike, what have you got? >> we have been working our phones. very hard to try to nail down the exact details of joe biden. we can now say with sources directly involved in the planning tell nbc news that joe biden will announce on thursday with an online video. making his candidacy official. he will follow that announcement on thursday with a public appearance on monday with union workers in pittsburgh. we expect that event focus on

the economy. these same sources says he will follow that event with trips to all four early voting states. as you know, there's been a lot of different details, different locations, different venues as we have been careful to say none of these details are official until they are locked in. these sources are meeting with the vice president this morning o finalize the details. now with much greater certainty, we can say joe biden will be joining a crowded presidential field and hitting the ground running in the coming weeks. >> we'll face some immediate competition especially bernie sanners leading the pack in a new hampshire poll. i know it's next to vermont and new hampshire is home territory

for him. he's online fund raising as well as his name recognition have made him a formidable factor in this race. >> reporter: that's right. normally we see him have big rallies. today he's having smaller events with organizers, volunteers and supporters. we left an event in portsmith, new hampshire where he talked about his grass roots support. one interesting thing, this was a room full of supporters. i spoke to one of the supporters of bernie sanders and asked her about vice president biden possibly entering the race. she framed it in an interesting way saying that biden had some street cred, her words because he was president obama's vice president but he's a thoen pers --

known person. people will listen to him but there's not going to be a shift of her support. that mirrors what i'm hearing from some sanders advisers who say biden is not coming out of nowhere. he's in the mix. he's in poll you referenced a bit ago where here in new hampshire, bernie sanders is leading double digits to vice president biden. he's familiar. he has name id. people know what to expect from him and so far sanders and his campaign knows what to expect if he does jump in later this week. andrea. >> that poll you referenced, we were just showing it on the screen. bernie sanders way out in front. he's been around the tracks. he's got the money base, the small donors and it's got enough money to stay in it until the end of the primary season. if he's not the candidate, he's a major factor. joe biden at the peak of his populari popularity.

some saying maybe he waited too long but he'll get in on thursday. take a look at pete buttigieg in this poll. a lot of progressive democrats are interested in the guy out of south bend, indiana. elizabeth warren in next door, massachusetts only 5%. single digits for her. kirsten gillibrand not even on this map now whom i just interviewed. the women way below the men in this particular new hampshire poll at this very, very early stage, i should say, but allow does that shape up? >> the women have lagged behind the men and the white men all along in this race. that's one thing that's been consistent. i don't know if it will change. elizabeth warren doesn't want to be in single digits but she wants to be in fourth but she hasn't been in a lot of polls. an important place like new

hampshire, yes it's a neighboring state but it's an early state. that would be good news for her. two weeks ago, there was a new hampshire poll that had bernie sanders at 16%, well behind joe biden. this is great news for him. if anyone was watched buttigieg over the last month, certainly this not a surprise. unless something interrupts his rise like a scandal, it's hard to see him not finishing in the final four or five, in my opinion. biden doesn't have to be the front-runner now. he doesn't have to consolidate his most support upon arriving in the race. people will drop out. this will look very different after some debates. it will look different by halloween, well before january. this will be a different race when voting starts. >> another issue has come up with both sanders and pete buttigieg which is felons voting while in prison, according to

bernie sanders or after they get out which many states, or a number of states virginia, florida now have. lindsey graham taking off against sanders on what he said. let's play for sanders and buttigieg from last night. >> if somebody commits a serious crime, sexual assault, murder. they will be punished. they may be in jail 10 years, 20 years, their whole life but i think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy. yes, even for terrible people. >> i do believe when you're out, when you have served your sentence then part of being restored to society is that you're part of the political life of this nation again. >> lindsey graham has taken off against bernie sanders in a tweet saying just when you thought it couldn't get worse. bernie sanders sports allows rapist, murders and thiferroris to vote from prison.

where do you think this issue goes? >> i'm sorry. can you repeat that? i was distracted. >> let me ask shaq about the whole issue of felons once they get out of prison. i would argue not as controversial as what bernie sanders has endorsed which is voting from prison and lindsey graham going after him on that. >> reporter: right. i'll just say, i've been following senator sanders on the road for some time now. he's said this before at different rallies. he mentioned this in iowa before and it got some reaction. it was framed differently in this town hall are he was asked about the brothers who were involved in the boston bombing. should they have the right to vote from jail. sanders says, in vermont, the constitution allows that to happen. in his home state it allows felons and inmates stroto vote.

he says he doesn't want to see people losing their right to vote. that leads him possible that he just mentioned if you're over 18 and if you're a u.s. citizen then you should have the right to vote, period, as he said. >> well, i think it's very clear that lindsey graham, translation, the trump people, are taking bernie sanders seriously. from the past election there were some trump voters who had been bernie sanders voters in the primary. >> yes. they overlap on some issues primarily with trade and this willingness to break up the whole system and produce radical change and although he calls him crazy bernie, the reporting out of the white house is around president trump is he's impressed by bernie and kind of likes him. he talks about him in a different way behind closed doors when at rallies. they see him as a threat and it is, as you said, with his

strong, robust, loyal supporters combined with cash advantage, i do see bernie sanders threatening anyone else in the running for the nomination. i think he is determined to go all the way to the convention no matter what. >> nothing going to clearly going to stop him. mike, wooe'll see what joe bide has to do. we'll leave it there for now. thanks to all. coming up, citizenship clash. the supreme court just heard oral arguments over the trump administration's controversial move to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. pete williams breaks it all down. case that could have massive political implications right here on andrea mitchell reports. stay with us. to a single defining moment...

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years to come. the williams brothers. >> where's brian williams when we need him? >> working every hour of the day for us and especially at 11:00 tonight. tell me about the oral arguments. what can you glean from the way the justices questioned. >> reporter: i think the government will win. let me explain why. the constitution requires a census every ten years to figure out how many seats in the house and how much money states get for federal programs. this year the trump administration for the census that's coming up every ten years wants to add a question about citizenship. now, the opponents of this, the states that stand to lose the most here say that will depress the responses.

there's good data that shows that people just either won't turn in the form or won't answer that question and by adding the question, you'll actually get less information. the government concedes that point but they say here's the deal. we need the citizenship data to better enforce the voting rights act. yes, every time you add a question to the census, it's trade off but the conservatives on the court seem to be willing to agree with the government here that this is a judgment call for the census bureau to make, for the commerce secretary to say which is better? to try to get information for enforcing the voting rights act at the expense of some error rate or don't put the question in and not have as much information about citizenship. that's a reasonable judgment call within the commerce secretary's discretion. the opponent hos here say this a of getting more information from the voting rights act is a

pretext. sonya sotomayer called it a problem in search of a solution. there dm documented it will cause people in minority communities to not respond and will produce a worse under count. the government seemed to be willing, a bare five vote majority including the two justices seem to be willing to say that this is an agency discretion question and not illegal for the government to do this and wouldn't violate the constitution. i think that's the bottom line. the government is hoping the supreme court will hurry up and decide this question so they can start printing the census forms. they are all set to go. just waiting for the decision

here. >> maybe call me a cynic but when did this administration start really worrying about enforcing and supporting the voting rights act? >> i'll take it a step further. this supreme court or conservative supreme court in the last several years voted to gut the voting rights act. it's the iro irony of irony thae voting rights act is the base si for supporting this decision. it's quite unfortunate it looks like it will fall down to the 5-4 level. this is a test of whether john roberts is truly the chief justice that will call balls and strikes and is going to be this neutral umpire that he said he would. this is the most nakedly political case. you'll find a 5-4 majority over turning the will of three district court judges. if that's the judiciary that this chief justice wants to preside over so be it. that goes against all he's ta

talked about for some time. they had so many basises on which to do. there was the legal question that we know that wilbur ross fabricated the reasons. he talked to the white house back in 2017 years before and established the basis for this. in the law that's called a pre-textual reason. there's the proses argumecess a they didn't follow the process. there's factual question that the constitution tells the government to only do a handful of things. doing a census is one of them. as my williams brother, pete says, we know this will lead to a less accurate census count. one estimate is 6.5 -- an

undercount of 6.5 million. for all those reasons if the court wanted to rule against the commerce department they could have but they are just choosing not to. >> we'll have to levave it ther. thank you both so much. coming up, day of mourning. four americans among the victims in sri lanka. a live report, next. lanka a live report, next. hmm. exactly.

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the death toll has risen against in sri lanka in a national day of mourning that's lost 320 people to the easter sunday terror attacks. at least four americans are among the dead including a fifth grader who was on leave of absence from the elite washington, d.c. quaker private school attended by chelsea clinton and the obama daughters. isis is claiming responsibility for the dbombing but offering n evidence it was involved. one claimed the motive is retaliation for the massacre of muslims in the christchurch attack in new zealand. bill, what do we know of this

claim of responsibility from isis? >> reporter: gloood afternoon. the prime minister addressed this in a news conference that ended a short time ago. he said this may not be over. he warned there were more terrorists on the run. some armed with explosives. he said on sunday there's been an attempt to bomb a fourth hotel but that failed. he said these men, the bombers, have linked to isis but he didn't go into that in any great detail. isis made this claim its issued. photographs of the men issued. it's a video of eight of them but it offered no proof beyond those names but they were behind this bombing. we should regard it with some skepticism. however, as we have seen in the past, the timing, the targets,

the relative sew fiophisticatise planning this took has the hallmarks of other isis attacks. >> the man hunt continues. >> reporter: yes, the man hunt continues. the number of arrests has gone up to 40. based on local reports and on the video that isis released, it looks like the leader of this local islamist group has been killed. almost certainly they would need foreign help but the prime minister also repeated this extraordinary claim made earlier that this was in some respect a revenge attack. he said once again, that it's possible this was in revenge for

the killing of muslims atmosings in christchurch, new zealand last month. first of all, last month muslims are killed at worship and mosques now here in sri lanka, he's saying it's possible isis did this. some analysts are saying it couldn't be like this because these attacks would have taken two or three months to plan. it couldn't just have happened one month after the new zealand attacks. on a extraordinary claim. >> thank you so much for your report. coming up, to london to visit the queen. president trump gets his long awaited invitation for a state visit to the uk. we'll have the inside scoop, next. stay with us. e scoop, next stay with us my experience with usaa

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>> moments ago senator kamala harris, candidate for president with her initial reaction to the news we first reported that former vice president joe biden is making his presidential bid official on thursday with a fro parker, "washington post" white house reporter and msnbc senior political analyst and phil, white house bureau chief for the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst as well. phil, first to you. the whole entry of joe biden long awaited. it's coming on thursday. a video announcement. we're told later by a labor rally in pittsburgh on monday. your take. >> yeah, he's been preparing for this moment for some time and i think a lot of democrats are going to be looking at him as he enters this race to see whether he's the right candidate for this moment. he's very well-known to the electorate. obviously his decades in the senate. his eight years as vice president under barack obama. but this is a different time and i think hooe going to be trying to show that he's the right fit

for what is an e violaing and diversifying democratic electorate. >> and ashley, the women candidates i was talking to kristen gillibrand about this, seem to be getting less attention certainly in the new hampshire poll today. you've got sanders out in front then joe biden. lot of name recognition there. pete is a surprising third place finish er there. they're the only ones in double digits. >> it's true and it's hard to know why that is. but it's something that has not gone unnoticed. from the candidates themselves and frankly, from sort of the democratic class of female operatives. a lot of people think they're you know claim sexism and are frustrated with that. they think it's a lot easier for a white man with a lot less experience to kind of waltz on to the national stage. again, these are very different candidates. they have different backgrounds and stories. it's hard the tell why this is

happening, but it is sort of a low rumbling of discussion among the democratic chattering political class. >> let's talk about the president for a moment because he's finally gotten the state visit information from the brits. there were so many protests last year. talk that the palace didn't want the host him, but he is going to get all the trappings of a state visit on his way to normandy for the 75th anniversary commemoration of the invasion. phil. >> yeah, trump has wanted this state visit from the beginning of his presidency. he wanted the sort of pomp and circumstance that comes with an official state visit. the meeting of the queen. the procession. he may be even riding a carriage, and yet did not accept that invitation last year in part because he was fearful of the protests in the city of london. we'll see what happens this year. it's a visit been long in the making and i think it you know

to trump, is the ultimate sign of respect that he's been looking for on the international stage. zpl and ashley, we'll see whether this time he will speaking of pomp and circumstance, not walk in front of the queen completely blocking her out rather than alongside the queen ahead of state as he did last time. there was the whole, we're showing it now. if you're watching this on radio, get your video later because it really is a memorable moment with the rest. so ashley, with the president's visit and all of this on the world stage, what and this announcement today which he has long wanted, what was he doing with you know, all of those tweets overnight? a tweet storm. 30, 40 tweets. more today going after everyone, talking about harley davidson, mixing a lot of facts there. of course promoting his fox

friends and going after joe scarborough on "morning joe" as psycho joe. >> he did. i believe it was actually more than 50 tweets over 24 hours. not all of them you mentioned some were directed at trade and a number of other issues, but a lot directed at the media and a lot of that is frustration that even though the report has come out and it is a victory for the president in the sense he is not facing criminal charges, there were a lot of embarrassing details in there. the president is still sort of, he feels vindicated, but he's livid. still furious about the senior aides who talked. the embarrassing details he says aren't true and a lot of that was r reported in the media. i think that's one of the reasons you're seeing all these tweets attacking the media because the media in his mind is sort of the bearer of this bad news but in that over 400-page report, there's a lot of unflattering details for president trump. >> phil, i think it was your tweet earlier recalling a 2017 statement by the president that

doesn't really watch tv. he reads his documents? >> yeah, andrea, that was, that's one of many false statements this president has given. he was aboard air force one in 2017 and told the press he doesn't watch much tv because he's so busy reading documents. but we know he doesn't read that much. he doesn't really read his intelligence briefing, but spends hours every day in front of cable tv and that's why he spoke with such authority this morning about the various morning shows on the different networks. >> and broiefly, phil, he's goig to have his name perhaps according to netanyahu today, announcing a resolution calling for a new community, a new settlement on the goalen heights, which the president endorsed the annexation of named after president trump. phil. >> yeah that's a significant development and seems to cement and memorialize the connection

between president trump and netanyahu and israel and all of the support the trump administration has given to the netanyahu administration and what they're trying to do in israel. >> wow, phil, ashley, thank you both and we'll be right back. >> thank you. k you both and we'll be right back >> thank you everyone's got to listen to mom.

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>> i was just as i put my mike on and i could hear your show, i heard you talking about the naming of a settlement in the go l golan heights after president trump. it's nice to get things named after you. >> president trump loves it. >> it further angers the arab leaders. the persian gulf leaders and other leaders are furious over this. this is their territory. arab territory. they don't seem to object to the palestinians getting pushed aside in the west bank, but they are not happy about this. >> but a quick way to get to president trump's heart. >> sure. >> put his name on it. foreign leaders have figured that out. >> have a good afternoon. hello, i'm ali. >> it is tuesday, april 23rd, 2019, let's get smarter. >> and more breaking news on 2020. >> we can now say with