affect any statements from giuliani. i will be back here at 6:00 p.m. eastern. and a new special this sunday, impeachment, white house in crisis, with some very special guests. i hope you mark your calendar wheres, and i hope you have all the canndy corn you and your family want. "hardball" with chris matthews starts now. three strikes. three strikes. let's play hardball. good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. the hometown of the world series champions. in historic action today a divided house of representatives set the course for an up or down vote on the impeachment of the president. it passed a resolution formalizing the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump. it marks the third time we know

that the members of the house had taken such a consequential step, and it brings the proceedings into a new public phase. 231 democrats and one independent stood united behind speaker nancy pelosi as she affirmed to the american public that they and anyone willing to join them would defend the constitution. >> what is at stake in all of this is nothing less than our democracy. at times i've found each and every one of us in this room and in our country to pay attention to how we protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> the vote today comes as new evidence of a quid pro quo has emerged, another key witness has now affirmed that military support to ukraine was conditioned on the investigations that trump was seeking from that country to kneecap his political opponents. tim morrison, a top advisor on

the president's national security council testified today under subpoena in the ongoing inquiry, a deposition that comes just a day after he expressed his intent to resign from had administration. nbc news reports that according to two people familiar with his testimony today morrison told congress that the substance of ambassador bill taylor's stunning opening statement last week was accurate. as "the washington post" was first to report morrison testified that he alerted taylor to a push by trump and his deputies to with hold both security aid and a white house visit for the ukrainian president until ukraine agreed to investigate the bidens among other things. and that would make morrison the third witness to afirm the deliverables of a quid pro quo, military aid in exchange for political dirt. it's the latest in an avalanche of new evidence to emerge from the inquiry and none of it is

good for president trump. joining me right now is u.s. congressman denny heck of washington state, eli stokels, white house reporter for los angeles times, cynthia is a former federal prosecutor. thank you all. congressman, as a member of the committee, give us a sense -- take your time -- the historic nature of today's vote by the house of representatives. >> well, chris, look, let's put this in perspective. we already have the president's confession as it were in the memorandum of the call and mick mulvaney his acting chief of staff having signed that confession in his press confidential and the text messages. and we've had one wrosh three witnesses or more fully cooperate. and he threatened explicitly threatened to with hold aid

unless that was delivered. after the cold war ended in 1994 ukraine became -- and you're hearing this correctly -- the third largest possessor or landlord of nuclear in the world. and we had to do something called the budapest memorandum of security insurance which in effect gave ukraine a guarantee of the sovereignty and fidelity of their borders in exchange for them coughing up and giving over the nuclear arms, which they did. >> and so this was a key component of ending the cold war, in effect, ending the threat of a third world nuclear war. >> we got rid of the nukes in exchange for which ukraine could become a sovereign nation, and now we're turning our back on them. this isn't just the fact they're

a bulwark against a maligned russian init tent which as we speak occupies ukraine and has maligned intent for the rest of ukraine and georgia and europe. this is nation struggling to stand up, a vibrant democracy which up holds the rule of law and free and fair open elections. this is nothing less than our word and commitment to another strategic partner and ally in the fight for democracy. >> let's talk about the nature of impeachment. the resolution is now through, finally ending up with some articles of impeachment coming out of the house judiciary committee. my sense of this, i want you to talk about that as a member of the committee when the president of the united states was asked to approve javelin missiles, the missiles used to fight russian tanks, he said i want something from you, though. i want something first, i want dirt first. tell me what you sense that means in terms of this president's human values and his

patriotism. your thoughts. >> well, his exact words, i would like you to do us a favor, though, and i think it speaks for itself. he shook them down for help in his 2020 election by asking them to manufacture dirt on a potential political rival. it's no more and no less. but, chris, here's the deal. as we now transition to the more public phase of this, as we begin to transition away from the investigation phase, i suspect the republicans are going to have a much more difficult time because here to for they've been objecting on everything on the grounds of process. they have demanded and called for exactly what we did today which they then all voted against. and now we're going to get into the more substantive part of it. what are they going to argue when ari actually dealing with the substance? any value to date suggests he did exactly that, shakedown ukraine and threaten to with hold military assistance to a vulnerable strategic partner.

and then what are they going to argue? we don't like that we get to cross examine? i think they're going to have a pretty tough time with this. >> cynthia, i want to ask you about a trial here, and this is basically the grand jury part of the trial. we're putting together evidence that in the back room like in a grand jury, we're going to have public testimony to back that up, to dramatize it for the american jury, if you will. at what point will you say diminishing returns? we've got now three top witnesses all saying the same thing, there was a quid pro quo here. they saw it coming, saw it happening. at what point do you say to a judge or to yourself, we've got the case, let's take it to the jury? >> what you don't do is wait until you can get bolton or get these guys having a hearing in december? it's really time to stop thinking about all that. today was important because this

morrison guy can confirm there was a quid pro quo. remember he wasn't there until july 15th. the key witness, the entire arc of this conspiracy was way before he got there. they had this meeting which sondland has been lying about. >> right. >> and now they have not just three, they have the transcript, they have mulvaney, they have giuliani's statements waving his phone around saying everything he did was for the state department. they have taylor. they have vindman, and then they all this tangental people. >> that's a great reporters question, eli. republicans watching this have been bluffing i think saying once we get past arguing about procedure and all, we're going to argue about the merits of this case. are they ready to make a case against the merits?

>> some are starting to. the president obviously wants republicans to stop arguing about process and start defending him on the merits. the facts of the case piling up are thought favorable for the president. they're difficult to defend, and perhaps that will become even more the case once some of these people are being deposed in public and the country is hearing them. but, you know, republicans, they're talking to the president, the president is courting them, he's doing a lot of personal outreach. he had another lunch with republicans today. he knows how much he needs them. they are looking not just at the relationship with him but at public opinion. and so far public opinion hasn't moved in favor of impeach. but it hasn't moved enough to change the calculation. not a single republican crossed the party line and voted just in favor of the inquiry, and that tells you this continues to be right down partisan lines. and that's where the white house wants it because they want the country to see this as a partisan decision, not a court case, not a trial.

>> when we're talking about court cases and one of the things you'll learn as a trial lawyer, you only have to have your own witnesses which are good, vindman is obviously good. you also have to catch the other side in a lie if possible? and it really helps solidify the strength of your case. and in this case we have this guy sondland lying through his teeth. he not only says i forget, he afi affirmatively lies and says it's all about the bidens. >> meanwhile there's new reporting in what happened in the aftermath of trump's july 25th conversation with president zelensky when the records of that call were locked down. "the washington post" reports that lieutenant colonel alexander vindman testifies it was white house john eisenberg who proposed moving the call to

a classified server and after vindman told him what the president did was wrong. so it looks like consciousness of guilt here. in other words vindman's testimony suggests he expressed the records of the call once he learned it would be problematic for the president. can you now analyze this sequence of events? vindman goes and tells eisenberg, the lawyer for the s nsc, you've got a problem with this transcript, and he says i'm going to bury it, i'm going to hide it for history. >> completely out of protocol and tradition and practices. but i want to go back to the comment about ambassador sondland's voracity with respect to some of his uttererance. frankly if he were to call me up i would say to him, mr. ambassador, really you ought to prepare an amendment to your testimony before the committee

for your own sake frankly in light of the number that come before and offer contradictory points of view. but i also would suggest to him he better be prepared to get thrown under the bus. president trump had a history of using and abusing and disposing of his subcontractors, by the way, and dumping them and getting rid of them and not paying them and ending up in court just about more than any other human being in new york and the fact of the matter is you're going to know they needed to get rid of him and i predict that activity is going to start pretty soon. >> you've got a hot hand in the way you're describing this, congressman. he gets rudy at the end of his career looking for cash. he's trying to raise money for himself, dealing with his own matters he's got to deal with, making himself famous again or infamous. you've got this sondland paying

a million dollars towards the inauguration for a president you didn't want nominated, didn't want elected, you got him elected. he's given you a really nice job. european union. but instead of focusing on brexit and all that stuff that has to do with european union as you used, out sourced him, they go over and do the dirty work on ukraine. is this his method, pick up desperate people willing to pay for jobs, people have have no career left and want some prestige and then exploit them and throw them under the bus? >> actually to the list of ambassador sondland i would add mick mulvaney and rudy giuliani. these are the three prime nominees to be the next people thrown under the bus by the president. if he thinks he needs to do it for his own protection he won't wait pun intended a new york second to do it. >> well, you know what, he doesn't have a midas touch this

president. he touches you and you're -- it's brutal, right, eli? >> this is president who's always trying to press, leverage, right? that's what he does with ambassadorships, people in and out of the administration. there's an article today about how he's trying to basically make sure he goes and fund raises and that's basically at the crux of what we're talking about with his conversations with ukraine. >> and what does he call people who don't play ball with him? scum. >> well, disloyal scum or whatever, and that's always the excuse. if you're in his way you're out to get him. >> a hint in morrison's testimony, he tries to throw sondland understand the bus. you see the preview of it. >> i think this is really critical to his ability to inoculate himself a lot of people who are going to start defending him more on the

merits, they're going to say things like what sondland told zelensky, which is this is just how the president operates. and they're going to say, look, this is just his behavior. and a lot of people who support him have tended to accept that. >> why do they put up with it? mulvaney has been -- >> he's finished for trying to explain this guy's m. o. thank you so much. congressman denny heck for giving a great exeritation what this is all about. coming up nancy pelosi's moment and republicans demand a house vote on the impeachment inquiry and they got what they asked for. but with mow republican support whatsoever for the inquiry what happens next? and former national security advisor susan rice joins me tonight on the long line of diplomats coming forward to testify. look at these people. they're national servants.

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committees. only two democrats opposed the resolution, collin peterson of california, and jeff van drew of new jersey. for weeks republicans who complained the probe had been conducted behind closed doors, today they got what they asked for. but during the debate on the resolution they again criticized democrats' motives. >> what we're seeing among democrats on the intelligence committees down in the scif right now is like a colt. >> this is unprecedented. it's not only unprecedented this is soviet style rule said. >> democrats are trying to impeach the president because they are scared they cannot defeat him at the ballot box. >> the lone independent in the house, justin amash of michigan voted with democrats to approve the resolution. amosh tweeting this president will be in power for only a short time, but excusing his

misbehavior will forever tarnish your name. to my republican colleagues, step outside your immediate and social bubble. history will not look kindly on disingenuous, frivolous and false defenses of this man. for more i'm joined by jonathan allen, mera tanden, michael steele, former rnc chair. i want all three of you, i'm going to give you more time than usual, this is historic day. i think it happened actually with nixon. this particular vote to proceed with the inquiry. it happened we know with nixon. it happened with clinton. with different impacts. nixon was gone, clinton was back in fashion again. he went right through this thing like nothing. but today it was so partisan. i want to ask you as a republican, why do the republicans hold the line against these really star witnesses that say the president did setup and exercise and

execute a quid pro quo trading public trust for personal political interest? it's so stark, and really undenied. >> well, i think primarily because they believe the public has not in large measure bought that narrative, that that is a narrative that the democrats have been saying repeatedly up against this yooild that this is a sham effort, that this has been done in secret. and therefore because it's been done in secret this is lot of stuff that favors the president that we don't know. well, i don't know what that would be. >> i mean, because he's admitted doing it. because his top mick mulvaney has admitted -- >> he's admitted doing it, but they said, yes, i wouldn't have done it. and yeah, he admitted he did it, but that doesn't rise to an impeachable offense. >> it was naughty, it was a fib

or something -- >> like all good preemptive defenses you end up ultimately losing the game in many cases because the offense is that much better. the facts, the narrative presented by very credible witnesses and the overall impeachableness of this president, he impeaches himself is enough to carry -- >> it's an interesting study because the nixon case is so different. he had a history going back to 1946. everybody knew who nixon was. the economy sucked. there's all kind of reason at the time he was in deep trouble. he got caught lying about the june 23rd tape, about obstructing justice, he got caught. clinton it was initially about a sex behavior case and it was complicated because a lot crossed party lines on that. 31 democrats voted on a resolution investigate him, but what's this? is this somewhere in middle or what is it, between nixon and

clinton? >> i actually think the public is actually making a judgment. i would say the fact that before the trial, essentially before the public testimony, you have 50% of the country maybe 46%, 50%, 51% of the country already supporting removal. that is stark number before the public testimony. and i would just say when you have a fair number of witnesses all validating the same argument and a witness who will be in uniform, who will make the case that the president violated in dress blues, violated the national security interests of the united states -- and the truth is i think the indictment here is the fact that there is so little defense on the facts for weeks. >> we all know here that members of congress who can get re-elected or not re-elected every two years. and they're very responsive to their voters. whatever you think about the

american government, the house is pretty democratic, lowercase "d." even the two democrats who didn't vote with pelosi's resolution today they represent this which i grew up in one of them. not a big deal but we had a summerhouse there, and i know that place ocean city, cape may, wild wood and also the inner parts regular jersey neighborhoods, they're conservative. and the fact this guy voted with this district makes perfect sense. so what i'm arguing is it's the republican voter out there, not just the politicians that seems adamantly for trump. explain, lucy. i don't understand why they're still loyal to him. >> i think a lot of republican voters are loyal to him and we're going to see this fight -- there's a certain base that's going to stick with trump no matter what. the question is outside of that certain base that's going to stick with him no matter what, are democrats going to make the case not only did he commit

impeachable offenses but did he commit offenses that require him to be removed from office? they're going to say not only was he conduct something bad for the country but his conduct is something that can't be allowed to go forward. to make a nixon parallel here, you have the 18 minutes of missing tape that was really the sort of big lie in the nixon era. now you've got vindman saying essentially there's missing transcript, right? so you're going to have essentially the same parallel that comes out in testimony -- >> incriminating missing tape. >> that's what the democrats are certainly going to argue, that this is incriminating. and what they're going to say is the president of the united states put his personal interests in front of the national interests. and that's why not only is his conduct impeachable, but that's why he can't be allowed to continue in office. because if he's somebody who's going to continue to put his personal interests in front of the national interests and in particular national security interest with regard to ukraine

and foreign government interference in u.s. elections that's something -- >> i think that was a good argument. >> can i just say really quickly? he did this after the mueller report. so what democrats are also going to argue unless you make him accountable, he'll do it again. >> it's okay to boo this president? >> absolutely. >> explain that for one second why is it okay to boo this president in public at ballparks? >> i think when the public -- not political leaders but when the public is chanting lock him up as a joke against the president, we shouldn't -- >> thank you. up next, john bolton reportedly likened trump shadow in ukraine to a drug deal. he called jewel johnny a hand grenade, pretty good language,

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welcome back to "hardball." former national security advisor john bolton has been invited to testify next thursday. they've got a date on the house impeachment inquiry. through his lawyer, however, he said he's not willing to appear voluntarily, but he would be if he shows up the most prominent and recognized figure to give testimony. multiple witnesses have described how he was disturb bide the shadow campaign to ukraine to get ukraine to testify against -- or investigate the bidens. it came to a head in a july 10th meeting where according to former state department official alexander vindman eu ambassador gordon sondland started to speak about ukraine delivering specific investigations in order to secure a meeting between trump and the ukrainian president. at which time bolton cut the meeting short. former nsc official fiona hill

testified bolton was so disturbed by the efforts to get ukrainians to investigate trump's political opponents he called it a drug deal, according to nbc news. nbc news reports further hill also testified bolton told her to report the situation to a top lawyer at the national security counsel, that would be eisenberg. and bill taylor testified bolton told him to testify withholding the aid. thank you, gentlemen. what i like about bolton is he used a great compelling phrase, drug deal, smelly, dirty, furtive, shouldn't be done, illegally obviously a deal to try to hold up military assistance to get dirt. and yet he's holding out. can you read -- is he going to be an available witness because pelosi says we're not going to waste time with court fightess,

we're going to move ahead. if we can get him? >> my analysis would be he's also a hard core republican. he doesn't want to be seen as the key witness who took down the trump presidency. his deputy was in court today, filed a lawsuit asking -- and they share a lawyer, asking a judge to decide who's right here? >> can you expedite a judge -- >> well, a judge told the justice department speed it up guys, don't take vacation, i want this decided. so perhaps that accelerates. but regardless if bolton gets up there particularly in public, if this goes to public hearings, he would be a devastating witness. >> because the republican party to the extent there is a schism between the trumps -- >> i think that's right and he

could add to a story that's unfolding of a white house and national security council that was not fighting over policy, not disputing what the republican, the american, the hawkish approach should be to russia or yiukraine but perhaps was concerned improprieties were happening, perhaps the law was being violated. he could keep telling that story. >> we're getting his account from everybody. do we need him? everybody says bolton said, bolton said, bolton said. is that enough? >> here's the thing bolton was in meetings that these other witnesses were not in. he was the national security advise, so he was in meetings with donald trump that perhaps few other people were in. he may significantly add to this story, and he may go in other directions. he could be a really powerful witness if they can get him. and also he's kind of a famous guy. he goes in public and testifies, he's a credible republican and a well-known guy. >> what i like about him again is the schism in the party

between the real hawks and these sort of uppopportunists. when he speaks everybody's going to know he's speaking out of national interest, whatever you think of his politics. >> i think that's right. what you'd hear from him presumably is a story that goes one step beyond did something happen here. we know something happened here. we've read the transcript, seen the text message exchange. the question is how many people knew it? he's the one that said go talk to the lawyers about this. so to keep building on how widespread was the problem and how widespread was the awareness it was a problem, he can add to that. >> you can give a title to a book about this too, drug deal. that's informative how sleazy it is. up next, president obama's national security advisor joins me to share her insights on the attempts to bury the ukraine

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welcome back to "hardball." today timothy morrison, the trump administration national security council senior director for europe and russia affirmed the link between military aid for ukraine and political dirt for the president. he joined 11 other current and former officials who have broken with the president to testify. to date the white house has refused to cooperate with those proceedings and has pressured key individuals to do the same. president trump has targeted some of these public servants himself saying they're part of the deep state. and he's out to get them. like many of these individuals susan rice has spent her career on the front lines of american diplomacy and foreign policy, and her new book there it is

"tough love" she details those years. susan rice, former national security advisor to barack obama, she joins me now. thank you for joining us. when you watch this spectacle, a top national security people who we've never heard of before in most cases coming forward testifying in a scif, down in the basement of the capitol about the president's behavior trading national interest, trust for personal political gain, what does it take for those people to come out and talk? >> well, understand, chris, for the most part these are civil servants who never wanted to be national names. they just wanted to do their jobs quietly, effectively in service of the country. for them to come forward requires enormous guts and enormous patriotism. and they're doing it clearly at great risk to their careers and maybe to their personal security. so this is quite serious to the extent that they've chosen against the wishes of the white

house to share what they know. >> so they have the words i think a new deal, a passion for anonymity. they didn't want to be famous. >> they didn't sign-up for the public spotlight. >> and then the president of the united states calls one of them his envoy to ukraine scum. how does that resonate among the people who are right now as we speak going home with homework from the nsc to do their jobs every night. >> i hope certainly the men and women who work at the nsc who over my experience of two administrations are loyal, committed public servants of neither party for the most part know that the american people respect and admire what they're doing because obviously they're not getting the support they need from their superiors. >> let me ask you how things are done. the president has a phone conversation with a foreign leader, in this case an ally, zelensky of ukraine, a new president of a very endangered country. what happens to that conversation? how is it archived?

how is it kept, curated, whatever? how does that work? because we've been hearing about it. is it a transcript? is it a summary? was it notes? >> well, i can speak to my experience and most recently in the obama administration. what would happen if there was a foreign leader call is that staff and note takers in the situation room would draft a transcript of the call. and it was meant to be as complete as it could be, typically. the responsible staff members would review it. it appears from testimony that colonel vindman was one of those that was supposed to review it for accuracy. and where there are garbles or things omitted, they would make those changes. in normal times in my experience that transcript would ultimately be approved by the national security advisor or the deputy national security advisor and then it would go into the records. and those records would not be kept in a super secret highly classified setting -- >> who could do that? who could say i want this squirreled away hidden from

history like this guy eisenberg? >> it strikes me as unusual to say the least. that server to my knowledge was used for the most secret super classified documents. never in my knowledge for a transcript. >> let me ask you about that -- the decision to do that, what would be the purpose of doing it? why would you hide something? >> well, obviously it seems from what we've learned already that the intent was to minimize the number of people who could see something that might be embarrassing or worse to the president. which by the way is not supposed to be the role of a white house lawyer. >> what do you make about the fact mulvaney was acting chief of staff and head of omb which is huge job was not even notified about going after and killing al baghdadi?

>> if those reports are true, it's extraordinary. i can't imagine a situation where the white house chief of staff would not only not be notified but not be part of it planning and discussions around such a consequential decision. and there was some statement suggesting he wasn't near secure communications and couldn't be notified in time. if the white house chief of staff isn't in close proximity to secure communications then we're all in trouble, the system has broken down. i never traveled anywhere -- the white house chief of staff or dennis mcdona, when was i was national security advisor never traveled without -- >> susan rice is going to stick with us and talk about her book "tough love." coming up remember that iconic photo, that one the day after donald trump's election, there it is. what were they thinking at that moment? that's next. you're watching "hardball." momet that n'sext. you're watching "hardball.

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welcome back to "hardball." in her new book "tough love, my story of the things worth fighting for" former national security advisor susan rice writes about how she recognized the very real prospect of a trump presidency back in august 2015. quote, during a small dinner party with president obama and a

couple of senior political aides i said i could see a way for trump to gain the nomination. i persisted saying there's a lot of hate out there. you know some people just can't get over where we are now. i was not suggesting then that trump would be president, but i didn't think the nomination was out of reach. susan rice is black with us with her clairvoyance. you thought it was do-able he might just pull that thing off? >> i certainly thought it was possible he could win the nomination. this was august 2015, so we still had quite a ways to go to the nomination, but i saw a path. i'm not proud to -- >> i believe in it, that barack obama was a sterling character, his family was such a sterling perfect family, they are perfect by any standards of traditional american values. they obeyed all the rules. they weren't money grubbers. public service from the beginning of his career. he went into helping the country with community development, the whole works, public service.

and it drives some people who don't like the success of anybody that was a minority crazy. you suggested that was one of the reasons why you thought trump might win. >> i think it was that and more. i think there was a vein of discontent that i sensed that trump had the potential to tap into. part of it may have been of course the fact that we had an african-american president who was elected twice and quite successful in office. but i think it was broader than that. and, you know, at that time the field was very large. and it seemed almost inconceivable to most people that it wouldn't be, you know, a bush or a rubio or something like that. but trump had a particular brand of tapping into visceral, negative views of, you know, many americans. >> demagogues, too. >> and they were out to divide us. >> you write the day after trump's election, quote, i felt like a stinging rebuke of all we

believed in, unity, equality, dignity, honesty, hope, and progress. the more i thought about it, the worse i felt. you had early dealings with michael flynn who was going to be your successor in national security match. >> he was my successor for 24 days. >> and you predicted -- well, in the book you say predicted, this guy is not going to last. what was it in him you saw as fragile, let's put it that way? >> he seemed to me out of his depth. interestingly not the man we all saw at the republican convention shouting "lock her up" but rather quite subdued, quite humble it seemed at the weight of the job as he should have been. but substantively, strategly he didn't seem that well prepared or that interested in learning what he needed to learn. >> that grabbed me, the fact that a guy about to take over the world, the nsc has to cover

every continent and issue and 1 >> it was 12 hours and i chased him for those meetings. he was busy meeting foreigners as well as doing whatever he thought president-elect trump wanted him to do. i was trying to get him to understand what he needed to do to hit the ground running in terms of substance, the issues he needed to face on day one as well as running the nsc, how to staff it, what the budget was, basic stuff. >> this is real person, by the way, not just an expert. so i want to talk about the nats. i watched all the games. why would it seem only win on the road and win every single game on the road and lose all the home game ss? >> god bless them. i was born and raised in washington, d.c. and to remember the senators and how heart breaking it was when they left. and here we are finally, finally have world series champions. i don't know about you, i know

you must have been thrilled last night. i was whooping and hollering in my hotel room in boston. >> through threw out a pitch one night. nobody can throw 60 feet at 60 inches without practice. >> i didn't want to be looped on fox throwing a dirt ball. >> and you're throwing a nice overhand and damn well so it would reach the plate. >> and it was a strike. and i swear to god of all the things i've had to do, performing in front of crowds, that was the most nervous i've been. >> because the one thing you don't want to do when throwing a ball is -- i practiced so hard for the nats one time and i got that one a little bit outside but definitely credible, but not a strike. thank you for you. susan rice with another strike. author of "tough love." a great book about an interesting person. up next, what we can learn from the best leaders and best

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at their best great leaders and great journalists are also educators. by their state craft in the state of leaders, by their trade craft in the case of journalists they show us how it is done. watch speaker nancy pelosi these past weeks. notice her sense of timing, her patience in waiting for the key moment, her quickness in action when it came. she held off her caucus until she saw the clear-cut case for the president's impeachment, that she struck with all her force and intellect. today we got the accountic from that. 231 democratic votes for the impeachment inquiry, just two gents. better yet three strong impeachable witnesses to the president's abuse of power all testifying on the record. three strikes as every american knows and you're out. tomorrow night we have a top journalists onto talk about impeachment but also about her trade craft. my colleague rachel maddow will come on "hardball" to assess this historic week, to talk to

about "blow out" her huge new best-seller about the fouling corrupting power of oil. don't miss rachel tomorrow night here on "hardball." he always has something to teach. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on "all in." >> the resolution is adopted. without objection the motion to be considered is laid upon the table. >> the impeachment resolution goes to the floor and the ayes have it. >> the president's misconduct has compelled us to continue to move forward with an impeachment inquiry. >> what it means for the democratic strategy moving forward. >> i don't know why the republicans are afraid of the truth. >> and what we know about the president's new plan to woo impeachment jurors with campaign cash. >> no republicans have raised concern. >> plus brand new testimony from a sitting white house official

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