. good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lede, game on. we now know the gop strategy heading to the public impeachment hearings next week. republicans want to make this about hunter biden and the whistle-blower. while democrats want to focus on the quid pro quo and the ability of honorable americans coming forward to tell the truth about trump's alleged abuse of power. this after house republicans

released today a list of witnesses who they want to testify in the public phase of the impeachment inquiry. aside from former vice president joe biden's son, other people on the gop wish list include many of the individuals relied on by the whistle-blower in drafting his or her complaint. however, it is unclear how many of these requested witnesses, if any, will be approved by house democrats. meanwhile, a new poll shows how republicans are processing the prospect of impeachment. the survey says republicans initially argued that the president didn't do anything wrong. the whistle-blower was lying and there was no quid pro quo. that defense has quickly collapsed, and now republicans have revised their argument. trump did it, but it's not that bad.

even if it is wrong, everybody does it. yes, 65% of republicans now say that trump's ukraine scheme was, quote, normal presidential behavior. once again, trump creates the new normal. also in the show tonight, new rumors that former new york city mayor bloomberg may run for president. i've known, worked, and fought closely on michael bloomberg for over 20 years. yet i'm still not sure that i have the answer to the $53 billion question. could bloomberg's possible run for the democratic nomination hurt the party or help them defeat the president trump? joining me now is noelle nikpour, republican strategist and author of "branding america" and philippe reines, former spokesman for hillary clinton and cohost of the podcast

"unredacted." let me start with the wish list, philippe, that the republicans have handed in on their witnesses for the public house impeachment inquiry. it's interesting to me they're not putting up anyone from ukraine, anyone that was on the phone call with the president of the united states and the president of ukraine. they're putting up hunter biden and putting up the whistle-blower and those that they say aided the whistle-blower. what message does that send? >> well, they're doing what they've been doing for the last two years which is basically make a lot of noise. they had an advantage up until now, specifically through the whole period of the mueller investigation where they were picking on someone who couldn't fight back. they were attacking mueller, his character, his background, his conflicts, the people who worked for him, the way he was conducting the investigation. and mueller, because of the nature of his job and because he took the job seriously, was silent. what's happening now for the

last six months since the democrats took the house back is that you have the good guys talking back. and the republicans are just making a mockery, whether it is storming into rooms, whether it is calling the vice president's son, the democrats are filling the vacuum with rational thought. like you said, they are not calling some other witness or some kind of defense witness who can say you know what, i was on that call too, because the facts aren't on their sides. the best they can do is wave their hands in the air and distract. that's not working. and it's been clear for the last six weeks that's it's not working and it's not going to work. >> noelle, is this a sign they are conceding that the president did engage in what is called quid pro quo? i call it extortion, but, i mean, clearly quid pro quo, people may not understand. extortion, shakedown, you

holding military aid and saying you're not going to get it unless you do what i want against a political opponent in my country. we're talking about a foreign country. are they conceding this by not disputing what happened on the phone call and going after trying to bring in biden's son and trying to bring in the whistle-blower, who, by law, has the right and obligation to say if something's wrong or those that aided him. isn't this a major concession? >> well, it's very interesting, instead of focusing on that, you are right. they are actually -- and you can look at the list of witnesses they would like to call for interrogation to be grilled over. they want to focus on -- it's clear, hunter biden, the bidens, everything with bidens and their business dealings. they want to paint the family of the bidens as corrupt. that's what they want to do. >> which is what he was trying to get the president of ukraine to do. i mean, it's almost like i'm going to do it anyway. >> yeah. well, i mean, you know, the interesting part of this is the

more this leaked out about what president trump did, the more republicans are in a way back pedaling on this and saying, okay, he did it, okay every president can do this, okay, this is business as usual. and some are even saying that president trump had a right to inquire as to hunter biden's participation on these boards and what that meant for the role of the united states with the biden family. so, you know, i think that you're witnessing trump's brand. i keep it's like teflon. i don't think anything sticks to him and i think this is why a lot of people are frustrated because they are seeing this. nothing is really sticking to him. >> well, "the washington post" reports that house republicans are sporting a new defense of president trump, implicating three members of his administration, u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland, trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, and

acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney. quote, as republicans argue that most of the testimony against trump is based on faulty second-hand information, they are sowing doubts whether they were actually representing the president or freelancing to pursue their own agendas: the gop is effectively offering up the three to be the fall guys. philippe, i mean, when you look at some of the others that have been connected to the president and talk with them, oh, you might need a pass to a federal prison if you want to talk to magnificent, his campaign manager or michael cohen, who was his lawyer/fixer, like his son. if i was one of the three, i would not be too comfortable as being someone that they are now saying, oh, they may have been doing this on their own agenda, had nothing to do with the president. it's like the only one they want

to protect is the president. >> yeah. i don't think any of the three of us or anyone watching or anyone with a brain is surprised that the next step in this is to start saying -- trump to start saying i don't even know these people, i barely met them. >> he literally said that about sondland. >> yeah. you know, he'll say it about rudy and mulvaney. he'll say, look, i don't know what others were doing. if you look at trump's history, there's a thousand things he does very badly. one of the things he does terribly that comes back to haunt him is how he fires and how he gets rid of people. most people who've been bosses or led organizations, they want to make sure that they are leaving people happy, either paying them off, getting them a better job, they're making sure that they stay inside the tent as opposed to being outside. i can't say the word on friendly television, but on the tent. and what he's done over time, whether it is anthony scaramucci

or any of these names that he has antagonized on the way out the door, they have all turned on him. donald trump is known for not having any loyalty to people. i'll tell you what, people don't have any loyalty to him. if sondland, mulvaney, or rudy, even rudy, think that they need to hang him out the dry to save themselves, they will do so. >> now, noelle, he has no loyalty to people, at least that's what the record has shown. if any one of these three, or john bolton, whose lawyer has said we got information that a no one has heard yet. this is in a letter to the impeachment -- the house democrats that are dealing with this impeachment process. if any of them flip, how does that affect him if at all in his

base in terms of being teflon? >> depends on what information they have, zponit depends on it. a beautiful example is michael cohen. michael cohen has been his right-hand man for so long. >> absolutely. >> he basically had the nerve to say, trump actually said he was the not that close to him, that this guy was -- >> he used to say he was like his son. i've been in meetings with the two of them. >> i've seen them together. when trump took office, michael cohen was coordinating a lot of the efforts on the financial side, doing a really good job. and then when all this went down, who? michael cohen who? i think we are seeing the pattern that's set forth. as far as information, as far as new information that could be, you know, something turning for president trump, i think that, gosh, what did president trump say a long time ago? he said he could walk on 5th

avenue, shoot someone and still be okay? this is what we're witnessing. >> he said people would you still vote for him. the question is will more vote for him. this week with virginia when democrats took both houses of the state legislature, the governor of kentucky lost despite the president coming down. he was a little up in the polls. he actually went down after trump went there. does this mean that even though 65% of republicans are saying something, that the majority of americans are saying we've had enough of this? >> well, it's clear in every election whether routine, scheduled, or special since the 2016 election has clearly been just a shellacking for donald trump and the republican party. i don't know why that would change between now and next november, and there's the old

question, if the election were held tomorrow, who would win? i think if the election were held tomorrow that donald trump would lose resoundingly. lucky for him it is not tomorrow and he has short of a year to do two things. first, to just tarnish his opponent, whoever it turns out to be and the party at large, and, two, get his act in order. we know two is not going to happen, so he has to rely on their favorite playbook, which is just to turn the democratic nominee upside down, whether it is goal gore, john kerry, ask ty tried it with barack obama with birtherism and they got away with it three or four times. >> he's going to have another possible question to answer if a real billionaire is in the race. but we'll talk about that when we have more with noelle and

philippe later in the show. the house intelligence committee starts impeachment hearings on wednesday. coming up, we'll talk to a member of that panel, congressman andre carson, about what he wants to uncover and what he thinks is imperative for the american people to learn. but first from our colleague richard lui with other stories we're watching this hour. >> a couple stories we're watching, president trump is at the lsu at alabama football game. this is the first time president trump has attended the matchup. bypassing cheers greeted the president and first lady as he was introduced during the first quarter less than two weeks after boos in washington, d.c.. today marking 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall. november 9th, 1989 was the day that communist government in east germany relented a protest and allowed free pacific through

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welcome back. following weeks of closed-door depositions, the house intelligence committee will begin public hearings on wednesday with testimony from the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine and also a state department official. the hearings will continue on

friday with testimony from the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, who was fired six months ago. joining me now, a member of the intelligence committee, democratic congressman andre carson of indiana. congressman, what do you want to extract from these witnesses that you feel the american people need to know? >> thanks for having me, rev. i think it's important that these witnesses, many of them will reiterate what was said to members of the committee privately. but also i think they will highlight the fact that president trump did, in fact, attempt to misuse taxpayer dollars, your and my taxpayer dollars that have been approved by both the house and the senate to use as leverage to force the ukrainian government to investigate a political rival, i.e., joe biden. >> now, when people say this is no big deal, it doesn't rise to

a level of impeachment, you're saying as you just clearly said, he took u.s. congress agreed-upon money, voted-upon money, taxpayers money of the u.s., to use u.s. tax dollars as leverage to get some dirt on his political opponent. is that not an abuse of power that is impeachable, in your opinion? >> absolutely. i think it's textbook abuse of power. i think what's important to note, from my republican colleagues, reverend, to constantly talk about rule of law, to constantly talk about the preservation of our democracy and our republic. they have blatantly refused to condemn president trump in a way that indicates a deep-seeded fear of the president campaign against them in their own districts, or even tweeting against him several times thus jeopardizing their primary re-election efforts. it's a very sad time.

>> now, the party, the republican party has always been known, in my time, as the party of law in order. seems now they keep moving the bar on where's the law, and they've certainly tried to have an administration of disorder. we're looking at this proposed witness list. as you see this witness list, it doesn't seem like they are addressing or intend to address with witnesses the phone call and the actual transaction that was between the president and president zelensky of ukraine. they want to go to joe biden's son, they want to go to the whistle-blower and those that might have aided him. so it seems like if you're having a hearing about abuse of power, you would be trying to prove it wasn't an abuse of power rather than issues that really doesn't directly or, in some cases, indirectly address what is being raised here. >> that's a great point,

reverend. i think that even with their attempts to remove certain members from the intelligence committee and replace them with the likes of representative jim jordan, it shows that they are pulling from some of president trump's staunchest allies and they're attempt to go stack the deck, if you will, to have advocate and people who are more disruptive sit on the committee, for people who will leak more information to the press on the committee. and it shows a kind of lack of patriotism in my mind, since they want to talk about the constitution and patriotism so much. they're showing this blind loyalty to a president who is not only traeyrannical, but als bully. >> they shifted him from the oversight committee to be part of this committee, a temporary member of the intel committee for the impeachment hearings.

now, jordan, as you stated, is a strong defender of president trump, but he's also whole life kno -- known for his combative questioning style. are you nervous republicans will now set the tone for hearings and it will become a circus-like atmosphere? >> i think so. i think the intelligence committee has a particular tone and a culture that is suitable for the members who sit on the intel committee. it's a committee that both of us on both sides of the aisle take very seriously. i think when representative jordan there, i think not only will trump have a mouthpiece but he should have been have a disrupter, if you will. he will an extension of the p.t. barnum circus and it's unfortunate, especially as we're dealing with our national security, dealing with the kind of oversight that's necessary over our 16 intelligence agencies, particularly those who have historically spied on americans. you need good advocates to make

sure they're doing right by us. they do make sacrifices, reverend, but we need to know there's greater oversight, not the kind of disruptive presence that some of them will offer simply for the president's pleasure. >> now, if this president is proven to have abused power, proven to have used taxpayer dollars to try to extract or extort another head of state of a foreign government to impact on his behalf and for his purposes a u.s. election by muddying up his potential opponent and not convicted, have we effectively lowered the bar of what abuse of power is and what a president can do in office? if we open up the floodgates now to where it's acceptable for a sitting president or a prospective presidential candidate to use foreign powers to impact and affect american

elections? >> i think in many ways the answer to your question is "yes." in other ways, one would ask can the bar be lowered any more than it has been. i think president trump has certainly changed the way we view future presidents, it changes the way we elect presidents in terms of relating to presidents. he's certainly making up the 1%. but he represents a diskette, a kind of disillusionment that you've talked about for decades that exists in certain segments of our society. so i think his demagoguery is certainly of note. but i don't think he's during which time i think he's very smart and has high emotionally intelligen -- emotional intelligence. he's not president obama or secretary clinton or president clinton. he's a different kind of smart. he's a master manipulator. he reads people quite well. he's certainly a chess player.

i'm sure you can attest to much more. >> but sometimes he was -- -- on tuesday. let's go right to columbus, indiana. are you seeing an energizing of democratic voting? >> absolutely. we're also seeing a shift, reverend, with independents, white males specifically who are voting democratically. we're seeing a shift in the suburbs. i think the at the nor and tone that this administration has set has caused this shift in midwestern states and towns and people are saying enough is enough. they certainly don't know what the next president may look like, be like, or sound like, but i think that there's

something to them wanting a more generic or even boring president, someone who's not as provocative and controversial. they want someone who is about the business, willing to reach cross the aisle. >> indiana congressman andre carson, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you, rev. coming up, "politicsnation" will take a look at the latest attempt to increase support among black americans. >> what do you prefer? blacks for trump or african-americans for trump? day 23.

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really what's turning out to be a movement. this was like a movement in 2016. there was a movement of a lot of people. by the way, you made up a good portion of that movement. one year from now we're going to win another incredible victory and we are going to do it with a ground swell of support from hard-working african-american patriots.

>> trump yesterday kicking off another meaningless new african-american outreach initiative in atlanta, georgia. you're in luck, mr. president, because this week's memo is about you and the black vote. during your 2016 campaign, you stood in front of largely white crowds and asked black voters, quote, what the hell do you have to lose by voting for you? first of all, you'll have your work cut out for you as your victory in 2016 was decidedly devoid of melanin, with just 8% of black voters, 8%, not the figure you tried to imply. only 8% casting ballots for you in the last election cycle. things haven't gotten better since you took office . a recent poll shows just 4% of african-americans say your policies have been good for them as opposed to 81% who say your

policies are somewhat or very bad for african-americans. so mr. president, if you want to get more to black vote, here's my advice. do something for blacks. blacks are still in a good economy that started under obama, by the way, but in a good economy we are still doubly unemployed to whites. we are still 10% the wealth of whites. we still have an educational gap that your department of education is moving in another direction. you met with hbcu presidents and promised all kinds of help. i guess it's in the mail because it has not arrived. mr. president, you go in front of many audiences promising specific things. you tell the gun owners, don't worry i'll protect your guns. you promise farm aid. address economic issues, address education issues, address employment auxiliaries address

criminal justice issues, and don't take all the credit for first step because it was proposed bipartisan before you got there. many of us have supported it. you supported consent decrees in cities with patterns of police abuse being withdrawn that was put there by the justice department under barack obama that showed cities that had a pattern of police abuse. you endorsed national stop and frisk. you don't have a record in criminal justice, but you have a record of calling african nations s-hole countries, telling women in congress to go back to where they come from, to castigate and mischaracterize many of the black leadership, calling all of us con men like we are the graduates of trump university. where probably there is a course available. you need to be specific and then

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three-term former new york city mayor michael bloomberg is preparing to jump into the 2020 presidential race. a spokesman for bloomberg saying in a statement, quote, we now need to finish the job and ensure that donald trump is defeated. but mike is increasingly concerned that the current field of candidates is not well-positioned to do that, end of quote. joining me is a man who worked alongside bloomberg for many years, louisville, kentucky, mayor greg fisher, also vice president of the u.s. conference of mayors. mr. mayor, thank you, first of all, for being with us tonight. >> good to be with you, rev. >> you worked with mike bloomberg down through the years. why do you think he would make a good candidate? you have not endorsed him, he's not announced, but you seem to lean towards saying he would be a good person to become the

standard bearer for the democratic party to oppose president trump. >> he'd certainly be a great candidate. the best predictor of the future is the past. mayors take care of business. he was one of the great mayors of a great american and global city. no drama, create jobs, take care of the people, be fiscally responsible, build a great team, those are the type of characteristics we need to lead this country. >> i've known mayor bloomberg for years, had days of agreement, days we fought on different issues. so i know him. yet i do not even put him in the same category as trump in terms of the incompetence as well as the venom because he always seems civil and certainly competent at what he did. so let me ask you this. do you think that in this present field, i quoted one of mr. bloomberg's spokespeople, saying he is not feeling that the present field, that anyone

there has risen to the level that he's comfortable could defeat trump. do you share that view and do you think the democratic voters if he decided to go all the way that they would share that and see him as one that could really be more effective in running against this incumbent president? >> i mean, that's what this primary is all about, right? americans always looking for the perfect candidate. of course, a lot of different opinions on that, but i look and say is there somebody that can shepherd the economy. when the economy is not healthy, nothing can get done. you have a guy who built a global business of unprecedented scale. you look for someone that has experience in public office, 12 years, mayor of new york city. and then you look for someone, do they understand the issues of main street, the issues of rural america, the issues around the globe. what mike has done with bloomberg philanthropypies in

terms of his interests from appalachia to south africa, just the kind of global reach that he has and the understanding of how the universe works together from small cities to huge towns. it's a really interesting new entry into the debate. obviously it's going to be up to the people of america to figure that out, but he certainly has a unique skill set. >> he has to deal with the politics of the matter. if he enters the race in your opinion, who does he impact in a negative way in terms of voting or getting voters of the present list of candidates? many are saying he hurts joe biden in terms of being the centrist candidate. others are saying he hurts mayor buttigieg. what do you think happens when the landscape as we now see it of the democratic contenders if michael bloomberg enters the race? >> i think he comes in and he's that centrist, center left, a

guy that's strong on business but strong on social issues as well. that's the question, what's going to come out of the democratic primary. is it going to go further left? is it going to stay toward the center? and then democrats, myself included, what's that type of candidate so when the presidential election takes place, he's going to do well in pennsylvania, mitch, wisconsin, those swing states. that's what this race is ultimately going to be about. >> swing states. when we look at swing states, do you feel that michael bloomberg, who started as a republican then went as an independent, that he has more appeal, potential appeal in swing states than some of the democrats that are more progressive to the liking of people like me and others that he could appeal to those voters? you just won the democrats in kentucky. just won the governor's race there. would he be strong in kentucky as opposed to someone further to

the left? >> kentucky definitely is more of a center left when you talk about democrats, so you got a guy here, again, that's got an unusual record. for some people, that might be appealing to him that he's been a republican, independent, and now democrat. so we're definitely in unprecedented times politically, so it's going to take somebody that's got a unique set of skills that attract a whole bunch of people to say this is somebody that can lead us forward in this moment in time. we're coming off a period or we're in a period of turbulence reliance, so people will be looking for a calming force, a unifying force that can move us together and have confidence that will represent the country and rebuild alliances and partnerships that we've had before. mike, certainl certainly has th capability to do that. >> greg fisher, mayor of louisville, kentucky, i thank you for being with us tonight. reverend malone from louisville sends his regards.

>> reverend cosby too. >> kevin cosby. nbc and "the washington post" are cohosting the next democratic presidential debate in atlanta. it's on november 20th at 9:00 p.m. eastern. i'll be there front and center to get a good luook at the candidates. tune in and watch here on msnbc. be right back. sundown vitamins

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as we mentioned, the president was in atlanta, georgia, yesterday courting african-americans for their support. the president and vice president rallied a coalition of black voices for trump by boasting on economic gains and criminal justice reform. will this be enough when the polls show support is lacking? back with me, democrat philippe reines and republican noelle nikpour. noelle, when you look at the actual numbers, blacks are still doubly unemployed and there is really no program that this president has addressed. they still have the gap in terms

of wealth. 10% education gap, he did this big display of hbcu college presidents, the money hasn't come. i mean, is there any secret as to why most black voters polled are not going to for this? >> i think it has to do -- this is just my opinion as a republican strategist, with who the messenger is. i mean, to be honest with you, to break it down for your viewers, if you want someone to connect to the black voter, african-american voter, don't you need somebody that they can relate to? how do trump and pence, how do they relate to the needs of what a black voter needs or what their needs are or what they're looking for? they're not from the same background, they're not -- how do they relate to that? they actually need to do a better job. >> he's from new york and he didn't relate to blacks in new york. i don't even know black contracts that got contracts from him. >> this goes back not even to trump and pence, this goes to

the rnc. they need to address the problem grassroots. they need to address the problem and they need to have a larger section that deals with the needs and focuses. they need to be people in the community. people like you, people that, you know, the voters trust in that sector. they need somebody that understands their needs and what they're looking for so that they can address it and then solve the problem. >> now, let me ask you, philippe, the black vote has historically for the last half a century gone to the democrats. but century, gone to the democrats. but we weren't born democrats on our birth certificates. we've gone there because the democrats in terms of options lead more toward our interests, though there's a lot lacking with the democrats and a lot they have not done that we want. do you think, if this president had come with an aggressive plan since he has one for certainly

corporations and the rich and others, that he could've made a dent there if he really wanted to? >> absolutely. and i think it's more than just with the black community. it's with every minority community and, frankly, it's with the entire country. you know, it seems ludicrous to say now but probably the biggest mistake donald trump will have made for himself was that he squa squandered an opportunity to really just exceed expectations. since not only were there low expectations for him. the expectation was he was going to destroy things. he's led up to that exactly. and it's a little bit i think worse than what you were saying before. you know, you were quoting what i think is a very underquoted line from 2016 about what the hell do you have to lose? the next thing he would say whenever he would recite that would be the democrats only come around every four years when they want your vote. and he would point to chicago and see what he did in baltimore. and, no, is he going to get more

than the 8-10% of the black vote he got four years ago? i can't imagine. if anything, he has started a movement even further away. but what they did was really insidious in 2016, which is pre-trump but very much something trump has helped with is suppression. voter suppression. >> absolutely. >> cornerstone and if you look at the numbers in wisconsin and michigan, you know, we lost that race in large part because of lower african-american, male turnout in those two states. and i don't think that's just coincidence. there are a lot of things going on. but if he can't come up with a positive reason to, he's going to make damn sure that everyone knows the democrats might be even worse. >> and talking about voter suppression, noelle, misinformation. several of us had dinner this week with mark zuckerberg telling him how we disagreed with him saying that they're not going to correct political ads with facts that are wrong, which leads to voter suppression

through misinformation. voter suppression is a huge problem and is the cause that we've had a lot of elections go the wrong way because we were targeted in the black community with misinformation and removal of polling sites and voter suppression. >> that's good that you're having a dialogue. you said that you met with mark zuckerberg and you sit down at a table and you break bread and talk about these issues. that's part of the problem, too. who is sitting down with president trump regarding these issues? is he breaking bread with people that can understand the issue and solve it? >> well, he used to sit down with amarosa and she come out saying he's racist. noelle and phillippe, thank you both for being with me. my final thoughts are up next as we go to break. some musings about president trump, courtesy of my friend actor robert de niro. >> trump's not a billionaire. he's a fake president. he calls everything else fake because he knows he's fake.

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the victim were in a romantic relationship at the time. one that they kept secret because of racial tensions. reid maintains the real killer is a law enforcement officer who was engaged to the victim at the time. that officer later served ten years in prison for another crime. and according to a fellow inmate, confessed to the murder. but despite all that evidence, texas is still set to put mr. reid to death on november 20th. i witnessed this execution of a man who the evidence was clearly saying there was not enough to convict him and i watched as he took his final breath. and he said in those final minutes, keep marching, reverend al. i believed gary graham in texas was innocent. i believe there's enough evidence to seriously question the guilt of mr. reid. you are told in a court of law

that if there is any lack of evidence that you feel is convincing, if there is any reasonable doubt, you cannot convict. certainly, with some inmates saying he confessed to him, the person that reid said really did it, there's reasonable doubt to not kill him. if you are for or against the death penalty, you certainly should be against a man that clear possibility of innocence should lose his life because we put evidence or questions to the side. and take lives saying that we just go by what is in the books. that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern for a new live edition of "politics nation." up next, my colleague richard lui picks up our coverage with more of today's news.

and good saturday to you. i'm richard lui at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. thanks for being with us. we're in the middle of week six of the impeachment inquiry. and more new reporting today. we have the republicans' list of witnesses they want to bring to the hill. that just in today. this hour, we'll also tell you how attorney general bill barr is once again at the center of attention in the president's scandals. and new polls, as well, tell us about the impact that the impeachment inquiry is having on political campaigns. and why a worried michael bloomberg now sees himself as the only person to get trump out of office. plus,