they'll get a closer look. a little different than we're used to. it's that word. a key concern for primary voters. many caucus goer. what does it mean when it comes to the electoral college. we're going to take a look at the polling that we do have nationally. what it tells us. you're watching hardball. t tells you're watching hardball you. (vo) when you share the love, you change lives. trump outs the whistleblower. let's play hard ball. over twenty-two hundred wishes granted. more than fifty seven thousand pets supported. over one hundred national parks protected. good evening, i'm in for chris matthews. president trump capped his over two million meals provided. through the subaru share the love event, holiday week with a bar rrage o subaru will have proudly donated over one hundred seventy million twitter attacks on house speaker dollars to national and hometown charities over twelve years. nancy pelosi. he tweeted or retweeted several (shelter attendant) thank you. (grandfather) thank you. dozen times since thursday (senior) thank you. (make-a-wish child) thank you. taking strikes at pelosi but last night trump also retweeted a post by his re-election campaign's quote war room linking an article that named the alleged whistleblower whose

complaint ultimately lead to impeachment. it's been nine days since the house of representatives voted to pass articles of impeachment. speaker pelosi conties to hold motor? on to the articles until mitch nope. mcconnell negotiates the terms not motor? of a senate trial but pressure is mounting on republican it's pronounced "motaur." senators undecided on impeachment and procedural questions. in particular, susan collins being targeted by republican for those who were born to ride, groups critical of president trump including the lincoln there's progressive. project, that's a super pact funded by republican critics of the president. president trump did his part to try to curry favor with collins with an endorsement of her 2020 election earlier this week. i take seriously the oath i will swear to render impartial you have the support of a probiotic justice in the impeachment trial. and the gastroenterologists who developed it. threats from both the left and the right will have zero align helps to soothe your occasional digestive upsets, influence on my decisions. 24/7 with a strain of bacteria you can't get anywhere else. for more i'm joined by shannon,

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a vote against clinton. when you look at the democrats right now, they didn't have anyone with the unfavorability rating. so he's trying to paint the democratic party as a whole and find the villains that he can pick out whether it's nancy pelosi or the squad and take them and use them as a character or portrait that he wants to paint as a whole going into 2020. so he wants, when voters go to the ballot in 2020, if they're not going to cast a vote for him i thought i knocked off because they don't like him or they don't like his behavior as president they're going to show up because they want to cast a poc pocahantus i did it a year too vote against nancy pelosi or the early. they call him mayor pete because nobody can pronounce his last squad or whatever progressive name. have you noticed when biden elements of the democratic party that he finds. keeps saying he's in the wrong that's why he has singled out state. when he's in ohio. pelosi. i don't know if that's effective it's great to be in iowa yet because it's only making her tonight. what is wrong with this guy. stronger. >> that was president trump >> we mentioned this retweet the going on the attack against some president did last night as sort of his potential 2020 rivals. the president will be entering of part of this barrage. next year's election as the

something that included the first impeached president running for a second term and as whistleblowers name. i know that you do quite a bit this year comes to an end of work there involving there's still 15 democratic contenders vying to take on the whistleblowers but what is your reaction from the retweet from the president. >> one i think it's president. >> we have a president that is a irresponsible. this is a cia employee that's pathological liar. blown the whistle on the who is corrupt. president of the united states who is currently suffering death who is a racist. threats and when people hear the word threats their eyes roll a sexist. >> he is a complete failure. back into their heads but really a complete failure as commander this person's life can be in in chief. most reckless and incompetent danger. they are under federal protection right now and donald trump does not know for certain the identity of the commander in chief we've ever had. >> he doesn't respect his own whistleblower. the whistleblower's legal presidency and at a deeper level i don't think he respects counsel have come out and said himself. that this person that the trump he has created a cartoon character. tweet mentioned may or may not >> donald trump has put us in a be the actual whistleblower but much worse position than we were to assert that nip is tanyone i in before he became president. whistleblower especially when >> and i'm joined by desiree fearing for their lives is barns and noah rothman. irresponsible and reckless. so taking a big picture look and >> we mentioned this. you represent the group of -- taking stock at the end of the

year, who achieved what the term is always out there, politically this year, what we never trump republicans. i don't know if you think that's a fair label but trying to exert can look to at the end of 2020. pressure on republicans to make moves against the president. when it comes to this debate that there seems to be two different debates in the senate there's 15 democratic candidates here. still in the race. one is over the question of of those, which one had the best 2019. >> i don't think i can just pick acquittal. a conviction or acquittal but one. i'd say there's two that stand the other is more immediate and about the rules. tell me, your group, the lincoln out. i would say mayor buttigieg. project, who are you looking at he was the mayor of south bend. in particular among republicans and what are you trying to tell we didn't know much about him them right now? >> sure, thanks for the and now he is performing in opportunity to be here. fund-raising numbers as well as the lincoln project is about vice president biden, in fact, defeating donald trump and better. trumpism at the ballot box. as well as beating out senator so we're looking at every republican in congress and their behavior over the last three warren as well as senator years in protecting and defending this president. sanders and then senator warren because of the demographic she occupies people counted her out folks like senator collins, and would think she would be an unlikely candidate but she martha mcsally, cory gardener really has populous appeal. >> i'll give you the same and a lot of other ones. question. of the 15 democratic candidates

mitch mcconnell, their behavior who do you think achieved the in this moment is going to be most in 2019? >> he is a natural politicalal leapt and we knew that when he ran for dnc chair but he really had an opportunity to shine in remembered by history but by us major mainstream venues. on election day. he's going to be with us for quite sometime. i also think joe biden had a better year than was forecast to we see that the behind the have and for that reason scenes effort in the senate is to create a circumstance that along -- >> he's still standing. will just quickly exonerate the >> the predictions of his demise even though he continues to maintain his position at the top of the polls so he's had a president and somehow find him not guilty. there's so much evidence of the better year than he was given president's guilt for abuse of credit for and a goodyear. power that it's just -- it's an >> how do you like at biden? argument -- it's a debate we shouldn't even be having right snoeb h nobody toppled him yet. how do you look at it? >> when it comes to the vice president or former vice now. we need to bring forward president he is his own person. witnesses with direct knowledge and we're looking for folks like he can take the punches better

than anyone. senator collins to be a voice he can pull out a hail mary pass for what's right and for the people of the country. if needed but the great part >> if they don't do that, if about the democratic primary process is we have a field flooded with overqualified these republican senators facing candidates and i don't know. re-election in 2020 don't do i don't really count anyone out. what you're talking about, are you prepared to oppose them for re-election? >> absolutely, yes. >> so that's an interesting we still have williamson in the question then. race. >> let's take a look. we have 38 days until iowa. there will be a democratic is your position susan collins doesn't vote for the kind of nominee that emerges. let's talk about the shape that trial that you'd have in mind donald trump is in entering you'd rather have a democratic 2020. we put the numbers up early this senator than her? week. >> what i'd rather have are his approval rating is about senators that honor the 44.5% on average. constitution. this isn't about having a trial i would rather have. this is about having a trial that meets the constitutional standard. and about having the trial they would be demanding if we were his approval rating is not matching toward the economy. talking about a democratic do you look at that as wow trump

president. i remember what happened when is positioned to pull off what president clinton was in the he did in 2016 againover he's same situation that donald trump is in right now and i find it positioned to take a big hit in grossly hypocritical that the same people that back then said 2020? >> both of those are right. it doesn't matter that the lie if you smooth out the data he was about an affair, what has a consistent matters is that the lie took place by the president of the approval-disapproval rating. united states under oath. it's not as though people are judging and evaluating this presidency based on his performance in office. he's representative of a variety of other things. it's not the day-to-day news cycle moving the needle. when we look at the abuse of this year what really moved the power by this president trying needle was the government to bring foreign influence into shutdown when people stopped receiving services that they our presidential elections. we're just asking what we think is constitutionally sound. relied on. and people saw people getting that these republican senators out of work and donald trump's strategy to compel the stand up and defend the constitution of the united democratic congress was never going to happen. states and that they are a voice it was reflectedha changed his standing but only very briefly otherwise i don't think that for the american people. political events are going to >> she did vote to acquit bill change how people view this clinton so she was not among president. >> i'm curious.

those making the case that as a democrat looking at trump you're saying there. do you see the numbers and say we're going to take him out in 2020? this is a very beatable guy or are you haunted by 2016 and you say it's the same set up? she is disturbed by mitch mcconnell and his plans to hold the impeachment trial in total >> i would say that i don't look coordination with the white at any polling numbers when it comes to any candidate and make a conclusion on that race. house. the senator is entitled to her i do think it's a fair fight. i don't think that as much as opinion and he is accounted for people think that he can be his. 9 out of 10 senators secretly nailed to the wall with this don't want to hear this case and the tenth is lying. process, i think you'd be surprised. i think who is having a horrible year is senator mcconnell. many of them won't say that publicly but that's how they the republican party, senator feel. speaker pelosi knows that. lindsey graham, i would be more worried about those seats than i >> kennedy weighed in on the would be about whether president trump will occupy office because impasse between mcconnell and i think those are going to be national security adviser john heavily contested spaces because they're the ones that know bolton and mick mulvaney. better. >> if they're in deep trouble >> he better be careful what he that has to be a good sign for

asks for because if he gets his democrats nationally that something is going their way. witnesses, i'm sure that the president is going to want his the first major engagement witnesses and the president's between the president and one of his potential rivals over witnesses won't be subject to a claim of privilege but ukraine. chuck's might. the former vice president has shown his ability to stand toe to toe with trump eventually finding his footing and showing you could end up with a situation where the president he can with attacks but biden gets his witnesses and chuck has been badly damaged about his don't get his. >> at least for right now the president and the white house involvement in ukraine arguing are placing their faith in their he has been redefined as a confidence strategically in compromised politician rather than the partner of a popular mitch mcconnell and his ability to hold the line against the pressure that one of our guests former president. here is describing. you were talking about his what is their confidence level strength has been consistent and that mcconnell will be able to do that for them in the end? so has his lead in head to head match ups. >> we're going to get down to a >> well, they are well aware much tighter ball game and that these moderate senators or certainly in wisconsin it's not entirely clear that joe biden republican moderate senators can deliver the obama coalition. that you're talking about. i'll throw mitt romney in there. they weald an enormous amount of he has handled the hunter biden

power too and more than mitch issue poorly. i don't think anybody would say mcconnell because the senate he has handled it well. majority leader doesn't get to he was tentative coming out set the rules here. the senate does. about it. and he comes out and says i'm sorry for whatever i did and he said he did nothing wrong. there's a confused message and not a convincing message however there's nothing to substantiate the claim and it's basically insen yi they can't lose all three of insinuation that anything them. they're not up for re-election. occurred here. so the two of them have a little now if that comes out in 2020 it's a new ball game. bit more breathing room so the but what they're saying is that white house is also aware of this is tainted by sinuations. that. also aware that things could only be pushed so far without those more to the center members that's giving away the game. that's the intent all along and stepping in and trying to push things back but it's an the fact that it hasn't interesting dynamic we're seeing registered suggests that joe biden isn't going to be because trump's approval ratings suggested to the crooked are so much lower than clintons narrative. were at this time. and it's one thing we see in the yet he yields more power and control than clinton does and that's what we're seeing now is national poll. the control that the president democratic voters are asking

has over his power is offsetting themselves which one of these can beat trump. thank you for joining us. up next, tremayne lee talks to his low alabama approval ratings voters and party officials in the key swing state of and helping give the white house a level of comfort that even if pennsylvania. one or two break off, that they're worried that some of the republican support is still so new electronic voting machines strong behind the president you're not going to see a mutiny may not be quite ready for among republican senators. primetime and there might be good reason for that worry. you're watching hardball. good reason for that worry you're watching hardball from that standpoint there were republicans that we heard in the house as this was progressing in a world where everything gets a sequel. it's finally time for... geico sequels! and having the whistleblower called for a senate trial. classic geico heroes, starring in six new commercials, >> our elected officials created with jaw-dropping savings. this system through which they vote for your favorites at: geico.com/sequels could pull the fire alarm and alert their elected officials to ahhh, which way do i go?! dangers inside of the i don't know, i'm voting for our sequels. intelligence community and inside this system they are with geico, the savings keep on going entitled to anonymity. to a screen near you. not the leg! you dang woodchucks!

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infinity -- the history of our country as the people that stood up, spoke up, and did what's right. that's what we're hoping for. >> and coming up, a toxic conversation between them. she is right in the eye of the brewing storm. plus who is winning the democratic race for president. well, usually, you just check out the polls. but what if there aren't any? it's a real problem right now. i'll take you through that and irregularities in new voting machines in eastern pennsylvania. they have officials there worried about election security and voter confidence in those machines as we enter 2020. we have an exclusive report on that coming up. stay with us. e an exclusive repn that coming up stay with us when you shop with wayfair, you spend less and get way more. so you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one.

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and top for the candidate and there's something wrong there. >> i went down to the couhouse with a couple of other witnesses with me that night and they had never used the machines either so it was chaos so they're bringing in the bags and bags of ballots and they're all over the place. they had never done this before and they weren't ready and i don't think they had a plan in place for this to happen. >> to quit voting and request a new ballot touch quit. your ballot will not be cast. so that's important right. >> he overseas elections as north hampton coup executive. he lead the push to buy 220 machines and he's leading the defense of the machines going forward. in a public hearing in mid december the manufacturer said it's employees programmed the machines incorrectly at the warehouse. they attributed it to human error that they could fix and ultimately the machines did what they were supposed to do. >> on election day we had a

fair, legal and accurate election and the reason we did welcome back. is the paper ballot back up president trump's attorney general and cia director appear worked. >> why are you standing by the to be on the collision course as machines when so many other the justice department continues folks don't have the confidence it's investigation into the origins of the russia probe. that you have. >> although we didn't want it to happen, because we had the problems that we had on election politico today is reporting that the u.s. attorney overseeing day i know on november 2020 i'm confident that we'll know who that investigation is focussing won north hampton county and much of his attention on the cia there will be no question. placing the agencies director at the center of a politically toxic tug of war between the justice department and the >> is questions remain though. intelligence community. until her 19 months on the job north hampton, as well as philadelphia are using these she has kept a relatively low machines. profile and has managed to avoid that's about 20% of the president's ayre but pennsylvania's voters. >> i'll probably use an absentee according to politico they say ballot the next time or, it could force her to choose between protecting her agency from trump's wrath and bowing to especially for the next one coming up in april. the primary. bar's wishes. the new york times reports he has asked the cia to turnover >> i have doubts. i have grave doubts about the communications from the former way north hampton county and pennsylvania is managing and director john brennan and he is counting their votes. >> i think they should take them scrutinizing the 2017 assessment back and go to a full paper

that russia interfered ballot where you hand fill in specifically to help the trump campaign as politico notes the dots by hand. >> election security advocates attorney general barr has been are also concerned saying the skeptical of the agencies machines have security flaws and conclusions about putin's don't follow election codes. motivations. investigations by robert mueller to join register voters in a and the senate intelligence lawsuit against the state to committee reached the conclusion that russia intervened to benefit the trump campaign. desert identi decertify the machine. some people would say it worked. there you go. you have a ballot to count. is this the system working or is this a deep, deep failure? there's potential for a >> i don't have confidence in collision between the cia and the paper back up from the the department of justice. electronic computer voting how do you peg the odds of that because there was difficulty actually happening. reading it. if it does, what would happen? some people said we have sworn >> well, i think the odds are affidavits that they were blank and it cast it so i'm not pretty decent and if it doesn't confident in the paper back up. happen it will be because >> this is clearly not the way director haskel was somehow able things are supposed to work.

to manage the situation. it's called voter verifiable she will probably rely on what has been a positive relationship ballot. it doesn't work if people don't with the president. she will probably try to read it or have difficulty doing strengthen that and try to stay so which a lot of people then close to him during this for a have trouble doing that. little bit of internal political cover. i would imagine she would also try to cooperate with the >> up next can the presidency be investigation and give them something while protecting bought? you're watching hardball. y be bought something that really matters. you're watching hardball i don't think she will need to protect any wrong doing or anything like that but it's more a matter of protecting the agencies ability to do the work and the ability to lead the organization. it's incredible to me that when you take align, they're asking for the former you have the support of a probiotic cia director's internal and the gastroenterologists who developed it. communications and call logs. align naturally helps to soothe it's just unimaginable that we your occasional digestive upsets, 24/7. have a d.o.j. empowered by the so, where you go, the pro goes. president in a way that i don't think has ever been done before go with align, the pros in digestive health. and in a way that seems completely inappropriate and

political and to go after the agency, not only the agency but the former director of the we don't see who you're against, through or for,rs, agency for simply doing his job. whether tomorrow will be light or dark, all we see in you, is a spark in pursuit of a conspiracy theory that the president continues to push which is that we see your spark in each nod, each smile, russia really wasn't actually responsible for 2016 and that's what this is all about if you we see sparks in every aisle. ask me. we see you find a hidden gem, and buying diapers at 3am. >> so cynthia, the idea that he might end up trying to draw a we see your kindness and humanity. line here and might end up feeling forced to draw a line. maybe it's over communications. the strength of each community. maybe it's over some other request but when it comes to d.o.j. versus cia and the cia we've seen more sparks than we can say. director trying to draw some about 20 million just yesterday. kind of align, what kind of latitude does she have to do the more we look the more we find, that? >> well, she has a lot of latitude until it comes down to the sparks that make america shine. a grand jury subpoena. that's why this investigation, once it was raised to the level of a criminal investigation and

though had grand jury subpoena power and the other powers that came with the grand jury it became dangerous. this is an investigation if it's really looking at john brennan which is a, politically motivated by the president. he has attacked brennan i need all the breaks as athat i can get.or, repeatedly and called him a liar and every name under the book in at liberty butchemel... his twitter feed. cut. liberty mu... line? barr is willing -- we have also cut. established that barr is willing liberty mutual customizes your car insurance to lie and corrupt the truth and so you only pay for what you need. cut. liberty m... am i allowed to riff? what if i come out of the water? liberty biberty... cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ you have a politically motivated what are you doing back there, junior? since we're obviously lost, investigation where the i'm rescheduling my xfinity customer service appointment. president of the united states is weighing in and she has to make some decisions about ah, relax. i got this. whether or not she is going to protect the organization. which gps are you using anyway? a little something called instinct. been using it for years. and recognize that she has run yeah, that's what i'm afraid of.

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interference on his behalf in presidency. the 2016 campaign is a >> the numbers are staggering. the calendar hasn't flipped to vulnerability for him leading into 2020. so he wants to mitigate that as 2020 and michael bloomberg spent much as possible and what he is more than $120 million. trying to do here is simply say another $80 million. together that's more than $200 look, there were investigations into me and into russia and yes they turned up some results and million spent by just two candidates and what has it gotten them? they're not favorable to me but well it has him on to the debate look, maybe those investigations weren't quite right and they were biased and politically stage. motivated and there's which is more than other investigations into those candidates. investigations and so look the but being on that stage hasn't american people and my made him a contender for the supporters as speaking for trump, you can't really know the truth here. the truth is hard to determine. i don't think trump has to nomination. but he's the stingy one. convince his supporters that there was actual wrong doing that covers months of necessarily in these campaigning. investigations. he just has to have them believing that possibly there bloomberg by contrast has blown through his $120 million for two may have been and that maybe weeks and it's gotten him to 5% russia didn't intervene on his behalf and that allows him to nationally. that's far off the lead but also keep together a relatively better than a bunch of candidates that have been strong plurality. running longer than bloomberg

has and of course who have a lot less money to spend. so he bought himself a quick 5% in the polls. the question is will it be just as easy to buy another 5% and another 5 and on and on and contending for the lead or for a up next, we're going to look at the lack of polling. candidate like bloomberg. it's a little tougher to tell than we used to. you're watching hardball. e used. you're watching hardball and history says that's a losing strategy when his name is missing from all the leader boards in february everybody is going to forget about him. no one has ever tried this strategy with this money before. in a way, the bloomberg campaign may be the most expensive political science experiment. we'll all see how it turns out. thank you for being with us and all in for christ hayes starts right now. >> tonight on all in. but in my mind i'm still 25. >> with eddie gallagher, you know that story very well. that's why i take osteo bi-flex,

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welcome back. 38 days to go. 38 days until the lead off iowa caucus. and once you have iowa they start coming fast and furious. buttigieg narrowly leads and then sanders and biden and warren. how about new hampshire? talk about a tight race. sanders, buttigieg, biden, warren. nevada, biden has a lead and then of course south carolina, that's where biden has the big league. we have been talking about these numbers. they set expectations. here's the only problem. how many polls are we talking about here?

iowa. month of december. there's only been two polls. two polls taken in the state of iowa. and see this, it's a pretty long list. the dnc has a pretty long list of designated polls that they use for inclusion in the debates they tend to be the more standard polls. there's been zero of those in iowa this month. new hampshire, there's been one. there's been one poll in the entire state of new hampshire this month. that was not a dnc sanctioned debate qualifying poll. no polls of any kind in nevada in december and that poll in south carolina not a dnc sanctioned poll so four crucial states. they're probably going to create a front runner.

maybe a clear, maybe overwhelming front runner to figure out what's going on there in terms of polling. you have four for the entire month that's finishing upright now. none of them are the brand named dnc qualifying polls. at this point last time around, we were looking at 14 different polls. right now we're only looking at four. why are there far fewer this time around? money. money is a big reason. polls are getting more expensive. especially at the state level because it's harder and harder to reached voters. it's harder and harder to get people to pick up the phone. the last time you got a cell phone call, started buzzing. you didn't recognize the number. when is the last time that you picked up the phone. so far fewer polls. good news is we're in a slow period right now. the week between christmas and new year. not going to expect to see many right now. maybe in the first week or two of the new year there might be a batch of polls coming out or boy do we need them.

14 polls at this point. right now, only four. so it's very limited. you look out there and there's evidence that buttigieg has surged in iowa. there's evidence that he's running from behind outjanuary.