future sun predictable. vote for the person you want to be president, whoever it is. that's my -- >> that's crazy. >> that's crazy talk. who do you like? cornell belcher, dave weigel, thank you very much. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> oh, sure, like it's that simple, chris. >> i totally get people's they're in their head about it. it is a complicated set of questions. you just got to do -- vote for the person you like. >> and it's hard to remember, wait, i'm supposed to wait for the person i like? >> i'm going to mentally model the internal life of a person who works in ohio who has a certain job? >> exactly. >> figure out what they like? i don't know. >> combination of game theory and impersonation is the best way to approach this? thank you, my friend. much appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. very happy to have you with us. we've got a really, really, really big exciting show tonight. senator cory booker of new jersey today announced that he is ending his campaign for the democratic nomination for president. there is nobody quite like cory

booker, senator from new jersey in u.s. politics. tonight we're going to be joined live here on set by senator booker for an exclusive interview about his decision to end his campaign and what this past year has been like for him in this rolypoly presidential primary. before senator booker tonight, we are also going to speak with the leader of the democrats in the united states senate. senator chuck schumer is here tonight at a very crucial time. house speaker nancy pelosi now confirming that she's going to take one last occasion to consult with all the democrats in the house as to how they're going to proceed with the articles of impeachment against president trump and the impeachment process. that dramatic caucus meeting will convene in washington tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern. after that last opportunity for discussion and consultation among all of the democratic members of the house, the house

will then vote on a resolution that will name the impeachment managers who will act as prosecutors in the senate trial of president trump. that resolution will also formally convey the impeachment articles over to the united states senate. now we have sort of talked about here from the beginning, i've sort of tried to advise here from the beginning that we should all be very humble when it comes to predicting anything about how a presidential impeachment is going to do. there have been very few presidential impeachments. they've all happened in different centuries. they're all very different from one another. impeachment is a big enough, weighty enough, frankly scary enough deal that i think we should be humbling about talking about how we're sure it's going to go. i think impeachment is rare enough and strange enough that it should be seen as a little bit of a wild beast. so to that end, tonight we're going to talk with senator schumer about what he is planning and what he thinks will happen in terms of the start of

this senate impeachment trial. but, you know, stay humble. even just today and into tonight, we've got really interesting new reporting that is totally recalibrating all the washington common wisdom as to what we're about to see as president trump's impeachment moves into the senate. for example, because mitch mcconnell controls a 53-seat ruana jordan in the senate, from the very, very beginning of even the prospects of impeachment, people have pontificated that mcconnell might just decide to technically convene the senate impeachment trial, but then instantly take a vote to dismiss the articles, dismiss the charges, and that would be it. we could just gavel it open and boom, vote, gavel it closed. the trial would be over. the whole thing could be done in five minutes that prospect has loomed large since it game even remotely possible that president trump was going to face an impeachment trial before this senate. well, take that common wisdom and educate it, because tonight

cnn is reporting that according to republican sources, there are not enough votes in the u.s. senate even with that republican majority there are not enough votes to pass a motion to dismiss the charges against president trump. without moving ahead with at least some version of a trial. if that reporting is accurate, and if that math is accurate and mcconnell does not have the votes to pass a motion to dismiss, well, senator mcconnell have to decide whether he even wants to bother or risk taking that vote, which he will probably lose, whether he might just skip that, which would be a departure from how they handled it in the clinton impeachment, and he has been saying he wants to follow the same rules they had during the clinton impeachment. so that's interesting enough. mcconnell might not have the votes to dismiss. mcconnell does not believe he has the votes to dismiss. does he even bother putting dismissal on the table then? interesting. and around the same time that cnn broke that story, cbs news

broke a story that is even more surprising and may mean that we're about to have a way more interesting january than you were planning on. cbs reporting tonight that the trump white house believes senior officials in the trump white house believe that not only does mitch mcconnell not have the votes to outright dismiss the case against the president in the senate, but at least senior white house officials believe that democratic leader chuck schumer in fact has the votes to insist that the impeachment trial of president trump not only go forward, but that it include testimony from witnesses. quote, senior white house officials tell cbs news they increasingly believe that at least four republicans and likely more will vote to call witnesses. remember, four is the crucial number. if all 47 democratic senators vote that they would like to hear witnesses, they only need four republicans to join with them to put together a majority vote that would result in their being witnesses at the president's impeachment trial in

the senate. and cbs again tonight is reporting that there are at least four, quote, and likely more at least in the estimation of white house officials who of course are following this closely, as if their careers depended on it, because maybe they do. so if mitch mcconnell isn't going to be able to gavel open and then gavel shot the impeachment trial immediately, and if mcconnell is not going to be able to stop witness testimony at the trial, and if all of that is about to start imminently, because the house tomorrow is preparing to send the articles over to the senate, well, yes, then, the person i want to talk to about all of that is chuck schumer, the top democrat in the united states senate. he will join us here live momentito. but before we bring senator schumer on board, we told you it was a big show. before we bring senator booker on. before we bring senator schumer on, told you it is a big show. we are going first to go to congressman adam schiff. he is the head of the

intelligence committee. he of course led the impeachment investigation in the house. and there is a lot to ask him about. but most urgently, as of tonight, there is this really remarkable new reporting in "the new york times," and maybe we should have seen this coming. i didn't. this is like welcome to the 50 shades darker remake of the 2016 russian election interference effort to reelect donald trump, because you can see the headline here from "the new york times." "russians hacked ukrainian gas company at center of impeachment." quote, with president trump facing an impeachment trial over his efforts to pressure ukraine to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son hunter, russian military hackers have been boring into the ukrainian gas company at the center of the affair. the hacking attempts against burisma, the ukrainian gas company on whose board hunter served began in early november as talks of the bidens, ukraine

and impeachment was dominating the news in the united states. it's not yet clear what the hackers found, or precisely what they were searching for, but the experts say the timing and scale of the attacks suggest that the russian could be searching for potentially embarrassing material on the bidens, the same kind of information that president trump wanted from ukraine when he pressed for an investigation of the bidens and burisma, which of course set off a chain of events that led to his impeachment. quote, the russian tactics are strikingly similar to what american intelligence agencies say was russia's hacking of emails from hillary clinton's campaign chairman and the democratic national committee during the 2016 presidential campaign. it is 2016 redux. it's even the same units, the gru, the russian military intelligence hacking units, a specialized hacking group nicknamed fancy bear. it's the same units that carried out the 2016 attack. security researchers describing this attack on burisma as a

cookie-cutter version of the 2016 russian hack to hurt clinton and benefit trump. the russian government hackers used fake websites and spearphishing emails designed to steal email names and pass words like they did on the dnc in 2016. with those purloined user names and pass words, they apparently were successful. they apparently did get themselves inside burisma's servers to dig up or unleash what? who knows. stay tuned. the iowa caucuses are in three weeks. we'll presumably find out at some convenient time. i mean, this is remarkable. you might remember on friday night's show, we covered this sort of vague but still alarming report from bloomberg news. reporter chris strom reporting at bloomberg on friday that u.s. law enforcement and intelligence agencies were investigating some sort of effort by russia to try to target joe biden, to try to mess with the biden presidential

campaign, much as russia messed with clinton's campaign four years ago. we highlighted this report on friday night's show, saying there is not much detail here, but it's obviously of concern if u.s. officials, law enforcement and intelligence are monitoring or investigating if russia is targeting biden. i don't know if this is what bloomberg news was referring to on friday night, but this new reporting tonight on the front page of the "new york times" says at least that russian military intelligence hackers are at work. perhaps trying to dig up for president trump's benefit the stuff he wasn't able to leverage out of the government of ukraine by force. i mean, the house has already passed its impeachment articles against president trump already. but what happens next here? here is evidence of russian government highway, potentially trying to deliver for trump the deliverable that he was trying to pry out of ukraine for which he got impeached.

here's also an alleged participant in the ukraine scheme for which the president got impeached, lev parnas is currently under indictment in the southern district of new york. here is lev parnas now delivering the contents of his iphone to the house intelligence committee this weekend and the contents of another one of his phones apparently today that reportedly includes thousands of pages of material, including this lovely new picture we hadn't seen before of mr. parnas and president trump. this is reportedly from march 2018 in florida. also, here is the department of energy telling a federal judge as of today that they will finally agree to hand over some of energy secretary rick perry's communications around the ukraine scandal. you may remember him as one of the three amigos in the middle of that scheme. here also is the government accountability office, the nonpartisan investigative arm of congress reportedly about to publish their own findings as to

whether president trump holding up the military aid to ukraine violated the law. that gao report is expected within the next few days. so i mean, if you're adam schiff on the intelligence committee, you've just completed an impeachment investigation which resulted in two articles of impeachment already being conveyed, or they're about to be conveyed to the senate. and that raises fascinating issues about how the senate is going to handle this. but if you are the guy who just headed up the impeachment inquiry, and you remain responsible for leading congressional oversight of the intelligence committee by running the intel committee, what do you now do with this rising tide of new material and alarming new reporting that is absolutely all about the scandal you have already turned into articles of impeachment? joining us now live is congressman adam schiff, chairman of the house intelligence committee. sir, really appreciate you making time to be with us tonight. thanks for your time. >> my pleasure. >> so let me get your top-line

reaction to this new report from "the new york times" this evening that just as the impeachment investigation was starting up in november, russian hackers from the gru reportedly started targeting burisma, the ukrainian energy company whose board hunter biden served on. this is the company that president trump wanted investigations about that he thought he could use against biden and the campaign. what's your reaction to this new report? >> i have several reactions. first, that it would not at all surprise me. this is indeed exactly what bob mueller warned about in his testimony that the russians would be at this again. director ray has said the same thing, and they appear that this reporting is correct to be in the midst of another hacking and potentially another dumping operation designed to influence another election in donald trump's favor. it is clear if that's the case that once again they have a favorite. they don't want joe biden it would appear from this target, and this would help donald

trump. and i think the other thing that's apparent from this, if this reporting is correct is the message that vladimir putin has gotten is not to stay out of american elections but you're welcome to get involved in american elections as long as it helps donald trump. it seems to be the message that president trump has conveyed, at least the message that vladimir putin has received. so we're going to start by finding out what our intel agencies know about this. i have to say, rachel, i'm a bit distressed to see this for the first time in a newspaper report. if the intel committee community is aware of this, that should have been brought to our attention by now. but i don't find it surprising. i do find it deeply disturbing, and i would hope that maybe both parties can get out ahead of this, even if the president won't, and condemn any russian effort to influence the next election. >> it is disturbing to hear you say that you learned about this first in "the new york times" and that the intelligence community hasn't come to you and

your committee with this. according to "the times" and to the private security firm which is called area 1 that reportedly detected this attack, they say that whatever was going on here with these gru hackers and the other hackers who were involved in the dnc attack and the hillary clinton campaign attack in 2016, they're saying it was successful, that they did get into burisma's servers, although there is no report what they actually did once they were in there. if these russian hackers stole stuff, or if they're otherwise going to try to release stolen information or disinformation to try to affect the campaign, to try to hurt vice president biden, are we at all inoculated against that now? does the intelligence community have a plan for that, given what we went through in 2016? >> we're really not inoculated against it because what would have provided the innioculations the first time it happened or thereafter the president led a

consensus to reject foreign help. but of course all he has done is to invite foreign help. the very subject of the impeachment went beyond trying to influence ukraine in the next election, but to coerce ukraine by withholding hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid by using the power or abusing the power of his office to solicit and coerce that kind of interference. we're not inoculated. we have a president who has made it abundantly clear time after time he is more than happy, more than willing to make use of foreign help. what we can do about it is we can expose it. so if indeed the intelligence community has been on top of this, if there are reports of the russians doing this, if there is evidence that they intend to use this in the u.s. election, we can do our best to inoculate the public by telling the public about it. indeed, one of the qualms i had about the obama administration's handling of this back in the last election is they didn't make a more full-throated

attribution directly from the president about russian interference. so we'll have to do the best we can. but unfortunately, we're not nearly as inoculated as we should be. >> it is also striking that a lot of this new reporting material turned up by foil lawsuits, witnesses coming forward, new public source reporting as we see tonight in "the new york times" does feel directly linked to the scandal for which you led the investigation that resulted in articles of impeachment passing the house against the president. what happens to this subsequent material, the stuff that comes up since you've drawn up and passed the articles? lev parnas, who was part of the ukraine scheme with july over the weekend, says he delivered data from mr. parnas' i phobe to your committee, and more is on the way. these foil lawsuits have turned up, communications that you didn't have access to during your investigation, but since

shined much more of a light in terms of the president's direct involvement here. will you continue to interview witnesses or do depositions or otherwise sort of work on this case, despite the fact that the articles have already been sent? >> the answer is yes. and in fact that's exactly what we've been doing. we have received extensive documents now for mr. parnas. we have received extensive new and incriminating new evidence come out of these foia public releases of document releases. it underscores something very important that i don't think the public has heard enough about. that is even as senator schumer, and you'll hear from him shortly, has been sounding the alarm about the need to make this a real trial, make it a fair trial, make sure there are witnesses like in every other impeachment in history, it's also important to get the documents. the president withheld every single document. none of the documents we have obtained came from any administration agency except

through some of these foia requests. and as we see as these documents come out, they are deeply incriminating of the president. those omb documents disclose and corroborate what we knew already, that the order to hold back the aid came directly from the president. the people didn't know why it was being withheld. that in fact the defense department was concerned that merely withholding it, not knowing of the corrupt purpose the president had, but merely withholding it violated a different law, the impoundment act. so it's as i think important that the senate get all of those documents as it is that we get the witnesses. and one last point i'll make, and that is if we're following the clinton model here, and clearly mcconnell really isn't, but if we were, all of the documents in clinton were turned over before the trial. and that would make sense to do here as well. >> let me just ask briefly, sir. a lot of people are expecting that when the impeachment

managers are named, that you will be among them. and i realize you're not going to get out ahead of nancy pelosi, speaker pelosi in that regard. is it your understanding that once there are impeachment managers chosen, once the impeachment trial has started, will the managers be constrained from presenting information to the senate, presenting their case? will they be constrained to confine the evidence that they present and discuss only to what your committee turned up as part of its investigation? or if there is additional evidence that has come to light, additional witness testimony or documents that have come to light, will the impeachment managers be able to present that material too? or is this sort of a prosecution frozen in time from before christmas? >> well, that's a very good question. i think the answer is we don't know because we don't know what is in the mcconnell resolution, because mcconnell has not negotiated with chuck schumer in good faith. this is going to be a partisan resolution by mr. mcconnell, and i'm sure it will be drafted with the white house lawyers to give the president every advantage.

i will say this, though. it's going to be hard for the senate to ignore information that comes into the public record and say we're not going to consider that, even though it's directly relevant, even though it's directly incriminating. we're just going to turn away from it. one thing i am concerned about, rachel, the white house has not turned over a single document. the white house should not be permitted to introduce selectively documents to mislead the public about the documents it has withheld. you can obviously cherry pick certain documents from omb or other agencies and suggest to the public or the senators during a trial that they're somehow representative when they're not. if they intend to introduce any document, they need to introduce all the documents so we have the complete record. >> congressman adam schiff, chairman of the house intelligence committee. a lot going on, sir. thanks for joining us tonight. i really appreciate you making time. >> thanks, rachel. all right. we have two dig guests still to come tonight. chuck schumer joins us next as

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so house democrats are all getting together tomorrow morning, a full democratic caucus meeting 9:00 a.m. at the capitol. we expect -- we can't know anything for certain these days, but we expect that speaker pelosi will come out of that meeting with a plan to send over to the senate the two articles of impeachment that were approved last month by the house. now once that ball is rolling, once impeachment moves over to the republican-controlled senate to start the trial, anything could happen. cbs news reporting tonight that mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate has apparently not been able to cobble together enough votes to block all witnesses from testifying at the impeachment trial. hello john bolton. cbs reporting that per senior

white house officials at least four and likely more republican senators will vote with the democrats to have witnesses testify at the trial. that would be enough for a majority vote if they've in fact got four republicans who will take that vote with the democrats. that would be enough to ensure that there would be witness testimony. that's a really big deal for how this month is going to go if that reporting bears out. and now that this is all becoming very real and is proceeding in a way that lots of people did not expect, there is also this really specific issue faced by the multiple sitting u.s. senators who are running for president right now at this crucial phase of the campaign as we are headed into iowa, where the latest iowa polling from monmouth today shows the top four contenders bunched tightly enough together that they're all within the margin of error. how did the four democratic senators running for president right now balance the requirements of this senate trial that's about to start with what they're all trying to do with their campaigns at this critical moment?

there is only one person in the country who has questions like those directly on his plate, and he's the one who has to come up with answers for all of them. he is chuck schumer, the democratic leader of the united states senate, a man whose life is about to be even busier than usual. sir, thanks for taking time to talk to us tonight. >> thank you. good evening, rachel. >> let me start with this cbs reporting tonight that despite his best efforts, it appears that the republican leader in the senate, mr. mcconnell, has not been able to cobble together enough republican votes to block witness testimony in the trial. do you believe that that is true? and how significant is that if it is true? >> well, i think the momentum is growing for witnesses and documents. three weeks ago i sent a letter to leader mcconnell saying to have a fair trial, a real trial, you need to get the truth. the only way to get the truth is witnesses and documents. and he's resisted constantly, but the american people have

not. the overwhelming majority of americans believe that you need witnesses and documents. what kind of a trial is there without witnesses and documents? and, you know, frankly, rachel, we don't know what these witnesses and documents will say. they're hardly democratic appointees. they're trump appointees. and what they say may be exculpatory. it may be further incriminating. but the truth on something as weighty as this impeachment must come out. if you can't have a fair trial for impeachment, which is the ultimate power the founding fathers gave the congress to keep an overreaching, a law-breaking president in check, then our constitution is fundamentally flawed and -- well, not flawed. the constitution is not flawed, but the implementation is way out of balance. >> the last time you were here on this program and we talked about these matter, you said that you were involved in trying to essentially lobby republicans, speak with your republican colleagues across the

aisle on this matter about the way the trial was going to be conducted, the need to have witnesses and documents. we also hear susan collins of maine tell her home paper on friday that she was meeting with a small group of republican senators to try to ensure that there would be a vote for witnesses and documents. can you tell us at all about how this has come together and how confident you are that the votes are there? >> well, you can't be confident at all. i can imagine that the president and mitch mcconnell are going to put tremendous pressure on these senators to have a cover-up, to not tell the truth, to hide what actually happened, because if you're -- if you are what donald trump says, he did everything right, everything was perfect, why would you be afraid of witnesses and documents? so they're going to put a bee under a lot of pressure and making a prediction is different to do. i can tell you this. the case for witnesses and documents which i began making three weeks ago is now gaining momentum in the senate. it's gaining momentum throughout

the country, and i am more hopeful than ever that we can actually get a fair trial. we haven't overreached. we haven't asked for a long list of witnesses to be dilatory. we haven't asked for truckloads of documents. only the things that would be eyewitness to what happened on this most serious charge that the president actually withheld aid from ukraine to get them to influence an election. you know, when i read the constitution in high school and then again in college, and they said the founding fathers were worried about foreign interference in our elections, i sort of shrugged my shoulders and said what's that all about? once again, the founding fathers were a lot smarter than me and all of us. this is very serious stuff. it weighs on different shoulders when it's so profound in different ways, and i am feeling a little fwbetter than i did a w days ago that we might actually get a fair trial. >> senator, i have to ask you

about some breaking news that we have tonight from "the new york times." the headline is "russians hacked ukrainian gas company at center of impeachment." "the times" is reporting and they're citing security experts who apparently money or theed this attack that russian military intelligence hackers, some of the same units that were involved in the 2016 attack on the clinton campaign and the dnc, when the impeachment scandal heated up in november, they apparently attacked burisma, this company that the president was demanding investigations of because he thought he could use it against vice president joe biden in the 2020 campaign. russian hackers have apparently been hacking into burisma and getting into their servers and rummaging around. the intelligence chairman in the house, chairman schiff just told me that this is news to him, that he did not learn this in his role as the intelligence committee chairman. he is learning this in the "new york times." i know as senate minority leader, you also tend to have access to sensitive material. i have to ask if this is news to you as well tonight from "the times"? >> it is. >> or if you had any inkling of

this. >> no, it is news. and it shows the great need for election security. again, to have the russians interfere on the side of the same person that intelligence agencies showed they interfered in the 2016 elections for president trump is appalling and eats at our democracy. and as you know, rachel, this president has fought our efforts for election security. mitch mcconnell has been his complete ally. we need to pass the bipartisan legislation on the senate floor. the house has passed a lot of it to deal with election security and provide the money so that our elections are not manipulated by a foreign power. and that foreign power, russia seems to be gaining everywhere. i want to make one other point because we're going start debating this tomorrow. it's not exactly on topic, but it's important, which is the war powers act. russia and other countries are

gaining. the president's foreign policy can be described in two words, erratic, impulsive. he could get us into a war. he could even bumble us into a war. and everywhere his foreign -- in his foreign policy pursuits, whether it's north korea or syria or russia, he makes us a lot more weaker than we were before, and there is no strategy. i am worried that we could have, as he once called it, an endless war in the middle east. we are getting close to getting enough votes to enact the war powers act, which says that the congress shall have to approve any war in iran. there's another bill coming up, bernie sanders's bill to cut off any funding for war in iran. i'm proud to be a sponsor of that. and i hope we can get a few more republican votes on this issue. we need two more. we have two. we have all 47 democrats. the risk of war with this president is greater than it's

been in a long time. >> i have to ask on that point, sir, i don't make a habit of reporting on detail on the president's accusations and insults and tweets and things, but part of the way he has essentially whipping on the issue that you just described there is by distributing an image today, doctored image that made both you and nancy pelosi wrapped up in the iranian flag and looking like mullahs in the iranian regime, i just have to ask your reaction to the president targeting you in that way. >> you know, it's amazing how low this president can go, and it's amazing how our republican colleagues, i haven't heard hardly any criticism of what he did can go along with him. but it's the broader point. this is the way the president is conducting foreign policy. this may well be the way he is conducting our interaction was iran right now, impulsive and erratic, no strategy. and that's why this war -- even this cartoon makes the -- or what he tweeted, rather, makes

enacting a war powers act so important, because it shows that this president, when it comes to things like this, is almost out of control. >> u.s. senate democratic leader chuck schumer. sir, thanks for making time to be with us tonight. i know it's going to be a grueling few weeks ahead. good luck, sir. >> yes, thank you. all right. up next, new jersey senator cory booker left the race for the democratic presidential nomination today, said he did so with a full heart. he is going to be here for his first interview since that announcement, next. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. we are the thrivers. women with metastatic breast cancer standing in the struggle. hustling through the hurt. asking for science not sorrys. our time for more time - has come.

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today i'm suspending my campaign for president with the same spirit with which it began. it is my faith in us my faith in us together as a nation that we share common pain and common problems that can only be solved with a common purpose and a sense of common cause. so now i recommit myself to the work. i can't wait to get back on the

campaign trail and campaign as hard as i can for whoever is the eventual i don't mean knee and for candidates up and down the ballot. >> today senator cory booker announced that he is ending his bid for the presidential nomination of the democratic party, leaving the democratic primary field today with that same call back to the same vision of national unity and common purpose that he outlined when he first launched his campaign and that he ran on relentlessly for this entire past year. joining us now for the interview is senator cory booker, democrat of new jersey. sir, it's going to have you here. >> it's good to be back. >> so this is a day like no other. >> it is like no other. >> how do you feel? >> there is obviously a sadness when a year-long effort comes to an end. but the experience itself, the people i met, the rationally committed to the vision that we had for this campaign, my heart is really full. >> in terms of the inevitable magic wand question. >> yes. >> if cory booker today could go

back and say something to cory booker on february 1st last year before you made this announcement, what do you wish you had known? is there any bit of this that you felt would have changed the way you ran? >> no. this was one of those races that before we did a poll or anything, i said this is why i'm running to my team. i think we're getting to this point of tribalism in our country where we agree on a lot of things, values that our politics doesn't reflect, and we want to speak to that, that sense of severed belonging we have in this country, this sense of shared values, shared pain, but not somehow having a larger american mission in a sense. so this is one of those strange campaigns where i wouldn't change things. i think there is a lot flash flood the atmospherics that the message and the person wasn't the right time, and i had funny moments. i learn mid first trip to iowa i learned i was going have to bring people to my message. i was run fog interest debate stage and a big guy grabbed me and dude, i want you to punch

donald trump in the face. and i looked at him and said dude, that's a felony. let me explain to you that that's the way to lose and we'd never beat demagogues with that spirit. but by bringing love. and a artist of activism that inspired other people to come. and that's what i was seeking to do, to show folks that we can beat donald trump, but that is the floor, not the ceiling. the call of our country right now is to mobilize this nation to deal with problems that are bigger than our partisanship. and in fact i still remember with climate change talking to some scientists that said to me we're going have to have a world war ii type mobilization nationally to deal with this problem. i remember my 4'11" grandmother talked to me about beating the nazis. you did not serve in the military, but she had her victory garden. she had her war bonds. somehow if we're going to deal with these problems, we're to have to pull together. there is a silent hurting in our country because of a need for more courageous empathy that

we're dealing with mental illness and addiction and our prison system, that we lead industrial nations in infant mortality and maternal mortality. this doesn't reflect our values. our civic spaces don't reflect the best of who we are, and we have to change that. it's not about beating somebody else. it's about winning this nation, which means that, you know, bringing us together. >> because you embody that, because these aren't just your campaign lines, everybody who knows you or follows you at all knows this is real. i've known you long enough and said this to your face before. so i won't embarrass you. but you really are this earnest and this idealistic and this idea of courageous empathy is core to you. and because your campaign showed enough people in the country that about you, there's a different type of reaction to you leaving the race today. karen wrote a piece in "the washington post" today where she described you as a candidate of grace in an ugly political climate. what was misplaced, sadly, she

says, was the faith that his uplifting message could be herd in the ugly moment that we are in. the fact that you leaving the race makes us worry that an inclusive, positive relentlessly earnest message about empathy and love doesn't have any room in american politics. >> look, i clearly was not good enough to get that message through. my experience is in the toughest of all environments, i ran for mayor of a city that i was not originally up from, having death threats, thuggery, violence, a lot of challenges, and we were able to emerge and ultimately win. there is an oscar-nominated movie about it called "street fight." we won by showing and calling to the dignity of our community, and that we could be a city that can find uncommon coalitions and produce uncommon results. and it was great experience i took into the senate and did things that i felt were the best to reflect the best.

passing criminal justice reform -- >> in the trump era. >> in the trump era. and the necessity doing things to me that often my side of the aisle doesn't like. i became friends with the koch brothers' general counsel. he is a friend. we disagree on so much, but he helped me get that bill to the floor when mitch mcconnell's instincts were not to put it there. i told stories on the campaign about brenae brown says it's hard to hit up close, pull people in and talked about how my relationships across the aisle with people i disagree with helped me get things done that for an inner city and low income neighborhood like mine was literally liberating people from prison. so i'm in this to win, and i want to beat donald trump. i want to send mitch mcconnell back to the back benches. nobody is more competitive than this former stanford football player. but ultimately, how we win just as important as winning, because you can't campaign wrong and think you're going to govern right. if the country needs to heal, if we need to create bigger bridges, new american majorities that aren't partisan majorities,

but god, what my grandparents told me about or my parents told me about the most wretched moments of our history, four girls dying in a bombing in birmingham ultimately lurch our nation forward. what ails me now, if america hasn't broken your heart, you don't love her enough is we now see children dying all the time from newtown to parkland to nationsbank neighborhoods like mine, it's not stimulating that moral outrage that makes us drive our country forward in new coalitions, even though 86% of gunowners, nra member, rather, agree with a lot of the common sense changes we need to do. so something is broken in our politics, and i was hoping this would be an election that we could find some new healing, that it wouldn't be a partisan victory we seek. but the end of the democrats, the call of my party cannot just to beat republicans. at the end of the day, it needs to be about uniting americans to a larger purpose. and that's my prayer for our party. >> have i nuts and bolts questions for you about what is next, both for you and for your

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back with us now for the interview is missouri senator cory booker who was running for president in the democratic primary until he announced today he is suspending his campaign. thank you for staying with us. appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> let me ask you about the record diversity in the democratic presidential field this year. it started out as the most racially diverse field either party has ever run. the candidates on the debate stage tomorrow night in iowa will be six white candidates. tom steyer was the last person to get on that debate stage. he did so on the strength of two early state polls in which which he was 83% of the ads in one of those states and 90% of the ads in the other one. he's just able to spend so much money that he dominated early states in that way and got himself on the stage as you're leaving. what's your reflection on that?

>> i want to remind, and you know this, that we are a party that will succeed by not how much we can put down the people who aren't voting for us but how much we can inspire the people who want to come out. if the same amount who voted in 2016 as voted in 2018, it would be hillary clinton right now. to not have candidates that can speak to that lived experience, that can inspire that populace could end up being a disaster for us. whoever it is, diversity is critically important, and a perception of fairness. i know when kamala harris dropped out, women in my life were telling me how offended they were that someone with a record that she had couldn't make it to iowa because at the end of the day she ran out of money. this is something we have to understand, that we have to inspire record black and brown turnouts. last time we won the presidency, we did that. we won north carolina, the

senate seat. the message of black and brown voters for the full coalition. as i'm running for reelection in the senate, i'm going to be doing everything i can for people all over this country, because i will run myself ragged because we have to get everyone out. this is not about those 60 million americans that voted for donald trump, this is about the tens of millions of americans who didn't vote at all who would be with us if we could just inspire them to the polls. >> are you going to make an endorsement during the primary? i was surprised secretary julian castro made an early endorsement of senator warren a few days after he got out. are you planning to do that? >> i don't know. i'm taking a break for a little bit. i literally have to pull a quick turn in the senate race, which we are starting from scratch, and forgive me for this, but anyone who wants to go to corybooker.com and help me with that, because we have a lot of money to raise at the start to be sure my seat in the senate is secure. this is one of the busiest times in my life to make sure

everything that's at stake will help run this country. >> you thought you were disadvantaged in the prospect of raising enough money to compete from here on out in part because your presence is going to be required in the senate for the senate trial that is starting likely this week. do you have any advice or any reflection on that for the four members of the u.s. senate who are still in the race who are going to be facing that challenge? >> well, the -- everyone except for michael benneen bennet, who enough money, it was the perfect storm. it was being off the field for a week or two. we got hit with everything at once and had to make the call. this is going to be difficult, and i hope it's really going to rely on iowa voters being more engaged even if you can't see the candidate right in front of you. >> senator cory booker of new

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it's actually as fundamentally american as anything. and it is an existential threat to the multiracial, pluralistic and open dpok raeemocracy that been fighting in this country since people died on the battlefield in the civil war. thanks for being with us tonight. it's going to be a big week. we'll see you tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> and the russians are at it again. >> the 2016 election hack was bad enough. the redux seems like it's going to be a little bit darker. >> it's incredible to see. there was donald trump out in the driveway asking china to do this, asking ukraine to do this. it turns out russia was listening and who knows who else. that's where we are tonight. >> amazing stuff. >> thank you, rachel. nancy pelosi will be meeting with democrats in the house to