live show out of new hampshire along with chris matthews and out reporting this 2020 race. stay right here on msnbc. a lot of news unfolding. >> payback. let's play hard ball. good evening, i'm chris matthews up in manchester, new hampshire, bolton by his aquital president trump is taking personal grievance into unchartered territory n a stream of con shusness, he ticked off the names of the enemy list. all the way from james comb

dwroi nancy pelosi. he showcased a vin dikdiveness we don't normally see in politics which is in all those that cross him and may not be thinking of it. or even thinking of it. and that includes vulgarity not expected of public address from the white house. >> we've been going through this now for over three years. it was evil. it was corrupt. it was dirty cops. it was leakers and liars. if this happened to president obama, a lot of people would been in jail for a love time already. unfairly. do nothing wrong. and you have to understand, we, first went through russia, russia, russia. it was all bullshit. then bob mueller testified.

that didn't work out for the other side. these people are vicious. nancy pelosi is it a horrible person. all they want to do in my opinion is it's almost like they want to destroy our country. >> well, that's a preview of what's to come over the next months apparently all the way to the election in november. trump also made a show of rewarding those who helped deliver a speedy acquittal, praising individual republican lawmakers for allegiance during his hour long marks today. in contrast, he singled out senator m.i.t. romney who voted yes on the first vote to convict and remove him from office. here's trump. zblfr s >> say hello to the people of utah and tell them i'm sorry about mitt romney. i'm sorry. okay? the only one that voted against was a guy that kabt stand the fact that he ran one of the worst campaigns in the history

hf the presidency. >> well, that throughout trump's remarks and yet he never offered even a morsel of self approach. the only apology offered is to his family. even they he took an explicit shot at his opponents. >> i want to apologize to my family for having them have to go through a phoney rotten deal by some very evil and sick people. >> it was a far cry, of course, from the contrition that former president bill clinton demonstrated in the wake of his acquittal. >> i want to say again to the american people, how pro foundly sorry i am for what i said and did to trigger these events. and any burden they imposed on the congress and on the american

people. >> above all else, today's speech is the iron grip on the republican party. "the new york times" op-ed, democratic senator sherry brown of ohio wrote, senator republican acquitted trump not because they believe him but because they're afraid of him. the ohio senator wrote, history has taught us that when it comes to the instincts that drive us, fear has no rival. and he revealed that in private many of my colleagues agree that president is reckless and unfit. they admit he lies and they acknowledge what he did was wrong. senator, what brought you to write that incredible report today about the motives driving your republican colleagues. >> i watched and i took notes sitting on the floor sitting at my desk on the floor and just wrote about what i was saying, what i was hearing including just for myself not to publish

anything like that but then i listened during breaks and a different times during the day for the last three or four weeks. i listened to republican colleagues. they admit, she lacks courage or republican cases. but they know they tell me this president doesn't tell the truth. they know he did things wrong. some of them like lamar alexander and my colleague rob portman acknowledged he did things wrong. then you watch this rally today. it was a rally at the government property at the white house. and you see them all cheer him on. they're not willing to do or say anything that fear does the business. fear does the business and among republicans of the united states senate. the same way you remember, chris, 20 years ago, president bush feared the business that led us into the iraq war and people make decisions based on fear and it's almost always the wrong decision for our country. >> do you think, i know it's

hard to speculate, but you're a member of that body, do you think the republicans would voted differently had it been a secret ballot? >> i do. i don't think we probably would have got 67 votes. because they know that removal of him would have caused too much upheavel. but if they could have voted in secret, there would have been a number of more votes, i think, that number of more people standing up and saying guilty when the chief justice or when the clerk called their name, absolutely. >> well the president's actually shown he has bullets in his gun, politically. knocked off a couple of the members in south carolina, i remember that happening. is it the real fear of that experience actually happening to one of your colleagues? like he's going to get rid of me. he's going to get the voters of my state and the political apparatus against me back home. and they can actually get rid of me. >> yeah. well, it's what i wrote about in that piece. they're afraid that fox will turn on them. they're afraid that talk radio

will go after them. they're afraid the president will tweet about them and give them a nickname. not very nice nickname. they're afraid the president will come in and campaign against them. but they contributed to this strong, strong unyielding intolerant republican base. if you live in cincinnati, ohio, or more importantly, if you live in kentucky and you got a republican house member and two remember senators and you watch fox and listen to limbaugh or one of them, you never hear any dissenting voices. you're a member of congress, never, ever stands up to this president. and we've never really quite seen that in this country that i can remember. this isn't worst time in our country's hist rich. mccarthyism was worthy. the divisions of the 60s, civil war, of course. but we've never seen a president like this have this kind of -- create this on going fear, unrelenting fear in this entire caucus, frankly. >> senator, when we look at pictures from north korea, just

an example of the dictatorship, you watch everybody wearing the high peaks hats and everybody smiling in unison and you watch the so-called people and they're so-called assembly. the congress so-called. they all are so frozen in fear of being seen as somehow out of line which you is very strict standard in that country. are republicans beginning to act like that? fearful of not showing the right sort of motion in public? you have to be exuberant in this cult when he stands before them. >> i started thinking about three nights ago during the statest union. my wife is a journalist. she in a novelist, now she was in the gallery and she said, she wrote the next day, i've never been to a trump political rally until the stast the union. it's almost all white men. in the way they stand and cheer for damn near anything that

trump says which he wants them to stand, just in unison. and there's just -- i know state of the union speeches are sometimes like that. i've been to 20 of them over the years, more or less. >> do you fear our government's going to come to a stand still with this kind of partisanship driven by a president who will brook no opposition. that's what makes this election so important. if we win this time, the planets are aligning. we beat trump and we win the senate f we do, we actually move forward. there is still plenty of trump voices in the party. if we win the kind of decisive win, you know, after the democrats had hoover, the democrats won so decisively. they enacted a lot of things for the country and collective bargaining and so much else.

but also the republicans were having to change their and a decisive win we can have this year. we're going to win the senate. we have a decisive win like that, those voices that stood with trump, the voice that's stood with trump this he have second thoughts. they realize it's not working for me and my party. i have to do something different. not just winning this year. but winning the decisive margins that we need. and they wash over all of. this. >> thank you for that great article in the "new york times" today. i'm joined right now by joe vulvin. >> the message to republicans for me frightening, it is

warning. disagree issued a warning asking his senator mike lee to deliver and bagsicily romney watch out. but he has clearly got his eyes set on romney. whether that means finding a potential challenger, making clear that he doesn't want nem there. we don't know at this point. but the president expects at this point loyalty from every person who sitting in that room and every republican in the senate. >> you know, speaking of cults, carlos, the republican party has been accused of being a cult under the leadership of the pied piper himself, donald trump. his press secretary made the statement today that mitt romney should be banished. that's the language of a cult. banished. banished to what, an island in the pacific. what does banished mean? it is the language of a cult. not of a government.

>> this is totally unprecedented. we had powerful strong republicans in the past. ronald reagan, george w. bush. people in the party disagreed with them all the time. they didn't suffer reprecushions. sure, they would gept a call every once in a while. a president might invite you over. might say something to you. not the kinds of threats where basically, everyone has to have the same exact pin on every single issue. the president today not just does he miss the opportunity to try to heal the country after an impeachment process, he goes on to threaten people in his own party. and by the way, you remember this after 2018. i ran. i lost. other republicans lost that year. the president decided to attack us. the day after members of his own party who had lost and they had

trouble for all of us. >> well, president trump's message of venk enand pay back is echoed by others in the administration, allies and surrogates. press secretary stephanie grisham said the president believes those who spoke out about him should be punished. >> he's going to speak to the country with honesty and i think with a little humility. he'll also talk about, you know, just how horribly he was treated and, you know, that maybe people should pay for that. zblfr and a number of republicans briefereded on trump's thinking told vanity fair that president has an enemy's list that is growing by the day. which includes adam schiff, jerry nadler, mitt romney and john bolton. do we have any sense what the incoming is going to be like? >> you don't need a lot of inside the room reporting to know that president is here and targets them almost every day.

the president has a huge mega phone. he tweets all the time. and we know the people that he is angry with. we know how he tries to attack them. he tries to put negative attention on them and, you know, he has a whole government power here. he talked today the aone point not mentioning him by name. but eluding to hunter biden suggesting he wants to continue, you know, investigating and looking into hunter biden's activity in ukraine. this is a president who has a tremendous platform and also somebody who is deeply popular with the republican party. this is snab has serious power in the republican party. they're frayed to cross him. >> it seems like he's after mitt romney. he's after the bidens for sure. he wants to prove he was right going after them with the ukraine government. he certainly going after. they he wants all three senate committees working to work like hell to get something on joe biden and hunter biden.

my god, he has a tough list. he doesn't like the fact that they're after his tax returns. he laid down a lot of fire today and a lot of directions. thank you so much joe and carlos. coming up, the war between president trump and speaker pelosi widens. >> first of all, the whole state of the anotherdown was beneath the dig in any event the white house. >> the vicious, vish, these people are vicious. nancy pelosi is a horrible person. person here in manchester, ohio, polls show bernie sanders with an overtakable lead here. can pete catch him? we have much more to get to. stay with with us. e to get to. stay with with us. thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer,

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he has shredded the truth in his speech. he shredded the constitution and his conduct. i shredded his state of his mind address. >> welcome back to "hard ball." that is nancy pelosi talking about why she tore up president trump's state of the union address lafalast night. they traded insaults throughout various events throughout the day. trump made a comment at the national prayer breakfast and going after mitt romney for speaking about his faith. >> i don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. when they know that that's not so. >> pelosi emphasized the

impeachment process over the past few months saying she was praying for the president. here's how she responded to trump today. >> i don't know if the president understands about prayer or people who do pray. but we do pray for the united states of america, i pray for him. i pray for president bush still, president obama. because it's a heavy responsibility. and i pray hard for him because he is so off the track of our constitution. he really needs our prayers. so he can say whatever he wants. he can say whatever he wants. i do pray for him and i do so sincerely and without anguish, you know, jenltly. just like i pray for everybody else. >> later in his impeachment speech, trump brought up pelosi directly calling her a horrible person. >> i had nancy pelosi sitting four seats away and i'm saying things that a lot of people wouldn't have said. i meant every word.

nancy pelosi is a horrible person. and she wanted to impeach a long time ago. she said, i pray forpt presid t president. she prays for the president. but she prays for the opposite. but i doubt she prays at all. let me start with you. you know a lot about reyij e. lidge religion. i know how she grows up. when she says she praise, she means it. we pray for different people, different, you know, supplications, but it's real, it's believing, it's faithful. and i do believe knowing a little bit about the lds religion that is he faithful to his relidge yovenlt these are not kashl you'll about religion and secular people in their beings. not that there is anything wrong a secoular people. trump is the secular. but i don't want to get into his

soul. why would he go so deeply with this attack? >> practicing psychiatry without a license here, it won't be first or last time, i think he's made uncomfortable by the president's -- or the intermags of genuine emotion on the other size. saints day is, you know, just something that were part of the air you breathed. you don't score points attacking people only grounds of faith. it's fund. ally unamerican. our first freedom is liberty of conscience, james madison had

this great run of being quoted for the past couple months, his first act as a young guy in virginia was to change the word from toleration of different religions or no religion to liberty of conscious. because toleration presumes there is an authority that is letting you believe something. and that implies you can take it back. liberty means it's innate, you choose or you don't choose and it's entirely up to you. i don't that i is a vernacular that the president is conversant with. it shows in vivid terms here, one more thought, the idea that you wrote about this better than anybody. the generational shift from a reagan-o'neal president to speaker relationship to pelosi and trump shows you how far we've fallen, i think. >> that's a great question. you write about it every day. the lead editorial page is the paper for washington government. how things get done or don't get

done. how do you get anything done if they don't meet. they have not met since october these two people. >> well, not a lot is getting done in washington before they started not getting along. but only if they're interested in the interesting of the warring parties. and the fact that especially the president has sunk to this level of name calling about a speaker of the house even though a speaker of the house of the opposite party. it's dramatically bad and makes what we can get done in washington these days less capable of getting done. >> someone wrote that friend can mean a lot of things. but enemy has only one meaning. it seems like they're enemies now. and last night, the senate majority leader said i can't believe he said it, the absence

of civility and politics while talking about pelosi tearing up president trump's speech. >> how childish and petty is that? what example does that set for the american people about how we ought to conduct ourselves? and we forgot how to be civil to each other? particularly when we're in congress, sitting together. not on the campaign trail, not at rallies but at least among ourselves, we ought to be able to disagree and not behave like a bunch of children. >> so how does mitt say that after holding up the supreme court nominations for a year, just showing how power works. >> i mean, just leave a sigh of the outrage of holding up the nomination. how does he say that given the way his president talks every single day? has he not seen this twitter thing? has he not seen how the president talks? >> he made fun of robert

mueller's age, lieutenant colonel vinman's accent. he made fun of the accent. i don't here hear the president making fun of someone's ancestry so openly. >> and, i mean, i think we can actually emphasize enough, i thought my friend was extremely restrained in the way he was talking about this attack on people's faith. this president has only seemed to use faith as a tool for political ads. >> to respond to what you said, it's personal with me. when ronald reagan was shot and was really close to death for a couple hours there, tip o'neill visited him in the hospital and they prayed the 23rd psalm together. think about. that reading the bible together. at a bedside.

>> as if we're talking about thermopoly. that is so far away. it doesn't have to be far away. i think he is able to say that because he feels no consequence. and the president feels no consequence. and that's why it's up to the we the people. do a majority of us want to say again decisively and dare i say it in the right electoral college states that this is not who we want to be. it's who many of us are. >> i think as one said -- >> we have to fight our worst ini stirvegts. >> i think it was even said, not even god himself can sink this ship. thank you both. up next, mitt romney says he was well aware that there would be consequences for his vote to convict the president for his reckless abuse of power. senator romney made -- had nor to say about it today. it's what happens next? what form will trump's punishment take toward utah? you're watching hard ball. take? you're watching hard bl.al i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.

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was not consistent with my conscience. >> welcome back to "hard ball." that is mitt romney back in utah. envoeki envo invoking the memory of his father and defending his vote to convict president trump. he called it most difficult decision he has ever had to make. one he tried to avoid. joined by patrick griffin, he worked on romney's 2008 campaign. tell us about the role of his faith in that decision he made on the senate floor. >> you know, i met with him the day before he made that speech, the interview, he told me about the decision he was making. and i talked to mitt romney a lot, like you said, i covered him for nearly a decade. this is by far the most open he was about talking about his faith. most he ever volunteered about his faith. by the way, i share. i'm also a mormon.

and even then we very rarely talk about religious matters. but as he was explaining this he was very somber. he was very kind of steadfast. he also just kept -- he spoke intimately and personally about prayer and he was quoting mormon hymns and scripture and you just played that clip of him talking about his father. he said that a favorite passage -- his father's favorite passage is a guide throughout this process. this was at the center of his decision as far as i can tell. >> let me go to you, patrick. he is now facing fire. this president wants everybody to see how he makes life difficult or worse for romney. it's important for his message. right? you know what i'm talking about. >> i certainly do. this guy is next. >> yeah, i think -- listen, it's hard to figure out what the political upside is for this thing for mitt romney. he is 72 years old. he's been a governor.

u.s. senator, party's nominee. he has lots of money. had this is not about challenging trump or trying to find the next political thing. this is clearly a vote of conscience. i think that what we finally saw in this was the mitt romney politically that lots of people have been looking for over the years. >> you heard my line. he flirts with greatness. >> and we saw some greatness. i think we saw the real mitt romney, deep from the heart. he will be a lonely guy in that town. that's the mitt romney i know and respect. i think he's a terrific guy. every senator had a vote. there were different jurors to see different things from different evidence. i give him a lot of credit. >> as a member of the church, take a minute to explain the importance of our constitution and your faith. our founding documents. >> he was the first true american religion. the clutch was founded in -- here in the united states. a lot of the kind of crucial episodes of our history are also american history. and the constitution is actually

seen in the faith as divinely inspired document. and so when mitt romney said he swore an oath to god and he was set part, he took that very seriously. this wasn't a pro forma thing for him. the constitution is really -- it's not quite scripture. but it's often treated that way when you talk about american members of the faith. that's a big part of what was motivating him. >> i'm sow glad we had a chance to get that. this american religion believes so ma so much in the founding documents. thank you so much both. still ahead, new polling out of new hampshire. it shows bernie sanders ahead in the granite state. we don't know how that lead will hold. i may hold or buttigieg or someone else may catch him. they have four or five days.

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your nearest opponent, we here in northern new england come that a victory. now that iowa is hopefully finally behind us, let's take this opportunity to thank the thousands of those here in new hampshire in the streets in rain and snow knocking on doors. >> the final university poll ahead of next week's vote him leading in new hampshire with pete buttigieg in second. buttigieg buttigieg acknowledges the challenges ahead for him. >> it's been an extraordinary week and we're electrified by the energy we have here in monday. i'm also mindful and humbled by

the fact that new hampshire is it new hampshire. and new hampshire is not the kind of place to let iowa or anybody else tell what you to do. . >> for more, i welcome back my guests. senior editor for politics and the national bureau chief and trendsetter as executive editor. that little thing i watched him do today seems to be what works up here. your state seems to like the twist of the national impression of where we're headed. like they thought they were going to call this thing. we're calling it. >> glad you got it. there were so many people there. they were not expecting that many people. they don't care about what happens now. they really don't. you heard this joke from people. you hear it every cycle. i heard it dozens of times so far. in iowa, people pick corn and in

new hampshire, people pick presidents. i think that's what new hampshire democrats are looking at. >> who's going to win? >> anybody that tells you who's going to win the new hampshire primary only has a one in five chance of being rig'ing right. if you dig into the polls, 50% are leaning towards or completely undecided about who they're going o vote for. >> what are they waiting for this weekend? >> what they're waiting for is someone from iowa to drop ut for there to be an iowa and that didn't happen. and so now this weekend everyone is out frantically. people are trying to figure out who they're going to vote for. they're indecisive. >> it seems ideologically what is happening within the two lanes, within the moderate to conservative lane, it looks like bu year now. one thing that struck me, voters

don't care about lanes. i talk to people, i'm deciding between amy klobuchar and bernie sanders. i'm deciding between buttigieg and tom stier. i mean, whoa! don't you understand you're supposed to be in a lane. >> so it's not ideological? >> no. a lot of people behind bernie, his hard core people are indeed one revolution. they're of the left. some people going with biden because they don't want that as a reaction. a lot of people have not made up their mind yet. they're weighing people on all sorts of traits and characteristics that may not be ideological. >> i think that's right. i met some of them today. >> yeah. let's recall. bernie sanders was in this race four years ago. he bested hillary clinton by 20 poinz. he has a lot of popularity here. i was at an event here in new hampshire after the iowa caucuses or however we left that state. he had so many people at this

event that they were bussing in attendees from a parking lot that they had to put people in like about two miles away. he still has a huge, huge base of support here. it stants to reasds to reason t of people from 2016 are still with him. pete buttigieg surprised us. joe biden could come back. let's not count that guy out. the vice president of the united states. elizabeth warren, neighboring state. she has a good organization here. i don't think we really know how this is going to shake out. >> i come here every four years. i revolv love it up here. i love it. it seems to have a habit of winning the thing, the race in two. it always seems to be bush versus reagan, bush versus dole. one of those battles or somebody else on the other side. hillary verse you bernie. >> it really -- the thing is

candidates have already said, look, i don't need to win i don hampshire. joe biden said that. if you ask him, do you need to win new hampshire, he'll say no. they have built campaigns in 30 plus states after this. let's say biden doesn't do well here, that's all right, he has that fire wall in south carolina. he's doing well nationally. elizabeth warren does do well here, she should. she has been campaigning here forever. and has a huge campaign. for the longest time people thought she has the best operation here but she's built up this operation in other states as well. >> i'm going to ask you all the following question, if buttigieg ekes out a victory in delegates on iowa. we're still waiting for that baby, and waiting for a few days for that. if somebody else like elizabeth warren wins in nevada, joe biden wins in south carolina. what does that say about the democratic party selection process, where are we going? >> i think right now, the party

is tremendously fractured. i think iowa shows that, yeah, bernie can claim more votes but it's a very small margin, and he got half the votes last time in terms of the democratic primary. he's down to a quarter. i don't think two people come out of this anymore. i think the party is fractured through south carolina, nevada, and then we see what happens when that guy named michael bloomberg air drops a hundred million dollars on super tuesday. >> on one day. >> this, you know, we're not going to get clarity, i think, on wednesday morning. >> not to be depressing, i want to talk about what's going on in iowa right now. while we wait for official word of a winner in iowa, dnc national chairman tom perez tweeted today, enough is enough, in light of the problems that have been merged and the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to ensure public confidence in votes, i'm calling for the iowa democratic party to immediately begin a recanvas. a statewide re-canvas would require a hand audit of work

sheets. in a statement, the iowa democratic party didn't address the request but said the party is ready if a democratic campaign asks for a re-canvas. the committee in iowa is saying no unless a candidate asks for it. >> and no candidate has yet. i think where everybody stands is the sound bite from bernie sanders, we're finally out of iowa. people want to shut the door on that baby and move on. it was such a mess. it didn't yield a clear win. so many questions about how those votes were counted, whether they were tabulated correctly. new hampshire has the chance to clarify things a bit. i went to an event where secretary of state who's been in the job 40 years runs the operation every single time and the governor of the state got up there to say we're not going to do it the way iowa did it, we're going to get it right. >> new hampshire is going to mess with iowa the way it likes to do. how are they going to do something different of iowa than iowa if they don't know what

iowa did? >> new hampshire doesn't care about iowa. >> you're so full of it. >> they just don't care. >> this is home cooking here. home cooking. >> he's right, iowa doesn't matter. >> there's something different. >> iowa doesn't matter anymore. whoever was going to get a boost from winning didn't get that full boost and now all eyes are here on tuesday to see if they can get it right, and it's going to be a fractured result as well. >> should the last person leaving des moines turn out the lights? >> yes, and say don't bother coming back. >> thank you. david corn, up next, the language of a dictator bent on revenge. you know who i'm talking about. you're watching "hardball." abot you're watching "hardball.

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president trump spoke today with the venom of a black mamba, witch hunt, evil, corrupt, dirty cops, leakers, liars, disgrace. these were the viperous words he

spewed in the east room on a day that began with a prayer breakfast. >> as everybody knows, my family, our great country, and your president have been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people. >> trump spit vitriol at the speaker of the house, and the lone republican senator that dared vote to remove him. >> i don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. nor do i like people who say i pray for you, when they know that that's not so. >> as i jotted down trump's words, i wonder what they would mean in a country where the targets of such invective were

not protected by a constitution such as ours. they sounded like the language of a dictator unleashing a violent purge that his targets would be unlikely to survive. i have never heard an american president or any figure in our country declare his anger at so many. he was most fiercely unforgiving of those who played a role in his impeachment from fbi director james comey to speaker nancy pelosi. >> it was evil. it was corrupt. it was dirty cops. it was leakers and liars. and this should never ever happen to another president. >> the president's clearly not on the road to either moderation, much less reformation. and today there were none of the calls for unity mentioned at his state of the union just days ago. trump is making this personal. he wants pay back. for the democrats, this is what it means. they don't know who they're running for president. they do know who they're running against, not just donald trump

but this donald trump. and that's "hardball" for now, thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes begins now. >> tonight on "all in." >> whatever he says whatever headlines he wants to carry on, you're impeached forever gl one day after the trial of donald trump. >> the president returns to form. >> did nothing wrong. >> tonight, how donald trump's post impeachment performance brings the stakes of 2020 into stark relief. how the white house is now mobilizing the executive branch for retribution. how democrats are responding. >> next year we will have a new president of the united states. >> then, the dnc asks for a recount in iowa as a second candidate declares victory there, and senator elizabeth warren joins