joining us to talk about ut now, terry mcauliffe and david gregory. just waking up to join us to join the fun this morning. besides the american people who won last night. >> i do agree that joe biden seemed to fade. i actually thought warren was strong but then i thought there were a compilation of moderates. kbroun, more moderate than her. buttigieg, klobuchar who actually did well. there was not a clear winner other than this perception on the stage that everyone had to go after her. >> who stood out to you? >> irs if of all, let me say for the democrats. i think the whole issue around ukraine has united the democratic party. you saw all the candidates coming together last night. trump has really unified us. i haven't seen our party in a very long time. so on the issue of ukraine and impeachment. i thought amy klobuchar had a good night. i thought the front runners did what they had to do. bernie looked good, a man who had a heart attack. he looked great. biden did what he had to do on the issues of ukraine. >> when you say did what he had to do, d

let's see what david gregory and ross garber think about it. they're back with me right now.s, you know, the president has indicated time and time again that he thinks article 2 of the constitution somehow protects him and gives him absolute power to do what he wants. you heard that laid out. what are your thoughts? >> article 2 does give the president very broad authority, but as you point out, it is checked. and the framers were very conscious about doing that, because what they didn't want to do was create a king. so that created this balance and separation of powers. they gave the congress substantial powers, they gave the judiciary substantial powers, and they gave the people substantial powers. the president certainly doesn't have unlimited power, and as you pointed out just now, the courts are sort of the wild card player in impeachments, historically. they don't play a direct role, but they have played a role. united states versus nixon was a case that the supreme court decided, and probably president nixon would not have been impeached but for that case requiring him

it's all the ones after that. >>> jeffrey toobin and david gregory are back with me. decision by a federal judge here in new york that might have a huge impact on the investigations into president trump. now this decision could finally clear the way for all of us to see whatever trump is hiding in his tax returns. because today judge ruled that trumps tax returns can be turned over to a new york state grand jury. and he dismissed the president's claim the occupant of the white house enjoys absolute immunity from criminal process of any kind. the judge called that claim an overreach of executive power and quote repugnant to the nations governmental struck kmur and constitutional values. the manhattan district attorney wants to know if trump or his company falsified business records in connection with with the hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. both allege affairs with trump who denied the allegations. trumps former attorney michael cohen admits paying some hush money on his bhafr. he's serving time in fe

i called you david gregory. david gergen, as you know -- >> it's an insult to david gregory. >> i've known you for years. listen, you've advised four u.s. presidents. have you ever seen a president publicly lash out like this while standing alongside a world leader on an international stage like this? >> never, including nixon. and richard nixon toward the end was drinking very heavily. he was talking to portraits on the wall, you know, inside the residence at the white house. sometimes he thought they were talking back to him. so he was unhinged. but it was in private, not in public. and this, i must tell you the way the president is acting now is very -- it really raises serious questions about his fitness for office. millions of americans tune in and watch the president very, very closely when there's trouble facing the oval office. they want to see what their president is like in a crisis. how well does he handle pressure? is he stable? is he reliable? is he someone who will calmly get us through this without

so call now. >>> jeffrey toobin and david gregory are back with me. we're going to talk about today's decision by a federal judge here in new york that might have a huge impact on the investigations into president trump. now this decision could finally clear the way for all of us to see whatever trump is hiding in his tax returns. because today judge ruled that trumps tax returns can be turned over to a new york state grand jury. and he dismissed the president's claim the occupant of the white house enjoys absolute immunity from criminal process of any kind. the judge called that claim an overreach of executive power and quote repugnant to the nations governmental structure and constitutional values. the manhattan district attorney wants to know if trump or his company falsified business records in connection with with the hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. both allege affairs with trump who denied the allegations. trumps former attorney michael cohen admits paying some hush money on hi

let's bring back david gregory and joe lockhart.ke the pulse of how people are feeling about the impeachment inquiry as best we can from these national polls. here's one from quinnipiac. do you support the house's impeachment inquiry? 51% of respondents say yes. 45% say no. then there's this part of the quinnipiac poll. is it acceptable for a president to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political rival? 66% say no. only 24% say yes. that's among i guess everybody and then among republicans 53% say yes and 34% say no. you see the numbers switch there. joe, the numbers and polls are going the way the democrats in the house want them to, but b obviously not everybody feels this way. there are all sort of swing voters who feel it's a distraction and would rather politicians work on their pocketbook issues. >> yeah, listen, i think the polls have i guess maybe stalled is the right word. i think the move towards an impeachment inquiry moved, i don't want to say 10%, maybe plus or minus a few points, but they've now kind of settled i

joining me are ross garber and david gregory. you just heard sarah's report and trump is calling speaker mcconnell three time as day to get dirt on any republicans he think its aren't loyal enough. are we seeing signs of panicking? >> i think it's the playback the president has relied on k which is anyone who speaks out gets attacked. makes him an enemy right away. it's a shot across the bow and it's work pretty well. he's faced an avalanche off criticism leaving our allies the kurds to be butchered by the turks. and yet when the comes to impeachment, any kand kind of threat to his legitimacy republicans stand by him and ta they've still been careful and i think there is panic if the there is a stonewall strategy, they've got to make sure they're not bluffing. and the republican thins senate will be there at the end of the day. >> first off all the senate should be loyal to the president as opposed to the little thing called the constitution is odd. and mcconnell saying it's categorically false that loader mcconnell said anything

joining us now, chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, david gregory and bianna golodryga.rison, a very tall man, by the way. >> he's a large presence, at least physically. >> arriving on capitol hill. walking into that deposition room, jeffrey, and his testimony is important. he is still currently a white house employee. that won't last long. but he was on these phone calls. he has a lot to say. >> and many of the witnesses, important as they are, have been removed from the president. they've been state department, defense department. morrison works right there in the nsc which is part of the white house complex. he is basically one step removed from the president. he works for john bolton. john bolton works directly for the president, and he is the person who was in charge of coordinating ukraine policy. and he, of all people, should know what the real terms of the relationship were. was it american national interest? or was it the president's political agenda, his personal, political agenda, the key factor in the relationship. >> he looks like he's david gregory tall. >>

joining us now david gregory and abby phillip. have to confess my own confession, i'm less interested if he will be the next contestant on "dancing with the stars."interested in what this last 72 hours of attempted messaging in reversals is doing. and to me, the big picture is it's not working. what they're trying to do is not working. whether it be the g7 at doral. whether it be mick mulvaney saying there was a quid pro quo and there wasn't. it's just not working. >> this is the part where we explain to people that there is no strategy here. i think that's what this really reflects. the white house never came up with a plan to deal with an impeachment inquiry which has always been a very serious thing. they decided a long time ago that their line was going to be -- well, the president didn't do anything at all. so we don't need to prepare. we don't need to plan. we don't need to have a war room. we don't need to even prep the white house chief of staff before he goes into a room of reporters who haven't had a briefing in almost a

back with us david gregory and abby phillip. do is set the rules for the public testimony. it will make the depositions public, the transcripts of the depositions public, and it will figure out how to hand over the information from intelligence to the judiciary committee which will vote on articles of impeachment. more than anything, this is a vote on impeachment, the first vote on impeachment, and we haven't had one until this point, so what does it signify to you? >> the democrats know they've got to get this process going. tha they've got to get it public, they want to do it before the end of the year to keep the public's attention before the holidays, which could slip away. two, i think they want to call the republicans out who have been making an argument against the process being a sham process, illegitimate, they want to really make very clear what the role is for republicans in challenging the evidence, challenging the witnesses to be able to do it in a public way so that they can get into a public debate about what the m

>> david gregory, congratulations. >> go nats!nt investigation to remove david gregory from that chair. no it began with a phone call to the president of ukraine. why does that country keep popping up in so many of the issues we're talking about? reality check, next. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. unfortunately, it can't do anything about that. now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? fun fact: 1 in 4 of us millennials have debt we might die with. and most of that debt is actually from credit cards. it's just not right. but with sofi, you can get your credit cards right - by consolidating your credit card debt into one monthly payment. you can get your interest rate right - by locking in a fixed low rate today. and you can get your money right. with sofi. check your rate in 2 min

joining us, cnn politics reporter, chris cillizza and political analyst david gregory. raid of? i mean, why now? why at the 11th hour, literally, the 11th hour, why are they stopping this meeting that had been negotiated for weeks? >> well, i think they'll say that this is a process fight that they don't like how democrats are going about it. you heard secretary of state pompeo say at the outset that they weren't going to be intimidated. what suddenly at the last moment broke and made them pull him is unclear. but it is clear that there's going to be a different set of rules for those who have resigned and those still in the inner circle. this is somebody who is still working at the state department, still an ambassador to the eu and was a central player in all of this. and his behavior on text messaging and given his role is very important to understand just what the administration is up to. who is involved in freezing aid to ukraine in order to extract a promise that they'd investigate joe biden and other priorities of the president and rudy giuliani. the broader quest

gloria borger and david gregory are back. this was part of an immigration meeting in march.he president was threatening to completely shut down the border with mexico. let me start first with his idea of how to treat human beings. >> it's almost incomprehensible and almost cartoonish in a way if it weren't so sad and depressing. >> is it amoral? >> putting snakes and alligators in a mote to eat people or shooting their legs, of course it is to answer your question. imagine being a staffer sitting there. it's like dealing with your young child when they're having a tantrum. the child leaves the room and they say how are we to comply with that child's wishes. what are they doing? >> it also shows the president doesn't view any limits or boundaries to his role as president. it begs the question what does he think the job of president is and his view of solving problems doesn't adhere to limits or boundaries or precedent. again it's illustrative. former secretary mattis says why do we have troops in south korea. that is to prevent world war iii. somehow that needed to be said ou

we should also note david gregory is with us here. go ahead. >> i think the fact that he is -- this is grotesque. and to inject this into the political bloodstream is just another example. and at a critically grave time right now in the country and in our politics, that the president adheres to no limits and there are no boundaries. and what this is is really a stain on the presidency itself which is much bigger than him. but he's using it in seeking to delegitimize it in a way and to delegitimize any political process that has him as a target. that's the more lasting damage that he's doing. and i say it's such a grave time because republicans who are already in a very difficult position of having to defend him have to wake up yet again and face something else that they have to answer for if they're going to stand by him in front of their constituents. >> i'm sure they're going to tell us they haven't read the tweet or they're deeply uncomfortable with it. >> or mitch mcconnell, i don't comment on tweets. >> the why and the when of th

let's bring in susan glasser, staff writer for the new yorker and cnn global affairs analyst and david gregory, political analyst. david, it's just -- it's so jaw dropping to watch these two guys. let's start with the guys who have now been arrested and charged. they were trying to head to frankfurt last night and they were grabbed at the airport. here's a picture of them with their buddy, rudy giuliani. no other way to explain how these guys have socialized with him. there's pictures of them. they've been together now for years. and they are now charged with this laundry list of things from campaign finance violations, because they're trying to funnel foreign money into these u.s. elections. and accused of also being involved in this whole ukraine scandal to dig up dirt. >> the tangled web of rudy giuliani. this is really what the story is. somebody who wanted to be secretary of state, was passed over. but ended up getting his own pa passport to have carte blanche. and one purpose, to dig up dirt on the president's opponents, to pursue his agenda. and tarks peers he's been doing that for mont

. >> i want to go to our political analyst david gregory, and former counsel for national security, kerrydero and nancy mcaldeny, u.s. ambassador to bulgaria and has known bill taylor for 25 years and republican state senator of nevada, greg bower. i appreciate all of your time. carrie, you had a chance to read the opening statement and took one hour to read and took nine hours of questioning. how big of a deal was this testimony? >> i think it's an incredibly big deal for a couple of reasons. first, with respect to the issues that are under consideration for impeachment, bill taylor clearly articulated, i think in the way that we've most clearly understood it at this point. the exchange that was on the table. in other words, that the president and his advisers who were doing this secondhand back channel communications with the government of ukraine, they were seeking out political information regarding investigations into the bidens and investigations into the 2016 campaign in exchange for u.s. government security assistance, and then the second piece that i think was devastating from a

let's bring in maggie haberman and david gregory. maggie, as we have said, these two guys -- these two guys who have been implicated in all of these dirty deeds now charged. between starting -- opening a shell company so they could funnel foreign money to different trump packs and try to enlist pete sessions in getting marie yovanovitch recalled, it is as dirty as the day is long what they're being charged with. and they are clearly friends with rudy or close associates with rudy giuliani there. >> so the most interesting thing that i learned in the last 24 hourings was that those two when attended his september 11th annual dinner he holds with former aides. they were around all of the time a number of people giuliani had urged him to distance himself from them. supposedly not knowing the details we've just discussed but just concerned because they didn't necessarily seem on the level to giuliani's friends. now i think the question becomes what this means for rudy giuliani in terms of working for president trump. we saw president tru

joining me now cnn political analyst david gregory and cnn chief legal analyst and former prosecutor jeffrey toobin. jeffrey, i'll start with you is secretary of state mike pompeo in trouble? >> well, i don't think he's in legal trouble. but, i think, you know, what that nonanswer contributes to is just the sense that there was this secret effort to get countries to help re-elect donald trump and no one wants to talk about it, because they understood how inappropriate it was. and, you know, whether it's the involvement here of secretary pompeo or attorney general barr's involvement which, you know, pompeo, since he was on the phone call heard, heard trump repeatedly invoke barr. you know, the question is whether the entire federal government was doing the nation's business, or whether they were doing the trump re-election campaign business. you know that gets ever-more important to respond. >> your mouth is open like you want to respond to this. >> you know wee me so well. i think the overall picture here is if any president of the united states feels that there is an important inves

joining us political correspondent dana bash, cnn political analyst david gregory and cnn political correspondenty philip. i want to start with something congressman jim himes told me, two additional areas he wants his committee to look at, number one, was there mill retribution against state department officials, namely ambassadors maria yovanovitch, was she fired to forward the president's political goals and to what extent has there been a white house cover-up? it was interesting to me he said that. one of the big questions to me that hasn't been answered what more do democrats want since they already have so much evidence? >> fascinating because the more they believe they can get, look, they're on this path, it's pretty clear, and they feel that they have enough already to, even though they're doing the investigation, they feel they already have enough to move forward with articles of impeachment. that's pretty clear. the more they have evidence wise as wide as they can get in and around this one topic of the president asking for political dirt on his opponent and the ramifications of that, t

. >> joining us now cnn political analyst david gregory and political correspondent abby phillip. these poll numbers are interesting. an impeachment inquiry isn't just a battle about getting the facts, it's also a battle for public opinion. right now this poll seems to indicate the president's losing that battle with support for the inquiry up to 58%. that's a 21% jump since july, and among all adults 49% say now when we're in the second inning as joe lockhart said before, 49% of americans say they support removing the president from office today. these are tough numbers for the president, david. >> yeah, and i think it's a simple combination of bad facts and highly erratic behavior by the president. he's acting in a way where he's both hiding something. he's incensed, he's irrationally attacking people. he doesn't seem to have himself together at all, and he seems to be cornered, and all of that in combination to revelations and the fact that you have not only a whistle-blower, you have additional people coming forward. you have text messages being released. i think the complete

at the top of the hour, i'm going to be joined by jeffrey toobin and david gregory, and the three oflopments in the entire impeachment inquiry. it's going to be great. >> powerhouse minds. i will be tuning in. thank you, laura. >>> the impeachment inquiry now spreading into new areas of the federal government as house democrats consider taking extreme measures to protect the whistle-blower. what congressman dave cicilline of foreign affairs committee has to say about it. that's next. (vo) the subaru crosstrek. dog tested. dog approved. subaru establishes national make a dog's day. helping hard-to-adopt dogs find homes. sleep this amazing? that's a zzzquil pure zzzs sleep. our liquid has a unique botanical blend, while an optimal melatonin level means no next-day grogginess. zzzquil pure zzzs. naturally superior sleep. outdated. the paperwork... the calling for everything. the searching for id cards... it's like you're stuck in the 90s. that's why esurance makes it simple with an app that has everything you need because that's how we live nowadays. rad. your id card is on a bodacious

we want to bring in cnn political analyst david gregory as well. dana, are you saying from your reporting, your conversations behind the scenes with republicans, that they are most upset about his lack of discipline in terms of the message and his profane reaction to some things? or the substance of what they read in the transcript of that phone call? >> look, all of the above. that's the truth. and it's also fea they just don't know what else the house democrats are going to uncover. so there's all of that. there's also the frustration that they're not getting enough information from the white house just about strategy. the white house made a decision even though they had a flirtation with setting up a war room like bill clinton did in the '90s, they decided we're not going to do that. instead, they're going to use what bill clinton did not have because he was in his second term. that is the president's re-election campaign to hit back. they've been hitting emails and tweets to their supporters. but people on the hill say that's not enough. this i

joining us now, dana bash, cnn political analyst david gregory and cnn white house correspondent kaitlanrst to you on this, kaitlan. there is some discrepancy that we're seeing now. the official white house reason for why there were these ellipses in the rough transcript they put throughout. theyed ed isaid these are just. if there were words miss, they would be in brackets. yet what we saw in the opening statement and heard in the testimony according to "the new york times" is that lieutenant colonel vindman said as he was piecing this together to clean tup, he wanted words put in where those ellipses were and it didn't happen. >> he didn't say why it didn't happen which is going to raise questions and the white house will have to try to answer some of those on why this is a contra diction. he is someone who is not only on the phone call but in charge rev viewing this transcript. so the fact that there are these dot, dot, dots, that the white house dismissed, said they weren't anything noteworthy, simply a pause in the conversation when we're finding out they had several phrases or word

let's bring in cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin and cnn political analyst david gregory.s stretched back further than we knew. it was well before the whistle-blower lodged his or her complaint. this is six months ago that george kent tried to sound the alarm about what rudy giuliani was doing. >> all the witnesses so far have been talking about is, you know, what was the guiding principle of our relationship with ukraine. was it the united states national interest or was it this extended months long attempt to get the ukrainian government to produce dirt on joe biden. and what seems to be coming out is that thanks to giuliani, there was this long effort to make it hostage to donald trump's political gains. how much of that can be tied to trump directly and whether the congress thinks that's an impeachable offense. >> trump tied it to himself directly. >> that's what's so interesting about this. you have the phone call which still looks like a smoking gun to many people, but what we're learning now is that was not an isolated incident. it fit in with a larger pattern. >> a

joining us david gregory, and i just happened to be reading "axios" this morning, margaret. >> oh, brownnoser. >> you do what you have to do. >> the white house is tense, and some aides are frantic as democrats on capitol hill tap a gusher of revelations that paint an increasingly vivid portrait of president trump's unrestrained conduct of foreign policy. and we heard from fiona hill words like -- and she was quoting john bolton in some cases -- hand grenade, drug deal, wrongdoing, going to blow everything up. worst nightmare. and this was all describing what she apparently portrayed as the shadow foreign policy that was being conducted by rudy giuliani and reportedly the suggestion is it was for the president's personal political gain. so as we wake up to this news this morning, margaret, where does that put this investigation? >> john, fiona hill's ten-hour closed door testimony yesterday is going to be pretty major in terms of its repercussions because she's not a political appointee in the sense that she's not a partisan or she's not a bolton flunkie or she doesn't have an ax to grind lef

out front now, nia maleka henderson, political analyst david gregory and who represented president clinton during his impeachment hearings and john dixon. >> it's interesting when you see that exchange, right? it was a simple question. >> yeah. if the president wanted to take issue with what was in the transcript or say, you know, it was inaccurate or misleading he could have. he didn't. because it's all there. he didn't want to talk about it. >> he didn't want to talk about it and you see echoes of that in other republicans. they don't want to talk about the substance of this call, primarily the part about biden and the idea that the american president is asking a foreign lead tore meddle in a foreign election. it feels like we just went through that with the mueller report. the president didn't seem to kick off impeachment hearings after the mueller report was released here with this call that was revealed through this whistle-blower, clearly is under his skin and is clearly worried about it and they're probably second guessing the fact that they actually released this transcript which d

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