to talk about their country but say that they don't have assurance that bruni security is. stability is to be there so they don't think that is the time now to take. if you. back home they tease but also their government over time then you know assisting that from their perspective and their research which was going to be by both countries i mean and brutally they should is that to bloom is that they have enough peace and security so that allow. from the only to go back home. ok you've also spoken to some of these refugees and what do they say do they want to go back to when they will stay in tanzania. yesterday i had to interview with one of the if you from a very sort of a refugee camp in the district in my region telling the story that you see that somebody from france who are leading want to go back home because they think in their area they have enough peace and security so that they can go back and even peacefully but who think that if they come to go back because this is his story that they hide from the truth of their 15 year with their kills in the coffers he becam

proceedings gather pace democrats in the house of representatives have subpoenaed trump's personal attorney bruni giuliani as well as 3 of giuliani's associates. has democrats are turning up the he's on donald trump's personal lawyer. giuliani has been ordered to turn over text messages phone records and other communications related teen crane. it's a significant step by the house intelligence committee as it examines whether trump abused the office of president when he asked ukraine's president to dig up dirt on political rival joe biden this country trump has been pushing back aggressively firing at verbal barbs against democrats leading the impeachment probe reports on the whistleblower that prompted it probably figured i made a call the call was perfect whether the whistleblower reported it he made it senator and then you have that i'm sure of who even worse made up my words which i think is just horrible that never even think that they are going to but the allegations against the president are mushrooming the australian government has confirmed that trump recently urged prime minister scott

joining me is frank bruni, laura coates, and harry litman.ny, explosive testimony from this top diplomat. frank, i'll start with you. bill taylor. i just want to read a little more from him. i read a loot in the opening but i want to read some. "ambassador sondland tried to explain to me that president trump is a businessman. when a businessman is about to sign a check to someone who owes him something, he said, the businessman asks that person to put up before signing the check." "pay up," excuse me, "before signing the check. ambassador volker used the same terms several days later." pay up before signing the check? that is the definition of -- >> quid pro quo, absolutely. it's amazing testimony. what you just read, he names who he's talking to. he says what they said. i mean, the specificity of this testimony is extraordinary. the sweep of this testimony is extraordinary. it all blows you away. and also, something we haven't noted enough, the tone of it is extraordinary. he's already being smeared by the white house as some radical bureauc

back with me now, frank bruni, shimon prokupecz. joined by ellie honig. the national security adviser, john bolton was so concerned about rudy giuliani's dealings, whatever he was doing with ukraine that he sent it up the chain to saying you should contact white house lawyers. >> what's becoming clear to me now is we're sort of seeing sides choosing up. on the one hand, your career people, your professional diplomats and state department people, hill, yovanovitch, apparently john bolton for better or for worse, that's ultimately what he's about, on one side and the trump loyalists on the other side. rudy, sondland, mulvaney. if i'm sizing this up from a investigative perspective, i'm looking at the career people. i'm trying to bill this case around the nonpartisan, career, state diplomatic people. they're credible. that's where i'm focussing my investigation. >> so walk us through. what do we know? >> look, i think the most important thing here is you have a national security adviser, the man who is supposed to be running the entire security apparatus of

let's discuss, jamie gangel, frank bruni here as well. mulvaney admitting to a quid pro quo.e's on the tape admitting it. the president is crowing about the deal that gives turkey everything it wants after betraying our allies, the kurds. you say, shudder to think what's next. i want to say just to be clear, right, because he didn't necessarily admit to a quid pro quo with the bidens, so to speak. >> right. >> admitting to holding back aid to ukraine. >> yeah, the quid pro quo that he was admitting to was about the sort of conspiracy theory about ukraine hacking the democratic server and not russia. >> right. it can get confusing. in the beginning, i didn't want people to get confused. >> right, first of all, contradicts trump saying there's no quid pro quo, a statement he made that encompassed more than the biden discussion. advancing that spear theory, getting ukraine to advance it, is to his political advantage in 2020 because it takes certain questions off the table about 2016. it's still a very bad thing. now we're in this hall of mir r mirror, mick mulvaney comes out la

frank bruni is here, laura coates, harry litman, they'll break down all what of this means, that's nextthere, huh? not especially. -[ slurping continues ] -what you drinking? gasoline. right, but i mean, what's in the cup? gasoline. [ slurping ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. for those who were born to ride, (vo) ♪ the subaru crosstrek. dog tested. dog approved. subaru establishes national make a dog's day. helping hard-to-adopt dogs find homes. >>> the breaking news and bombshell testimony, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, bill taylor, says he was told president trump wanted military aid to the country be withheld until investigations were launched that would improve president trump's reelection chances. this is bombshell testimony, explosive testimony from this top diplomat. frank, i'll start with you. i'll read more from bill taylor's opening statement. ambassador sondland tried to explain to me that president trump is a businessman. when a businessman is about to sign a check to someone who owes him something, he said, the businessman asks that person to put

that for now today bruni is hosting a family reunion on his front porch a short reprieve in the rough neighborhood. boonie is the patriarch of west lot is of a new low key persistent did not he out again right davey and made it to the other side bernie and patricia have practically taken him in with the ever be equal opportunities for the children surviving in the shadows of chicago downs his granddaughter will ever get to see the day and yet he keeps on fighting every day for the kids here to come around he's always ready whenever they are. that was yeah you know that's a lovely day it will let you know when they will get maybe 1 o'clock in the morning come up with the bad boy can you take me in the morning the family or job could you take me in a more you put me in a program would you take me the morning families and school so a car is there no prescribed time and that is so you just got to be there with a car there might think it is now it's god keep up with me to keep me healthy enough work and get up from point a to point b. for. as long as mooning waits for them on his porch the

frank bruni, michael d'antonio. and rick wilson. the author of the everything trump touches dies. all in house. how nice to show up. >> good to have you here. let's start with frank. the speed of this impeachment inquiry now is really left the house flat footed the white house. we now though pompeo refusing to cooperate. the inspector general is is requesting season urgent briefing with congress. we don't know what that's about. it's another unexpected twist. we have been saying there's more to come. this is -- >> this is a daily thing. a keyword which is speed. the question for this white house is whether they will be able to cope with the speed. they have been we talked about them not having the war room clintons had during impeachment. not having the skill of -- they have been together unanimous on the talking points. deep state. they talk about witch hunts and keep up the refrains in a disciplined way. what they are less good at is how the story changes, that's because the person at the center of this is president trump. he's completely erratic and undisciplined. you have an e

we have now passed an appropriate review of a man who even as the king o of bruni he continued his workpreserve our democracy. lord, as the breaches and the ranks of congress appear more often than we care to contemplate, may those of us who remain in your wondrous world recognize your voice summoning us to put on our marching boots and move our nation toward the light of justice, self-awareness, goodness, and civility. may our march in the tradition of elijah and the other warriors of justice who now sleep with the elders giver us the insatiable desire to think only the best, to see only the best, to say only the best, to do only the best, to legislate only the best, and to model our only best. we acknowledge that we must do it now, o lord, while it is day. no member of congress regardsless of public adoration, fund-raising demonstration, or public praise over their legislation can work when the night cometh. almighty and everlasting god, as elijah's beginning his hallelujah dance with the angels, may we look at his life and work as dance lessons for our future entry into the silent ha

joining me now frank bruni. i appreciate all of you joining us. i have to start with you. this is "new york times" reporting it is explosive and pulls former national security adviser john bolton into this mess. >> essentially what this story says is that hill who testified this today all day. ten hours of testimony. just coming out that she bolton expressed concern over what he called what the story calls a rogue operation and that lawyers on the national security counsel bolton adviser to note lawyers on the national security counsel that giuliani rudy giuliani was working with mick mulvaney who is the white house chief of staff. on what the story says was a rogue operation with legal implication. >> let's start from the beginning. "new york times" is tarting off saying that the effort to pressure ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the white house. that so alarmed john bolton that he told an aid to alert white house lawyers. house investigators were told. they're saying that he this alarmed him so much he started sounding the alarm about a

i've sat in every one of these depositions, and i will back up what francis bruni, a republican, saidyorker today. he commended adam schiff for the way he's been running these proceedings in a very fair way, as mr. rooney described. >> harris: moderate democrats, are there going to be tinged by this politically? on the delicate position with regard to taking a vote on the subject of impeachment? just the subject alone on the full house vote? >> it's an opportunity for them to tell their constituents that they are opening up the process to the public, and if they have not made up their minds yet like many in the public, this will allow them to further deliberate. it gives more rights of the president rather than taking them away. if the president wants to be part of the process and respond to subpoenas and document requests. >> harris: congressman, you started there. we wish you the best in your state. i know that the family is helping to keep the perimeter on some of those fires in california. the best of them. thank you for joining me. >> my pleasure, of course. >> harris: a top stra

with me now, cnn special correspondent jamie gangel and mark bruni columnist for the "new york times"you make of the latest move with pence he peddling there's nothing about asking a foreign gft for help theory and then saying we knew nothing about it at the timants this is classic pence. i didn't know anything about it, i'm innocent, innocent, but what do we know about him? he has been in lockstep with donald trump every step of the way. there is one word for mike pence, and that is "loyalty." so there is no way that he is not going to come out and do this publicly. he has an audience. donald trump. that said, we are told by his staff that they are very upset, that they're very concerned, that they feel that they, that he is being implicated in this. in is the same thing, brooke, as we're hearing from the republicans on the hill. >> what are you hearing? >> which is, that they are looking for a bigger desk to hide under. they don't know what trump is going to say. they don't know what else is going to come out. and there is one person in charge of white house strategy, and we saw tha

frank bruni with whom i very rarely agree.of the harshest critics that there is in the country. i agree with him on this. it's very dangerous to leave aside something so important and most americans' life, their faith and religion. i disagree with him in that i don't think it's even a fantastic for most of them to start talking about it. when there is no authenticity, it doesn't work. the reason why say it's not authentic is because the democratic party has really gone towards what i would call a neo-marxist philosophy of getting rid of any inkling of religion in the public square. they use the separation of church and state as an excuse but so far from our founding fathers idea of religion and state. >> dana: do you think they are reacting to other people are right now this recent poll saying how many attend religious services monthly or more. republicans at 54%. democrats have 38%. in fact their audience, may be -- >> 38% is pretty good. not 38% of these candidates are talking about their own experience of religion. 50% of a

frank bruni's here. ana navarro. joe lockhart. thank you so much for joining me here.honor? everybody's in the studio. did ana convince you all to come in? >> she did. >> we're going for impeachment drinks after words. peach schnaaps. >> okay franks, i'm going to start with you. according to cnn sources, bill taylor's testimony, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, continues to reverberate on capitol hill. a republican source saying, and i quote here, how do you defend the indefensible? we can't defend the substance. all we can do is talk about process. another congressional source saying the testimony by taylor was devastating, and we are waiting for the next shoe to drop. a third source flat out adm admitting taylor's testimony points to quid pro quo. and our reporting is that other officials are set to corroborate it next week. what do you think? >> i don't think this is surprising at all. i mean, republicans over the last 2 1/2 years -- house republicans, congressional republicans, have shown themselves not to have a whole lot of integrity. but they're not done. and b

joining me now to discuss is frank bruni.hor of "the truth about trump." amanda carpenter, author of "gaslighting america: why we love it when trump lies to us." that's how the name of that book should be read all the time. good evening, everyone. frank, i'm going to start with you. the plan for this white house, we've seen this playbook before. it's very clear here. but what does this mean for the democrats? you say that they have a big advantage if they handle this correctly. what do you mean by that? >> well, i think the white house is trying to throw as much dust into the air as possible. they're trying to make this about process and subpoenas and drag this out. they're trying to move this as far as possible from this moment when the public learned of this ukraine call, saw the transcript, and the story was very, very simple. look, they have trump dead to rights when it comes to this call. you read that transcript. the transcript that if anything is favorable to trump because it came from the white house. and it is clear

i want to bring in frank bruni and kirsten powers. good evening. an avalanche of reporting today.n president trump. is he self-impeaching? >> i got to say, it took my breath away when i heard him say that. and i did think to myself, you remember when in the 2012 republican primaries they talked about self-deporting. >> yes. >> that phrase came back. now we're seeing self-impeachment. with his own behavior, his own reaction to the impeachment inquiry he seems to be adding potential articles of impeachment. and it's crazy to behold but i don't think it's an unconsidered thing. i think it's for lack of a better word a sort of strategy. he's saying -- he's trying to give you the impression that there's so little wrong with what he did in that july 25th call with the president of ukraine that he's willing to do it in the open with yet another country, because how can there be anything wrong with it if he's showing you doing it in realtime? i think that's the way he thinks. that's the kind of psychology he's trying to promote. >> some people buy that. >> his loyalists buy that. i'm not

. >> for more on this, let's bring in cnn political correspondent abby phillip and frank bruni. frank, interesting to hear, of course, from george conway for all of the reasons that you're thinking of right now. >> wouldn't we love to have a nanny cam on that breakfast table, right? >> i know they don't like when we talk about their marriage. of course they don't. who would? but it comes up. because it is the juxtaposition of kellyanne conway being one of the top advisers and speaking out for him at every turn. and george conway now speaking out against the president. but of course it's also interesting to hear from george conway because he's a conservative. he's a respected legal mind. to hear him say that nine page letter is trash and garbage from the white house counsel is notable. >> well, you said something key that i think people forget about george conway. he is a long-time respected lawyer who's weighed in on this sort of stuff. so he's not just mouthing off out of hatred for the president. he does have legal air here. as this letter has been looked at and looked at agai