charlie sykes, go ahead. >> well, there's two ways of looking at impeachment. number one is the political dynamic, and the second is constitutional. the political dynamic is what i think nancy pelosi is focused on, which is that this might backfire on democrats. she's concerned about members of her caucus or in the swing seats. she also knows that it's not ultimately going to result from his removal from office, because whatever the house does, the senate is not going to convict and remove him. because we know how republicans are reluctant to break with donald trump at all. but then there's the question of is the president above the law. when the mueller report came out, it was very clear that the position was the department of justice says a sitting president cannot be indicted. so if congress will not investigate potential illegal actions by the president, then literally the man sitting in the oval office is above the law. and i don't think that that is consistent with our constitutional understanding. so whether you're talking about the corruption, whether y

host: ok, charlie sykes? obvious,at is the most logical and low risk strategy for democrats in congress. this committee should be bipartisan. nancy pelosi should invite mitch mcconnell to participate. let's get the facts on the table before we take any other steps. this should not be complicated, because number one, we -- once we see what the ig saw with the whistleblower report, if we get a transcript, it will be clear what happened. and then put it on public record what we know about what happened in ukraine with joe biden, which i think will turn out to be the fact that there is nothing there. but again, this can be done in a relatively short time. i am not naive enough to think it will not be caught up in the partisan back and forth, but this is up to congress. the bulk is in their court and nobody else will pick this up. a committee is expected to meet with the director of national intelligence, that will be on thursday. and also this week, president andp is expected to see meet the president of ukraine

host: ok, charlie sykes?is the most logical and low risk strategy for democrats in congress. this committee should be bipartisan. nancy pelosi should invite mitch mcconnell to participate. let's get the facts on the table before we take any other steps. this should not be complicated, because number one, we -- once we see what the ig saw with the whistleblower report, if we get a transcript, it will be clear what happened. and then put it on public record what we know about what happened in ukraine with joe biden, which i think will turn out to be the fact that there is nothing there. but again, this can be done in a relatively short time. i am not naive enough to think it will not be caught up in the partisan back and forth, but this is up to congress. the bulk is in their court and nobody else will pick this up. a committee is expected to meet with the director of national intelligence, that will be on thursday. and also this week, president andp is expected to see meet the president of ukraine and 16 other

. >> charlie sykes is editor at large of the bull work. you can see that at the bullwork.com. we appreciate your time this morning, as always, when you stop by the washington journal. >> thank you very much. >> with the general assembly in new york city, the president wrapping up his meetings with world leaders with a news conference this afternoon, which should get under way shortly. president trump has already met today with the ukrainian president. we expect to hear more today about the release of the memorandum on the transcript of the phone call between president trump and president zelensky. meanwhile, on capitol hill the house is working its way through legislation, a resolution that would send the whistle-blower's report, the complaint of the whistle-blower on that interaction to the house intelligence committee, the senate intelligence committee. they'll be voting shortly on the house floor about that. you can follow that over on cspan. the senate also in session, follow them on cspa 2. and here on cspan 3, we'll wait for the president.n 2. and here on cspan 3, we'll

charlie sykes and congressman doing et. politico reporting four states had to cancel the 2020 presidential primary. one primary challenger to donald trump says the trump campaign is scared because of a primary challenge because the trump presidency is flailing. that's next. it sure is. (mom vo) over the years, we trusted it to carry and protect the things that were most important to us. >> good evening, rachel. the game doesn't end after a spectacular touchdown grab because there's always another team looking to punch one in. with nfl redzone from nfl network on xfinity, you get every touchdown from every game on sunday afternoons, all season long. watch every breakout star, every heart-pounding running attack, and every big time defensive stop. sundays were made for football on xfinity. that's simple, easy, awesome. add the sports entertainment package for nfl redzone. click, call, or visit a store today to learn more. >>> tonight we're going to talk about fear. namely the increasingly obvious fear that donald trump and hi

i'm joined by jeremy bash, formal chief of staff at the cia and the department of defense, and charlie sykes. there he is taking a shot just a few moments ago at the guy he made his national security advisor saying that guy is stuck there, he doesn't want to get stuck, he doesn't want to follow the advice of the neo konz like bolton but fighting person to person at the time we've got to deal with what are we doing in iran. >> given the way he's ripped some of his critics in the past that was pretty restrained for donald trump. but, you know, john bolton obviously is not going to go quietly. and i think it's very interesting where he delivered the remarks and what he said. he was introduced to that luncheon by rebecca mercer who was one of the most important donors on the right and conservative republican causes. a very high powered group. so there's no question about it, john bolton still has a constituency for his approach to foreign policy. and again the problem here is not whether or not donald trump is going to be too hawkish or too dovish. it's whether he's going to be too erratic, blun

i thinkpush, and push. >> back with me charlie sykes, joel payne. look.at the democrats are up against in terms of mitch mcconnell and president trump. who's right here? this sort of division about whether or not between now and election day something could actually be worked out, joel, between the democrats and the republicans. or is that possible or is joe biden right? no, it's not happening. let's not pretend it's happening. >> i tend to be a little more bullish on this in reading the tea leaves here. the president did something after parkland. he did something on bump stocks. it wasn't the entire moon shot, but it was something. this has become a losing issue for republicans. i've been saying this a lot. democrats and progressives have won the culture war on guns. i think what that means is you're going to start to see republicans on the defense about it. you've already seen 15 house republicans retire or resign, you know, in the last few weeks and months. you've seen a lot of republicans have more moderate positions on gun control, you know, recently

we need to move forward directly and immediately. >> let me bring charlie sykes in. one thing i do not understand. you hear supporters of donald trump say they don't care even if he is taking money from military schools because they're like, we need the wall. to them it's worth it, right? they don't care what he does and who he takes and steals money from within the government as long as they get the wall. this seems different. this is actually directly putting money in his own pocket and using the military as a cover. is this going to fly with trump supporters? >> assuming the story holds up which i think it probably will and assuming there is not an innocent explanation this is an astonishing story that takes it to a whole new level. what you are having is the president of the united states taking money from the military, taking money from the troops, taking money from national security, and putting it in his own pocket. that strikes me as a different category that a lot of the other things we've been talking about, i don't know that voters in wisconsin and michiga

and charlie sykes.histleblower comes forward and testifies and the testimony is damming? >> of course with all that news being disappointed by republicans and the pattern is well set but this does have a different feel. how much more information comes out, how much more information that is frankly in defensible. it is remarkable how quickly this is all moving and how much information we are getting. and the other obvious question is and gabriel sherman can talk about this is what happened if there starts to be cracks in the conservative media. what happens if fox news begins to breakthrough this alternative reality wall that donald trump is counting on. the odds still remains heavily in favor of republicans stand out in the tall leaves. >> we'll ask that question. here is the thing, donald trump has the conversation we don't know if there is tapes on the foreign side. the russians who have an active war going on attacking france. what if there are tapes. how does fox news to respond to donald trump and

wisconsin's role of the 2020 battleground state with reporter bill globber and with the bulwarks charlie sykesn's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> trump administration officials with the ford congressional committee to answer questions about mental health needs of migrant children in custody.

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back with me is charlie sykes. didn't hear anyone say what they would do they would deal with china, what, what what, when, where, and why. >> democrats are stuck on this. now one of the main criticisms of his policy is that he did not pull together allies to take on china. that is what the transspecific partnership was about, but because they're trying to service a base among labor unions and trade activists, who have persistently for a long time criticized trade expansion as something detrimental to workers they can't really go there. so just saying that trump is erratic is not proven true, but it is not really a solution. >> are they almost boxed here? republicans view themselves as free markets but the president's tactics are protectionist, how do democrats play it? >> yes, we have to deal with china but when he canceled tpp, he doesn't understand what it was. he didn't understand that we make the rules or the chinese make the rules. but i do think there is a sweet spot. tariffs are taxes on middle and low inco

joining me now charlie sykes and jonathan capehart "washington post" opinion writer. he republicans are looking for a narrative but they're not finding it in the transcript. >> no. i mean, obviously what their strategy is denial, distraction and intimidation, the bullying of the whistleblower. but i think what you saw yesterday morning was an illustration of how hard it is to put together a narrative, because in fact we do know what the president did. we know what he says. the president released the transcript or the quasi transcript himself. we may see the full transcript. as you said earlier in the hour, a lot of what's happened took place in plain sight. what they're left with is this misleading narrative, a little bit of nitpicking that's going on here, but i think a lot of other republicans should have been watching jim jordan and kevin mccarthy on television and saying do i want to become that guy, do i want to become the next jim jordan, am i going to be in this position over the next several months? >> the democrats have to figure out how to focus and how to ke

wisconsin's role of the 2020 battleground state with reporter bill globber and with the bulwarks charlie sykes. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> trump administration officials with the ford congressional committee to answer questions about mental health needs of migrant children in custody. questions with the director and the commissioned core as well as an inspector general. here's part of the hearing. and members of the department's office of inspector general to discuss the recently released report on the mental health needs of children and the care of the department of health and human service unaccompanied children program. i want to thank our witnesses for being here today. and maxwell, assistant general, office of the assistant general, the department of health and human services jonathan hayes. the department of health and human services and jonathan white, commander, public health service commission corps, department of health and human services. this hearing is part of our oversight responsibility which we take

we welcome back to the program charlie sykes. lasttime on the program, you were a contributor. now founder and editor at large for the bull work. what is the bull work? >> the bull work is an online publication. and basically kind of a success of

carol, thank you as always, jean robinson, charlie sykes. >>> coming up -- president trump goes to the dark place. the talk of civil war and treason. by the way, civil war is not just some concept in any country. it has an american linage. civil war, right versus left. south versus north. the issue of slavery. this is going to be -- he wants to reopen that san andreas fault in our history. that's what he's talking about, to save his skin. his strategy is very clear, relentle relentlessly attack the credibility of the au.s. cooer and survive a senate trial. all he needs is a third of the country plus one. that's what he's working on now, the old nixon strategy, survival. >> plus one showed little public support for impeachment and that's all changed. we will talk to senator presidential candidate and former prosecutor amy klobuchar. she's coming here. we have much more to get to. stay with us. and home to three bp wind farms. in the off-chance the wind ever stops blowing here... the lights can keep on shining. thanks to our natural gas. a smart partner to renewable energy. it's always r

and charlie sykes, editor and chief, the bulwark.lus, "washington post" associate editor and senior national security correspondent karen. let me start with you. you and your colleagues have done some extraordinary reporting over really just -- i mean, you are always doing extraordinary reporting but on this story it's really only been about ten days. take us through the latest that you're reporting on this story, fast-moving story. >> well, as you were saying, one of the principal areas of investigation certainly by congress and what we've been looking into is this storage system, transferring things that the administration thinks for s ostensibly political reasons would be bad to come out. this started very early in the trump administration when we did stories about conversations that the very new president at that time had had with the presidents of mexico and the prime minister of australia. those conversations leaked. they were kind of embarrassing. and, you know, the president was very angry. and i think that was the point wher

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and at the table charlie sykes, editor in chief of the conservative news and opinion website the bulwark. and eddie glaude. let me start with you. there are presidential tells. one of them is sort of his inability to restrain himself. it's almost one of those obliterated norms that we are so used to, it barely registers. i don't have any recollection of any past president using this anniversary and sort of between events which donald trump did attend to honor the anniversary of 9/11 attacking his rivals on his twitter feed and in that oval office meeting we showed. >> well, yes. i mean, we've seen him fire off tweets when he's traveling abroad on foreign soil, picking political fights at home. this is a somber day of remembrance and trump had events and on twitter we see where his mind really is which is on this poll. these kinds of events when it calls for a nation coming together and remembering, fighting on twitter about polls is more naturally where he tends to be. one thing that struck me about his tweet was the statement that he said i haven't even started campaigning, which that w

not at the table but important wherever he may be, charlie syk sykes, former and editor of the bullwork and an msnbc contributor. great to have all of you here. these speeches laying out sweepingly different views of what america should be these ideological differences are nothing new. we've heard them before. but you could absolutely make an argument that in this campaign they've taking on a new urgency. >> we all know president trump won in 2016 because he shifted from the established gop message into a full-throated america first populist message talking about dwayne the swap. elizabeth warren has been consistent, also talking about populism in that way, pointing at corporations, at lobbyists at the way the rich and powerful have influence in washington in a way that regular people don't. i think the difference is, there's a major difference this time, chris. president trump has been the president for almost three years. he has a record and we can look at the ways in which he talks about corruption he talks about drain the swamp and yet he's under a lot of lawsuits and skepticism bec