i want to share what claire mccaskill said. bernie sanders said, i wrote the damn bill. >> unless democrats take the senate and decide to do away with a filibuster which they will not do, the institutional will hold 60 votes. now, does anybody think that a plan that will give a guaranteed job to everyone will get 60 votes? does anybody think doing away with all the private insurance in the country is going to get 60 votes? >> these big, bold ideas might end us up with more gridlock. >> yeah, especially if it doesn't seem like there's any room to compromise. one thingie l elizabeth warren bernie sanders said was to go big. i think this is a time on the debate seat for candidates to introduce themselves, and i actually think the winners of this debate were the democratic primary voters. because the base got their -- the real progressive base got their progressives done, but the moderate part of the democratic voters, which are the majority, got something else. they heard a different side, a moderate side, a different take, and le

claire mccaskill is here and glad to see that. >> great state. >> thank you! >> did you think when you opened that investigation, once that investigation that started, you started it, robert mueller ended it, did you think you would be watching as a former fbi director from st. louis or wherever you will be tomorrow? >> i did not. how i ended up in this place in my life is a mystery to me a little bit. i never would have expected it. i didn't know what the facts are. we opened an investigation, as we do all investigations to see what the facts were. i didn't know whether it would show there was a chargeable case involving americans or not. i wanted to find out what was true. that's the fbi's job. as i said in the beginning i don't know who in their right mind would think the fbi should not have opened this investigation. i asked the staff at the fbi, do it well, do it discreetly, because we don't want to smear innocent people in the middle of an election year yet don't want to let the bad guys onto it. that's work we had to do. i didn't know it would end up wi

and then just comes -- brings the house down on aoc, claire mccaskill., there's no more stupid proposition than that nancy pelosi is the problem. if aoc and her pygmalions and acolytes decide that burning down the house is more important than deposing trump, they'll be left with a racist, backward president and the emotional satisfaction of their own purity. although i feel like the freedom caucus had more followers than aoc does. >> for now. nancy pelosi sees this coming. she saw john boehner suffer. she saw paul ryan suffer with a difficult element in their caucus and she's doing everything possible to prevent it. she knows it's a threat to her majority makers. she knows it can make her caulkous ungovernable and that's not good for any leader. that's why we see her coming out very aggressively where boehner and especially ryan were more laid back. >> tim, what advice do you think ryan would be giving pelosi now? he seems to have a lot of opinions. i mean, he basically is admitting he failed. >> yeah, the parallels are uncanny between that tea party and

also senator claire mccaskill, former democratic senator from missouri, now an msnbc political analyst. and senator, let me start with you. you were in the senate when acosta was brought before the senate. you were one of eight democrats to vote yes along with 52 republicans. there was some concern at the time about this case, but it wasn't front and center. what's your feeling now watching all this develop? >> well, it's one i'd like to take back. i'm embarrassed about that vote. there is subcontext. the guy who had been nominated before him was from st. louis. >> and accused of spousal abuse. >> and a crusader against roe v. wade. >> yes. >> and against the minimum wage and against working people. so when a nominee came along that the firefighters union support and the labor union supported. >> right. >> i think as somebody from a state where trump had done very well, i was going okay, maybe this guy. now, do i regret that vote? you bet i do, because i spent years in the courtroom prosecuting sex offenders. and i know the dynamic between the federal prosecutors and state prosecutors

. >> for more i'm joined by democratic senator from missouri claire mccaskill, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times," and michael steele, former rnc chairman and former lieutenant governor of maryland. michael, i have to start with you. what are your feelings as a republican all of your life about hearing a republican president talk the way he is about people of color? >> it's disgusting. it's not part of our history. it's not what we've stood for. it is not based on the founding of this party. it's championing of the freedom of african slaves, putting in place the mechanisms, the structures inside and outside of government to help those transition to economic opportunity here in this country. it is not the party of reagan. it is not the party of kemp when the leader of that party says the things that this president has said about a great city, the city of our national anthem, the star spangled banner, the city that wears very proudly the scars of the growth of this country, the troubles that we see in inner cities in this country, but also the hope of th

jackson, former republican congressman carlos curbelo of florida, former democratic senator claire mccaskill of missouri, and tim alberto from politico magazine. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news, the longest running show in television history, this is a special edition of "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. we're getting our first clear look at where the race for the democratic presidential nomination actually stands and where th candidates stand against president trump. ere are our first head-to-head matchups of the 2020 race in our new nbc news/"wall street jourgil" poll of reered voters. we have bernie sanders with a healthy lead sitting at 50% to president trump's 43. going down the line, elizabeth warren up five but under 50, 48-43. kamala harris is essentially tied with mr. trump. as you can see there, while the democratic numbers do change dependg on the candidate, president trump's numbers essentially match his job approval rating, which in this poll is right in line wher with he's been at 45%. in the democratic race for the

with us, author and nbc news presidential historian, michael, and now msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill >> thank you, mika. >> you're welcome. >> what are the three questions or the three things that robert mueller can say that will be extraordinarily clarifying to the american people. >> look, ordinarily, the law is complicated but here the questions are simple. the president said after the mueller report was finished, no collusion, no conspiracy, totally exonerates the president. the three simple questions, number one, mr. mueller in your report did you find no obstruction. number two, did you find no conspiracy or collusion, and question number three, did your report totally exonerate the president. the answers to those questions are all undoubtedly no, and devastating for the president. all that congress needs to do today is draw attention to what the report says. they don't need mueller to go beyond the report, just tell us in plain words what it says. >> and senator mccasino kig kki you're sitting on the committee, what's the question you want answered. >> i want robert mueller to

claire mccaskill and karine jean-pierre.n party's essential silence unfortunately sets up our next guest very well. president trump tweeted so interesting to see progressive democrat congresswomen who originally came from countries who are the worst and most corrupt, blah blah blah, something about going back to their countries. it's all pretty disgusting so you can read. if you really want to. but at this point, we're not going to. the president of course is not mentioning anyone by name but the four apparent targets of the president's tweets were congresswoman ocasio-cortez of new york who was born in the bronx to the parents of puerto rican descent. >> americans. >> congress woman rashida tlaib who was born to palestinian immigrants. presley of massachusetts who is black and she was born in cincinnati. >> an american. >> raised in chicago. >> american. >> and congresswoman ilhan omar who was born in somalia but moved to the united states when she was 12 and is a naturalized u.s. citizen. >> an american. >> that would be a

claire mccaskill, my how things have changed.eem, though, like mitch's team is too concerned right now. they responded to the claims that this was going to be a block buster race by saying, yes, mcgrath is block buster, mitch is netflix. so away we go. >> yeah, i got to tell you, they are really worried. they may act like they're not. because there's a real outsider, insider, dynamic here, and that's a powerful dynamic in today's politics. i don't care if you're a democrat or a republican, if you're of washington, you got to be worried if a marine fighter pilot is coming after you because that just signals outsider. this is not someone who's of washington. now, she's going to have to be very careful because this is a conservative state, you know, she is going to have to appeal to the suburban vote skpers and reassure them that she gets they can't afford to retire, and we've got to figure out a way not to get so far in debt that our grandchildren are faced with horrific choices in terms of funding programs in america. but i have t

indiana, missouri, claire mccaskill or joe donnelly, they took a hit -- not only from the way the conversation went down, but here's democrats had been overreacting in a way they had treated kavanaugh in those hearings. alex: it is funny she mentioned that because i saw on social media this week, someone had run into joe donnelly and he said something to the effect that i had it until kavanaugh. there was a comment from one of those senators who had lost the race had it was very close. it speaks to the impact of those ads and how much pressure was put on the senators. host: how is susan collins looking at this point? simone: her popularity has dipped. collins is a popular senator so relative to other senators, that is not saying much. in approval rating terms, she's doing better than most incumbents but it is worth noting there were a lot of people in maine who were upset with the way she voted even if they would have liked to see a conservative justice on the court, they like her to be the independent moderate namebrand republican who does her own thing. the fact she went along with party lea

just ask claire mccaskill. so biden in a sense seems like the perfect person to be center stage, and either he defends obama or he's overrun by progressives who want to go much further. >> i've been having conversations with former obama officials and they tell me that, yes, of course, obamacare is hard to get, and they had to drag the country to get that over the finish line. they also recognize that obamacare was not something that was ever fully implemented. democrats point to the fact that not all 50 states implemented the health care plan in the way that they wanted to see it. i have been hearing from people who say that was a starting point. we're okay with people building on it. the sad thing is, and the thing that people say is frustrating for them is when people say, well, we need to pull that out completely, and start all over again. democrats in the obama administration recognize how hard that's going to be. >> so mika, again, biden is going to be talking tonight about mending it, and not ending it.

senator and now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill.shington post" and msnbc political analyst, robert costa. he's the moderator of "washington week" on pbs. >> john heilemann, we've all heard now, have been talking about it over the past hour, about the "send her back" chants. put that in perspective. where does that put us as a country? where does that put our politics? >> well, i think in an incredibly depressing and you know, i think dangerous place, you know, it's not just that -- i mean, this week has been -- i think you said in the 6:00 hour, joe, that it was the low point for the trump presidency, i think last night, and there have been a lot of low points, but last night, i think, really was the low point in the sense that, you know, the president's racism and bigotry and idiocy have been on display on many occasions, never more glaringly than this week. but to see the president of the united states standing at a rally, i think there's no way to interpret what he did yesterday other than to say that he's placing a target on the

. >> in an interview with cnn in december, outgoing democratic senator claire mccaskill, now an msnbctributor, appeared bewildered by aoc's appeal. >> i'm -- i'm little confused why she's the thing. but it's a good example of what i'm talking about, a bright and shiny new object came out of nowhere, surprised people, and she beat a very experienced congressman. >> i didn't say it very well, but in context what i was trying to say is that she's exciting, and she's new, and i think she can contribute a lot. we've got to remain focused on the things that unite us as a party. not the things that can divide us. >>> coming up -- a meteoric rise to power with roots in the working class. >> i'm running for office. choosing my car insurance was the easiest decision ever. i switched to geico and saved hundreds. that's a win. but it's not the only reason i switched. geico's a company i can trust, with over 75 years of great savings and service. ♪ now that's a win-win. switch to geico. it's a win-win. [ text notification now that you have] new dr. scholl's massaging gel advanced insoles with soft

he passed a senate confirmation where the senators knew and democrats like claire mccaskill voted for him. and they knew about this deal and they knew that he had adjudicated the epstein case. so there's more to it. but i think at this point it's indefensible that he did the plea agreement. >> but you think he'll be gone in you said six weeks or shorter? >> i think it will be in a relatively quick period he will be gone. >> okay. you attended the state visit to the uk with the president last month. is that right? you were with the president when he spoke graciously with theresa may. i remarked on it at the time on my show. but now he is calling her foolish. do you think he's proving the point of those leaked cables by saying -- by calling her foolish? >> i think the president has -- he actually had a very good relationship with prime minister may even though they had very strong disagreements. he was super well received not only by the queen but the british public, the british establishment, which a lot of people were shocked by. kim darroch i've known for a while. this ambassador is

a concern that was echoed by former democratic senator claire mccaskill out of missouri, who lost herwo years ago. >> what happens when you walk into those communities and say great news, your all going to get green jobs. we will need the keys to your f-150s because we are going electric? >> it would not be good. america is, generally, not as far along the left line as bernie and elizabeth. free stuff from the government does not play well in the midwest. >> bill: from missouri, she was among the many democratic lawmakers that faced a barrage of angry constituents at numerous health care townhomes across the country. ten years ago this week. >> ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, you're not helping. okay? you're not helping. >> i called your office and i was told i could have the mic to speak and then i was lied to. >> it reads like something that was brought up in the early 1930s in germany. >> this was very poorly planned, very poorly planned. >> bill: 2009-2019, katie pavlich, fox news contributor. andy, former sea ke restaurant ceo. and on, former dnc chair and a fox news contributor. goo

. >>> for mor t on whato look for today, let's bring in former democratic senator claire mccaskill, a former general. good morning to both of you. you've sat in a chair like this and ask questions. i don't think i'll offend you, members of congress aren't known for their incisive questioning. what do you expect today? >> that'll be the k here. can tnd women their egos resist the grandstand let this don't try ttify he's notive toet heeally br peop rl >> neil, a "rk times," scleaob mueller. out, he no nusio obstruction, fr totally exonerates the president. i questions that t obstrunueller, yerthree,epresi? divulgedalumbo j heart has t on, as isenator said, not the grandstanding. >> many lawmakers want a hypothetical of mueller. if this weren't a sitting president, if this weren't this department of justicesaule that you cannot indict a sitting president, is the conduct ufu found scient that you would have charged him with a crime? if they ask that question, do you think he'll really go there? >> i thought he wouldn't go there when he turned in the report. the report says i'm forbidden b

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in the meantime my thanks to chuck roczenberg, senator claire mccaskill but most of all to you for watching. i'm nicolle wallace. steve kornacki starts now. >>> if it's tuesday, all eyes are on wednesday when robert mueller is set to testify on capitol hill. good evening, welcome to "meet the press" daily. i'm steve kornacki in for chuck todd. buckle up for a busy hour ahead of late breaking developments ahead of mueller's testimony before two house committees. right now judiciary committee democrats are preparing and strategizing behind closed doors. house democratic leadership is expected to hold its weekly meeting this hour. later tonight the full intelligence committee, republicans and democrats, will huddle together. the president is once again lashing out at the investigation. there is some late drama about the involvement of one of mueller's top deputies in tomorrow's hearing. so let's typhoon in starting with perhaps the biggest questions ahead of tomorrow's hearing, what is mueller going to say. on the eve of his testimony, some democrats, including chairman of judiciary committee

claire mccaskill, former democratic senator from the great state of missouri.of "a.m. joy," weekends here on msnbc. and lawrence o'donnell, our normal occupant of this hour, the host of the 10:00 p.m. eastern hour on this network, "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. ste steve kornacki is at the big board. and in the spin room, chris matthews, the host of "hardball." chris, i'd like to start with you and your reaction from detroit. it seems to me that the invisible participant in the room tonight might have been tom friedman and the notions expressed in his column. you can have a revolution, democrats, or you can try to win 2020, but as he put it, as he sees it, you can't do both. >> and if you're coming into the country illegally, at least ring the doorbell before you come in. another line from that column. i was shattered by today, shook up by tonight's debate. to me it was a very -- really -- what's the right word? zealous difference in point of view and passion. i think four or five of the people came in tonight to take on the progressive left, to take

. >> you have claire mccaskill, you have neil cattial, chuck rosenberg and chris haze and more, including our teams on capitol hill. frank and joyce are sticking around, among others. so thankfully is nicolle wallace, with whom we turn it over with pleasure at the 4:00 hour. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> it was not fun but history. >>> it's 4:00 in new york. we're going to continue with our breaking news coverage of testimony today on capitol hill from special counsel robert mueller himself. donald trump and his first reaction since the end of those hearings just tweeted, quote, truth is a force of nature. for once we agree with him. in fact today's testimony revealed just a few uncomfortable truths for this president. first, that the obstruction of justice evidence, mueller's investigation uncovered against him is vast and damaging and it could be enough to charge trump with a crime after he leaves office. second, that the mueller investigation was not a witch-hunt at all. the list of lies in trump's circles about conduct with russians is long and the bottom line, the president's claim

i'm pleased to say after working with former senator claire mccaskill, debbie stabenow, and others, that we were able to get gag clause prohibitions enacted into law last year. and according to one study, banning these gag clauses could help americans save money in nearly one out of four prescription transactions. so this is significant legislation, and i talked recently to a pharmacist in maine who said what a relief it was to her to now be able to volunteer to her patients that there may be a less expensive way for the patient to purchase needed prescription drugs. one out of four -- nearly one out of four prescription transactions should benefit from the laws that we wrote last year. another bill that i authored in 2017 will promote more competition from lower-priced, but equally effective generic drugs, and it is already showing promise. to date, the f.d.a. has granted nearly 200 application requests under the new expedited pathway that my law provides and ten have been approved. that is a much faster pace than in the past. as cochair of both the senate diabetes caucus and the congre

. >>> let's turn to our nbc news politicalnalyst former senator claire mccaskill of missouri. it was kind of the debate the party has been having. th actually came out on the stage. moderates, the pragmatists, verse the progressives. what did you think last night? >> ooerall, it was gd for our party. first of all, i think a lot of people watching the debate finally figured out that bernie and elizabeth's plan means no more insurance at work. no choice. i think what the moderates did last night is point out that we can do better on health care. it's the number one issue. we can do better on health care without taking away people's choices. so i thought that contrast, overall, got our party back to a little bit -- still left of nt ce, but a little closer to center which, for electability, you can't underestimate how important that is. >> i al ask you question. when you served in the uted states senate, some of the candidates went at it in a backhanded way, but can medicare for all, the program proposed by sanders and warren, pass through the united states senate? >> i think peop

mailbox, there was our oversized showing that he was pro-life, pro- religious, marriage, and claire mccaskillwas down on everything. just palpable left-wing nonsense for the state and judy said when i saw that coming to my mother in missouri and then i knew what we were doing in georgia because she's all that wshe saw what wen that governor's race, i felt really good. so when we go out and identify voters that are evangelical or pro-life, and when we mail them in phone them and knock on their doors and e-mail them and push out digital ads and send things to their facebook page and after we do that we show up at their door then we ask if they need a ride and we dropped them out of the voter universe. you think it doesn't make a difference, you think that they don't have consequences, just look at what he just shared with you. it makes a big difference. [applause] i am pleased to welcome back to the road to maturity conference. a man who is not only a dear friend of mine, but a man who is a great friend of this organization of our shared values. i truly believe one of the most important things

>>> let's bring in chuck todd, moderator for "meet the press," and former democratic senator claire mccaskillat to see both of you. >> good to see both of you guys. chuck, you said something on the air yesterday that got attention. substance, democrats got what they wanted. on optics it was a disaster. >> if the point of the hearing -- i think part of this is what was the point of the hearing? that has not been -- was it about to try to galvanize the country around the idea of impeachment? was it about trying to -- and, i think that in some ways that not knowing full -- if you come at this assuming this was about building the case for impeachment and you needed mueller to do that he didn't do that that was the point of that on the substance, though, they got mueller to confirm what they wanted to do it's interesting if -- the house democrats wanted to declare mueller a success yesterday regardless of how he testified they would have announced last night the next step is opening an impeachment inquiry. they didn't do that. they're sitting there hand wringing again that's something they need to

. >> claire mccaskill. a devil's advocate would argue the following on behalf of your beloved party. it's become about four freshmen members of the house of representatives. when the democrats aren't raising their hands to take away people's corporate healthcare, they are in the position of saying yeah, but read the -- this was supposed to be the movie that went along with the non-best selling book and they're not even left with that at the end of today. >> the biggest problem of today is how this was billed. what the democrats said about this hearing that they needed to bring the report to life. >> there you go. yeah. >> it didn't come to life. it is still slumberriing, it's a deep sleep. it's really a problem because the expectation was even on -- if he's refusing to go from outside the four corners, that he would rise up and explain the report within the four corners. and he didn't do that. he merely allowed them to read portions of it and then he would say yes, that's right. when ken buck was asking him

but to our family here, to eugene robinson, to claire mccaskill, to karine jean-pierre, to chris hayesalong with steve kornacki, all our guests who have come it and gone all night long. joy reid picks up our live coverage of tonight's democratic debate tonight. hey, joy. >> thank you, brian. i switched sets. i came over here to keep going. because why stop? we should just keep going. >> i'm fine. >> don't go to sleep. thank you, brian. appreciate it. good evening. i'm joy reid. tonight it was a fight for the ideological future of the democratic party in detroit. progressives elizabeth warren and bernie sandsers became the target of more moderate democrats running for the white house. as their rivals argued that some of the front-runners' ideas would be too costly and too risky for the middle class. >> folks, we have a choice. we can go down the road that senator sanders and senator warren want to take us. which is with bad policies like medicare for all, free everything, and impossible promises that will turn off independent voters and get trump re-elected. >> i'm not going to support