formal impeachment inquiry has been launched against president trump to 90's bay, congressman eric swalwell joins us live on the phone. >>congressman swalwell thank you for your time first of all you have been pushing the impeachment inquiry of president trump for months now. what do you think changed is it just the ukraine issue and you think there's an appetite in the senate to get on board and do you think that matter. >>good evening, not grant it the urgency and the issue new times and with a presidential campaign coming up. the president asking a foreign government for help and perform government for help. you owe them something which means one does. that got now act now. >>iris was well well you americans have watched 2 have impeachment proceedings against them. so how does this play out what's the process walk us through it. >>first we need to work a blower into the back up we have the inspector general with the president appointed and the congress ponce we control intelligence committee there i sit on that we have an urgent be credible complaints relating to national security presid

congressman eric swalwell joins us now.e serves onthe house intelligence and judiciary committees. it's great to have you studio. will talk about gun contro you are ading the charge in many ways about this. i do have to ask, the next tomatoes next week, and you are just in the fire. how exhilarating, or ngw exhauswith the process? >> it is exhilarating. you are on the stage with people that you admire. some of them are my friends. i got to the weddings of three of the peoplethat were running for president. that was weird, to be on a debate stage was some of them. i ran for president,imarily because i wanted to make and a gun violence a top priority. i use that debate opportunity to ask the runners, joe biden, and sanders, they woul endorse my ban and buyback plan on assault weapons. they did said they would. they took a public posion on that. our own senatoa in california, kamala harris, said she supported the plan as well. it was a cup of coffee of the campaign. i wish i was still in dit. make our mark on the issue. other

california democratic congressman eric swalwell was in that committee session this morning.e stepped out to join us, we thank you very much for that. i know you can't talk about the substance of what was said in there, but was there any cooperation at all from the inspector general or did you get a complete stonewall in there? >> well, he's testifying, you know, before us, but he's limited in what he can say because of the acting director of national intelligence. i'm going to let mr. schiff characterize the meeting, i think he'll be doing that shortly. but andrea, just to kind of give a reset here, the intelligence community has an inspector general to receive whistleblower complaints. when an employee sees something that is lawless. this is not a policy disagreement like you see someone do something that you just don't agree with on the policy. this is something that is lawless. you have a channel to report that so that you're not retaliated against. and congress is to be notified within seven days after the inspector general sends that report back over to the acting or th

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>> i'm talking about the best-seller "let trump be trump. >> leading off our conversation is eric swalwell he's a former deputy district attorney himself also joining us mimmi rocha. congressman swalwell, i want to start with something you brought up when it was your turn i'm not sure whether this was coordinated with the chairman or not. but you specifically said -- you asked the chairman to consider holding corey lewandowski in concept of congress for the way he was testifying in that hearing which i have to say in any previous congress, he would have been held in contempt of congress in the first five minutes based on what we saw what is going to happen with the attempt to hold contempt for corwin lewandowski >> it could certainly happen empty chairs mean empty pockets, and the other two witnesses need to be fined. there need to be consequences. i could listen to the barry berke conversation all day he's just masterful and finally the truth came out that's not how an innocent person conducts themselves that's not how someone who wants to help the congress understand what the president d

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. >> before we go toe eric swalwell, quickly, ellie, i want to go to you on this simple question. how significant legally is this step in the impeachment proceeding? >> it's huge for two reasons. one i already said. the democrats are in the process of suing in the federal courts to make donald trump's people testify, when they clothe themselves in the power of an impeachment inquiry, that gives them more strength to go into courts. that's huge and number one. number two huge thing, as we saw in the rules, he is going to have now 30 minutes, these witnesses are going to have 30 minutes of being questioned not by congress people, but by actual lawyers and actual attorneys, and that's going to put their feet to the fire in a whole different way than we've seen before. >> joining me now congressman eric swalwell. congressman, you have heard this very animated conversation. >> i've enjoyed it. i've enjoyed it. >> i'm sure you did. come thursday's vote, what are you expecting to happen? >> we're going have more tools to move forward in holding this president accountable. and just to --

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. >> joining me now, nbc news correspondent heidi przybyla, and eric swalwell, who made gun control the central issue of his campaign. good to see you. >> welcome back, katy. >> congratulations on your baby as well, congressman. >> thank you. >> you think here's what he came away with. >> what signals is the president sending? >> helme wants to do something. he comes across that he wants something done, okay? and there's people pushing, i'm sure people pushing back hard, people within his own inner circle. and i just was reiterating to him, i said, mr. president, there's a certain very strong gun groups who oppose you doing anything on bump stocks, but you did it. it didn't harm you at all. >> do you think the president can be swayed in the direction of saying "yes" to common sense gun control? or do you think there are voices in his ear that will stop him from doing so, and if so, who are those voices? >> who are the voices? one of them is michael williams who used to be the lawyer for the american suppressor association. what do they do? they support the manufacturers of silencers. th

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lewandowski later got into a contentious exchange with eric swalwell. >> can you read what you wrote down. >> i'm happy to have you read it, congressman. >> why don't you want to read it, mr. lewandowski? >> i think you should afford me the same privilege you afforded mr. mueller. >> are you ashamed of the words you wrote down? >> i'm very proud of what i've written, but you are welcome to read it if you like. >>> let's take a live look outside right now. sunshine today and another chance of coul impact your commute tomorrow morning. what we can expect. >> scattered showers, not as much rain as monday, but two rain chances in three days in september, there we are. clear skies over the bay area currently. it is already raining in portions of humboldt county and portions north. that boundary will work its way south overnight tonight. 11:00, it's getting cloudier. we're rain free. sonoma county, lake county, getting showers tomorrow morning. some showers will likely survive across the i80 corridor. san francisco could get a few drops of rain before lunchtime tomorrow. how much rain are

i want to bring it democratic harassment from california, eric swalwell.ouse intelligence and judiciary committees. good to see you today. let's start with what you are telling our colleagues, who are critical of the move to move toward impeachment inquiry. they say you are days too soon on this. >> 212 democrats and a former republican in justin amash support having this inquiry. i will tell them we can't wait. there's an urgency here. i understand you have concerns about the mueller investigation, that that was the 2016 election. it was in the past. well, this this is the 2020 upg election, and the president has made it very clear in his own words in the notes that he put out that he wants another country to help him. we just don't do that in america. >> harris: you know what? lets visit on what congressman pete king of new york just told me a few moments before the commercial break. he said improprieties were suspected bite joe biden's son, hunter biden. had it been any other official, you would want to have it looked into. so he argues that the fact of

i think it was wolf blitzer conducted with congressman eric swalwell, and his inferential descriptionthe whistle-blower's complaint tells me i think this, when it eventually comes out, is going to be even more devastating than the transcript or summary of the one phone call between the president and his ukrainian counterpart. and it sounds to me like this was written by a very good intelligence officer, who is a good writer, and who has documented both documentary references as well as other people who are implicated or who are corroborating witnesses. so this thing can spread. so i think this is actually a bigger deal than the transcript which, itself, i thought was damning and devastating. and why anyone thought that was going to help the president is beyond me. >> i don't understand why they thought that would be exculpatory. when you read it, i mean there's no other way -- it's not a rorschach. there's nothing nebulous about it. there's really not much left to interpretation. he was basically asking for a -- he says "favor" in the report. >> i mean -- >> let me just go back and as

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i'm joined by congressman eric swalwell who just viewed that complaint. congressman, thank you. can you tell us at least in qualitative terms how much more is there in this formal complaint to the i.g. that we saw in the memo today of the conversation between the president and the president of ukraine? >> chris, i can tell you what's described in the complaint is deeply disturbing. the acting director of national intelligence prohibits me from even connecting it to the president's call with ukraine. but i'll just say this. the whistle-blower, thank god this person came forward, lays out witnesses we need to follow up with, documents that we need to get and also describes a number of individuals around this disturbing conduct who never came forward. that's what's really concerning to me. i want to speak briefly to what you described as the president's call to ukraine. not only does he call the ukrainian president to investigate a political apone that you're going to owe that person something, in that transcript he also is essentially doing russia's bidding and seeking to exonerat

. >> all right, joining me now is democratic congressman eric swalwell. serves on the house intelligence and judiciary committees. and we now know, congressman, the intelligence committee will be spearheading this investigation into matters surrounding ukraine. first, just a quick comment on what we just heard from the house speaker on the president's comments, suggesting that the people involved with the whistle-blower might be treasonous. do you feel that that is tantamount to witness intimidation? and if so, could that in and of itself become ultimately an article of impeachment? >> good morning, john and alisyn. this national nightmare continues. the president's comments, those are comments intended to intimidate future witnesses and i do think it should be considered when we draw up articles of impeachment. and it just fits the pattern of behavior here that shows a consciousness of guilt. innocent people don't talk that way. people who have nothing to worry about don't worry about whether anyone would quote/unquote spy on them. so it's sad that it's

we spoke a few minutes ago with congressman eric swalwell, a member of the intelligence committee. he reviewed the whistleblower complaint in that secure, classified room, and then emerged and spoke -- and spoke with us and said this. >> this person laid out a lot of other documents and witnesses who were subject in this matter, and, you know, i'm not concerned at all about anything like that. >> just elaborate if you can, other individuals in the government are cited as backing up these allegations, is that what i'm hearing? >> the whistleblower invokes other witnesses to the disturbing conduct and the inspector general conducted an investigation. >> that's a pretty significant statement. >> the inspector general is authorized to receive and investigate any complaints. it appears that swalwell is talking about two separate things. one is the substance of the complaint. does this whistleblower name other people, point to evidence congress might want to look into and what were the preliminary investigative mistakes the ig might have made in making the determination of urgent and cre

let's bring in congressman eric swalwell, democrat from california and a member of the house intelligenceman, will you stay in washington for part of the two-week recess? >> i'll be here, craig, working with the house intelligence staff and colleagues to look at what happened in ukraine, whether additional witnesses need to be called. we feel a pressure here because of the urgency of the upcoming election to move swiftly, not hurriedly, but to be quite swift in what we do. >> due expeo you expect that th whistle-blower will actually testify? >> when i was a prosecutor, sometimes investigations were launched because someone sent an anonymous tip to the police. that person is not supposed to be the front row witness. they're telling police where to find the evidence, where the crumbs lead. so this person can direct us, you know, to other witnesses. but for republicans to say, oh, this is a secondhand or third hand witness is really -- it diminishes the role of a whistle-blower, it discounts how intelligence is informed by second and third hand information, and doesn't appreciate how the pre

let me bring in democratic congressman eric swalwell of california, a member of the intelligence and judiciary committees. take that on, it seems like your committee grappled a little bit with the pace of this story. some of the questions didn't seem to reflect that we're all staring at the whistle-blower complaint. you, for your part, seemed to try to really focus the acting dni on this allegation that we've been talking about. this is what your question seemed to be about. the whistle-blower writes that according to multiple white house officials i spoke with, the transcript of the president's call with president zelensky was placed into a computer system managed directly by the nsc. this is a standalone computer system reserved for code word level intelligence information such as covert action. clearly not what this call or the notes from this call would have been needing, congressman. >> good afternoon, nicolle. yes, we wanted to show and i wanted to show in that exchange just what we're up against here. in essence, the whistle-blower calls a hotline. and he is providing an impor

i think it was wolf blitzer conducted with congressman eric swalwell, and his inferential descriptionf the whistle-blower's complaint tells me i think this, when it eventually comes out, is going to be even more devastating than the transcript or summary of the one phone call between the president and his ukrainian counterpart. and it sounds to me like this was written by a very good intelligence officer, who is a good writer, and who has documented both documentary references as well as other people who are implicated or who are corroborating witnesses. so this thing can spread. so i think this is actually a bigger deal than the transcript which, itself, i thought was damning and devastating. and why anyone thought that was going to help the president is beyond me. >> i don't understand why they thought that would be exculpatory. when you read it, i mean there's no other way -- it's not a rorschach. there's nothing nebulous about it. there's really not much left to interpretation. he was basically asking for a -- he says "favor" in the report. >> i mean -- >> let me just go back and

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. >>> bay area politicians are weighing in on the new impeachment inquiry including eric swalwell. >> i'm not looking at the politics of this. doing nothing would bring worse behavior from the president and doing nothing would reduce the standard of conduct for future presidents. >> we are posting more reaction from local officials on our website, kpix.com. and we want to get your thoughts. do you think it's the right move for house democrats to launch the impeachment inquiry? you can join the conversation on facebook, twitter or instagram. >>> in our other big story, sizzling temperatures raising the fire danger around the bay area. >> some of our inland areas dealing with triple digit heat today. we continue to keep an eye on that fire sending smoke over sasoon city. >> first paul on that red flag warning still in effect. >> we are looking at a red flag warning that will expire at 11:00 tomorrow morning. that's when the wind is forecast to really die down and not be that strong. it will still be dry. it will still be hot. but the wind is the one factor that will exit tomorrow mornin

involving the presidents calls to the ukrainian president, short time ago california resident eric swalwell said in his words the contents were alarming. >> we reviewed the materials. but he is still blocking us from characterizing with this even relates to, i will say what a relates to a serious emergent, credible and we should hear from the whistleblower. he should release the whistleblower to come speak to us. >> heightens our concern and also gave us new leads, new emphasis new materials to follow. >> the problem with part of this is the contents are still classified. swallow cannot release them and we could not even characterize them. will continue to follow the story and bring you the very latest at the live news desk, back to you. >>> southern california woman is accusing this man of creepy encounters during open houses. officials tracked him down and arrested him last night, the most recent attacked happen sunday and san fernando valley. i will chill told police that she feared the suspect would and kill her if she went inside home with him. for that reason she talked to him on the

before thdropping out of presidential race in july, congressman eric swalwell ntde gun l a defining featuref his campaign. congressman eric swal ll joins now. he serves on the house intelligence and judiciary committees. it's great to have you studio. will talk about gun control. you are leading the charge in ny ays about this. i do have to ask, the tonext to next week, and you are just in the fire. how exhilarating, or how it is exhilarating. cess? you are on the stage with people that you admire. some of them are my friends. i got to the weddings of three of the people that were running for president. that was weirto be on a debate stage was some of them. i ran for president, primarily because i wantedto make and a gun violence a top priority. i use that debate opstage rtunity to ask the runners, joe biden, and sanders, they would endorse ban and buyback plan onassault weapons. they did said they would. they took a public position a o that. our own senator a in california, kamala harris, said she supported the plan as well. it was a cup of coffee of the campaign. i wish sti was l in it. w

eric swalwell has introduced legislation that would require campaigns to inform the fbi of contacts witheign governments. he says many of the controversy surrounding the trump presidential campaign have not been resolved for 2020. >> just because prior congress didn't imagine a campaign would do that and write a letter to tell the fbi, my legislation duty to report says if you're a candidate, you receive dirt on your opponent from a foreign country or a person from a foreign country, you have to at least tell the fbi. >> congressman swalwell says he also supports having a traceable paper trail that would allow officials to audit electronic voting. >>> the cdc is reminding people about the warning over any and all pig ear dog treats. we told you last month about the treats being linked to a salmonella outbreak. the number of people sickened has risen to 143. no deaths have been reported. people can get sick after handling the dog treats. dogs, of course, can also get sick. the investigation into the outbreak is under way. >>> whether you use amazon, google or an apple smart speaker, shoul

disgracement later in the 8:00 hour, we'll speak with congresswoman jackie spear and congressman eric swalwell about the proceedings, coming up shortly. mark sanford and jesse ventura and the prime minister of armenia will be involved in the discussions on tomorrow mornings on 2. >>> time now 7:17, looking at the weather with rosemary. >>> we have temperatures 5 to 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. giving you a look at san francisco, we have partly cloudy skies around the bay area. this system is dropping in, bringing rain to the northern california area and the sierra. we even have a chance of getting in on some of that for the back end of the weekend. we have breezy conditions today, temperatures similar to yesterday with a mix of sun and clouds. more sunshine than we saw around the bay yesterday. as we get into sunday, looks like by the afternoon, that possibility after a little wet weather. picking it up for you, northern california and the sierra already with scattered showers. as we get into the afternoon, we are partly cloudy and dry. there's and advisory for winter travel over the pass

obviously dodging the questions he doesn't want to answer but firing off these angry zingers calling eric swalwellident swalwell, i guess trying to amuse maybe this audience of one, but that undercuts a witness' credibility after a certain amount of time. in the bag for one side. easily answering the republican questions and dodging in a transparent way the questions he doesn't like. >> let's keep watching. take a quick commercial break and back with more testimony in just a moment. that's why your cash automatically goes into a money market fund when you open a new account. and fidelity's rate is higher than e*trade's, td ameritrade's, even 9 times more than schwab's. plus only fidelity has zero account fees and zero minimums for retail brokerage and retirement accounts. just another reminder of the value you'll only find at fidelity. open an account today. doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacist-recommendeding? memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. walkabout wednesdays are back! get a sirloin or chicken on the barbie, fr

. >> that didn't work for eric swalwell. >> but boouttigieg is a more age debater than he was. >> all right, let's talk more about what we're watching tonight. our friend eugene kothd, what are you expecting tonight. will it be a replay of the last two debates where they were going hard at each other. >> i certainly think the candidates will communicate they're united against president trump. one idea we heard is that anyone on the stage is better than president trump. that is what they want to encourage for them to vote for whoever is the nominee. this will be a night where quite a few candidates are trying to have a break out moment to get out of the second tier of candidates to break out of the single digit numbers. i would not be surprised if we saw them be incredibly aggressive, and if they just had a moment to let voters know they're the best person to lead the party forward. >> we have been looking at bernie sanders and the candidate that other candidates have been going after in the entire debate. at this point we have seen some candidates plan attacks against e lid beth warn.

it didn't pay for eric swalwell, it didn't prr -- we came to have a sub stant. the. >> after the debate, though, there is a chance for candidates to say things that are impactful. we sthee, but clear rnlt there is things biden coulden recall, is president trump going onto the debate stage. i'm laughing at the question, brianna, after every single dae bait we have had thus far, vice president biden, and we went to coney island. he sat with voters and talked to people. wemt from vice president biden today or any physical, i jut think it's and i want not the same man on the debate stage, but that's politics. >> i want to ask you about health care because the vice president seemed to be doing well when he was raising questions about the cost of medicare for all, which bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, of course, are proponents of. he also took some incoming from senator booker and secretary castro for his plan not having full universal coverage. you're putting it at 97%. that is high, that's not 100%. what do you say to non-democratic proposals. what do you say t

. >>> as a member of the house intelligence committee, eric swalwell well will spend most of his timesday for an impeachment town hall. he's bringing john dean of watergate fame. the town hall is in james logan high school. >>> iran's president says the u.s. offered to remove all sanctions against iran in return for negotiations. hassan rouhani says he did not act on the offer because of what he called the current poisonous atmosphere. president trump denied making that offer in a tweet. rouhani today returned to iran following the united nations meetings in new york. tensions between washington and tehran have increased since the u.s. pulled out of a nuclear agreement with iran last year. >>> she shot a man in his own apartment. that dallas police officer took the stand during her own trial. amber geiger apologized through ti tears. she shot and killed jean. she thought he was trying to break into her apartment. >> i never wanted to take an innocent person's life. >> she lived in the apartment right above his. geiger is on trial for murder. the jury could begin deliberations as early

>> jackie speier and eric swalwell were asking tough questions. >> did the president of the united statest the identity of the whistle-blower? has anyone else within the white house or the department of justice asked you? >> are you responsible for preventing election interference? >> election interference -- >> by a foreign government. >> congressman, election interference. >> i hope you know this answer is yes or no. >> abc news reporter rachel scott has more from washington with reaction from lawmakers as well as the president. >> reporter: the nation's top intelligence official on the hot se and on the defensive. >> ifat the inspector general h not brought this complaint to our attention you and the trump administration might have gotten away with this unprecedented action. >> while i was endeavoring to get the executive privilege concerns addressed so that it can then be forwarded. it was not stonewalling. >> reporter: the acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire pitted between lawmakers and the white house. >> complaint outlines a scheme by the president of the united

she highlighted kirsten gillibrand and eric swalwell. we did fact check that. castro was partially correct. here is the deal. he stands for medicare for all, which would automatically enroll all americans. biden's plan offers you can buy into the plan if you don't like your health care, don't have health care, but it does automatically enroll those who are not able to afford health care who would otherwise be on medicaid. that's a little bit of the facts there for you. >> great to see you, jessica. thanks so much. really appreciate it. joining me for more on what last night means for today, david axelrod, host of cnn's the axe files and national politics reporter for "wall street journal." great to see you guys. david, you did not think that was a good moment for julian castro, when you heard his explanation on "new day," did that change your view how it landed? >> no. it was fairly obvious what he was trying to do. i think he took a big risk making that attack and i think it back fired on him. if he had just stopped at making the note -- stopped making the poi

eric swalwell was good.e have lots of good questions and i think we did a good job at hitting him. he was shown to be a liar. he obstructed congress live and in person and he shows us how trump tried to obstruct justice through his enforcer and his previous history of working around a corrupt congressman and fraudulent activities toward voting. >> you mentioned barry burke. he was the committee attorney and he was very effective. why did the committee wait so long, the last half hour of a hearing that lasted several hours to bring him out and actually get somewhere in the questioning of lewandowski? >> i'm not sure, but i think that's traditionally the way the question goes, is that the counsel is the cleanup hitter. >> do you wish that he had come out sooner? are you going to rethink that for future hearings? he's the one that got lewandowski to admit that he doesn't feel obligated to tell the truth to the media and he also zeroed in on why he didn't deliver trump's message to sessions, which is something c

eric swalwell, first person to get out of the race, he was running on gun control. he's out. two-term governor of colorado, a swing state, and a governor i had worked with like workforce development and the drug crisis, john hickenlooper, out. the mayor of new york city who , had about as many people in a rally in iowa than i had around my sunday afternoon dinner table -- this is called sunday dinner in an italian girl's house, not a presidential rally. out. just embarrassing. by the way, if their issues and policies were cohesive and coherent and compelling and conservative, they would still be in the race. people simply aren't buying what they are selling. "we are the democrats, we are for generational transformation," "we will nominate the first female president of the united states" -- we already did that. and we beat her. we are going to get the first female president of the united states -- who by the way, will be a republican. they say all that, and their top three candidates are white career politicians in their 60's and 70's, which i have nothing against, except they

eric swalwell weighed in saying facebook's business model raises questions. >> monopoly is one where they drive others out of business and drive up the price of goods. here facebook is free but is it really free if they're benefitting from our data or using data that they collect to put other businesses out of business. so, it's certainly fair questions to raise. >> facebook says it plans to work with the attorneys general and it operates in what it calls a competitive environment. >>> joining me now is cnet editor-in-chief, connie. what impact do you think this will have on facebook because it's the states as opposed to the feds going after them? >> it's not been a good year for facebook, let's put it this way. they were fined earlier this year for violating the privacy over their cambridge data breach. now they're being fined hor how they collect data and how they use it against you and how they keep competitors out of the market. it's that power. people get nervous with that power. we have more than 2 billion people on that platform so their reach is very wide. >> do you think the

we saw eric swalwell do that in the first debate and look where he ended up.t was not a smart move. the thing about castro. i think he has brought in some really substantive, racial, talking about racial issues. that moment, i think it will hurt him. >> let's play anita dunn. i'll age myself by saying do i remember her. she's a veteran politico. >> i do, too. >> you're a baby. you don't remember. i appreciate that. >> do you think secretary castro intentionally land ad low blow there in terms of raising his forgetfulness? i think secretary castro who likes to talk about learning from history clearly did not learn from the first two debates that you know, taking personal cheap shots at vice president biden doesn't work out that well. particularly because it was factually inaccurate. many reporters in the course of the debate have pointed out that what castro said simply was not true. >> let me to go joel. you've worked with the hillary campaign. you have to eventually try to combat the front-runner. did that shot in your view seem too cheap? >> it might be a go

pointing to two examples eric swalwell and gillibrand who went after him in debates and are not in theocratic primary race any longer. the campaign is painting this as a low blow. and a cheap shot. the candidate himself is trying not to engage in it. simply saying he thought the castro was wrong. as you mention he's acknowledging he has room for improvement had when it comes to debating. he didn't say which areas but knows he needs to do better going forward. castro was not the only one to raise concerns about biden. corey booker waited until he was off the stage and in an interview said there are concerns from people biden won't be able to cross the finish line without fumbling. booker tried to walk it back this morning. on our air. but what's interesting here is that you now have three democratic primary contenders openly questioning and expressing concern about biden's memory or stamina. biden himself said people should think about his age when they are evaluating him for president. going to say if you have a problem with my age, don't vote for me. the question right now is how much

case, that this transcript was moved to a highly secure computer which democrats like congressman eric swalwell say is evidence of a cover up listen here. speak of the transcripts with the ukrainian president, which were in an open system that white house employees could access, were moved into a top-secret covert action system, which is not to be used for political reasons or to protect anyone. only for the most sensitive secrets. which i think shows a consciousness of guilt. >> as all of this is going on, president trump is trying to shred the credibility of the whistle-blower, focusing on the fact that the complaint was based on third and information passed by people of the white house. also, the fact of the whistle-blower filed a complaint of the office of the director of national intelligence and the justice department said was outside the jurisdiction of the intelligence community inspector general. the president treating, sounding more and more like the so-called whistle-blower isn't a whistle-blower at all. in addition, all secondhand information that proved to be so inaccurate that the

i think he did not take a sign from eric swalwell when he attacked sanders for his age and the next thingnow he wasn't in the next debate. he needs to remember, castro needs to remember, who joe biden is and the fact that biden was with obama when they passed the affordable care act. when you are debating him about health insurance and making sure people are insured, he's the one who is suffering from amnesia. >> i couldn't agree more. i think julian castro acted like a total bully. i don't know if that's his personality or someone told him to aggressively go after joe biden but i thought that moment was uncomfortable to witness. with that said, joe biden does not do well in the debate format and the problem is if he becomes president he's going to spend the next four years of his life in the debate style setting where he's going to have to think quick on his feet and defend his policy. >> ed: not to mention taking on president trump mano a mano. >> the idea that president trump should be insulated from attacks is ridiculous. the entire premise of a primary is supposed to be a vetting pro

coming out about this on classified whistleblower complaint, including california representative eric swalwell ridley to focus on this ukraine a call to of course the president is entitled to a fair process like anyone but that we don't need to have a ne are going to show up and insist on executive privilege is that don't exist. we have the president's own words and we have is conduct after the fact that goes to the consciousness of guilt of trying to threaten. witnesses. >>speaker of the house nancy pelosi who see their says president trump is out of line. she opened an impeachment inquiry against the president this week and republicans are also responding to the report. but they're taking a different tack. they're questioning the credibility of the whistleblower saying the complaint mainly contained secondhand information. here's a quick live look outside as we head to break with at a live picture of this richmond sandra fell bridge for you where you can see traffic is slow as robin been saying getting through the toll plaza and out to the north bay. we'll have more on your commute on this f

this is angie craig in minnesota in a much tougher district than eric swalwell. she says, i'm in a district where i've been reluctant to move fwa move forward only from the perspective where i want to be disciplined, i want to look at due process and want to make sure we get all of our facts. and this process will allow us to do that. >> many people want to vote on impeachment. there is the aid and investigation of his political rival. democrats can look at that and say, it's not explicit, that may not be enough to get him charged guilty in a court of law. but this is impeachment. the bar is higher for public officials, higher for the president, so democrats have to decide what level of facts are enough to make that case. pelosi doesn't want to sound like she's prejudging this. she knows there is an election year coming up but she doesn't want to say she has to have it done by x time. >> there are some members of congress and craig probably falls in this category who, if the white house participates, if they say yes, certain people can speak, yes, we will give ov

eric swalwell is out of the race. kamala harris had her best moment and her worst week since. so the reality here is that they have injected this into the bloodstream. even though they're apologizing this morning, this is something, as you said, democrats are talking about it, but either own it or not own it. they had to know it was going to sort of not be seen that strongly by democrats. but i think the bigger point is, when you swipe away everything, i'm not sure that much changed last night except joe biden is still the frontrunner. he had a very strong first part of the debate. as the debate went on, it was very long, he had a weaker performance. but you walk away from this, he's the winner. julian castro is not. >> but what's really interesting about this is the alternate universe that we're living in in the democratic primary where such rules that we're talking about and niceties still apply in politics where somebody, you know, makes an attack like julian castro did, which, let's face it, is pretty mild compared to what we saw in the republican contest and what we've se

. >> several democrats including eric swalwell who ran for president a few months ago holding impeachment town halls to sell their message back home. the town hall solely on the impeachment topic. >> a number of them said it's the best use of their time because they know public sentiment is a huge factor in the whole impeachment thing. >> sure enough. >> david, thank you. >> thank you. >> carl bernstein of watergate claim believes it whistleblower complaint contains hints to where the doj is going and it's bound to give hope to the president's supporters. >> barr is trying to deliver. i have the evidence that perhaps this has been a deep state conspiracy just like donald trump alleges. >> still, republican representatives join us live with reaction to the week's news. jim during ban of ohio and from texas. congressman jordan, i'll start with you. in making that statement, i wonder if he's referring to what we're expecting from detective horowitz or u.s. attorney durham. he didn't say it in a positive way like, hey, we'll get details and news about the deep state thing, it's sort of in quo

reference that he was making, they didn't like castro sort of put i tputt >> we saw what happened with eric swalwellnt after the whole pass the torch comment. and kirsten gillibrand did a lot more of that. >> joe biden is a very well liked figure in the democratic party. even if people don't support him for president, there is a great deal of affection and respect for him. he has very high favorable ratings among democrats. and so that was a very risky maneuver on castro's part and in-i think he came out on the short end of it. >> what had a good debate night, president obama. let's watch. >> i think that -- i know the senator says she is for bernie. i'm for about a barack. >> we owe a debt of graduate to president obama. of course i also worked for president obama. >> i stand with barack obama all eight years. good, bad and indifferent. >> a lot of the candidates except for biden who were praising obama and then trying to attack biden. did anyone do that effectively or are the two men tied in voters' minds? >> i think that biden will make sure that they are. one of the reasons why he is the frontru