they'll quickly change the subject to, what about hilary clinton's use of -- >> libya. they'll talk about other things. >> then there are some people who say, look. let's face it. of course, the position would be different if it was her. but they -- they say rather honestly. look, we see ourselves in a long-term fight for power against what they see as a -- a -- a coalition between liberal democrats and, frankly, our own business, the mainstream media. and they're trying to dethrone that power order. and they'll do whatever they can to and grab whatever they can as either a weapon or a shield in pursuit of that. so at least that's fairly honest. and, in fact, it was kind of the candor i was looking for. >> charlie savage and i often talk about this that while this president does a lot of things by executive authority, so did barack obama. so did george w. bush. and charlie's conclusion is that it's all very different when your person's doing it than when the other side's doing it. >> that's just human nature. but at some point, you have to be able to at least in some wa

jury and that's going to be devastating for the people -- elizabeth: yeah, you wonder if the hilary clintonampaign or the dnc officials will get subpoenaed. bill gavin, great to see you, come back soon. >> thanks, liz. elizabeth: next up, president trump is heading to a rally tonight in pennsylvania, a battleground state key to win 20g -- key to winning 2020. we will take you there with a live update next. but then you have to connect, download, edit, reformat, output, save, send, upload... still uploading... and maybe eventually post. this isn't working. introducing samsung business video solutions. with the galaxy note10, you can shoot, edit and post thumb-stopping videos, all from one device. samsung business solutions. (loud fan noise) (children playing) ♪ (music building) experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first month's payment. but you don't feel good. with polycythemia vera, pv, symptoms can change so slowly over time you might not notice. but new or chang

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it's not like they just randomly decided i want to be for hilary clinton.ountry to another country. i -- i -- so they wrote an op-ed. and they objected diplomatically. this is -- it's also not even -- it's not even remotely the equivalent of what russia did. >> of course not. but there are enough little wisps of fact there for the president ae president's allies to thread this together. >> john kennedy was shot and then all of a there is a -- that was the one agreed upon fact. >> there's also all sorts of fun uk have with wisps of fact. the idea is comparing a russian-intelligence backed multiple dollar operation to spread this to break into american citizen's computers -- >> weaponize them. >> to compare that for the trump administration and senate republicans, to compare that to a ukrainian writing an op-ed -- >> it's not exactly a widely read -- no defenoffense, but -- >> it was insider. >> to ukraine's minister of the interior writing a post on his fn page in ukraine, to say there's a comparison here. >> what a medal. >> give me a break. >> it's as fact

had hilary clinton won and all impressions the russians have given us, they thought hilary clinton was to win. hilary clinton was already a hawk on russia coming into this. if she had been elected president after russia had taken this wild swing at her, imagine what that would have meant in terms of the power, a new u.s. president could direct russia's way. but they still saw it as worth it. and i think the reason it was still worth it for them is because they were so desperate. and the reason they were so desperate is because their economy is such a disaster. and the specific way in which their economy is a disaster is about oil and gas. and it's worth it to them almost to try anything to get out from the u.s. sanctions that have precluded western oil makers from helping them drill what they need to drill to keep the economy going. >> i always say the economy of texas is larger than the economy of russia. >> yes. that's exactly right. i mean, russia is 150 million people. gigantic country. their economy's smaller than texas. smaller than italy. smaller than south korea. they've got on

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biden is seen as more of a centrist and i agree with what you said on -- on hilary clinton and how she came across in many of the midwestern states but he's not -- biden isn't the only one i don't think it's going to be sanders. and i don't think it's going to be liz warren. and i doubt buttigieg, in the end, will be able to get the nomination so, you know, klobuchar. amy klobuchar. senator from minnesota she might fit the bill but -- but look. the key point is this. when a president runs for re-election, people basically ask the question, the brilliant, that ronald reagan asked in the one debate he had with jimmy carter in october of 1980. are you better off than you were four years ago and better off can mean the economy, primarily, or it can also mean other things do you feel better about yourself your family? and your country and all of those things go into the mix. the simple act of voting is pretty complicated, at least for most people. >> it is larry and joe, listen, guys. >> i anywknow we're going to taa lot. i look forward to going to some of those counties and towns. it's a n

over 15 years, i must have attended hundreds of fundraisers with hilary clinton.ost of the time in the kitchen or the study eating the chicken skewers. i had no responsibilities. but i don't -- there was never a moment where i thought she was doing something because so and so wanted a photograph. it just doesn't work that way. it's mostly q and a. >> i want to start a campaign to -- to keep philippe reines out of the kitchen and away from the chicken skewers. philippe, thank you very much. >> i was going to say i agree with josh that you were great. but that was a gratuitous attack. >> that was phil ruker and i'm getting screamed that we have to go because we got to take a commercial break before ali velshi comes back. we'll be right back. e ali velshi comes back. we'll be right back. erence in p. and mike's won them, which is important right this minute, because if he could beat america's biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nra backed politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundreds of polluting plants and be

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either way, it is an admittance that a foreign power helped defeat hilary clinton.se by doing this, you're acknowledging a foreign power hacked into the dnc. so there -- there's sort of a -- doesn't the president's defense here have a problem? >> absolutely. to the extent that you have the president saying that it is ukraine, not russia, that has assisted the republican side, it is very problematic in terms of why you have the united states president making that claim. we know that the russian president wants to foist this office, as fiona hill so clearly said. but when it was just the president saying russia didn't help me, that could be chalked up to he just wanted to tell people he was winning on his own. when he's actually saying, no, there were foreign interference but it was ukraine that helped me, not russia, then it becomes a lot more problematic as to why would he be saying that? when all of the evidence that anyone has seen is that it was russia. there is literally no evidence that it was ukraine. >> right. and, again, the crime that we all know was commit

al gore and i worked for hilary clinton in 2000. on did something wrong but nothing bad happened to him. they didn't want him removed. but the fact that he looked exonerated. >> they didn't like that either? >> they did not like that either. and remember, george w. bush ran on restoring honor and integrity to the white house. and it was -- it was a -- it was a hurdle. so i would say to republicans, it is not -- making this preordained to the american people. when they make a judgment that it's wrong, there is definite blow-back on that. and i hope they don't. >> if the president would accept censure, this would have happened a long time ago. >> any normal president would allow republicans to go out and say what he did is wrong but it's not impeachable. but he will not tolerate even the slightest bit of criticism. so we end up with people not defending it or denying it took place. all kinds of things. >> here's the other thing you could factor into this about how people -- voters may not like that he seems to get away with something i

that hilary clinton was unfit to serve because she was -- she was susceptible to blackmail. irresponsible with national security. this is the president of the united states who is now doing this. and we know that the russians, most likely, have, if not all at least some of those calls, knows what's in them. there is a present and future risk of blackmail because goodness knows what he was saying there. as many experts have said, the russians probably know more about those phone conversations than the u.s. senate. and that's a problem. >> in fact, according to the continuing from the article, it says insight into giuliani's discussions with trump could enable moscow to adapt or amplify its propaganda. promoting the baseless claim that ukraine, rather than russia, hacked the democratic national committee in the 2016 u.s. election. the claim is now widely embraced by trump's republican allies. it -- it -- it is -- at this point, you also saw the reporting about the phone calls between giuliani and the white house. that, you know, not everybody's been able to get to the bottom o

only disclosed in a footnote that there was speculation that a unnamed person higher steeled >> hilary clintonr reaction? >> my reaction is that what we need is we need the kind of independence that mueller gave against the president, that vindicated him. we need it here. we're beginning to get enough evidence that there needs to be an ongoing long-term investigation that leads to actual changes in the law and by the way, people being held accountable criminally in some cases. there were prosecuteable wrong doing among here, comey among them. liz: should the mueller probe had been launched at all based on what we know now? >> what we know now is the mueller probe did us one piece of good which it showed this was a false allegation, but if you're mueller, you need to turn around and pivot and say, i spent years showing that there was no there there and i did it because people falsely accused the president. liz: got to go. congressman, thanks for coming in. >> thank you. lou: good evening everyone. president trump heading to florida tonight after getting more work done in two weeks than the enti

the president committed the crime of beating hilary clinton.ou: i've constructed a rationale for the dems. what do you make of it? >> i don't buy it anymore -- i've been told for so many years now that nancy pelosi is the arch strategist. she's playing chess. have you seen her recent press conferences over the last two months? she can barely string sentences together. when somebody, such a good reporter as james rosen asked her a simple question, do you hate the president? she points her finger at him and says you are mr. g.o.p. talking points. that's not a sign of a woman who is in control. if she wanted an off ramp, she had one. she could have censured the president, she refused -- lou: that wouldn't have been an off ramp. that's a nonstarter and the white house made it clear it was a nonstarter. he's not going to agree to be censured, nor should he, anymore than he should agree to be impeached. i think it is worth a consideration. you and i can agree to disagree on that one. let's turn to where we are with brennan now. the durham investigati

the president committed the crime of beating hilary clinton.r the dems. what do you make of it? >> i don't buy it anymore -- i've been told for so many years now that nancy pelosi is the arch strategist. she's playing chess. have you seen her recent press conferences over the last two months? she can barely string sentences together. when somebody, such a good reporter as james rosen asked her a simple question, do you hate the president? she points her finger at him and says you are mr. g.o.p. talking points. that's not a sign of a woman who is in control. if she wanted an off ramp, she had one. she could have censured the president, she refused -- lou: that wouldn't have been an off ramp. that's a nonstarter and the white house made it clear it was a nonstarter. he's not going to agree to be censured, nor should he, anymore than he should agree to be impeached. i think it is worth a consideration. you and i can agree to disagree on that one. let's turn to where we are with brennan now. the durham investigation apparently is circling him and t

an australian diplomat that he thought there was -- that the russians were -- had something on hilary clinton and were going to disclose it. paul: right. >> which that diplomat didn't say anything about until after the leak of the dnc e-mails. paul: that happened in may, and this was reported in july. >> right. the diplomat concluded that oh, that must be what papadopoulos had in mind. paul: is that adequate predication as mr. horowitz said to start a counterintelligence probe against the presidential campaign? >> that depends on what's in the mind of the people who have the information and what else they know, and i can't tell that at this point. paul: right. >> we do know that prior to that in what's been characterized as early or late june, james comey, briefed the national security council, which were senior security people on what he called the page information, relating to carter page. he briefed the attorney general. he briefed others. and they considered giving a warning, a warning briefing to the trump campaign and decided -- apparently decided not to. they never did it. paul: that's

came about that he heard that, you know, that there were wikileaks had basically you know the hilary clinton-mails in may of 2016. how deep and how far back do you think this goes? >> you know, i don't think we know yet. but i think it's important and fortunately mr. durham is taking the right action. we need to uncover everything. again, we have a couple of people that acted inappropriately, but let's go back and make sure we know exactly what happened and when so that way connect ensure it never happens again. god forbid a u.s. president should ever have to deal with such issues. liz: you know, former fbi lawyer, also inserted the words carter page not a source when he was working with the cia, the fbi, was effectively fined, carter page already working with the cia. i want to get to this, your reaction to the media saying, you know, criticizing william barr saying they were spying on the trump campaign. william barr is now saying we've got an irresponsible press, hyping a bogus steele file. by the way, no whistle-blowers about what was going on at the fbi when we had whistle-blowers of co

hilary clinton, dubbed a meddler in west-wing policy. >> i'm here as an american citizen concerned aboutfamily and the health of her nation. >> michelle obama. not necessarily in love with the restrictions of white house life. >> turn up for what? >> but publicly viewed as an open and friendly first lady. but melania trump, almost three years in, remains something of a mystery. from the start, an ambiguous participant. it was clear she had to fen for herself. a reluctant entrance to public life. >> hello, iowa. >> fewer events. a smaller staff. and a lower profile. however, with melania trump, the flares of independence crossed from private to public. unique to a modern first lady. defining her as a spouse not joined at the hip with president trump. as her spokes woman once described her to cnn. she tweeted and released statements on her own without trump's approval, sometimes in direct opposition to his. taking her own motorcades, cancelling a joint trip when headlines about alleged infidelities arose. with more rumors about how she lives and where she lives. >> there are persistent rum

. >> i was vetted for vice president by hilary clinton, and i was subsequently invited to trump tower to discuss a cabinet post with donald trump. i think that's two bullets going by my head. [laughter] >> my answer is -- my answer is, i would be honored to serve the nation again, and how that unfolds, i don't know, but just as surely as i ask these young cadets, and your daughter, and my daughters, and others, to embrace the idea of serving the country in whatever form makes sense to you. i too will answer that call again, if asked. thank you very much. pleasure to be with you. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> safe travel home. [applause] >> here's a look at some authors who have recently appeared or will be appearing soon on book tv's after words. our weekly author interview program that includes best-selling nonfiction books and guest interviewers. recently university of virginia history professor explored the political history of tobacco in america. and coming up, joe rickets will offer insights into becoming an entrepreneur and also recount

a swing state that he narrowly lost to hilary clinton.eport says those states are not getting what president trump promised them four years ago, due in part to weak manufacturing growth. however, new poll numbers from quinnipiac out just this hour show the majority of americans think the economy is excellent or good. "new york times" economics reporter ben castleman joins me now. ben, thank you for joining me. this is an interesting conversation because in the last recession, the midwest, the industrial parts of this country, got hurt so badly that one of the points you make in your article is that even if they're not growing as fast as the rest of the country is, people might still say the economy's good because it's -- because they know what bad really feels like. >> yeah. i think that's right. i think it's really hard to know what people, what voters are going to benchmark against. right? are they going to think about this as hey, it's a lot better than it was in the middle of the recession? or are they going to think, hey, this is not

hilary clinton everybody thought was a giant killer and she couldn't do it. so who is going to be the candidate that can make that happen? >> and, john, do you think people will put their ideology aside for that end? to that goal? >> i think everything that we've seen from the democratic primary so far suggests that democrats are much more interested in common interests. and one particular common interest, as the genius beth fouhy just put it, in beating donald trump. >> let's talk about elizabeth warren, beth. what's happened there? >> yeah. well, she really peaked sort of late september, early october. then she went and gave -- talked about or really sort of hit in a debate about medicare for all. and she decided that she needed to step forward with a comprehensive plan how to pay for it. it seemed just after she made that declaration, we saw her polling really fall off. whether it was because of the specifics of the payment for the medicare for all, which seemed hard to -- the math was going to be hard to add up. or just simply the fact that she had yoked

it's almost like what happened to hilary clinton in 2016.the die-hard democrats did not show up. they had issues with her. for whatever reason, they just decided to sit this one out. donald trump has to be petrified of that. >> steven, what do you think? does he have a reason to be petrified? do you think there's anything that could cause evangelicals to leave this president? >> no. you and susan have seen the same polls i have. evangelicals are happy with trump to the tune of about 90%. but i think what all people, all evangelicals, all of us who analyze political trends, and certainly the president ought to pay attention to is that there is a generational issue going on here. even though mr. galley, the editor of "christianity today" is older and, in fact, retiring in january. i listened to the podcast of "christianity today" and the voices are younger. the reporters are younger. and as we all know, millennials, that younger tribe, they're not enamored of donald trump. they're offended by his character. they're aufrpd they're offended by h

you think president obama, hilary clinton and nancy pelosi were all in a secret room together saying,, you know that famously dumb game show host you know, the one who spends most of the time yelling at meatloaf well, he's about to ride an escalator down to announce his campaign so here's our plan to bring him down we're going to win the popular vote by three million votes. but then we'll lose the electoral college, because, you know, it's a dumb, antiquated system and then we're going to wait three years until he calls the president of ukraine and ask him to dig up dirt on joe biden, who will announce that he's running for president. and also rudy giuliani's going to go on tv and confess to everything that's the plan. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause that is our plan." actually, you know, the last part right there is probably the only thing they could have predicted right there. [ light laughter ] this is just the world we live in now the president's a deranged, conspiratorial lunatic who's fundamentally untethered from reality. in fact, on friday, trump lied and claimed that his p

if you had seen this happen with hilary clinton in 2016, for instance, i mean, she fainted and there was a -- you know, there was huge press story around that. if you had seen it happen with donald trump in the presidency or had he been on the campaign trail, huge hiccup around that. and i think what -- what we see with bernie sanders is the visible -- the visible power of bernie sanders on the stage. this is a guy whose face flushes red when he's talking about politics. he looks energetic. he looks vivacious. looks like the same guy that he's been for all along as a public candidate. and i think the doctors' notes are -- you know, they're helpful to him in the same way that anything else might be that supports what you're saying. makes it harder for donald trump, certainly, to attack him because donald trump, you know, went and got a doctor to scribble out some stuff for him. in this case, bernie sanders has three different doctors. presumably, his doctors are not being forced to write that he can run for president. >> yeah. the attending physician of the capitol congress of the uni

you saw that with secretary of state hilary clinton. then were secretary of state.would be doing it in reverse. tick through a couple names for you. number one, his new national security advisor, mr. o'brien. that gives you an indication that this could be an inside job. secretary mnuchin is also being talked about. there are a couple senators. tom cotton and lindsey graham. tom cotton seems more in line with the president. also, been rumored with the defense department than -- excuse me, it was marco rubio, not lindsey graham. so when rubio has had some pretty high-profile clashes with the president. both those senators probably have presidential ambitions. so a little palace intrigue and some parlor games for us to talk about down here at mar-a-lago but nothing official just yet. ali. >> but largely, given the -- the experience donald trump had with his first secretary of state, this has been a good relationship for the two of them. >> they seem -- they seem to work very well together. and, you know, mike pompeo came in as the cia director. and managed the preside

polls -- florida voters did choose trump in the 2016 election giving him a narrow victory over hilary clintonining me now, nbc political reporter ali vitali. the swing state. there you are in florida. the president gonna be there. having two key meetings and one of which you are at. >> exactly, richard. you're right, this is a swinging swing state that you lay out the numbers are close to split here is not surprising because we're used to one and two-point margins in this state. that's what it was in 2016 when trump won here. as we look ahead to what the state will mean in 2020, it could very well be something similar. but you're right that he's taking his impeachment defense on the road. we saw before he left here that he was, again, calling the impeachment inquiry a total hoax. and even just yesterday, we've seen his white house effectively continue to stonewall in this process. white house counsel pat cipollone sending a letter back to the house judiciary committee saying that they won't necessarily comply with anything that that committee is asking for. pretty much keeping in lockstep wit

corruption and deceit by the liberal, political elite, including james comey, peter strzok, lisa page, hilary clinton, and the impeachment z impeachment zellots in this congress. by producing the now-famous fake dossier. now, they accuse president trump of colluding with a foreign power. what a joke. they abuse their office to illegally wiretap and spy on president trump's campaign. now, they accuse him of abusing his office. what a joke. they structure these proceedings to deny the president and republicans in congress a fair hearing. then they accuse the president of obstructing congress. look in the mirror, folks. the reaction of the american people that this is contrived and corrupt was entirely predictable and is entirely correct. the polls have turned against 'em and the democrats are desperate to stop the bleeding. that's why we're cramming this vote in today. just before leaving for congress to dispose of impeachment as quickly and painlessly as possible. the actions of the democrats are a stain on this chamber. i urge my colleagues to join me in fighting against in shameful abuse of power an

but joe biden's campaign absolutely needs to know that hilary clinton is the living example of how noton in terms of starting with a defensive posture. that i think plagued the campaign throughout. and i think that joe biden needs to be a lot stronger. >> take a page from trump's book. >> they need to assume this is going to be an attack. i'm surprised that the senate trial is now going to be short because i thought that part of the strategy could be to try to use the trial as putting joe biden on trial. as opposed to donald trump. so i think they're going to try to muddy him up with the ukraine controversy anyway. regardless of the impeachment. >> i mean, that's the danger, by the way, for democrats with this strategy that schumer is using. about pushing for witnesses. because the deal will be, if there is a deal, that you get your witnesses. and we're going to go after hunter biden on burisma. >> is that a bad deal for democrats? >> well, i mean, it's only a bad deal for democrats if joe biden is the nominee. i'm not sure it's a bad deal for democrats if it isn't. i'm not talking abo

so did they ever brief hilary clinton about efforts to foreign influences involving her campaign, do you know? >> i've heard that, but i don't know for a fact. >> they did. good for them. and they stopped it. was there ever a defensive briefing given by the fbi, department of justice to donald trump about the concerns? >> there was not. >> what would you call a counterintelligence investigation that never had a protective element? >> i'm not sure -- sorry, mr. chairman. >> without eventually trying to protect the entity being influenced, is it legitimate? >> it would depend on each fact and circumstance. >> here's what i'm trying to tell you, if you are opening up a counterintelligence investigation to protect somebody, you should do it. did they ever try to protect donald trump from foreign influence? >> that did not brief him -- >> as a matter of fact, when they went in and gave a briefing, the russians are out there, you better beware, didn't they have an fbi agent do a 302 on the defensive briefing itself? >> they sent one of the supervisory agents from the cross fire hurricane t

well, in march of 2009, hilary clinton was sent over to russia with a reset button to say bush overreacted. we're okay that you invaded georgia. it was a green light to russia to invade ukraine. and what do you do? oh, yeah, you send blankets and mres they can eat and be warm while the russians are killing 'em. that is what the obama administration did. this is a travesty. and we're in big trouble. because schumer was right. now, it's lowered even farther. the bar. it will be used for political battles and this country's end is now in sight. i hope i don't leave -- live to see it. this is an outrage. i yield back. >> gentleman from new york. >> i am deeply concerned that any member of the house would spout russian propaganda on the floor of the house. i now yield one minute to the gentleman from new york, mr. higgins. >> the gentleman from new york is recognized. the house will come to order. the gentleman from new york will recognize -- >> thank you. >> the house will come to order. the house will come to order. the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. c

there, that it is pay back effectively for the 2016 election, that you democrats were shocked hilary clintonrump, and this is your only way of getting him out of office because you are worried even about the next election. that's their case anyway. they have started to make a culture war argument, that you democrats look down your nose for people who voted for donald trump and want to undo the election, they would say. what is your response to that? >> they are doing everything they can to distract from what i just described, the president's own words. here is what i would say. we are going to take this vote this morning in just a little while. i hope that my republican colleagues have done what we have done on the democratic side, which is really search our hearts to make sure that we are doing the right and correct thing. i would sell the senate republicans, take a look at our democracy and where we are. we truly are at a crossroads. we have a president of the united states who has invited foreign interference into our elections. the american people, our democracy, our republic, we depend

hilarious to me. the men were preparing impeachment charges against hillary clinton before she was elected. >> martha: they did not try to impeach president obama. >> bret: they did not. >> martha: and he did promise medvedev he would go back. give me time after the election. i will give you more room on the missile shield. which put the same countries in eastern europe in mar danger from russia. >> we don't know what they are talking about there. obama probably should haven't done that. republican controlled the congress at that time. >> martha: you say the same sentence about the ukrainian phone call. we don't know what they were talking about. >> we have a full transcript of the phone call. >> martha: we have a full sound bite from president obama. both situations it looks clear what was going on. >> i own courage every -- encourage everyone to read bottom of page three and top of four of the transcript. take it with the sondland, vindman and hill's testimony. you put it together and the president is using the office to try to encourage a foreign power to investigate political opponent. that is wha

hillary clinton continues to make headlines for telling howard stern that she never had a lesbian relationship. now it turns out hilarys down on election day. that's a true story of this at the topical storm digging thing. topic number one, we begin tonight starbucks with a controversy controversial holiday cups have everyone fighting. oh yeah, were low grumpy before getting her morning coffee, but this is a little much. take it, take it, like it. that happened in florida because of course it did, they got upset because after the berea status belt equal on the, iguana kissed me on the mouth, on the side of the cup, and on the left wanted to go back window back and confront her the guy on the right did not. she has enough problems. the next thing you know they went from black coffee to black friday. they beat each other up like there is a discounted insta pot handing caning in the balance. the animal control division estimates these were teenage iguanas which are not the most exciting fun facts, but it's nice it is someone fighting over teenagers besides jeffrey epstein and prince andrew, permits. the topic number two,

just documenting the hilarious hypocrisy of republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina on the impeachment trial process. he was famously a house manager during the clintonnt, and he's done basically a 180 on literally everything he said then on what constitutes an impeachment offense. senator dpram is up for re-election next year and likely understands it plays well in a state where trump's approval rating is 52%. politico reports rates the seat as republican and a rather interesting tidbit, senator graham's favorability rating was at 38% earlier this month, which is music to the ears of his likely democratic opponent jamie harrison. he's the son of a single mother whose fam received food stamps and welfare as he grew up as a kid and went onto go to yale and georgetown university. and he's now running for senator graham's senate seat and he joins me now. mr. harrison, it's good to have you. let's start on this question of impeachment. what do you make of the flip-flopping that the senator has done in his stances about witnesses and impartiality and the like? >> it's so sad, chris, to look at lindsey graham where he was and where hez now. >> listen, at t

hilarious. it changes your own sense of yourself. >> ailes is the latest in the recent string of real life character that the 74 years old lithgow have played. he became bill clintonn churchill in "the crown." >> when people know how someone looks and sounds like of churchill and roger ailes. you better get that right. >> yes, you are messing around with everybody's expectations. there is something excited about that. >> reporter: born into a theater family, young john lithgow shows no interests in the family's business. >> i was so interested in being a painter. i was very serious about it. i went to eight public schools. >> reporter: lithgow's father was a theater director. his mother is a former actor. the family moves frequently before settling into ohio. it was not until he arrived to harvard college that lithgow tried his hands at performance. >> i went off to college and fell into the theater gang. >> maybe you did not realize you were observing all this. >> i did an original theater production of a new english play which got a lot of national attention and brought to broadway and boom, two weeks later, i won a tony award for it. it must be the shortest per

clinton camp was no witnesses, no way. and eventually they conceded, you know, a handful. i think it was three is what we ended up listening to. >> okay. hilarydo you see the parallels applying here? >> i think the american people actually see these issues as very different from the old impeachment. but here i think is the key point. people are not going to focus in across the country as much on the sort of inter-party power plays and process issues. i think what the american people are going to focus on is what senator murkowski said this week. which is they want to see mitch mcconnell and the senate republicans take this issue seriously. they want to know if there are facts that are not yet public. they want to know that donald trump has some sense of remorse about his behavior. they want to know, you know, that senate republicans are not going to be in cahoots with the white house. where you have essentially the jury of a trial coordinating with a defendant of a trial. that's, i think, what's going to be the big test. which whether this perception that republicans are taking this seriously whether mcconnell is allowing facts to be out ther