it looks like he will be impeached by the house, as jake sherman says, but the real game changing event be if the conduct as relieved in the whistleblower complaint if that's transmitted to congress is to egregious that republicans wake up. >> right. it's a fundamental baseline problem, when people say, nothing's happened to the president for the last three years, therefore nothing can happen with this new impeachment proceeding, because after all, we've never done it before, we haven't had the hearings, democrats and pelosi and schiff and other people draw the eyes of the nation, republicans and democrats likealike. i'm not a republican, you were, buttive to have faith that our leaders, if the facts are what we've been learning the last week, i don't think there's any other conclusion than impeachment and ultimate removal of this president. >> nancy pelosi is expected to come out in the next minute and a half and announce the commencement of a formal impeachment approve for donald trump. we believe it to be centered on revelations over the past only week and a half about his conduct, f

jake sherman is back. we made him stay, but we heard he has to go, so we'll start with you, jake.oes it feel like impeachment is afoot? or is this sort of process and procedure to placate an antsy base? >> i think probably both. i think democrats have felt frustrated by a lack of progress and kind of a mushy blob of a process in investigating the president. so this is the way to view a lot of these things i think democratic leadership and the committee chairs are trying to show heat, trying to show action while they bide their time. nancy pelosi has been perfectly clear about this privately and a little bit publicly. she does not believe the american public is with democrats who want to impeach the president period, hard stop. until that changes, it's going to be difficult to go full boar into impeachment proceedings. i don't think it's going to happen. now, listen, nancy pelosi is probably acutely aware of what a lot of us are acutely aware of is if they begin proceedings, they are going to vote on the floor to remove the president of the united states. and that's a big moment, w

i'm joined by msnbc political contributor jake sherman and former rnc chair and msnbc political analyst with us at all. jake, i'll start with you. i know you were in the room with nancy pelosi a short time ago. it would seem as if she's over all the impeachment talk. >> she's over the questions, that's for sure. what ri' been saying the last couple days and what sources have been telling me non-stop is the only person you need to watch here and we've talked about this before on air is nancy pelosi. nancy pelosi has been remarkably consistent. people around her, other house democrats have wanted to go farther. nancy pelosi said that democrats are legislating, investigating and litigating, a three-prong approach she believes is the key to success for house democrats right now. frankly, she's frustrated by these questions and thinks line, but that they're a waste of time. until there are impeachment articles in front of the committee, all democre views it. she views the kind of all over their rhetoric as a creation of the media. of course, we don't view it as that. democrats have been all

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geoff bennett is over at the white house and on which i will, jake sherman, msnbc political contributorff, let me start with you. we don't know yet which specific projects will be affected. how is the white house responding? >> reporter: the white house is seeing things different than the senator minority leader. >> you don't say? >> reporter: right. this whole thing is unfolding some six months, seven months really, after president trump declared a national emergency to unlock roughly $8 billion worth of government money to get this border wall built. $3.6 billion coming from military construction projects. you mentioned chuck schumer. he said this whole approach, the president putting the pentagon, rating the pentagon to make good on his campaign process. chuck schumer said it was a slap in the face to american servicemen and women. it is worth noting jim mattis, who is on a book tour this morning, on "morning joe" this morning he was asked directly about this. take a look at what he had to say. >> i'm not in a position i think to walk out of the administration over a policy disagreem

we get the latest now from ken dilanian covering national security and intelligence, jake sherman, senior writer for politico, also a political contributor for msnbc. he's on the hill right now where there's a lot of action. ken. let me start with you. the president tweeted just a few moments ago that he would never say anything inappropriate with a foreign leader while on a call that is, quote, potentially heavily populated. when you confirm the story, ken, you tweeted that we need to find a new word for unprecedented. what can you tell us? why is this such a departure from the norm? >> craig, this is extraordinary on two fronts. one, no one i talked to has ever heard of an intelligence official filing a whistle-blower complaint about the conduct of the president of the united states. intel officials detailed to the national security council in the white house privy to presidential phone calls, they are non-political career national security people who may disagree with one president or another, may see things they don't like. it's not their job to judge what the president is doing. the

jake sherman, senior writer for politico ron klain, former chief of staff to vice presidents joe biden and al gore. adviser now to the biden campaign nbc news correspondent heidi przybyla, plus former chief spokesman for the justice department matt miller and joyce vance is here, a former u.s. attorney, has been monitoring the hearings all afternoon for us if you could answer this for me, what claim -- why -- why was corey lewandowski able to get away with not answering any of those questions? >> because two things, one, the white house made a very, you know, very aggressive privilege claim, and there is, you know, at least some basis in law for this privilege claim that, you know, people who have served in the white house, circuit court held that, at least alluded to it during the clinton administration it's one an administration has never made before and never really been tested in practice i think the second reason, you know, the judiciary committee hasn't held him to account one of the things i think the chairman could have done today is when he came in and gave this kind of obnoxi

. >>> for more now, let's bring in jake sherman, a senior writer for politico as well as nbc news political contributor. jake, good morning to you. >> good morning, peter. >> it's a heck of a week. house democrats, we've seen, they don't want this to drag on, this impeachment inquiry. they want it to move quickly. walk us through what in a looks like, the timeline and the strategy. >> peter, they want to get done before the holiday season, which is important. but there's a lot of political peril in that. if democrats rush, you can think of the campaign ads that republicans will acrosthe country. it wl sound like this. congressman x rushed without hearings to impeach president donald trump. and that's a politically sensitive thing in a campaign season. you'll see, the next two weeks congress is out of session, out of recess. the house committees will be charging, investigating the president, will stay at work, conduct hearings, closed briefings, interviews, over the next two weeks, to prepare the groundwork for this impeachment. >> we remember how during the mueller investigation, the white

. >>> let's bring in nbc political analyst, jake sherman. good morning. >> good morning, peter. >> as you know, congress has been back for a week now, senators manchin and toomey pressing the president to get him to support background checks. there's new reporting that the talks may be grinding to a halt. what do you know and how likely is it that anything happens here? >> i think the odds remain slim. we know the politics. we know the issue set. and the president has not said anything in either direction for some time now. that trio of senators, chris murphy from connecticut, joe manchin and pat toomey, they expected an answer from the president this week. they didn't get one and they were left twisting in the wind, which is difficult. this is not a complicated issue. it's a charged issue. they want to expand background checks. that issue has been in front of the president for a very long time. the politics have been constant for a long time. >> we were showing a clip from the debate on thursday night. conventional wisdom would say that no

to welcome back to our table my colleague and friend katie tur, plus entering the conversation jake shermane start with you. so i'm reluctant to say this. but she's wrong. i'm a republican and the question i get asked by the most people who i worked with either in a republican white house on republican campaigns or in the dog park or at drop-off is why the bleep aren't they impeaching donald trump for crimes found that he committed in the southern district of new york and the ten acts of criminal obstruction of justice that robert mueller handed them in a bound report? >> well, there's a lot to unpack here. so let's start from the top. top. he is saying they are investigating whether they should impeach the president. that is true. now, he is balancing that by saying some call it impeachment. the reason he's doing that, it would seem to me, is because almost his entire committee wants to impeach the president and is out saying they want to impeach the president. now what pelosi is saying is we are investigating, we'll see where it leads us. not different from what nadler is saying. she does

"politico"'s jake sherman thank you.rzybyla thank you as well. >>> yesterday was a very bad day for president trump, you know who else had a bad day? boris johnson. whose day was worse. joining me editorial board chair jillian tep joins us. >> i must say, i followed this and i really expected the supreme court not to follow the scottish court and to simply say, you know what? this is a political matter. we're not going to get involved. that's usually what american courts do. if they can say it's a political matter, it's a political process, lever ave us alone, th will. yesterday was really surprised they basically said it in effect, according to "the financial times" greatest paper in the world, of course, boris johnson lied to the queen. >> yeah, i mean, yesterday was an astonishing day, not just for boris johnson and the story about brexit, but the whole british parliamentary and political system because it's actually the u.k. does not have a constitution as anyone who's done 101 history will know unlikely america, and

jake sherman, thank you.ning joe" the vice president's office says donald trump didn't request that mike pence stay at a trump property in ireland, he only suggested it. where have we heard that before? >> you said, quote, mr. trump did not directly tell me to lie to congress. that's not how he operates, end quote. can you explain how he does this? >> sure. it would be no different if i said that's the nicest looking tie i have ever seen. isn't it? what are you doing to do, fight with him? the answer is no. yeah it's the nicest looking tie i have ever seen. that's how he speaks. he doesn't give you questions. he doesn't give you orders. he speaks in a code. and i understand the code because i have been around him for a decade. >> it's your impression that others who work for him understand the code as well? >> most people, yes. >> tech: at safelite autoglass, we really pride ourselves on making it easy for you to get your windshield fixed. >> teacher: let's turn in your science papers. >> tech vo: this teache

seep yore write at "politico," jake sherman, an msnbc contributor. and journalists and residents at georgetown university school, foreign service, alize labbott joins us. we're learning more about the secret meeting the president learned on twitter that it was cancelled. the meet would have happened yesterday just days before the 18th anniversary of 9/11. the president says he canceled the meeting after the taliban claimed responsibility for a bombing in kabul last thursday that killed an american soldier and 11 others. trump tweeted in part what kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position? they didn't. they only made it worse. if they cannot agree to a ceasefire during these very important peace talks and would even kill 12 innocent people, then they probably don't have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreementny way. u.s. officials tell nbc news that the discussions about the meeting with taliban leaders began about a week ago. president trump first decided to hold a meeting with the group and th

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joining me, msnbc political contributor jake sherman and committee oversight spokesperson and nbc newsntributor curt bardella, jake there was talk in the beginning of that hearing of what democrats were doing because lounge do you ski was stonewalling so much -- lewandowski was stonewalling, so much why didn't they hold him in contempt >> they could have easily theld him in on the tempt. i have no doubt that darrell issa would have held him in contempt, listen, the main thing we have to understand here is what is this committee driving towards? if it's impeachment, then they didn't really make a case for it in total yesterday they could have, but nancy pelosi and the democratic leadership had said they don't want impeachment it's too devises and not right politically. so, knowing those facts, it's hard to reconcile why they're having these hearings and how to assess them at the end of the hearing? >> what are the consequences of doing this by a half measure >> well, it exposes their weaknesses it exposes the fact that donald trump's strategy of stonewalling of not sending anybody even

joining me phil rucker, politico's senior writer and msnbc contributor jake sherman and associated press white house reporter jonathan lamere. phil and jonathan are msnbc political analysts. phil, so what have i missed? what's been going on? >> you left right around the time robert mueller was finishing the russian investigation, the investigation is over, donald trump still the president and he's still tweeting. >> if you look at what's been going on, a pretty good succinct answer, what do you think is happening in terms of his low approval rating and the fact that 2020 democrats are beating him in a place like texas in terms of polling? >> yeah. it's a troubling moment for him as he looks ahead to the re-election campaign. this was a tough summer for president trump. >> i saw you tweeted about it. >> there were a number of controversies. there was self-sabotage. even his advisors will privately admit this was not a good stretch as he tried to lay a foundation for the re-election campaign. he's trying to get back on track, going to be bringing in a new national security adviser obviousl

a friend of the show jake sherman tweeted something interesting, he said this is so unique because at the moment everyone appears to agree on the basic facts, that the president asked the leader of the ukraine to dig on his political opponent. you've been in the inner workings of the hill some of these committees. do you think this moves the needle? >> i think this is a significantly different allegation against the president than what we've seen before. this involves conduct while he's in office and it involves allegations that he's using the foreign policy of the united states and the tools that it has with other countries for his own personal political advantage. it shows yet again that he's interested in using the justice system not as an independent enforcer of rule of law, but to bend and target his political opponents. this is really fundamentally different than other things that we've seen. now, this is similar to the allegations in 2016 of him asking the russians to commit an electronic burglary of the dnc and hillary clinton's emails but he wasn't president then. this goes t

i am the co-author of "the politico playbook," and i am joined by jake sherman. thank you all for joining us in austin in this bracing heat to have a great discussion. for those of you who might not byw, it is a newsletter political operatives and professionals. we tell you what we really need to know and what is happening around the world in politics. it is a combination of walter cronkite and gossip girl. 86 --n text pb to we are joined by members of the house freedom caucus, and i would like to send you a special thanks to our partners for hosting us here and to our sponsor for supporting the tent today. jake: i'm going to introduce our guests. thank you for the applause. i will go down the line, and they are very far because they do not like a question and it means that they cannot attack us. you notice that they are on the right-hand side of the stage. -- from ourht perspective i guess. from our -- this is jim jordan from ohio, the freedom caucus founding chairman. representative meadows who is the chairman. two more days, so he speaks for the freedom caucus

i am the co-author of "the politico playbook," and i am joined by jake sherman. thank you all for joining us in austin in this bracing heat to have a great discussion. for those of you who might not byw, it is a newsletter political operatives and professionals. we tell you what we really need to know and what is happening around the world in politics. it is a combination of walter cronkite and gossip girl. 86 --n text pb to we are joined by members of the house freedom caucus, and i would like to send you a special thanks to our partners for hosting us here and to our sponsor for supporting the tent today. jake: i'm going to introduce our guests. thank you for the applause. i will go down the line, and they are very far because they do not like a question and it means that they cannot attack us. you notice that they are on the right-hand side of the stage. -- from ourht perspective i guess. from our -- this is jim jordan from ohio, the freedom caucus founding chairman. representative meadows who is the chairman. two more days, so he speaks for the freedom caucus