quick, can we get a picture of john boehner from 2015? great scott! all of this would be damning to the g.o.p.'s complaints, if facts mattered. i miss you, facts. come back! i'll floss this time! so why did the republicans pull this stunt? well, one former prosecutor explains "it is often said of trial lawyers that when the law is not on their side, they pound on the facts. when the facts are not on their side, they pound on the law. when neither the law nor the facts are on their side, they pound on the table." oh, trump is way ahead of you, folks. he's not pounding on the table. he's quarter-pounding on the table. ( laughter ) ( applause ) but even the republican sham argument that the whole thing is a sham might be about to crumble because house democrats plan to make the impeachment probe public as soon as mid november. just in time to ruin thanksgiving. "aunt margaret, can you pass the turkey?" "trump was right about turkey! and ukraine! witch hunt! you want gravy with your honeybaked scam, buddy?" ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) she seems

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don't stand a they will do the was that mean there is there a couple inmous during i think that john boehner air where they were trying to do something that they didn't know they had the votes for and they took a 15 minute vote to extend it or fo2 hours so. you know you uld need if you need to get the clock stops the gavel ly doesn't come down. time just freezes in the house of representatives so just t this straight. they are now voting on article one article one to be some balance of power and then once they get this decided upon the now move on to article yes, a structure congress right there. i mean there may be a motion to reconsider. that can be hat can be that usually ocedurally she voted down the color roll call vote on that which is coming. >>and the yeas and nays on that so that's usually good so we'll see but. 1513 minutes probablyabout 15 minutes afteall of and send an because they let people wander in some ople walk slow d some people kind of t of the pontificate yeah, but the bottom line i mean sn't that they are poised to impeach they are i mean this is. >>you know we make jok

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from my understanding, the democrats followed the rules that were adopted when john boehner was speaker of the house to a t. if anyone has a problem with the process the democrats followed, it is a republican process that they followed. saytionally, i just want to , the other item that has come up is whether or not the facts have been contested and from my perspective, the facts have not actually been contested by republicans. has beenfacts mean contested, perhaps, but it is true that trump has been blocking witnesses from testifying. and it objectively true, is objectively true that that is obstruction of congress, so i do not see what is up for debate. host: silver spring, maryland, paul is next. caller: republicans united like never before. i think all of the republicans are looking [inaudible] you have to forget trump and just move on past trump, man. i don't understand it. trump --t move fast past trump, it is a joke. i have been around the world, let's just move on past trump, man. we have a good thing going on in this country. i am so happy to be here. please. we just do not need

they describe all journalists blowing things out of proportion i'll start with you john boehner miami. well 1st of all the irony there is that you know you mention the report that was on fox news well fox news has been accused of spiking stories. and some of the stories that were that were supposed that were that should have more than likely run on fox news that were spiked so you know as far as this particular story you know let's see what this writer has let's see apparently he's being threatened by newsweek with legal action if he moves forward with with any type of story so we'll see you know see what facts he has but i think it's a sad commentary on really the state of journalism overall because you know you have you have magazines like newsweek time for that matter as well which are really a shell of themselves and just across the board not only you know with magazines but in print journalism as well out of the newspapers are just a shell of what they once were miami herald's a good example that is not to say that there's not great journalism coming out of these you know these p

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john boehner, a republican, asked mr. dingell to swear him in. that's how revered he was.that man's boots. >> today he was impeached for his conduct as a president. what that showed was his character as a man. and on that he could have been impeached a long time ago. >> it was notable today that nobody defended the president's character on the republican side. they went after process. they went elsewhere. >> no one said there's no way he could have done that. >> exactly. but paul is right. john dingell was one of the last giants of the congress. and he was revered by many, many people and debbie dingell came after him, holding that seat and she's widely admired. she had a lot of friends in congress. i think they will find these actions to be disgusting. it also tells us, in contrast to the last two presidents who have gone through impeachment, nixon and clinton in modern times, both came out contrite when it was over. in both cases, they went on. nixon resigned and clinton had a lot of contrition. went back to work. but we resolve the issues. this president is so embittere

. >> here with me now, a former top aide to former house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, brendank with me now. good to see you. brendan, happy holiday weekend. >> happy holidays. >> so in your view is it in the president's best interest to have attorneys in this process? >> maybe on the substance. but as a political matter i think they've actually been winning with their arguments saying that the process is broken. now, a lot of the arguments i think they've been making are sort of dubious, but so far so good, actually, if you're a republican because zero republicans are expected to vote for impeachment and a lot of this has been based on the president's ability to tell the base that this process is rigged, that they've been out to get him from the beginning and he's been playing victims and it's actually been working well for him. so i expect he's not going to participate. i don't think he's going to send any lawyers so he can continue to make that argument and pound it into the base's head, that they're just out to get him. >> and another constant is, you know, republicans have

change going back in history how there were bathrooms for women until very recently thank you to john boehner. [laughter] there you go speaker boehner had the women's restroom right on the floor but it takes a little bit behind the scenes are there issues from your perspective? that they still need to make congress move forward. >> yes there is such a committee last constituted 1994 and 95 i have to say you are giving me something to go back and consider a completely bipartisan committee i wouldn't say we have had a huge focus specifically on women so i will go back and talk about what we could interject with modernization but what we talk about we need more space in the capital for bipartisan discussions believe it or not there are very few places we can come together to have a private conversation to get to know each other very well. but i think things like lactation rooms i have not asked or looked that jamie comes to the floor all the time with her little baby with her. that something we have to focus on. >> now that there are women serving it's a storybook family affair all hands on deck

as i have often quoted john boehner there is no republican party anymore, just the donald trump partythe team has assembled. and that's the way it's going to go. >> i want to play something, carl, that chairman schiff said earlier on the articles of impeachment. >> the argument why don't you just wait amounts to this. why don't you just let him cheat in one more election? why not let him cheat just one more time? why not let him have foreign help just one more time? that is what that argument amounts to. the president's misconduct goes to the heart of whether we can conduct a free and fair election in 2020. >> carl, imschiff is basically saying democrats have no choice but to move quickly here with the election less than a year away. >> well, the articles drafted talk about the president persisting. i think the word used is persists. he continues to persist in trying to entice foreign entanglement into our election. but more important, i think we need to look at not just the time line but the question of the constitution of the united states, if the democrats and hopefully republicans

brendan bulk, former chief communications adviser for paul ryan, and former press secretary for john boehner. let me start with you, brendan. the republicans are now where just 51 of them can agree to witnesses. we don't need two-thirds that we do need for impeachment. is murkowski's statement that she's disturbed, does that mean she is possibly open to voting that some of the witnesses such as john bolton and others should be called and could bring three more with her, or are we making too much of what murkowski has said, in your opinion? >> yeah. it feels a little bit like -- we used to talk about how we were looking for cracks in the gop armor in the house and ended up with zero republicans voting for impeachment. lisa murkowski is a bit of a wild card. it's possible that she crosses mitch mcconnell on this. i'd be looking more at people like susan collins, cory gardner, martha mcsally, people who are up for election right now and want to look like they're at least appear to be impartial jurors. i don't know that there's going to be any real -- any real movement among republicans early on

chief communications adviser to former house speaker paul ryan, press secretary to former speaker john boehner. benjamin wit that, id tore in chief of law fair, a national security blog, also an msnbc legal analyst. good morning and thanks for joining me today. ben, i want to start with you. the president in his christmas tweets attacked the impeachment process as unfair, a message he continues to hammer. he said there was no due process, no proper representation and no witnesses. nothing new here in attacking the process. are the attacks based in fact? >> well, they have a kernel of fact to them, but largely no. the kernel of truth is that the democrats in the house did not offer the president's lawyers as robust participation in the impeachment hearing process as prior investigators on the house side have done in prior impeachment inquiries. the silliness of it, of course, is that the president didn't take advantage of those opportunities that he was, in fact, given. so, you know, it's a little bit like saying, you know, the food here is terrible and such small portio portions. and the presi

chief communications adviser to former house speaker paul ryan, press secretary to former speaker john boehnerit that, id tore in chief of law fair, a national security blog, also an msnbc legal analyst. good morning and thanks for joining me today. ben, i want to start with you. the president in his christmas tweets attacked the impeachment process as unfair, a message he continues to hammer. he said there was no due process, no

that was the case under john boehner and paul ryan. talked to house democrats who say the people who push for this the most were those front line members. right? the folks in those 40 seats, particularly about 15 of whom really wanted this vote. when you have a situation when republicans have control of the house it's dominated by the right most of the caucus. and when democrats have control of the house it's also dominated by the right most of the caucus. >> i'll tell you why i don't agree with you. i voted against nafta. i've looked at this. i would vote for this deal. now, people like rosa delauro, they were on the committee that worked so hard for this agreement. nancy didn't just go to the middle of her caucus. she went to the left and center and right of her caucus. >> that's a fair response, yeah. >> and i just think, you know, everyone always questions her initially, and i think you're going to see something really good. she said the american people want us to work. we have to work. i mean, that's what you're there for. and mit

the degree to which we no longer have a republican party as john boehner has said, we have a trump party, not one of them even granted this was a less than perfect phone call. tu turley, to his credit acknowledged this was a problem, although not grounds for impeachment. and not one single republican in that big cast of characters out there, acknowledged the less than perfect nature. >> do you think attitudes were changed among democrats and republicans? people came with strongly held views. it looks to me like they're leaving with those strongly held views. >> the people on that committee, i think they came in with those strongly held views and left with those strongly held views. this is a process that will take a while. likely go to the senate and more information comes out. to the turley point, turley is essentially arguing for a longer process and more information. that doesn't seem to be what the gop actually wants. >> the question about what that process is, the republicans demanded, and chairman nadler did not answer, they seemed to suggest this morning in the questioning, they w

. >> it just -- you know, i -- i keep coming back to this quote from john boehner which i always think of in terms of our current politics. which is there is no more republican party. there is only the trump party. and that party is devoted to the protection of the president. and any criticism gets a storm of twitter outrage from -- from donald trump. and he just would not put up with a censure. >> and that's why you've seen democrats over the weekend when asked about the politics of it all looking at polls and where americans stand for the most part that they haven't really budged even after two weeks oftiof testimony. they argue they don't care about the politics and they're focusing on precedent, right? what their job is for this administration and this president and what precedent this sets going forward if something the president did by withholding aid in exchange for dirt on a political opponent. if that's not impeachable, then what is? now, that's what they say publicly. who knows what's happening behind closed doors. whether there is more pressure on them now. but for them, it'

and john boehner said the to tellt is not going us how to do our job.hey refused to work with him, and i think that created a divide that is even going on today. a lot of bills have been passed by the house, 400, 275 bipartisan, and they are sitting on mitch mcconnell' s desk. he is not willing to work with democrats at all. that opened the door for the tea party, who were radical, and that gave way to donald trump, who now is a symptom, he is not the problem, he is a symptom but he is making it more divisive by calling people names, his arrogance, just the way he is talking. jesse: is there any way for us to get past polarization when we are all worried about the current political situation? jackie: i think it is hard. i will be honest with you. the caller had a good point, when people are throwing out names at other people, it becomes hard. this is quite sad for our country, the last time we passed a balanced budget was when my dad was the speaker and bill clinton was president. you had a republican house speaker and a democratic president who were ab

former advisor to jeb bush and john boehner.ders now, michael steele, and in fact, i even argued the opposite this morning. if they weren't coordinating, they'd be getting criticism. my god, you know, we believe we're all organized in a partisan way now. no longer in a -- in a three branches of government. >> right. well, they're fighting for the party rather than the institution. and that's fine. but i think they would argue that house democrats are doing the same by bringing these articles of impeachment without adequate cause. i do think that he has to say that, in part, because it's not totally true. >> he's also got to say it because he was talking to sean hannity. let's remember this was mcconnell's -- >> he went on hannity to deliver this message. >> correct. we're not going to have a long trial. you're not getting hunter biden but i'm not saying it that way. >> he's saying he's coordinating with the white house counsel's office to provide an effective defense for the president. >> not the white house. >> it's not what th

happened here what's to stop the president from or any future president from doing that or worse john boehner is found to have or do you want to tell you as dolls you both 1st of all the heritage foundation is a conservative think tanks are not republican leaning so just to respond to return you know his spin is that that is why that conversation took place it was to help him purely with this 2020 reelection effort i disagree with that and i don't think that any of the republican house members or republican senators are buying that either and if that is the case it is certainly no different than barack obama in this hot mike moment telling president medvedev tells lattimer to go easy on me until after my reelection effort because then things will change in terms of our relationship i wasn't sure about how in terms of the historical value of this in our entire nation's history this is only the 20th person ever to be impeached as and as robinson said the 3rd president impeachment is not meant to be a partisan plug we do not have a parliamentary system in a parliamentary system if you don't like

about -- there wasn't bathrooms for women on the house floor until very recently -- >> thanks to john boehner. >> there you go. >> it was speaker boehner humbled and women's restroom right off the floor, by the way. >> give us a little bit of the behind the scenes can like what still needs to change. are there nursing rooms, other practical issues that from your perspective, whether you're a woman or not, that still needs to move forward to make congressman forward. >> i happen to serve on the select committee on the modernization of congress. yes, there is such a committee. it was last constituted in 1994-95. i have to say you are giving me something to take back and to consider. it's a completely bipartisan committee. i have loved being on this committee. i wouldn't say that we've had a huge focus specifically on women. so i will go back and come with suzan delbene, go back and talk about what we might interjected there with respect to modernization. but i know what of the things we certainly talk about is we need more space within the capital. this is for bipartisan discussions to take pla

about -- there wasn't bathrooms for women on the house floor until very recently -- >> thanks to john boehner>> there you go. >> that was speaker boehner who moved the women's restroom right off the floor, by the way. give us a little bit of the behind-the-scenes. are there nursing rooms? are there other practical issues that come up from your perspective, whether you are a woman or not, that still needs to move forward to make congress move forward? >> i happen to serve on the select committee on the modernization of congress. yes, there is such a committee. it was last constituted in 1994-1995. i have to say, you are giving me something to go take back and consider. it's a completely bipartisan committee. i have loved being on this committee. i wouldn't say that we've had a huge focus specifically on women. so i will go back and with suzan delbene, go back and talk about what we might interjected there with respect to modernization. but i know one of the things we certainly talk about is is we need more space within the capital. this is for bipartisan discussions to take place. believe it o

kyle cheney and michael steele, advisory for jeb bush and john boehner.to participate in the committee hearing. >> pat cipollone calling the inquiry baseless and backed up by what we have seen over the past few days. lawmakers continue to grab articles of impeachment. rudy giuliani traveled to kiev to meet with several ukrainians. trump's supporter dan everhart returning to the crime scene to live stream moon dancing. here is the president talking about rudy's trip on saturday at the white house. >> well, i just know he came back from some place and he's going to make a report to the attorney general and to congress. he said he got a lot of good information. i have not spoken to him about that information, but rudy has been one of the great crime fighters the last 50 years. and, he did get back from europe just recently and he has not told me what he found but i think he wants to go before congress and also to say to the attorney general and the department of justice. i hear he found plenty. >> i want to recap, it is at its core about the president of the

but nonetheless those comments came just hours after john boehner resigned as the house speaker.id, let me come back to you really quickly and just get your thoughts about the broader picture here in washington from the republican party. what is the strategy going forward? do you think that they want to try and get this president a swift acquittal regardless of whether it is substantial or meaningful? but fast? or do you think they want to actually take their time and try to exonerate him so he is buoyied by that support? >> i don't think there is much appetite in the u.s. senate for a lengthy trial chalked full of witnesses. this goes against not just what pelosi and chuck schumer may want to see. it goes against what the president initially wanted to see who has witnesses that he wanted the republicans to call. but mitch mcconnell has managed this such that he's explained to the white house why a lengthy trial with witnesses would not be in the president's interest, certainly would not be in the interest of senate republicans, from mcconnell's point of view. so, what they would

adviser for former house speaker paul ryan and former press secretary for former house speaker john boehnerfit from this impeachment inquiry? >> well, i think they know the president is going to be impeached in the house, and i guess if they're giving him lemons, they're trying to make lemonade. this is classic trump. he always plays offense. they've looking for an opportunity. this is going to raise them an enormous amount of money. anybody scared about the president being reelected should be terrified about the money he's been able to raise. a lot of it is coming from facebook. it's the money they're raising but also the community that they are organizing online. the people that are connecting online and the army of people, supporters they have that they'll be able to turn out next year, and so much of it is coming from the impeachment. they've been able to rile up voters to tell them that the democrats are out to get them and the democrats are out to rig the process to get their man, and it's working. and what we're seeing are unprecedented numbers both spending on facebook and also mone

is brandon buck, former house communications special to paul ryan and former house speaker for john boehnert with you. is trump sending a message to vulnerable democrats with this courting and the praise that he had for van drew? >> sure, you know, i don't know that a whole lot of democrats are probably in play in the same way that he is to switch party, but this has been part of the strategy all along. they have a two-pronged strategy. one is to create a firewall with base republican voters and they've certainly done a very good job of that. and the other part was to make this process as painfully difficult for moderate democrats, those vulnerable democrats who are in trump districts. and i think this is clearly evidence that they've done that. they have succeeded. as troubling as everything that the president did, i have to say that republicans have really won the political battle here. we're going to end up with party line vote where this is actually a much more difficult vote for democrats than it is for republicans. >> david, should the white house be worried about any of the outgoing

the rules the democrats are using are the same rules the republicans wrote under house speaker john boehnersing the same type of rules, almost precisely. host: lawrenceville, georgia, independent line. caller: good morning. my original reason for calling was a guy earlier, several colors back, complaining about people who are against trump, not acknowledging the good things he has done. there are a lot of people -- i am a libertarian -- i am on the right in a lot of ways and i support a lot of the things the president has done. the supreme court appointees. the tax cut. the deregulation that has helped our economy grow, which goes to the point later on where a guy was complaining about obama credits. obama gave trump a good economy. trump expanded that. that is neither here or there. out of his own mouth, president trump has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. if you look up that term in the history of that term, it is about abuse of power. on, the debate that went the constitutional convention between george mason and james madison. they touched on that in the hastings impeachment and

i go back to the cap and trade, the environmental debate in june of 2009 where john boehner the minority leader in the house of representatives talked for about an hour and a half. you really don't have a filibuster in the house. then it was time for nancy pelosi to deliver the closing remarks as the speaker and she just said let's vote and that was it. she turned it around on him, bill. >> bill: we've read a lot about extra security on the hill. >> just a little bit tighter in terms of security. looking for protestors. compared to the level of demonstrations that we saw last fall during the confirmation process with brett kavanaugh for the supreme court it has been a shadow of that. i notice a few more guards and provisionesque put into place last night. the chamber is open for the public to come in and watch the debate. in that respect it is not that much different. but it is slightly tighter and they're ready in case there are demonstrations. nothing to the level of what we saw last fall. >> bill: great information. back to you in moments. thank you, sir. here is julie. >> julie: john

john boehner said the president will not tell us how to do our job.hey refused to work with them and i think that created a divide that is even going on today. mitch mcconnell is not willing to work with democrats at all. that opened the door for the tea party, who were radical, and that gave way to donald trump. he is a symptom, he is not the problem, he is a symptom but he is making it more divided by calling people names, his arrogance, just the way he is talking. host: is there any way for us to get past polarization when we are all worried about the current political situation? guest: i think it is hard. i will be honest with you. the caller had a good point, when people are throwing out names of people, it becomes hard. time we passed a balanced budget was when my dad was the speaker and bill clinton was president. you had a republican house speaker and a democratic president. we were able to sit down and get things done. as you know, the government did shut down a few times and it was end,d process part in the they were able to pass a balanced