john boehner was willing to make a deal. the president was able to get democratic leaders in congress to sign off on that deal. >> narrator: but back at the capitol, boehner was confronted by resistance from his tea party mbers. >> there was support for what was being discussed at the white house was not there in the republican conference. there was no way that a majority of republicans were going to support what the president was talking about. it just wasn't going to happen. >> it was absolutely scuttled by boehner's own people. but the fact was, he couldn't get it done. he didn't have the strength or the conviction to, to have a fight about it in his own party, and it, and it fell apart. >> it's a bad idea for speaker boehner to meet alone with president obama. >> tea party nation calling for john boehner to step down. >> ...and the screw-up is the leadership in the house of representatives, rather than trashing conservatives. >> boehner's a complete fraud. the tan man always claims to have the pulse of the american people

i'm not going to do the waterworks of john boehner. >> i want to salute the freedom fighters in the houseing to take johner's they're not crap sitting down anymore. >> ...gone along just along with president obama, like spker boehner. you kn, we need to thank them for their service, and say, "okay, time for new energy." ♪ tonight on "nightline." license to kill? it's the shooting death that's sparked an explosion of outrage. good evening, i'm terry moran. it's the story that's ignited fice passions across the nation, as allegations of racism apart a small florida town.tear >> narrator: for obama, once again, the issue of race. >> trayvon martin was walking back from a conveniestore when he was allegedly shot ba neighborhood watch...ol >> pice have the gun, they've got the shooter, but they have not arrested him. the dead man's grieving fami wants to know, "why not?" >> president obama, as the first african-american preside, had been very careful t to talk too much about race. w frustrating to some african-americans. then trayvon martin is killed in florida, and the country gasps. the coun

john boehner reveals how you could become one of them. >> it's breathtaking.e it was really utterly pretickable the kind of american way because what you've actually done is cleared the field of competition. generations of people who have been incarcerated for these very things. the entire -- i know you talked a good deal about hip hop on the show but the entire genre of hip hop is very much a chronicle of what's happened in the war on drugs in communities of color. and now all of a sudden it's fine, we can get rich off this. it's the same thing for people a bit older who remember the numbers rackets in which people were arrested for and the same kind of crack downs that happened and all of a sudden states began having their own lotteries. again it's not an uncommon thing, what it's still shocking when it happens. >> that's why i'm so glad you're an analyst for us. i would be remiss if you didn't refer to that as a hip hop chronicle which makes me think of dr. dre's the chronic. >> are we going to do word association here? >> it's gotten me this far. sometimes

-- when president obama took action in syria, he came and said he wanted it and john boehner supportedt. congress has been unable to come together and decide what that authorization looks like. you have too many members who don't want to vote for anything because they're scared what it will turn out to be. and then you have this conflicting ideology of whether you tied the hands of the commander in chief and it looks like this or what we wanted to do as republicans give him maximum flexibility and we wanted to give president obama more authority than he wanted to give himself and that's where we got hung up. >> i do think that having -- forcing congress to continuously vote on it is the right thing to do. forcing some accountability. they've only had to vote on this once. >> they would like to say they that you need an authorization but not outline what it looks like. >> it was the most fascinating and substantive part of the pelosi presser that, of course, everybody is focusing on the other stuff. i get it but if you have time to see it, i suggest it. >>> up next, as the house is set

away industrial john boehner put images of him said some people watch musical blood from a christmas. when to determine if it. and then have money moved can you. hear michelle i. am innocent of the santa most i'm. thinking 150-3014 we carpenter's case in chambers and it's my understanding there are still some open discovery you should use defense counsel whether you know to read. with regard to discovery or any other issues in this case i'd like to raise an issue that or the last time we were here. this is their 1st slee requested a trial date of april 1st and there seemed to be some resistance from some of the parties and that i respectfully requesting that the corps put downs of temper 20th tuesday as a real trial date there should be no reason why myself and co-counsel all co-counsel the state as well cannot be ready by that time to try this case these are 3 young men who have been incarcerated been denied their pretrial liberty by a massive excessive bail that nobody in this court could make they've waited long and hard for a trial they deserve a trial the state deserves a trial a

and we sort of start out with regard to the asymmetrical politics article are about fact that john boehner, who is on the sort of partisan scale quite conservative, was essentially pushed out of his position as speaker of the house by the tea party caucus within the majority in the house of representative republican group. and paul ryan, who succeeded him, faced not exactly the same thing but something close to it. when we think of the difficulties that the parties have in operating, think about these high-profile people. speaker of the house, you get that job because your party won the majority, right, and your people elected you to that position. it's a constitutional officer, but it comes to you as a representative of the party itself. we have seen, to some degree, these tensions and difficulties in a certain sense within the parties operating. and that's where i wanted you to look at the article by dr. julia azari where she talks about -- this was a shorter one so maybe a couple more folks read this one -- weak parties and strong partisanship. and her argument in terms of weak parties

you were almost as likely to hear criticism of john boehner and mitch mcconnell of barack obama. there was a feeling of anger toward the establishment. things were not what they wanted. if you were tuned and you could tell there were these elements. now i think it is manifested people like tucker carlson. there is an ethnic nationalist movement. it goes by various names. you see it across much of western europe. trump got into the race in june of 2015. my first column in the new york times was july of 2015. the headline was president trump? just say no. i later learned from my editor that it was hard to get the piece published because people at the time thought, why is he writing about president trump? this guy will dissolve in a matter of weeks. he is not a threat. i did not think he would win the presidency. but i knew enough about the conservative movement that i knew he was tapping into something which i thought was pernicious. others were happy with it. i did not think he should be underestimated. i am from miami-dade college. i would like to know any impactful challenge or

to sell more books i haven't seen him at this group but i can tell you nothing was ever said to john boehner but i have not seen a baby. i guess he's writing a book i haven't seen but several moderate republican senators appear to have been moved by bolton's revelations only 4 republicans would need to side with democrats to cold bolton to testify i think it's increasingly likely that other republicans will will join those of us who think we should hear from john bolton inside the senate chambers the president's legal team ignore the bolton development completely not a single witness testify that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigation and security assistance a presidential meeting or anything else by the end of the week the u.s. senators will likely vote on whether to call bolton and other witnesses but with or without witnesses the odds remain squarely in the president's favor it would take a 2 thirds majority of the republican controlled chamber should we move trump from office castro al-jazeera washington. well more now on our breaking news we w

. >> because john boehner did not put it for a vote. >> we don't need those weeds, but something hasdent has a comprehensive program too. >> he does. david: maybe that will happen in next 4 years, before break wharveg is coming up on "evening edit," eli elizabeth macdonald what do you have for us. >> well it's my birthday. >> happy birthday. >> and it is known as chri chris reject, regifting day. democrat talk about delaying type of type of. all this exposing weakness of democrat impeachment case, they demand a say in senate trial to fix what they failed to do calling witnesses? nancy pelosi, and saying he is s threatening to ic to use or fundraising power. >> happy birthday. great to see you. >> thank you. david: street credit all left for tesla customers, they lose federal tax credit this year. what impact could that have on sales of the car company. next. at all this ink it comes with. big ink tanks. lots of ink. no more cartridges. incredible amount of ink. the epson ecotank. just fill and chill. i come face to face with a lot of behinds. so i know there's a big need for gas-x ma

white house press secretary for president clinton, joe lockhart and speakers for paul ryan and john boehner democratic chair woman in iowa told the "washington post" just this morning that voters are pa-- are paralyzed by the fr of picking the wrong person to take on trump. so i think electability is still a vote tating factor in this -- voting factor in this. >> the numbers, if you push hard democrats all over the country, it's beating trump. and i do think there's some anxiety around who's the best person -- >> to do that. >> -- to do that. and i think biden started at the odds on favorite as the best candidate. he stumbled. he a couple of bad debates. i think he has done much better recently, and i think, the world, i think the more we are in a situation of crisis in the world, the more experience matters and that helps biden. but by no means has he sealed the deal. >> and another way to look at this is this field is consolidated. i mean, democrat voters have not chosen their guy or gal yet. but they have eliminated a whole bunch of people. like a hundred of them. >> a hundred. >> right.

-- >> scott, if you said to me that president obama depicted president bush or nancy pelosi or john boehnerint. but i never saw president obama do that. i never saw the president before him do anything like that. if you're talking about other people who are in the party, yes, i would say you have a point but i don't think you have a legitimate point now because i'm talking about the president of the united states. >> president obama tweets out books that he's read. president trump in three years has retweeted conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theories, hateful memes again and again and again. this is not the first time. this is the feature. it isn't the bug. he is the commander in chief of the greatest nation on earth. why do we lower the bar for the president of the united states of america and why can't we just call him out for what he is, don, he does not have a racial flare-up. he is a racist. if you keep behaving like a racist and tweeting like a racist and talking like a racist and supported by racists, maybe you're donald trump. >> gentlemen, thank you. >>> queen e liz east con seenin

by the 2010s, '11s, you were almost as likely to hear criticism of john boehner and mitch mcconnell as of barack obama. there was a feeling of anger towards the establishment and things were not as they wanted. so you could, if you were tuned in, you could tell that there were these elements coursing through the country in the base of the republican party, which now i think is manifested in people like, you know, tucker carlson. and there's a sort of ethnic nationalist movement. people, it goes by various names, not specific just to america. you see it across much of western europe, as well. what's interesting, so trump got into the race in june of 2015. and my first column in the "new york times" was july of 2015. and it was the headline was president trump, question mark, just say no. so this was three weeks after he got in. i later learned from my editor that it was hard to get the piece published because people at "the times" thought, why is he writing about donald trump? this guy is going to dissolve in a matter of weeks. he's not a threat. i knew he was. i didn't think he would w

and then president obama, it was so close and it ended up in john boehner's freezer.to go to carbon neutral and i have very aggressive policies to get us there when it comes to climate change. take on the pharmaceutical companies. i have been doing it since i got into washington. i don't think these are incremental steps. >> let's talk about those three. in 2007, part of the immigration reform package that was being negotiated, you voted to make english the official language of the united states government, something that senators biden, obama, and sanders voted against. you have since expressed regret for that vote. tell me why. be clear, itr: to ended up in the bill that everybody voted for. stage --endment sen. klobuchar: i should be clear. bernie did not vote for the immigration bill and i think most democrats did. in the next bill, it did not get in there. i think it is really good it didn't get in there and we learned a lot since then including why we don't want that to happen. it would be such a problem for immigrants trying to do everything from access governm

joining us now, chris liu, former cabinet member of president obama and former house spokesman for john boehnero experts on procedures, what was nancy pelosi up to, michael, in terms of the caucus and three week delay because she didn't get anything from mitch mcconnell. >> it's all over but the shouting and go to the meeting tomorrow and transmit the articles. she accomplished nothing. this was a silly idea from liberal twitter, thought it didn't hurt anything and might as well try and appeased some of her members of the caucus but it was utterly senseless. >> i don't disagree. while she may not have changed the rules of the senate trial she reframed the public debate. during this intervening weeks we had new documents come out and learned of additional meetings at the white house and a key witness in john bolton who said he would be willing to come forward. she showed there was additional information out there. she will put moderate republicans in a tough spot to make them vote for additional witnesses. >> the senate trial, rules of the trial haven't changed. >> no. >> john bolton agreement t

be tea party but sick fantasies like marco rubio, the party men, they had a lot of problems for john boehnerthe house. they are difficult to control when they're on an issue they care about. they were fine to take the knee because donald trump a republican. tax cuts, all that stuff is fine. but war is one of those issues that they actually have opinions on. so good luck trying to make them be good boys. they're not going to be. >> ned price, what we were hearing -- by the way, all of our information is coming from these republican senators. democratic senators were reluctant to make my reference to what happened there. they did say they aren't satisfied with what they were hearing. but the picture you were getting, especially from mike lee is, mike pompeo comes in there and the defense secretary and cia director says don't dare debate this. do not debate this. you will be empowering the enemy if you debate this. lindsey graham was just echoing them. >> lawrence, we've seen something incredibly disquieting. this administration has been more than happy to spike the football to thump their whic

the other is there is a fundamental disagreement, when i worked for john boehner, president obama took had big debate about authorization for force in syria. we ended up getting hung up on president obama and democrats wanted a very prescriptive authorization we argued tied the hands of him and future military commanders and republicans want to say get the job done, maximum flexibility. what ends up happening is we don't do anything. presidents feel embolden to do things because congress has given away their authority. >> that's 100% right. the president is operating under the use of military force authority that came from after 9/11. congress is completely ab did i debated responsibilities to check off on, be involved in changing and transitioning american foreign policy and military strategy on the 20 years basis we have seen play out in the middle east. that's precisely right. congress has been completely derelict in its duty going back from obama administration through this administration on all these issues. >> given how polarized we are, how partisan even the media is, do you thi

substituting looking good and michael steele from the republican side, former spokesman for house speaker john boehnerr chief of staff to nancy pelosi. i'll give you a chance to shine for the old boss. everybody thought it was brilliant by her to hold this thing up because it has shined a big light on this awful behavior by mitch mcconnell saying i'm the president's -- at what point does her power dissipate? how long can she -- she said i'll do it when i'm ready. >> she he knows that. as long as we're hear talking about about the trial and the fairness she can continue to do this. as long as democrats remain in line, the point she has to get out of this thing, the trial is going to be tainted unless mitch mcconnell agrees to -- >> suppose he never agrees and just goes ahead and goes mum. >> republicans will talk process and democrats will talk about a -- >> what i was watching, good work, okay. speaker and i agree with you up to a point. here's the question, i watch serious senators the other day and congressman smith and a lot of people like dianne feinstein and they're all back in line after several

to sell more books i haven't seen him at this group but i can tell you nothing was ever said to john boehner but i have not seen a baby. i guess he's writing a book i haven't seen but several moderate republican senators appear to have been moved by bolton's revelations only for republicans would need to side with democrats to cold bolton to testify i think it's increasingly likely that other republicans will will join those of us who think we should hear from john bolton inside the senate chambers the president's legal team ignore the bolton development completely not a single witness testify that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigation and security assistance a presidential meeting or anything else by the end of the week the u.s. senators will likely vote on whether to call bolton and other witnesses but with or without witnesses the odds remain squarely in the president's favor it would take a 2 thirds majority of the republican controlled chamber should we move trump from office castro al-jazeera washington right we're going to look at the weath

funny but what happened but but john boehner has indicated he wants to talk. he says he has information that is relevant. i don't really know is i mean he could gone there to go out and exonerate the president so you know part of me believes that this is a risk on both sides and it should be taken the american people want to see witnesses this would be the first impeachment trial conducted ever by the senate in which no witnesses would because they go along the where mcconnell wants to no plea 45 and maybe more we'll see but the american people want to come on this to be fleshed out they want to hear. john bolton is like to see some of the documents and the e-mails that are out there that are better been reference to that we all know are there and the president himself said yesterday said that it's too bad, i have all the materials. they don't have the materials which i'm sure really helped is defense team a lot knowing that he just said well we've on the documents and they doubt. >>yeah to go back to something you mentioned earlier pick her brain about this l

by the 2010s, '11s, you were almost as likely to hear criticism of john boehner and mitch mcconnell as barack obama. there was a feeling of anger towards the establishment and things were not as they wanted. so you could, if you were tuned in, you could tell that there were these elements coursing through the country in the base of the republican party, which now i think is manifested in people like, you know, tucker carlson. and there's a sort of ethnic nationalist movement. people, goes by various names, not specific just to america. you see it across much of western europe, as well. what's interesting, so trump got into the race in june of 2015. and my first column in the "new york times" was july of 2015. and it was the headline was president trump, question mark, just say no. so this was three weeks after he got in. i later learned from my editor that it was hard to get the piece published because people at "the times" thought, why is he writing about donald trump? this guy is going to dissolve in a matter of weeks. he's not a threat. i knew he was. i didn't think he would win the

even before you get to the issue of facts any witness including john boehner what he said yesterday, even if you sue everything john bolton says is true of what they say is in this transcript or manuscript, is still not an impeachable offense. so again fails actually, legally and constitutionally. >> and you know i just, i just want to say something. you know, a religious want to get back to doing the business of america. i was in judiciary committee today in a hearing, and the scheduling of fentanyl substances is going to expire next week, next week. and the democrats have done nothing about this. it passed in the senate bipartisan. nothing has been done here and so instead of caring about the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people that are dying every day from fentanyl and opioids, we are dealing this impeachment stuff. as i have said before, the thee had the burden of proof. they have failed miserably. they have not even come close to prove that the president did any impeachable offense. let's get back to business, what americans care about. >> the president team indicates -

pelosi is a leader of the house, she is the leader of the democratic party, they don't believe john boehner is the leader of the house, he is the leader of the republican party. we are a distant -- a different institution of the senate. in an institution designed to be majority run, not run on the slimmest of margins. can we adopt the senate model are we a different institution and that model that model would not achieve our constitutional role. my second question is about the appropriate staffing level. a've seen less attractive staff growing up -- going up and going down. today response to more people in a shorter amount of time with a greater degree of complexity than we ever dreamed of doing. what is a different level of capacity measurement, what's a different standard i can use then number of people because i don't think that really speaks to what we are trying to do in article one, it's just the most convenient when i can find. third, we've talked about bipartisan staff versus nonpartisan staff. i thought the point was well taken that having people who don't have any ideology may not

of representatives and the white house, including chief of staff for the speaker of the house john boehnerd he was special assistant to president george w. bush at the national economic council. mike has been instrumental in crafting landmark legislation throughout, including leading efforts to pass the troubled asset relief program through congress, brokering a resolution between the administration and the congress ahead of the fiscal cliff, scary fiscal cliff of 2013, leading efforts to pass bipartisan budget agreement and trade promotion authority. so mike has a broad base of knowledge of experience and insights into both the political, the legal, and the international perspective, which i think we would like very much to hear in these tumultuous times for the energy business and for the consumers, investors and other players, including governmental entities that are part of this family that always fights, but nevertheless is absolutely essential to our existence on earth. so mike, would you join us. thank you. >> thank you sheeshila. really appreciate the kind introduction. it's great

president obama tried mightily, and john boehner, too, but it hasn't come together and doesn't seem likely to. so how should we look at this? what is sustainable? what would you say the economic consensus is as to what is sustainable? is there a consensus? what were the range of that be? and then, what should we aim for for some kind of physical space, to anticipate what might happen in the economy? to undertake aggressive, counter-cyclical measures in the event of a severe downturn. i similarly don't know what is sustainable, thinking about that as well as some abstract number that the economist might think represent a tipping point. director swagel: something you put your finger on, the key question looking at fiscal policy into the future. we know markets today are not concerned, right? theve sat here and told you fiscal situation is unsustainable, but interest rates remain low in the united states, and the united states has the ability to undertake fiscal policy today for whatever purpose, for stimulus, infrastructure, whatever the powers decide to do. the challenge is not a media. --

he makes george bush is budgets with john boehner looks so conservative with the growth to with a lot has had of democratic big issues. deal, he at his last sells himself as a dealmaker, $1.4 trillion for the next nine months, and all he can get for his border wall is $1.4 billion for his border wall. what makes us think this usmca is really good? he just wants to make deals to make deals. -- alllso supposition. why haven't they laid everything efinites? they could buy this or that. after watching the deals, how controlledts have this country, even with him as president, with no senate and no house, this guy is no dealmaker. i don't want him sitting at the table for me. here are some of the labor provisions in usmca. mexico providing for the recognition to the right to collective bargaining agreements, international labor standards, the requirement for wages for the construction of automobiles in those countries. one of the democrats who supported this deal is senator sherrod brown out of ohio, a democrat who has been opposed to that major trade agreement has come to the senate floor

when president obama was in come out we were so close and the bill and said in john boehner's freezeri've aggressive policies to get us there when it comes to climate change. i want to make it so we take down the pharmaceutical companies. i've done it since i've gone to washington. these are not incremental steps. these are big things. >> let us talk about those three. the immigration reform package that was being negotiated at the time, you voted to make english the official language of the u.s. government. ,omething that senators biden obama, and sanders disagreed with. sen. klobuchar: to be clear, that ended up in the bill that everyone voted for. fortunately -- >> at the amendment stage. sen. klobuchar: bernie did not vote for the immigration bill back then. most democrats did. in the next bill, it did not get in there. i was on the judiciary committee them. i think we have learned a lot since then including why we don't want that to happen. it would be such a problem for immigrants trying to do everything from access government to vote. as you know, i don't agree with that positi