john edwards, hillary clinton. you get a sense there is a backstage to them, you know? there is a sense that they are thinking about what they're going to say. he's off the cuff, happening in the moment. there is a realness to him. now, how will it translate on the national stage? we don't know that.

, proper tories. for public services at people like john edward, propertories.lic spending, more money for the nhs. this is announced before a really important nhs. this is announced before a really im porta nt vote nhs. this is announced before a really important vote on march 12 and, again, it looks like we are being tried to go to the steel. theresa may is having all sorts of difficulties with this deal and she's going to string it out until the last moment where we have to accept that or fall off the cliff. surgeon signals shift to the variety. —— a surge. surgeon signals shift to the variety. -- a surge. tommy robinson, who is very far right, he has been welcomed back into the fold. the guy who is currently running ukip, gerard batten, who has said some very unsavoury things including describing islam as a death cult. that is a terrible way to describe a religion that is based on peace. isis is a death cult but he describes islam as it. a party of wider appeal? you can always have this very right wing strand in it. a lot of the moderates have left the party

real questions about whether or not you'd be able to prove that a crime was committed. >> john edwards went to trial. >> i understand that. but i have a basic question for you about that. suppose the campaign had gone to the federal election commission and said to them at the time we want to make this payment and they fully disclosed and we want to use campaign funds in order to do this. in order to make these payments? and they would have looked at them and said are you out of your mind? this is a personal expenditure. this is a campaign expenditure. you can't have it both ways. if it's a personal expenditure. it's a personal expenditure. it's a personal expenditure. they can't be sort of used interchangeably and that's one of the things that came up in the john edwards thing which is why i don't think from the president's perspective that it was a crime. i don't think that would be an sufficient impeachment defense. a lot of time has been spent on that. >> the problem is his lawyer admitted to it as a felony and the president was directing it while in office. let me ask you another q

no consultant told john edwards, you're going to be asked about canadian imports and whether or not those should pass the same test first scours as americans produced -- american produced hogs. people have an issue on their mind, and they want to ask about it, even if it is not important to anybody else. roughly a year out from the caucuses, but i am looking for is what theme a candidate is trying to get across in their speeches when they are at a rally. also, the reaction from voters trade we joke about iowans won't commit until they have seen them for five times. at this time, democrats are going out to see all of the candidates. they are comparing them. you saw that with the elizabeth warren rally. see coryd just been to booker, so they are checking out everybody. i am looking for that reaction, who do they like, what strength do they see in a candidate? they may say warren is very issues,n the financial economic inequality, while someone else is stronger on national security or immigration, and the voters are -- are comparing. on day one, what can you do with gun control in congress.

or the lights that flame out like john edwards. however o'rourke's candidate begins, it's in full glare of a fascinated media. >> we'll make or break the future in this country. >> in iowa, beto o'rourke is making it official. he's running. after an early morning announcement -- >> i'm running to serve you as the next president of the united states. >> -- that glassy "vanity fair" story saying i'm just born to be in it. and the expected attacks from the president. >> a lot of hand movement. i've never seen such hand movement. >> o'rourke is betting on a national audio tin meunity mess avoiding specifics. >> if you're not going to listen and to learn, what is the use of campaigning. he was once for medicaid for all. >> that's one of the ways to ensure we gent to guaranteed, high-quality health care for every american. i'm not sure that's the fastest way to get there. >> and he declined to say if president trump should be impeached. one thing o'rourke made clear, he plans to run to the right bernie anders and elizabeth warren on econ

. >> early polls show him third, trailing both senator hillary clinton and john edwards. >> we got tworent americas. we got one for all those who are doing very, very well, and then one for everybody else. >> edwards is focused on an eradication of poverty, but the 2008 election was all about the war in iraq. >> you said if you were president in 2002, you would have not gone into war? >> right. >> however, how can you then explain the seeming contradiction from your voting to support the invasion? >> i do not believe that most of us who voted to give the president authority thought he would so misuse the authority we gave him. >> hillary clinton tries to explain it away, and that was ultimately unsatisfactory, especially on an issue that was so divisive. >> i am proud that i opposed this war from the start because i thought that it would lead to the disastrous conditions that we've seen on the ground in iraq. >> obama was really smart, extraordinarily articulate, but vague. >> i went on your website to find some information about you, and i was wondering what really are your top issues

you'll remember the john edwards, the former vice presidential candidate had an affair he was tryingsh money payments. he was able to escape a conviction because it wasn't clear whether that was in the service of influencing an election. in this case, it's clear, given the timing of the payments just before the november of 2016 election they were material and that's why i think this is interesting and why it should be -- why the president should be worried about it. >> i'm feeling an uh-huh coming from you. >> the will of deceit going on here gets deeper and deeper every time documents like this are released. i don't think we've even scratched the surface yet of how far it goes. i don't. >> what makes you think that? >> look, the piece you did on deutsche bank in the previous segment. right. i think we've talked about deutsche bank for a long time. there's more than that meets the eye there. i think we're beginning to scratch the surface and start ripping band aids off. prosecutors won't let up on this. i think they're on to something and these trails will take a long time to cover a

is he john edwards or ronald reagan?e fact is that ronald reagan was good looking and head fresh and interesting. he had a lot of specific policy proposals that he had developed over decades of thinking about them. day one, beto o'rourke doesn't know what he thinks about medicare for all. or have a coherent answer on impeachment. on day 50, he better. >> that's why i think we're going to see a vetting of that. people will look at beto and say, why is he getting that coverage? i was reading that article about the kind of the white male privilege that the writer was writing about. why does he get to say that he's not exactly sure of things and gets to go on this tour where he thinks about himself? i would say that stacy abrams, someone who hasn't announced with 2020, saying i'm dealing with the after-effects of running for governor and losing. i think people are okay with that from a black woman. so some would push back from the idea that only beto could do that. >> there is another -- you brought up stacey abrams. she's c

now mind you, he wrote a similar valentine to john edwards. that didn't end well. i checked, john is guessing people's weight at the carnival. [laughter] the writer isn't the only one going fan boy over beto, half the press keeps referring to him as kennedy-esque, and sadly, they do not mean this one. [laughter] [applause] yes. that's our kennedy. but as i always say, being called kennedy-esque is cool unless they're referring to your driving. oh, stop it. [laughter] the media's big narrative beto is david to trump's goliath, but anyone with a brain knows that the giant has always been the media. so you can't say beto's the david when got the full force of the goliath media behind him. and it's not beto's fault that he's goliath's teacher's pet. it's easier to be their pet, just do what they say. but god help you if you don't. just ask tucker. but let me ask you this, let me ask you this, if you look at the david and goliath analogy, what reality comes closest to that? if goliath is the consensus media, that would make david donald trump. and trump used their spotli

. >> and john edwards that raised in the first quarter and blew everyones minds.heard the same thing as jeff's reporting. a lot of high dollar donors are holding fundraisers for different candidates. low dollar donors are doing the same thing. a lot of democrats are sitting and waiting. you hear them talking about who is the most likely candidate to beat donald trump right? >> look, at the same time mayor pete because i can't pronounce his last name, he has been shooting up in the polls. it helped him raise money and that's how the process should work. more people are getting to know him. >> and let's listen to may the mayor. so he goes up to california to meet voters. he comes down on what coastal leadism and he said he feels like from the middle of the country. let's plan. listen. >> i see a lot of people kind of shaking their heads and asking how, you know, people especially working class people that work for conserve tifrs, how can you vote against your self-interest? don't you know you're voting against your interest? if you say that they could very simply tu

john edwards proved how difficult it is to prove. going to go after high-profile person you better not swing and miss because it makes a very loud noise. >> i would suggest -- i don't want us to get into law school class discussion. i would suggest the facts in the john edwards case were quite different than facts in donald trump's case. >> let's go to law school and debate that. i would love that. that would be fun. >> that would being a great. so let me ask a general question and you've been asked before. let's see what your opinion is in early march 2019. does donald trump face greater legal jeopardy coming from the mueller investigation or from the southern district of new york and all the investigations that are sprawling down there? >> i would one of the few people who come on your show who has remain completely consistent for the last nine months. bob mueller is not nearly the threat to the president and those around him that the southern district is for three reasons. number one, there's no restriction on what the southern di

mind you he wrote a similar valentine to john edwards. that did not end well for last time i checked he was guessing peoples wait at the carnival. now the ewriter isn't the only ongoing fan boy. half of the press keeps referring to ms. kennedy-esque and sadly they do not mean this one. [laughter] [applause] greg: yes, yes. but as i always say, being called kennedy-esque is cool unless they referring to your driving. [booing] stop it! the medias narrative they know the giant has always been the media pc cannot say that beto is a david when he is the full force of the goliath media behind him. and it is not the fault of beto to his goliaths teachers pet. it's easy to be the pet, just do it they say. god help you if you don't. just ask tucker. but let me ask you this. let me ask you this. if you look at the david and goliath analogy, what reality comes closest to that? if goliath is the consensus media, that would make david donald trump. and donald trump use their spotlight as his slingshot and they'd snever been the same ev since. in the w

. >> beto o'rourke and you remember that guy, his name was john edwards. >> i do vaguely remember him different magazines but both -- look at ronald reagan. look at the next one. >> yeah, that is -- yeah. >> it's very similar, the hands in the back of the pocket. >> okay. so don't tweet at me, we're not doing splash over substance, we have a lot of substance going on. just on this, this is about imagery and about trying to portray, what? >> you think it's about -- i think it's about -- john kennedy probably understood this first and foremost, the presidency is about image and crafting an image early particularly in a media age when you're just bombarded by images and you want to break-through. this was smart of him to have that photo on the cover of vanity fa"vanity fair" in that he looks like a plain folk with his dog on a dirt road and maybe a pickup truck. i don't know what that is. it is an -- it isn't obviously necessarily who he is. he's the son of privilege and a former congressman. that image certainly speaks to that. >> and it helps pull the democratic party which has an imag

>> reporter: the official position is they're not illegal and they think the john edwards pace provides cover that. the dispute is whether or not president trump knew of the payments and the decision. we know he knew of the payments. there's tape of that. michael cohen released that tape. that was also last year in may when he has the president clearly talking about one of the payments. that one was to the mcdougal case, not stormy daniels. this case is the stormy daniels case. you notice what sean hannity says? he's saying payments. he's saying plural. and the president is saying that this was also michael cohen's doing. it could have been, but the president was clearly aware. we know that because of the tapes. it's going to be a difficult position as long as michael cohen keeps talking for the president to maintain. >> let's talk about allen weisslberg. he was around longer than even some of the people in the family. any reaction to what we've heard about him from the white house there? >> nothing on weisslberg. remember, according to three people familiar with the matter, nbc is repo

of john edwards did not campaign campaign-finance violation then needed to donald trump in this situation digging around much earlier in business practices, bank fraud, all kinds of things are looking at in 2017 but here is what mark meadows, one of the most outspoken conservatives on capitol hill said this, michael cohen lied about seeking a pardon from donald trump, wanting to work in donald trump's administration and both times he lied under oath. does that make him an impeachable witness? he could be discredited? >> he could be discredited by have no reason to believe michael cohen said is relied upon if any ultimate prosecution of anybody else in the president's inner circle up to and including the president himself. documents don't lie. that is the quick apart. hundreds of pages were released from the justice department. they've got emails, icloud account, phone logs, everything off of his phones when they rated in april 2018, the recording devices, they don't need michael cohen's testimony for anything to go after anybody else unless they can corroborate it with someone else's test

john edwards is always gooed in iowa. they like this. the crowds were there. you can see it. they're trying to fall in love with him, but, god, i could tell you this. it is fstrating at times on his lack of specifics. he is incredibly good about getting a question, showing you how much he knows about that issue, and not taking a position. that may work. you know, at the end of the day that may work. the question is how long can he keep that up and will democratic voters be okay with that? >> we'll see how he does with you in just a few minutes coming up on "meet the press." >> yes rsh. >> let's talk about what's happening in washington and the man all these democrats are trying to unseat in president trump. we got some hints about the mueller report. some people read one lead lawyer stepping away from the special counsel's office as some indication that things might be wrapping up. the house in a unanimous vote said maybe perhaps a symbolic vote, but it was unanimous that the mueller report ought to be made public. do we have any sense here, chuck, of where this is headed and

with all due respect to john kerry and john edwards, look at that field.lented, it's passiona passionate. we'll have an incredible field and emerge with a strong nominee. >> wish, i wish we could talk more about this stuff, but up next, from gun violence prevention to compare ethics reform, we want to get into the legislation that the democrats are pushing. >>> also, i hear it's like being back in high school. we'll break down the congressional cliques, when we get back. you need insurance. but it's not really something you want to buy. it's not sexy. or delicious. or fun. but since you need both car and home insurance, why not bundle them with esurance and save up to 10%? which you can spend on things you really want to buy, like... well, i don't know what you'd wanna buy because i'm just a guy on your tv. esurance. it's surprisingly painless. with the most lobster dishes lobsterfesof the yearred lobster like lobster lover's dream and new ultimate lobsterfest surf and turf. so come lobsterfest today! and now for a limited time, get ten percent off red lob

couple of magazine covers from the past, the 2007 men's vogue cover for example which is democrat john edwardshat pictures outside with a pick-up truck and his family dog and look at this cover of rond ragen from "time" magazine from 1981. both wearing sort of the same denim outfit, hans in the back pockets, and david, what kind of message is beto o'rourke sending? >> well, he is sending a message that he is not a washington-based candidate. he doesn't speak in the idiom of washington. the fact that he has had to contend in a state that is ideological diverse to say the least, is an advantage to him. and will be an advantage to him as he campaigns in iowa, and other states. the disadvantage of being on the cover of "vanity fair" and getting all of the attention that he is getting is you get scrutinized much more closely than other candidates do, right from the start. so you don't have the same opportunity to try your material out, to develop your thinking, in relative obscurity. so that's the downside of the upside, that he's going to have to deal with. >> the bigger the spotlight, the more pr

establishing what we think is something akin to the john edwards standard. the jury said because this was done in order to protect his wife, not to influence the course of a campaign, it didn't constitute a violation. i think the speculation that it involves malice and illegal conduct on the part of the president isn't well-founded. >> is there more about the hush money scheme we don't know? >> it could be that there's more about the hush money scheme that involves other people who may not be under indictment, may never be under indictment or may soon be under indictment. it could mean that there are other things connected to the investigation that have yielded other investigations we're not allowed to know about. that's the most damaging thing to president trump. it's not that he's going to be brought down by stormy daniels and karen mcdougall and michael cohen. it's that michael cohen was potentially acting as a foreign agent. michael cohen knew exactly the kinds of deals the trump family was trying to do. not only in moscow but other places. and that alle

someone on twitter pointed out that picture looks like "vanity fair" picture with john edwards, pickup truck, dog, democrat. the clothes and pose is the same as well-known picture of ronald reagan, hands in the back pocket. >>> the senate due to vote on the president's emergency measure that would take away money from the military to build the wall. if the senate votes to block the measure, that then goes to the president who can veto it and move forward. the president announced yesterday the u.s. government would ground all 737 max aircraft. >> boeing is an incredible company. they are working very, very hard right now. hopefully they will very quickly come up with the answer. but until they do, the planes are grounded. >> normally this kind of announcement would not fall to the president. this is the sort of thing the faa would do. but the president likes being the face of his administration. and there's no permanent head of the faa. there's no permanent secretary of defense. they are all acting secretaries, not confirmed by the senate. in fact, the president's own right-hand man mic

take a look at john edwards, circa 2007, cover image, men's vogue, youngish, democratic presidential, pickup truck dog, same photographer. annie lebowitz and let me throw one more on you today, o'rourke's blue show and pose invoking president ronald reagan's 1981 "time" magazine cover, hands stuffed into the back pocket. let's analyze all of this. listen, everyone's having fun with these photos today, obviously, but what do you think of the comparisons? >> branding matters. >> branding matters. >> the o'rourke campaign like all the campaigns that are interested in 2020 are trying to find a way to connect. it's all about connecting with a group of americans who are going to spend a lot of time getting your person elected. president trump, one of his geniuses, one of his real strengths is he can connect, whatever you think of it, it's true. he can connect. so these poses, by edwards, reagan, in the case of reagan he'd already one by edwards and o'rourke they're projecting the, i'm accessible. you know me. you've met me. i work at that ranch. i'm down the street from you. i'm someone yo

coinciding with a drooling vanity fair cover story written by the same suckle bucket who fell for john edwardswriter is so smitten he can't see straight. it isn't just purple it's putin whapeuss.the media's big e beto is david to trump's goliath. but anyone who has been alive for more that two seasons of "60 minutes" knows the giant has always been the media and david has been anyone who doesn't fall in line. fox news has been david for 20 years. so you can't say that beto is david when he has a full force of the goliath behind him and you can't blame beto either. it's not his fault vanity fair has made him their man crush. beto is a young white male embraced by a left wing rag who is hoping to sell perfume ads to cover the stench. he claims he was just born to do. this how is that for white privilege? all right, juan, i think that's racist for what he said. i wanted to beat you to the punch. he said he is born. is that because is he a white male? have you got to be upset that he is getting all this attention, right? >> juan: no. why? tell me why you think that? >> greg: there is all these oth

he moved ahead of john edwards. quickly it was clinton versus obama. there was no oxygen left for anybody else. o'rourke fourth place here tied in this poll. averaging about fifth or sixth place. he's not coming in with the immediate base of support that obama had. there's a question here of if he can build it. another key thing there -- another ace in the hole obama had, the contrast with clinton, the contrast with edwards, with biden. obama has been against the iraq war. obama had that lane to himself. >> victoria, you talk about a sunny disposition and optimism. that seems to be not strategic on beto o'rourke's part. that seems to be who he is. there are a number of democrats say i've had enough. they're not sunny. they're mad as hell. can beto o'rourke capitalize on that? >> he's going to stick to his guns. he's going to stick to his positivity and leave that space open for the other democratic candidates that come in. the big challenges he has is in the democratic primary. one on one going with trump he could use the ted cruz playbook. i want to e

twitter pointed out that picture looks a whole lot like the "vanity fair" cover a few years ago with john edwards truck, a dog, a democrat. also pointed out this pose is the same, clothes are the same with ronald reagan's hands in the back pocket. >>> senate set to vote on the emergency measure that would take money from the military to build the wall. if the senate blocks the measure it goes to the president who can veto it and move forward. the president announced yesterday the u.s. government would ground all 737 max aircraft. >> boeing is an incredible company. they are working very, very hard right now. hopefully they will very quickly come up with the answer. but until they do, the planes are grounded. >> in fact, they have the answer. "the wall street journal" reports this morning boeing had been working on the software fix as far back as january but progress was slowed because boeing could not meet with government officials because the government shut down over the wall. the acting head of the faa will speak on the "today" show. president trump has yet to pick a permanent head of the faa.

remember, he and john edwards and hillary clinton were practically tied.g up on the iowa caucuses. a lot is going to change. >> i take your point about edwards. the one thing that is that democrats focused on the idea that they wanted to turn the page on the iraq war and that gave obama a lift. >> to that point, you don't have this time around is a hillary clinton. one of the key differences is that last time around, democrats effectively cleared the field. they felt it was hillary clinton's turn and time to be the nominee. that's what gave bernie sanders somewhat -- in the end not enough of an opportunity, to capitalize on this grass-roots movement, seeking for a more progressive agenda. this time around, there are a lot more candidates vying for the spotlight because democrats want this to be a contested primary. there has been no clearing of the field for joe biden. we will see if and when he enters the race if he will emerge as a frontrunner. some have more in name recognition than others. that plays a role in how they are received. that reinforces the

>> what you're really talking about is a john edwards defense and why that fails is the affair happened in 2006. we have to look at the time line. >> which one? >> both. >> let's talk about stormy daniels. it's been publicly reported that the affair happened in 2006. in 2011 was my first interaction and it was through a phone call with michael cohen and that was because a website called the dirty.com had published a small piece on the blog that reported donald trump having an affair with stormy daniels. >> he called you? >> he called my client. stormy daniels then manager and berated her. i returned that call. and as soon as he picked up the phone on the other end, he jumped down my throat and was extremely aggressive on the call. so that's important because the time line happened 2011. >> why didn't et get done? >> there was zero interest. they knew about it when he announced to be president in 2016. they knew about it when he became the republican nominee. they did nothing to settle the case. they knew about it well into september. and it wasn't until what in all of my hours in sittin

john edwards, hillary clinton. you get a sense there is a backstage to them, you know? there is a sense that they are thinking about what they're going to say. he's off the cuff, happening in the moment. there is a realness to him. now, how will it translate on the national stage? we don't know that. his connection with people was something that even surprised him, that he had been gifted with this connection, this retail sort of politician skill. now he has to figure out how to turn it into something. you're right though. i think the longer he can stay undefined, the better it is for him perhaps. >> in a profile piece by definition, it is about the subject. >> right. >> and the subject knows it is about the subject. the subject talks about himself. but it's been pointed out by pundits this morning at some point he has to pivot to talk about the other people. what was your impression of that? >> you mean other candidates? >> no. in your piece and maybe it's the way it's written is he starts with here's why i'm jazzed, i was born to do this as opposed to when i'm out the

if john edwards does not >> shannon: we know they were digging around much earlier.fraud, all kinds of things they were looking back in 2017. here is what congressman mark meadows, one of the most outspoken conservatives on capitol hill said, "michael, and lied about seeking a pardon from president trump. he lied about wanting to work in president trump's administration, and both times, he lied under oath." does that make him and if effete general witness? he could be discredited? >> he could be discredited. i have no reason to believe that anything michael cohen says will be relied upon and any ultimate prosecution of anybody else in the president's inner circle up to and including the president himself. documents don't lie. that's been a critical part. you read these hundreds of pages that were released today from the justice department, it is -- they've got the emails, the icloud account, they've got the phone logs, they've got everything office phones when they rated it in april of 2018. they've got the recording devices. they don't need michael cohen's testimony

against cohen were, quote, specious, pointing to the failed effort to prosecute former senator john edwards on similar charges. and this is according to gop aides who were in the room, anderson. >> i don't quite understand how nadler and -- the democrat and the republican can have such diametrically opposed accounting of what whitaker actually said and the meaning of it. is the transcript going to be released? is there any way to tell what whitaker actually said? >> well, unfortunately for us, this was behind closed doors today. there is no transcript. so like most things in life, it will come down to credibility determination and whose side you believe and which one sounds more like the facts. all right. laura jarret, thanks. you'll recall the question of whether the president asked him acting attorney general to take action against the southern district. it has come up before. such as this moment not long after whitaker's testimony. >> did you ask acting attorney general matthew whitaker to change the leadership of the investigation into your former personal attorney michael cohen? >> no.

former democratic congresswoman john edwards, now a columnist for "the washington post."publican congresswoman barbara comstock. i was thinking with three former members of congress we could form her own committee here and hold hearings. congressman, from the information that you have -- it's pretty sketchy, but what we've heard so far about the mueller report as we await the summary and then whatever else more we are going to get over time, what do you think we can say about president trump's actions and his jeopardy down the line to impeachment? >> i think impeachment is a ridiculous notion at this point. if the mueller probe, with everything they have it all the resources -- by the way, we need to still read the report that they have no more indictments coming and not a single person in relation to the actual collusion, it's really kind of ridiculous to even be talking about impeachment and if the democrats continue to overreach, if they continue with this power grab to try to delegitimize the president, i think america turns that out, they keep screaming wolf, wolf, w

you remember in 2004, we danced with howard dean, and john edwards and kerry can beat bush and we'reing is there's no major front runner in this race biden included but the thought that we're going to go to the most progressive candidate is probably not true. the other thing is as you have covered, seven states have gone from caucuses to open primaries in the 2020 election, which is going to open it up to a much bigger group of people including independents and republicans in a democratic primary and likely go to electing or nominating a more electable candidate in the general election. >> you ran in 2004. you were pretty progressive candidate if i remember correctly, more in line with the mainstream where the party is now than it was in 2004, do you think that a joe biden running primarily in the way that jim suggests which not going to be on the far left of the party, he's not going to be the progressive mainstream but he's going to run largely on i'm going to take out donald trump. is he going to make a big difference? >> i think i agree that the party has moved toward the left, b

. >> democrats are most excited about louisiana and john bel edwards. that state has a more recent history of housing statewide elected democrats. this is the best field of candidates that democrats can field. andy bashir, who is the presumptive front runner, a three-way race right now, and the possibility this could turn into a serious primary fight. he himself is the son of a governor that the democratic party hailed as the model for a governor in the south. he implemented the obama state run health care system that democrats are very happy with. these are three republican leaning races, and they will be states where donald trump and the white house will be happy to send him because they know he will rally large crowds, which is what the president loves. >> we could see a tough challenge to mitch mcconnell, but he easily won six years ago. >> democrats come a lot of opportunities there. there are candidates who might jump into the race against mitch mcconnell. we are expecting a close race. but mitch mcconnell won by 18 points. he knows how to win tha

the other may be political but what happened with john edwards?just can't believe they're allowed to go after the way he financed different opportunities. ready to go after deutsche bank, his tax returns, felix saider, his cfo, his son. jedediah: everything. brian: they will be all called up. why is that allowed? >> well, congress as a coequal branch of government can ask for whatever they want to ask for. it doesn't mean you have to show up. it doesn't mean you have to talk. it doesn't mean you have to produce documents. we have three branches of government. there was tension built into the system. nadler, remember when nadler and schiff didn't want to interfere with on going investigations. does anybody remember that? steve: good point. >> they no longer have that concern. this is about 2020. they can ask for it, the president has really smart lawyers, but i would be smart if they produced it. jedediah: if you don't show up the media paints narrative you're trying to hide something. unfortunately the position president is in, he can't win no mat

sure noi'm political consultant told john edwards you're going to be asked questions about canadian pork imports and whether or not those hogs pass the same test scours as american-produced hogs. you get these questions people have an issue on their mind and they really want to ask it even if it's not important to else.y >> at this point, you know, roughly a year out, the i'muses, a lot of what looking for is what theme a getidate is trying to across in their speeches, when they're at a rally. also, the reaction from voters. iowans won't commit to a candidate until they've seen them four or five times and at this point, democrats are going see all the candidates and they're comparing them. last weekend i was at an elizabeth warren rally and talking to people and they had just been to another rally a couple of weeks earlier. out,ey're checking everybody. and so i'm looking for that reaction. like? they what strengths do they see in a candidate? they may say elizabeth warren is very strong on the financial issues. economic inequality, while someone else is stronger on national security or

. >> free democrats they are most excited about louisiana and john bel edwards because he's won statewide. that state has a more recent history of housing statewide elected democrats. this is the best field of candidates in these three raises that they can -- that democrats can field. jim hood is the unique name and no less of a national democrats who can win mississippi voters, statewide in mississippi. andy bashir, the presumptive front runner, a three way race right now and a possibility this could turn into a serious primary fight. but bashea is a son of a governorr the democratic party a governor model for in the south. the implemented the obamacare state run health care system that democrats were very happy with. these are three republican leaning raises and these are going to be states were donald trump and the white house will happy to send him because they know he will rally large crowds. >> to stay in kentucky, allison letterman grimes -- allison linderman grimes, facing a tough challenge. fewemocrats have opportunities candidates who might jump into the race against mitch mccon

if you go back after joementum in the iowa polling in 2007, john edwards was out front.ond. hillary clinton winding up in third. barack obama ended up winning the iowa caucuses. this early on in the race, it's more name recognition than anything else. what do you make of the people outside of the top two? does anything about their position tell you where they could move? >> i have to tell you, joy, i'm not putting much credence in the iowa poll. we talked about 20 years in politics and the democratic electorate has changed. when you look at iowa, it is 90% white. new hampshire is 93% white. the fact that these two democratic primaries seem to have so much importance, i have my doubts. when you have nevada, south carolina, two states with a sizable share of voters who are people of color that carries more credence for me given the demographics in the country and to remind people in 2016, bernie sanders won new hampshire. we saw how it worked out. there are candidates who will ascend beyond these states. i don't want to dismiss joe biden. he's a formidable candidate who wi

i sat in the caucus room in '03/'04 race and john edwards came in second and i watch how it works.rity, pull people away. having your support is really skilled at saying, come on, david. maybe you ought to join us. it makes all the difference because it is very fragile. very much on the ground. i think what we're looking for, people are looking for is someone who is going to excite the voters. bill clinton did that. barack obama did that. both excited voters and also said they could do the job. we had other candidates. howard dean excited people, but he did not convince people to do the job. we need something to xhexcite people and who is going to expand the economic pie and expand opportunity? >> glad we could invite you here. garrett, we appreciate the time and appreciate the reporting, as well. thank you to my panel here in new york. >>> up ahead in fewer than five minutes, we'll bring you the results of the latest nbc news 2020 poll. you'll see that data first right here on msnbc. tums chewy bites with gas relief all in one relief of heartburn and gas ♪ ♪ tum tum tum tums tums

because the lesson of the john edwards prosecution is you can bring an indictment, but you can't always changed dramatically when michael cohen stood up in court and said i committed a crime and it was campaign finance law and i did it essentially at the direction of the president, and not long after the doj essentially in filings adopted that position. that's what we've known for many months now, that the government believes that michael cohen chitted a crime, and that the president, maybe not the president yet directed him to do so. and one final thing. why is that important, yes that was preoffice conduct, but there's a recent case that suggests pre-office conduct is indictable. and secondly pre-office conduct that affects the electoral process is something the framers explicitly planned on being empeachable. >> i agree. >> is it safe to say white house counsel is now preparing a defense when it comes to the southern district because they recognize the damage that can be done to the presidency. >> well, their response to the mueller report, they certainly are planning for that. and w

know, and i don't want to get into their marriage but you know, when we look at you know, senator john edwards, they tried to pull this same thing, this same accusation, the department of justice on so mucu that's present tense. one more thing about the 26th floor of trump tower. felix sater and his office there, why would the president say he could not even effective recognize felix sater? a lot of people there. i would imagine there's mingling and the president knows who is exactly on that floor. >> i don't know that for a fact. i wouldn't recognize himself. i spent a great deal of time with the president. he spends time about with a lot of people. i don't know if he would recognize me. he's got a very full day. maybe he was exaggerating a bit. i don't know. but felix sater was several doors down from the president. he wasn't there all that long. it was some time ago. remember, michael cohen said he had the office that michael cohen had up till the end. michael cohen's been there over ten years. if felix sater was there in the same office, it was over a decade ago. >> point well taken. one o

we all being over 70%, key democrats, talking hillary clinton, john edwards, john kerry or -- just goike dr. brzezinski, like brent scocroft, awful lot of democrats in the house and in the senate who fought this and didn't believe saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. you wrote about this in "war of necessity, war of choice." you were there on the ground while it was happening. how did americans, 7 of 10 americans and the intelligence community get sucked into believing this was a war of necessity? more importantly, how do we avoid that sort of tragedy from ever happening again on our watch? >> i think the reason is after 9/11, there was almost zero propensity for taking any risk, the 1% thing. there was assumption that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. when you assume something, you tend to discard any evidence against it and emphasize any evidence that does. bush was sold the idea that iraq would very quickly turn democratic and playing off vietnam would be a positive domino theory. iraq would go democratic and the rest of the region wouldn't be able to resis

process, with all the enthusiasm of the first of tenant of the titanic taking over from captain edward johnmith. britain's top cop is questioned about serious violence. you really don't need to tell me how big a problem it is. this is a huge problem and it is something i'm absolutely passionate about. also in this programme — modesty breaks out in the house of lords. the structure of the honour system is a matterfor the monarch. this is well above my pay grade and indeed my rank. laughter all that to come and more. but first, mps will be asked to pass the legislation needed to change the date of brexit in uk law on wednesday evening. although the date is already changed in international law, a short debate and vote will be held in the commons to avoid a potential legal clash. before that, mps will hold a series of votes on different brexit options — what have become known as indicative votes — in an attempt to break the deadlock. of those votes, the options are expected to include a second referendum, or closer links with the eu, won't be binding on the government. the revised timetable eme