john thune say, denny hack said i would be thrilled to have john thune in the house, where ad all, i'mhether it's appropriate and i just just want to talk about who had been kri cal of the president and come back out a little bit come out and say that. >> i hear two things. the president's words are impactful for people who are worried about re-election or worried about position in republican society. i hear the notion that because this particular inquiry is so narrowly focused, it leaves room for people to not take the difficult position to say we'll look at it in its entirety. there is a reason why they're not looking at everything in the mueller report and he can do it without compromising his integrity further. >> thank you all very much. >> the house judiciary committee and hey, this is in their hands and they're the ones who read it and draft the articles of impeachment over the president of the united states, donald trump so what will those articles be? plus trump ridicules kwamala harris for quitting the race and harris isn't taking it tonight. >>> we are just hour away from th

>>and using their data south dakota senator john thune emphasized only a bipartisan solution has a chancecoming law in washington. alexandra the mound. >>still to come the busy day on capitol hill as the impeachment inquiry and to the president begins a new phase with details on the first hearing held by the house judiciary committee. >>words of warning tonight after a year's long research study to calm and beauty products that maybe a cancer concerns. >>a lot of people talking about that one and and this one more rain is on the way big storm coming friday chief meteorologist lawrence karnow we'll time that out for us and

explanations of how the services they use are collecting and using their data south dakota senator john thune emphasized only a bipartisan solution. >>has a chance of becoming law in washington. alexandra the mound. >>and cities and counties can start applying now for hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency homelessness aid. the money is coming from the 2019 20 california budget governor newsome is going to begin accepting administration are applications that is for the million that's been set aside for local programs to fight homelessness the money is going to be given out based on the final homeless count from the federal government earlier programs to fight homelessness. the trump administration is top ning work requirements to get the federal food stamps. this is a move that will slash benefits for hundreds of thousands of people. it will eliminate states from exempting work eligible adults from having to obtain steady employment to receive benefits. the usda officials say the change would save 5 and a half billion dollars over 5 years but also cut benefits for about 680,000 food sta

the senate majority with it john thune joins us right now.ator, that seems like the direction of this. do you agree? >> it looks like it. i would like to think that there may be enough house democrats in the end that decide not to support articles of impeachment, which of course would -- you wouldn't end up having a trial in the senate. it would appear to us at this point the democrats are pretty bent and have been obsessed since he took office trying to impeach this president. so i suggest articles of impeachment will head our way to is the senate and we'll have our responsibilities under the constitution. >> neil: you think it's risky for the president not to have counsel and legal representatives there to express his side of things? obviously he is supportive of the republicans in the committee that will grill witnesses that will speak with him in the judiciary committee. that was one thing that he clamored for and now he's not a part of it. >> what has happened, the president has concluded this is tainted from the very beginning. he's bee

there were a couple of quotes today from john cornyn and john thune both of whom said basically they want to avoid a circus-like atmosphere. you throw in susan collins, lisa murkowski and others, mit romney for instance and i don't think the votes interest there. remember to a significant degree everything is going to be done on a majority vote. and if mcconnell overplays his hand or the hard liners overplay their hand, they're going to lose. there seems to be quite a disconnect between what the white house wants and what i think is going to happen on the floor of the senate. >> that is the most -- you have put your finger on the most fascinating dynamic if and when we get a trial, precisely that. because we know what donald trump wants. mcconnell is happy to tell the president to go walk off a pier when he doesn't have thee votes. it'll be interesting to see if that happens. as we're speaking here, barbara, the speaker today talked about the election. i mean right now rudy giuliani, the president's lawyer is in ukraine doing the thing that the president is being impeached over. he i

the john thunes of the world. why is it why do they want to be united states senators? it they're doing up there? they're unoffice for this assault on the constitutional order? this erosion of civil liberties? this erosion of the american mind of faithfulness to the american experiment. in this country, despite all its flaws, is a miracle. it was a miracle birthed in 1787. no republic has endured, permanently. and this one is in trouble. because the american people, insubstantial insubstantialal numbers, are losing sight of the majesty of this system of government, which is based on the premise that no man or woman is above the law. in this country the law is supreme. and we see one of the two great political parties in the country. the second -- excuse me. the third oldest political party in the world transforming in a matter of 36 months into a cult of personality, where the allegiance isn't to the flag, isn't to the country, isn't to the constitution, but to a man, a person. and a corrupt man who is sunderring the country and assailing the constitution literally with

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senators who we know know better, the ben sasses of the world, the rob portmans of the world, the john thunesthe world. why is it that these men want to be united states senators? what is it that they're doing up there? they stand for office to defend this unprecedented corruption, this assault on the constitutional order, this erosion of civil liberties. in this country despite all this flaws it's a miracle. it was a miracle birthed in 1787. no republic has endured permanently, and this one is in trouble because the american people in substantial numbers are losing sight of the majesty of this system of government. which is based on the premise that no man or woman is above the law. in this country the law is supreme. and we see one of the two great political parties in the country, the second -- excuse me, the third oldest political party in the world transforming in a matter of 36 months into a cultive personality where the allegiance isn't to the flag, isn't to the country, isn't to the constitution but to a man, to a person. and a corrupt man who is sundering the country and assailing th

president was report today have done, which was later confirmed he had done in the words of senator john thune that was, quote, not good. they all said they wanted to learn more, they all said they wanted to get to the bottom of it and so the witnesses were brought in for the inquiry. the results were all the same. more confirmation. >> to withhold that assistance for no good reason other than help with a political campaign made no sense. it was counter productive to all of what we had been trying to do. it was illogical, it could not be explained. it was crazy. >> in order to get a white house meeting the ukrainians would have to provide a deliverable which is investigations, specific investigations. >> so you heard president trump ask ambassador sondland is he going to do the investigation? >> yes, sir. >> what was ambassador sondland's response? >> he said, oh, yeah, he's going to do it, he'll do anything you ask. >> the ukrainians would have to have the prosecutor general make a statement with respect to the investigations as a condition of having the aid lifted. >> so just to summarize in

as for a start date for the senate trial, majority whip john thune says january 6th is probably quote good bet. >>> a group of five moderate democrats who flipped their districts from red to blue in 2018 have announced plans they vote to impeach president trump tomorrow. those democrats include congresswoman alisa slotkin of michigan and south carolina, and mcadams of utah and abigail stanberger of virginia and andy kim of new jersey. and slotkin explained her decision in rochester, michigan, last night and the partisan divide of impeachment was on full display. about 450 people attended her town hall and there was a handful of trump supporters who chaptered and booed throughout much of the meeting. >> i want people to think about where we will be if it becomes normal to ask foreign governments to intervene in our political process. what if that becomes normal? what if next time, we have a democratic president asking the chinese government for a cyber attack, for something new, for some intrusion? for me this is something that i cannot abide. that i can't accept. >> as a cia officer a

check this out >> chuck grassley was there and joanie ernst and -- and john thune and -- and mike pounce ] >> jimmy: "ah you know, mike pounce was there. mike pounce. well, we noticed trump has trouble pronouncing things all the time so with that in mind, it's time to play "talk like trump." [ cheers and applause ♪ talk like trump talk like trump ♪ >> jimmy: this is how this works. i'm going to see if anyone can guess how the president is the going to mispronounce a simple word if you get it right, you get a a prize. if you get it wrong, you still get a prize. all right. raise your hand if you want to play "talk like trump. who -- yeah, yes come on, stand up, buddy how doing, pal what's your name >> i'm ryan. >> jimmy: ryan, welcome to the show our first clip, very simple. president trump is going to try to say the word "fund. how do you think that he'll mispronounce it? >> finned. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: finned finned that's really good, actually, yeah all right. let's see what happens >> yet there in washington who would raid your health care to frund free benefits. >> jimmy: ah, frund.

including the operation to trying get republican senators in line focusing on senate majority whip john thuneho they write will play a central role in ensuring there would be a majority of republican senators for a swift impeachment trial and they will stick with the president as soon prepares for january, they write he met privately on wednesday with former senator from mississippi trent lawton who was the majority leader who helped in clinton's trial. as we know from earlier reporting yesterday, john food met in his office on tuesday during the senate luncheon with some key republican senators that are being watched during the impeachment. cory gardner from the swing state of colorado and with mitt romney as well meeting in his office. speaking of the clinton impeachment, one more thing to show you, this from jamie dupree showing two washington post headlines the day after the house impeachment votes. trump impeached, clinton impeached. two headlines 21 years apart. democratic caller, did you watch the debates? caller: yes i did. host: what did you think? caller: oh my goodness. something a

one of mcconnell's top lieutenants, john thune, says, quote, i would say i don't think the appetite is real high for turning this into a prolonged spectacle. we've also heard lindsey graham putting it pretty plainly. >> this thing will come to the senate and it will die quickly and i will do everything i can to make it die quickly. if you don't like president trump, you can vote against him in less than a year. i don't want to call anybody. i don't need to hear from hunter biden. i don't need to hear from joe biden. we can deal with that outside of impeachment. i don't want to talk to pompeo. i don't want to talk to pence. i want to hear the house make their case based on the record they established in the house and i want to vote. i am trying to give a pretty clear signal i have made up my mind. i'm not pretending to be a fair juror here. i'm telling you right now, if mueller had found something against trump, i would have been his loudest critic and i told the president to his face. what i see happening today is just a partisan nonsense. >> so leagigh ann, what is the likelihood that

mitt romney said ukraine didn't meddle, john thune and marco rubio came out and said it's important top-eds from the systemic effort to undermine our election system. they said no one, nothing compares to what russia did in 2016. gene robinson, what christopher wray, the fbi director did yesterday in that interview should not be exceptional. he was basing on fact his defense of his own agency. but it is in an era of bill barr and an era of mike pompeo when the heads of these departments and agencies view their number one job as defending president trump, christopher wray who i remind people was nominated by donald trump after the president fired james comey is a career and life-long republican, will now probably be viewed by some people as a part of a deep state conspiracy that doesn't exist. >> oh, absolutely. he's going to -- he's going to now be in the crosshairs of this -- this sort of trumpist right wing propaganda campaign to gas light the american people and the world that ukraine did the same thing russia did, which it didn't. we should all remember that there are -- there are