congresswoman katie porter has just announced she is now in favor of beginning the impeachment process of president trump. congresswoman porter will join us to explain her decision tonight. >>> tonight, president trump officially announced that he is running for re-election. no surprise there. to make that announcement the president flew to orlando, florida where he was greeted by an extraordinary editorial in the "orlando sentinel" today. a year and a half before the election, the "orlando sentinel" delivered an endorsement for president in 2020, and that endorsement is not donald trump. the editorial said "donald trump is in orlando to announce the kickoff of his re-election campaign. we're here to announce our endorsement for president in 2020, or at least we're not endorsing donald trump." the "orlando sentinel" historically is a republican newspaper. it has occasionally endorsed democrats for president, including barack obama in 2008, but then the "orlando sentinel" endorsed president obama's republican opponent, mitt romney, in the next election. the "orlando sentinel's" editoria

>> katie porter is sitting there crying, and it's not necessary, it is not helpful. to the division in this country. if there was something that we could actually pursue for impeachment, it would be happening. the fact that there is infighting amongst the democrats is proof that there is nothing in that politically. >> shannon: or that they feel like the political consequences, jehmu, might be too happy. there's been a lot of concern about that. writing about this, congress of one ocasio-cortez versus the speaker says, "the objects have and also for pelosi. she rolled her caucus with an iron fist in her first spin speaker. now she's being run over in the press by a freshman who isn't afraid to be publicly disrespectful. iran, jehmu, she's not the only one. what is the speaker do with the confidence of the members? >> i think she welcomes that. i've actually had a conversation with her directly where she welcomes it. so that's a good thing. but to the point of impeachment, i think for many democrats, especially our leadership, they were also looking at where the ameri

>> katie porter is sitting there crying and it is not necessary, not helpful.ntinues to add to the division in this country. if there was something we could actually pursue for impeachment it would be happening. the fact there is infighting among the democrats is proof there's nothing in that putting. shannon: or they feel the political consequences might be too have to. there has been concern about that. congresswoman ocasio cortez versus the speaker, the optics have been awful for pelosi. she will secaucus with an iron fist. now she is being run over in the press by freshman who isn't afraid to be publicly disrespectful. she's not the only one. what does the speaker do with this newfound confidence of these young members? >> she welcomes it. i had a conversation with her directly where she welcomes it. that is a good thing. to the point of impeachment i think for many democrats, especially leadership they were also looking at where the american people were and the latest fox news poll that shows 50% of americans want donald trump impeached, that is going to g

. >> that was tonight on social media, freshman congresswoman katy porter who represents constituency. as she became the 67th house member to get on board with impeachment. she joins a growing number of americans calling on congress to act. according to a new nbc news wall street journal poll, 27% say they supported impeachment hearings. that's a 10% bounce. that number is higher among democrats at 48%. nancy pelosi says the support for it would have to be overwhelming. there would have to be consensus, there is not. just 28% of democratic members support it. it had "the washington post" wrote, pelosi demonstrated the firm grip she wheeled over congress. here to talk about it, eliot williams, former federal prosecutor, attorney general and counsel to the senate judiciary committee. gentlemen, welcome back to the broadcast. chris, i mean this in positive terms, katy porter is the darling of the new kind of progressive left. she's a single mother of three, phillips, yale, harvard law school, does that give her choice any further weight and what people are missing is the 27% of the u.s.

she is watching the katy porters. question is not just are they going to move, but the questions here to the earlier conversation, how fast do they move? is slowly enough to get to timing that leads to impeachment inquiry or is slowly but surely so slow that it plays out in trump's end game that we were describe something. >> in my day, working in congress that seems like a lifetime ago because i guess it was. >> it was when i was there. i remember. >> during the clinton presidency both in the house and the senate, a leadership player, someone in the house who was close to the leadership or someone in the senate who was close and consistent with the leadership never made a move like this without the leadership's secret blessing. i would have said to you back then, obviously jan got the speaker's okay to do this because the speaker is perfectly happy to have more going in that direction and might be encouraging it and has her own secret time being this. but i don't know what's going on behind the closed door now. >> i

katie porter for california, thank you for being on the show.ere to make the case to the american people. >> thank you. >> all right. so you know that secret deal that the president has been teasing about the border and with mexico and how mexico says he doesn't know what he's talking about -- did you see this deal today? he claims it was all on the paper that he whipped out at the white house. but he wouldn't tell us what was on the paper so reporters took all of these pictures of the paper and tried to piece together what is on the paper. that's where we are right now. let's bring in d. lemon and see if he can help us make sense of the situation with his x-ray vision. you can stream and scroll through other people's vacations, or you can be the kind of person that books their own vacation. a booker. scootin' through life at 7 miles an hour... [awesome] you see, bookers just go for it, they book a surfside resort, order a fourth taco even though three was plenty. 'cause bookers don't make bucket lists... no booking way, they make memories. just

california's katie porter is the first democrat ever elected in her district.od to have you back on "prime time." >> thank you. >> so why the shift? why is impeachment the right move? >> so, this is for me really about taking the time to wait for special counsel mueller to do his investigation, to issue his report and then to have the opportunity to read the report and study the constitution, to talk with colleagues, and having done all of that, i've come to the conclusion that based on the facts in the mueller report, which are that president trump engaged in at least four acts of obstruction of justice there's substantial evidence that he engaged in those four acts, i felt like it's appropriate to begin an impeachment inquiry. >> but you can't remove him from office, so you will leave the people who want this unsatisfied and there's political risk, especially for you, in at best a purple district. why do it? play it safe. >> i didn't come to washington, d.c. to make the easy decisions. i came to make the right ones. and there may or may not be political conse

one member of her caucus still deciding is congresswoman katie porter of california. o primetime. called you kim porter by mistake in the tease. the resemblance between you and the actress is striking, but it was a mistake. so good to have you on the show. >> thank you. >> let me bounce some stuff off you. by the way, you were brilliant with bill maher. he said too you were very funny. the idea of where your party needs to be with it's nominee, i know you're going to say it's too early but in terms of what you think the goal should be, what's the answer? >> so, look, i don't think we need an answer because this isn't my job to figure out. this isn't any commentator on the show, it isn't your job to figure out. this is the job of the american people. democracy is a process. it's messy. i disagree that there's too many candidates. i don't know what the right number of candidates is and neither does he. i grew up in iowa before i moved to california to the promised land and i think this field will wittel down, people will make their choices and having this conversation is

house democrat katie porter joins the growing calls to begin impeachment inquiry into president trump speaker pelosi's resistance. but she's one of these freshman members of congress on the democratic side in one of these swing stric swing districts and everyone is watching. chair of the house intelligence committee adam schiff, mr. chairman thank you so much for being with us. katie porter just a few miles down the road from you, her home district, and people have been watching how these house freshman particularly from the swing districts would go now that she's moved and others getting a little bit shakily as well. do you see momentum growing for impeachment? >> you know, there's certainly a growing number of house democrats that are coming out ipfavin favor of impeachment. it's been a slow increase but nevertheless an increase. every member has to make an individual determination what's best for the country. they are at this point divided on the question. i do think, though, regardless of how people come out in terms of whether this is the right thing at the right time, people do

katie porter is one to come out and she says it's not a decision that she takes lightly. >> after weeks of study, deliberation and conversations with orange county families, i have decided to support an impeachment investigation of the president. i have not come to this easily. i come to this decision after much deliberation and i know deeply what this means for our democracy. >> andrew gillum is a cnn political commentator who's the former mayor of tallahassee and he was the democratic candidate for florida governor last year. do you, mayor, look at this and say that support from someone like katie porter, for starting an impeachment inquiry, may put more pressure on speaker pelosi to finally pull the parking brake on moving forward with this or not? what do you think? >> well, i tell you, adding congresswoman porter to the list, the growing list i should say of democrats who are working to hold this president accountable for his more than ten occasions of obstruction of justice is a big blow to those who are trying to keep the conversation around an impeachment inquiry from moving for

katie porter will answer for the new left.s for the old guard. >> okay. thanks very much. are you the old guard or new guard? >> i am definitely old guard. i am the oldest person on my show. >> it's depressing when you're no longer the young person in the room. we used to be the young person at abc. >> you have looked like this since i met you. >> i looked ancient even when i was young. nobody said to me you were prematurely grey. now it's just yeah, you're old. >> i look at video of us during 9/11. your coverage then was brilliant. the stories that you brought at that time. i look like my son. i look nothing like i look today. totally changed. you look the same except for the glasses which we all know you don't need. >> i wish. if only. if only i could figure out how to put contact lenses in my eyes which i can't. i've had many lessons. chris, see you soon. just a story that blew me away. so many kids in need in this country. kids homeless and in foster care and kids struggling with life threatening illnesses. you'll meet a c

california congresswoman katie porter is the latest to come out in support of the impeemt inquiry. >> after weeks of discussions with orange county families, i've decided to support the impeachment proceedings. >> her southern california seat had been in gop hands since 1983. congresswoman porter is only the second freshman democrat from republicannd leaning district t do so. the first was from new jersey. >>> according to washington post, democrats are widely concerned that the discussion is overshadowing the agenda. the post reports in recent weeks, congresswoman, the chairwoman of the committee has briefed fellow house leaders in private meetings about focus groups in three political battlegrounds. the upshots is that the public's impression with the new house majority is boundho up in the battles with trump, not in its democratic agenda. according to those briefed on the focus groups, which were conducted earlier this year, voters are largely unaware of political developments that don't involve the president. >> the democrats that i've talked to said they learned this lesson in 20

you can look at for example katy porter's questioning of some of the members of her committee. but we want to sit down to see what structure makes the most productive use of bob mueller's time, and we will have enough time allotted to the committee that each member will be able to ask their questions if we go with the traditional format. when we interview fact witnesses, we have often done those where we will have an hour, and then the minority will have an hour to allow for sustained questioning. this is a different circumstance, and we don't generally use that format with a witness like bob mueller, but we will discuss it internally, and we will make those decisions. >> who goes first, intelligence or judiciary? >> my expectation is that he will hear from the judiciary committee and shortly thereafter from our committee and then we will have closed session with the staff and both committees will have the opportunity to meet with the staff in closed session. >> have you finally by the way gotten some of the not only redacted report, but have you gotten information about the pa

i rise today with my colleagues , especially led by representative katie porter, in support of her constituent michael wynn. i have stayed involved in this case for now over -- or just about a year. slightly less than a year. i want to thank representative porter for keeping the members of congress involved in this by having periodic, almost really monthly calls with with the u.s. consul office in vietnam. i want to thank the ambassador for making this a high priority of the u.s. mission in vietnam to attend to the case of michael, to visit michael in jail. what am i talking about? michael wynn, who is a citizen of the city of orange, was on a trip in july of 2018, as he frequently did during the past, to visit relatives in vietnam. on his way from the city of da notwithstanding to a ho chi minh city, what was known as saigon, government security officials removed him from his bus and took him into custody. he was detained, he was imprisoned, repeatedly interrogated, and when the u.s. consul and members of congress asked why is he being charged? they were told almost a year ago, he's under inv

we've seen this from a couple of representatives, for example, katy porter in a trump district now recognizing with mueller's statement, with the fact that trump has instructed congress's ability to conduct oversight, i'm leaning towards impeachment. we've seen it with justin amash at home in his district. you have his constituents who are like, i thought this report exonerated trump when he went back and walked through the facts, people starred to understand that. >> nick, let me ask you, you mentioned watergate. was it not so that most of the public was against the impeachment of richard nixon until some of the facts started coming out as they proceeded toward impeachment? >> well, i think it was a gradual process. i mean, what happened was archie cox who was the special prosecutor whom i came in with, i was appointed in may of '73. but right at that time you had a committee holding televised hearings. so the public became aware pretty early on of what the facts were. they learned that the committee to re-elect the president nixon was involved in the break-in. they learned from john dean tha

katie porter, a freshman california democrat, has just announced her support for an impeachment inquire yeah into donald trump. porter says he made the decision after weeks of deliberation, conversation with voters, and that while she did not come to congress to impeach the president, "when faced with a crisis of this magnitude, i cannot with a clean conscience ignore my duty to defend the constitution. i can't claim to be committed to rooting out corruption and putting people over politics and then not apply those same principles and standards in all of the work i do." porter is an interesting case. she defeated an incumbent republican in her district that was created in 1983 and from the time of its creation until porter's election had never once voted for a single democrat. she now becomes the 67th member of the house to favor starting an impeachment inquiry. 66 democrats and one lonely republican. that list includes michigan democrat andy levin who announced this position had switched at a town hall on saturday night. >> i am going to be supporting and seeking and trying to build co

katie porter now on that list. the california freshman becomes the 67th member who backs that move.em to be running up against more private concerns. the "washington post" reporting today top democrats in a quiet state of enth. the "post" says they're worried that all constant fighting with the president are overshadowing the party's legislative agenda. party leaders going so far as to commission focus groups to figure out next steps. a democrat who supports impeachment and running for president himself and somebody you will see on the debate stage next week airing on msnbc, tim ryan of ohio. thanks for being with us. >> thanks, hallie. good to be with you. >> do you think calls for impeachment are overshadowing the party's agenda? >> there is no question about it. donald trump and all of this criminal activity has sucked all the air out of the room. i don't think there's any doubt about that. and democrats will continue to pass legislation that is significant for the american people. we'll continue to do that. but, you know, this scintillating impeachment talk is doing what donald

freshmen democratic women who took office this year, it's different like california congresswoman katie porterw professor and consumer advocate. [ applause ] earlier this year, she grilled trump's pick to lead the consumer financial protection bureau, kathy kraninger, who has no experience in consumer protection porter specifically asked her to explain the difference between an interest rate and apr now, i don't know the difference i looked it up three times this morning, and i still don't remember and i can guarantee you, this guy doesn't understand it, but the director of the bureau that's in charge of protecting consumers from predatory lenders should absolutely understand it. and yet when porter asked kraninger to explain the difference, porter had to explain it to her. >> could you please explain to this committee the difference between an interest rate and an apr? >> so the apr is the extrapolation, if it were a one year term. >> miss kraninger, the annual percentage rate, and i'll be happy to send you a copy of the textbook that i wrote, explains that the apr is derived from the finance

katie porter in california, of shaun cason on illinois. all three of those members defeated republicans, and so it looks like the politics of this, while unclear, and the fact that they're unclear gives me pause and has probably kept me on the sideline partly until now, the fact that many of our brand-new members who won in republican districts are coming out in support of an impeachment inquiry suggest the politics of this might be evolving somewhat. >> you're splitting with the chairman of your committee, adam schiff. he's reluctant to do what you're doing right now, propose formal procedures on impeachment beginning. are you trying to change his mind? >> again, i'm going to be deferential to people who are in different positions than i am in. the chairman, adam schiff, of the intelligence committee. he sees more than i do, he coordinates more with the leadership. so my objective here is not to pressure them, not to say you're doing the wrong thing. my objective here is just to speak with conviction and clarity about what i believe. and

and so what i think, especially hearing from someone like katy porter in california, she is definitely listening to her constituents. she's also acting according to trump obstructing investigations by raising a light on that even further. make no mistake, those "frontline" democratic candidates in trump-held districts are keeping an ear to the ground with their constituents because that's who they have to answer to for all this. >> that becomes a classic political bank shot, every reference to what those folks want, those members, becomes a reference to what they want in their districts. it becomes a circular thing flannery was getting at. who is leading where public opinion goes? obviously it's fair to say there is a wide set of views on both sides even within just the democratic caucus. thanks to each of you. >> thanks, ari. >> we're going to fit in a break and shake up in trump's reelection campaign already all because he said news that didn't exist. and neal katyal is here on some of the trump nixon echos on executive privilege and what might backfire. at the top of the hour, we're

i also want to thank katie porter, who is also a co-sponsor of this amendment. but the bottom line is this is commonsense. and i want to also acknowledge the great work being done on this issue at the center for health, law and policy innovation at harvard law school. the friedman school of nutrition at tuffs. i want to acknowledge groups like community servings in my district which administers medically tailored meals as well as food and friends here in washington, d.c., and the food is medicine coalition. the bottom line is this not only is good for our -- for patients and can help improve health care outcomes for individuals, and in some cases literally save lives, but it also will save a boat load of money. as i mentioned earlier, when you are readmitted to a hospital prematurely, that hospital gets punished. the insurance company has to kick in again. you have to pay more out of pocket expenses. we can do this better. we need to think differently about how we approach health care. this is one way to do it. i urge everybody to support this amendment and i ho

. >> that was california congresswoman katie porter, the latest lawmaker to come out in support of anworther is a prp.in 1983. dozens of kroots have called for an impaechlment inquiry will but congress comporter is only the second freshman democrat from a republican leaning district do so. the first was congressman tom ma malinowski of new jersey. the post reports that in recent weeks the chairman of the and the upshot according to democrats familiar with the findings is that the public's impression of the nous p new house majority is bound up in its battles with trump, not in its policy agenda. that has prompted anxiety about whether the democratic strategy to hold the house in 2020 by focusing on health care costs and other kitchen table issues can be effective amade the president's attacks. or. voters are largely unaware of political developments that don't involve the president. so joining us now, member of the house judiciary committee, democratic congressman david cicilline cicilline of and looking like you're getting something done or actual will getting something done. >> i th

when i sit next to katie porter, iowa girl, who's questioning her house -- our secretary about a real he thinks it is a cookie, well, that's a fun day me. where are you living? abby said to find a lace on her own, i'm living in a dorm-like situation with our fellow women representatives out wednesday i get up and make a call into kma spenten doa -- shenandoah, iowa to make sure ural america know that i'm fating -- fighting for them, abby's fighting for them and iowa is protected under our watch. most surprising? this isn't just about policy, folks. this is about people who want to manipulate the system, and we see it every single day. we are fighting for the right but we're also making sure that those systems that they put in place that people manipulate across the aisle to ensure that our democracy is at risk, those to go, and got that's something that we, as freshmen, are working on, and i you after a decade in state government holding it accountable, i'm using those elbows to make sure we fixt just fix -- don't just policy, but we fix systems in government. who is the neatest perso

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when i sit next to katie porter, and iowa girl -- [applause] \ -- she was questioning ben carson aboutg? i know abby said to find a place on her own but i'm living in a dorm-like situation with some , and women representatives every wednesday morning i get up and make a call to km a radio in shenandoah, iowa, and i talk with them for 15 minutes every wednesday morning to make sure rural america knows i am fighting for them, abby is fighting for them, and iowans are protected under our watch. [applause] what's most surprising? this isn't just about policy. this is about people who want to manipulate the system and we see it every single day. we are fighting for the right policy but we are also making sure those systems they put in place, that people are able to manipulate across the aisle to ensure our democracy is at risk, those systems have got to go and that is something that we as freshmen are working on and after a decade in state government i am using those sharp elbows to make sure we don't just fix policy that we fix systems in government. [applause] who's the neatest person you

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katie port is the latest lawmaker to come out in support of an impeachment inquiry. porter narrowly flipped her district in this year's midterm election, last year's, argued the president's stonewalling of congressional investigations have brought the country to a crisis. that was her phrase. porter is now the 67th member of the u.s. house of representatives who called for impeachment. 66 democrats and one republican. but porter is only the second democrat from a republican-leaning democrat to do so along with new jersey's tom malinoski. last year amy klobuchar said she would support impeachment beginning now and the house was on the right track with investigation. klobuchar released her 100-day plan today laying out a number of actions she plans to take if she wins the white house. we have more on that coming up. democratic senator and candidate for president joins me now. >> thanks. >> you're always smile when you come on this show and i appreciate that. >> well, you're fun to listen to. >> i think the calendar is moving. the older i get, the faster the calendar moves, i