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we have joe lockhart, former commentator. so helpful to go to swing states.love the candor of people like terry to explain her thinking right now. let's test that theory. most working people cannot be bl glued to their televisions. is there a way that it moves the needle for some? >> moving the needle, the way you design that is important. to remove the president, you have to split his base. yesterday didn't do that. i don't expect absent some of the more senior people from the white house going in and telling dramatic testimony, that that will happen. the democrats put on a strong case. and democrats and independents will all vote in november of next year. it does matter. i think republicans did what they thought they needed to do. they need to give their base something to hold on to. i think the best argument was, the simplest argument, that the aid went through and there's no more investigations. it falls apart with one more piece of information. they're not going to get that from fax fox news, or rush limbau limbaugh. >> i want to make the point that ther

ryan nobles is here as well as joe lockhart. wow. good evening, gentlemen. ryan, you first.tant to note that there's no clear winner in this poll. buttigieg is definitely surging compared to the summer. what does that say about the state of this race? >> well, don, no doubt a poll is just a snapshot in time, but we're certainly seeing a trend line here. pete buttigieg is on the rise. you see bernie sanders and elizabeth warren basically holding stable and joe biden is starting to drop. when you take this poll and a couple of other polls, you do see one thing for sure. this race is extraordinarily close, especially with those top four candidates, and you do see a lot of iowa voters that have yet to make up their mind. even if she say that they like one of these four candidates, they still say that their minds aren't completely made up and they could change your minds before they finally cast their votes in february, essentially telling us this is still pretty much a wide open race. >> joe lockhart, and i sit here with you and others night after night after night, here's the c

joining us is joe begala and joe lockhart, both veterans of the clinton war room. throwing out -- it seems like there is this spaghetti approach, throwing out as much stuff as possible, see what sticks and ride that horse, to mix metaphors. >> the spaghetti western sort of thing. >> yeah, perfect. today he's not saying the transcripts have been faked. it seems like that's a one-day thing because there's plenty of republicans and witnesses who said that's not what i said. >> it's not even a one day -- it's a one news article, one tweet. he may win it because the shoot a man on 5th avenue prediction turned out to be right. i'm not as optimistic about anthony scaramucci. >> i'm surprised scaramucci seemed so confident on that. >> i'm sure the partisanship is baked in. >> on clinton -- >> 31 democrats voted for the inquiry and only five to impeach. 25 of the 31 said it doesn't merit impeachment. >> the revelations are, they're only going to keep coming. and the question is does bolton testify on thursday and, if so, what game is he playing or what is he talking? >> the

joining us now joe lockhart and charlie dent.oe, what role does ambassador yovanovitch play in this story and why is her testimony today in public important? >> i think there are a couple reasons. one is it shows the length and the breadth of this campaign to get the ukrainians to investigate biden and his son. this wasn't just one phone call in july. she got fired in march and the smear campaign started even before that. secondly, it exposing rudy giuliani for what he was doing. and i think she can talk about the kind of people he put in with ukraine. the corrupt people. finally, there are a lot of people around the president who were involved in this smear campaign. we've got donald trump jr., sean hannity, rudy giuliani. it kind of stretches credibility that the president wasn't aware of this. >> we also have joe de geneva. i think we need to talk about him. because marie yovanovitch becomes the living embodiment of what happens when conspiracy theories take hold around the president. and that's what happens. joe who has been

cupp host of "unfiltered" that airs at 6:00 eastern and former clinton press secretary joe lockhart. great to have you here. joe, first of all, i want to reiterate, cnn has no evidence that joe biden or his son, hunter, did anything wrong. but the way this is looking like it's going to go is there's going to be probably a trial going on in the gop-led senate during these crucial campaigning months in which joe biden's name is going to be coming up over and over and over again. how does joe biden, you know, deal with all of that? how much could it hurt him if people are hearing his name and thinking while they're talking about him every day, he must have done something wrong. >> yeah. i think it's a mixed bag. there is with any time a politician, someone in their family like, say, ivanka, jared, don jr., eric, you know, look like or there's a perception that they're leveraging their name, that that causes people some concern. as far as their -- this being a scandal, though, there isn't any evidence. what joe biden was doing was implementing american foreign policy and getting the corr

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back with us, joe lockhart and bianna golodryga.e most interesting things here, friends, is that there is testimony that these men talked repeatedly. including once on july 26th which was the day after the trump/zelensky phone call. we haven't heard what sondland has to say about that yet, but the president was asked trekt ly about it and this is what the president had to say. >> i know nothing about that. first time i've heard it. the one thing i've seen that sondland said was that he did speak to me for a brief moment and i said no quid pro quo under any circumstances. and that's true. the other, i've never heard this. in any event, it's more secondhand information, but i've never heard it. >> president says i've never heard it. he's never heard of this phone call on july 26th when ambassador gordon sondland called. so what happens if sondland goes in today saying that phone call happened? >> i think most people assume that phone call happened. you have many credible witnesses saying that phone call happened. he said he didn't rem

cnn political commentators, former white house press secretary for the clinton administration, joe lockhart, and former special assistant to president george w. bush, scott jennings. scott, i want to go first to you. we have the first deadline tomorrow night. that's whether the president and his team would participate in the first hearing on wednesday. the president will be out of the country but could send his lawyers. as we just played in the sound, the president has complained about this process, calling it a sham. now they have the chance to participate. so should they? >> yeah, i've vacillated on this throughout the day. i think the most likely answer is that, no, they will not participate in it because, a, they want to continue to call the process a sham, and b, it's not going to change the outcome. i mean, we're on a course here for the house judiciary committee to report out articles of impeachment and probably in mid to late december, the house will impeach the president. and sending your lawyers to this committee isn't going to change that outcome. his lawyers can always show up i

our plaque cards and started to protest and within minutes other demonstrators saw a massive jump lockhart's it does collated quickly we wanted to cross in a calm way now we have freed we know that our message she's truthful but there are people who are aggressive to us the violence against women the protest raises questions at demonstration with the slogan all of us turns out not to be for all of us at all since we have been treated like fascists i'm asking what is the basis for this do this women nor the definition of fascism i am angry about this attack being treated in that way we have feminist movement we denounce any kind of violence people speak about freedom of expression but do they mean it we have questions to women who pretend to be feminists who say that they represent other women and now that novices activist we spoke to told us that rapists of my quit origin are not prosecuted and off she also asked to remain anonymous. i was in the rage we went to this demonstration because we wanted to defend women's rights we think not enough was said on the subject of migration and when the

our plaque cards and started to protest and within minutes other demonstrators saw a massive jump lockhart's it escalated quickly we wanted to put our message cross in a calm way now we have freed we know that our message is truthful but there are people who are aggressive to us the violence against women the protest raises questions and demonstration with the slogan all of us turns out not to be for all of us at all since we have been treated like fascists i'm asking what is the basis for this do this women know the definition of fascism i am angry about this attack being treated in that way we are feminist movement we denounce any kind of violence people speak about freedom of expression but do they mean it we have questions to women who pretend to be feminists who say that they represent other women ok join us for more news at the top of the hour. the u.s. house of representatives has wrapped up its 1st round of impeachment hearings against president trump but it's not done with trying to oust him with new impeachment proceedings ahead is impeachment of viable strategy against the preside

keith boynkin and former clinton white house secretary joe lockhar lockhart. >> appeal is he brings peopleng deval. they know each other well and it's kind of a cheap shot and the bigger picture for biden as he goes around and talks about how much support he has in the african-american community which is true, but he's -- he's got to earn that support, and you know, taking a shot at deval, i think, was off brand. >> off brand, keith. here's the thing to his point about the black vote, he is giving this interview with don in south carolina and 50% of the voters are black and it was a slam to pete buttigieg and oliver davis is one of the longest-serving black council members in south bend, indiana and comes out and endorsesed bien and he's struggled to win over communities of color and it's a consistent issue that's not going away. is joe biden in a bad spot? is he betting on black voters in the third state to vote to -- for him? >> well, i mean, that's a gamble you take, when you make that risk and calculation but i'm not sure that we'll see the results we have right now in february when we

as i recall, going back to when lockhart was here earlier, we actually had a strategy. our strategy was portray the prosecutor as tape receipt as a prissy, partisan, pompous prosecutor, and, of course, he played right into it. i had more fun slapping ken starr around than most anything i've ever done in my life. the second thing we did is we trivialized the charge. i mean, come on, guys. the third thing we did is we kept the base intact. the only thing i've seen them doing is keeping their base intact. well, their base alone is not going to win. lindsey graham, i'm going to quote him. said the president was defiant. he just kept saying he did nothing wrong, did nothing wrong, over and over. he went on to say, i went against the clinton people, and they were good. i told the president, we got to get better. just being a dog howling at the moon at the mainstream media and the clinton's, you control the justice department and the state department, if something is wrong, investigate it. you have the entire power of the united states government behind you. if she was doing w

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with us now, "new york times" politics editor, patrick healy, joe lockhart and scherr michael singletop. joe, your reaction to this reporting, testimony which happened behind closed doors friday night then the new details josh was providing us. >> i think the democrats have been methodical, first establishing what the facts were from taylor and kent and going right at the republicans david holmes provides sondland and trump's phone call where you know he heard it and some others heard it and sondland. obviously has firsthand information. so they are you know, each witness sets up the next as they try to build this case. the provesrbial noose keeps getting tighter and igt e. >> sondland had to go back and revise initial testimony behind closed r doors. now we're learning he never disclosed in either of the testimonies, original and revised testimony, i just wonder about his credibility. >> he never disclosed it and he had multiple people heard it that are now saying that you know, saying it in their testimony. the problem for sundondland is t he is essential to both democ t democrats and

joining us now, kaitlan collins and joe lockhart.t clinton's white house pres secretary. the newest reporting regarding sondland is in "the wall street journal" that says they've read emails that sondland wrote to white house officials. mr. sondland kept several top officials including mick mulvaney and rick perry apprised of the push -- this is the push to investigate the bidens -- according to emails reviewed by "the wall street journal" in the weeks leading up to the president's july 25th call with his ukrainian counterpart that spurred a whistle-blower complaint and the impeachment probe. so the important thing here is that sondland kept others in the know. this is all happening before july 25th. the big picture here is we have this guy testifying on tv to congress who witnesses testify was speaking to the president about investigating the bidens. >> it's becoming how clear how critical this testimony is going to be. it's going to be fascinating to watch him. one is just how closely tied he was to some of the top officials in the

i saw your comments earlier about this, your conversation with joe lockhart.of the things that lindsey graham himself has said about donald trump and some of the things he's said about joe biden. and it's almost like it's a different person. lindsey graham was calling donald trump a kook and unfit for office just a few years ago and praising joe biden as being a great human being. now it's exactly the opposite. he's investigating joe biden and exonerating donald trump. what happened to this guy? >> on patrick and bloomberg, they're operating on the same theory, that biden cannot go the distance. we'll know in south carolina. >> i got to run. thank you both. happy thanksgiving to you. >> thank you. >> happy thanksgiving to you as well. oh, we'll be right back. did you get a whole thanksgiving? well you remember what happened last year. you can't bring a backup thanksgiving to my sister's house. it's not like we're going to walk in with it. we'll bring it in as we need it. ...phase it in. phase it in? yeah, phase it in. phase it in? - [narrator] forget about vac

joe lockhart was the press secretary for bill clinton. it's not really the case with president trump and so the situation he's in, while it is entirely political and i think there are some analogies to the 1997 '98 impeachment move with republicans where republicans wanted to get bill clinton just like a lot of democrats want to get donald trump, there's a lot of evidence for why democrats may want to do that, but that atmosphere is out there and donald trump acts in his own way and as we've seen with trump supporter, they're seaying if you shoot somebody on 5th avenue, we'll have to ask why. >> do you think john kelly could have prevented the president from pressuring ukraine? >> no. if donald trump wants to pick up the phone and make a call, hooe going to do so. you know, we've talked for years now well if only donald trump puts down his phone and doesn't tweet so much, we know that's not going to happen. >> tweeting more than ever now. more than ever because he's trying to scream more loudly in his own defense. >> let me read a tweet t

at the end of the day he would say to me or joe lockhart or some of the other guys on the impeachment team, well, what happened today? he didn't talk to the media about impeachment unless it was very planned. it was a highly disciplined operation, where there was an impeachment team separate. and then there was everybody else was told run the government. people were not even in the white house. staff wasn't even allowed to talk about impeachment in staff meetings unless it was the impeachment team. that was the except of the discipline. and we see no discipline and now what we are seeing is a lot of things are coming out that are more and more damning and we're going to see more things come out. >> wondering where the democrats stand as we look ahead to 2020. we have michael bloomberg, who last week jumped into this race at a time people think we should be narrowing down this race, lisa. i know president obama spoke yesterday to the democratic alliance with a group of very wealthy donors last night. here's what he had to say about the democratic party. >> lisa, you were there. what is

here to discuss, abby phillip who anchored "early start" this morning and joe lockhart.is morning, i'm concerned about the weather and i think the travel warnings are a big story. but you're like, no. the only story we should be covering is the anonymous story and the interview on reddit. what did you find so interesting? >> let me tell you everything. anonymous did this ask me anything as some authors will do, as i can tell you. so ask me anything. >> obviously not anything. >> anything. anything. you could ask this thomas anything. >> like what's your name? >> yes. yes. they did want to know this person's identity and what anonymous said was i will reveal it in due time, but the reason i'm not revealing my identity is because president trump so often focuses on the messenger and the person and he wants -- he or she wants the public to focus on the message and what's going on inside the trump white house rather than all the insults the president will lodge. but let's do a dramatic reading of another really good question that was asked of the anonymous author. you ask th

joe lockhart and elie honig with us now. we've got a big week ahead.o there's this deadline from chairman nadler that the white house has to respond to if they're going to participate legally in the next phase of the impeachment inquiry. you're going to see a formal report of what the investigations have found to date. break this down for folks using your experience on being on the other side. >> yeah. i think for news value, the intel report written by schiff and dan goldman and the committee is going to really pull all the things that happened together. the hearing will be just like in 1998. there'll be some constitutional scholars who argue what happened here is impeachable. it'll explain what a high crime and misdemeanor is. i don't expect the president's lawyers to participate in that. because this is a legal constitutional argument. their argument is political. they don't have evidence that helps them. they don't, you know, have a legal theory here that helps them. so i think when that's done, the house judiciary committee will begin to basically

a growing number of senator -- i was going to say something that joe lockhart said on the morning showt do it. a growing number of senate republicans are ready to say that trump engaged in a quid pro quo, which is a shakedown. but they also -- they're not ready to say it's illegal or that it's impeachable. is this sort of a halfsies way to say that trump was wrong but still we want to keep him. we don't think he should leave office? >> i think they're going to have trouble with this position as the evidence unfolds in front of them. there's much more than just this conversation that has been the focus. the transcript that trump calls his perfect conversation, i guess by trump's standard, who is used to doing shakedowns in new york real estate, he probably was pretty mild in this one is why he thinks it's perfect. but the senate isn't going to be able to hang on to this fine thread. they know, any of them that are well read know that our country was founded on the basis of not having foreign influence. it was based on having americans elect americans. and so this is going to be very dif

joining us now is joe lockhart, he was president clinton's press secretary. rachael bade. it's your paper that broke the reporting of what seems to be a cleanup effort or an after the fact attempt to justify the hold to military aid. what do you see here? >> i think cleanup effort is a perfect way to describe it. it's clear that the white house after the whistle-blower came forward and sort of talked to the inspector general saw that this was problematic. i think that this evidence that they did this investigation and saw all these emails shows that they needed to find some sort of justification for freezing aid to ukraine that had nothing to do with the pressure on ukraine for these investigations. and it sounds like they turned up some problematic emails. the question is will we ever see those and the answer for the next few months is going to be no. because the white house has been stonewalling. and i think it's just a reminder of how much we don't know even after seeing these hearings for the past two weeks. you know, it's kind of like a puzzle and we're

joe lockhart has said what they did during impeachment was continue to do the country's business.what they always tried to show. i'm not sure how a visit from erdogan at this moment after the president is seen as capitulating by so many people to what erdogan wanted in northern syria and now that we have these -- we've had reports since the day it started of atrocities happening. how is this proving that you're doing the u.s.'s business? >> invite boris johnson if you want to deflect, right? why are you inviting erdogan? in a time you've seen what took place in syria where they went in and they're accused of war crimes including chemical weapons attacks against syrians. there's a big question to be answered about whether or not they knew where al baghdadi was located. why did the u.s. have to fly through iraq to -- for that raid opposed to going through next door turkey? and of course they bought that antidefense missile system from russia. so there's a lot on the table here. there were sanctions on the table as well. there's a huge disconnect between where the u.s. military stand

and joe lockhart, the former press secretary. i want to know where we are this morning. because, look, the evidence in the witnesses in the testimony all say one thing, right? it's one thing. they said, the president pressed for an investigation for his own personal political purposes. the president told us what he was doing, so what does it all, john. this is not like the case is proved, the jury votes, the jury are politicians. it was very clear with the president sitting there with a 90% approval rating among republicans, and the tip to me what was going to happen is when will hurd suggested just yesterday how he would vote and he described what the president did as a bad foreign policy choice. well, if that's how you're going to describe it, clearly you're not voting for impeachment. and he was one of the most likely people to cross over on this vote. i think you're going to see a partisan vote in the house to impeach, i think it's going to go to the senate, and i think the senate is going to acquit him. and i think that's been clear almost from the beginning. >> and

joe lockhart, white house press secretary during the clinton impeachment hearings and joe schultz, formerel for president trump. so, joe, point after point. >> yeah. >> is what we heard there and those are some of the main points that they used, right? first, was there no quid pro quo and then it was hearsay and each of those was systematically debunked by several witnesses this week. >> yeah. the two most important things that came out today which are the most important points that, you know, some of this is just spin, but the really important things are what holmes said that i heard the president say, i heard it out of his mouth that he was -- that the only thing he was interested in was the investigations. the second thing and it is the most important point is dr. hill saying that this was an operation, a political operation, a political errant that ran counter to u.s. policy and counter to our national security, and actually helped the russians. that is why this is an impeachable offense. >> what do republicans do thou? >> i disagree that it is impeachable, of course, and you had holm

joining us now joe lockhart, bianna golodryga, and anne milgram. want to step back and talk about the day as a whole, anne, and there was a moment that i think summed up the testimony from william taylor and george kent. these career diplomats with decades of service to the united states of america and how they felt about what they saw. >> in your decades of military service and diplomatic service representing the united states around the world, have you ever seen another example of foreign aid conditioned on the personal or political interests of the president of the united states? >> no, i have not. >> so where are we this morning? >> that is a terrific summary of what we saw yesterday. they came in, they were forthright. they answered all the questions. they made a powerful case the president had done exactly this. had basically conditioned foreign aid on his own political and personal advantage. to me yesterday was a home run. the other piece is they talked about in a way that i thought was -- excuse me -- really powerful, this phone call, this

back with us, bianna golodryga and joe lockhart.'d remember something like that if you were in an outdoor cafe and overhearing the president of the united states loudly issuing instructions about the investigations are going to happen, right? >> when you work in the foreign service and you're a diplomat, i'm sure you're prepared for many circumstances, this not being one of them. i'm sure the russians were surprised too when they intercepted the phone call. the take fwrae this is that the president clearly, the day after that phone call, the president clearly wanted an investigation into the bidens, and the president could care less about ukraine, so that defeats the republican's narrative that he was just so interest instead corruption overall in general, and he was skeptical about ukraine's past history with corruption, and he wanted to make sure they did away with it before this money went through. you hear it loud and clear as many others did at this restaurant, that the president cared about one thing and one thing only. >> and

joining us, jeffrey tioobin and kaitlan collins and joe lockhart. let me read you a piece of this ruling from judge jackson. with respect to senior level presidential aides, absolute immunity from compelled congressional process simply does not exist. indeed absolute testimonial immunity for senior level white house aides appears to be a fiction that has been fastiduously maintained. before we get to what might not happen, just as a legal document, the significance of her finding. >> what's significant is the white house's claim that for a broad array of senior advisers to the president, not only don't they have to testify about conversations with the president, they don't even have to appear. they have, as the opinion said, absolute immunity. that is they don't even have to show up. and judge jackson completely rejected that theory and said, yes, they do under article 2 of the constitution. the president does not have that right under article 1, congress does have the right to investigate the president and people around him. she did recognize that

chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin now and joe lockhart and abby phillip. well, it had seemed obvious last week that president trump only released the money to ukraine after learning about the congressional investigation of the whistle-blower complaint. but now we have the evidence. here is what "the new york times" is reporting having spoken to people connected to it. president trump had already been briefed on a whistle-blower's complaint about his dealings with ukraine when he unfroze military aid for the country in september according to two people familiar with the matter. lawyers from the white house counsel's office told mr. trump in late august about the complaint explaining they were trying to determine whether they were legally required to give it to congress, the people said. jeffrey? >> can i talk about why this matters in. >> yes. >> i think people view the facts as a jumble. why this matters is that one of the president's supporters' arguments has been there was no harm here. he gave the -- he released the aid and president zelensky of ukraine

. >> cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, political commentator joe lockhart, president clinton's press secretary, and cnn political analyst rachel bade, "the washington post" congressional reporter. great to have all of you. joe, yesterday it was historic. it's only the fourth time, obviously, in american history. nancy pelosi and others have said it's a somber day. nobody goes into congress to impeach a president. something has gone wrong if that's what's happening. that's one side. then we had matt schlapp on who said it was a good day for republicans because none broke on this vote. it was bipartisan. the polls show they are very good for the president. so was it a good day for democrats or republicans or neither? >> it's indicative of how perverse the political conversation goes that when a president is -- takes a step towards impeachment, his supporters say it's a good day. it was a procedural vote about the process. the republicans have a legitimate complaint that they're not even -- the power is not even in setting the rules. so in some sense, in one sense it was easy for

joining us now is joe lockhart. as we look at this, he is very clear in this op-ed.o admits he didn't handle this the way he should have in terms of who he looped in and when. should have spoken with secretary esper. but i'm just curious general marks, when you read this, what is your takeaway from not only how he handled it but his assessment of the president. >> it is rather skaut icathing. any time you subscribe to somebody else they don't understand something, you're on thin ice because you've got to take ownership of that. if the former secretary of the navy is saying mr. president, you do not understand what it's like to be a soldier. you don't know what it's like to be in the military, it's my job to describe it in a way you can understand it. so the secretary had several options on this particular case. keep esper informed or at any point in the process, walk away. just say, you know, i'm failing to communicate effectively. i've got to get out of here. i'm not managing this well. and then the final thing is, you know, the president albeit difficult, albeit ve

out front now, former nixon white house counsel john dean and nia malika henderson, joe lockhart who press secretary for president clinton during his impeachment investigation, of course, and former presidential candidate rick santorum. you have sondland pointing this finger at rudy giuliani, and i do want to ask about the big headline tonight which is that sondland is now saying that he alerted ukraine that the aid was unlikely to unfreeze unless they announced investigations. is it at all mrauzic that sondland just remembered this point? >> i suppose it's possible. it's certainly an argument he could make now if he is ever charged with perjury. not likely would a prosecutor come back after somebody has corrected on that point, but he has so many other flaws in his testimony that i just think this sort of flags the problems with his testimony. >> nia, you have to say one thing about him. this is not someone that the president is going to be able to call a never trumper as he has dismissed other witnesses, that's for sure. is this a game changer in terms of the course of the investig

nancy mcnerney, and former republican senator and presidential candidate, rick santorum, and joe lockhartrmer deputy assistant attorney general elliott williams who also served as judiciary counsel to minority leader schumer. thanks to all of you. ambassador, let me start with you, what do you make of the president in his, basically, any time someone comes out and in has, in fact, every time someone has criticized him, he has said they're never trumpers. >> i think it's outrageous because, first of all, it's factually incorrect. he has accused a number of people ever being never trumpers without any evidence that indicates that they are and that theyy signed the never trump letter and also he's gone further and said people who are never trumpers are human scum. he has referred to people who are decorated war veterans, distinguished ambassadors, loyal public servants and he has unleashed this kind of profane and vulgar attack against these people simply because they disagree with him. i think it's wrong, and i think it is yet more evidence of him subverting the process across the board. >>

political analyst maggie haberman the, a white house correspondent from the "new york times" and joe lockhart, he was president clinton's white house press secretary. it's going to be a very interesting day. for the first time we're going to hear from people with direct knowledge. just what the republicans, their outcry about some of this has been what they call hearsay. today it's not. today it's people who were on the very phone call. do you have any sense of how the white house is going to be responding today. will the president be watching? will the president be live tweeting? what's the plan? >> as you might recall last week we were told very emphatically the president is not watching, and the president proceeded to tweet about the hearing and watch it. my assumption is generally he is watching it. i think he didn't watch the first day. i think he is going to tune in here because vindman in particular is somebody there has been so much discussion about. how the republicans want to handle this, they're in something of a wait and see mode. they need to see what vindman says, they need to s

joining us now cnn political commentator joe lockhart. and carrie cordero.of the fact mick mulvaney was subpoenaed especially given what he said on the podium that there's nothing wrong and get over it. get over the quid pro quo. >> i think if mick mulvaney testified which i agree he won't, he fills you in on two important things. one is the president's role in directing this policy. chief of staff traditionally is in the oval office half the day and implementing the orders of the president. the second thing is just exactly what happened with between mulvaney and omb. because that is what held the the president can say all he wants hold the money up and other people can weigh in. omb actually disperses the money. those are two key pieces to the puzzle. >> it's interesting to me that the democrats were calling mulvaney. he's not going to show. because mulvaney appears in new reporting in "the washington post" this morning which is yet a new -- yet a new republican defense of the president which is essentially it wasn't the president, it was these other guys d

nia-malika henderson is here as well as joe lockhart. thank you so much for joining us.ormer vice president's comments on senator lindsey graham really making a lot of news tonight. let's listen and then we'll talk. >> they're asking lindsey graham -- they have him under their thumb right now. they know he knows if he comes out against trump, he's got a real tough road for re-election, number one. i am disappointed, and quite frankly i'm angered by the fact. he knows me. he knows my son. he knows there's nothing to this. lindsey is about to go down in a way that i think he's going to regret his whole life. >> what do you say to him? >> i say, lindsey, i just -- i'm just embarrassed by what you're doing. >> it's clear he feels deeply betrayed. he says it's an embarrassment. he feels embarrassed. >> yeah, he is betrayed because joe biden had lots of close friends in the senate. he still does, but i don't know that lindsey graham will be his friend going forward. i think the important part there is he put his finger on what's wrong with the republican party. he's -- you kno

cnn political correspondent, abby philip and republican state senator in nevada, greg brower, joe lockhart was president clinton's secretary during the impeachment investigation and laura coates. laura, let me start with you with the news omb. three others from the omb designed to do so, it's that the order according to the testimony that we have from transcripts to withhold the aid came from the omb and they said it came from mick mulvaney and directly from the president of the united states. so sandy could be very important. >> absolutely. it would actually undermine that statement that mick mulvaney said that this happens all of the time. just get over it. this is someone that could actually give information as to what was the foundation for the decision, what were the reasons given to people within the office about the halting of the aid, what was out of order about this and what was the full context, in a way of showing us for the very first time essentially that people are starting to catch on that the cya mode can't last for long and that the idea of somehow being able to thumb your

joining us now, cnn political commentary, joe lockhart. was president clinton's press secretary, and bianna golodryga. and we have agreed to do today's panel sitting down, because bianna basically won the new york marathon yesterday. >> i cannot move this morning. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> thank you so much for being here. >> so i think there was a huge development over the weekend in the way that the white house and republicans are talking about impeachment. kellyanne conway was on with dana bash yesterday, and basically retreated to the last defensible position that the white house has, which is, you know what, maybe there's a quid pro quo, i don't know. it doesn't matter. listen to this exchange. >> so you feel totally confident that at the core of this, the heart of this, there was no quid pro quo? >> here's what i feel confident about. i feel confident about the fact that ukraine has that aid and is using it right now. that it's because of this president that they have it. the last administration -- >> kellyanne, you very n

joining us now, joe lockhart, president clinton's former white house press secretary, cnn legal analyst carrie cordero is with us, former counsel to the u.s. assistant attorney general and cnn political correspondent abby phillip is here as well. so "new york times" put out this report last night. broadly speaking, what it finds is that the ig is going to say there's no evidence the fbi tried to put an undercover agent or informants inside the trump campaign. they'll also find the wiretaps on carter page were not politically motivated. it will find there were omissions and errors in the page wiretap application. cnn has reported there will be a criminal referral for a line attorney who falsified a document there. that's serious. it is a serious allegation. but it isn't what the president and his allies have been alleging for more than a year which is that the campaign was spied on. there were spies placed within the campaign. to remind you of that, here's some sound. >> major developments again on the deep state spying on the trump campaign. >> to spy on the trump campaign. >> spy on th

out front now, patrick healy, joe lockhart, former clinton white house secretary and keith boynkin anduse aide. patrick, let me start with you. look, from even hearing and talking to people close to bloomberg over the summer. he would love to do it and he's always thought about it and he'll only do it if he thinks the field that's out there will fail and simply cannot beat trump. in this context, that's what is being said here, that he thinks no one running right now on the democratic side can beat trump. >> that is his concern, erin. the sources told my reportedr alex burns that mike bloomberg is very concerned that joe biden may not have the strength and may not have sufficient support to win the democratic nomination and that elizabeth warren and bernie sanders may not be strong enough to win the general election. mike bloomberg has had a formidable operation around him for years. they've done a polling for years on presidential races and they've looked at the strengths and weaknesses of the field and they clearly see an opening here. we reported a little while ago, mike bloomberg s

was so striking is that you had a small group of people in the white house,like paul begala, joe lockhart with impeachment 24 hours a day. and the rest of the people had nothing to do with it. and they were just going about their business. and if you remember, even in the president's famous -- when he fingered -- he said, i don't, i didn't know that miss lewinsky, he said, i need to go back to work for the american people. >> it sounded very similar, right. >> and that was a phrase he used when he was talking to you. and he was 73% in the polls during impeachment. in part because he was working on other things. >> even though privately, i'm sure, he was really obsessed with it, he did as much as he could to not be. >> absolutely. >> all right. >>> he just entered the 2020 race this morning. why does he think he has a better chance than the other candidates to become the democratic nominee? i'll talk to former massachusetts governor deval patrick live. you see him there. stay with us. anyone can deliver pizza. only marco's can deliver america's most loved pizza. hot and fresh, and right to

bob lockhart, the university of pennsylvania acquisitions editor, took a risk by allowing me to write a book that challenged many geographic, temporal, methodological and thematic assumptions. i should also thank jim sidsbury, who as the blind reader of my manuscript generj s generously revealed his identity allowing me to engage in a sustained and productive dialogue with him. i'd like to thank the eight scholars and librarians who selected the finalists for the tubman prize. the historians who selected "under currents of power" for the prize. we should also acknowledge the scholarship of the other fin finali finalists. i'd like to thank michelle commander for organizing this amazing event and must thank ruth and sid lapidus and new york public library for making the center an this award possible. lastly, i'd like to recognize the dispossessioned, nameless, and often voiceless enslaved africans whose history i had the honor of telling. thank you. [ applause ] [ applause ] >> this evening's opening will be a discussion between three slavery scholars whose groundbreaking work has been