then came marco rubio.how what you marco rubio said today about president trump asking china to investigate joe biden, let's take a look at who marco rubio once was before donald trump took total control of him. >> donald trump is a conartist. >> what we are dealing with here is a con artist. as he con artist. you all have friends. you all have friends thinking of voting for donald trump. friends do not let friends vote for con artists. >> and here is senator marco rubio today. >> do you think it's okay for president trump to ask china to launch an investigation of joe biden and hunter biden? >> i don't know if that's a real request or him just needling the press knowing that you would get outraged by it. >> is it okay for him to ask to say that? >> i don't think it is a real request. i think he did it to get you guys. i think he did it to provoke you, to ask me and get outraged by it. >> joining me now, a former cia operative and a former independent candidate. he is the co-founder of stand-up republic. ev

and it's just all of these displays, you can look at marco rubio's display. he said a few good things during this investigation. but ron johnson, i saw jody ernst and i thought, my god, you entered public service for this? to cower in front your own people and to lie in front of your own people and just not tell them the truth? it's astounding and it gets worse by the day. and, of course, we know this will end badly for donald trump and everybody else that apologizes for him. but it is so painful to watch right now. >> joe, a few moments ago you made the observation as we opened the show with the clip of marco rubio and roy blunt speaking and you made the observation that they know. they go out and say these things, but they know. behind the scenes they know. well, joe, they all know. and they have all chosen, they've had a choice, to protect the country or protect their status in office. they've chose their own re-election hopes and dreams over the united states of america. last night the president of the united states betrayed an ally in the field, the kurd

do not miss an exclusive interview in the next hour with senator marco rubio. weigh in on the black list on trade talks and censorship in china. >>> markets in the red bob pisani >> look what happened friday, great move up on the jobs report big thing on the jobs report, it tamped down recession talk we're going into the markets this week, hoping for word, progress on trade talks and essentially what happened is we got escalation that's a problem i see a big positive with the jobs report friday, tamping down recession talk i think that's good. that was a positive. but negatives are strong trade talks, this is another escalation where are we in the market stocks are expensive now we're going into the third quarter, what we are looking for is fourth quarter earnings expectations if this keeps up, earnings guidance is not going to be positive that's what worries me overall we have this narrative growing in the market that we might not get a deal this year what's the trend what could reverse it? traders believe growth is lower in 2020, rates will be flat to lower,

evan, your reaction to marco rubio today. he thinks it's funny. as laughing about donald trump asking china to help in his re-election campaign. >> well, first of all, just say it was highly disappointing to see senator rubio answer that question in that way. you know, senator rubio is someone who from his role in the senate, from his position there, has led our in many ways our pro-democracy efforts around the world. he's been a vocal advocate for -- for freedom globally. and then to see freedom under threat here domestically and to have a question like that posed to him which should be a softball and to have him blow it off i think just really sort of describes how far he's fallen in just the last couple of years. he seemed defeated to me emotionally to do that. but the game he's playing here is that he's saying, look, you, the media, are overreacting by responding to trump's urging china to -- to interfere in our electoral processes, like russia did in 2016 or similarly. he wants to say that the media's overreacting so that he doesn't look like

>> marco rubio -- >> here's why. no matter whether you voted for marco, you work for other candidates and secretly told me you like marco, at the end of the day you listen to them and you are like, i like that. like he motivates me, inspires me. even if you disagreed with him he was inspirational. i don't see where she is inspiring anybody. >> pretty soon people live opportunities to have moments, it's way too early. >> here's thehe thing with kamaa harris if i'm running her campaign of veryor concerned about. the currency of the presidential campaign is moments. we get stuck in the turn of the screw every day with the new cycle but it's the moment that breaks do that the paper member. kamala harris taken down joe biden in the first debate was the only real moment we've had in this campaign so far, in my opinion, and covering it. and she didn't capitalize on it in the way she needs to. to have that moment and to have all of the media coverage and a t-shirt thing printed and all the donations coming in, small dollar mo

rishaad: marco rubio has been rather active as of late.has also been one of the authors of this bill going through at the moment, with china and hong kong at the epicenter, that we would have hong kong looked at to see its degree of autonomy, and whether china was keeping the one country, two systems promise it has. if it comes into law, what are the repercussions? fraser: in the hong kong bill it is hard to say. it can be very targeted in its sanctions. a listwong said he given of possible people in hong kong to target. i do not think that is the right sort of measure. it is hard to say. politics in washington is such a fractured thing at the moment. are they going to get unity and actually deliver on some of these things? clearly there will be blowback from the beijing authorities as well. in that sense the difficulty is a lot of the u.s. policy at the moment is either well-intentioned or getting the big ideas correct, but the execution is poor. so i am still not sure how that is going to play out. any pressure on the hong kong governmen

like marco rubio, he was just controllintrolling china. having fun. do do you believe he said like jim jordan said hey china i want you to investigate china. >> watch what he said he is not saying china investigate. get to the point. if i'm a member of congress. and i break the law, and there should be an investigation and i run for another office. you still investigate me. more people in america want to investigate investigate son than impeach this president. somehow the democrats want to deny that? ainsley: when you watch the sunday show and see some of these republican politicians going on shows and you know the anchor doesn't agree with them and they interrupt them and cut them off and ask them, you know, questions that seem like they are leading questions, do you go on these shows? do you say no though these shows now? >> no. you have to go on them but you have to understand it almost is like many of these individuals have already are so biased on the basis of where they are going to go where they won't even listen to your answers this he this wa

i want to put up a tweet from senator marco rubio. before we nullify the ulresultsf an election or dismiss some serious accusations as an attempted coup, maybe it would be a good idea to try and gather all the facts and then give some thought to what would be in the best interest of our country. i don't know, just a thought. so tara, we're in contact with rubio's office as we speak, trying to get clarity on the senator's exact position on impeachment or the inquiry at least. do you see this as him having an open mind? if so, should that worry the president? >> marco rubio has been one of the biggest disappointments for me throughout this whole ordeal. i supported him during the election and thought he would have made a great president. after his acquiesce sense and his half-assed criticism, it's really disappointing. marco rubio knows better. he knows what the president is doing is unacceptable. he's been one of the biggest outspoken critics on foreign affairs, particularly against china and other corrupt regimes, and here he can't br

senators ted cruz and marco rubio and so the senate intelligence committee is calling on the general public on the u.s. government and on tech companies to try to find ways to promote more transparency to try to promote ways of closing off the back doors or security flaws that allow incorrect information to jump from website to website with rapid speed and 3 it does call on the american public to be much more sophisticated about what it reads on social media to be much more skeptical to ask questions to do research and not simply like or read tweet information just because it seems to confirm their world view they had no that that might be the hardest part of trying to stop what they still say is a very deceptive disinformation campaign leading up to the 2020 election. protesters have clashed with security forces in ecuador's capital as the country grapples with a 6th day of anti austerity demonstrations thousands of indigenous people have converged on quito barricading roads and burning tires they're angry the government has sparked 40 year old fuel subsidies ecuador's president has

one the senate marco rubio leading that one and one in the house. so the president could see a bill on this uygher issue in the next weeks and months. >> what do the bills look like? >> the bills are to bring sanctions against china for its policy, to put pressure on china over its uygher policy. in the end, judge a country by the way it treats its own citizens. it is now the second most powerful economic country in the world, a growing military, growing influence. so the right questions need to be asked. now, look, china says that many uyghers are separatists, they want to split china and they have to do something about that. but this is a punishing way to address. >> and you didn't see the worst of it? >> right. you can't necessarily see the worst of it. one of the issues is if you, as a uygher, communicate with people outside the country, friends and family, you can be put in one of those camps. so there is a limit to how much people know. there are all of these stories. they don't really know what the truth is. the chinese communist party say th

let's start with the republican senator marco rubio. >> it's okay to president trump to ask china to launch an investigation of joe biden and hunter biden? >> i don't know if that's a real request or him just needling the press knowing you would get outraged by it and he plays it like a violin and everybody falls into it. that's not a real request. >> do you really think he was serious about thinking that china is going to investigate the biden family? >> why can't you answer yes or no? do you think it is appropriate. >> i don't, because i don't think what is what he did. >> well, i doubt if the china comment was serious to tell you the truth. >> you don't take the president at his word? >> no, the president love goes go out on the white house driveway, i haven't talked to him about this, i don't know what the president was thinking but i know he loves to bait the press. >> so president trump is escalating his attacks on joe biden and his son's dealings in ukraine and calling on the former vice president to end his 2020 bid. trump tweeted yesterday this. the biden family was paid off

marco rubio and mitt romney obviously came out much stronger, very critical of the president's actions clear that his declaring victory is not at all what this is. how would you describe it? >> well, i'd be more in line with what senator romney was saying because this is definitely not something one can declare victory on. when the turkish official tells you that he's gotten everything that he wanted and you're negotiating with somebody like that, then you know you've made a mistake as a negotiator. if they get everything they wanted, that means we've lost a lot of things because our positions are definitely not the same. the turks are going to stay in northern syria as long as they possibly can, and that's going to be a big issue for us. >> and as marco rubio was saying, they're going to get what they want, right? he is going to get rid of the kurds. so the kurds are either going to leaf where turkey wants them to not be, which turkey considers to be theirs, or they're going to kill them all. >> right. >> and the president says that is a victory? >> that wouldn't be a victory at all.

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that more people -- that marco rubio, he violates the constitution and marco rubio celebrates it.ink about that. and by the way, this is not an opinion. this is just the facts. the judge was right, fox news judicial analysts, he was right. so who would celebrate the the willful violation of the constitution of the united states of america? republican senators, that's who. >> joining us now investigative reporter for "the washington post" and msnbc david fahrenthold. he's been covering trump national doral bedbug miami for years. also with us republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del percio. >> david, i don't know. you've been doing a lot of studying, you've been chasing self-portraits or paintings of donald trump around for years. you have been digging in to documents. you have been, you know, late at night you're like typing and you're just like, you're like working your fingers to the bones and then this white house comes out and they hand you the biggest story yet on a silver platter. could you please for americans who aren't familiar with what your work has b

here's senator marco rubio and senator trump publicly asking you crepe and china to investigate biden. >> i think, again, he did it to gig you guys. i think he did it to provoid you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. like i said, he plays it like a violin and falls right into it. that's not a real request. >> he later tweeted this. before we dismiss some very serious accusations as an attempted coup, maybe it would be a good idea to gather all of the facts and give it some thought what would be in the best interest of our country. i don't know. just a thought. we're waiting to get some clarity from his office. what are your comments? >> it's so auction warned he's so uncomfortable in talking about it. until we see a shift, you're going to see the lawmakers do this awkward dance where they're very clearly uncomfortable with what's going on but instead they're trying to change the narrative. oh, trump's trying to get your goad. he wasn't serious. it was all laughable given it was all over the headlines. they just didn't want to talk about it. >> selective hearing and visions.

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i know there are a good number and a senator marco rubio has come out very vociferously against these institutions existing. talk a bit also and describe what's going on here. because in your book you do weave together specific capabilities, specific capacities, technological capacities, but you also talk about the importance of ideology. >> guest: the confucius institutes, and it' again is anr trojan horse method. it's been a very effective chinese communist party influence tool, especially on american campuses. there are about a hundred of these institute funded by the chinese government, and their objective is ostensibly to teach chinese culture. interestingly, the officially are using confucius as a tool, as an influence tool. what has happened with these institutes is that these universities, which again are dependent on foreign students, have become dependent on the confucius institutes and therefore, they are moderating their policies. you can find them on many campuses, the courses that teach about the evils of the communist party of china, this party that has been blamed sinc

well with even members of his own republican party one of the latest senator marco rubio who has called the president's stance morally repugnant and a stain on the nation's reputation even as the president touts the benefits of the relationship with turkey in the united states there is considerable concern about turkey's actions into northern into the northeast region of syria and how that could affect the can the kurdish people particularly the kurdish fighters that have been so loyal to the united states iraq's government is under pressure to deliver on its promise of jobs and training programs after a week of violent protests which now appear to have calm and more than a 100 people were killed 6000 were injured in rallies against government corruption and widespread unemployment imran khan ripples from the capital baghdad. somewhere in this crowd is a hussein he's 30 years old this video was recorded on friday in the southern city baghdad he decided to join the young people in his neighborhood after he saw them spontaneously protest he's asked us to hide his identity because he was d

marco rubio for one calling it a grave mistake. amid emerging reports turkey has already begun attacking the kurds in that area as the u.s. withdraws. the president himself seemed to kind of maybe walk back his announcement, though, who knows what to make of this completely deranged tweet where he said if turkey does everything in my unmatched wisdom consider to be off limits, i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey. i've done before. ben rhodes, deputy national security adviser under president obama. george mason law university jeffrey offer. ben, first, what does all this mean, what the president said last night? >> it means we're selling out our closest allies. the turning point in the campaign was in 2014. you will recall there was a battle of kabani. we started flowing weapons into the kurds. they're the ones who fought on the ground with u.s. air support all the way to raqqah. thousands of kurds were killed to root out isis. we also carefully put advisers to help them but it's a trip wire to prevent the tu

marco rubio sent a letter to this global index company. he's one of several lawmakers with concerns. the issue here is the company added hundreds of chinese stocks to their benchmark index, and later waited those companies heavier. that move allows much more american investments and retirement fund flows into chinese companies. rubio and other lawmakers are concerned u.s. dollars would be flowing into companies with potential human rights violations or companies that could oppose national security concerns to the u.s. rubio himself has been trying to lead a bipartisan group of lawmakers to come up with some legislation. we also know the white house has concerns about this. they've had discussions about how to coat -- how to curb portfolio flows into china. it is another issue where we see this increasingly adversarial relationship between china and the u.s., and lawmakers with serious concerns about human rights violations, national security concerns with chinese companies. haidi: we are approaching that tuesday expiration when it comes to

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listen to senator marco rubio. >> do you think it's okay for president trump to ask china to launch an investigation of joe biden and hunter biden. >> i don't know if that's a real request or him just needling the press knowing that you guys were going to get outraged by it. he's pretty good at getting everybody fired up. he's been doing that for a while. the media responded right on -- right on task. >> you're one of the loudest critics of china and its human rights abuses. is it okay for him to ask, to say that? >> i think he did it to gig you guys and provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. like i said, he plays it like a violin and everybody falls right into it. that's not a real request. >> so, tolu, one has to wonder what really is the breaking point. when will there be other republicans who are willing to voe sif russly saying what mitt romney as said, what ben sasse has said. >> i think like molly said when they are coming back into town, they are finding different ways to excuse the president's comments, trying to defending the comments without defending the s

marco rubio flailing in the wind saying i believe it's a ploy or the president wants attention when were talking about whether or not ukraine and china can delve into our -- listen. i know that donald trump has perverted the term patriotism. people are confusing that all the time. people don't understand and many republicans are not even representing what it means to be american. >> we want to get to this next segment so we have take a break. stay with us. the panel is staying here as well -- the cnn squad. here is the thing. who killed the key witness in the murder trial of former dallas police officer amber guyger? w we know this witness was shot dead yesterday. >>> plus, pope francis may have a big decision that could end hundreds of years of tradition in the catholic church. where the church is considering allowing married men to become priests. that's what happens in golf nothiand in life.ily. i'm very fortunate i can lean on people, and that for me is what teamwork is all about. you can't do everything yourself. you need someone to guide you and help you make those tough decision

this really points up how much lindsey graham, marco rubio, other republicans see ukraine and the joe be thought of in the impeachment inquiry, will be fought in the presidential campaign but this is about ukraine. it's been about protecting the president and his voter base and not getting all those voters angry at them because they're not protecting the president. with sir tyrisyria, this goes t lot of republicans from when trump was a president rnl candidate have had concerns about him on foreign policy. they have not liked the fact, particularly, that he is broken with republican, at least part establishment orthodox that's supported the military interventions that went on in iraq, that went on in afghanistan, in syria. this was a major clash for years between president trump and john mccain. i think in that regard a lot of these republicans sort of have never quite felt good about him on foreign policy, use of military force, his desire to bring home troops and sort of what they see as kind of a geopolitical move that they clearly don't like. >> there are others, really powerful o

let's start with republican senator marco rubio. >> do you think it's okay for president trump to askhina to launch an investigation of joe biden and hunter biden. >> i don't know if that's a real request or him just needling the press. he plays it arthriticlike a vio >> do you really think it was serious about thinking that china's going to investigate the biden family? >> why can't you answer yes or no? do you think it's appropriate? >> because i don't think that's what he did. >> well, i doubt if the china comment was serious to tell you the truth. >> you don't take the president at his word? >> the president loves to go out on the white house driveway, i haven't talked to him about this, i don't know what the president was thinking. i know he loves to bait the are press. >> as for mitt romney, the president lashed out over the senator's response. the president wrote in part this, somebody please wake up mitt romney and tell him that my conversation with the ukrainian president was a congenial and very appropriate one, and my statement on china pertained to corruption, not politics

senator marco rubio, for instance, on the other hand says we're overplaying the president's comments.k it's a real -- i think he did it to gig you guys. he did it to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. like i said, he plays it like a violin. that's not a real request. >> it's our fault for actually listening to what the president said out loud on the south lawn. joining us now, cnn political commentator and former communications director for senator ted cruz, amanda carpet, author of "gaslighting america, why we love it when trump lies to us." and rick wilson, author of "everything trump touches dies." amanda, i want to start with you. basically why is it that mitt romney is standing alone here? >> well, maybe it's because he just won election and is safe. but he's the first one to really stick his neck out in a meaningful way. but they're not going to be able to able to hide forever. marco rubio was blaming the media, playing a little bit dumb, but most of these talking points, you're going to run out of runway. last week they kept saying this is hearsay. well, h

and senator marco rubio's responding now saying he doesn't believe the president's request was genuine okay for president trump to ask china to launch an investigation of joe biden or honor biden? >> i don't know. that's a question where it causes needling to the media. the media responded right on task. >> you're one of the loudest critic of china and its human rights abuses. is it okay for him to ask? >> i think he did it to gig you guys, to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. like i said, he plays it like a violin and everybody falls into it. but that's not at a real request. >> take a look at this in the meantime. the "washington post," genuinely horrified. that's the way the post is describing the reaction of some white house officials regarding trump's calls with foreign leaders. joining us to discuss is former secretary of defense secretary of state and senior fellow michael fuchs. thank you so much for joining us today. first i want to get your response to the headline that white house officials were horrified with conversations trump had with world leaders

marco rubio says you are allowing for u.s.ls and their pensions to fund the communist party of china. he would have to find coast signatories for the big, but it is a reminder the push to reduce investment in chinese equities is still in focus. the white house and trump administration are discussing these issues, this after sanctioning that eight companies over human rights abuses. in focusstill firmly for lawmakers in washington. >> how much are these issues in focus when it comes to the communist party plenum this week? of thegathering of 200 most powerful communist party officials in beijing runs from the beginning of this week through thursday. we believe the emphasis will be on politics, rather than the trade war and economics, but those issues will come up inevitably because they are linked. we hear that president xi jinping will be pushing for greater control of the communist party in all aspects of society, ensuring the comments party is strengthened and "rejuvenated." jinping willent xi be the focus, the politics and

they can't be shocked by anything anymore, because i think they've lost -- >> look at marco rubio. >>co rubio's body language is utterly defeated. >> but i don't think it's fair to say that it's, you know, we get distracted by the outrage cycle and that that's not quite important. i think that what the president says is obviously news, no matter where he says it, if he says it to the press waiting for air force one or marine one, if he says it on twitter. it's always news. and i think we have to treat it as such, treat it as important. even if he is trying to say, hey, look over there. >> even if it's nonsense. >> i think that's fair, olivia. of course, what the leader of the free world says is newsworthy, of course. but, it crowds out everything else. and so, when we fixate, i mean, impeachment is a great example, right? i can't stand this president. i can't stand him. i think he's terrible for the country and for the world. but i think it's very telling what the media and the elite institutions decide is a step too far. it's when another elite, joe biden, is threatened. it's when th

so, as you mention marco rubio has been one of the more outspoken members of congress and trying to get universities to get these off. they are reluctant to do it because they have become reliance on it. you they become this finance and power working together. and of course on the student and researcher front there are at least 300,000 chinese students. not all are spies but all can be called upon by chinese security agencies to conduct work for them. in fact just recently there has been an arrest that wasn't involved in thousand talents program. this is one of the chinese governments biggest programs to get officials who have expertise to go from the united states to china. there is mention for the first time in the indictment in this case that the chinese officials was working with one of the confucius institutes on a university in massachusetts which was not identified by name but which was most likely mit or massachusetts institute of technology. >> interesting, military might, we have touched upon a number of areas but let's go to military might. clearly, the chinese are investing

lindsey graham has raised coerns as well, as was senator marco rubio on the senate floor. listen. >> we got these 2,000 troops working with the kurds to keep isis from reemerging and to provide leverage in a future syrian settlement to restrain assad's power to safeguard's kurdish interests, our partner's interest and eliminate iranian influence. every sichkle one of those stated interests that was our policy less than two weeks ago has been wiped out. >> senator rubio was your first choice for president back in 2015. you cited the success you felt against isis over the last couple of years. the concern is that there's going to be backtracking on that now that we've abandoned the allies we were fighting with against isis. >> george, i listened closely to what senator rubio said. each of the interests that he identified, this administration is still fully committed to. i can assure you that the effort to push back against iran are real and continuous, unlike what the last administration did that picked iran as its strategic security partner in the middle east. we've taken a

mitch mcconnell, marco rubio, mitt romney, susan collins, pat toomey, all republican, all critical.ngressman adam kinzinger of illinois sits on the foreign affairs committee. congressman, thanks for being with us. >> you bet. >> why do you think the president has gone to the mat on this? why is he giving turkey such a pass? was it just an impromptu thing in a phone call with erdogan? >> i think it's all of it. i think the president makes very impulsive decisions on foreign policy. i think he made an impulsive decision without thinking through the results of that. i think erdogan somehow convinced him with stars in his eyes that he was going to be humane. and, you know, the reality of this is it's disgusting. it's sickening. it's sad. think about the fact that the kurds have taken 10,000 deaths in this fight against isis because we didn't want to put troops on the ground. so they did it for us. we, conversely, have lost 17 in combat throughout this whole campaign. we lost basically in iraq and afghanistan close to 7,000 people. so think about the impact that's had on the kurds, but t

he and tom cotton, marco rubio e joni ernst and others signed a letter to trump warning him to reconsider. jim mattis and brett mcgurk resigned over trump's syria policy. you have to take notice when one issue, one singular issue has been able to unlock trump's vice grip on republican lawmakers, to unleash their outrage and locate their backbones. that issue, mind you, wasn't russia. it has not been ukraine. it is syria. so here's the deal, republicans, many of whom also criticized obama's syria policy are aware that history's long gaze is unforgiving, and when it comes to serious foreign policy blunders, voters do blame presidents and parties for decades after. think vietnam, think iraq. republicans also know that a republican president responsible for literally not indirectly, releasing thousands of terrorists into an already unstable region of the world is not something they can stand by, and they know that america will pay the price for the horrific toll this action will take on our allies and our reputation for years to come, and all this comes at the worst possible time for the pres

mitch mcconnell, marco rubio and susan collins, peter king, ben sasse and nikki haley and all republicanxt guest, adam kinzinger who sits on the foreign affairs committee. thanks for about with us. i'm wonder why do you think the president has gone to the mat on this and giving turkey such a pass was it an impromptu thing with erdogan. >> i think it is all of it. i think the president makes impulsive decisions on foreign policy and he made an impulsive decision without thinking through the results of that. i think erdogan somehow convinced him with stars in his eyes he would be humane and the reality is disgusting and sickening and sad. think about the fact that the kurds have taken 10,000 deaths in this fight against isis because we didn't want to put troops on the ground so they did it for us. we on the conversely have lost 17 in combat throughout this whole campaign. we lost in iraq and afghanistan close to 7,000 people. so think about the impact that is had on the kurds but they stood with the united states, because they believe in us and they could have turned to iran, they could ha

i do feel bad for marco rubio. but of course it was a problem. and there is something to think about here. the fact he did this, this provocation in the middle of a gathering of an impeachment storm says something about the president's mentality and a situation that his entire staff is dealing with. when how do you handle a principle like this? if you're mulvaney just imagine trying to defend what is basically indefensible. and the way you do it basically if you're richard nixon and you put -- go what everyone does it but of course we don't. >>> and coming occupy on "morning joe" president trump says says he's tired about hearing about russia and all the endless investigations, so why is the doj tripling down on exactly that? nbc's ken dilanian has new reporting next on "morning joe." that is amazing. you wanna see something amazing? go to hilton instead of a travel site and you'll experience a whole new range of emotions like... the relaxing feeling of knowing you're getting the best price. these'll work. the utte

. >> and so if it was a joke like marco rubio have now been tweeting this. asking china to investigate biden is wrong but it isn't going to happen. how can he assert that? why does he get that from? >> that is now the fourth approach they've said. first was he was joking and second is the democrats are partisan and third it was okay and now it is not going to happen. you are seeing simply they don't have a strategy here. a coherent strategy. so compare this to the democrats right now. you have nancy pelosi and adam schiff doing press conferences alone with a very targeted and narrow message for where they are going and the republicans are all over the place because again as sarah said, they are just afraid of the president. he has a strangle hold on the party and i think frankly what you're seeing is the death of the northeastern moderate and sort of the voice within the republican party that would have challenged the president 20 years ago, it is not there any more. >> stick around. nonl none of his aides told him a member of congress can't be impeached. tu

outside consultant is set to deliver a report to the board on its decision on monday and scott, marco rubioill be on cnbc tomorrow to talk about these issues back over to you. >> there you go. 8:00 a.m. for the senator. we appreciate it >>> let's get the headlines from sue herera. >> hello, scott. everyone here's what's happening at this hour the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine testifying in the congressional impeachment inquiry. ambassador bill taylor arriving at the capitol for a joint closed door appearance before the house intelligence, oversight and foreign affairs committees >>> secretary of state mike pompeo says some progress has been made as the five-day cease-fire along the syria/turkey border comes to an end this evening he spoke at the conservative heritage foundation think tank meeting in washington. >> the truth was that it was not in turkey's interest as a nato ally to continue with that incursion and set back our shared fight against isis. we think now we're in a better place. >>> actress lori loughlin's daughters are no longer enrolled in usc according to the university says b

senator marco rubio said reports of a u.s. troop are true, the trump administration has made a grave mistake. former governor mike huckabee called it a huge mistake to abandon kurds and former ambassador nikki haley said this, leaving the kurds to die is a mistake. and it will likely result in the slaughter of allies. so far the only two republicans who have come sought , come out support of the move is rand paul and lee. and conservative voices critical to the president's decision, pat robertson had an interesting twist on it. here is what he had to say. >> the president who allowed khashoggi to be put in pieces, without any repercussions whatsoever, is now allowing the christians and the kurds to be massacred by the turks. and i believe, and i want to say this with great solemnity, the president of the united states may lose the mandate of heaven if he allows this to happen. >> trump's decision to pull troops from northern syria is once again raising questions about business dealings. the "washington post" posts out the firs

yes and that continues it's not just marco rubio calling this a stain on the reputation of the united states this is the sentiment that is coming from within the president's own party over and over since the announcement sunday evening of this shift in syria strategy we've heard also from top democrats as well and what seems to be happening during which is significant is in a very divided u.s. congress there seems to be agreement on the that the united states the u.s. president is making mistakes so this effort now is moving in the u.s. senate to put together legislation to try and register at least this displeasure in the president's policy but we should point out the problem with this legislation is it is nonbinding in other words the policy will not change ok you can really thank you for that update from washington now european countries are expressing their concerns over the plan turkish offensive. we have heard rumors of turkish interventions and it's again brings concerns to hers it could have significant humanitarian impact on this region. we are still very concerned with the f

he was general counsel to marco rubio. thank you very much for being here.say this is bananas, what part is most bananas? >> well, in general the letter reads like a very political document. it doesn't read like it even came from a lawyer. it doesn't read like a normal example of the back and forth we have between presidents and congress over the scope of oversight. it's a complete declaration of war, as you said. the impeachment process and congress' oversight abilities. regardless of what people think about ukraine and what the president may or may not have done and whether that rises to the level of an impeachable offense, we should be concerned with a white house that is attempting to delegitimize the powers. if you're not a fan of president trump, we're not always going to have a president trump in the white house. one day we're going to have a president you might not like. and we want congress to have the ability to enforce the abilities inherent in its constitutional role. >> one of the things that the white house seems to be hanging their argument on

running for the republican nomination against donald trump they include the senators ted cruz and marco rubio as well as trying to have basically promote any information that could somehow so discord between various parts of the u.s. population it did note that an ordained amount of misinformation was aimed at african-americans in an effort to was stoke racial tensions in this country now what this report from the senate intelligence committee is calling for is a more formalized cooperation between the u.s. government between tech companies that produce social media and the general public to one try to figure out when information that is bad information is being disseminated to try to figure out how to prevent that dissemination from really taking off like wildfire and 3 and this might be the hardest thing to a chief felicity trying to. ultimately teach us citizens who are using social media that they need to be much more sophisticated in what they're reading that they need to be much more skeptical about what they're reading and to think twice before they retreat or share or like the informa

senators ted cruz and marco rubio and so this senate intelligence committee is calling on the general public on the u.s. government and on tech companies to try to find ways to promote more transparency to try to promote ways of closing off the back doors or security flaws that allow incorrect information to jump from website to website with rapid speed and 3 it does call on the american public to be much more sophisticated about what it reads on social media to be much more skeptical to ask questions to do research and not simply like or re tweet information just because it seems to confirm their worldview they had know that that might be the hardest part of trying to stop what they still say is a very deceptive disinformation campaign leading up to the 2020 election well let's stay with the story and get more on it we're joined by moxon a call at the atlantic council's a eurasia center and he's also joining us live from washington d.c. nice to some have very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so interesting that they seems to be bipartisan consensus that russia and defeat in the

marco rubio on impeach, i don't know that that's a real request for china to investigate biden.e. does it give republicans more credibility or less credibility to be that different on two issues? >> look, i think it's irrelevant. it's two separate issues. you can debate the national security pl implications of each. i don't see the fact that they're coming out against a syrian policy on one and defend the president on impeachment on the other, quite frankly. >> on some level when they go back to their districts it allows them to push back on the narrative that trump has them in their hands for all reasons. they can say i did disagree with him on this. i did push back on this idea. for those voters who aren't convinced that they're thinking independently and not about their next election, this example probably isn't going to be enough. >> carol, adrienne and matt, thank you very much. >>> we'll go inside the country's deadliest wildfire in history and one of the films being featured at the "meet the press" film festival. this is a gripping documentary. stay with us. documentary s

we've heard senators come out again this, marco rubio front and center. shawn: absolutely. marco rubio is leading a push for a bill that would require chinese companies listed in the u.s. to abide by u.s. auditing standards. there's a funny quirk right now in the system whereby a lot of chinese companies don't ,ooperate with the pc aob overseas auditing that came up after the enron scandal. a lot of chinese companies in the u.s. don't abide by the same standards. marco rubio putting out that that is a risk for american investors, and the white house seems to be taking his line. alix: hang tight with us. alibaba, tencent falling on this news. there's the chinese delegation that is going to meet on thursday. what are they thinking of doing now? shawn was just explaining, all indications is that the mood music is somewhat downbeat ahead of the stocks. there's some expectations among investors in policymakers -- there was some expectation among investors and policymakers that things would get back on track. this doesn't indicate that a near-term deal, or certainly a let'snear-t

danny diaz from jeb bush's campaign, jeff roe from ted cruz's campaign and terry sullivan from marco rubio's campaign. this is an hour. >> good morning. how is everybody doing? lively. to get you coffee, thanks for being here. i am the chief political correspondent for politico magazine, auto -- i'm supposed to read this. author of the new york times best-selling book

[laughter] i stood aside for most of 2015 and then supported marco rubio. david: ok, and when he dropped xtt, did you have anybody paul: um, no. i stood aside. the nominee of the party, did you support him then as the nominee? - i ted for him. - ok. paul: and there's-- i was not going to vote for hillary clinton as some of my republican friends did, c and i became optimisoutte some of the opportunities in economic growth and regulatory reform, tax reform. david: has donald trump invited you down to visit him? asd you know him before heelec? paul: i did not. i invested in his bonds a couple of times. david: ok. [laughter] those we high-grade bonds? [laughter] paul: they were on the date of issue. [laughter and applause] david: they later became high-yield? - and below. - right. [laughter] david: so have yousieen him since he's pnt, and have you given him any advice? paul: i visited the white hous d we chatted a bit about taxes and economic policy. david: you have given a lot of money, raised a lot of money for republicans. do you think you've gotten value fo