i am delighted to have this conversation with seema mehta covering the 2020 election for the l.a. times. she previously covered the 2012 and 2008 presidential elections. james pindell is covering 2020 for the boston globe. he is an on-air political analyst for new hampshire's wmur tv and a commentator for outlets such as cnn and politico. patrick griffin is also a cnn commentator, longtime new hampshire political strategist, a

led by sam or wheeze and we have louise here from mehta. you came together in a way when i was frankly asked for those who are possible. it took a village. it took not just community leadership and nonprofit leadership, but it took a mayor and an oewd department the said, yes, we will put our money where our values are. thank you. thank you, mayor breed. it also takes the private sector i know we have representatives. thank you so much for a four and a half million dollar loan to be part of this. let me just say and conclude with three brief opera -- observations. it takes a village. it takes all of a sudden together. this is how it gets done. the second thing i want to say is at a time when our latino community, the immigrant communities are under assault from a so-called occupant of the white house and from economic forces that are looking to push us out, we have to stand up. we have to come together in coalitions with families to say, we are not going away, we are here to stay and no one is kicking us out. [applause] but the final thing

mehta who resigned as bolivian vice president just minutes after morales talked to us about the people now in charge of their crackdown on the media. you know what i mean is that the so-called communications minister warned journalists to be careful because she's going to take down the names of those who step out of line how can you say that to journalists what kind of constitutional freedom can we talk about if they are preventing journalists from doing their jobs from sharing information and telling the truth the country no longer has free speech or a free press. one of the better ones also look at this insidious craze this after 11 years of the us distancing itself from bolivia the 1st thing that we did was to bend the knee and to make overtures to the american government needs to have relations with every part of the world because we also have to build relations based on mutual respect we call a c. and none intervention in our internal affairs i hope that bolivia successful economic policies will not be revamped at the whim of a foreign power that would without a doubt cause an eco

that would go down in history in september i visited a guerrilla controlled area in the province of mehta a 6 hour drive from the next paved road this was where the tense and final national conference of the far as an armed rebel group took place. the fark and the colombian government had already agreed on a peace accord one month earlier. since then there had been a cease fire. approximately 1000 guerrillas assembled to give their high command approval for the peace treaty. some of us. he doesn't want. me to. be on. last night in the. place east timor did i mind that it would be only in name based either but indeed they think. they've got be done unless you imagine that people have you seen ok most going to see that movie when i mean i think that as soon as 18th of. the one up with it if we needed it i mean. if it davis had not beaten martin acquittal for not voting but if he didn't really got people to mean. being healthy then i thought it be none of us saying when. during the conference i met a young guerrilla who called himself luis he had joined the fark 15 years ago and was one of t

i am delighted to have this conversation with seema mehta covering the 2020 election for the l.a. times. she previously covered the 2012 and 2008 presidential elections. james pindell is covering 2020 for the boston globe. he is an on-air political analyst for new hampshire's wmur tv and a commentator for outlets such as cnn and politico. patrick griffin is also a cnn commentator, longtime new hampshire political strategist, a visiting fellow at the center for political future, and a fabulous teacher. he advised president george w. bush and recently served as a senior advisor to new hampshire governor chris sununu. my friend mike murphy, veteran of five presidential campaigns, and numerous campaigns for senators and governors, including arnold schwarzenegger and mitt romney. patrick, i will begin with a question. we will start with you. a lot of critics think new hampshire, with its lack of diversity, should never be the first primary state. what is your response to that? will this ever-changing? -- ever change? >> my response is it will never change. there is a great amount of ho

want to bring in monica mehta and mitch rochelle. monica, let me start with you. out next 24 hours. a lot of data is out today. even though this is thanksgiving week. a lot of eyes on the durable goods report. the big threat is manufacturing slow down, no business investment, those kind of things. what are you expecting? >> this is a difficult time to go quarter by quarter, with trade, being a big conversation for almost two years now, there has been a lot of shuffling. there are companies predicting what will happen next. they are pushing forward their production. so i don't think you're seeing anything normal right now. so to put a lot of weight in any of these quarterly numbers could be very misleading. in general what you're seeing, even though consumer confidence came down for the fourth month, people are generally quite confident. again -- charles: sort of meandering near -- >> at the highs. slightly again, almost 50% of the americans feel jobs are plentiful. there is only 10% of people in america think a job is hard to get. that really goes to the foundatio

mehta, macro, micro. across the three years, it's the least surprising thing in the world. it's disgusting but it's not astounding. >> congressman sarbanes, you've been invoked. a quick last word. i think we might have a semantic disagreement here. go ahead, congressman. >> well, look, i certainly agree with john on that, that it is disgusting, but he's not just acting in russia's interest, he's always acting in donald trump's personal political interests, and that's why this is an abuse of his power. it's an abuse of his oath of office. he gets up every morning and he's not thinking about the 350 million americans whose interests he should represent, he's thinking about his own personal political gain. this is just another example of that. the witnesses this week are going to show that's what's going on. congressman john sarbanes, evelyn farkas, thank you for starting this off with us. john heilemann is going to stick around. >>> up next, what is rick perry and john bolton up to? and the list of the impeachment inquiry witnesses was submitted over the weekend. it's not goi