i can see michael steele shaking his head. let me come back to joyce. think that a large swath of the american public that may not be the ones that watch prime time on any cable news channel. but a part of the public has now watched, and they may not have been compelled by or moved by or alarmed by the mueller hearing. but they learned that robert mueller couldn't touch donald trump because a sitting president can't be indicted. they might not have watched michael cohen testified but they knew some other guy associated with trump is sitting in jail. but donald trump even though he's an unindicted co-conspirator there, he can't go to jail because he's president. so he can't get in trouble in any federal criminal investigation. now he can't get in trouble for a crime he confesses to on the south lawn of the white house that 17 people who work for them half of them he picked himself attested to? i think donald trump maybe should be accountable to somebody. >> i think that you've identified the problem. and it goes back to what kim said about how important

former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. and former chief of staff to the dccc and an msnbc contributor, adrienne elrod. up late last night. joe is off on dad duty this week for a couple of days, but another big week in the impeachment inquiry and what's expected to be the final few days of closed-door testimony before open hearings begin. so what's the administration's strategy? well, that are depends on the day. the president is bouncing between trying to out the whistleblower and intimidate a witness. republicans appear poised to acknowledge a quid pro quo. but insist that it's not that high of a crime and misdemeanor. and kellyanne conway is pulling a mick mulvaney and really confusing the matter. it all comes with more new polls showing nearly half of americans support impeaching and removing president trump from office. meanwhile, there is new 2020 polling on the democrat side. we'll get into the state of that race in just a moment as elizabeth warren defends her plan to fund medicare for all. could 2020 shape up to be

back for round two, alexi mccammond and michael steele. exi and michael, this conversation on the merits could take us several broadcasts. let's reduce it to initially here the kornacki estimate, and here's what i mean, alexi. steve kornacki estimates one in four democratic voters in the primaries, african-american. does this mayor have any hope of winning folks over to his side? >> steve kornacki also points out in that piece that you just read from that since 1992, no democratic candidate for president has eventually become the nominee for president without winning a majority of the black vote. mayor pete in polling has shown up at zero percent. the most he's reached is 4% support from black voters. they're obviously a lot of room for him to grow. this conversation that he had at a table full of white men by the way, in 2011, which is like also very problematic to be talking about minority and low income students at the a table full of white men no matter what year it is, is obviously coming back to haunt him in a way that, you know, vote

katrina mulligan, michael steele with an e. thank you, mimi. up next witness testimony has put a bright spotlight on the break down of u.s. diplomacy under this administration, don't you think inmaybe trump would have been better leaving the diploem osto the diplomats. you're watching "hardball." dips you're watching "hardball. lking) lking) for every dollar you spend at a small business, an average of 67 cents stays local. shop small and watch it add up. small business saturday by american express

, host of the appropriately titled, "if you ask us" michael steel podcast.welcome to you both. michael, on the general drum beat of impeachment, how it's approaching this president, would you rather these days have a d or an r after your name? >> that's a good question, brian. oh, man, probably i'd like to have a j and b for old jim beam, baby. >> that's good. >> at this point. you know, probably i think the dems have done a very effective job of sort of setting out the case, the narrative. and what has been interesting is more people paid attention to it than i think republicans and certainly the president thought would pay attention and probably even democrats, to be honest about it. because you just didn't know how this was going to get absorbed by the american people. and i think that's reflected in the cnn poll that a lot more people paid attention to it and, you know, maybe it started with and captured the information and carried it through and culminated with dr. fiona hill. i think that really worked with democrats to set up the next stage of this. >

michael steele, they've been arguing this couldn't have been quid pro quo because the aid was released. democrats argue that he released the aid because he found out about the complaint. are republicans going to have to find a new defense? >> they know they do. but they don't care because of what's already been said. they're so confident of a number of things, one, that they have so muddied the waters on this conversation that no one knows exactly what happened. so when you're resorting to timelines from their perspective, that's a win. number two, so what? what are you going to do about it? what are the consequences? there have been no consequences. we know the president was informed of the whistle-blower. he knew long before he released those funds that this was a problem politically and otherwise, and legally for him. yet, he figured out he could run this thing for as long as he possibly cold and it wasn't until the actual report got to congress that then things began to move in a fashion. from the administration's position and from republicans' position, give me -- find me 20 repub

michael steele, you ran the rnc for a while.terisk last week in the "new york times" best seller list i that sthhowed the were bulk purchases from this book, didn't say from whom and now we know it was the rnc. >> of course it was the rnc. sobs. >> can you repeat that, michael? >> you know, look, let me just tell you how -- how screwed up this is. as national chairman, before i became national chairman, i had written a book on how the republican party can regroup after the 2008 shellacking, after the 2006, you know, bang-up at the polls, and move the party forward. and people looked at me and said, how dare you write a book and try to protest off of the rnc. and these days they're just giving away $100,000 to the president's son, are you kidding he had? this is the kind of internal corruption that people complained about inside the rnc for a long time. and then guys like myself and others come along and try to change the system, we get booted out, they rei state instate it big and bold with it. and then to sit up and lie up fron

also here, michael steele. and doug, former dnc advisor. doug, i want to start with you. this is your party. is michael bloomberg democrat enough to win the democratic nomination? >> is he democrat enough? i think over the last four or five years, you could point to bloomberg a lot of things he's done on climate change. last year, he spent -- helping elect over 20 house democrats that helped turn-let majority. so those are things he can point to. there's some other things, stop and frisk, that he's going to have to deal with. you know, look, i don't know if he necessarily has the -- he has a different profile than obviously everyone running. he's a more unique candidate. he's got a narrower pathway. but i think there is a path for him to win it. yeah. i mean, but -- >> biden basically collapsing, does it not? >> that is what i've heard from a lot of people but if you talk to the biden people and i talked to a few of them today, they're like you know what? come on in. the water's warm. you listen to the warren and sanders folks and they're like going after. >> i get that. i

carl lee, michael steele are back.te here, it's the one underneath. i guess it doesn't have a number on it, but it's yovanovitch on all of her contacts with rudy. >> with respect to mayor giuliani, i have had only minimal contact with him, a total of three, none related to the events at issue. i do not understand mr. giuliani's motives for attacking me nor can i offer an opinion on whether he believed the allegations he spread about me. clearly no one at the state department did. what i can say is that mr. giuliani should have known those claims were suspect coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anticorruption policy in ukraine. >> there is a missing piece here which is where did rudy giuliani find out who he should go to in ukraine to help do these things? we think maybe paul manafort played a role in this weird go-between with sean hannity and all this business, but that was an unknown th

michael steel, are the politics in the democrats' corner, the way this thing is becoming unveiled? >> not right now. they have a -- they can make a compelling public case that these misdeeds are not only real and important but rise to the level that the president should be impeached, convicted, and removed from office. they have not yet made that argument. you have to remember there are 30 or so house democrats sitting in seats that president trump won in 2016. if you look at polls in these swing states, the states that will determine the president's political fate, a year from now, he's still leading many of the democrat potential nominees. it is far from clear, particularly in the house chooses to impeach the president, and the senate declines to convict him, he will claim exoneration, he will claim vindication and he will claim this was a partisan witch hunt all along and that will be a pretty compelling argument going into reelection. >> that was nancy pelosi's hesitance going into this during the mueller probe. but now this is being unveiled as what many say is an abuse of pow

large, natasha bertrand, politico national security correspondent, and as if that's not enough, michael steeleyou all for being here. chairman steele, i'm going to start with you, but before that, let's play this sound bite, this interview that matt schlapp did on another network. >> what's good about it is that if there are no crimes and if they don't come forward with articles that show any criminality but just like your polling -- >> matt, it doesn't have to be a crime. that's just misleading. >> they talked for two straight minutes -- let me talk -- >> you know that a crime is not the standard, matt. >> don't have an asymmetrical standard. >> don't misuse information. >> that's matt schlapp, chairman of the american conservative union. chairman steele, can you please explain, what's up with your party? >> oh, i need the couch for that one. >> well, you've got 30 seconds. >> no, you know, what's up with them is that they're in defense mode. they do not -- the facts do not support the arguments that they're making. you have republicans now in the senate who are looking at this saying, well,

. >> thank you, michael steele, former rnc chairman, chris lu, and now a senior fellow at the university of virginia miller center. and jeremy peters. he showed up last so he goes last, michael, we always heard all politics is local, so what gives? now it is about the president? >> it is he had numbers strong in connecticut. they boosted that turnout. he had some issues as governor of the state. you had a situation where the lieutenant governor is not carrying the water the way the party thought it would, so you have that juice of trump. virginia is a different race. they're looking to take the state legislature and they have a good opportunity to do that. but the republicans don't need to play the trump card in virginia because of the political dynamics in a state like virginia that is trender more blue. so it depends on where you in the mix here and trump, as we noted in that clip, it's all about him and at the end of the day that is good for him and the people that can pull him into the states. >> his platform is public education, health care, and trying to stop politics. >> the presi

named michael steele pod cast and my friend.s one man having a good night tonight but the democratic senator from alabama doug jones because he's thinking there might be a jeff sessions roy moore primary to be the republican senatorial candidate in alabama. >> yeah, and one that the president will likely inject himself into in such a way that it will create what is already a muddled mess, an even bigger mess. the interesting thing about this, there is a dynamic to watch here, ali, and that is exactly how and to what extent the president goes after jeff sessions. now, keep in mind, their relationship is bad, but jeff sessions' relationship with south carolina is damn good. and so there is a risk for the president that he goes after sessions in such a way that it harms his own relationship with the voters of south carolina -- >> alabama. >> excuse me, alabama. those he would need going into next year. yeah, it's not going to be a problem winning alabama for the president, but at the end of the day you just don't to create that unn

his name is michael steele, former senior adviser to jeb bush. always good to see you as well. you heard from congresswoman speier there. how should republicans counter it? >> i think they'll avoid some of the more whack doodle conspiracy theories. i think what they're going to say is ultimately ukraine got the aid. there was no announcement of an investigation, the president maybe shouldn't have done these calls the way he did. but no harm, no foul. if there was some violation of norms or laws or practices, it certainly doesn't rise to the level that the president of the united states should be impeached, convicted and removed from office less than a year before the american people get to make a judgment themselves. >> going to that first argument you made there, that ukraine did, in fact, ultimately get the aid. neil, one of our contributors, has a new book out today. he addressed that this morning on the "today" show. he likened it to essentially saying, if you try to rob the bank and you're not successful at robbing the bank, you still tried to rob the bank. you're still ch

. >> ladies and gentlemen, michael steele and john survivor former cia senior officer. l, here's the story. friendship doesn't mean nothing now? >> not anymore. not when the friendship has been supplanted by a relationship with donald trump. because i hope the senator knows, he doesn't have a friendship with donald trump. he has a relationship. it's a transactional engagement which trump gets the master benefit and you know he gets to say i can play golf. at the end of the day, that's what it is, what was the relationship with joe biden that had you sitting in the back of the karsaying he's the finest man you've ever known? >> i have been following politics a long time. one of the things i've discovered is arguments rarely change people's mind what you do is you change the topic. if you get a good topic, you can't loads, if you are a republican you talk about taxes all the time. if you are a democrat, you talk about healthcare, you're financial to win. eventually democrats trust people on healthcare and republicans on taxes generally. so they will talk about hunter biden

katrina mulligan, michael steele with an e. thank you, mimi.next witness testimony has put a bright spotlight on the break down of u.s. diplomacy under this administration, don't you think inmaybe trump would have been better leaving the diploem osto the diplomats. you're watching "hardball." dips you're watching "hardball. lking) lking) for every dollar you spend at a small business, an average of 67 cents stays local. shop small and watch it add up. small business saturday by american express is november 30th. (honk!) i hear you sister. that's why i'm partnering with cigna to remind you to go in for your annual check-up, and be open with your doctor about anything you feel - physically and emotionally. but now cigna has a plan that can help everyone see stress differently. just find a period of time to unwind. a location to de-stress. an activity to enjoy. or the name of someone to talk to. to create a plan that works for you, visit cigna.com/mystressplan. cigna. together, all the way. visit cigna.♪ m/mystressplan. can you tell me the story a

they won't, certainly not to the extent someone like a lindsey graham and others have done. >> michael steele, always good to see you, my friend. thank you very much. >> you got, katie. >>> the 2020 field is still reacting to the news michael bloomberg may enter the presidential race. >> welcome in the race. michael is a solid guy. let's see where it goes. >> it is not enough just to have somebody come in, anybody, and say they're going to buy this election. >> welcome to the race. >> we don't need anyone coming in and telling us that none of them, with all of the work people have done for our country, are good enough. >> his entry into the race would add a lot. >> he will not do very well, and if he did i would be happy. there is nobody i would rather run against than little michael. >> tonight bloomberg is expected to file paperwork and signatures in alabama to qualify for the primary there. bloomberg announced in march he would not run. he wrote at the time, i am clear eyed about the difficulty of winning the democratic nomination in such a crowded field. why not? a bloomberg advisor says

heidi prisbilla, michael steele and -- are all back.riticized buttigieg for using stock footage of someone from kenya on his website. she had taken a shot of him over that. the moderators set up an tur opportunity for her to hit him. she did not. here was pete's response last night. >> while i do not have the experience of ever having been discriminated against because of the color of my skin, i do have the experience of sometimes feeling like a stranger in my own country. turning on the news and seeing my own rights come up for debate and seeing my rights expanded by a coalition of people like me and people not at all like me, working side by side, shoulder to shoulder. >> so there was that. some folks have criticized pete for maybe comparing the gay rights movement to the civil rights movement. he was trying to create caveats in here. here's how kamala harris responded last night. >> the issue really is not what is the fight. the issue has to be how are we going to win? and to win we have to build a coalition and rebuild the obama coa

joining me now to unpack all of this today, betsy woodruff swan, michael steele, former rnc chairman, and ruth marcus, also an msnbc contributor. well, betsy, the weirdest thing about the gordon sondland today, is it was the most predictable thing to happen. he was setting this up. when he went back to review the transcript. and everything you read about this guy, he clearly, oh, my god, what have i gotten myself into. this was painfully obvious this was going to happen. still it happening is a big blow to the president. >> and it's also, to state the obvious, a big problem for sondland's testimony because it indicates that maybe if other people jog his memories in the right way, some of those other "i don't recall" answers might turn into, oh, well, now you mention it, maybe i know more than i did. the fact that he now has copped to telling the ukrainians that they needed to open these investigations in order to get military aid. >> is he the one to tell the ukrainians that? >> i don't know. i think it's very likely volker might have told them that. i'm fairly confident perry didn't

michael steele. msnbc contributor and "washington post" columnist ruth marcus. so, ruth, that didn't surprise me to hear that from voters. and i do think the only thing i'm concerned about in singling out voters that go to events is, well, they're self-selecting, right? they've decided what we don't know are the democrats that are not the ones going to events that are sitting back and waiting. but they, too, seem to be, i would say, passively for impeachment. >> sure. let's be clear. we know in america, among american voters, there's a very small segment of the electorate that's up for grabs. and up for grabs segment of the electorate is not the -- i mean, they may be up for grabs between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. but they're not up for grabs between those and trump. and so that is not a crowd -- that's a crowd that's already -- as one of the bembeds said. they know their candidate. that's a given that their candidate's, you know, more than medicare for all. it's a given their candidates are going to be for getting trump out of office. but they also h

michael steele. with exclusive. the must see something. to be curious minds. do it yourself networkers. so subscribing don't. you do it in the west it's for public order them to do with it suppression ok part of your take is any further you cannot fight one terrorist organization with another turkey has outraged many of its allies and partners with its military operations in syria and the whole catalogue of human rights violations against its own people my guest this week here at the foreign policy forum in berlin is turkey's presidential spokesman. how does he justify his country's highly controversial policies. and abroad. you bring in cali welcome to comfort zone thank you let's start with mr adie once trip to washington a couple of weeks ago. he went to change minds to change influential minds in the united states to talk about the justification for your military action in syria but he appears to have failed to change those minds comprehensively what about happen do you think but for us to visit went well actually we have a good relationship with the trump

michael steel, former advisor, eli stokels.let's go to the president's play book, it was all about drain the swamp, drain the swamp, his newest edition to the impeachment team, seems like she lives in the swamp. now she is hired to defend the president against a quid pro quo right after she leaves being a lobbiest for a number of companies. how can the president stand on the train the workman's comp argume -- swamp argument after making a claim like this. >> he has never been shamed out of any actions, moving forward with things just because these things are in plain sight. he doesn't care about that. it is beside the point to this president, and as peter talked about, they need new people, new faces to come in and carry a message. the president, yes he has the loudest megaphone but he wants other people to defend him, especially on tv. and if you watched the sunday shows, the few administration officials that have gone on the shows have a tough time defending him. i think these folks have been pushing to get more people in to

michael steel, msnbc cricketer victor what. and the greater of polling, and matt gor man.ou're the one that conducted this poll and he was one of your students that helped you on it. what was the biggest take away. he was also working on the same call, so for a generation now we had this bipartisan group of young persons. they are focused on the kind of brings that -- young people, don't they always want something massive and progressive? >> yeah, what they agree on that what is in the white house today is not working. and a majority of this approve of it, and still the only generation that support the removal of the president. so generally a large scale support on that issue. the next question is what is the style, tone, and shape of change moving forward. there was a more pragmatic tone in this debate than we might otherwise unction. and not necessarily centrist. i think they want changes in health care, but it is about the style of it. young people are saying that among the general lelection, barack obama was talking to folks talking about that is the kind of reform min

you know i love michael steel still being outraged about things in his party. it is not surprising that they bought the books in bulk. the other aspect of the promotion were much more effective. it is like pouring miracle grow on your seedling to get the bulk sales out there and you begin to climb on that list and viola, there he is. >> this certainly not only helps the president and his reelection but don jr. is a potential candidate as well. there is a lot of talk about him running for the governor of montana. look, he's a popular surrogate for his father so i think there is an organic demand for those books. i don't think he made the best seller list solely on the bases sale of the party. it is a campaign book that his father would write if the president had the inclination to write a book. i saw a lot of spots on the book tour for this book in florida and the panhandle in central florida. there is going to be a bid in don jr.'s future, it may be in florida. >> i think florida is a natural, too. if his name were don jr., none of this would be happening. runn

for the republican prospective, i'm joined by longti gop strategist, michael steele.o the newshour. republicans have been criticized for the process, the last few peweeksfically that these depositions have been held behind closed doors instead o public hearings. republicans had a chance to vote for public hearings. why would they vote against it? >> i think it's too little too late. if they voted weeks ago, it i think we will see closed-door depositions. we will not e the robust open, fair, transparent hearings that marked the watergate impeachment hearing against bill clinton. >> language that goes farther from steve scalise, number three in the house, accuse the democrats of imposing soviet style rules. how are these soviet when were democrats say they are in based on rules republican set when they impeached or tried to imach bill clinton? >> and some that were put in place by speake boehner. there is a lot of fairness to it, this is a secret proceeding behind closed doors. the news is released selectively by the majority. been so far.at it' those criticisms will no

with how republicans will deal with it, i'm joined by norm ornstein, and former rnc chairman michael steele is an msnbc analyst. michael, let me start with you. i do think we've arrived where just the facts show there was a quid pro quo. there was an attempt at extortion. and that even folks that want to defend the president are going to have to concede that factual basis. do you agree? >> oh, absolutely. they have already begun to do that by saying, yeah, well, there was a quid pro quo but it didn't amount to anything. we do this all the time, it's the normal course of governmental business. all of that very well may be true, except to the extent that it is done to benefit the president personally. >> right, yes. >> and politically. that's the catch. >> well, and i think the corrupt intent thing is interesting because i think that actually -- here's what i -- here's how i see what they're doing right now, norm. the president tonight is at a rally. and there's a bunch of people in t-shirts, wearing t-shirts that say "read the transcript." which i agree with them, everyone should read the tr

unquote good republican i speak to and i have friends who were republicans and we're talking about michael steelking about how embarrassed they are with this president and his behavior and i'm confused as why the republicans aren't lining up and getting rid of this guy and saying these are not our values even when it comes to the vice president mike pence who is a christian man of faith who talks about leading with his values and they are running behind this guy that they would not want their children to emulate. >> welcome to 2019. this is where we've been. >> and they compartmentalize it between the attacker and the donald trump agenda. and they're shocked how conservative he is and how muchchmuc much -- and how much of a republican he is and saying go get them and every now and then they're wincing and twitter in the morning and -- >> i've never bought the compartmentalization idea. you bought him. you got all of him. you can't take this and leave that. any way, aisha moodie-mills and john brabender, thank you for spending time with me. >>> if over 2500 pages of transcript were enough transpa

they were warned repeatedly that michael steele hated trump pray that out of it is verified. hillary paid for it. they should not trusted. they used it anyway, dan bongino, that is called premeditated fraud on record. for a divider to, you didn't, geraldo, the great lawyer he is, could not get us out of jail. >> sean, the only area i disagree with geraldo, and he's right and aa lot of he said, ths is all the same story. the same obama administration that sat on its ass and did nothing while ukraine was added to invaded, the same obama administration where president obama was caught on a hot mike talking to the russian president saying he would have more flexibility after the election, the same obama administration that are nothing but on the warm fuzzy blankets while they were being attacked, the same obama administration that kiss to russians collective butts to get them on board for an iran deal that the dia director hated. the same obama administration, by the way, that targeted president trump via its law enforcement and intelligence apparatus, the same obama administrati

and michael steele and "washington post" college ummist, deputy editorial page editor ruth marcus. and ruth, it didn't surprise me to hear that from voters and i think the only thing i'm concerned about in singling out voters who go to events, they're self selecting, and they decided, but what we don't know are the democrats not going to events and sitting back and waiting, but they too seem to be i would say passively for impeachment. >> sure. let's be clear. we know in america, among american voters, there's a very small segment of the electorate that is up for grabs and up for grabs segment of the electorate, they may be up for grabs between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, but they're not up for grabs between those and trump. and so that is not a crowd, that's a crowd that is already, is one of the imbeds say, priced impeachments. >> i think all of them. >> the political landscape, they know their candidate, that's a given, that their candidate, more than medicare for all, it is a given that their candidates are going to be for getting trump out of office, but they also hav

. >> for more, president and ceo of the center for american progress, michael steele a republican strategistome base here to explain this. >> always a pleasure. >> it does seem it is an exercise in creative writing now to come up with how this president's innocent of what he has clearly been charged with and effectively charged with. >> well, that is the reason that so many republicans are trying to get permission from the president to make the argument that what he did is inappropriate but doesn't rise to the level of impeachment and he should not be convicted or removed from office less than a year before the american people get to vote, which is a very reasonable argument to make. and he just isn't willing to let them make that argument. he wants the total events. >> who is smart here? the connivers who want to give the critics something, or the guy who says you know what? you give them an inch we're dead. >> it is entirely possible he is right about that. i think that there is a way to argue that's the case but at this point if you're an elected republican, if there are only 30% of the a

let me bring in a couple of washington veterans, michael steele is the spokesperson for former house speaker john boehner and adam served as deputy chief of staff to former senator harry reed. we've seen a dozen witnesses, five days. what i hear from my sources in and around the white house close to the president are, so, yeah, this wasn't all great, but none of it really ended up moving the needle. is there a greater truth to that? >> i do think it's a disingenuous spin. i think they will say nothing moved the needle no matter what evidence comes forward. >> if the needle is number of republicans that will vote to impeach the president. >> i'm including them in that category. what will herd said yesterday, even the moderate republicans have probably already decided that they're going to vote to acquit the president. it doesn't matter what facts come forward, they've already made their decision. so they're going to tell anybody who asks that nothing moved the needle. >> this is exactly right. if you look at this from the perspective of the white house, they would rather he not be imp

joining me now is rnc chairman michael steele.o much for switching your schedule a little bit to talk about this. >> oh, absolutely. >> so as you heard, he called this tax evasion. i asked stefanie rhule said their answer is would be he's not running as tax evasion. he's not against billionaires paying more taxes and he wouldn't be buying the election in the view of the bloomberg campaign because he's got all the money and trump was broke. your thoughts? >> you know, because he's a wealthy man and he can self-fund, you know, that's called buying the election. if people, you know, as we saw with hillary, gave a billion dollars to her campaign, that's not. i understand that, but the reality is our system is designed to allow for individuals to self-fund or to give public money. i think what bloomberg is probably going to do is to kick this thing off, yeah, he has to put the money in. he doesn't have $30 million from individual donors at this point to do the launch ad we're seeing now. so, yeah, he's got to put that money up himself.

michael pillsbury. nerves of steel and a certain sense of wit. r president has both of them. >> absolutely. i can't say i perceive the same being reciprocated beijing ping. michael pillsbury, always good to talk with you. thanks. coming up here next. president trump says he's protecting future presidents. we'll tell you what he's doing and how he's doing it. robert ray joins us here tonight. the president of mexico refuses to take hard line stance against the cartels. former state department advisor christian whiton with is next. stay with us. everyone uses their phone differently. that's why xfinity mobile lets you design your own data. you can share 1, 3, or 10 gigs of data between lines, mix in lines of unlimited, and switch it up at any time. all with millions of secure wifi hotspots and the best lte everywhere else. it's a different kind of wireless network, designed to save you money. switch and save up to $400 a year. and now get $250 off google pixel 4 during xfinity mobile beyond black friday. that's simple. easy. awesome. click, call or

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michael horowitz. this expresses deep rooted problems of fighting, and christopher steele inside the fbi department oftice and fd that the fbi's vetting process and confidential human sources known as validation did not comply with the attorney general guidelines. "it gets worse, and putting out in an article, reported sheds light on massive red lights, and "as it pertains to an informant's credibility or reliability." if sound familiar, they were warned ahead of time about the steel in the dirty dossier. the failures include the reliance on steel and debunks unverifiable paid for russian dog dossier now disproven, 90 plus percent of it. and to get the applications despite the candidate transition. as i told you, my patience is done waiting for the report. they to make the hearing has been scheduled for december 11th. it that senator graham's committee. i'm confident we are that close now to truth and justice and the russia boomerang is in full swing. if we would expose the premeditated problem on the fisa court, exculpatory evidence that was withheld along with all the circular reporting and the new

michael horowitz has been focused on very real misconduct. the trump campaign associate was spied on by our own federal government with a pfize fisa wat with the help of christopher steeleon verified largely phony dossier. of course, christopher steele wasn't feeding his so called intel to the fbi. he was also prodigiously leaking it to the press and according to a new report, christopher steele allegedly handed his anti-trump propaganda to the media as political revenge. he was angry that hillary clinton's email investigation had been reopened and made public. a few days ago, president trump said the findings of the upcoming report would be historic. those are his words. in just a few short days we will know exactly why. joining us now is the former trump campaign associate targeted by the fisa warrant, carter page along with fox news contributor sara carter. good to see you both. carter, those named in the ig report get to see it in advance and comment about it. you are the target of it so you are obviously named in it, yet you haven't seen it. so you filed this federal court motion demanding to see it. why not just wait ten days? >> i think, as we've been with the le

michael horowitz report coming out soon as well. i had just a couple of questions about something that's at the center which is christopher steele's dossier mr. mccabe, if you would, would you be able to just say with specificity what the fbi verified in this deal dossier before using it in five applications? i've heard it generally, eifert generalities specifically what was verified before it was used? and also if there's an explanation for why in these united states applications the fbi didn't just say directly or indirectly that christopher stew was being paid by the clinton campaign. there are a lot of caveats and a lengthy footnote in there but i was just wondering if you would be able to answer those two question. >> sure. the answer to your first question is no. i will not go into specificity about what the fbi verified prior to the fisa or after. and answer to your second question is i will wait, as i'm sure you will eagerly, to see what mr. horowitz conclusions are in that report. that's a matter that he is i assume is at the center of investigation and i'm anxious to see what his thoughts on it are. as you mention there was an e

michael horwitz will be released breaking tonight, investigative reporter john solomon out with a brand-new report with even more damning evidence against the dossier author who does not stand by his own dossier, christopher steelepaid by clinton, russian lies. according to solomon, just as steele's's unverified hyperpartisan evidence made up the bulk in the fisa application warrant against the trump campaign. steele was also peddling other "so-called intelligence to the highest bidder."st including, ironically, an oligarch. you can't make this up. here with more, investigative reporter, fox news contributor john solomon. okay, just like you can't believe russian interference, you have a dirty dossier. you talk about quid pro quos, none for trump, but quid pro quo joee for zero experience hunter being paid millions. you don't fire him. you don't get the billion. you've got six hours. tell us about this. >> this is very important part when the ig comes out and we have the hearing was senator graham, one thing we will here be on the stuff we talked about. we talked about ad nauseam he had a political bias against trump. he was working for hillary clinton's opposition research firm. he had a deadline. he had on coo

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michael horowitz. >> i never spoke to him or any member of his team. they allegedly flew over the london to spent time with the dnc consultant, christopher steele, he hadier. >> one of the authors of the dossier. as some of the investigative journalists have started to find there's a lot more people. maria: john solomon reported that as well wha well. what do you think we're going to learn. we understand this is the framing of donald trump and his team. how are they going to approve that in the ig report? what do you think is going to be most damning from your standpoint? >> i wish i could tell you. unfortunately, according to the privacy act of 1974, if there's a system of records about someone, they should be allowed to review and provide comments and ask for edits to it. i was never given that chance. so it's hard to say. but i think this is one step in a very long process. i'm so appreciative that senate judiciary chairman lindsey graham and his committee are going to take -- maria: michael horowitz on december 11th. so we've got the daily news here and the title is shame on gop sham. this is russia expert slamming republican fiction to defend trum

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