he called mitch mcconnell a liar because he said mitch mcconnell is lying about this, lying about that, now i don't know who's lying and the people that's watching your program don't know who's lying. we don't know if he's lying or mitch mcconnell is lying. that's why it should be open to the public. >> okay. so what robert is saying, congresswoman lesko, understands there is no classified information being disclosed in these closed door depositions so she thinks it should be made, you know, a public hearing. >> first of all, congresswoman isn't in the room, so i'm not going to say she's lying, but she doesn't know what she's talking about because she hasn't been in those hearings. i have been. when senior diplomats, when am ambassador liquors a ambassadors are speaking freely as they must in these situations, they often refer to classified information. that's why these transcripts need to be scrubbed prior to their release to the public. let's grapple with the larger issue that the gentleman raised there. it's true. you know, the republicans are saying one thing and the democrats are

he called mitch mcconnell a liar because he said mitch mcconnell is lying about this, lying about that. i don't know who's lying. the people watching your program don't know who's lying. we don't know if he's lying or mitch mcconnell is lying. that's why it should be open to the public. >> what robert was saying is congresswoman lesko said there is no classified information being disclosed in these closed-door depositions and it should be an open hearing. >> congresswoman lesko isn't in the room. i'm not saying she's lying. but she hasn't been in those hearings. i have been. when senior diplomats, when ambassadors are speaking freely, as they must in these situations, they'll often refer to or use classified information. that's why these things -- these transcripted need to be scrubbed. let's grapple with the larger issue the gentleman raised there. it's true. the republicans are saying one thing and the democrats are saying another but here's my argument on that. we're all american citizens. we have the immense privilege of being american citizens. would you rather be than that? that

he called mitch mcconnell.arly didn't have much of an impact. >> it's been an interesting position for mike pence. he's seen as the liaison between the white house and capitol hill. he heard an earful from people like this who disagree with the president's decision to withdraw those troops. after he negotiated with the turks for several hours on the flight home, we were told he was making calls to several lawmakers including democrats, republicans, the theirs of the relevant committees but i just learned he also call mitch mcconnell. obviously attempting to inform him of what happened but that conversation clearly didn't satisfy mcconnell since he published this op-ed condemning the decision today. he doesn't name president trump but he doesn't really have to. it's pretty explicit whose decision it is that he's disagreeing with it. >> how significant is it that the republicans are, without mentioning the president by name, but clearly rebuking, distancing themselves from his policy? >> i think both parts are eq

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he needs mitch mcconnell very much now. and mitch mcconnell frankly needs the president to stay focused in order to protect him. >> david, the president is going after the person or persons who gave the information to the whistle-blower saying he doesn't want to have spies in the white house. it is interesting that he's so focus focused on the whistle-blower because it seems like the whistle-blower at this point isn't even really the question any more. everything that the whistle-blower has said has turned out to be true or mostly true. and there is the transcript and the president's own comments which prove that. >> well i think that it is conceivable the whistle-blower has some details that haven't been drawn out yet. and so i wouldn't dismiss the whistle-blower's account. i do think it could have some importance. but i also think, anderson, when the american people have a sense that the rage and the obsession and sort of the craziness that is coming out of the white house, that is going to make more and more people feel

we should note breaking news, as mitch mcconnell was talking, we learned vice president mike pence asenate majority leader referred to is going to turkey tomorrow to meet with president erdogan and will take with him secretary of state mike pompeo, couple of national security advisor team members and go to turkey tomorrow. we are supposed to hear, we believe, from nancy pelosi at some point in time, the senate majority leader criticized the house saying they should get off this impeachment game and get busy doing work on jobs and trade, etcetera. if nancy pelosi starts speaking, we'll bring you that live. search for a three-year-old girl named cupcake. someone out there may have important information. plus, the people witnessing reportedly saw trying to lure kids away with candy. next. pacifica: ted! goin' oneighbor: yes. takin' it off road station wagon? you know it's an suv! i know for fact your suv does not suck. why is that? it ain't got that vacuum in the back! we got to go. ♪ vacuum in the back, hallelujah! ♪ liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what

it would be one thing if the white house checked with mitch mcconnell and, you know, mitch mcconnell was like, we can't support you on this. they already announced the doral thing. they already admitted the quid pro quo. it's already out there. so it really -- the climb back is maybe a little too little too late. it has already put republicans in a really tough position. it's emboldened democrats. i mean, regardless of what happens with impeachment, whether the president is actually removed from office or not, democrats are now armed with half a dozen examples of corruption and self-dealing that they can use in a political context going into this next election up and down the ballot. it's really a tough position that trump has already put republicans in. yes, they don't have to continue

how is that utilized by mitch mcconnell?ey took the star report and had managers present the case to the senate but you can have a full trial situation, the chief justice presiding and have a like a trial on law and order or something like that with witnesses questioning in the senate. with republicans in the majority they would control, have more control over questioning the witnesses than the minority would and that is something of the we would consider but frankly would be more of a circus than you would want if you want to defend the president. >> how does impeachment work? >> one of the senators could bring forward a motion in the majority leader can essentially, the equivalent of a motion to dismiss in the civil trial where he could bring the matter of impeachment up to the senate and say assuming what is alleged has happened we don't think it is an impeachable offense and we will not spend much time on it. the majority leader has been clear there has to be a trial in the senate and will follow constitutional obligatio

mitch mcconnell is a survivor. mitch mcconnell doesn't give a damn about donald trump. he does give a damn about control of the u.s. senate. donald trump is an impediment to that, he'll go. as long as mitch mcconnell has that equation, he's going to hold the majority of the republican vote and certainly he's going to hold the number required to prevent the president from being convicted in the senate until he sees that his majority's in danger. and what we are seeing is signs, brian, that republicans are falling behind in fund-raising in maine and arizona, in colorado and other places. we're seeing that there's been a real drop-off in the polling for a lot of republican members of the senate. and i think those concerns are only going to get more amplified as we go forward with the impeachment process. >> i wanted to get your reaction to a tom friedman quote from the "new york times" yesterday. he sure can turn a phrase. "if america's worst enemies had spent years designing a plan to erode our greatest strengths, they could not have done better than what some of our fell

then there was this shot across the bow yesterday from mitch mcconnell. the president has said on a couple of occasions, well, mitch mcconnell says my call with the ukraine president was perfect. mitch mcconnell says never happened. >> the president has said that you told him that his phone call with the ukrainian president was perfect and innocent. do you believe that the president -- >> we've not had any conversations on that subject. >> so he was lying about that? >> you'll have to ask him. i don't recall any conversations with the president about that phone call. >> he speaks quietly, short sentences as mitch mcconnell does. but that was a mr. president, get your act together. >> there is definitely maybe a better recognition in the senate than there is in the house among the republicans that when the time comes for the public airing of all of this, that's probably not good for them. i mean, the republicans have a sort of be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. when the democrats in the house decide that it's time to take all of these wit

mitch mcconnell calls the pullout of u.s. troops a grave strategic mistake. >> listen. it shows something that i think a lot of people have missed politically, which is that the popular view that republicans are so cowed and intimidated by the president that they'll never raise their voices against him is simply wrong. they like a lot of what he's done with the tax cuts, deregulation, and conservative cuts. when it comes to this one, they find their voices. what that suggested to me is they agreed with him all along and they had no particular reason to criticize him. but when necessary they can and will share their voices. this is one sign of the disenchantment that many of them have around foreign policy. yes, we want conservative judges and deregulation and tax cuts. we do not want the kind of chaos we're seeing break out in the middle east. >> a lot of pressure on the u.s. president to say the least. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >>> some breaking news we're following this morning. a historic debate is happening right now. the house of commons is holding their

mitch mcconnell spoke against an op-ed blasting trump on syria. if he's losing his base on other issues as well it gives them more of an incentive to say you know what, maybe someone else is better. >> frank, we had some testimony this week. there will be more coming. what are you looking for next in terms of what folks in the administration might be able to provide in these hearings? >> well, first of all i'm eager to see the depositions released publicly. because as you guys just discussed this is potentially what's going to change public sentiment. and if you change public sentiment you change the hearts and minds of those senators who realize it's too painful to stay joined at the hip with the president. i think if we see more national security threat concerns come through, if we see the president placed squarely even more than he is in the center directing all of this behavior, he can't be teflon anymore. you can't say like he did with the special counsel investigation, i couldn't control the hacking and social media propaganda operations, i

inside the body, was suggested three years ago in research published by william mitch, a professor at stanford university. watested.l study, ten voluntrs m.d.m.a. levels were more than 400 times greater than what the f.d.a. considers acceptable. even after adjusting for a new f.d.a. protocol for measuring m.d.m.a., mitch got similar result >> what we were hoping was that someone else would eventually pick up the results, who is in the pharmaceutical field. >> reporter: and did they? >> to my knowledge, not yet. but maybe this will spur them to. >> reporter: three months after valisure first alerted the f.d.a. to its findings, the agency issued a safety alert, saying its own testing found low levels of m.d.m.a. in ranitidine. it is now calling even those levels unacceptable. the agency told cbs news it is now investigating what happens to ranitidine inside the body after it's exposed to stomach acid. what do you think happens going forward now? what would like to see happen? >> what we've been petitioning for is for the complete recall of all ranitidine products-- brand, doest matt m >

that's what he reportedly told mitch mcconnell. much will the gop continue to allow these sort of attacks on their members? are they just that, sort of feckless and they don't -- >> i would say, yes, they are that feckless and craven. they have no backbones. they have long ago given up any pretense of political courage or principle. they occasionally will kick back at trump over something like syria bau syria but that's only because they know it's basically a cost-free sound bite because attacking trump on syria policy is not going to lead to any blowback in their districts. it's not going to lead to trump creating primary challenges. but they're not going to go against trump on the existential issue over whether he should remain in office or not, and that's very sad because the evidence is overwhelming that trump has violated his oath of office. he has invited foreign election interference. he has misused his power for personal political gain. if any democrat had done this, every single republican would be calling not just for imp

could we start to see more of that, mitch mcconnell where he distances himself from the president?nk he is putting some distance between himself and the president, and i think it mostly concerns national security. he called the president's withdrawal, his chaotic, rash decision to withdraw from syria, a grave, strategic mistake. that's how mitch mcconnell described the president's decision to withdraw from syria, and now coupled with this new information that the president sort of the clarity of the information that has been coming out that the president has been using his foreign policy abilities in order to receive political information from a foreign government. i really think that mitch mcconnell and other national security-minded republicans who are in congress need to take a real serious look at whether they are going continue to abide the president's chaotic and ill conceived and really irrational national security and foreign policy decision making because according to ambassador taylor's testimony today the concern is that he's making decisions that are not in america's in

i mean, mitch mcconnell will do whatever he can get away with.nd i think it's really important for us not -- i wouldn't want anybody i know to be as cynical or malevolent as mitch mcconnell is. but we need to be as struteemgic as he is. and he's been strategic all along when the comes to judges, climate, when it comes to guns. and he's going to do exactly the same thing here. >> i want to ask you about your campaign for president, the fourth democratic debate held earlier this week. there was a discussion about medicare for all. you said it would be a mistake for democrats to sign-on to this plan. you talked to somebody from politico. you said just listen to this debate, medicare for all shouldn't have even made it to the debate stage. why is that? >> well, only 30% of democrats support it to begin with, and i think that if we pursue medicare for all, we're going to fight a losing battle for the next ten years over medicare for all when what we should be doing is creating universal health care for everybody in this country. what we should be doin

mitch mcconnell writing in that op-ed -- he didn't say trump by name.unfortunately the administration's recent steps in syria do not reflect these crucial lessons, and he's talking about spelling out three valuable lessons learned from his work with previous administrations on fighting terrorism. in any way is this kind of a microcosm that mitch mcconnell would speak, a microcosm of a crack in gop support for the president? what do you see this as perhaps headlining any action to come? >> you know, i think many republicans are uncomfortable with this. obviously our veterans and our men and women in service are uncomfortable with this decision. but we've seen this repeatedly with the president. last december he said he wanted to pull troops out of syria and tweeted that out after a phone call with erdogan. he had folks like general mattis and general kelly and others that could walk him back from that decision. this time there's no one around him. i mean all the folks that might offer a moderating influence in this cabinet, they're all gone. he's surroun

, mitch, we're best friends, mitch, aren't we, mitch?ht laughter ] mitch. do you like my new haircut, mitch? i'm just like you, mitch i'm just like you. [ laughter and applause trump, of course -- trump, of course, is freaking out because every day we learn more about the scheme trump and his gang of mafia-themed pez dispensers concocted to get ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden now, trump has been insisting that his phone call with ukraine's president, in which he dangled hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid and in return told the president of ukraine, "i would like you to do us a favor, though," was not just appropriate but perfect he's literally said or tweeted that specific word dozens of times. >> the conversation i had with the president of ukraine was absolutely perfect the conversation, by the way, was absolutely perfect it was a perfect conversation. it was perfect the call was perfect that was a perfect conversation. just so you know, the call was perfect. it was perfect it was perfect the call was a perfect call. i

mitch mcconnell said, no. that's not exactly what happened. if you're mitch mcconnell you're thinking about this audience of one, a president who wants backing from more senior folks in the republican party on the senate side. that's what i think mitch mcconnell was doing. does it matter? i don't really think so in terms of what we'll continue to learn about the president's alleged behavior in regards to ukraine, speaking of this audience of one. >> yes. >> how could we forget last week? mick mulvaney's performance at the podium during the press avail. this is the acting chief of staff and basically the bomb he dropped, which went against everything that trump and everyone at the white house said with quid pro quo. is he on thin ice? >> we are hearing on shaky ground and i want to read you exactly what i was told today. this is from a source familiar with white house thinking on the future of acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. this source said to me, "it's not imminent but it could happen. ultimately it's up to the president." th

mitch mcconnell writes for our country. even if the five day ceasefire announced thursday holds, events of the past week have set back the united states campaign against islamic state and other terrorists. invite the brutal assad regime and its iranian backers to expand their influence and we are ignoring russia's efforts to leverage its increasingly dominant power. jeff bennett, when mitch mcconnell writes an op-ed like this, he's also signaling to other republicans, here's my position. go for it. it's okay to say yours, too. >> you're right about that. he is giving other republicans cover to criticize president trump. republicans president trump needs on his side, especially as this impeachment inquiry continues a pace. what's so interesting to me about this op-ed, chuck, is that it comes after, of course, the house not unanimously but overwhelmingly passed approved that bipartisan resolution condemning president trump's decision on syria. and as it moved over to the senate, mitch mcconnell said it wasn't strong enough. t

you know, if you want to drain the swamp, you have to get rid of mitch mcconnell >> seth: but don't -wanted to drain the swamp, we found certainly in the three years since as far as somebody who hires lobbyists and doesn't seem to actually have any interest in draining the swamp but even without mitchmcconnell i think we would have donald trump's swamp in d.c. wouldn't you agree with that >> but i also think, you know, for folks in kentucky, a lot of people get it, the fact they feel that mitch mcconnell has, you know, turned their backs on them they feel that, you know, he represents and really is bought off my special interests and so people are tired of that. and, you know, i'm a bit of an outsider i was a military officer for 20 years i'm somebody that didn't grow up within the political system. and i really think we need new people a new generation of leaders in this country, particularly to take out folks like mitch mcconnell. [ cheers and applause >> seth: kentucky is a -- certainly a beautiful state. it is also a rural state it's a red state it's the kind of state the democrat

mcconnell told him something and mitch mcconnell said i never -- trump said mitch mcconnell told him something and mitch mcconnell said, "i never said that. i never had that conversation with him." he doesn't care. his incumbents are so scared. you name it, they are in mortal fear. there's not a single democratic congressman that has any fear whatsoever of this. they are going to do it and he is too weak to stop it, and he may not stop it in the senate. this train is leaving the station and as long as he is sitting there -- you can pass this on to him -- as long as he is sitting there -- >> [indiscernible] mr. carville: it's not going to happen. he has to get some good lawyers. he got to get rid of david kendall and get rid of this clown show you've got. you know media. you can get some people in their that can carry their own weight and make a case, but right now, y'all are getting the crap kicked out of you from everything i see. you've got to toughen up a little bit. >> speaking of fear, i'm curious, sean. could you think trump least wants to face in 2020? hannity: i look at the f

anyone who knows mitch mcconnell knows that the typical answer from mitch mcconnell would have been ion't discuss my private conversations with -- >> right. >> mitch mcconnell did not say that. he made a point to say that what the president had stated was untrue. that is a big deal. i understand for a lot of people that's not enough. but for those of us who follow this closely and who know these characters we know it's significant. >> you each get one sentence, tony. >> i agree that mitch mcconnell did something unusual. he did it because he recognizes that the tides are shifting and maybe it's in his interest to push against trump in a way he never has. >> congressman? >> i think anything is possible. those people who assume that republicans are just going to fall in line the way they have for the last three years might be in for a surprise. we'll see. >> very interesting. thinking about what you're saying and the interplay in between. tony schwartz and congressman, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> fit in a break and then we turn to something we haven't had a chance to get to all

mitch: inventory was one of the concerns.e buying ahead going up, by nature you are putting things into inventory. inventory has been one of the scary things in the chip industry because a lot of these things, they don't improve over time. these are not like buying fine wine. inventory is not a good thing to have. taylor: mitch, final word, 20 seconds. top pick as we head into earnings. mitch: amd is probably the best one. it is probably the most hated after their announcement. numbers will go up for the first time in a long time. secondly, our top pick has been synopsis. taylor: we are always looking to make headlines. that was mitch steve's and ian king, thank you for joining me. that does it for this edition of bloomberg technology. bloomberg technology is livestreaming. check us out. follow our global breaking news network, tictoc, on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ 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 lin

>> to mitch mcconnell's house? [cheers and applause] >> mitch mcconnell's got to go go!arlie hurt, "washington times" opinion editor and chris hahn, syndicated radio host and aide to chuck schumer. thank you for being here. how do you feel about paying a visit to mitch mcconnell's house? charlie? >> wow, i guess? it's insane. this guy, brett kavanaugh was completely vindicated, completely exonerated at a level ten times higher than what have been required by the court of law against these scurrilous, unfounded charges. he got a full of health by a ridiculous kangaroo session -- community, but what it underscores is how utterly and totally bankrupt the democratic party is when it comes to running a campaign on ideas and a platform that will improve the lives of ordinary americans and it's the same thing with their impeachment of donald trump. they have nothing to run on so they will go back and re-delegate this nonsense and they look quite frankly ridiculous. my advice to them, move on. >> martha: i'm looking at these times they are holding up. stop entitled man and then

dave, mitch, thank you very much. >> all right, charles.harles: the house voting on the impeachment measure this afternoon. i will get reaction from arizona congressman andy biggs. i have repeatedly said on this show fed chair jerome powell needs to work on his communication. by the same token wall street has to stop whining after hearing something they don't like. i think we're seeing the maturation of the fed and wall street. i will explain next. ♪. so ...how are you feeling? on a scale of one to five? one to five? it's more like five million. there's everything from happy to extremely happy. there's also angry. i'm really angry clive! actually, really angry. thank you. but what if your business could understand what your customers are feeling... and then do something about it. turn problems into opportunities. thanks drone. customers into fanatics change the whole experience. alright who wants to go again? i do! i do! i have a really good feeling about this. charles: jerome powell is starting to shift his language and indicating that the

mitch mcconnell is not a fan of this nancy pelosi bill. she had to strengthen the bill to negotiate and bring down drug prices. it's unclear when it will go to the floor. there is going to be a hearing in the ways and means committee. there's a number of committees in the house that have jurisdiction. so i think you're going to have the hearings which are going to be very partisan. then i would think you're going to have markups moving through committee and then going through the floor sometime in 2019. >> a quick yes/no question. will the house and senate take up the u.s.-mexico-canada trade agreement before the end of the year? >> i think it's on a knife's edge. the slight answer would be yes. but impeachment really brings a problem with this because of the politics of it. but there is -- speaker pelosi wants to get to yes and republicans want to get to yes. there's a little over 50% chance that this is going to pass congress this year but don't bet a lot of money on that. >> thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks, bill. >> c-span's "w

and they are still collecting dust mitch mcconnell's door. we know that americans across the political ideology are with us on these provisions. it is one of the many examples of how the house democrats are legislating and being blocked by this administration and our republican colleagues in the senate. so with that, i will yield back to the great chairman from brooklyn and take your questions. >> weird feeling that each otherthis morning . [inaudible] >> you talk about how pelosi made the right decisions on how to handle impeachment, we heard from intelligence committee chairman adam schiff. is it truly an deference to the committee chairs to come up with how their handling this or is pelosi really the one in charge of this and making the call ? >> speaker pelosi has indicated the ultimate call will be made by the entirety of the caucus. of course in consultation with the leadership led by speaker pelosi as well as the committee chairs and committees of relevant jurisdiction. when speaker pelosi first announced the impeachment inquiry she ma

likewise for people like cory gardner in colorado, and even mitch mcconnell in kentucky. he is in a pretty hospitable environment in kentucky. that is a pretty trumpy state. but you are seeing a lot of grassroots donations to his opponent, in large part because the country this fed up with his cynical approach to politics. host: how much money are you spending on television advertising the cycle? maine, we have a combined digital and television ad which features a resident, a former collins supporter, who says that post the vote for brett kavanaugh she cannot support susan collins anymore and does not think she is the moderate she once held herself out to be. one of the main reasons that susan collins has come under fire is because just a couple hostedago, in maine, she a fundraiser with leaders of the federalist society, this outsized special interest group that helps create the pipeline of judicial candidates that donald trump has been putting forward. leonard leo is one of the lead figures of the federalist society. he hosted a fundraiser for susan collins one year aft

it may be that mitch mcconnell's cooperation with chuck schumer last week, mitch mcconnell's unnecessarytement today that absolutely he will have an impeachment trial in the senate if the house sends him a bill of impeachment. that could all be part of mitch mcconnell thinking right now that they might need a different nominee who is not donald trump or mike pence by the time they get to next summer. >> it does seem that mcconnell has gone out of his way to distance himself a little bit. i mean, mcconnell loves trump's judges and tax cut. he doesn't really like donald trump that much, but he also has senate rules to deal with, and mcconnell will ride rough shod over all kinds of norms but it's hard to get around senate rules that say he absolutely has to have an impeachment trial, but he did leave himself a way out. he noted that there's nothing in the rules that tells him how long impeachment has to be on the floor. so i think mcconnell is keeping all his options open. >> rick, to no one's surprise, john bolton is letting it be known, nbc news is reporting, that john bolton argued again

>> well, first of all, i think senator mitch mcconnell has a lot of blank. i won't make it on television when we passed 200 balls, sorry, i used the word anyway, bills in the house, the senate has yet to take up. i am not on any of the committees looking at this i am very focused on the cost of prescription drugs. i met with the secretary of hhs, the led of affairs and domestic affairs at the white house and said the president's got to do more. i have a list of things that richard nixon did. the president promised the american people he would lower the cost of prescription drugs. we all got to work together to do that and i intend upon doing that i want a trade bill. the uaw workers just went on strike, they're still negotiating with other people. they've seen their jobs shift overseas, getting a nafta 2.0 is a priority for me. protecting pensions of many of the workers in my districts are a priority. i don't stop. i'm working every day and i sincerely hope that senator mitch mcconnell will think son of passing the bills with ehave passed, it's domestic viol

and they're raising a lot of money on things like selling moscow mitch material.. what was interesting to me about the story and some of the reporting on this is that they are spending money online which is smart. digitally. it is not the same message that mitch mcconnell is delivering about how he will approach the process here. he's saying i'll stop impeachment online, appealing to the base to try to raise money. but here he's saying aisle abide by the senate process. that is smart politically and i'm not scare, mitch mcconnell is running in a red state and if he wants to keep the -- be the majority leaders he needs to keep his seat as well. >> and chairman rogers, it doesn't seem to be all that difficult to say that no politician should be able to lean on a foreign country for an investigation into their political rival. this is not some crazy revelation. that would just be complete chaos and the end of free and fair elections in the united states and yet we only have four republican senators out of 53 that are even willing to acknowledge that that is wrong. >>

where is mitch? we can't find mitch?pops up in a facebook ad trying to raise money for his campaign. what does that tell you, though? yes, he is working some service of this service, the service being the head of his party. him being a matter tactician when it comes to the u.s. senate, what is his presence and lack of presence tell you about the way he operates? >> it feels very slippery. it just feels very slippery. >> yes, it does. >> your ears perk up. then it goes down the way side. i keep on having these images. one, of course, demographics in the united states. it's not destiny. but we do know what's happening in terms of demographics and who is going to be voting and the fact that the majority will be people of color soon. how does that play out with the republican party. but i have the image of -- and i don't like saying this. but will we see republicans being led out in handcuffs? i keep going back to watergate and thinking of people in the cabinet behind bars. i'm not saying that about mitch mcconnell. right no

also for cory gardner in colorado and even mitch mcconnell in kentucky. he is in a hospitable environment. you are seeing a lot of money flow in -- grassroots donations to his opponent in large part because the country is fed up with his cynical approach to politics. a lot of candidates on the republican side, mitch mcconnell may become a referendum question they face and his support as majority leader may be a liability in their campaigns. host: in maine your group dropped a new ad. how much are you spending on television advertising the cycle? it is: it is -- guest: unclear. in may we will spend $6 million candidate who says that post brett kavanaugh vote she cannot run anymore as the moderate she said herself to be. a couple of months ago, in maine, she hosted a fundraiser with leaders of the federal society, which is an outside special interest group that helps create the pipeline of judicial candidates that donald trump has been putting forward and leonard leo hosted fundraiser for susan collins one year after she supported brett kavanaugh for the su

host: did you talk to mitch daniels for this book? guest: know. mitch did not want to talk. he did not want to talk. host: say hello to jean in detroit, democrats line. comments,have a few to me, there is a difference between being spiritual person and of religious person. the spiritual operate out of love. with religious people, it is more out of doctrine. out of judgment. there are two scriptures that struck me. one is how we are not to judge. and when we judge the same way we are judged. the other scripture, was the one that says how we will have to stand before god, each person and give them a pallet of every idle word and deed. the gayt said to me is people, the adulterers, those people have to answer to god. each of us have to answer to god for how we treat them. and the god we serve is a god of love and when we act out of judgment, we are going against his will. thank you. rayford is on the independent line from germantown, maryland. caller: can you hear me? host: yes. caller: i want to point out quickly that mike pence and all of the other so-called evangelicals like

he read my phone call with the president of ukraine, mitch mcconnell.e said that was the most innocent phone call that i've read. give me a break. anybody that reads it says the same thing. and the only people that don't understand it is when they look at the false fabricated fraudulent statement made by shifty schiff. >> the president has said that you told him that his phone call with the ukrainian president was perfect and innocent. do you believe that the president has -- >> i don't believe i've had any conversations on that subject. >> so, he was lying about that? >> yeah, i don't recall any conversations with the president about that phone call. >> and the president continues to face criticism from democrats and republicans for referring to the impeachment probe as a, quote, lynching. in a tweet yesterday morning, trump wrote this, so some day, if a democrat becomes president and the republicans win the house, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the president without due process or fairness or any legal rights. all republicans must remember wh

criticism of president trump's decision to withdraw troops from syria by a republican party heavyweight — mitchll calls it a "grave mistake". and making history that's out of this world, two astronauts take part in the first ever all—female spacewalk. police and protestors clashed late into the night in barcelona. officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at youths — who responded by throwing stones and setting makeshift barricades on fire. during the day 500,000 people held a peaceful demonstration in the spanish city, against the jailing this week of catalan separatist leaders. damian grammaticas sent this report from barcelona. central barcelona. parts of it are a battleground tonight. a full—scale confrontation under way, between police and protesters. round after round, fired by the riot officers. in return, stones, bottles and fireworks, hurled back at them. this is now the fifth night in a row of these clashes in barcelona, and what's clear is that they are becoming worse and worse. more violent, more protesters on the streets and more response from the police as well, who tonight have

so he's calling mitch mcconnell asmany as three times a day, tweeting all night. he's consumed, even though he goes it's no big deal. >> can which may be the best because you think of what he does when he focuses on policy, he creates disasters wherever he goes. i wish he were more consumed with impeachment than having a call with erdogan that allowed him to allow the slaughterer of our kurdish allies. but there's no question he's consumed with umpoochment. we were discussing this earlier. some people suggestest maybe he wants impeachment because it may rally his base. but i don't think he wants tago down in history as the only president in 230 years to be impeached. he does not want this to happen and that's why he's calling mitch mcconnell so incessantly. >> i think the end game is he knows if he's going to be removed from office and those -- but what's the strategy? >> we disagree on this because whether -- maybe he goes back and forth and freaks out if he sees the fox news poll although republicans don't support impeachment. he is losing some independents. but

mitch mcconnell has been very critical of this move. you mentioned liz cheney, member of the house republican leadership. and the other top two above her, steve scalise from louisiana and kevin mccarthy are backing the sanctions bill. so it is going to divide republicans who are torn between supporting their president, and they just didn't like this move of leaving syria and abandoning the kurds. so you are potentially going to see votes next weekend beyond that would admonish the white house for making this move. and that is going to be a tough vote for some republicans, no doubt about it. seems the president seems the withdrawal -- sees the withdrawal as a political winner for him. bob: that's right. he has made the case that the entry is very war weary. at his rally last night, he repeatedly mentioned we have to stop the endless wars. that triggered some applause. it's interesting because some republicans will support him here, and i think some democrats will also support him if they are post -- if they are forced to vote on it. but

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell released this statement, this victory for the u.s. and our counterterrorism partners is a significant step for the campaign against isis for the future of the middle east and for the safety of the american people and free people around the world. is the chief congressional correspondent of the washington examiner, looking at the week ahead in congress, we have the house considering -- can you tell us more about the congressional response to the recent military action after the president announced his decision to withdraw soups -- troops from syria. susan: the house will take up legislation that will sanction turkey and the senate would also take it up and it is possible they will. it is being slowed down in the senate or paused in the senate because the republicans who run the chamber want to give the cease-fire a chance. they want to give the president a chance to try to seal the deal they worked out here is going to be successful. they are having sanctions as plan b. the house will pass it. they are working in conjunction with senat

mitch, you are on capitol hill.k about the latest in the impeachment inquiry, the takeover of this room yesterday by this group of republican, mainly men, and the significance of ill taylor's testimony. >> let's begin with what happened yesterday at the skiff room, and that stands for sensitive compartment information facility. it is just as it sounds, very secured roooom where briefings behind closed doors, usually highly classified information occurs, true story, i was even told as i was down there outside the room not e even to point myy microphone in the direction of the doors. as it was sound, highly secured impenetrable room that republicans, about 40 of them, who weren't supposed to really go in there, were able to penetrate. as you said in the introduction, ended up delaying the testimony of laura cooper of the pentagon for about five hours. after about five hours, laura cooper was able to give her deposition behind closed doors. it only lasted about three hours. one of the shorter depositions that have occu

tonight the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell is publicly rebuking the president's syria policy saying the withdrawal of the u.s. troops is endangering america. is this the issue that will cost mr. trump support from his base. >>> mulvaney mess. president trump insisted his acting chief of staff clarified his quid pro quo bombshell. the democrats aren't buying the walk-back as they argue the white house confessed to wrongdoing. >>> mattis fires back. the former defense secretary has a stinging response to being mocked by mr. trump after holding back for months. should general mattis have chosen a more serious forum to finally speak out. >>> and kim's high-rise cover-up. a bizarre sight in north korea where the windows of many skyscrapers have been covered up. is it new evidence of kim jong-un's paranoia and his pen chant for secrecy. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. on a staunch gop ally of the president speaking out against him tonight. in a new op-ed the senate majority leader mitch

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell denied a claim made by the president yesterday. >> i read mitchconnell's statement yesterday and i spoke to him about it too. he read my phone call with the president of ukraine, mitch mcconnell, he said, that was the most innocent phone call that i've read. i mean, give them a break. >> reporter: the president has said that you told him that his phone call with the ukrainian president was perfect and innocent. do you believe that the president -- >> we've not had any conversations on that subject. >> reporter: so he was lying about that? >> you have to ask him. i don't recall any conversations with the president about that phone call. >> that's pretty dramatic. joining me now, robert costa, national political reporter with "the washington post" and an msnbc political analyst and the host of "washington week" on pbs on friday nights. robert, what's going on there with mitch mcconnell? did policy. is the wall coming down? >> there's certainly a different scene in the senate among republicans as opposed to the house. when i was in the capital yester