lockhart and rick santorum, political commentators for cnn. jeffrey toobin, i want to start with you. this morning already the president weighed in on twitter and said yeah i was doing business during the campaign and i lightly looked at doing a building somewhere in russia. i call this a few good men defense, you are damn right i did, i was doing this. did he break a law? >> certainly not by conducting his real estate business. it is not illegal now or then, and the question is was he candidate with the other candidates during this period about what he was doing and how does that relate to the other parts of the investigation where there might be illegal activity. certainly the developments itself was not illegal. what he keeps saying is that everybody knew i was negotiating in moscow during the first half of 2016, obviously untrue. we all know what he did and didn't say, and he did not say he was negotiating with russia. that's important because this was the period when he was being so mysteriously kind to putin. why did they change the amer

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you actually voted the right way on this thing years and years ago, rick santorum.'s finally caught up to you. >> there you go. >> finally the endorsement you've been waiting for. >> i want to thank everybody, appreciate everybody's insight. we're going to have a lot more tomorrow on florida. the contest for governor, battle for a senate seat. just ahead the large bloc of voters that could be the difference that might surprise you. stay tuned. i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release its own insulin, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it works 24/7. it comes in an easy-to-use pen. and i may even lose a little weight. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. don't use it as the first medicine to treat diabetes, or if you have type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't take trulicity if you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, you're allergic to trulicity, or have multiple

let's discuss with rick santorum, former senator from pennsylvania, and symone sanders, cnn political commentator as well. senator santorum, the president, his lawyers, they got what they wanted. they got the take-home test in effect. written questions they would reply written answers to. now we hear the president's lawyer rudy giuliani is complaining about some of those written questions. he calls them unnecessary. he goes on to say there are some that create more issues for us legally than others. why can't the president of the united states answer written questions from a special counsel? >> well, he will. he's in the process of doing so. and i think he will answer them. obviously, you know, director mueller is someone who is a pretty smart cookie when it comes to trying to get information. and i'm sure they put some pretty challenging questions out there. and pushed the envelope on the president. it's up to him and his lawyers to make sure they truthfully answer those and do so in a way that obviously protects their client. >> but isn't that the thing? truthfully answer them, beca

jennifer grant home and rick santorum.know from whence the president is deriving this wisdom about the people walking in circles with the changed hats and shirts? >> i do not, but that doesn't mean it's never happened. i'm sure it has happened. >> why are you sure it has happened? >> look, the bottom line is people do commit voter fraud. i mean, people commit fraud on a variety of different things. people lie, cheat and steel every day. if you don't think they do it during an election, you're deluding your several. -- yourself. the question is do we have laws in place and systems in place to limit that. and that's one of the things republicans have been all about, making sure there is integrity in the voting process, and i do agree with you that i don't think it helps anybody, the president or our party or anybody to go out and make specious claims about voter fraud that are unsubstantiated because it's a serious business and i do believe it does exist. i know the cases are prosecuted. i've talked to lots of attorney gener

>> rick santorum is not the president. he's not a.g. >> true. true. well said. so you have this situation where there becomes concern of how the president processes good and bad. right and wrong. right? and this is is not necessarily your bailiwick, but it's an extension of the same intellectual construct. khashoggi happens. okay? his cia, his people, they look at it, they say the way this went down, the prince knew. he looks at it and says, maybe he did, maybe he did not. let's stop right there. the cia gives you a report and says this man, this -- >> high confidence. >> high confidence. >> right. >> is that maybe he did, maybe he didn't? >> usually they back it up with the evidence that they have. that's not maybe he did, maybe he didn't. >> what does it mean the president looks at it and says maybe? >> i think what the president is doing is hedging and saying, well, they don't have a confession. they don't have a photograph of him doing it. they don't have a recording of him giving the order and, therefore, it's equivocal. that's ridiculous. >> sure. it's cer

sanblican senator brownback, jc watts from , and other prominent republicans like rick santorum, ted stevens, and others came in mayr so that here, 2001, you had all of the top leadership in the republican and -- all of sides of them cosponsoring legislation to create a national museum of african american history and culture. you see john lewis with hillary clinton and senator john edwards, and congressman jc watts speaking and senator clinton and senator rick santorum. they will -- they were joking that they would never see this group assembled in favor of anything. they were all in favor of this museum. president bush is not at this press conference. he was a strong supporter of this. he dispatched vice president cheney, who was the president of the senate, to meet with the republic senators and tell them that president bush wants this to happen. and, to get behind it. i congratulated congressman john lewis at the end of that press conference, and i thought that this was a wrap. this is going to sail through. we have the support of the leadership, the president, we will have this m

former senator rick santorum has a theory he shared this weekend on cnn. >> if there was no climate changets are driven by the money they receive. they don't receive money from corporations because it's tainted but they can receive it from people who support their agenda. >> trevor: of course, how did we miss it? climate change is just a scam! it's a scam by scientists trying to get rich! we should have known when we saw them boiling in the gucci lab coats making it rain test tubes in the club. ow, ow, ow, ow! ( laughter ) after this report came out, american news was littered with climate change buffoons and one of my favorites is a woman nbc brought on to drop this gem. >> we need to recognize we just had two of the coldest years, p the biggest drop in global temperatures since we've had in the last hundred years. from the standpoint of those who have doubts about this, and i don't think we have any doubts there is climate change. i'm not a scientist, i look that as a citizen. >> trevor: once you say i'm not a scientist, why is anyone listening to your scientific opinion? i look at this

kansas, then republican house member jc watts from oklahoma, other prominent republicans like rick santorum, then senator of pennsylvania, ted stevens from alaska, and others came together so that here at this picture in may of 2001, you had all of the top leadership in the republican and democratic side all cosponsoring legislation to create a national museum of african-american history and culture as part of the smithsonian. and you see john lewis there with then senator hillary rodham clinton and then senator sam brownbeck and senator john edwards and then congressman jc watts speaking and you see senator clinton and senator rick santorum and they were joking that you'll never see this group assembled all in favor of anything, but they were all in favor of this museum. and president bush is not at this press conference, but he, behind the scenes, was a strong supporter of this, and he even dispatched vice president cheney, who, of course, as vice president was the president of the senate, to meet with the republican senators and tell them that president bush wants this to happen. and to

. >> when the bizarre and suspicious racial calls were in florida, rick santorum immediately denounced them. as they should. >>> back in 2016, the media tried to paint trump as he wasn't going to be accepting any of the results of the election. >> are you saying you are not -- >> what i'm saying is that i'll tell you at the time, i'll keep you in suspend. laura: hillary responded like this. >> that's horrifying. every time donald thinks things are not going this his direction, he claims whatever it is is rigged against him. that's not the way our democracy works. he's talking down our democracy. laura: talking down our democracy. the media echoed hillary outraged that trump would challenge the legitimacy of an election won fair and square. all of the moral outrage was exposed when trump won in 2016. suddenly the represent ative democracy wasn't so representative after all. >> i wanted to eliminate the electoral college and ensure the candidate that wins the most votes will be elected president. >> heck of the way the framers set it up. what's the suspension that we lost. republicans, e

i will tell you, what the governor said, i was in washington working on a bunch of campaigns, rick santorum's 2012 campaign, he drops out, a free agent, i think trump will be the president and people said you are out of your mind. during the primary, my friends were calling and saying you are going to ruin your reputation. what are you doing? you have a good reputation. what are you doing? i drive around pennsylvania, done a lot of campaigns and it is something i have never seen before. people showing up in the primary in pennsylvania, i would go to polling places and people saying this is the first time i ever voted. they were excited. >> from supporting santorum it is hard to think of two more different candidates. >> not true at all. economic populism. look at rick's books, they just didn't say it artfully. the president got it out there. there is, democrats abandoned the working class in america and donald trump found that vain. if you travel across the midwest and go to be sound, working-class town, ambridge, pennsylvania, no president had come there before. all these steelworkers showed

rick santorum is nodding his head. >> good for them. >> good for them? at least you're transparent about it. >> it's a report generated by people in the bureaucracy. these are not trump appointees. this report has been generated by -- >> meaning they're nonpolitical? >> no. the point that donald trump made is true which is, look, if there was no climate change we would have a lot of scientists looking for work. the reality is that a lot of these scientists are driven by the money that they receive. of course, they don't receive money from corporations and the like. why? they're not allowed to. because it's tainted but they can receive it from people who support their agenda and that's what i believe is really going on here. no one doubts that the climate has changed. the question is how much does man contribute, number one? number two, what can man do to actually change it? those are the two big issues that we really don't talk about. >> let me just say that on the world stage -- we look at it from a global level. scientist after scientist after scientis

state of things, cnn senior political commentator, former republican senator from pennsylvania, rick santorum. and former democratic senator from indiana, evan bayh. thank you both for being here. senator santorum, as abby was just saying, sources are telling cnn that the point of this video, and probably maybe the point of this announcement, whatever his remarks that he's going to make this froonl, is to change the conversation. to change the argument on immigration from family unification to invasion. is that what republicans need right now, to change the conversation five days out from the election? >> well, look. both sides have their take on what this caravan is all about. i mean, you hear people on the left saying oh, these are women and children, and we're trying to bring families together. and part of that is true. and and then you have folks on the other side saying these are people, you know, in that group will be some dangerous people, and most of the people in this group are males and there are a whole host of issues that come with that, and look, some people have come into this c

bicarry sellers and rick santorum. bakari, what do you say? >> crooked ivanka.ese things are things we heard about throughout the entire campaign. right now, it's hypocrisy showing its ugly head. republicans didn't care about hillary clinton's e-mails. they wanted to persecute her, chanting lock her up, lock her up. it was good and red meat for the base. they didn't care. now you have ivanka doing the same thing and we're going to hear complete silence. she's a high ranking -- although his daughter, a high ranking official who has a security clearance. if we're going to have an fbi investigation for hillary clinton, we need an investigation for ivanka trump. i think the saying is what's good for the goose is good for the gander. i am tired of the hypocrisy. the american people are tired of the hypocrisy. we're going to chant lock her up and investigate her from here until the cows come home or we just say that we were hypocritical and hillary clinton's matter was not that serious. >> i hope nobody chants that. it showed a disrespect for the process. what about t

i was in washington and working on a bunch of campaigns and worked on rick santorum's 2012 campaign and saw a little of this. working on the campaign, drops out. kind of a free agent. i think i'm going to be the president and people said you're out of your mind and i threw in and people were calling me you're going ruin your reputation, you've got a good reputation, what are you doing? >> i see something, i drive around pennsylvania and i've done a lot of campaigns and something like i've never seen before. people were showing up in the primary in pennsylvania, i'd go around to the polling places and people were coming in and saying this is the first time i've ever voted. they were excited the first time i've voted. >> from going from supporting santorum, i mean it's almost hard to think of two more different candidates. not true at all. no, because they're-- ments how do you reconcile it under republican. economic populism. you look at rick's books, rick didn't say it artfully. the president captured it and got it out there. there's this great-- the democrats abandoned the working clas

rick santorum is not exactly some shrinking violet. if he felt strongly, he would use it. but if you want to make the argument, make the argument. the idea that any reporter asking that question, in particular an african-american woman is asking a racist question just boggles the mind. it is a perfectly legitimate question and i'm sure there is a will the answer. i've had kfconversations with conservatives that the idea that this is a code word, a dog whistle is not fair. that's fine. make the argument that the word is not racist, is not meant to be a dog whistle. >> but let's not be surprised. >> but no one should be surprised because this is how the president does that. you challenge that, he attacks you harder and that's what this press conference was all about. i feel threatened, therefore i'm going to threaten everybody here. >> when former democrat, then independent donald trump decided he was going to be a republican, how did he make his entry? barack obama is not a legitimate president. this has been calling card since day one. >> and he said "i'm a nationalist," h

shawn lou, laura coates, kirsten powers, rick santorum and in some far off distant land called new york cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, a creature of new york. laura, the defendant -- there's a lot of stuff that just seems normal now, but when i saw that retweet from the president, the president is defending his own deputy attorney general behind bars. >> you could say it was shocking but it isn't shocking anymore. that's what's so shocking about it, is that he's accusing effectively his own deputy attorney general of treason. and it just seems to me he's accusing bob mueller of being mccarthy and the rage we're seeing now seems to be getting more and more frantic every single day. and i think it's because the walls are kind of closing in on him and maybe manafort's attorney has been telling him things he's not happy to hear because he's been keeping him informed on what's been going on in the mueller negotiations. and giuliani has said they knew it wasn't going well. and so, you know, i think this is a president that is under an awful lot of stress because he seems to be spendi

carrie cordero is here, malik henderson, former senator rick santorum, jen sakki. nonlegal term. is this a non-sketchy reason paul manafort would have had meetings? this is "guardian" reporting, we can't verify it -- with julian assange? >> it's a good question. why else would he be there? what would he be doing? it was right about the time one of the meetings alleged to have taken place in the spring of '16. right before he jump joined the trump campaign. wikileaks had for several years been in the business of releasing classified information, so facilitating the unauthorized disclosure of really sensitive and high volume of classified and very sensitive u.s. government diplomatic and classified information. so that is what we know and that is what he should have known at the time about wikileaks. whether or not there was some other nonnefarious reason to be there, who knows? also with respect to whether or not the meetings took place, he denies them. "the guardian" has his reporting. i would say these are verifiable facts. >> right. >> he was either -- so investigations whether

rick santorum and kirsten powers.ers of the president and very clearly see why the president is quadrupling down on immigration issues six days before the midterms. >> right. well, so these are issues that correspond with what donald trump believes and his base believes. you know, you certainly can say he is doing some of these things to gin up support in the midterms which in itself isn't a problem, it's something presidents do. the thing that i'd say is different is when you utilize troops and send them somewhere, versus just rhetoric of making promises that will make your base happy. then there's the separate issue that just a lot of what he's saying about this caravan is just actually false. >> senator santorum, is it appropriate to use troops in this capacity at this stage? >> well, look, you have a large group of people heading to the border and the president has an obligation to make sure that the border is secure. what he's doing -- you know, if he wait -- people say, well, he should wait to see what happens.

we have just the right folks, david chalian, gloria borger, rick santorum and david urban. we also have john king at the wall. i do want to start with him. john, let's just talk about late polls and what they show about voter preference, how much does the president factor into that? >> the president factors in big and the late numbers show us the democrats will have no excuses come wednesday morning if they don't retake the house of representatives. this is the map. house is the big battleground. we favor the democrats for 207 seats. solid lean and likely. that means they're only 11 away if that map holds from seesing t -- seizing the majority. our new poll is off the charts for the democrats showing a 13-point advantage in the so-called generic ballot. if that number is true, democrats will take the house and get above 30 seats without a doubt. two other recent polls, nbc, wall street journal, washington post, abc, have the democratic lead about half of what the cnn poll has. this is still enough for democrats to get the 23 seats but this is more 20 to 28, 29, 30, this is

between them, can i happily say, david chelian, david axelrod, jennifer granholm and van jones and rick santorumd, what do you make, the president obama that you see there, are you surprised to see him kind of out as i don't know as aggressively is the right word but energetically? >> well, you know, he -- he has been unpressure for a long time. a lot of people wanted him out there. his feeling was other democrats have to step up and that he sucks all the oxygen out of the tank when he tries to assume that mantle. b, he didn't want to be in a long term kind of back and forth with trump, but now that we're here i think that his belief is that voter mobilization is the key and that he can be helpful in some of these close races by spurring people to the polls. ive think that's why joe donnelly wanted him over in lake county in gary today to campaign, and so i -- i feel like he is answering the call and trying to balance, you know, prudence with his responsibilities as a party leader. >> i mean, one of the things when he was president, i wanted him to go out there and be that big movement leader, a

i covered mike huckabee, rick santorum for 10 months. romney, they all relatively speaking took a similar tack to reaching out to religious voters. president trump, then candidate trump, even businessman trump, mr. trump never really do that. he didn't seem that engaged, even when telling stories. it was about winning for him. he recognized that religious voters, evangelical voters at the end of the day after losing to president obama in 2008, after watching huckabee and santorum fall in 2012, they didn't necessarily care if the candidate running for their public and nomination was like them. what they wanted was power. one thing i have learned as a political reporter is that power unites. power brings people together in ways that any kind of virtue signaling or characteristic or soundbite can't. what did religious voters really want? withfast changing culture, the norms of their lives and their faith being upended by the month by the courts? they didn't care of senator cruz was like them and talked like them. senator cruz barely wins th

i covered mike huckabee is campaign, rick santorum for ten months. mitt romney. they all relatively speaking took a similar tack in reaching out to religious voters. president trump, then candidate trump, or even mr. trump, never really did that. he would meet with them picky didn't seem that engaged even when they were telling stories. it was about winning for him. he recognized that religious voters, evangelical voters at the end of the day after listening to present obama in 2008, after watching huckabee and sunk down -- santorum and romney fallen 2012, they didn't necessarily get the candidates running for the republican nomination or like them. what they wanted was power. one thing i've learned as a political reporter is that power unites. power brings people together in ways that any kind of virtue signaling or characteristic or overture or soundbite can. what did religious voters really want? and a fast-changing culture where the norms of their lives and their fates are being upended seemingly by the month, by the courts, they didn't care if senator cruz w

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rick santorum said. other people questioned the research.3 federal agencies and department that got together to put out this climate assessment and said this is a massive problem. let's work together to figure out how to slow it down or stop it. >> within the government itself you have very smart policy people, scientists and others who are doing the study, who are doing the work and trying to lay down the tracks for future administrations, not just the current administration to get ahead of this particular climate issue. the problem they are going to have is the current administration, this is anathema to. they don't buy the science or the policy. so, again, the eyes shift to congress. if you have members of congress already who are willing to come out and sort of saying this is crazy left wing science fiction, then what we're going to see is the situation get worse. i don't see a political solution any time in this administration. certainly not coming off the hill as long as the president has the position he has. so, you know, the scientis