romney shrugged and said, you know, this is just something that he does.ut then he got up and got an ipad from his desk and told me, you know, i have a secret twitter account that is separate from my public accounts that i use to follow the political conversation. and i didn't tell me the name of it, but then he gave me some details, who he was following, et cetera. >> the number of people. >> yes, 168 people is what he said. >> he named some of the -- he follows journalists, media outlets, late night comics, some athletes and so i put a lot of that in the story, it was interest, it was revealing, and then it took slate i think less than a few hours to figure out which account it was. >> 668 support irs and he doesn't follow @donaldtrump. didn't he say this was a lurker account? that's someone who is on twitter so that they can see what's going on, but they're not actually engaging. he was engaging. >> he was engaging, i mean, not really often, i think there were ten total tweets and they were all responses. he was engaging, he was also liking tweets. that

he is mitt romney and mitt romney is him. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: romney, aka delecto usesow about 700 feel, including family members, journalists, late-night comedians and athletes. his tweets are often trump related and echo much of what he said publicly dating back to the campaign in 2016. >> donald trump telling us he is very, very smart. [ laughter ] >> i'm afraid when it cops to foreign policy, he is very, very not smart. >> when jennifer reuben called trump's recent strategy verging on -- "jennifer, you need to take a breath." deelecto again defended romney when joe scarborough pointed out on twitter that trump had admitted to pressuring ukraine's president. says wsj, credible but not certainty. let's see the transcript. and after romney suggested the u.s. was an unreliable ally because trump pulled out of syria, britt hume accused romney of being an unreliable ally again. it was deelecto jumping to romney again. delecto tweeting, romney, too, said to post he has confidence in chairman burr. just to make things weirder, when romney isn't secretly posting, he's secret

mitt romney does not. >> right. do you see maybe a strategy developing here among republicans, which is call out the behavior but maybe not go so far as to say impeach. in fact, maybe say don't impeach. let the voters decide? >> i really think you've seen a hardening of strategies in the last few days on all sides. the democrats have, are now firmly in the we're moving forward because it is protecting the constitution. the president is saying now, i did nothing wrong. i'd do it again. it was a perfect phone call. there is nothing wrong with it. no crime. it is a hoax. republicans on the hill trying to sit in the middle saying it was inappropriate. many will say it is inappropriate but doesn't rise to the level of impeachment. you shouldn't impeach the president over that. they are hoping they can stay there but what democrats and the investigation might prove is it's become very difficult as each revelation comes out about how deep and how many people were involved in this conspiracy. but that's what they're going t

trump has tried to throw every arrow at romney, and romney is still standing. he's still the senator from utah. he very well could get re-elected as the senator from utah. he doesn't care what trump's going to say about him, and therefore he can make arguments both publicly in the media but also privately in those lunches that the republican senators have in favor of impeachment, in favor of a conviction, explaining the sort of historical choice that could potentially await these senators as jurors. and there are a number of other senators who are, you know, while they may not say so publicly, are close to romney. they owe debts to romney. romney campaigned very hard and raised money for people like martha mcsally, joni ernst, and you could potentially fast forward a couple of weeks and see a romney coalition emerge within that republican senate conference. >> did the doral reversal surprise you? >> it did because we almost never see the president fold in the face of public criticism. his instinct is to dig in, and i just assumed that this decision was final wh

bianna, i want to play a little clip of what romney just said.ten to this. >> obviously what he said in the press conference was of real concern. because he said in effect they were holding up funding going to ukraine in part based upon a desire to have ukraine carry out an investigation with regards to the 2016 election. and holding up funds to a foreign nation, particularly one that is under military threat in order to fulfill a political purpose is a real problem. >> bianna, how significant is this? >> well thus far it is mitt romney who ultimately has been an outlier speaking out against the president and we've seen potentially other republicans also fall in line with similar views on what mitt romney had said in regards to ukraine in particular which is why nancy pelosi is trying to be very disciplined in terms of what to focus on during this impeachment inquiry. they could throw spaghetti on the wall with the number of headlines that could be impeachment-worthy in terms of violating laws and rules but when it comes to addressing concerns fo

why is he going after mitt romney? mitt romney has the standing to stand up to him. mitt romney has an independent base. his family has an independent story. the romney family is as important in the republican as any family. so he can stand up. so trump goes after strength. so you're going to see him doing that. also, i think we have to remember the hold that trump has on the republican isn't just because of the tweets and that sort of stuff. he also has very intelligently engineered a coalition around him, the economic right supports him because of the tax policy. the religious right supports him because of the judges. so there's more going on there that's giving him this extra strength. then -- so he secured a base of support for himself in the party, and then he goes after anybody who stands up against him. it's a very formidable strategy. >> we can name the three republican lawmakers who have stood up. it's romney, senator ben sass, and congressman will hurt. those are the three who have been critical of the president's dealings with ukraine when contacted by cnn

the president is targeting, you know, romney today. will romney's tweets invite/give license to other republicans who might be torn about saying something publicly? might they be inspired by what romney and his technique. >> i mean i doubt it. there's a special relationship between president trump and mitt romney. mitt romney has the ability to launch those kinds of criticisms, and he seems not to be worried about the potential implications of an election impact on his own chances down the road, which are a while down the road for him. i don't see other republicans making that same calculation. they understand that for themselves, the president is incredibly popular with the republican, the republican base around the country, and to take the kind of approach that mitt romney is taking puts their own elections at risk, and so you're likely to see mitt romney be something of an island of one in a sea of republicans who are really if not embracing the president as julie said, sort of trying to awkwardly find a way not dros him. >> michael

it's about mid romney. it's about met romney and ingratiating himself with all of the right people on the left. i think it's about met >> may be you and i disagree in part because as a historian i think this is how revolutions occur. schmidt, commit romney represents the old order. guess what? he just gave you an old order speech. watch that surprise anyone? >> laura: with a fake twitter account. he is attacking you, attacking other people and ray tweeting comments about you. he is a grown man. i supported him running for president in 2008. i supported him. >> may be i am generous to a fault, but the truth is i don't pay attention to him. i don't think he matters in the long run of american political history. he certainly doesn't matter in a donald trump republican party. i think he is a fossilized element of a party that is disappearing. >> laura: that's what i'm talking about. that's what i was waiting for. >> doesn't offend me. he is being true to himself. that is fine. >> laura: i guess it was a differe

a romney advisor believes that romney has more potential power as a senator that will decide trump's fate in the impeachment trial. he could have tremendous influence in the impeachment process as the loan voice of conscious. the advisor said that romney has been reaching out privately in key players in the republican resistance according to a person briefed on the conversations. romney is the one guy that can bring along susan collins. romney is the pressure point in the impeachment process. that's why the things he is saying are a freaking republican's out and freaking out trump who called for the impeachment of the united states senator mitt romney which is of course impossible. there is no such thing as impeachment for a senator. the trump administration was speechless yesterday on sunday morning political television because no one from the trump administration appeared on any of the sunday shows to definite the trump phone call to the president of ukraine, soliciting the president of ukraine's help in the reelection campaign by investigating joe biden. but republican senator ron

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mitt romney with the temerity to have a twitter alias acting like a child.as zero effect when you have 93% republican support. it's after he missions that he would need a french alter ego to attack the press when president trump does it outright. that's why he has 93% approval rating among republicans, he attacks back. lou: he tells it straight and goes directly to the american people. so many people want him to drop that twitter account so we could leave it up to the left-wing media. tomorrow sidney powell and general jack keane among our guests. see you have tomorrow. good night from lauren: it is 5:00 cam. here are your top stories at this hour. justin trudeau narrowly holding on for a second term but with a minority government. what this could mean for usmca at home. cheryl: a landmark settlement in a multistate opioid lawsuit but victims' families say it is still not enough. what it could mean for more lawsuits and the churr futures e companies who are paying up. lauren: are the 2020 candidates in disarray. some of the underdogs are seeing their war che

that is after all against the law. >> that is mitt romney playing mitt romney, not pierre delecto, sayinghat president trump did is against the law. >> juxtapose that from what sean duffy told you earlier in the hour where his focus was solely on here's what he's done as president, everything else is outside noise. it's christmas in october. the economy is doing well. mitt romney is playing the other side of this saying listen, the president has clearly shown he is capable of breaking the law and he questions his character and whether he's fit to be president of the united states. now whether he can be that party elder, the statesman that others turn to and finally see as an example set for them to follow in the republican party, is yet to be seen. i think you do see within this hour on the show, two different arguments made within one party. >> i can't get past the name, pierre delecto. >> i know. >> it's hard for me to get past that to see the substance of the twitter feed like was peter delicious taken, like how did we get -- >> peter delicious? how did you get to peter delicious. >> t

utah senator mitt romney and nebraska senator ben sasse.riticizing president trump's recent comments, publicly calling on china to now investigate the bidens. joining me now to discuss this, bill press, host of "the bill press pod," rick tyler, republican strategist, victoria defrancesca soto, president of the university of texas and both msnbc analyst. bill, the president essentially admitted to the crimes that he's under investigation for in plain sight, and yet, he says republicans in the senate will stay with him. are you as confident? >> no. by the way, i think that we see now why it's kind of important to have a press secretary in the white house. it's kind of important to have a coms director, not for the president to be the only one who talks, because i think we see that every day that donald trump is talking, every day rudy giuliani is talking, it's worse -- >> but bill, he's had press secretaries and coms directors before, so you know -- >> i should say, to use them for what they're there for, and not to silence them, because ever

mitt romney is just in a different position there. he clearly is not personally intimidated by donald trump.he he's another rich guy, doesn't seem to take trump that seriously in a lot of ways. but then also, you know, he's in a senate seat. not up for re-election in five years. might not even run for re-election. he's 72 years old. he's in utah where he's more popular than donald trump is. >> right. >> he sees himself as being kind of at the tail end of his career and he's thinking about his career and his legacy more than he's thinking about the next election. >> yeah. it's interesting that you say the tail end of his career, francis rooney who's a republican who said he's open to the impeachment inquiry said he was retiring. thank you both, gentlemen. >> thank you. >>> the impeachment inquiry is about to hear from one of the key witnesses. the president's policy in ukraine, the diplomat who kept objecting to the blatant quid pro quo. the latest on that coming up in two minutes. two minutes. these folks don't have time to go to the

the president responded with crude insults to romney. we get the very latest now from cnn's jeremy diamond. >> reporter: house democrats are already ramping up their impeachment inquire into the president and this administration after already issuing subpoenas for the state department. at this point it's unclear how this administration is going to comply with this. what they are considering is issuing a letter to the house speaker nancy pelosi saying they are not compelled to provide the house committees with any documents until they go to the house floor to vote on opening a formal impeachment inquiry. now, that is something that has been done in the past. as house speaker nancy pelosi has said, there is no constitutional requirement for there to be a vote. but what the white house clearly is doing here is daring democrats, especially those vulnerable democrats in trump districts, to put down their vote in favor of an impeachment inquiry. something republicans have already used to go after the vulnerable democrats as well as to fund rai

mostly ones by mitt romney, quoting mitt romney or mitt romney a paragon of virtue.o be bashing donald trump or attacking mitt romney secretly dislikes like newt gingrich.tu but in real life, you will not call for overthrowing president trump by the 25th amendment, but as pierre delecto, he likes to tweet it might be a good idea indeed. in other words, exactly the kind of account you would expect mitt romney if you talk toor hi. it doesn't express daring or interesting ideas or a display secretly concealed, but instead a relentless log and passive aggression. it is exactly in every sense what you would imagine. of course, it is. [laughter] that is it for us tonight. we will be back tomorrow night at 8:00. >> the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and group think. see you tomorrow. ♪ b ♪ >> sean: and tonight, welcome to "hannity." i am live in washington to see the swarm, the sewer, broadcasting outside of the white house where just moments ago, i had the opportunity to sit down for an exclusive one-on-one interview with the president of the u

mitt romney with the temerity to have a twitter alias acting like a child.what is the effect of it? >> it has zero effect when you have 93% republican support. it's after he missions that he would need a french alter ego to attack the press when president trump does it outright. that's why he has 93% approval rating among republicans, he attacks back. lou: he tells it straight and goes directly to the american people. so many people want him to drop that twitter account so we could leave it up to the left-wing media. tomorrow sidney powell and general jack keane among our guests. see you have tomorrow. good night from new york. [♪] trish: breaking tonight, the president reacts to hillary clinton versus attack on one of her own. the president of the united states wondering why hillary clinton thinks everybody is in cahoots with the russians. president trump: hillary clinton is accusing everybody of being a russian agent. anybody that is opposed to her is a russian agent. that's a scam that was pretty much put down. use -- i don't know use, but she is not a ru

i think mitt romney is a bell weather there. the question is if you see mitt romney and and sass, even murray koufax move, does it start a trend or is it -- are they more isolated by doing so? particularly for mitt romney, he's likely going to be in the senate for a long time, but the entire republican party is going to try to reconstitute after donald trump. and mitt romney might decide, you know, based on conviction i can vote for an alter of impeachment and it positions me to lead the republican party back to normalcy in 2020 or 2024. i don't see enough republicans moving to convict the president, but richard, as we learn every day, who knows what comes out between now and the next 60 days? >> yes, yes, yes, yes. jonathan, one of the senators that did face a voter that said where do you draw the line, we got one more week before they come back to the beltway. more lessons to be learned potentially here. how important is next week? >> it's important in that with each new revelation and with members of congress being out in the

mitt romney and secret twitter account.over the weekend found an account under the twitter pierre delecto. a reporter then asked romney, is this you? he said he used the secret twitter to keep tabs on the political news. he says, pierre delecto, at your service. pierre delecto follows the adviser on twitter. remember, romney was once the massachusetts governor. touche. mitt romney, secret twitter account. >> i just love that he was using it to sort of sound off on editorials that were critical of him. he would do anonymous pliz about, just because i don't agree with you on everything doesn't mean i'm a bad guy, and soledad o'brien just saying, i'm n not being unfair. it was interesting to watch people sharing around if they were being followed by him. >> this is by far the raciest, craziest thing mitt romney has ever done. it's fascinating, it's interesting, but the fact that's where he is and this is what it represents tells you something about mitt romney. >> to remind you that it could have been a simpler time in washing

those are the comments romney is criticizing. those are the types of comments ben sass is criticizing. those aren't anything left to be discovered. it's what the president has already said publicly. but now they've spoken out. mitt romney, brian, has become the target of attacks. that's what happens if you speak out against this president, especially as a member of his own party. the president now calling for romney's impeachment, even going after him using expletives, which is the second time he's used expletives this week, which makes it a little uncomfortable for us to do our job. >> it does seem like the anger is boiling over. this is a president that's always been impulsive, but the rage is at a much higher volume than it has been in the past. i think romney must have known this was coming. this must have been part of his calculation when he spoke out in a very honest way, addressed what is wrong in this situation. he must have known the president was going to send out some tweets in his direction. it is striking what the pr

mitt romney being one.to whistleblower reports saying they are troubling in the extreme. he said the president's phone call with the ukraine president was appalling and wrong. he said on withdrawing from syria saying what we have done to the kurds is a bloodstain in the annals of american history. when you look at mitt romney today and contrast him with the mitt romney you knew in 2012, any differences? >> yeah. one word comes to mind, pathetic. i would remind mitt romney he is not president. he lost. he needs to quit pretending like he is president. we have a great president right now. this president is doing great things for this country. mitt romney should be proud of that and supporting this president. it's hard for me to hear republican and mitt romney in the same sentence. trish: what do you think his motives are? >> he's not president and he wants to be. trish: what do you think about pierre delecto. what struck me is somebody like mitt romney has to use an incognito account to attack others. i think

you know, mitt romney is a new senator.t someone who will need to be re-elected to the senate. i think there is something in romney's mind that is asking a larger question which is what is his obligation toward history perhaps and at least toward his personal legacy? remember, i don't think we will get 20 republican senators to convict if impeachment happens. if mitt romney brings along, say, senator murcow ski, ben sass and creates a majority in favor of conviction, i think that will have a devastating effect on the president's reelection chances. >> one republican not named romney that you think -- >> most likely. if we get to this point, if we're in january and this continues to drip out, drip out, we can be in a very different place. >> stick around. we have much more on the president and his affinity for autocrats next. s affinity for autocrats next. as a cio, you want to move your business forward. but when your team is always dealing with device setups, app updates, and support calls... you can never seem to get anyw

but romney says not so fast. >> ultimately we may well become a jury. if that's the case, i think people want to make their own decision and not jump into any conclusions at this early stage. >> his criticism of president trump is not limited to the ukraine call. he has called the commander-in-chief's action in syria a, quote, bloodstain in the anals of public history. not the only one to create a mysterious twitter handle. james comey once used the alias. once he was outed he expressed gratitude to reinhold for the cover the past few years. prominent sources say they don't think romney has any intention of running for president again. they maintain romney is doing this because he thinks this is the right thing to do. he is hoping to lay the foundation for a post trump g.o.p. bret? >> bret: need some better fake names. mike, thank you. up next, we will take to you one major american city punishing residents over how they keep their families warm. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ chevy's the only brand... to earn j.d. power dependability awards... across cars...

for those who haven't weighed in yet. >> mitt romney basically did that and he went after mitt romney. >> it's a real question whether or not that's going to pass the president's test, which is a real black and white test and has been for some time. people talk a lot about how president clinton allowed for democrats to say i don't support the behavior but i'm not for impeachment. and president trump really has not shown any willingness to that. >> he sees it as a threat to his presidency, cease sees it as ve personal. >> correct. >> colin powell and what's going on with the republicans. listen to him. >> the republican party has got to get a grip on itself right now. republican leaders and members of the congress, both senate and the house, are holding back because they're terrified of what will happen, to any one of them, if they speak out. will they lose a primary? i don't know why that's such a disaster. but they need to get a grip. and when they say thiee things are not right they need to say something about t our foreign policy is in shambles, in my humble judgment. i see things

mitt romney never knew how to win.e is a pompous ass in quotes, he has been fighting me from the beginning, except when he begged me for my endorsement for his senate run. i gave it to him, and when he begged me to be secretary of state. i didn't give it to him. he is so bad for r's. i'm hearing from the great people of utah are considering their vote for their pompous senator mitt romney to be a big mistake. i agree. he is a fool who is playing right into the hands of the do nothing democrats, ##impeachmit romney. senators cannot be impeached under the constitution, and utah has no provisions in state law to recall a sitting snartd. >> president trump is escalating his attacks on joe biden and his son's dealings in ukraine and calling on the former vice president to end his 2020 bid. trump tweeted the biden family was paid off pure and simple the fake news must stop making excuses for something that is inexcusable. slee sleepy joe said he never spoke to the ukrainian company. sleepy joe won't get to the starting gate,

mitt romney is never going to be a bomb thrower here. he's never going to go out and lead demonstrations and try to recruit republicans to his side in the senate. i think one of the things that senator romney said to me which kind of stands out is he said, i knew when it came to the senate that i was going to disappoint everyone. i was going to disappoint certainly the supporters of donald trump and probably the people who expect me to be some great, you know, resistance fighter in the republican, you know, never-trump movement, as it were. so i think mitt romney by the fact that he's relatively unsupportive of the president, at least in his silence, at the very least, is himself a very formidable figure. and i think he's someone to watch, because ultimately this decision is going to come down to the republican senate. >> david, if this impeachment process continues to move along the way it has, there's a chance that it could come close to the first votes in the 2020 primary. you spend a lot of time on the hill. how do you expect democra

over the weekend, romney was profiled in an "atlantic" article titled, "the liberation of mitt romney which i know sounds like a mid-seventies erotic novella, but it's actually about romney's role as a critic of trump-- with one big reveal, that he uses a secret twitter account, saying, "i won't give you the name of it, but i'm following 668 people." he recited some of the accounts he follows, including late-night comedians, "what's his name, the big redhead from boston?" ( laughter ) big redhead from boston? he has a name, sir. it's ginger o'pale-body. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) and he's a friend! he's a friend! using these clues, a journalist from "slate" got the scoop of the late-afternoon when she discovered romney's secret twitter handle "pierre delecto." ( laughter ) yes! pierre delecto! it sounds like something from french-canadian soft-core porn. (as woman) "but dr. delecto, i don't have any way to pay for this check-up!" (as delecto, french) "that's okay. we have the socialized medicine. now, we make the sex, oui?" ( laughter ) my apologies to our neighbors to the n

he didn't mention mitt romney. between the lines and you know bill kristol a little bit as i do, that was a letter saying, mitt romney, if you will offer yourself as the savior of the party, i and my friends will rally the conservative intellectuals in our party to your flag. >> well, we'll see what happens next. thank you both for joining us tonight. and when we come back, we'll be joined by the woman who warned donald trump not to do it. and he did it anyway. and now he is being impeached for it. impering] ♪ the all-new 2020 ford explorer limited hybrid. can tow up to 5000 lbs and has an epa-estimated range of 500 miles per tank. it's the greatest exploration vehicle of all time. i felt i couldn't be at my best for my family. in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured and left those doubts behind. i faced reminders of my hep c every day. but in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured. even hanging with friends i worried about my hep c. but in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured. mavyret is the only 8-week cure f

why is the president targeting romney specifically? >> well, romney has been the most prominent republican in the senate to criticize him and unlike sass who has done a little more work in keeping his head down and not criticizing trump in the last year as he worries about his own politics back home and has really patched things up with trump and come under criticism for a lot of never trump republicans and democrats for avoiding the full-throated criticism that sass used to express, romney is not quite in that same place. he's always been a bit of a thorn in the side of trump and i think he knows romney is independent. he won with 63% of the vote in 2018. he's not up for re-election until 2024. so he frankly has more leeway than a lot of republicans who don't speak out against trump because they're afraid of dough mention tick political considerations in their district or state. i think that's what explains the difference there. >> we just listed all of them. most have been silent. others are getting creative you could say in their de

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. >> and i believe that was mitt romney, mitt romney said that. if he has been leading the charge. >> it was very disappointing to me to hear senator romney say that. to say that while literally people were dying on both sides of this conflict, innocent civilians in harm's way in the midst of this turkish invasion in syria, simply to say it was too late to even try, it was just unacceptable. >> laura: i have to move to the usmca, this is a signature accomplishment of the administration, you are in pennsylvania, you're heading to wisconsin -- >> it was established one year ago. a-determiner >> laura: the white house, the mexicans, the canadians, everyone agreeing, what is policy waiting for? >> since the president signed into law, we saw literally tens of thousands of factories close in the country and move to mexico. president trump said we can do better, i was in a lot of those negotiations. a-determiner >> laura: what is the delay? only to prevent the president and you chalking up a huge victory for the country? >> politics is the only thing tha

utah senator mitt romney.idential candidate's overt twitter account has just been found after romney revealed to the atlantic that he has a secret twitter account, a slate reporter promptly found it and made it a secret no more. since 2011, romney has been tweeting with a pseudonym pierre delecto. so we know romney is pierre delecto, but what we don't know is why romney is pierre delecto. what does it possibly mean? is it a clever reference? a harry potter spell of some sort? then it hit us. what if we rearranged the letters? maybe it's the secret message. so we pulled out the state-of-the-art an gram machine we keep in the basement here at 30 rock, and it spit out some surprising data. if you rearrange the letters in pierre delecto, it spells ripe electrode. i don't know what that means, but i'm pretty sure that's not it. it also spells politer decree. sounds like a phish song. mitt romney is a polite guy. look how he blows out his birthday candles. so sanitary. it also spells out loitered crepe. he did spend

>> mitt romney, he should be writing with a quill.can make this anything he wants. his regular twitter account has 2 million followers and pierre delecto eight followers, zero impact. i think he is a straightlaced dude with a little bit naughty with a secret identity, and by the way, he's more anti-trump in this fake account and the press loves that. now that he's anti-trump, remember the 2012 nominee, now strange new things. >> martha: i'm amazed anyone can get away with this and obviously it will come out there and he fessed up to it. here he is going back and forth three tweeting that romney said he may not endorse trump in 2020, o'brien said utter lack of moral compass and pierre delecto chimes in with this one. >> only republicans will hit trump and only you will or will on character. so the one for that moral compass? so he could have done that under the name that romney. >> martha: sure. he probably will from now on. >> howard: he lifted. >> martha: he went back and forth with brit hume. right in front of the screen. >> howard:

all day strong. >> impeachment romney, how is that going for donald trump.at what the president did on that phone call was wrong, basically, president trump attacks him in one blast on twitter, on saturday, saying impeach a united states senator which is responsible. and that's it. and then donald trump goes quiet. none of this hammering mitt romney every day like he used to when anyone in the republican side would cross him. >> that's right. and he's clearly -- for trump, this is what walking on egg shells looks like, right? this is trying to tread carefully. he came out of that blast, it was his usual sort of make an example of of him to show the others and then he backed off. it was not playing the way he hoped it would play. it was not bringing out the voices in support or defense of him. as ej said there has been a lot of silence out there. i think he doesn't quite know what to do. >> mitt romney has a record of saying some things that bother donald trump, and getting back in line. he is not getting back in line. >> no, it really, i mean, lord knows giv

it's unclear whether or not mitt romney attracts people to him.e's been criticizing the president ever since the president ran in 2016. so senator romney mostly stands alone. that's what we've seen in the past few years. but it's significant now because i think there's more fluidity. and i think it's not just the revelations coming out about ukraine. that as we've been talking about for the past week are not just about career foreign service figures. like weal see again today. but the president's own political appointees who have been critical of what he's done. i think that's so significant. and the syria decision is something that could unique republicans and democrats, but the uniting of republicans in condemnation of the white house policy is what i think is so significant. because it goes to something really large. the question is the president corrupt and is the president incompetent? those are fundamental questions that could start to turn more and more republicans against this white house. and what we've seen over the past few days with mu

. >>> new this hour, the president has an awful lot to say this morning about mitt romney. the first of two tweets reads this. somebody please wake up mitt romney and tell him that my conversation with the ukrainian president was a continual and very appropriate one and my statement on china pertained to corruption, not politics. if mitt worked this hard on obama, he could have won. sadly, he choked. that was followed by a second tweet insulting the senator saying that he's bad for republicans. our panel with us today. former democratic party chairman scott bolden and talk radio host john phillips. gentlemen, thank you both for being here. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning to you. how does this help the republican party? >> well, and i thought the coffee was going to be the best part of waking up in the morning. >> i'm waiting, john, come on. >> making sure you're woken up. >> let's just get started. >> well, this is all about mitt romney kicking tires on a white house run and the president of course is responding to that via his favorite means, which is twi

pompous senator mitt romney, labeling him a fool and worse. the president even suggested hashtag impeach mitt romney, deflecting blame even onto his own energy secretary, rick perry. axios first reported and nbc news confirms, president trump told house republicans friday in a conference call that he had not wanted to make the july call to ukraine's president, but perry suggested he call to discuss liquid natural gas. a perry spokeswoman says the secretary absolutely supported and encouraged the president to speak to the new president of ukraine. on energy security and economic development. saturday at a gop event in louisiana, the vice president pointed the blame at democrats. >> do-nothing democrats, do-nothing democrats launched a partisan impeachment inquiry. >> taking a needed stress break, bernie sanders, who suffered a heart attack on the campaign trail, returned home to vermont saturday. >> how are you feeling? >> good. >> and a breaking development, willie, the legal team for the first unnamed whistle-blower now says there is a second

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they don't have a mitt romney.at mitt romney who has been vocal will follow through and put his career and legacy on the line and vote to impeach? >> first of all, this is what everybody says when the democrats were in charge. the republicans stick together. and republicans say the democrats stick together. in terms of what mitt romney will do i don't have a clue. nobody does. i think he'll look at the evidence. this is clearly something that bothered him. that has gotten inside of his conscious. i don't think he'll put his career on the line if he votes this. it's not there's no profile courage here. by looking at information that a president of the united states held up military aid. so the leader of the another country would investigate his political opponent. it's cut and dry. it's simple. and we saw the chief of staff say it. we saw the ambassador taylor who had a very powerful testimony. i believe republicans will probably pivot to say maybe there was a quid pro quo. but, we're a year out. why don't we we hav

we're learning about one belonging to republican senator mitt romney. feinberg sleuthed and using information from a profile uncovered this now private account under the alias pierre delicto. telling the atlantic in response, is it him? he said c 'est moi. and he's calling for impeachment. betraying an ally about the kurds should be one of the articles of impeachment. the idea is you could get a real window into how romney really feels even though he's emerged as a more outspoken republican in this era and more outspoken as pierre. >> number one, props to romney for owning it immediately. that is refreshing. and think we all see that he is largely a sympathetic figure. if you look at the likes he's issuing you. he wants more credit for speaking out about against the president and doesn't feel like getting it from conservative writers and make mitt romney maybe you need to make the voiz a little bit louder. >> and what do you think about it? does it make you like him less or more. >> it is like letting the world into the dirty little secret that we have

this is -- what mit romney says is right. it is wrong and appalling. with china, this is our number one global competitor. the heart of president trump's strategy is competition against china. there is no foreign policy going on right now and no national security process. we are taking on increasing risk from the country from issue to issue. what happened in ukraine, there was a policy to provide assistance to the ukrainian government but there is a shadow policy coming out of the oval office to counter that. diplomats on the front line are interphasing with the government, don't know what the policy is because you don't know what the president is going to do from day-to-day. this is taking on risk for our country and national security. it is serious. there are just no defense for or hearing the president say out of his own mouth. >> are republicans really going to try this defense that this is so swampy and unethical. >> certainly voters don't like the swamp, they do not like to hear stories like sons of politicians getting paid on the side. can this