i'm susan del percio, we're dealing with a little technical issue.n in washington, d.c., hopefully we'll have yasmin and geoff back with us. in the meantime, i would like to bring in editor at "buzzfeed" hayes browne. what are your take aways after last night's closing. >> after a long 24 hours, and three days, the house managers made the best case they can with the amount of evidence they were able to get from the white house and the testimony they had. i think that in their closing, they are making the point that, yes, we have all of this evidence that the president committed abuse of power, that the president has obstructed congress, not just the house but the senate now, and that in this appeal that adam schiff had to the various senators in the room to actually take up the mantle of a jury, to actually take up their job, and actually try and get the white house and executive branch writ large to turn over more evidence, was a compelling one. in his closing, adam schiff mentioned a cbs report that said the white house threatened republican senato

. >> joining me now, philippe reince, and susan del percio, msnbc political analyst and republican strategist. welcome, all. susan, you're first. your reaction to the president's tweets and what you heard there from mike pompeo. >> mike pompeo was trying to walk back president trump's tweet which was completely inappropriate and i can't help but think it's something he does from his gut, he says oh, that sounds good, let's come up with 52 targets to match the 52 hostages 40 years ago. of course he has no understanding what have he's actually saying and the consequences of his actions. and we saw that time and time again. and this time we saw it by him not notifying the gang of eight, the top levels of our government, of a military action that is typically done because president trump wants to make this about him and that his party is the one doing the right thing, and that is disgraceful, just as disgraceful as far as attacking any sites that would be deemed criminal in warfare. >> something which, by the way, the u.s. department of defense, its own law of war manual says that is illegal, one

joining us now, congressional correspondent leigh ann caldw l caldwell, republican strategist susan del perciond and what o we know about this reporting that came out of the nyu report and what that might mean for future pieces of information that might come out as we look the house and senate play the waiting game? >> well, the democrats think that the new emails and documentation is more evidence against this president and they want this to be used in a forthcoming senate trial. but then that gets to the heart of what is actually happening in the senate right now and that is nothing as far as impeachment is concerned. we saw yesterday the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell as you played and chuck schumer his counter part are really dug in on their positions and they have not come to an agreement on how this trial is going to play out. and at the heart of this is the democrats want new witnesses. they want some more documents to be put into this senate trial. and until this agreement happens, then we're just in this stalemate and this impasse. schumer and mcconnell have not met since befo

to discuss this, the writer, nancy cohen, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del perciond ceo of all in together, lauren leader. her group works to empower women fully in civic and political life. an important point you make is this didn't start really with president trump taking office. walk us through how we got here. >> good morning. so how we got here, it's really striking that republican women are in the place they are right now. there are 13 women in the house. that's the lowest number in 25 years. it's notable for two reasons. one, as you mentioned, the democrats are at a historic high right now, fueled by the resistance of women to trump's presidency. but the other notable thing is that it looked really different in 2010. back then sarah palin was at the peak of her celebrity. she endorsed a number of republican women, like nikki haley. they won and for a moment the numbers grew. palin's far right populism that was really picked up by trump and carried forward by him, has disseminated the ranks of republican women. everything really hinges on what happens in 2020

this morning, lee ann caldwell, cabinet secretary chris lu, and republican strategist, analyst susan del percio. lee ann, let's start there. what did we learn from the latest trove of additional evidence that was turned over, how do we think it reinforces the democrats' case? >> garrett, democrats have constantly said they're going to continue to investigate this president because new information is going to come out, and it keeps coming out. what we learned in the latest trove of documents, mind you, there could be more released this weekend as well, not all of it, we learned that perhaps ousted ambassador marie yovanovitch watched, there was a new character brought in who was watching, aware of her whereabouts in the ukraine. we also learned that devon nunes who is sitting as vice chair of the intelligence committee, defending the president in all these hearings throughout this impeachment investigation by the house, calling it a witch hunt, that one of his top aides was close contact with lev parnas. we also have seen new pictures now of lev parnas with the president's children, a lot more p

jonathan alter, susan del percio, hayes brown. angela, i want to go to you.ant to put up on the screen as we talk the card, the way the senators are going to have to submit these questions. it's on one of these cards. put your name up there. you say whether it's going to the president's lawyers or to the house managers. you handwrite -- you have to handwrite your question, which means the staff is going to have to handwrite it. and then you sign it. andrew, this is the most challenging question format i can think of in this situation. the democrats will be somehow trying to coordinate with the house managers to help them make their points. republicans will be doing the same thing with the president's lawyers. it is such a puzzle to try to figure out how to do this. >> it is, but it is a great opportunity for both sides. i mean, the downside is you don't get follow-ups. that's the real issue. but i think the democrats really can use this not only to rebut because they haven't actually had a chance to say what they think is wrong with what was presented by the

republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del percio. white house correspondent for the "new york times" peter baker and in des moines, iowa, msnbc national affairs analyst co-host of showtime's "the circus" and editor-in-chief of "the recount" john heilemann is with us. >> and lamar alexander was reading your book yesterday and influenced him to say, yes, the president committed crimes. yes, the president did terrible things but i'm not going to do anything about it. i've got to read that book. it must be very persuasive. >> wow. >> if you read that book, the parallel you will see actually is with the clinton case. that's the interesting thing. up until now, what we saw 21 years ago was democrats were able to say that clinton did wrong. we just don't think it's impeachable or worth removing him from office because the president himself admitted he had done wrong. he didn't admit he commit at crime but admitted the affair and that he lied to the american people about it. there was room for democrats to say, this is not right. but we don'

us, mike barnicle and karine jean-pierre, and joining the conversation republican strategist susan del percioth us. also with us pulitzer prize winning columnist and msnbc political analyst eugene robin son. good to have you all on board this hour. the trump administration has cited various reasons for the killing of general soleimani, his past violent behavior, the killing of a u.s. contractor two weeks ago, and an unspecified imminent attack. president trump is now offering this explanation. >> we did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy. we also did it for other reasons that were very obvious, and we had a shot at him, and i took it, and that shot was pinpoint accurate, and that was the end of a monster. >> soleimani was actively planning new attacks, and he was looking very seriously at our embassies, and not just the embassy in baghdad, but we stopped him, and we stopped him quickly, and we stopped him cold. >> lawmakers say this is the first they're hearing of threats to, quote, blow up u.s. embassies. >> willie, it's been obvious from the very beginning since his killing

very strange behavior. >> you know, it is strange, susan del percio and it's strange coming from her.this country proudly. when she lost a very close race, she conceded, and was very dignified about it. i remember noting how what a nice break that was from just sort of the cantankerous tankt approa approach most take. she set a terrible example, embarrassed herself, because the question was a very straightforward question. do you want more information? do you want to know the truth? and it was so clearly calculated. it was like the bad acting of ted cruz we were talking about. i'm surprised she demeaned herself, immediately put it in a fund-raising pitch, and, yes. john mccain was very tough with reporters and news hosts. myself being one of those. but he and -- like, alan simpson, for instance, when aye firaye -- i first got to congress, they're tough, going to be all over you, but joe, return a reporter's phone call. they got a job to do, and -- and treat them with respect and dignity. that was alan simpson, who, by the way, was very tough with reporters, too. this was just a cheap