all of these things coming out of trump world voluntarily. >> mike, we mentioned earlier these new pollsdemocratic pac in iowa. what is axios learning about how the trump campaign is reacting to this? >> yeah, jonathan swann talked to a number of people close to the trump campaign, and they're very concerned about mayor pete. there's a couple things about this. one is karl rove, the great republican strategist, told us that mayor pete is, as karl put it, less scary to suburban ooit than other candidates out there. as you talk to people inside the trump campaign here's what they said they're thinking about. they think he's a better political athlete than joe biden. more sort of naturally talented. less life and professional experience, but has what it takes in the view of these people. and second, they say that he would be much tougher to demonize than elizabeth warren, much more difficult to portray him as a socialist lefty, which of course is what they have up their sleeve for elizabeth warren. here's a fascinating insight into trump world's thinking. if they want to pick one state, tha

that was the thinking in trump world, the less some of the people in trump world.ma administration. he is an msnbc national security analyst. also with us chuck rosenberg, former fbi official and former u.s. attorney. he is a former counselor to robert mueller at the fbi and now hosts the msnbc podcast "the oath." ambassador mcfaul, we have with these so-called 302s, these fbi notes for the mueller investigation released this weekend this new window into trump world's thinking about russia. michael flynn just totally defensive of everything involving russia in ways that rick gates describes to the fbi and others. what was your reading of what we discovered there? >> i haven't read everything yet, lawrence. i have a day job out here at stanford. but what i have read from the summary reports it's just shocking. this crazy idea about ukraine being responsiblresponsible. and before we get to their interpretation of it, i just want to remind everybody in 2016, candidate trump was saying he might look into recognizing crimea as being part of russia. candidate trump was s

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heard of i mean it's these days unusual in the hearings and like this to have live tweets but in a trump world of course it becomes more and more usual nancy pelosi the speaker of the house the democrats came out to say in a press conference afterwards that not pointing all talking directly about trump's tweet but speaking about witness intimidation in general i'm pointing towards that it's of course a crime so whether this will be picked up in the impeachment inquiry later on we will have to see at the latest stage but otherwise what we heard today we. didn't hear anything new and i read you one of each said more or less the same things that she said in the closed door hearing some time ago and as you just underlined the the issue of being felt threatened and the uncomfortable situation of being on the air what she called a smear campaign from. personal lawyer giuliani rudy giuliani so let's talk about strategy here the democrats strategy is pretty clear they're using these witnesses to try to show corruption and abuse of power by donald trump what are the republicans trying to do to defend h

they believe they can enter trump's world and not experience the thing that happens to everyone.rrupt and corrupting. what they realize once they're deep in the meyer is that it i not sufficient to just agree with him or just do what he asks. you have to praise him. describe him as a god. as the smartest, tallest, most handsome man in the room. he always has to be right. so they're in this endslessly recursive pattern where they have to do this more and more, egregiously more and more, greater and greater exaggeration to trump's qualities. now you have rick perry saying he was send by god. an astounding power donald trump has to break people and to cause them on abandon every principle they ever embraced. >> and i do want to ask but this. you've done your most thought l thoughtful, what goes through your mind when you hear him referring to him as chosen in. >> first, it is confusion in the categories. this is a case where god is sovereign but that doesn't mean that everyone deserves their job in government. you have to explain mussolini somehow. and this is a case where the role

now in trump world everyone can have their own truth.means that no one can have the truth at all. >> right. and in some cases there aren't multiple truths, particularly like in this one. there seems to be one truth that russia attacked the u.s. election and ukraine didn't. so in other words, what john kennedy is saying is a lie. rick, to you, do you think john kennedy actually believes it? >> john kennedy absolutely does not believe it. he is being a mendacious, low human being. he is demonstrating that the things he's been told directly by the u.s. intelligence community and all that all these senators have been briefed on very thoroughly, he kneows he's lying. he's aware that in order to defend trump, he is telling an outrageous lie. he knows who it was. it isn't a matter of opinion. it is russia who hacked the u.s. elections. it is russia who elected to support donald trump. but john kennedy, like most of his republican colleagues, will do absolutely anything to prevent donald trump from being angry at him. he will do anything to feed

but obviously she's now parr parrotiparro parroting the same line that every boot-looking cur in trump world the things on the trump talking point list were regurgitated by her tonight. i think to the enormous detriment to the reputation she had built up over a long period of time. >> followers of you will ask where were you when rick wilson weighed in on bloomberg entering the race. cue sha could you share with us your initial thoughts? >> my initial thought on this is if mike bloomberg wants to defeat donald trump, the best thing mike bloomberg could do, instead of burning a billion dollars in a bonfire and blowing up the democratic field and still losing, mike bloomberg could go out and spend a billion dollars running ads against donald trump, doing voter registration, activating hispanic voters in florida and arizona. he could invest in something that would absolutely be a positive and decisive set of strategic goals in this campaign rather than engaging in what is a vanity project. but tom steyer's got enough money burning a hole in his pocket. mike bloomberg has a whole lot of money bu

just a sense of enormous disappointment in her, this sense that she had a pathway out of trump world,t she might be the one rare person who could survive and come out of it and say, you know, i did this for the good of the country, and i didn't agree with it, and now i've broken with. but obviously she is now parroting the same line that every other boot-licking cur in trump world repeats. read the transcript. there's no quid pro quo. all the things that are on the trump talking point list were regurgitated by her tonight. i think to her enormous detriment and enormous corrosion of the reputation she had tried to build up over a very long period of time. >> followers of yours would do well to ask the question where we can you share with our audience some of your initial thoughts when you heard bloomberg? >> well, my initial thought on this is that if mike bloomberg wants to defeat donald trump, the best thing mike bloomberg could do, instead of burning a billion dollars in a bonfire and blowing up the democratic field and still losing, mike bloomberg could go out and spend a billion d

i would imagine trump world, which i always laugh at when i say trump world. >> again, those are peopledes, by the way, anxious republicans and moderates and independents, right? if you're going to vote depending on the nominee, you have predisposed yourself to saying i might support donald trump. that's probably a number that will make the biden campaign feel good. or buttigieg. if you're warren ar sanders, it probably creates a little bit of heartburn. >> there was a piece in the "washington post". you had this lunchtime meeting on wednesday this week during which a lot were saying, maybe we're cool. we can condemn the quid pro quo. we're not going to say that is an impeachable act, illegal act. but we are okay with that having happened. we are talking about it in a different way. i want your reaction to that. >> what's important is for americans and members of congress to put it into context. it was not an isolated phone call. it was preceded by a lot of meddling on the part of giuliani and others. >> and the meeting july 10th. >> exactly. there is a whole history of we're trying to

trump: for the first time in nearly 100 years, our nation's capital is celebrating a world series victoryat's big stuff. [applause] pres. trump: the last time washington, d.c. was home to the world series champs, the president was a gentleman named calvin coolidge. that's a long time ago. nearly a century later, the nationals have brought back the trophy to america's capital, and you've won it. this is the first world series in franchise history, and it's going to be, really, the first of many, i predict. [applause] pres. trump: i want to congratulate the terrific owners of the team. your principal owner, mark lerner, ted lerner. great people. the lerner family. [applause] pres. trump: a man who's become very famous. i think he's much more famous than me right now, general manager mike rizzo. you have become very famous, huh? [applause] thank you, sir. a manager, and you watch all the mistakes made in baseball and other sports, and then you watch what this man did as manager. he didn't make any. he didn't many any. dave martinez. [applause] pres. trump: and all of the incredible coaches a

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she was on some of these phone calls between donald trump and world leaders. she again brings john bolton's experience as the most senior nationale security official in the west wing into these hearings. she's also, i think, shaming the republicans who knowmi better. i wouldn't put all of them in that category but a few of them know better. david holmes mentioning congresswoman stephanik as one who travelled to ukraine. she's almost shaming the liars and daring them not to lie to her face. >> it's interesting that nunez pushed ahead with his opening in light of her basically saying you are speaking for putin when you advance these bogus conspiracy theories about ukraine being the culprit in meddling in our elections. it was swruas interesting that parnas' lawyer about this i dated buddy who is all dirtied up, mobbed up with the oligarchs, he's the guy who arranged meetings in europe for rudy giuliani -- excuse me, for devin nunes and his staff when they made ahi trip over there t get to the bottom of this. to ferret out this wasn't russia, but somebody wanting

changing his testimony and the white house dismisses many witnesses as bias. >> sonland rattling trump worldhe heart of trump's impeachment defense. >> after a few weeks, i don't know, reading press reports about what the witnesses are saying, oh, yes, i do remember now, there was actually a quid pro quo that i personally delivered to ukrainian government. >> he was offering something called an opinion to the

the other thing to point out, there is some nervousness inside trump world, inside trump's camp. i talked to another source close to the campaign who said, listen, if any republicans defect in this upcoming process, it damages a key message for the white house. they believe this is a partisan white house and it was just democrats voting in the house impeachment inquiry that nancy pelosi held. if any republicans defect, that is big news in this inquiry and very bad news for the white house. >> jim acosta. congressman ro khanna joins me now. thanks so much for being with us. in today's transcript release we learned that a person named laura cooper, the pentagon's deputy assistant secretary for russia, testified that ukraine was very much aware of their military aid being blocked and that a statement unfreezing the aid and how critical is this to the case that you're presenting to the american public? >> it's absolutely critical. it goes to the pressure that they were facing and they actually didn't want this revealed because they felt that their relationship with the united states

who was the nut in his operation to let him go to kentucky, all of that has to be dealt with in trump worldtwitter. i think there's already a stayed saying that donald trump almost successfully dragged matt bevin over the finish line. now every republican office holder whats to think, wait a moment, is that going to happen to me? are you going to kick me if i get into trouble? >> thank you both for joining us with this live coverage on election night. really appreciate it. >> that is tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour with brian williams" starts now with continuing coverage of tonight's election night. >>> tonight on second thought, the story may be true, a big trump don't ear awarded with an ambassador job says he has refreshed his memory, changed his story and indicates military aid for ukraine was indeed held up for dirt on the bidens. and rudy giuliani deep in ukrainian poll tex in his efforts to get ukraine to say publicly they were looking into the bidens. republicans roll out a new defense along the lines of if it happened, it's not impeachable as the democrats call forward a big

this is so extremely confusing, it's just another night in trump world. it's unfortunately bad for the civil-military relations and an understanding of what command authority has to do within the military. >> without trying to figure out all those pieces who knew what, why and what was going on exactly just answer this question. what kind of an impact can an abrupt shake-up like this have than the stability, readiness and even the morale on the rank and file? >> all indicators -- and i'm not a sailor so i don't know this for sure, but i've heard secretary spencer's reputation was extremely good as a secretary of the navy. he was well-liked and well-admired by those in that service. so that will cause a shakeup. the actual act of this back and forth between the secretary of defense, the president and the secretary of the navy, and you have to understand also the fact that secretary spencer cited good order and discipline within the service was what he vowed to defend, and he's saying in his letter, i can't agree with the way the president is handling these

you have reports of different factions within the trump world making one argument one way or another.ome down to a smaller group, shop owners, who are motivated, and who may see this as a single issue scenario, and those that want to see a ban, suburban voters, which trump a goodmay see this as thing, and may not always vote on it. the tension is more motivated voters and the smaller group. david: thank you, josh wingrove. up, balance of power continues on bloomberg radio. a will be hearing from harvard law professor on impeachment. and boston fed president eric rosengren sits down with michael mckee from the boston fed. this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ mark: i'm mark crumpton with bloomberg first word news. the house impeachment committee plans to hear from eight witnesses in open hearings this week. the first one is tomorrow. a new poll says 70% of americans think president trump was wrong ukraine to investigate joe biden, but according to the post, only a little more than half say the president should be impeached and removed from office. supreme cour

trump strategist, steve bannon, to testify. we want to welcome our viewers to the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the "situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news, the case for impeaching president trump is about to become a live tv blockbuster. house democrats announcing public hearings will begin in one week with star witness, bill taylor, among the first to testify. we're getting new insights to what the top diplomat will reveil about a quid pro quo from the transcripts of his deposition, a clear understanding president trump wanted ukraine to announce investigations of his political opponents in exchange for u.s. aid. tonight, cnn has learned there's a heightened level of concern within the white house about the potential impact of taylor's public testimony. i'll talk with the u.s. congressman who questioned taylor, house intelligence committee member, shawn patrick maloney. our analysts are standing by. first, phil, house democrats set the date for the biggest moments yet in the impeachment investigation. >> reporter: wolf, that's exactly right. there's been mon

and no one in trump world cared about it?run his own campaign for the president? >> roger would have dealt directly with julian assange. roger would have helped coordinate and strategize. julian assange, as it turns out, wanted nothing to do with roger. so it's only because of the fact that julian assange, i think, wanted all the credit. and it goes back to when roger called donald trump, and i believe they had those conversations. i believe what michael cohen says. i believe -- i don't know about rick gates. i wouldn't necessarily believe him, but i believe there were conversations they had about wikileaks. about the releases. to me, that's roger, as somebody who knows these people, just trying to get donald on the phone. just trying to say, he spoke to donald. just trying to tell the media that he is still relevant and somebody like alex jones, for instance it would hurt roger after the fact, after the election because i'm sure he was telling alex jones, i've been talking to julian assange. >> it is a puzzle. we're out of t

but getting back to alexander vindman there are some concerns inside trump world, inside the trump campaign that the president could blow this up tomorrow and turn another one of these key witnesses into a sympathetic figure testifying up on capitol hill. now getting back to what you just asked me a few moments ago as to these concerns about retaliation, my colleague pam brown, kevin liptak, they are reporting this evening that there are concerns inside the white house that the president was entertaining the idea of essentially retaliating against alexander vindman and other officials in this inquiry by sending them back to their departments of origin, for example vindman would go back to the defense department and so on and has been grumbling about bill taylor, because, you know, he has also offered some pretty damaging testimony against the president. some of this obviously ties back to mike pompeo, the secretary of state, and there are some concerns inside the white house that the president has been grumbling about mike pompeo and wondering why all of these diplomatic officials are comin

. >> sonland rattling trump world, striking at the heart of trump's impeachment defense. >> after a few weeks, i don't know, reading press reports about what the witnesses are saying, oh, yes, i do remember now, there was actually a quid pro quo that i personally delivered to ukrainian government. >> he was offering something called an opinion to the ukrainians about why military was held up. are the democrats comfortable imimpeaching -- impeachment on assumed secondhand facts? >> i feel like the democrats had the american people's attention for a second and totally lost it and now no one cares about the sonland, that's not breaking through. >> are these administration witnesses as damaging as the pundits believe? what about republicans pushing for hunter biden to testify? rand paul demands that the media out the whistleblower but the media are shielding his identity. >> i say to the media, do your job and print his name. >> insisting that cia officer will be identified and wouldn't be unethical to publish name. abc anchor caught on tape saying her network caved to pressure. >> first i

if you win, they'll say ho hum, if you lose, they'll say trump suffered the greatest defeat in the history the world. you can't let that happen to me. >>> it turns out it did happen to him. >> it was a strong night for democrats who also flipped the virginia state house. a sweep that puts the state viral in the democrats' hands. >>> plus, trump donor turned ambassador. gordon sondland changes his testimony and now says the actual message to ukraine did involve a quid pro quo. ♪ good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, november 6th, i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we want to begin with that governors race in kentucky. nbc news projects andy bashir is the apparent winner and will unseat matt bevin who aligned himself closely with president trump and who framed the race as referendum on trump and the issue of impeachment. the race was close. separated by about 5,000 votes in total. that's the difference between half a percentage. while the governor is refusing to concede the governor elect is looking ahead. >> tonight, voters in kentucky sent a message loud and clear for everyone to h

this is a new thing in trump world. that apply during his business career where you can exaggerate, sell, promote, in this context, people will go to prison for telling lies. david: coming up, we will continue on bloomberg radio. illthe next hour, we w talk about a tale of bribes and bureaucracy. the floods in venice and why the city is partly to blame for the widespread damage. that is coming up on bloomberg radio. this is bloomberg. ♪ jonathan: from new york city, for our audience worldwide, i'm jonathan ferro. bloomberg real yield. starts right now. coming up, investors patiently waiting for a phase one trade deal. big returns to the treasury market, yields retreating from three-month highs. u.s. credit delivering the second against week of issuance this year. we begin with the big issue. what is feeding investor optimism? >> it is all about trade. >> it is 100% a data issue. >> trade is becoming a secondary issue. >>

but i'll tell you it really does seem like today is witness tampering day in trump world.- as you mentioned, the jury convicted stone of five counts of lying to congress, one count of obstructing an official proceeding and one count of witness tampering for basically trying to convince congress that randy credico, a long time friend of his, was his go-between to wikileaks and julian assange when roger stone's own e-mail and text messages proved randy credico wasn't the go-between. it was an uphill battle for the defense attorneys to prove roger stone was telling the truth to congress. mind you the way he tampered with randy credico was pretty serious because he said things like prepare to die, go in and lie to congress and forget you know everything and if ayou don't i'm going to take your dog away from you. and i thought the really cutest line of closing arguments was he said to the jury, ladies and gentlemen, roger stone and randy credico have been tampering with each other for 20 years. that was acute lying but it didn't seem to resonate with the jury because pretty pro

praising rudy giuliani at a moment where his stock is falling so far with trump personally and the trump's worldtime where he's just a coffee boy or volunteer or that we barely knew him. >> jason, yovanovitch tomorrow, give us a little bit of a preview. we recall ambassadors all the time. rarely do they say they feel threatened and rarely one of the locals say to them "watch your back." >> when she says "i felt threaten." this is going to be the emotional punch. we got the story first, now we hear people felt concerned and people in the ukraine, we don't know what's going on or what's dangerous here. this is something like rudy giuliani and all these other individuals coming into play. it does not matter she was named special envoy. everyone knew trump had a lot of people operating in this envoy channel. that's the story that americans will take with them over the weekend. >> both of these gentlemen have agreed to stay with us. a new england democrat born in chicago who works at mit romney's company. yes, it is complicated. this man just made the democratic race more complicated. his story, the

republican, thank you by the way is a lifelong republican, how are we going to move forward in a post-trump world considering -- >> the republicans right now if you look at the midterm elections and those on tuesday where the republicans were wiped out in virginia, they were wiped out in philadelphia and lost a governor's office in kentucky republicans increasingly do not get the vote from young people or minorities. and they don't get any votes in the suburbs. if i am a businessman i have a restaurant and i need customers, but i don't get young people or minorities and i don't get anybody with a college education. how are the restaurants doing? they are not doing very well. on the other hand the leading candidate is elizabeth warren. she is so far to the left and i tried to tell we were walking and got on this elevator and there was a guy he's got a vest and belt and he is a blue-collar guy and i'm sure the union fought to get him some healthcare. when i think about the department stores, if you have two department stores and neither of them have people that want to buy something as there is a t

according to people i've talked to in the administration most of the people in the upper echelons of trump world of resigned themselves to the idea of the house impeaching them. there's nothing they can really do about that, but even with all this insecurity as we were discussing before and then pulling out all the stops to ensure as much a republican defense as possible in the senate, they do realize that at the end of the day they'll be there for him and i think there was under 1% chance in their minds that the senate won't keep trump in office. we're not going to see a president in 2020. >> still to come with the impeachment inquiry about to enter a public setting how will that change the democratic strategy? the next phase ahead. e democratc strategy the next phase ahead especially these days. (dad) i think it's here. (mom vo) especially at this age. (big sis) where are we going? (mom vo) it's a big, beautiful world out there. (little sis) whoa... (big sis) wow. see that? (mom vo) sometimes you just need a little help seeing it. (vo) the three-row subaru ascent. love. it's what makes a subar

>> the thing you find in trump world is if you remember crews hijacked the night of the convention --i was there. >> before mike pence -- >> he has been just as vicious in attacking trump before they became best friends. i don't understand. >> but what you do find is there is always seats on the trump train if you're willing eventually to get on and that is how this president is. >> i used him as an effective insulter but he's effective at it. >> and universal at it. >> oh, yeah. spares no one. but is it worth the humiliation to keep your job? >> every quote/unquote good republican i speak to and i have friends who were republicans and we're talking about michael steel talking about how embarrassed they are with this president and his behavior and i'm confused as why the republicans aren't lining up and getting rid of this guy and saying these are not our values even when it comes to the vice president mike pence who is a christian man of faith who talks about leading with his values and they are running behind this guy that they would not want their children to emulate. >> welcome to

ahead in this hour, all of the legal problems swirling around trump world today. d how bannon tied the campaign to wikileaks. and trump defender jim jordan is facing new accusations of doing nothing to stop sexual abuse when he worked in ohio university. this as republicans move to put him on the house i

the other thing we should point out, there is some nervousness inside trump world, inside the president's camp. i talked to another source close to the campaign who said, listen, if any republicans defect in this upcoming process, it damages a key message for the white house, and they believe this is a partisan exercise and that it was just democrats voting in the house impeachment inquiry vote that nancy pelosi held the other day. if any republicans defect, that is big news in this inquiry and very bad news for this white house. anderson? >> jim acosta, thanks very much. >>> congressman ro khanna sits on the oversight committee, which has helped conduct the closed door hearings that have laid much of the groundwork for what we're going to see on wednesday. he joins me now. in today's transcript release, we learned that a person named laura cooper, the pentagon's deputy assistant secretary for russia, testified that ukraine was very much aware of their military aid being blocked and that a statement on opening investigations would unfreeze the aid. i'm wondering how critical is what ukrai

ahead in this hour, all of the legal problems swirling around trump world today. steve bannon under oath at the roger stone strietrial. we'll talk to someone heard how bannon tied the campaign to wikileaks. and trump defender jim jordan is facing new accusations of doing nothing to stop sexual abuse when he worked in ohio university. this as republicans move to put him on the house intelligence committee so he can be part of the televised impeachment hearings. and at the end of the show, the mood inside the white house now that the first excerpts of the new anonymous book are out. >>> but we begin with the newly released transcripts from two more key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry, ended an explosive week of damning revelations for president trump. they detail the blatant and explicit push by the trump administration to pressure ukraine to investigate the president's political rivals in exchange for military aid and a coveted white house meeting. and for the first time white house officials testified the quid pro quo was orchestrated by acting white house chi

and if you lose, they'll say trump suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world.the greatest. you can't let that happen to me! >> it's entertaining. he is right to the degree that if the republican wins in a red state, most people will shrug and say we didn't learn a lot. if the republican struggles or if the republican loses, it will be evidence of a climate even if it's in the race for governor. this is about the state of the economy, this is about health care in the state, there are a lot of social issues in the campaign. it still will be taken as a question of republican turnout intensity, trump love. >> these races in mississippi and kentucky, there is a run in louisiana in a couple weeks, and they'll all be a gauge on the president's enthusiasm and support going into next year. he's not wrong. what he said last night reflects the thinking of a lot of his advisers where they see no down side going in in these final moments, trying to watch turnout. they know if they get wins, they can direct people away from impeachment. they see that as a benefit. if he lose

world. so it's very unclear why trump does this.clearly, very clearly, that he is out of step even with his often sycophantic secretary of state. >> is it a standard schedule for a u.s. president? >> you know it's not that unusual for the president of russia and the president of the united states to get together. it is unusual for them to do so in private and for the president of the united states to then confiscate the notes of the translator. to make sure that nobody knows what they're talking about. which was the case in helsinki and elsewhere at their summits and meetings, this is really very, very weird. >> congress also released some testimony from one of his former top russia advisers, fiona hill and she expressed frustration at how putin is manipulating people in government and she said i firmly believe he was also targeting president trump and he was targeting all of the other campaigns as well. acting that he was part of a directorate in the kgb. does that plowing ahead, against the advice of career experts around him? >>

basically praising rudy at a moment where his stock has fallen so far with trump personally with the trump world that it's only a matter of time where he was just a coffee boy, a volunteer, we barely knew him, route di who? >> jason, yovanovitch tomorrow, give us a bit of a preview. we tried to point out the top of the broadcast we recall ambassadors all the time. >> right. >> rarely do they say they feel threatened in their personal lives. rarely does one of the locals say to them, watch your back. >> right. when she 'saying i felt threatened i don't know why the president was talking about me. this is going to be the emotional punch. we got the story first. now we're hearing people felt threatened. people felt concerned. people in the country, in the ukraine were like, we don't even know what's going on. what's dangerous here. this is where something like rudy giuliani and all these other individuals come into play. look, it doesn't matter if he was named special envoy. you don't put your ankle breaker on staff so everyone knew that trump had a lot of people operating in these irregular channe

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uncertainty into something that was already fairly fraught and a bit uncertain for democratic voters and trump world that is watching closely. >> also, ashley, i'm no the asking for an opinion, but this new ethos of getting into the race late and saying we're going to be about super tuesday, my apologies to iowa, to new hampshire et al, that is not a way to ingender deep feelings in iowa and new hampshire among other places. >> it's not. it's not a traditional way to win the nomination of a major party. i remember when rudy giuliani entered and his big strategy was to wait until florida. it is not been successful in the past in these early states. you have a lot of activists who care passionately for good reason. it doesn't mean it can't be done. and certainly having mayor bloomberg's money if, anyone can do it that, money is going to help. but it's really an interesting test kind of for democracy and this early nominating process and the importance or lack of importance potentially of the first four states. >> much ablithe to our boblige . thank you, gang, for showing up and helping us out. coming

but this is what's rattling trump world. reports that show that he is now willing to defy trump and testify, as long as a quote, court clears the way. we have a lot in the show tonight. i want to begin on this piece of the breaking news, with the daily beast's margaret carlson and jason johnson from theroot.com. good evening to both of you. >> good evening, ari. >> good evening. >> margaret, your view of what we have here in the layer cake, i would argue, some cake that is not fully famous, so whether people know and believe mr. kent is a matter of some debate. rising all the way up to the john bolton frosting. someone that is a bright red bushian, fox newsian, trumpian frosting. what does it mean if he publicly turns on trump in this probe? >> so you have this delicious cake over here, which is composed of the deep state. the radical, unelected bureaucrats, as trump refers to them, who work for trump change. no one ever thanks them, they don't look for gratitude, and it's good because they're never going to get it, until now

world and he should be impeached. republicans say no quid pro quo. we'll take donald trump and the ukrainian president's word that there was no pressure. the american people are only going to come along or not come alg along if there is some sort of public airing of these claims, of these facts. again, democrats have to move quite swiftly to that. this morrison testimony, as you said, does kind of add fuel to that fire that everybody views this differently. there's two ways to view it, completely appropriate or inappropriate, and without public hearings, without some sort of public airing of the facts, you're going to have still a divided country. by the way, even after the public hearing you might have a divided country in both parties viewing this differently. again, big challenges for both parties. >> i agree we have to have public hearings. i've been saying that for months. but the fact of the matter is the republicans and democrats don't agree on the facts because donald trump says no quid pro quo. the republicans say no quid pro quo, but we know, and that was the esse

but in trump world, that's not actually a bad week. the house voted to advance the impeachment inquiry, but the president managed to keep republicans in line, not losing a single one, and even gaining two democrats from districts that he won in 2016. the president's campaign manager says that they had a $3 million haul on the day of the house impeachment inquiry vote. and with americans pretty much split right down the middle on whether he should be impeached and removed from office, well, this president may be stronger than you think. so i guess it's appropriate that he is wrapping up the week attending another sporting event, one where he's likely to get a much warmer welcome than he did at the world series. it's a plan. do you think he needs some ego stroking after those resounding boos? the president expected to attend a ufc match at madison square garden tomorrow night. this president has a long history with mixed martial arts. one trump adviser telling cnn, quote, he likes fistfights. he sure does. remember this wwe appearance wh

a second occasion in which he'll have to correct his testimony and so at this point i think in trump worldof people are already speculating openly that they believe that sondland has turned or that perhaps he's flipped on the president and is in some ways -- this is a lot of this is baseless and maybe he's in some ways kwauperacooperatin the democrats but what sondland might be doing is deciding he has to tell the truth because unlike the president, he's not immune from some prosecution for perjury. this is a really serious thing. if you're his lawyer, you're probably advising him, now is the time to try to recall all the things that maybe you couldn't recall the last time you orp that room and put it down on paper. and with this testimony today from that aide who overheard that telephone conversation, he clearly would have had a lot of other interactions with gordon sondland on the issue of ukraine policy. what more does he know about what sondland told him that president trump wanted from this relationship? so he's really in a little bit of a box here before he goes before congress again

as somebody put it to us, in trump world once there's a crack in the relationship, it's really hard toepair. >> joining me barbara mcquaid, ned price and matt miller. great to have all of you here. barbara, you're a law professor going on here, but if you're the president's attorney and make the leap that he would actually listen to counsel and he says, look, they're all lying about me, i want to testify, i'm the person who can best speak to my own defense. on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being a brilliant idea, where does this idea rank? >> this is a negative 10. i think it would be disastrous for president trump to come testify and i think he won't. i think this is just a bluff. he said before, look, america, i'd love to talk to robert mueller but my lawyers won't let me. i don't think he wants to come in and testify. he'll be tripped up on his own contradictions. he can be asked about things beyond the skocope of what he wants to talk about. >> does he understand that he is contradicting himself? he doesn't seem to when it happens. >> i think this is his m.o. he sticks to simple phras

according to people i've talked to in the administration most of the people in the upper echelons of trump worldrt of resigned themselves to the idea of the house impeaching them. there's nothing they can really do about that, but even with all this insecurity as we were discussing before and then pulling out all the stops to ensure as much a republican defense as possible in the senate, they do realize that at the end of the day they'll be there for him and i think there was under 1% chance in their minds that the senate won't keep trump in office. we're not going to see a president in 2020. >> still to come with the impeachment inquiry about to enter a public setting how will that change the democratic strategy? the next phase ahead. >>> we are legislating, and yes, we are investigating. and today we moved further down the path in our inquiry by putting forth procedures which are very transparent and open and frankly more transparent, more open, giving more privileges to the president and his argument that were given in the past. >> republicans have been criticizing the democrats' impeachment

ideals on the world stage does not speak the truth. only donald trump does.here is no greater example of selling your soul to a charlottan than what republicans are doing right now in the house and the senate. and their legacies are on the line just as much as donald trump's. we know the character of donald trump. we know the failings of donald trump watching play out in this impeachment proceeding is the failings of a republican party and every single member that goes along with this. >> amen. >>> after the break, how low will he go to hide his taxes, that is? we'll bring you the big legal development on the president and his tax return and the strategy to hide it from public view. if you have moderate to thsevere rheumatoid arthritis, month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. ongoing pain and stiffness are signs of joint erosion. humira can help stop the clock. prescribed for 15 years, humira targets and blocks a source of inflammation that contributes to joint pain and irreversible damage. humira can lower your ability to fight

now sondland rattling trump world, striking at the heart of trump's impeachment defense and that's not all. this is a very simple and damning development for trump tonight. i'm about to show you a few simple highlights from the new testimony. but before we even do that, here is the incriminating context, and this is something anybody can understand, even somebody with an open mind about whether or not trump did a bribery plot. mr. sondland is not just pointing a finger at the white house right now, he's doing so in the guiltiest possible way, by walking back and revising his past testimony that was initially more friendly to trump. democratic investigators already saying this shows a consciousness of a cover-up because sondland is changing or reversing the past testimony that was defending trump. where he played down why the crucial money for ukraine was ever frozen. something that as we reported at the time was contradicted by other insiders. democrats pressing sondland on potential perjury for those very claims. perjury to congress is no joke. today roger stone is starting his own cr