Blacks. There would be a footprint so big on your rear end. Thats the talk that he talks. I know. That is what he says. Some people say he is generational. He is president. You have to do the best of us not the residue of the rest of us. If you are the president of the United States you should want to be educated. You shouldnt be yelling out where is my africanamerican. By the way that phrase, if you look into the poll and you read the Washington Post story, it turned off so many africanamericans. In that poll africanamericans say this economy that he out tos so much and says he is responsible for. They dont believe he is responsible for it. They do give credit to the former president , barack obama for the economy and they give credit more than anything to themselves for the economic responsibility. Working hard. Savings. Finding different avenues. No question about it. Personal industry is the best industry in america. Look, i have no problem with the president getting credit for the economy. When the economy is good he gets credit and when it is down he is responsible no matter what. Cant impeach him because the economy is good. You say people of color should go back where they come from. You know what he called countries that have predominantly brownskinned people in them. Shole countries. As a person of color that has this platform. You remember when i said the president of the United States is racist. I got a lot of guff. You know, 90 of africanamericans feel that and believe that. I speak for those with the rhetoric coming out of the president s mouth. So, there you go. Now the polls back it up. We will see. We will see what the voting does and what the democrats can do to harness the needs. Yeah. This is about a democrat or republican thing for people of color. This is about living in america as a black person. A lot of africanamericans believe they vote for democrats as the lesser of two choice. While it is true they predominantly vote democratic across the country and now it will be look, this is what democrats have done to you. The pressure comes from the top down. But i still think that africanamericans and a lot of other minority communities and some White Communities that feel disaffected, the system is against them. Who will win the hearts and minds. They may sit at home and the turn out may be suppressed. If they are not inspired by the candidate. They wont vote for a party that says they are very fine people on both sides. This is cnn tonight. I am don lemon. We have breaking news tonight. With the impeachment trial of donald trump about to get underway more and more new evidence is coming out. Evidence of the ukraine shakedown. Brandnew evidence from lev parnas, including messages that appear to show robert hyde texting with a number from belgium about efforts to surveill the then ambassador marine yovanovitch. Another series of message nothing has changed. She is still not moving. They checked today again. Adding after it is confirmed. We have a person inside. There are always messages between parnas and an aide saying they arrange interviews with ukrainian officials and meetings at the trump hotel in washington. Nunez admitted this week he has spoken to parnas on the phone after all. Remember, he said he did not know. He previously said that was very unlikely. And as the new evidence is revealed, there is this. There is congressman ted lou threatening to sue him. He said i welcome any lawsuit and look forward to taking discovery of congressman nunez or you can take your letter and shove it. Didnt nunez threaten to sue a cow . 15 photos of parnas with trump, giuliani and other members of team trurchl. Side by side. There it is. Side by side. A thank you note. Signed by the president and the first lady. Rudy giuliani, parnas and others with a gop banner in the background. Parnas and don jr. At a dinner table. Parnas and the president pictured in front of two american flags. Harder and harder for the president to threaten he doesnt know anything about parnas. Watch this. I dont know him. I dont know parnas other than i had pictures taken, which i do with thousands of people and people today i did not meet. Just met him. I do not know him at all or what he is about or i dont know where he comes from. Nothing about him. Nope. Nope. Dont know him. That is an awful lot of evidence. You would think that senators would want to ask questions about that in a trial and witnesses you would think they want to question but they are still against calling witnesses even though the president said he would love to have witnesses testify in the senate trial. When it is fair, it would be fair in the senate. I would love to have mike pompeo, mitch, rick perry and many other people testify. I want them to testify. I want them to testify in the senate where they will get a fair trial. See the president forgot all about that now the senate trial is actually beginning. I have to say the hypocrisy of all of that is blatant. Republicans trying to keep witnesses out when they made the opposite argument during the impeachment trial of the democrat. The hypocrisy of you are not impartial. I am not an impartial juror. This is a political process. Then raising your right hand and taking an oath to do impartial justice. Do you solemnly swear that in all things pertaining to the impeachment trial of donald j. Trump you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws so help you god. So they raise their right hands right there and they sign the oath book. We all watched them do it. Then there is the president s made for tv legal team, including Kenneth Starr whose investigation of president clinton led to the last impeachment trial. Listen to what he had to say about then about a president that refused to cooperate with the investigation. The president refused six invitations to testify before the grand jury. Refusing to cooperate with a dually authorized federal criminal investigation is inconsistent with the general statutory duty of all executive branch employees to cooperate with criminal investigations. It also is inconsistent with the president s duty to faithfully execute the laws. Hmm. That was then. Now he is representing President Trump who is continually stonewalling and refusing to allow his aides is testify and refusing to turn over documents. Back in the 1990s during the clinton impeachment there were people that disapproved of ken starr. I think ken starr is a lunatic and a disaster. I hated the way the president handled it. It was a long and terrible process. I really think that ken starr was terrible. Now, you cant make this stuff up. Now he is welcoming the man he once called a lunatic to his defense team. The team defending him at the most moment of his life and Monica Lewinsky now weighing in tweeting, and i am quoting here this is definitely an are you effing kidding me kind of day. It is monica. All this, all of these new developments. All of this new evidence with the impeachment trial of President Trump set to get underway tuesday, 1 00 p. M. Breaking news, new evidence released by House Democrats tonight. Welcome. Thank you so much. Boy. Kenneth starr, Monica Lewinsky, bill clinton and donald trump. We heard from a lot of folks. The 90s all over again. We have new documents from parnas showing Text Messages that appear to be more evidence that ambassador yovanovitch was surveilled. Just to remind people of what was going on, there was a plot to remove her and to get her out of the ukraine. With tonights latest revelations looks like it was more involved than we thought at first. This new person robert hyde out of connecticut introduces a whole new element we have not heard yet. Now the parnas text that they were talking about conducting surveillance of the Ukrainian Ambassador and now mr. Hyde is talking to someone in a belgium number, where is she. In the embassy. All sorts of back and forth. Nobody in the federal government is discounting this. I talked to people today and they are all taking it seriously. Fbi agents have been to his only, the Southern District of new york is investigating a plot. What was going on to get the Ukrainian Ambassador out of the country . That is all under investigation. This raises more questions and troubling that you had an ambassador, u. S. Official, people were talking about conducting surveillance on her and people wanting her out of the country. Why . That is all part of the investigation here is trying to do. It sounds sinister and scary. He denied it. The communication between parnas and an aide devin nunez. How much contact was the congressmans office having with parnas . Seems like a lot when you look at the evidence that came out today. Text messages from a senior aide to devin nunez talking about arranging interviews with ukrainians. A march 2019 exchange that they talk about materials. Can we get materials. The aide to devin nunez asking for dirt they are supposedly digging up on the bidens. There is a whole thing, meetings at the trump hotel in washington, d. C. Where this aide is president , Rudy Giuliani, his office was in the mix. Is nunez admitting to having communications . Now he says i do remember there was communication with parnas. There are photographs that show parnas closely tied to Rudy Giuliani. And pictures of an event he and the president apparently attended. Attended. There are nametags. More evidence they did know each other. There on the screen you can see the name tag there. We dont know if they sat next to each other. About you we keep seeing photos of the president s family, people close to the president. Thank you notes. All sorts of photos. He is inside this circle. How does the president say he does not know who he is when there are all of these photos, all of these events. This had is why it is all being released. Somehow the president did not know who this guy was, very hard to believe. So many people inside the president s inner circle knew. The president says he did not know him. Rudy giuliani. Yeah. He knew who he was and had close relations with him. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Like i said President Trump has a team of made for tv lawyers to defend him in the impeachment trial. One of them was on three tv networks tonight. A sign of things to come . Cologuard colon Cancer Screening for people 45 plus at average risk. Ive heard a lot of excuses to avoid screening for colon cancer. 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This is a mockery in the sense that it is a political process masquerading as a political process. Zero chance we will be stunned by a verdict. You need 2 3 of the senate. Majority of the senate is republican. Verdict is in. Despite all of the oaths they take about impartially judging the facts and the law in this case, we know it is not the case. Mcconnell said so. No doubt President Trump considered media savviness when picking his team. Dershowitz is a constitutional expert too. What does it say about the president s strategy . I heard the news earlier today and we saw the people picked. I had a sports analogy. They picked the madden all pro team of 1995 saying they were great then. Bring them on now. Only been 25 years. Alan dershowitz, ken starr, certainly qualified lawyers back in the day. But Alan Dershowitz hasnt practiced since the days of Jeffrey Epstein getting a sweetheart deal. Ken starr was run out of Baylor University in a scandal. They are there because they are good at media and it is cable news and that is what the president consumes and that is what they can do in segments on television. Lets talk more, joe. The President Trump once called ken starr a lunatic and now picked him to defend him. That is something dont you think . Not in the world of politics. President trump once called Hillary Clinton the greatest secretary of state of alltime. It is politics. It shows you how easily people flip sides. You know, 20 years ago the democrats were talking about a witch hunt. Today they are talking about the importance of rule of law. 20 years ago republicans were talking about the rule of law and today they are talking about a witch hunt. That is politics. People switch and flip sides no matter what. Mcconnell and others say they are using the clinton impeachment as an example. But are they . The clinton trial there were 24 hours of arguments divided over four days on each side. Now the republicans are considering just 12 hour days trying to shorten this thing. Yeah. The essence of what mcconnell is getting at is the idea of doing the arguments up front. Present the cases and decide on witnesses, additional information. You know, the Senate Majority leader is admitting before the senate was on trial there was a yearlong investigation, a grand jury investigation. We didnt have any of that here. We had to address it in advance of november 2020 because the president tried to bring interference in the upcoming election. What will happen . That remains to be seen. It appears that there will be additional witnesses. It remains unclear how much information. You bradley, do you think it will affect the outcome of the predetermined outcome that appears mcconnell and others have made . Unlikely unless a massive bombshell so unprecedented we cant fathom it akin to nixon comes out with testimony from bolton. Joe, you said you dont think so as well. You think it will affect the outcome or could affect the outcome of the upcoming election . That is for sure. You can take three law students and put them as trumps lawyers, they are going to win. Could it affect the election, absolutely. Depending on what comes out and what type of liar he is made to look. Again, the people that voted for trump, they are locked in. They could have a video of him murdering somebody. I think he said that. Gentlemen, thank you. Have a great weekend. Appreciate you guys coming in. The president called military leaders a bunch of dopes and babies according to a new book complaining u. S. Companies are not allowed to pay bribes overseas and the adults in the room kept it all quiet for a long time. Thats next. woman no matter what business youre in, Digital Transformation never stops. Verizon keeps business ready for whats next. man we weave security into their business. second man . Virtualize their operations. man . 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The commander in chief barked you are a bunch of dopes and babies. Good evening. Max, no other way to describe this in the book is outrageous, unhinged and disrespectful. But every person in the room stayed silent. I think it was appalling and i think they had an obligation to speak out. I am almost sorry i was so hard on rex tillerson. I think he was a terrible secretary of state but the only person in the room that spoke up telling trump you are wrong and out of line and he had the famous trump calling trump a moron which was reported and soured his relationship with trump. Effing moron. The more we learn about what happened there is why we see why tillerson called him an effing moron. It is crystal leer tclear the president does not understand how the alignments work or the funding of nato and he cant comprehend a briefing where they are trying to set him straight. He cant handle that. The final point i will make is that donald trump is fundamentally antimilitary. We already knew that because he is pardoning war criminals. The disrespect that he shows to the men and the women in uniform, this is a guy who was a draft dodger. He is talking about men and women that risked their lives for the country. He is calling them dopes and babies. That is obscene. He did have bone spurs. Yeah. He cant remember which foot they were in. In the book he interrupted trump about how u. S. Troops should make money from their troops saying this. This is what tillerson said. No it is just wrong the secretary of state said mr. President. You are totally wrong. None of that is true. The men and women that put on a uniform do not do it to become soldiers of fortune. They do it to protect our freedom. It is really astounding the president would say this. It is also, you know, astounding that no one in the military stood up but rex tillerson. Look. Trump has been disrespecting members of the military since before he was president , right. He calls himself the respect our troops candidate. He had a fundraiser. He raised all of this money for veterans. Did not give away the money until the Washington Post, our colleague called him out on it. This is a guy who has no concept of honor, of sacrifice or of service. All he cares about is making a quick buck. I prefer heroes that do not get captured. I am sure john mccain prefers president s that do not get impeached. All he cares about is making money off of our soldiers. He perceives our soldiers not as men and women of honor and sacrifice and service but as mercenaries. I think that is a fundamental problem with his world view and how he runs our Foreign Policy. This is an incident described in the times review. Trump reportedly said it is so unfair that American Companies are not allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas. He has been complaining about that for a decade. It is jawdropping. The other morning the white house Economic Advisor said this. Lets watch this. Do we have it . Okay. We are looking at it. We are aware of it. We are looking at it. We heard complaints from some of our companies. I dont want to say anything definitively policy wise but we are looking at it. Complaints from the trump organization. Donald trump has been publicly complaining about the foreign corrupt practices act for years if not decades. The United States has been a leader in helping to root out corruption around the world so you do not have to grease someones palm to build a power in india or in turkey or whatever. Trump has been upset about that. Other countries have taken notice of our leadership and passed their own laws actually that are also Good Governance laws at home and abroad and this is trump showing that the United States no longer hopes to be a leader in this matter or anything else in american values. A majority of africanamericans say it is a bad time to be black in american and 8 of 10 think the president is racist. 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Here to discuss a republican strategist and a former executive director of the congressional black caucus. So, welcome. Joseph. What does it say about the president , 8 in 10 africanamericans think he is a racist. I think it goes back to the fact is anybody surprised by the poll . No. No. I think the problem you have people running around the country side saying President Trump has Approval Rating with 30 of the africanamerican populations, that is not true. But it starts to resonate in the minds of people that want to believe it is true. On the eve of dr. King saying dont ever let anyone take your manhood. Right now we have a situation where jobs are up, yes. You cant expect black people to be calling nfl players kneeling sons of bitches. They say it is a bad time to be a black person in america. Well, i dont think it is startling at all. It is always a great time to be a black person. From a political standpoint and policy prescriptions from this administration i understand why. Case in point would be i almost said ben thomas and i meant to say ben carson who is the hud secretary implementing policies that make it more difficulty to pursue any type of housing discrimination issue. To put up that type of wall, the department of justice is like the department of injustice, decrees left and right that we know are brutal to our communities, a president who regularly takes credit for strides that were made by the Obama Administration all the while dialing back obama era regulations because the black president implemented them. One thing we have yet to feel the impact of are the 187 federally appointed judges, trump nominated judges. We will really feel the sting of what it means to be black in america once those policies come from those benches. I want to read this quote because this resonated to me and most black people. They dont understand it. The Washington Post spoke to a 44yearold black woman from new jersey who said trump changed the way that she feels about white people. If i am in a room with white women, i know 50 of them voted for trump and they believe in his ideas and i look at them thinking how do you see me. What is my humanity to you. That is a experience a lot of black people can relate to. We have to separate the things that happened four years into President Trump a term, i think nobody called it the george h. W. Bush surplus. We called it the clinton surplus. Four years in progress has been made with regards to the economy. Comes back to talking about very good people on both sides when they are talking about blood and soil. Very difficult to imagine a black america that will feel they have the warm embrace of this administration. We can talk about the fact that black children in flint, michigan were being poisoned before donald trump ever took office. We can also acknowledge the fact that the president hasnt used his bully pulpit to use his position when it comes to the issue of race. Angela, this is not about republicans but this is about donald trump. Africanamericans, black folks felt better in america under george w. Bush this poll shows. Yeah. I think the reality of it is systemic racism and oppression did not begin with donald trump and did not come to a halt or was not suspended under barack obama. The reality if nothing else that the poll teaches us is there is a whole group of people in the country that pay taxes, built it on their backs for feel who feel less than humane. That is what the woman said. What do you think of my humanity and what do you really seen. It is time to be seen, to be heard and to be empowered. The best way to do it is to take our believes and our systems to the polls and challenge it. I am going to let you guys go. This is from a man talking about trump. He has taken hatred from the closet to the front porch. Thank you both. I appreciate having this conversation with you. I encourage everyone to read this story and poll in the Washington Post. Thank you. Have a great weekend. Breaking news, newly released documents showing communication between lev parnas and devin nunez. Details up next. Dont get mad, put your money to work with e trades easytouse investing tools. Tmobile 5g is here. And its nationwide. While some 5g signals go only blocks, tmobile 5g goes miles. Beyond the big cities to the small towns. To the people. Millions of americans can have access to 5g on tmobile. This is just the beginning. Tmobile, the first and only nationwide 5g network. Ive always loved and im still going for my best, even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. So if theres a better treatment than warfarin, ill go for that. Eliquis. Eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. 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House democrats releasing more documents from indicted Rudy Giuliani associate lev parnas including texts that show possible surveillance of marie y yovanovitch. Were joined by harry lipman, a former assistant u. S. Attorney general. Shimon, we see these Text Messages that appear to show more efforts to track marie yovanovitch. Shes been there since thursday. Never left the embassy. That is from an unknown belgian member in a text message with trump ally. There are more questions of who is this on the other end. Thats going to be a big question. We dont know who that is. Certainly the fbi does. The folks over at diplomatic security, folks at the state department will know who this is. Members of congress who have been sitting on this information after they received it from lev parnas and their attorney, they know who this person is. Most importantly, who needs to know are the security folks at the state department and the fbi. They need to unravel what was going on here and was there actually a plot here to keep her under surveillance, to keep an eye on her, to see what she was doing . Ultimately they wanted her out of there. Was this part of that . Harry, i know that you have very strong views on congressman devin nunes. What do you think of these documents that show his aide appearing to have a role digging up dirt on trump rivals. At some point its not a surprise, hes kind of a skound ral in these ways. This is the official Foreign Policy of the United States of america visavis ukraine. Its basically being run by the overgrown frat boys of who nunes fits in perfectly and they have a goal of ousting a u. S. Ambassador. To shimons point, its stunning that nothing has been undertaken as far as a criminal investigation, yet the state department has had and the bureau would have had this months ago. That this kind of surveillance of a u. S. A. Mbassador is tantamount to a declaration of war on u. S. Normal Foreign Policy. Theres another story here about why have they slept on it for these months. Shimon, talk to me about some of these photographs that were released, parnas with giuliani. Then you have parnas with trump. Even a photo of parnas sitting next to donald trump jr. Whats going on . Yeah. These are events, presumably these are campaign events. Money fundraising events. Meetings that theyre having with Rudy Giuliani. Weve seen video. Weve seen photos of them spending time together at the trump hotel. All of this was going on at the trump hotel. Think about this. The hotel in washington, d. C. Theyre having all of these meetings there. Were seeing jay sekulow sitting there with parnas. Other members of the trump team, family, friends, inner circle hanging out all at the trump hotel. Were seeing more evidence of that. You say keep leasing. What happens if more comes out in the trials. In general in the past when things come out, thats what i was talking about, the fbi is on it, the doj is on it. Theres been no impact to what obviously are sorts of conduct that should be open in criminal investigation. What should happen here certainly is there should be a criminal investigation of the efforts to harass ambassador yovanovitch. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for watching, everyone. Our conversation continues with the lev parnas interview. Anderson cooper speaks with the man who says absolutely what was going on in the ukraine. The full interview in just a few minutes. Welcome to this 360 special, the lev parnas interview. He and igor fruman operated on the ground on behalf of rudy giulia giuliani. Parnas was on the front line to get the ukrainians to announce an investigation into the bidens. Not to launch an investigation, just to announce one. He says he on at least two occasions delivered the quid pro quo to ukrainian officials. President trump has denied knowing parnas but parnas says he is