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Welcome to inside politics. Welcome to inside politics. Im john think www. Vitac. Com stunning does not do justice to describe the development skm undermined u. S. National security to pursue his personal political vendettas. The president roused anger and constant attacks and tells us he understands quite well the likelihood he will be impeached. His most remarkable statement was asking ukraine and china for election help despite laws that forbid such help. They should investigate the bidens because how does a company thats newly formed and all these companies if you look at and by the way, likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens. Because what happened in china is just about as bad as what happened with ukraine. Senator mitt romney interrupted the near silence, brazen and unprecedented, he called it. Wrong and appalling. Main republican senator telling the Bangor Daily News asking him to investigate was, quote, a big mistake and, quote, completely inappropriate. Many other republicans voiced their displeasure and the president tried to clean it up. I dont care about bidens campaign, but i do care about corruption. Thats campaign, thats up to im. I dont care about politics. If you look and read our constitution and many other things, i have an obligation to look at corruption. I have an obligation and a duty. Democrats are building a case that the president s obsession with biden has already crossed the line. One key witness coming up is sondland, quote, call me, that was sondlands response with bill taylor texted concerns the president was withholding security aid from ukraine until it agreed to investigate biden and his son, who was on the board of a Ukrainian Energy company. Days after the call taylor remained concerned, quote, i think its crazy to withhold political assistance for help with a political campaign, he texted. Sondland waited more than four hours and then texted back, quote, the president was clear no quid pro quos of any kind and then he suggested it was time to stop texting about this. But republican senator ron johnson told the wall street journal on friday that ambassador sondland told him the u. S. Was withholding the aid. Sondland scheduled to be questioned on tuesday. With me to share the reporting, kim of the Washington Post, cnns jeff zelleny. It is hard, especially after the week we just went through to sort the fact building from both sides, but largely from the president and the machine. Mr. Sondland is going to be in the witness chair on tuesday. Let start with that. Why is he so critical . Hes critical because of what you mentioned earlier. He has been a key player particularly in the extreme of Text Messages that we saw earlier this week from kurt volker. The series of witnesses that House Democrats have been able to get have been pretty major gets that weve learned a lot already from volkers testimony and from the Text Messages. And what sondland is going to say is going to be important. We dont know how cooperative he will be. Hes still part of the administration. You mentioned that he was a Trump Campaign donor and we reported yesterday that while mr. Volker had willingly turned over his Text Messages to the committees and they were able to release them pretty easily, ambassador sondland has actually turned his documents over to the state department and how the state department, the commits have have to fight directly with pompeo and the state department for them. Clearly its going to be very critical testimony. Thats an important point to make. The former ambassador va von vic will be up on tuesday. Shes not pushing ukrainians to do these investigations. So were getting witnesses in the middle of what could be a prolonged document fight. Both the white house and the state department pushing back. Subpoenas in play. Democrats say theyre going to try to build their case through the witnesses and if the white house doesnt cooperate, they will fold the refusal to give the documents into an obstruction count. Yeah, thats exactly right. They also have a lot of information and evidence that they can use against the president with these Text Messages, with the president s phone call, the summery of the phone call, the whistleblower report. So they believe they have enough to build a strong case for impeachment, but theyre trying to fill in some of the gaps and conversations and things that were not in the Text Messages where bill taylor said as i said on the phone, the committee may want to know what that conversation was about. What caused him to say we shouldnt have a quid pro quo for the president s campaign. Those are the gaps theyre going to try to fill in. Even if the president and the Administration Try to withhold documents and witnesses, theyre going to push forward. They want to have this be very narrow and tight and focused and finished relatively quickly by making sure if the administration decides not to hand over documents that they can add that to the evidence of obstruction and close shop pretty soon. Theres been a lot of reporting this week, quoting friends of the president , aides of the president saying he doesnt quite understand the depth and the gravity of this. But he does seem to understand it to a degree in the sense when you see his raw anger. The president s transparent in that way and hes lashing out. He keeps defending his call to the ukrainian president as perfect. It is far from perfect. Read it yourself. You can access this. But in the tweets, im coming to the conclusion what is taking place is not an impeachment, its a coup. Adam schiff illegally made up a fake and terrible statement and pretended it to be mine. And then it will cause a civil war like a fracture in our nation which the country will never heal, quoting an evangelical pastor from fox news there. The president following the news as closely as anybody. A second official is weighing whether to blow the whistle. Its leaving some genuinely horrified. Ukraine officials felt pressure in months before trump call. Another evidence of the cloud of the inspector general, to review handling of trumps tax returns. As you say, this sort of piling up of charges and headlines against him is troubling to the president and i think he feels the walls closing in a bit. This is also, i think, his typical sort of performance, for lack of a better term, of wanting to stoke his fight. He uses the terms treason and trart and people are going to be arrested and he knows that will get a big reaction. But he is in a situation here and i think this is key to understand, that he knows hes not just dealing with people inside his administration that he might be able to control but whistleblowers by definition are people who have gone off the reservation and are saying i have witnessed something that has gone wrong here and thats an abuse and that people need to know about. Hes dealing with House Democrats who also have no interest in what the president wants or how the white house wants to handle this. Theyre going to do their own thing. Theyre moving very quickly. And so i think thats why you see this sort of amplification coming from him. But we are also seeing his defense kind of evolve in real time here. First he said perfect call, nothing went wrong. Now hes starting to blame the energy secretary, rick perry, who we hear is on his way out of the administration. This is sort of going from i didnt do anything wrong, so well, i had a reason to do what i did, so it was somebody elses idea. Despite the sometimes hourly developments, the facts still remain the same as you said in the first phone call, the rust transcript the white house. That is what is guiding all of this, hes flailing around and trying to normalize his behavior. But the thing i was fascinated with, as were only a week essentially into this. Weve only had the beginning of the witnesses so we dont know where this is going. But the republican defense and talking points are all aimed at adam schiff or a vote in the house. It is not on the substance of what happened on ukraine or china. So the republicans i talked to from senators to chiefs of staff, they are worried about where this is going. Susan collins spoke out over the weekend, soon the president will respond at some point when he sees her comment saying that the china discussion is bad, improper. So republicans increasingly uncomfortable with that. And to that point, especially republicans on the ballot, Susan Collins is up for reelection next year. Listen to this answer, tell me do you find this directly responsive to the question . Where is the line . When are you guys going to say enough . And stand up and say, you know, what, im not backing any of this . I can say yea, nay, whatever. The president is going to say what the president is going to do. Its up to us as members of congress to continue working with our allies, making sure that we remain strong in the face of adversity. You can say more than yea, nay, whatever. You can stand up to a president. Youre a member of the United States senate, you can stand up for a president of any party if you choose to. That is choosing not to. Mitt romney did decide to stand up. He called it appalling what the president said and this is why the other plans are reluctant. The president said mitt romney never knew how to win, hes a pompous ass from the beginning. When he begged me to be secretary, i didnt give it to him. Hes so bad for republicans. Then he goes on to say im hearing the great people of utah are reconsidering their vote for pompous senator mitt romney to be a mistake. I agree, hes a fool. I just want to show matt visor tweeting out, asking who is having a better saturday, senator romney spending time with his family. To this point, if youre another republican and youre thinking of speaking out, this is the president sending a signal. If youre going to do it, be prepared. Exactly, and senator romney i think has the support of the great people of utah. The president actually, thats one of his weakest performing red states because of moral character and other matters. But it is definitely sending a message to other republicans, that doesnt mean that a lot of senators believe what mitt romney is saying. Well see if that changes. What you hear privately from them is different from what they say or more often what they dont say. A lot of them are in hiding. A lot of primary deadlines havent passed yet in the states. These people are nervous. Up next for us, are the democrats up to the impeachment challenge, including this . He should resign from office in disgrace and, frankly, they should look at him for treason, because he is making up the words of the president of the United States. All but nine of the House Democrats support the impeachment in kwir eechlt their resilience is being tested. Instead of fixing health care and lowering drug prices, he votes with the radicals, wasting tax dollars, instead of working to create more jobs, he wants more hearings. One democrat is most unfire, the Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff who is leading the inquiry. He began the first hearing with what he called a parity of the president s july phone call with his ukrainian counterpart. Short of its rambling character and in not so many words, this is the essence of what the president communicates. I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand, lots of it, you know what im asking and so im only going to say this a few more times. In a few more ways. And by the way, dont call me again, ill call you when youve done what i asked. That was schiffs parity. He could have just quoted the president. He chose not to. Schiff also did not proactively disclose that the white house whistleblower came to the Committee Staff for advice. The New York Times was first to report that and republicans who cant really defend the president s conduct here now have a new talking point. Now he met with this whistleblower and lied to the American Public . Every time they have attempted a coup theres been one common denominator, the lies and deceit of adam schiff. Theres a lot to unpack every time anybody speaks on this story, but that the House Republican leader embraces the president s idea of coup. You can say the democrats are way out over their skis on impeachment if you want to make that political argument. He serves in the same building as them and the constitution gives them this power. Again, you can argue about whether theyre doing the right thing or not. But to embrace the coup language, sorry its striking and i think were going to hear a lot more of this because the president is setting the tone and thats the language hes using. Were seeing what we saw during the clinton impeachment as well, which is republican attempts to demonize the people who will be the impeachment managers should this go forward. Theyre demonizing adam schiff, and frankly, chairman schiff has given them some reason or excuse to do that, something to hang their hats on as they try to do that. I think the point that he was trying to make in that statement is you cant make this stuff up, so you shouldnt make it up. You dont have to, right . And i do think the fact that his office knew about the whistleblower complaint and he didnt find a way, even though the situation is very technical and there are a lot of legal nuances to actually come out and proactively say that they were aware of this on the front end has given republicans an opening to criticize him. Democrats know that they have to be really careful and as close to perfect as they can be if they want this to be an effective process. Especially if youre trying to get independents and trump voters to listen to you. I would argue democrats need to be near perfect. You saw the ad at the beginning, the republicans running against democrats from districts either that the president carried or ran very strongly in in 2016. She had a town hall the other day where, yes, this came up. The issue that got to me was this idea that the president , the most powerful man in the world, reached out to a foreign leader and asked him to dig up dirt on an american. Not true. Not true. There are some moments in life that are beyond politics, and i felt that this movement was that. [ applause ] this will be interesting to watch and most of the stories about this happening across the country so far. Its limited, its not off the charts. But you heard boo, boo, fake news. Actually, he was telling the truth. Read the president s own words. The president reached out to a foreign leader and asked for help. Thats a fact. But you see the power of the trumpaganda machine, as i call it. There are a lot of people who have not followed the ins and outs of the story or have watched one news clachannel and not seeing the whole story. He said it was a perfect call and he did nothing wrong and the bidens are corrupt. So its up to some of the democrats to tell exactly what happened and say why theyre supporting the impeachment inquiry and to make the impeachment inquiry something that translates to the American People. If it becomes so technical and gets bogged down in the details, it will go over peoples heads. So the democrats charge here is to not only be near perfect, but also be able to translate this to the American People in a way that they can understand. The Washington Post did send reporters to about nine democrat town halls to try to gauge the reaction of the voters and how these vulnerable members were responding to the pressure from the voters in their swing districts. And right now its still early, we havent seen major signs of a political backlash. Sure, slotkin gets booed particularly but she defends her position and gets a raund of applause. And while it took a long time for these swing members to embrace this impeachment inquiry, not that theyve embraced it, they really are defending him. Another congressman took 15 written against on impeachment only. Max rose in new york began his town hall by defending his position. So for now, despite republican pressure, were not seeing them back off their position. The democrats are unified as well. They were not at the beginning. Its going to be fascinating to watch as we go through this. The substance is important, but well watch the ploks. Next, our sunday trail mix and new questions for Bernie Sanders. Full of flavor. Color. Full of. Woo full of good. Ou can be too. Try our new warm grain bowls today. Order now on ubereats. Its what gives audible theresmembers an edge. Ening; it opens our minds, changes our perspective, connects us, and pushes us further. The most inspiring minds, the most compelling stories audible. Doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacistrecommendeding . 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Just when we will see the 78yearold senator back on the trail is another. Senator sanders promising that will be soon. Hello, everybody. Were in las vegas. I just got out of the hospital a few hours ago and im feeling so much better. I just want to thank all of you for the love and warm wishes that you sent to me. See you soon on the campaign trail. Thank you all so much. It really made a difference. Did they handle this right, wrong, somewhere in the middle . The reality on friday evening, basically they said that he had a heart attack after he was released. So no, there were three days of really limited transparency from the campaign. Hes 78 years old. So no, they didnt. Of course our thoughts and best wishes are with senator sanders and by all accounts, he will return to the campaign trail. But the advise, ive spoken to have said theyre not sure when and is he going to be able to campaign as vigorously. Few people held as many events with as much energy as Bernie Sanders. It is going to be something that hes going to have to show that he has gotten beyond this, not just say that hes feeling okay. Well see, but i dont think they were as transparent as they should have been. This news came just shortly after he had a blockbuster fundraising quarter where he outpaced the entire field so its a hard bit of news for the Bernie Campaign to take given that he does seem to have some momentum and there are a lot of voters that are supporting him. But some of them may question whether or not hell be able to stay in the race and i think the next few days and weeks will show how much hes going to be able to continue and well see. Next for us, it is testing time for joe biden. Behr presents tough as walls. Thats some great paint. Thats some great paint. Behr ultra, ranked 1 in Customer Satisfaction with interior paints. Great paint, new low price. Starting at 29. 98. Exclusively at the home depot. No coverup spray here. 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All this talk of the president about corruption comes from the most corrupt president weve had in modern history. Hes the definition of corruption. Hes indicted himself by his own statements. This is not about me, its not about my son, theres not a shred of evidence anything done thab wrong. Lets focus on the problem, on the man, what hes doing that no president has ever done. You see the ang tlr at the end. They changed their strategy as the week went on to get much more aggressive and get in the face of the president. But also get in the face of the reporters, saying you get after what hes doing, not just allow him to say what hes saying. Why the shift . Well, i think its an acknowledgment that this is not going away, that the polls are showing that the counterpunches that the president is making are resonating. These are very complicated issues and its a complicated part of the world that most people dont understand and i think they saw that by trying to hang back and stay above the fray, that was not working. But it is very difficult. Weve seen this before with President Trump and people he lashes out at. He gets as much oxygen for his criticisms and counterpunches as the aggrieved gets for hitting back. So when they do end up getting angry and flustrd the way we saw joe biden in that clip, it seemed to sort of undercut the case. And every time we say here theres no evidence that hunter biden did anything wrong, theres no evidence the timeline the president uses about the investigations and getting the prosecutor fired is wrong and inaccurate under the quote, unquote Media Outlets that support the president , they leave that part out. The reality is this is what joe biden has want. Hes wanted a head to head watch up with donald trump. I talked to a lot of biden advisers, if wasnt about hunter biden, it might be different. But its complicated for this president ial campaign and for joe biden. Hes had a long struggle with drug abuse and other matters. Hes never been exactly the shining light of the family. And so this is a complicated area of discussion for the former Vice President. So im told he did not want to sit down for interviews or other things this week because he didnt want to specifically be asked a lot of hunter biden like questions. But you are going to see a different shift going forward. You could see it on friday night in california. He met with donors over the weekend in philadelphia on saturday and assured them that hes going to be aggressive. But a lot of other things are going on in the biden campaign. Fundraising, he was number four and Elizabeth Warren is at his heels. So this is a perilous moment. He raised a lot of money but hes well naund nar sanders and warren. Warren is closing um in iowa and new hachl. So he was being tested in the campaign anyway, in the democratic nomination race, even before this hit. And if youre a democratic voter or a democratic campaign, you made this point, you have to remember trumps history. And biden himself, this is him at a fundraiser in california the other day. I did 83 events for hillary, and what happened was you got sucked into the trap of the stuff trump was laying. He wants you in a mud fight. When you respond to that, it brings you back down into that. The question is, and this is the challenge for any democrat, where is the sweet spot of pushing back but not getting caught in the mess . And thats exactly the challenge for Democratic Candidates. Because not just former Vice President saying when us reporters ask about the questions with the son, hes not the only democratic candidate who is saying like dont play into the president s hands like that. Thats what he wants you to focus on. Weve heard that line actually from other Democratic Candidates as well when theyve been questioned about their rivals, the issues surrounding hunter biden. But it does create an uncomfortable moment for a lot of these Democratic Candidates. A couple of weeks ago, Kamala Harris was asked about this, would you let your Vice President s son serve on the board of a foreign oil company and she said no, probably not. These are difficult questions that Democratic Candidates are faced with. And some of them have tried to find the balance themselves. Beto orourke said pretty much the same thing, that wouldnt happen in my administration. But we shouldnt be talking about joe biden. They did drop it in there. Its an interesting moment for the candidates as well who are waiting to see. Some democratic strategists say he should rush into this because if you want to make yourself trumps opponent. We talk a lot about foreign governments meddling in the election. Donald trump is meddling in the primary, hes going to do it for the next several because because he realized he can have a say in who he runs against in 2020. Hes going to go after family members and what he believes are the weaknesses of these various candidates and democratic voters are looking to see which candidates show that they can punch back or they can actually go up against the president in a one on one and figure out the sweet spot of how to do it without muddying themselves. Right now i think the jury is still out on which candidate is going to be able to do that. There are some Great Stories in a number of publications this weekend, please read them and come to your own conclusions. One of them being about how Rudy Giuliani relies on some untrustworthy sources from ukraine. Kurt volker did testify. He said yes, the he was the security aide, he did not see he said at least in his opening statement, a link between the two. He also said this and the president wont like this, i have known former Vice President for 20 years and the suggestion that he would be influenced in his duties as Vice President by money for his son has no credibility to me. I know him as a man of integrity and dedication to our country. Volker again working for the United States. Taylor working for the president of the United States. They view the whole giuliani thing as a conspiracy whack job. And theres a reason that joe biden is the object of the president s obsession. They do see him as the strongest potential opponent running against them so they did want to muddy him up from the very beginning. And Rudy Giuliani has offered up a buffet of conspiracy theories which the president has embraced. We dont know the politics of this. It could elevate the former Vice President going forward. Were not sure. Its on shifting ground here. Set that aside, he was still facing a challenging moment in the democratic primary, which they always expected. They knew that Elizabeth Warren would be ascending and we do not know the future of Bernie Sanders, the strength of his campaign. But this is a moment for the bidens that could go either way. And anyone who says they know, its not true. Well watch it as it plays out. 18 weeks to iowa. The timing here, the campaign playing out the same time as the impeachment inquiry is a big giant question mark. All the president s men, the big impeachment questions reach well beyond the oval office. [upbeat action music] pilot were going to be on the tarmac for another 45 minutes or so. The president s conduct is the central focus of the impeachment inquiry, but the questions also involve several of his top deputies. One is the energy secretary, rick perry. Hes had several meetings with ukrainian officials, including the president. He says his staff says they brought up corruption and he sfif insists he was not into the you need to investigate the bidens. Some questions for rick perry. Questions as well for the attorney general of the United States, william barr. Trump told remember, if you read the president s call with ukrainian president , he told the ukrainians to work with barr on an investigation into the bidens. The whistleblower complaint was sent to the Justice Department and many think just simply buried and not seriously investigated. Barr also has been on a world tour trying to get to the origins of the russia investigation, asking other countries what intelligence they provided to the fbi about the beginnings of what became the mueller investigation. The secretary of state, hes on the world stage right now, he was on that july call with president zelensky and President Trump where the president said i need you to do me a favor and brought up the investigations into biden. Hes the one mike pompeo as you recall the ambassador to ukraine has been a key witness this coming week. And heres a question for the secretary. Was he in the loop and aware that Rudy Giuliani was using the leverage of st state department and officials to advance his agenda inside ukraine. Now we come to the Vice President. Democrats want documents from him. His Top National Security adviser was on the call when the president said i need a favor and brought up the biden investigations. The president instructed the Vice President not to go to the zelensky inaugural. The story inside the white house being the president didnt think the president had done enough to deserve that. He met with zelensky in september, urged him to fight corruption. Democrats want to know did you, too, bring up joe biden. The Vice President , his public remarks echoing the boss. One of the main reasons we were elect to washington, d. C. Was to drain the swamp and i think the American People have a right to know if the Vice President of the United States or his family profited from his position, clearly in this case there are legitimate questions that ought to be asked. Its the official position of both the president and the Vice President of the United States that its okay to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political opponent. What else, when it comes to the questions of facing the Vice President . His Office Issued a statement that said well look at this but it seemed to be to the democrats go away. Right, theres no really good answer for the Vice President. Clearly given what we know from the whistleblower complaint, the Vice President pence was involved in some way in President Trumps bidding on this. And what he wanted to be done. He was supposed to aend the an ugeration and then he was told not to. He obviously knows about the telephone call and some of the other conversations, but the documents that the congress has asked for is pretty expansive, if you read through the list of things theyre asking for. Theyre usually things that would be privileged. Its very unusual to see this sort of expansive of a q. It will be interested to see what, if any, the pence people are willing to turn over and its possible that some of it will come from other sources, that the office will not play ball but other people will have access to the same documents. So pence does face some exposure. He also faces questions about consistency in a sense you just heard him right there saying why cant we ask this, of course we can ask these things. This is another mike pence another day. Now, you all need to know out there, this is basic stuff. Foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot participate in the american political process. Guys got a point. That was a while ago. A lot has changed since 2016, including the election which has caused a lot of republicans to recant on some of their previous positions. But i think from mike pompeo to mike pence, theres going to be a lot of questions as to whether or not they do cooperate at all. And if they dont, will democrats be able to push the message this is a coverup. Weve seen from the evidence that has come out so far of the government that a lot of it is damaging to the white house. So the democrats will need to sort of express to the American People that if the white house is holding back more evidence, its because they believe that theres a coverup and theres more damaging information out there. Otherwise you could end up in a long legal back and forth trying to get documents and it could end up being a cloudy situation where no one knows whats really going on. And you heard from the Vice President , secretary pompeo doing the same thing, trying to muddle your memory. He said in athens yesterday, we wanted to make sure they didnt interfere in our election in 2016. It has long been debunked, thats putin talking points that it was ukraine not russia. Hes the secretary of state of the United States traveling the world still asking we want to know if they were involved in 2016. And everyone has been loyal to the president without question. Well see if that changes as this impeachment inquiry begins because this is a new moment. The past isnt necessarily prologue. Up next for us, the reporters share from their note booeks, including the president s new take for immigrants. Itedhealthce advantage. bold music now, its like he has his own health entourage. He gets medicares largest healthcare network, a free gym membership, vision, dental and more. Theres so much to take advantage of. Cant wait till im 65. A few more chairs, please. Unitedhealthcare Medicare Advantage plans, including the only plans with the aarp name. 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S. canada mexico trade deal and a group is going to mexico this week to meet with locals and workers about the trade deal. I spoke with one of the members of the working group this week and she said, look, weve met with ambassador lighthizer since this impeachment inquiry began and the dynamic of the discussions in the room have not changed and we want to get this done and come to a compromise with the administration. But that optimism is not coming from the president himself. Weve seen him actually be publicly downcast about the prospect of a us group when we were at the u. N. General is assembly for the first time that this deal might not get a vote in the congress and well see who is right at the end. But there is some movement at least for now. Should get the answer soonish. For nearly a month senator Kamala Harris is pushing the iowa allin strategy and she has a rally in aims but advisers will say shes doing the obama strategy. Focusing all on iowa. That is simply not a correct reading of history. 12 years ago barack obama, yes, he was trying to do a comefrombehind victory in iowa which he pulled off from Hillary Clinton but he started there early and never wavered in his iowa plan. Talking to many advisers to senator harris, they believe shes been spooked by iowa in one persons words because of Hillary Clintons experience there. So now they are trying to revive her candidacy in iowa but dont believe they are trying to repeat the obama strategy. Had she done that, she wouldnt be doing a hail mary right now. It is hard to repeat anybody else. Do it your way. Taluse. This week was one year of Jamal Khashoggis murder and weve trying to see how the u. S. Respond and President Trump has rehabilitated the image of Mohammed Bin Salman over the past year and not punish him at all for what our reporting shows he basically ordered this grizzly murder of a Washington Post columnist. Were expecting that the Trump Administration to be heavily represented at the davos in the desert event later this month showing and in pretty stark imagery how much the Trump Administration has welcomed the saudis right back into the global stage so well watch as we talk about the president s discussions with foreign leaders and his discussions and relations with the saudi government is something heavily in focus in the weeks ahead. Those are transcripts the public should see. Those phone calls. But i suspect we wont. Julie. Well, this past week we saw President Trump sign a proclamation that would bar immigrants who couldnt pay for their own health care from staying in this country. This came just a few days after i reported with my colleague mike sheer about the president s more extreme ideas for preventing immigrants from coming across the southern border, everything from shooting at them to digging a waterfilled trench with potentially dangerous reptiles inside. What were seeing here is something that mike and i explore deeply in our book that is coming out next week called border wars, inside trumps assault on immigration and you have a president obsessed with the issue grasping for ever more sort of extreme ways to get at the what he sees as the problem of ilLegal Immigration. But what you also see inside of the white house and when we look at this as well and this is part of what was at play with the proclamation, is stephen miller, his Senior Adviser who stood up an internal think tank in the west wing to come up with ideas to target Legal Immigration and that is what well see in the continued runup to the 2020 election. So read the book when it comes out on wednesday. When this president is in crisis, he goes back to the playbook of immigration. And the book is border wars on tuesday if you want to buy. It ill close with flash backs to washingtons last impeachment drama. 21 years ago this week, october 5th, 1988 to be exact, the house judiciary voted to open impeachment of president bill clinton, the full house endorsed that inquiry on a vote of 258 to 176 just a few days later. So far this time Speaker Pelosi said such votes are not necessary. Another big difference, clintons Approval Rating was 63 in the gallop polling and President Trumps is just 40 . Now one thing we wont have this time, is an immediate test of how voters react at the polls. The clinton impeachment drama began in the final weeks of the 1998 midterms and democrats decided to hammer democrats with ads linking them to clinton and his personal behavior. But it didnt work. It backfired. Democrats defied the midterm norms picking up five seats in the house and breaking even in the senate. Well have to wait to understand the politics of this one better. 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Panera. Food as it should be. Evidence mounts. Forget drip, dripping drip. A tor ebt of new revelations against President Trump as he openly urges another country to investigate his political rival. They should investigate the bidens. Will the impeachment probe reveal more troubling conduct into and closing ranks. Confronted with the president s own words prominent republicans struggle to come up with ways to dismiss them. I dont know if that is a real request or him just needling the press. After the president attacked one gop critic will the bulk of his party toe the line. Congressman mark sanford and joe walsh join me