Fiona hill and Alexander Vindman both allege that effort was coordinated by acting chief of staff mick mulvaney. Bringing the conspiracy one degree closer to the president himself. And next week the public will hear some of the damning testimony with their own ears and with each passing day republicans are shifting their defense of trump. Cob torting themselves into logic pretzels to explain it all away. If you could show me that trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo, outside of the phone call, that would be very disturbing. Did you read the transcripts that were released . No. Im not even interested in the whole concept here. What i could tell you about the trump policy toward ukraine, it was incoherent. It appears of who you talk to. They seem incapable of forming a quid pro quo. So i find the whole process to be a sham. Well, listen, that train doesnt appear to be stopping before it hits impeachment station. Then on our separate but parallel track you have another Freight Train barreling down on republicans, elections. Republicans lost in places they shouldnt have. Democrats won in places they shouldnt have. That train appears to be headed for a blue wave junction in 2020. In both scenarios this is bad for republicans. The commandner chief may well be impeached and bruised in the process and the party may lose huge in state houses down the ballot on 20 but a word of warning for democrats this does not mean they could coast. The president may very well walk away from impeachment unscathed and impeached in all likelihood but just as more popular. Wont likely be removed from office unless Senate Republicans grow in serious testicular fortitude in the near future and hell use that in advantage for his election bid. And this shows not any democrat can win in trump territory. Look at kentucky with andy beshear beat matt bevin as trumps own Campaign Manager said the democrats nominated a moderate whose dad was a nominate and who didnt talk about the impeachment and acts like a republican. Were anybody listening to that or only listen to the ghosts . Are they reading the polls . This weeks polls found that 55 prefer a moderate candidate. 62 want someone who could compromise with republicans. The data and the recent Election Results make a case for a moderate to beat trump. Well there happen to be a couple of running. Joe biden, amy cloklobuchar and Pete Buttigieg fill that degree. And but for Michael Bloomberg, none of the democrats running against donald trump are good enough. On friday bloomberg filed for the alabama prime minutes before the deadline laying a groundwork for a run. The reasoning according to his adviser, we now need to finish the job and ensure that trump is defeating but mike is concerned that the current field of candidates is not well positioned to do that. Well sorry, democrats who have been running for two years, visiting all 99 iowa counties, eating fried butter at state fairs, sending staffers to burrow down in New Hampshire and South Carolina and everywhere in between. Sorry democrats debating, fundraising and answering reporter and video questions and twitter questions and replease plan after plan and explains over and over how you fix health care, sorry you guys just havent performed up to Michael Bloombergs standards so here he comes to save the day. Here is the deal. Bloomberg is not the answer. Not now. Probably not ever. He has no constituency ever and if you could believe it, despite the dozens of candidates vying for the democratic nominee, others are still considering jumping in this late in the game. Some names being floated include former Massachusetts GovernorDuval Patrick and eric holder and former secretary of state john kerry, and even Hillary Clinton. Okay. I just i have one question. How guys lost your minds . Iowa is less than three months away. Democrats have spent the last year introducing us to their candidates all 200 of them. And the field is finally consolidating behind a handful of candidates. Qualified candidates. With voter bases. That anyone would think getting in now would help democrats instead of hurting them blows my mind. Except oprah. Oprah could still get in. Here to discuss is mitch landrieu. Mr. Mayor, i hope you enjoyed that. Hey. What is going on in your party. How are you doing . Are you worried that Michael Bloomberg thinks the field is insufficiently capable of beating trump. First of all, two things. Im definitely for oprah and im excited that alabama is cleaning the clock right now and getting those two important things out of mind. There is a lot going on right now. Were in an unprecedented time. Thinks change from daytoday. We have the impeachment moving forward that congress is working on and it appears there is evidence from people inside of the trump administration, many of wlom appointed by trump that the president abused his power to hurt our country. That is not a big surprise. But i think the depth and the breadth of it will surprise the American Public and of Course Congress has to do its job and theyre going to do that. While that is happening, you have these election thats took place that are pretty compelling. In virginia, i think virginia spoke very, very loudly and clearly about what direction they want the country to go in and independents sided with the democratic view of the world at least in that state election. In kentucky, which is a i mean really a bell weather for the Republican Party you had a democrat beat an incumbent in a red state. Right. And then next week we have louisiana where we have an incumbent democrat right. I understand why you dont want to answer my question, but my question is no, im coming im coming to it. Are you worried ma Michael Bloomberg doesnt think yall have your acts together in the primary . Im coming to your question. And then John Bell Edwards is likely to win it. So you have a lot of stuff going on. I dont share the view that mayor bloomberg has that our party is upside down and we dont have candidates that could win. Joe biden i think has been doing very, very well and you have a lot of other people that can. But be that as it may, he has decided to get into the race and what impact will it have on the race. Hes well qualified to be president and more money than anybody else in the country. Hes got a record to run on and because elections are like roller skating derby, it is going to have an impact that we dont really understand at this point. So well see. But it is hard to predict at the moment. So monmouth polling found this week, brandnew poll, 74 of voters are satisfied with the current field. That is among democrats. Shouldnt that be definitive enough for anybody considering getting in this late. I think that is probably true. That is the way i read the polls. I think the people are happy with the candidates that we have and 21 good candidates that have been through the gill. But be that as it may Michael Bloomberg has every right to run. He would take up a fairly significant space in the lanes and now hell have to go perform so well see. I dont think we know. It is very hard to predict given howl volatile the political world is and what the heck will happen in the next three months. Youve never seen anything like this, right. No. For sure. And look on the republican or the democratic side. That is true. Lets talk more about joe biden. He spent much of the week sparring with Elizabeth Warren about medicare for all and what he called an elitism. Warren returned fire accusing joe biden of sexism for not allowing women to be angry. Im a woman. I didnt hear his comments that way and that is just me. But here is bidens response yesterday to that. It is not anything that i did or was intending to do. It had nothing to do with that. It had to do with the fact that it starts off and she said biden is running on the wrong primary. Because i disagreed with her medicare for all proposal that cost trillion dollars to pay for and there is no way to pay for it without raising the taxes on middle class people. Mr. Mayor, i thought it was a low blow for Elizabeth Warren to say that was sexist, to say what joe biden said which was look it is either her way or the highway and if you dare question her plan, youre somehow either a coward or insufficiently democratic. What did you think . Well the person who made that charge most eloquently was senator Amy Klobuchar in the last debate as you may recall. So obviously it is not a sexist comment. It is okay for senator warren to be angry or passionate and not okay for her to be wrong. And think what shes trying to do is evil knievel the grand canyon on the medicare for all plan and i think what Vice President biden and senator klobuchar and mayor pete is that listen there is a way to get to universal Health Care Without taking private insurance away from 160 million americans and raising taxes on the middle class. The democrats are the ones that are in favor of giving People Health care. Not taking it away. And think what the realistic wing of the Democratic Party is saying is dont give the republicans the Health Care Issue back again. Right. Be thoughtful and smart about how you propose something that actually works that you can pay for that doesnt raise taxes on the middle class and gives People Health care and i think people have legitimately said to senator warren because we dont agree with you, doesnt make us weak or not ambitious, were just thoughtful of building a bridge to get you to the other side. Or sexist. And this is all primary stuff. It is to be expected. Theyre big boys and girls. They can take it. Theyre throwing elbows at each other and that is the way primaries go. And more to come. Well have you back former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. Happy to come back. Thanks. Up next, the path Michael Bloomberg would take to the white house. Well it has never been a successful one. Im sure hes different though. And later House Republicans want to call hunter biden and the whistleblower to testify at next weeks public impeachment hearing. Im talking to a congressman about whether theyll get their wish. 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But Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who have railed against the billionaire class seem giddy of taking on the billionaire, former mayor of new york city. Warren invited blmberg to try out her billionaire tax calculator that showed he would pay 3 billion under the wealth tax and sanders posted the billionaire class is scared and they should be scared. But that is all campaign bluster. What do the hard numbers say . As two of my cnn colleagues put it yesterday, Michael Bloomberg the ultimate data guy is ignoring the data. A fox news poll showed that 32 of democratic primary voters would never vote for bloomberg and his advisers saying if hell run hell skip the first four primary states and instead focus on supertuesday. So why run when the numbers are against you . Why run if youre skipping the early states which has never worked . And if youre goal is for democrats to nominate a moderate why run if your candidacy weakens the moderate and boosts the two left flanking nonmoderates. Here to figure it out aisha moodiemills and john brabender. And skipping the early caucus and primary states and hedging his bets on supertuesday. And i dont even live in those states and i feel disrespected. Totes. Im going to snub and compete on supertuesday but the realist is he has no path to victory with regards to the delegates. Who is bloombergs base . I dont know. I dont think that he knows. Im not sure how i dont know countsing this out here. But if hes going to do this. You could say it is unfair but it is smart strategically if he does this. Hes saying this is not going the way democrats thought. They thought we would play nice. Said who. 74 are satisfied . Youre talking about the Billionaire Boys Club class. Theyre saying biden was supposed to be the pick. Still the frontrunner, okay. But now hes fourth in iowa. Okay. And what a lot of people believe hes falling, falling. And hell lose iowa and New Hampshire and a lot of people get excited about Elizabeth Warren when she probably wins both of those and then all of a sudden there is no centrist. And that is why he doesnt want to get in the early ones. But how will he explain the optics of getting in this late, parachuting in just becaus hes a billionaire. He can only do that because hes a billionaire. How does he explain that . To democrats. He with the gold makes the electoral rules. It is massive air quotes around this they. Massive air quotes around the mysterious they. That they think biden is tanking and the they are not the people. Were talking about a donor class that is condemned a moderate donor class concerned that Elizabeth Warren will take mir money and they want to prop up joe biden and that is not the people Hillary Clinton is making phone calls to potential donors about potentially getting in this race. So if it was go so well for biden, do you think even Hillary Clinton would be thinking about getting into this race. I think that said more about Hillary Clinton than the state of the race. John, i heard it nonstop over the past two days, Michael Bloomberg is central and he could appeal to republicans. I dont know a single republican including this one who likes Michael Bloomberg. It feels like a fantasy. Who is his base. But be fearful of the democrats on the left because they cant get elected in the november and i can. Im a real democrat. But im a centrist one sand a reasonable one. And who is he telling that to . The democrats . Here is the problem with the enti entire conversation is that were not talking about the people. And we look at the polls and the national polls, people are clearly saying the Democratic Base, the voters are saying, look, sure we want somebody who could beat donald trump but we think that most of these candidates in the field already can beat donald trump. Number one. So we dont need somebody else to be an alternative. And two, the narrative of the Democratic Base now is to figure equity of the condition of america. Were not about propping up billionaires and making their our saviors. Tell that to Michael Bloomberg. And i have one more. Aisha, Duval Patrick, no one outside of donors knows who that is, and eric holder was held in contempt of congress by some democrats even and john kerry couldnt beat george w. Bush and Hillary Clinton couldnt beat donald trump. Should any of these people consider getting into the race right now . No. I just dont think i think that this old School Philosophy and frankly it is politics that said the middle of the road person is the only person that could galvanize america is proven to be false. All of the people that you mentioned are winners and the folks exciting the democrats are the people who principle and stand for something. 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Have i said a crossword about our president . Not one time. That is sessions new ad for his bid to reclaim his old Alabama Senate seat and it is in a word pathetic. Here is what the groveling and preening got him from the president. Well, i havent gotten involved. I saw he said very nice things about me last night but well have to see. Ill have to sessions joins a long line of gop heavy weights who have groveled at the feet of the president despite being personally insulted and humiliated by him. Trump wauns called rand paul a delusional narcissist and gave out grahams personal cell phone number and insulted ted cruzs wife and accused his dad of being involved in the kennedy assassination and all three have lined up behind trump to shield him from oversight and defend his regular abuses of power. And for what . Well have to see what this grand bargain gets them in the end. Back with me aisha moodiemills and john brabender. And i want to say have you no balls, sir. Where are your balls . That ad was pathetic. I understand what hes trying to you would never make an ad like that for a candidate. I would not have executed that way. But i understand what hes trying to do. But nobody fought harder for the trump agenda than Jeff Sessions. He was the first senator to come out and endorse donald trump. He has all of these things that if he wants to tie himself to donald trump, he can do that. And he can say, look, im sorry, i had to take a principled position as attorney general but that is what we in alabama do. Why apologize. And then everybody could move on. And then i didnt think the other candidates that looked after sessions looked any better quite frankly. What did you make of the ad . Well i think he was completely immaculated. Ip dont want my lead to lead to be a punk. Stand up and have conviction. In your opening you reminded us how much of a jerk the president is and how horrible of a person he is nnd in this week miniature trump they said we dont want someone who say bully and a nasty person and a jerk. Devin. Bevin in kennedtucky. When it comes to the general well see. Well find out in louisiana in a week. Well that is true. John, as you know, trump wants to flip that seat back to red. That seat in alabama. I think hell stay out of it unless roy moore starts to but hes running last. I think you got really good candidates there. You have the secretary of state john merrill and sessions and tommy tuberville. There are good candidates. No reason for trump to get involved unless somehow moore starts to rise and i dont think anybody believes that will happen. So lets just go back for a second. Someone insults my spouse, my father, my faith, and my ethnicity and im pretty sure were not going to be friends any more. What happened to ted cruz . 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 dont understand. But what you do find is there is always seats on the trump train if youre willing eventually to get on and that is how this president is. I used him as an effective insulter but hes 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 were talking about Michael Steel talking about how embarrassed they are with this president and his behavior and im confused as why the republicans arent 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 2019. This is where weve been. And they compartmentalize it between the attacker and the donald trump agenda. And theyre shocked how conservative he is and how muchchmuc much and how much of a republican he is and saying go get them and every now and then theyre wincing and twitter in the morning and ive never bought the compartmentalization idea. You bought him. You got all of him. You cant take this and leave that. 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Congressman, starting with the gop witness list, which also includes former ambassador kurt volker, fusion gps staffer nelly orr and staffer alexander chapula, what do you think democrats will do with these requests . Will any of them be approved . Well certainly chairman schiff will have to take a close look at this but i think the idea of outing the whistleblower for example is preposterous. It is called the whistleblower protection act. The whole idea is that we want to protect people who are willing to speak truth to power without any retribution toward them. Right. And rather than dealing with the facts that the whistleblower brought forward, of course which have been corroborated by the other witnesses, they want to impugn the whistleblowers integrity somehow and we set that aside. Bringing hunter biden in to allow the republicans to pursue their ridiculous conspiracy theories about the bidens is is what some of my friends would call a goat rodeo. They may want engage in it, were not going to be a party to it. What are your thoughts on jim jordan joining the Intel Committee . Well, it is just another example that the republicans have decided that the best way to protect the president is to turn this whole thing into a gong show. And to try to make it a theater of chaos with antics rather than dig in and get to the facts. They have an Intelligence Committee. It is been functioning for a long time. The idea they want to bring one of the tv players from the Republican Party conference into this is a pretty strong signal theyre not going to take the facts seriously. Look, just to be fair, democrats are not above antics. Adam schiff is on television all of the time. And if i recall in one of the hearings he read a not factual reading of what actually happened on the call. So lets be politicians politic but i understand. I think i understand your point. That republicans are planning to use this hearing as these distractions because it is their only play. Yeah. Those hearings begin this wednesday. What is the goal here for democrats as far as this weeks testimony . Is it swaying Public Opinion or are you guys targeting potential Senate Jurors . Well, i think one will effect the other. Public opinion will clearly have an impact on the senate. Public opinion and public sentiment is everything. This will be a chance for the American People to hear directly from these witnesses, these people who have dedicated their lives to serving the country and i think it is very difficult to refute the stories that they tell, the characterization theyll bring forward about this president. And it also will help make the point that this is not just about one phone call. This is about a concerted coordinated organized effort by this administration right. At the direction of the president to solicit political intrusion by ukraine into our election in order to benefit the president. Well and to your exact point President Trump is boasting about releasing another transcript from another ukraine call. That one from april. Hes boasting about giving it over to democrats. Do you know anything about that transcript . I dont. And i hate to speculate about it. But this president , he does have a bit of a habit of using what you would call a controlled burn. Maybe there is something in that transcript that is bad but he will sort of point out that hes the one who brought it forward so it must be it must exonerate him. Redeeming. No matter what is in it. So he does tend to lead with bad news as if somehow he reveals it then it is like hes committed some sort of a sacrament. Yeah. Quickly before we go, i know you want to hear from mick mulvaney. He is stalling of course and i know democrats dont want to drag this outin terminably but hes a relevant witness so how long will you wait to get him . Theyre obviously going to use stall tactics. We feel we have the witnesses and the information that we need. We still need to pursue all of the witnesses that we can. But if theyre going to just simply stall, i think we have to take action. I hope mr. Mulvaney comes forward. He is at the center of all of this. Yeah, he is. He sort of slipped and had a moment of truth standing before reporters a couple of weeks ago. He has some questions to answer. Congressman dan kildee thank you for coming on. Thank you, se. The right wing media out late have made a concerted and dangerous effort to out the whistleblower including a misidentification. That is next. Grandpa, can you tell me the story again . Every family has their own unique story. Give your family the chance to discover theirs this holiday season, with ancestry. Wat t. 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Well that was the rand paul who is pretending to be a trump suckup but the one pretending to be a libertarian back in 2013 he won an aword for his work protecting whistleblowers. That rand paul pushed for protections for whistleblowers to extend to Government Contractors such as edward snowden. That rand paul was outraged, outraged by the nsa bulk Data Collection collected by snowden and a violation of privacy rights but the rand paul pretending to be a trump suckup doesnt care not when it comes to the whistleblower. Lindsey graham is also saying now he needs to know who this person is. Republicans put him on the list of people they want to testify publicly in the impeachment inquiry. And no surprise, trump wants him outed too. The whistleblower is a disgrace to our country. A disgrace. And the whistleblower, because of that, should be revealed. Lets make something clear. The whistleblower is protected by law. He is also kind of unnecessary to this investigation now that officials have corroborated all of the complaints he laid out. With me now is cnns chief media correspondent brian stelter. Brian, as you know, every major news outlet has refused to publish the name of the whistleblower. Even fox news as you reported told their hosts and personalities do not identify the whistleblower. Here the media is refusing to aid and abet republicans who seem to just be out for blood. And that is partly because it is very, very hard, if not almost impossible, to confirm the name of whoever this was. Look, news outlets may think they know what the whistleblower was or may have some evidence. I certainly dont know. I dont think most journalists know who it is. But the sean hannity of the world claim they know who the whistleblower is. If the lawyers wont confirm it and the whistleblower couldnt confirm it then how do you know for sure . That is number one. And number two, it doesnt matter any more. If im the first person to spot a fire on the horizon, then everybody notices the fire and the firefighters show up and it is being fought, what is the point of identifying the fire witness. It is irrelevant. I understand though why for political reasons it making for an interesting argument. I get that. But i hope people and i think most people do see through the smoke. So sticking with the media on this, if President Trump or any other elected official chooses to expose the whistleblower, how should the media handle that. It is striking that facebook and youtube have said were going to make schauer that posts that are claiming to identify this person dont show up in your feed and facebook said any mention of the name, the potential persons name violated our coordinated harm policy which is outing an informant or activist and that is remarkable position for the Big Tech Companies to take. I dont think they would take that way a couple of years ago. So a number of different institutions are trying to be responsible however being responsible feeds into the gop the right wing narrative that there is a coverup going on and the whistleblower must be a democratic spy, right. And the media is with him. And a guest on one fox news show named a person he thought was the whistleblower on air. Do you think hosts should be held accountable for what their guests say. He didnt say anything. And youre the host and you dont catch it and embarrassed by it later and maybe that is what hatched. But we reported this week that were not in this game and we dont know who it is or who this person is. Even though the sean hannity of the world do want to blurt out whatever name they think applies. Ip guess at the heart of this it is an attempt to deflect and distract and it could seem like a petty became but i think there is a layer where this is dangerous because it is ultimately about Disinformation Campaign going away from the core of the story. 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Hello to americas most loved pizza. Hello marcos. Im back with brian stelter. Were talking about the whistleblower and the medias responsibility here now. The person who said his name on a fox news show, the guest, was a radio host, a rightwing radio host lars larsen and he is complaining hes getting Death Threats and people cursing at him. Ironic considering, you know, what the whistleblowers own attorney is saying that hes urging people, notably, members of congress to reflect on the important report of whistleblowers and the danger that they are put in if revealed. Right. This whistleblower should be nonpartisan. It used to be nonpartisan. Theres a value in a Democratic Society to create forums and channels where government staffers can come forward with allegations of wrongdoing. I get were in an incredible situation here with the allegations are against the president , but we dont have to throw away all of the rules in this situation just because of that. You know, the president s still out there demanding to know who this whistleblower is, but lars larsen doesnt actually know. The people claiming to know, they dont actually know. Only his lawyers really opinion. And well have to wait for that confirmation. If it even matters at all. Ryan, thank you so much and make sure to catch ryan on reliable sources. Next up, a do not miss hour of the axe files. He speaks to cindy mccain on the axe files. Its powerful. Stick around. Theres a company thats talked to even more real people than me jd power. 448,134 to be exact. They answered 410 questions in 8 categories about vehicle quality. And when they were done, chevy earned more j. D. Power quality awards across cars, trucks and suvs than any other brand over the last four years. So on behalf of chevrolet, i want to say thank you, real people. Youre welcome. Were gonna need a bigger room. It also has the highest growth in manufacturing jobs in the us. Its a competition for the talent. 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