Tonight by the Kennedy Family in hyannisport. As soon as we can bring you more information on that we will bring it during the hour. But go on now to the news of the week in the president ial campaign, beginning with a very simple fact. President s dont debate. But president ial candidates have to debate in order to win the presidency. A job where they then will not have to debate. Most american president s have been elected without ever debating. Debates do not actually test the skills necessary to be president. And most of the political news media does not seem to realize that. And i will have much more to say about that at the end of this hour. And about how we can improve debates and the work that you actually have to do as a viewer and voter when you are watching the debates. It shouldnt be a passive exercise. You should be listening and thinking and ignoring much of what happens in president ial debates, especially the games sometimes played by some of the moderators. And this week the moderators game, which was probably urged on them by their bosses was to trap the candidates into fighting with each other. Trap democrats into fighting with democrats. One candidate refused to do that. Even when specifically invited by the moderator to attack a specific candidate, with one candidate refused to play that game. One candidate rose above the cnn game and never criticized another candidate on that stage. The candidate who wouldnt play the game, the candidate who only attacked donald trump in the debates, will be our first guest tonight. That candidate went from the debate stage to fighting Mitch Mcconnell on the Senate Floor Today. On the last day of work in the senate before the august recess. In the week since Joe Scarborough started Mitch Mcconnell moscow mitch the label has stuck and used by democrats in kentucky in a way that has Mitch Mcconnell worried about his Reelection Campaign in kentucky. Senator mcconnell got stuck with the label moscow mitch when he chose to repeatedly block legislation designed to strengthen our election system against another attack by the russian government. Mitch mcconnell says the legislation is partisan. And thats why he blocked it. But that is not true. One of the bills Mitch Mcconnell blocked was written by a democrat and a republican. It has bipartisan support. The democrat who wrote that bill along with Oklahoma Republican senator James Lankford knows how and when to work in a bipartisan way in the United States senate. But this week on the president ial debate stage, that senator was the most partisan democrat in the debates because that senator refused to criticize any democrats and only attacked donald trump. And here is that senator. On the Senate Floor Today going after Mitch Mcconnell. We are about to adjourn this day without passing Election Security legislation. We have bipartisan Election Security legislation. Weve had that for years. And yet it has been stopped every step of the way. Last week my bill was offered by senator schumer on the floor. It could have gone to the president s desk that day. Instead leader mcconnell objected. During his objection he said that election legislation must drachted with great care and on a bipartisan basis. We did that. Senator warner is here. He worked on it. We did that with senator langford, but we were blocked at the rules committee. We were blocked. Thats a documented fact. The markup had been scheduled ready to go. Senator blunt had been willing to mold a markup on the bill. And it was stopped. I am going to tell that story every day until we advance this. I have an opportunity to do that. And im going to do it because people need to know whats going on. This should not be in should not be about partisanship or what benefits what party. You think thats what the founders were thinking when they decided to declare independence from a foreign country . They were thinking of our country as one. And here is a sample of Amy Klobuchar on the president ial debate stage trying to advance her candidacy without ever aching another democrat. I have bold ideas but they are grounded in reality. And, yes, i will make some simple promises. I can win this. Im from the midwest and i have run every race every prays every time and i will govern with integrity. The integritiworthy of the Extraordinary People of this nation. So this is what i think we need to get done. We need the public option. Thats what barack obama wanted and it would Bring Health Care costs down for everyone. People cant wait. Ive got my friend nicole out there whose son was actually died trying to ration his insulin as a restaurant manager and died because he didnt have enough money to pay for it. Senatoren. A bernie and i worked on pharmaceutical together. Thank you senator. Whats missing if the right pirn in the white house donald trump wants to use the people as political pawns. I was just in flint. And they are still drinking bottled water in that town. That is outrageous. But i dont think anyone can justify what this president is doing. Little kids literally woke up this weekend turned on the tv appear saw their president calling their city the town of baltimore, nothing more than a home for rats. And i can tell you as your president that will stop. When he was just with Vladimir Putin at the g20, asked about invading our democracy, he made a joke. We need someone that has peoples back. We also need someone that can win. And i have won in these red districts. I win in the midwest. I can win in states like michigan, iowa. And we have a president where people turn off their tv when they see him. Not me. I will make you proud as your president. And then there was this moment when Amy Klobuchar was specifically invited to attack her competitors for the democratic president ial nomination. And she would not do it. You have said when asked about your primary opponents, quote a lot of people are making promises and im not making promises just to get elected who on the stage is making promises just to get elected . Everyone wants to get elected but my point is this. I think when we have a guy in the white house that has told over 10,000 lies that we better be very straightforward with the american people. Leading off the discussion tonight is senator Amy Klobuchar of minnesota, a member of the Senate Judiciary committee and candidate for president thanks for joining us tonight. Thanks, lawrence. I want to switch gears for a moment on this breaking news that were getting from hyannisport. You worked with ted kennedy in the senate and now one of his nieces reportedly died today, the news released by the family in hyannisport, possibly from Drug Overdose. I wanted your reaction to that. You just think of the tragedy that has hit this family. And its just one thing after another. Obviously we think of them today. But in problem of Drug Overdoses is happening all over this country right now. And certainly we know it here with prince in minnesota but its not just famous people. Its everyday people. I talked about little casey jo, a champion swimmer at the end of the debate who went into the emergency room and got hooked. And her last words to her mom was mama, its not my fault and she later died. This is happening because we have a lot of politicians talking about it. But just as i said in the debate to be straightforward, these companies if it was opioids i dont know what happened in in tragedy case but if it was opioids we know what happened here. The market was flooded by Pharma Companies. People turned to opioids and Illegal Drugs and started taking the drugs and theyre dying. And those Pharma Companies had better be held responsible. Its one of the reasons i came out with a full plan for Mental Health and addiction, given my own Family History with my dad who had drunk driving convictions and finally got treatment. In his words he was sprused by grace and changed his life. Everyone has that right. And when i hear the stories again we dont know exactly what happened whether in famous families or not, it makes me think about that wektd be doing a better job as a country getting people into treatment, removing the stigma and then making sure that the people this that are responsible for this which has been the Drug Companies are paying for it. Senator, i want to talk about the debate and make sure we reserve enough time to talk about what you were trying to achieve on the Senate Floor Today. To the debate, why didnt you do it . Cnn wanted you to attack your competitors on that stage. They wanted you to if you felt like it to reach over and attack competitors on the other stages that you werent even on. But any really really wanted you to do that. Why didnt you do it . Because i dont think this is a sporting event. I think there is more that unites our party than divides us. I think as you have seen we will have legitimate discussions i disagree with my colleagues and made that clear and continue to have disagreements on policy and make that clear. Because i want to make the case im the best candidate. But we have to use the debates lawrence as a moment to take it it do donald trump because there are not just base the dmakts watching the debates. There is independent. Moderate republican. There is the general election issue. But also the fact that i still believe that people want to hear from us about what differentiates us, whats the contrast, our optimistic economic agenda. If you spend the whole time cutting down your opponent to get the viral moment then what have we done . We dont win and dont do better for the country. And so its just a fundamental belief of mine that maybe i wont have that viral moment or maybe i will. I had one once in the Kavanaugh Hearing just because i did my job. And thats what im not looking for it by going after my opponents by saying mean things. I dont think thats how do you it. Some people think this is a test for taking on donald trump. As i said at that debate, one of my opponents once in a debate republican said to me youre nothing but a street fighter from the iron range. And i said thank you. You can show your tough enough to take on donald trump without doing it against fellow democrats. Well is it one way to do it the which you did it in the debate which is you show how you are taking on donald trump but actually taking on donald trump during the debate . Well that does seem to me to be a good idea. My favorite moment for me was when he called me snow woman after my announcement in the blizzard and i had taken on Climate Change he made fun of me for doing that in snow. I wrote back to him i sent out a tweet and said the science is on my side im Climate Change, donald trump and id love to see how your hair would fair in blizzard. I think there are many ways to take this guy on. You have to show the absurdity of what he has done. And one way is what we were talking on the senate floor. He git punched us on the election bill last year. Senator langford and myself and senator burr was on the bill, warner. Basically the Administration Made calls directly, don mcguyana the White House Council and stopped the bill. Calling republicans. Lets listen to what the president said today about russian interference in the election since this is so relevant to what you were fighting for in the Senate Floor Today. Robert mueller said last week that russian interfered in u. S. Elections right now. Did you raise that with vladimir putten you dont believe this . Do you believe in do you believe this okay, fine we didnt talk about that. So, there is the president of the United States saying in next, he doesnt believe that russian russia interfered with the election or russia plans to interfere with the election when he is confrontwood that by Robert Muellers testimony through a reporter he says you dont really believe this. Same old thing. Robert mueller said it under oath that the russians are doing it as we speak. Trumps own fbi director Christopher Wray under my questioning and others just last week said the same thing. His own intelligence director dan coates who is now sadly resigning said that they are getting bolder. So it is undeniable that this is happening. Theyve done it through hacking and done it through dirty propaganda online. And both of these things we could take steps to decrease the possibility of in happening. As i said today, this is about our democracy. Hundreds of thousands of people lost lives on battlefields to protect our right to vote in our democracy. Four little girls lost life in a church in birmimgham at the height of the Civil Rights Movement because we stood up for our democracy. For this guy to make jokes about it all the time its unpatriotic and unamerican. And this cant wait for a new president , lawrence. There are 11 states that dont have backup paper ballots. Anything we can do to get the backup paper boolgts some are partial some not at all. We could have a president ial election and not know the outcome. And the second thing is making the social Media Companies tell us where the ads are coming from and who is paying for them so that we can have a fair election. Four billion wsh three to four billion is going going to be spent. Your network when you run ads you have to say who is paying for the ads not true of facebook or google or twitter or any of those companies. And their volunteer measures dont measure up to what you have to do on network tv or radio. Senator, i know we are not hearing the name moscow mitch on the senate floor. Senate rules and customs dont allow that and senators dont want to talk that way about each other no matter how bad it gets but the names seems to stick and in politics in kentucky to the point where there are now reports indicating that maybe Mitch Mcconnell will want to negotiate something with Amy Klobuchar when he gets back from the august recess. Well, right now senator langford and i and that actually was our bill that we did last year hasnt been reintroduced because we continue to negotiate it. The other the bills that were blocked was a bill i was leading with senator warner and others. And then senator widen and i have a bill. But what this bill does it requires backup paper ballots if you take out federal money for election that would move the states to know thats what they have to do. And it has audit provisions. Senator langford and i talked today. Were continuing to negotiate. My hope is that over the august break as long as your viewers keep calling and demanding this and using whatever names they want, that maybe we can actually get this done. Senator im kind of speechless about what i saw happen in the Senate Judiciary committee today because ive never seen anything like it. I know youve never seen anything like it. It was a markup of a bill in that process in which the Committee Votes on a bill. Whenever that happens both sides get to speak about it at minimum speak about it before there is a vote. Usually they get to amend it or offer amendments before there is a vote. Lindsey graham just convened the committee and basically said lets vote. Shocked pat leahy who had 40 years of service in the senate, couldnt believe what he was saying. What was your experience of what happened on your committee today. I was there for the entire hearing. And it was one of the saddest things id ever seen. Senator graham as we pointed out worked with us on that initial immigration bill when president bush was in valiantly we tried to get that done. He then supported the bill in 2013 comprehensive reform. And now he has just gone when it comes to this issue the full trump because whats happened here is we would like to work with him on the issue of seeking asylum in those home countries of the northern triangle. But instead he has put a bill forward we have some issues with annan instead of just working with us he rammed it through without amendment. I had great amendments on temporary status people that are here, Domestic Violence victims, and we werent able to offer any amendments. He i think he broke four rules just to get it through the committee on a partisan vote. And the despite how vitriolic the dprimgs immigration is right now there are people of good will that worked together on this in the senate in the past and want to in the future. Thats why this was such a sad moment. The bill i suppose is now headed to the floor. Senator Amy Klobuchar thank you for yoing us i really appreciate it. Thank you, lawrence great to be on. Thank you. And when we come back well have more on tonights breaking news from the Kennedy Family in hyannisport, another tragic death in the Kennedy Family, the 22yearold granddaughter of Robert Kennedy and ethyl kennedy died today. More democrats declaring support for impeachment including one of the most senior democrats in the house, a chairman of a st. An important committee. He will join us. Us. Lets see, aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol extra strength. And last longer with fewer pills. So why am i still thinking about this . Ill take aleve. Aleve. Proven better on pain. You should be mad at leaf blowers. 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Lawrence, we know that this afternoon Emergency Responders were called to Robert Kennedy the home on the Kennedy Compound that belonged to the former and late senator Robert Kennedy. And they were responding to an apparent overdose. We know tonight that the person who they treated was 22yearold sersha kennedy hill. Whats interesting about her is that she sh spoken about her struggles with Mental Illness at deerfield academy. And she wrote about the struggles. Saying she fought with depression and suffered what we she called bouts of deep sadness that felt like a heavy boulder on her chest. And she revealed in the newspaper article she once tried to commit suicide after being sexually assaulted she did the worst thing a victim could do and pretended it hadnt happened. It became too much and she attempted to take her life. But in this article she felt she had overcome the issues. She said we are all either struggling or know someone who is battles an ilds will illness qb to lets come together to make our Community Inclusive and comfortable. But as far as beyond the fact that she died in afternoon and that this is a family that is absolutely heart broken at her passing, the specific circumstances of her death have not been made public at this time. And, aen, in family has suffered so greatly through each generation. The earlier generation of cousins has gone through similar kinds of suffering. So this is a family that has tragedically found itself in this situation before. Think of this as the second ethyl kennedy lost her son david to a Drug Overdose in the 1980s. We dont know again if this is an overdose dsh this would be her grand child that she lost to the same sort of illness. Patrick kennedy, the former congressman has been public about hig struggles with Mental Health, Mental Illness. 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Joining us now is a spokesperson for justice democrats and a former senior aid to zand alexandria ocasio. A delegate for Bernie Sanderss in the campaign and he is not affiliatewood a 2020mentle campaign. And ron klain, a senior aide to Vice President joe biden and president obama. Also was an he is now an adviser to joe bidens 2020 president ial campaign. And ron i was just learning that in the teleprompter. So its its present tense now that you are formally advising the biden campaign. I am, yes, absolutely. So give us give us your reaction to what you saw on that debate stage last night. Well, look, i think you saw on the one hand the candidates did make a powerful case against donald trump. And i thought, you know, Vice President biden took it to trump in the opening statement. Senator gillibrand had the statement about color oxing the oval office. And he was called a white nationalist. You saw the candidates take it to to donald trump but you saw seven candidates individually attack the Vice President. Part of that debate was him dealing with the attacks responding to the attacks. You know making points about his opponent records. Thats part of the debate process. You saw both things happening last night. When did you see. I saw candidates making a case. Feel free we have on have the havent done a show since monday. Feel free to reach back to tuesday night where Bernie Sanders was on. I thought we saw a substantive discussion about the role of government and the Democratic Party and the role of government in america. I mean, its a tech tonic shift where the Democratic Party was in the 90s with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders trying to make government work again. Its not that long ago said the era of Big Government is over and now the era of Big Government is back in the Democratic Party. Both kind of rekindling the spirit of the new deal, great society. And i think in terms of the baseball metaphor they have to be able to draw contrasts with other candidates thats what they are doing. Theres been a lot of talk today about how president obama was attacked last night over immigration. Which i think is a little oversaying it. I mean what actually happened is a reflection on mistakes democrats made in the first term of the president regarding immigration and deportation. I mean, the first person who tell you they disagreed with the obama dmimgs policy is obama himself because he created new policies to provide relief to dreamers. Were a little too sensitive about the robust discussion happening. Tension can produce great growth. 2008 people forget that got heated as well. I agree with walid on that i think the word attack gets used too much. What im watching is a variation on the kind of debate you see unfold within the Democratic Party for decades on the senate floor, for example, where we both worked, on any given issue. There is a range of opinion. Usually the party is unified in the direction like we want to provide more access to health care for more people. And then you get into this debate, argument within the committees and then on the senate floor about what are the right methods for doing that . As you goe through that debate certain things get thrown out in order to clear a vote hurdle like with obamacare we they dropped the public option because they knew they couldnt get it through the house of representatives. For me there is something familiar about all of this that i dont think of as attack. Yeah, look, i think the discussion the went on on health care both nights was a robust and interesting discussion. To go back to what the earlier point, one interesting thing if you take the left side of the debate and the moderate side of the debate, both positions whole range of positions is significantly more progressive than where we were seven or eight years ago as a party. With the kind of the public option now being starting point for public like Vice President biden senator bennett and others. And senator sanders for medicare for all. Senator harris for a hybrid plan. But i think what you are seeing is like what you said, lawrence, a discussion about the policy stuff. I think thats very, very healthy. When it stays away from people attacking motives, people attacking each others senator gillibrand went after the oped Vice President biden wrote 38 years ago. I dont think thats healthy. Thats not what democrats want torz. But robust skupgs from the candidates about the ways to meet the democratic goal of expanding health care in the country thats a healthy conversation one we have to have. When i look back at the reagan presidency and how Ronald Reagan in his road to the presidency republicans never attacked him for having been a democrat. A democrat. A couple of decades earlier. Because they care about where you are today. And thats part of the key to the trump candidacy. All they had to do was hear that he was going to accept mitch kpaunls Supreme Court justices during the campaign, and they didnt care what his previous position on abortion was or any previous position he ever had. Is there a lesson in that present tense campaigning of republicans for democrats . I dont know. I think like as a millennial i look at the president ial stage and i see candidates who have made decisions that impacted my life from voting for the war in iraq, or voting for deregulating wall street, overseeing the most most of the Carbon Emissions we have seen in this country have come in the last 30 years. I think a lot of the anger is driven by young people who have seen politicians not really solve systemic crisis in the country. Thats why i think you see people like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders propose solution that is solve the crisis and are the goal themselves rather than just getting to the goal. Why arent you supporting Bernie Sanders this time. Well, i think right now we have had a lot of supporters nar split between candidates. Well follow when our supporters want. We have a lot of supporters supporting bernie. Your organization you stay out of it because the organization hasnt chosen yet. Yeah, yeah. I got it. Ron what about that, the way in which republicans seem to be very mink to forgive and forgot anything youve done before today because what they care about as voters and as as candidates is what are you going to do tomorrow. I do the think the centerpiece of the conversation should be about what democrats propose to do tomorrow, whats realistic, what can get done, what can make peoples lives better . I think Vice President biden was talking about that last night when he talked about his Health Care Plan and expand coverage thats a positive direction. Hopefully we see more in the upcoming debates. Ron, joe biden aside, in the two nights just give me just give me one name who you think did the best on each of the two nights without including joe biden. Its a hard question, lawrence. I think andrew yang was a surprise breakout star did a good job of raising issues the other candidates arent talking about. Well leave it there. Thank you both for joining us. When we come back, the russians have decided who they do not want to be the democratic president ial nominee or least at least one of the people they dont want to be the democratic president ial nominee and more democrats in the house coming out in favor of the impeachment including the chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee. Elliott engle. He will join us. Will join us. Most people think a button is just a button. That a speaker is just a speaker. Or that the journey cant be the destination. Most people havent driven a lincoln. Discover the lincoln approach to craftsmanship at the lincoln summer invitation. 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Your fellow chairman jerry nadler represents another part of new york city. He will be in charge of impeachment if it happens. What brought you to this decision . Well, first of all, we certainly watched the hearings. Two of our committees of course had mr. Mueller there. And we have had the opportunity to read muellers report and conclusion. And i have come to the conclusion that this needs an impeachment inquiry. I mean its not something i relish. Its very railroad kief. But if we do nothing then we encourage this kind of behavior not only now but for all future president s as well. Mueller also said that he could not impeach the president. Indict the president. Indict the president. Im sorry. He could not indict the president because the sitting president could not be indicted. He said it would be possible after he leaves office. So it falls to us, to the house. Were dually elected. I was sworn to uphold the constitution and i dont take it lightly. I agonize over it it which is why i didnt do it months ago. The clinton impeachment process you were there in the house for that. Is that what part of what slowed you down or made you as careful as youve been in reaching the decision. I think it played a role. I wouldnt say it played a major role. But the last time it really just brought the country to a really difficult position. But, you know, lawrence what choice do we really have . We have an obligation. And we have to fulfill the obligation. I think to do anything less would be really not doing our duties. We would hold we know the senate has a majority. And so the chance of getting a conviction you can get impeachment but not conviction is nil. But that doesnt matter because i think the constitution works and we really have to do our job. I mean, we are talking about russian interference in the United States election. And we are talking about collusion with the trump campaign. I mean, what can be more important than a democracy hanging in the balance . The president takes it quite calf letterly thinks its not a big deal. But nothing is a big deal to him. This is our very, very democracy hanging in the balance. And i dont want to get mellow dramatic. But the fact is we have a responsibility. And i think you going to see the house taking the responsibility. We shaw the president asked by a reporter about Robert Mueller saying the russians attacked the election, they will continue to attack the election and did you mention that to Vladimir Putin . And the president said to the reporter, you dont believe that there is the president saying publicly he doesnt believe now he is saying now, i dont believe that the russians attacked our election. Well i think you have to be naive or i dont know what to not believe it. Its there. And then there are other things. The speaker has designated six of us who are chairs to continue investigations. And you know, we still dont know what happened when putin met trump in helsinki that time. Thump seems to have this wonderful feeling towards the dictato dictators despots. I want to know what happened. Thats part of your investigation. Yes. Chairman engle thank you very much for joining us. I appreciate it. My pleasure, lawrence thank you. Thank you. When we come back we discuss how to improve president ial campaign debates. They cant get much worse. Improving them is not that difficult. That will be tonights last word. Difficult. That will be tonights last word beep goes off ] now that you have new dr. Scholls massaging gel advanced insoles with softer, bouncier gel waves, youll move over 10 more than before. Dr. Scholls. Born to move. Liberty mutual customizes your Car Insurance, hmm. Exactly. So you only pay for what you need. Nice. But, uh. Whats up with your. Partner . Not again. Limu thats your reflection. Only pay for what you need. 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Tv analysis of last nights debate i have yet to hear one word about which candidate was revealed to be the best possible future president of the United States. Thats not the way we in the media usually analyze debates. We cover them like sporting debates. We try to guess which candidates impress the tv audience the most. And we are always guessing about that although we rarely label our statements as the pure guesses they are. We evaluate debating skills. Thats the problem with debates. President s dont have to think on their feet. President s never have to make a decision alone without advisers who have much more experience on every subject than the president does. So the debates do not test the skills necessary to do the job of president well. Its a job that you never get to see the president do, because the real work of the presidency is done behind the closed door of the oval office or the closed door of the cabinet room or the situation room or on air force one. The real work of the presidency is making decisions after being sufficiently briefed on the subject by people who have been working on that subject for their entire careers and know the subject way better than the president ever will. The president doesnt have to sit there on his own trying to think of every relevant fact of a particular policy in 30 seconds. Thats not the job. I have seen only one president doing the job of the presidency. And thats because when bill clinton was president i was chief of staff of the finance committee and most of the agenda had to come through my committee. We were repeatedly in meetings with the president in the oval office with the door closed and in the cabinet room with the door closed. And in those rooms in every meeting i was in, the president of the United States had less to say than anyone else in the room. And in the meetings i was in, the president of the United States knew less about the subject than anyone else in the room. And bill clinton was as steeped in policy detail as any president we have ever had. President clinton was probably smarter than most of the people in the room, but he was not more informed than most of the people in the room, because he was the president. The president has jurisdiction over all of the policy territory of the federal government, all of it from domestic policy to foreign policy. And the experts in the room usually are only very highly informed about their subject, that one subject, taxation or national defense. And most president ial meetings, the president does not have to make a decision. He simply listens to what the policy experts have to say and what the congressional sayers have to say about how many votes the different policy approaches can get in the senate and the house. And the president usually decides later, sometimes much later after conferring about which policy approach to support. I actually saw president clinton make governing decisions a few times right there in the meeting, but that was very rare. And he took his time when he did that, when he made those decisions sitting in the room with us. There was no 60second time limit on his decision making. And so if we want debates to more realistically show what a candidate might be like as president , there should be ten people on the stage, but only two candidates. And each candidate should have five advisers on different policy arenas sitting right behind them exactly the way all cabinet members do when they testify to congress. And those advisers should be able to pass notes to the candidate the way they pass notes to cabinet members when they are testifying. And we should give the candidates the questions in advance so that we can get their best, most thoughtful answers, answers that they arrive at with the help of their advisers exactly the way they would responsibly do their job as president of the United States. Now, i know how heredical that sounds. A few elections ago in a private conversation with a member of the president ial Debate Commission who i can knew, i brought up what i thought would be the craziest idea he had ever heard, giving the candidates the questions in advance skpmpt to my surprise and delight he said he had recently decided that was a good idea even before i mentioned it to him. And that was because he knows what the job of the presidency actually is. But its not going to happen. Were going to continue to have tv debates that serve the purposes of tv, specially commercialed tv, rather than the interests of voters. And so your job as a voter when you watch the debates is to try to think beyond the sound byte and figure out what, if anything, in the debate actually matters in your choice of candidate. And dont be surprised if there is nothing in the debate that helps you make up your mind, because the debates are not designed for you. The debates are not designed to enlighten us about who can best do the job of the presidency, because the debates have absolutely nothing to do with the job of president of the United States. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Hour withn williams starts now. Tonight, the president dismisses the warning from mueller that russia is interfering in our elections. So he says he didnt raise it while on the phone with putin. We will go live to louisville tonight as the Senate Majority leader who has to win election to keep his job title is angrily trying to shake off his nickname. After last nights friendly fire debate where even obama was under attack, impeachment talk is still growing and their hopes are rising in texas of all places with a big name retirement making news tonight. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday evening. Underway on a thursday evening. Good evening once again here in new york. This was day 924 of this trump administration. And it was something the president said this afternoon that got our attention late today. This was in response to a question about the ongoing russian