How judiciary is going to approach work. Luckily a member is going to be on with ally in for lawrence tonight so that will do it for me so you can move on to that. See you again tomorrow. Now time for the last word. Thank you, my friend, good night. Im in for Lawrence Odonald tonight. Schiff said its committee preparing to turnover its report to the House Judiciary Committee soon after thanksgiving. Democratic congresswoman zoe will joan in me and Michael Bloomberg officially entered the race for the democratic nomination for 2020 but his fundraising strategy is ruffling feathers among other dm cat tem candidates. Charlie cook is here for strong thoughts but we begin to believe the tonight with breaking news. A federal judge issues a rebuke to the stone walling of congress that could have ripple effects for other potential impeachment witnesses. Tonight, judge jackson ruled that former white House Counsel, this man, don mcgahn must testify in compliance with the congressional subpoena. In her ruling, judge jackson rejected the Justice Departments claim of unreviewable absolute testimonial immunity calling it quote baseless. Executive Branch Officials are not absolutely immune from the process if the president expressly directs such officials noncompliance. This conclusion is inescapable precisely because the appearance by dent of a subpoena is a legal construct, not political and per the constitution, no one is above the law end quote. Judge jackson made clear mcgahn could invoke executive privilege during his testimony when appropriate. But she declared the president s cannot unilaterally block judges from testifying stated that the primary take away from the past 250 years of recorded American History is that president s are not. The chairman of the house jarry nadler said don mcgahn is a witness that President Trump obstructed special counsel muellers investigation and the claim that officials can claim absolute immunity from congressional subpoenas that has no basis in law. Now that the court has ruled, i expect him to follow his legal obligations. Not sure how promptly that might be. They announceded to appeal the ruling and said it will stay seek a stay to block the enforcement. Mccanns lawyer says don mcgahn will compile with the decision unless it is stayed pending appeal. The doj is handling this case so youll need to ask them whether they intend to seek a stay. While this legal fight is not over, tonights ruling has significant implications for other Trump Administration officials who have been instructed not to testify about Donald Trumps scheme to pressure ukraine to investigate and the rival in exchange for military aid. Those potential witnesses include secretary of state mike pompeo and chief of staff Nick Mulvaney and former National Security advisor john bolton. Jonathan schaub, a former attorney in the justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel told the Washington Post this ruling could quote cover for other witnesses especially former employees who are inclined to testify but feel compelled by the white houses direction not to. House Intelligence Committee char man adam schiff said the democrats are moving forward with the impeachment inquiry while leaving the door open for more witnesses to come forward. Tonight, chairman schiff had this message refusing to testify. Quote, to all those witnesses who hide behind fallacious claims of inmun mmunity, this c shows how meritless it is. They will have to decide whether their duty is to the country or to a president who believes that he is above the law. Leading off our discussion tonight, former staff member for the house Intelligence Committee and an msnbc contributor currently Vice President of the National Security program at third way. A former federal prosecutor that worked with Robert Mueller and an msnbc legal analyst and former chief counsel to the senate Judiciary Committee and senior aid to Vice President joe biden and president obama. Hes an advisor to joe bidens 2020 president ial campaign. Ron. Ill start with you, this is something the white house has been able to hang on to for sometime that don mcgahn central to so many things that donald trump was involved in was able to avoid testifying to congress. There were a lot of people looking for this judgment tonight to understand what was going to happen to don mcgahn. I imagine the white house is very uneasy this evening. I think they are. Look, it is several more steps before we get the truth out of don mcgahn, the Justice Department is going to appeal and seek a stay and even if mcgahn, that stay is denied and forced to come before congress, he can assert executive privilege and the fifth amendment to avoid selfincrimination. Its not clear if this will produce truth telling yet but what it does do is sends a powerful signal that the president cant just tell people not to come. The president cant just say hey, were not cooperating at all and it really puts a powerful piece of leverage behind the house committees, the Judiciary Committee, the Intelligence Committee to get the ball rolling of highprofile witnesses who they have been absolutely barred from talking to so far. Glen, let me ask you about this particular part of the judges opinion i want to read to you. When the doj insists that president s can lawfully prevent their senior level aids from responding to compelled congressional process and neither neither the federal court or process has the power to do anything about it, the doj promotes a conception of separation of power principles that gets these constitutional commands exactly backwards. Accordingly, dojs claim to unreviewable absolute testimonial immunity on separation of powers grounds essentially that the constitutional scheme is unassailable executive Branch Authority is baseless and as such, cannot be sustained. Glen, the only sentence i understand there is baseless and as such cannot be sustained. Tell us what the rest of that means. Ill tell you, the judge got it exactly right and it is a very forceful opinion and also a lengthy opinion. 120 pages long. One of the other sentences that really caught my attention is when judge jackson said and i quote, mr. Mcgahns failure to appear was without legal justification and let me take that one step further. Donald trumps ordering mr. Mcgahn not to appear was without legal justification. That is darn near being able to say it was illegal. I dont want to mince words but so i think this is really going to give the house some additional fuel for adding obstruction of justice as an article of impeachment because the president has never had a lawful basis to order all of these people not to appear, whether its mcgahn or pompeo or mulvaney or hicks. So hopefully we will now begin to see these people testify and provide some Accurate Information of what was going on behind the curtain. Of course, mika, were reaching out to those people, pompeo and mulvaney and bull ton. Mulvaneys lawyer said this ruling does not affect whether hell testify. This is robert driscoll, the attorney acting for white house chief of staff maick mulvaney. He said hell continue to follow with respect to the house subpoena. Anybody hoping that everybody whose been resisting these congressional subpoenas that will gave as a result of tonights ruling will have to wait a little longer. Thats right. This opinion is mid stream, usually when you have a disinstrudistrict court ruling, everything will be on pause. To m cobacome back to your ini question, congress is the branch that constitutionally is designated to do oversight of the executive branch. So for the executive branch to say its people dont have to show up in response to a congressional attempt to conduct oversight, that subverts the entire structure of the constitution that the department of justice is arguing this goes against the founding of our country but also it goes against pass precedent and sites the example of harriet myers, the Bush Administration white House Counsel also ordered to testify and also made a similarly broad claim that she was absolutely immune and that was also rejected. Ron, what do you think the white houses strategy will be in the face of adam schiff saying they basically conducted and finished got the information they need for the report thats going to go over to the Judiciary Committee . Momentarily well speak with the representative who is the second highest ranking democrat on the committee. But at this point, this thing is the horse left the barn. The white house is going to have to pull together a strategy that makes more sense than the one they employed so far. Yeah, well, white house strategy is an oxy moron in this context of this presidency and administration and, you know, what we seen is already the complete blowing up of their strategy. Yes, they were able to keep several of these high profile witnesses from appearing before congress but devastated by the career people, the less famous people until last week who came before the congress and told the truth in such a powerful way like fiona hill for example. And so now they face the risk that these higher level people are going to be either compelled to testify or merely get the fig leaf they need to testify. Will john bolton use this as an excuse to come forward and testify . Will other ex officials who maybe are less friendly to the president start to testify . So this takes what was already a fivedimensional chess game and adds three or four additional dimensions to it. Glen, let me read another piece of this ruling in which the judge talks about what is missing from the constitution. She writes, what is missing from the constitutions frame work as the framers envisioned it is the president s purported power to kneecap house investigations of executive Branch Operations by demanding that a senior level aid breach their legal duty to respond to compelled congressional process. This judge is not holding back on her view how the president and his legal team have interpreted congressional subpoenas that and as mika talked about, congressional oversight. Yeah, there are some people who are, i think, baselessly claiming maybe some of these judges just dont like trump or his policies. You know, ill tell you, i think the judiciary doesnt like people disobeying the law or making up laws like executive privilege to really try to avoid proper oversight function. So i actually think i heard you say Mick Mulvaney put out a statement hes going to refuse to compile and listen to trump if trump continues to say dont testify. I have to tell you, that couldnt be a more squarely unlawful act and it is in contempt of what a federal court judge just said with respect to the law. So i think these people now are really putting themselves in harms way. What does this do, mika, to democratic strategy now . Adam schiff said the investigative work tonights. Were learning Additional Information every day but while we dont with the investigative work and do not foreclose the possibility of further depositions of hearings, we will not allow the president or others to drag this out for months on end in the courts. He basically said by next week, possibly as early as next week they could hand this over to the Judiciary Committee. Yeah, i think its clear what we learned over the course of adam schiffs hearings is greater detail and filling in of a story the president admitted to from the very beginning. Weve known from the start the president brought a Pressure Campaign to bear against a foreign power to force the investigation of his most feared political rival and that is just fund mentally wrong. So i think that adam schiff is feeling like its so wrong, we cannot delay, you cant allow the president or his aids to hold the process hostage with endless appeals in courts and so what we know is the department of justice will try and delay this effect of the mcgahn ruling and any other ruling to prevent these witnesses from coming forward to talk to congress. Thanks to the three of you for getting us started. Coming up, chairman adam schiff said the Intelligence Committee is working on the report on the impeachment investigation and as we discussed, it could be delivered to the Judiciary Committee soon after thanksgiving. N after thanksgiving im a verizon engineer, and im part of the Team Building the most powerful 5g experience for america. Its 5g ultra wideband for massive capacity and ultrafast speeds. Almost 2 gigs here in minneapolis. Thats 25 times faster than todays network in new york city. 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Chairman schiff writes quote we will catalog the instances of noncompliance with lawful subpoenas that as part of the report to the Judiciary Committee to allow the committee to consider whether an article of impeachment based on obstruction of congress is warranted along with an article or articles based on this under lying conduct or other president ial misconduct. One of the democrats that will decide is congresswoman zo of california. She was involved in the last two president ial impeachments. In 1974, there she is on the right. She was a congressional staffer when the committee prepared articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon and in 1998 she was a member of congress on the Judiciary Committee and voted against impeaching president bill clinton. Now congresswoman zo joins me for a second conversation. Good to see you. Thank you for joining us. I want to get your comment on what adam schiff said that they on the Intelligence Committee are looking at these refusals to be present for congressional subpoenas that and provide testimony as possible evidence of obstruction of justice but that is for you on the Judiciary Committee to determine whether that makes its way into articles of impeachment. Give me your thoughts on that. I think adam has it exactly right. The Intelligence Committee has done the factfinding. We cant be held up for months at a time through frivolous appeals of very well reasoned decisions. Weve got to move forward. The fact that the president has instructed people not to compile with lawful subpoenas that and hes done other things, a lot of si not a single document has been released as evidence only hes hiding something but he is refusing to compile with the lawful requests of congress and thats an obstruction matter. That was the third article in the Richard Nixon impeachment. There are lessons from the Richard Nixon impeachment that there are a few people like you who were there then, you were there for proceedings against bill clint clinton. What do you see here that youve drawn experience from here in the past . Certainly a picture of misconduct on the part of the president has emerged over these hearings and it has everything to do with sthe constitutional system for his personal interest. That certainly was not present with bill clinton. He was charged with lying about sex, not an admirable thing but not much to do with the constitution. Were not talking about President Trump lying about sex and lying about paying off these women that he was caught with. That has nothing to do with the constitutional order. What were talking about is activities that really threatened the National Security and the will of appropriations to keep russia from tramping over ukraine. One of the new lines of attack and there are several from republicans since this news about the quid pro quo for an investigation into joe biden came out. One of the latest is that youall are so occupied with this that no legislation is being under taken and nothing is being passed. You took issue with that . I certainly do. Weve passed over 300 bills out of the house of representatives that are just sitting over in the senate. I dont know what Mitch Mcconnell is doing but not doing any legislating. Everything from closing the loopholes on background checks for guns to the violence against women act, we did a huge ethics reform, the biggest ethics election reform in many decades. Weve done measures to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, just this last week in the Judiciary Committee we marked up a bill to deal with the farm labor in the United States as well as decriminalizing marijuana because half the states have legalized it and the federal government has not followed along. Were very busy, but we can walk and chew gum, i wish we could say the same for mr. Mcconnell there in the senate. You said just this last week that belies what some of your colleagues from across the isle are saying. Youre actually getting legislation done in the midst of this. For those americans and many millions of them watching the impeachment proceedings, they got to see devin nunes there, the Ranking Member on the republican side. Something very interesting emerged about devin nunes. There are allegations that he sought info about joe biden from ukraine and i want to play one of the interactions he had with a fox Business News host about this. Bottom line, were you in vienna with shokin. Look, i really want to answer all of these questions and i promise you i absolutely will come back on the show and answer these questions but because there is criminal activity here, were working with the appropriate Law Enforcement agency. Thats a weird statement. Were you in vienna because there is criminal activity i cant tell you about . This is the Ranking Member of the house Intelligence Committee. Well, i have no idea what hes talking about, but i dont really want to comment on mr. Nunes. Im sure that whatever occurred will ultimately be revealed. What were focussing in on is President Trump and whether his actions threatened our democracy, whether they threaten our National Security and if so, what should we do about it. It would be strange to have a congressman who oversees some of these hearings being involved in the actual thing thats being investigated. Well, yes, it would but i dont want to jump to a conclusion based on snippets of news reports. Well wait happily for the full piece of information to come out. Meanwhile, we have our job to do coming up in the House Judiciary Committee, which is first to receive the information from the House Intel Committee to evaluate it against the standard in the constitution, which is misconduct on the part of the president that constitutes treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Now what does that mean . There is a meaning in it and back in the 70s when i worked on the nixon impeachment, the staff, i didnt write it, other staffers did, did a document explaining what is impeachmenim . Do those words mean . I got that report on my website so if people want to early entree into the history and legal meaning, what do the founders think . Go ahead and read that little report. Its very revealing. Those used to be dry reading for nerdy folks but now its the hot ticket. Thank you for joining us. 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Republicans and white house officials portrayed the decision to with hold 400 million in military aid to ukraine as Standard Operating Procedure but emails from within the federal budget office, the omb show that those officials were actually scrambling to find a justification for the decision and wondered if it was even legal. The Washington Post reports that the white house has uncovered hundreds of documents that reveal extensive efforts to generate an after the fact justification for the president s decision to freeze the aid to ukraine and a debate over whether the delay was legal according to three people familiar with the records. One person briefed on the records told the Washington Post that white house lawyers are expressing concern that the review has turned up some unflattering exchanges and facts that could at a minimum embarrass the president. Its unclear whether the acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney or records pose any legal problems for trump in the impeachment inquiry but some fear they could pose political problems if revealed publicly. The new report adds to the pile of undisputed evidence that President Trump pressured ukraine to investigate his political rival based in part on a russian Conspiracy Theory that ukraine, not russia, ukraine attacked our democracy during the 2016 election. And were starting to learn this a growing number of republicans are not only embracing that out la landish notion but defending it, defending a Conspiracy Theory that goes against the findings of the entire american Intelligence Committee. Here is republican senator john kennedy of louisiana. Senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and Clinton Campaign computers, their emails . Russia or ukraine . I dont know. Nor do you. Nor do any of us. Miss hill let me just interrupt to say the entire Intelligence Community says it was russia. Right. But it could also be ukraine. Im not saying that i know one way or the other. Im saying that ms. Hill is entitled to her opinion but no rebuttal evidence was allowed to be offered. Senator kennedy made that wildly unfounded remark just days after the New York Times reported that american intelligence officials informed senators and aids in recent weeks that russia had engaged in a years Long Campaign to essentially frame ukraine as responsible for moscows own hacking of the 2016 election. It seems someone wasnt paying attention during class or didnt want to. After the break, well discuss the growing embrace of a russian Conspiracy Theory and what it means for the 2020 election with ron and david jolly. Election wh ron and david jolly. Along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. With chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting. 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[ turn around, look at me there is someone walking behind you turn around look at me there is someone look at me to with hold that assistance for no good reason other than help with the Political Campaign made no sense. It was counterproductive to all of what we had been trying to do. It was ifwas illogical. To not be explain sd ced is cra that was William Taylor before the impeachment inquiry. David jolly former republican congressman from florida an msnbc political analyst. Good to see you. David, this is strange. There is no part of the Republican Party prior to 2015 that would knowingly be part of spreading russian disinformation about having hacked in the u. S. Election. Its not something that would have happened. Lindsey graham wouldnt have tolerated it. John mccain wouldnt have tolerated it. People like you wouldnt have tolerated it. What has happened the Republican Party has become attached to a russian Conspiracy Theory . It reveals a lot about true motivations. First, lets recognize what they are doing now, what senator kind ev kennedy said, its gravely dangerous through their ignorance, negligence, they are being used by russia. Republican senators and republican members of congress tonight are being used by russia because they are unwilling to look at the truth, and ali i would offer perspective as a former republican and democratic friends may disagree i was on the hill during the 90s and law and order principle and perjury or obstruction of justice and i thought id belong to a for tpa that would agree with that. I didnt think he had the executive authority to do dock da daca. I thought i belonged to a party that opposed that on constitutional grounds. What ive learned these last three years is it wasnt a law and order party, just a party that hated bill clinton. It wasnt a Constitutional Party when barack obama was in office, it was just a party that hated barack obama. Were seeing a party embracing donald trump because they have a quest for power, proximity for power and they want within the reach the ability to selfdeal. This is a party today without conviction and they are willing to be used by russians. Regardless of where one stands on the impeachment of President Trump, there was a lot of testimony that was valid to listen to. Bill taylor, fiona hill was a great example. She had a lot of depth of knowledge. There was one piece of testimony that fiona hill provided thats been repeated many times and deserves repeating one more time as it relates to this particular topic that were discussing. Lets listen to it together. Based on questions and statements i have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its Security Services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps somehow for some reason ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative thats been perpetrated and propagated by the russian Security Services themselves. I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize a narrative that the Ukrainian Government is a u. S. Adversity and attacked us in 2016. Ron, i think we get why donald trump wants to perpetuate this. Why would senator john kennedy, why would others appearing in the media in the last few days and this is an orchestrated message, why would they go down this road . Does the republican who gets to out live donald trump gain out of perpetrating this . Well, clearly, they are trying to favor with President Trump and this is the number one way to get favor with donald trump, which is to repeat the kind of conspiracy theories and craziness and untruths and lies and criminality that President Trump is spreading. I can understand if republican senators want to guy trump is my guy, i dont want to vote him out of office or trump is my guy thats different. What is going on here is something very different, which is the affirmative decision to spread unsure information about the geopolitical situation, the decision to spread a russian intelligence myth that points the finger at ukraine in an effort to help siukrainian sovereignty. To answer senator kennedys question, we do know who interfered in the 2016 election. Not only has the Intelligence Community found that but they prosecuted russians for interfering with our election. So lets just get over the idea that we dont know about it or this is anything other than a russian Conspiracy Theory to try to reverse the geopolitical situation in ukraine. David jolly, you know, a quarter of americans believe in conspiracy theories fairly serious ones, probably more than a lot of people in the western world but not the basis for the Republican Party. Regular main stream republicans cant possibly be buying this because its dangerous to do so. Look, im a bit at lose for words as we keep having a conerconre conversation nationally. There is a Conspiracy Theory that can be debated. At the end of the day its a moral failure on the part of our republican leaders. Its an abandonment of truth, one of which they have no selfrespect or selfreflection and im surprised they can look themselves in the mirror much less constituents. The American People should be able to trust elected leaders whether from the party or not, republican or democrat. We put our trust in our elected leaders. The Republican Party today has abandoned truth and failed the American People and frankly failed themselves and one day will recognize that and regret it. David jolly, thank you for your analysis. Coming up, details about the federal investigation into roue g Rudy Giuliani show the president s personal lawyer could be in trouble. Thats next. Ts personal lawyer could be in trouble. Thats next. Without putting his heart in danger. 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Reuterss obtained one of the grand juries subpoenas that that request the recipient provide all documents including correspondents with or related to Rudolph Giuliani or related person or entity and documents related to any actual or potential payments or agreements to or with giuliani. Glen, mika are back with us. What do you make of this new reporting that will are actual, actual investigations and grand jury inquiries into things having to do with Rudy Giuliani . Yeah, i think this comes as little surprise given that his two associates were arrested trying to flee the country and he is up to his ears in something really confusing and terrible and i think its really a fair question to ask was Rudy Giuliani acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign power because his behavior in this ukraine investigation as we have seen his relationships with the former prosecutor general of ukraine, the stories he was spreading makes no sense that he would be doing this unless there were some other financial motive because these stories are so bizarre yeah. Its hard to understand where they come from. There is only one thing more bizarre, glen, that is the conversation Rudy Giuliani had with ed henry on fox news on saturday discussing his relationship with President Trump. Lets listen. You can assume that i talked to him early and often. Yeah. Have a very, very Good Relationship with him and all of these comments, which are totally insulting. Yeah. Ive seen things written like hes going to throw me under the bus. Right. When they say that i say he isnt but i have insurance. He isnt but i have insurance. Glen, what is he saying there . It sounds like a threat but he kind of talks like a mob boss. Im not quite sure what to make of that. Its really unusual for an attorney to issue sort of a public ultimatum against his clima client. There are so many data points that suggest Rudy Giuliani is sort of up to his neck in potential criminal conduct and if we look at all of those da pa data points, not only the eight or nine crimes might be easier to list the crimes hes not being investigated for but his associates are already indicted, perhaps his future coconspirato coconspirators. There is reporting lev is getting ready to cooperate and lord di lord, he may have tapes and rudy issuing the strange ultimatum. These suggest that the south earn district of new york is hot on his trail. Here is the one great unknown that really does concern me, ali is bill bar going to put his thumb on the scale and prevent the Southern District of new york from going after Rudy Giuliani perhaps as a way to prevent Rudy Giuliani from working his way up the chain and flipping and cooperating against trump . I mean, thus far, it seems like bill barr has let the sdny do what it does so well aggressively investigate crime and bring prosecutions as for example against lev and igor. Lets see if he continues to give the sdny the autonomy it needs to bring charges against giuliani if appropriate. Thanks to both of you again. Glen, good to see you. Coming up, how Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren welcomed billionaire Michael Bloomberg to the president ial race. Thats next. Bloomberg to the president ial race thats next. Experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. 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Michael bloomberg made his entry into the 2020 contest official yesterday. The 77yearold billionaire has vowed to selffund his campaign and kicked off his campaign with a 37 million ad buy for context that is more money than Elizabeth Warren, pete or Elizabeth Warren have spent so far and barely less than the entire amount already spent by Bernie Sanders. Again just on one ad buy. Progressive opponents have already taken aim at his lavish spending. We do not believe that billionaires have the right to buy elections. Multibillionaires like mr. Bloomberg are not going to get far in this election. Michael bloomberg is making a bet about democracy in 2020. He doesnt need people. He only needs bags and bags of money. Charlie cook is the editor and publisher and hes an nbc news political analyst. Charlie how does this change the race . Its funny. Its easy to be dismissive of bloomberg. And hes a billionaire business man at a time when the parties go in a progressive collection. And come up with good reasons why each one of them cant win the nomination. Every single one of them is going to. The fact that he doesnt have to spend time on iowa, new hampshire, nevada, south carolina, he could be spending time, spending his ad buy on 2 dozen states at once. Worry about 56 other states or 46 other states rather than just those four. Its really interesting to see that it could be like a whole new paradigm kind of like trump being able to run. Last time with spending less money. Because the current paradigm that unless you come in first, second or third in iowa you are not a contender. Exactly. Thats all about momentum. The first four states are about momentum and then the last 46 are about delegates because there arent that many delegates in the first four states. Bloomberg can concentrate on delegates from the getgo. Its interesting. Im a little sceptical but he is going to he may have a whole different set of rules than every other democrat has to run with. You base this on the math that you have run on delegates and how this works. If this race continues to be as competitive as it is and somebody doesnt get a majority of the first round of delegates the whole situation at the convention changes because a second vote includes a whole lot more delegates. All the superdelegates then come in so if somebody doesnt get a majority of the 1,600 or so delegates on the first ballot, a contested convention, unusual though it is could be the kind of thing he could be looking at. Exactly. 70 of the delegates are going to be picked by the end of march so that if you dont have someone with anywhere near a majority at that point and theyre only 25 of the pledge delegates left from there until june, then, you probably arent going to have anybody anywhere near a majority going into the convention but i would just never use the term brokered convention. We dont have brokers in american politics anymore but thats a real possibility. You wrote Something Interesting in your column, you said notice these arguments. The arguments against the existing contenders. If all taken equally seriously effectively eliminate every critical democratic contender. Someone has to win the democratic nomination. Youre right, logically but the point that Michael Bloomberg is trying to make and he makes it he made it today actually when someone said are you saying that no one else can beat donald trump. Listen to it in his words. Some are saying they see your decision to run now as an indication that you feel that the current candidates in the field are weak and they cant get the job done. Is that accurate . Let me phrase it this way. I think that there is a greater risk of having donald trump reelected than there was before and in the end i looked in the mirror and said i just cant let this happen. Theres a weird flavor the way he talks about himself but he is making a point, that he actually doesnt think the others can win and he can beat donald trump. Exactly. The thing about it is i disagree with the question that was asked of him is i think hes afraid that Elizabeth Warren will win the nomination and cant beat President Trump and he has no confidence or very little confidence that Vice President biden can. I think if biden were doing better or warren was doing worse, then i dont think bloomberg would be in this race. I mean, if he just wanted to stop warren, you know, he could just run he could just pay for a super pact to stop her. But i think he sees an opening here. You think about this a lot. Do you share his view that any of the other candidates in there are not as likely to beat donald trump . Some are more likely than others. If this is a referendum up or down on trump he loses that. If its someone else. If democrats nominate just someone thats not as polarizing as President Trump is they will win that election. The question is, are they what is the risk tolerance for democrats in this race . Thank you. The 11th hour with Brian Williams begins right now. Other officials will see if they could speak up. Possible Money Laundering and obstruction of justice while his former associates are spilling details about his efforts to make big money in ukraine and a United States senator from a deep red state literally repeats russian propaganda on Live Television after being told by our own nations top experts that its russian propaganda. As the 11th hour gets underway on a