elizabeth warren, that she s a fighter. kamala harris that she s a prosecutor. mayor pete talking about how he can inspire a new generation, a lot like then senator obama did. and joe biden really making the case that, you know, actually both donald trump and putin see him as the most wary opponent. ben, both amy klobuchar and kamala harris are not in that front pack, but this is an important three months that s coming up. kamala harris pulling out some staffing from other states to concentrate everything on iowa. and by the way, a strategy to make iowa really important did work for barack obama. but that looks like what kamala harris is doing now. she s putting it all on iowa at the moment. and she s closing some offices and pushing chips in iowa. just throng the discussion, ali, we all kind of knows the outlines of the race right now. you ve got warren, biden, pete coming on. bernie hanging on. and to me when i go back to why did that speech work for obama,
not about working with the europeans to try to strengthen the ukrainian government but how can we facilitate rudy giuliani s effort to pressure this government to investigate the president s political opponents. that is a wholesale corruption again not just in the phone call but what the tax aided u.s. government was doing to do trump s bidding. barbara, ben just reminded, we haven t heard from rudy giuliani in a few days. one week ago we were talking about how he had butt dialled an nbc reporter, that said donald trump continues to try and have this tried in a court of public opinion. he in the course of one speech has now tried out the corruption angle and tried out the i was just waiting for uk and germany and france to do more. does any of this matter in the end? it could. you know, anything he says, anything he tweets are admissions that can be used against him later. if he locks himself into a
certain story and changes his story later, there is some suggestion that there is a lack of truth there. but i think that impeachment unlike criminal prosecution is ultimately a political process. and so if he can win in the court of public opinion he may be able to win in the impeachment battle, as well. so i think that s the game he s playing. he s good at it, and i m sure he ll continue to try to distract people from the real facts. barbara mcquade, thank you. congressman ro khanna and ben rhode. coming up, one republican congressman head butting a camera today instead of talking about trump s behavior. he said the call he said the call is off to get an answer. we re going to tell you what we found out after the break. and later a big break after the 2020 front. who broke through amid the breaking news tonight that beto o rourke has ended his quest for the white house.
does any of this matter in the end? it could. you know, anything he says, anything he tweets are admissions that can be used against him later. if he locks himself into a certain story and changes his story later, there is some suggestion there is a lack of truth there. but i think that impeachment unlike criminal prosecution is ultimately a political process. and so if he can win in the court of public opinion he may be able to win in the impeachment battle as well. so i think that s the game he s playing. he s good at it, and i m sure he ll continue to try to distract people from the real facts. barbara mcquade, thank you, congressman ro khana and ben rhode. one republican congressman head butting a camera today instead of talking about trump s behavior. we re going to tell you what we
ro khana of california and has attended many of the closed door depositions from the impeachment investigation. and also joining us barbara mcquade and ben rodes, former deputy national security advisor to president obama, he s also an msnbc political analyst. congressman khana, good to see you again. let s talk about what the next step is in this process, the open hearings. at least for the next week or so we presume the hearings of the people who have been subpoenaed or invited will testify in a closed door setting where democrats and republicans are present. yes, yes, ali, we will continue to gather the evidence and republicans are there as well, they have their council. and the important thing to realize here is the facts aren t in dispute. i think a few key witnesses like