controversy, donald trump ran straight at a controversy, and they used that to their advantage. are they of the mind that everything that worked for them in 2016 is going to work again in 2020? is it just because they re relying on the fundraising numbers and how much they re able to haul in when this happens? the impeachment is going to happen in the house. the question for the campaign was how do you maximize the benefit of the situation? they decided one thing to do was to invest heavily in facebook ads and other social media buys immediately within pelosi announcing the impeachment inquiry. this is a matter of scale. i mean, campaigns always fundraiser off big controversies, but what the trump campaign has done is on a massive, massive scale. and they put more money into facebook ads about impeachment than they spent at any point in the last year and a half, at any
but just in terms of the political response and the communications response, that s something they haven t been able to sort out yet. and i think that puts them at a disadvantage. nancy, thank you so much. we appreciate you hanging in there as we got the technical problems resolved. danny, carol lam, hans nickels, and garrett responding to the breaking news that house democrats have now zeroed in on a framework for their impeachment case against president trump that will center on a simple abuse of power. of course, this comes in the wake of big controversies last week. including, his decision, which he then reversed about the g7. and then there s that controversial decision to withdrawal from northeast syria. well, now defense secretary marc esper says those troops will, in fact, be redeployed to iraq. that s different than trump s promise to get out of foreign wars and this afternoon, the president was unclear about just how long it would take to get the troops home. they re goin
doing any good and in fact all he s doing is putting a little bit of lipstick on the pig of a presidency. so what he s done is defend president trump on a couple of his big controversies, right? when trump shared highly classified information with the russian ambassador and foreign minister and then trump s son-in-law, jared kushner, when he sought a secret communications channel with moscow. here is how h.r. mcmaster came out and defended the president. the premise of that article is false, that in any way the president had a conversation that was inappropriate or that resulted in any kind of lapse in national security. we have back channel communications with a number of countries. what that allows you to do is to communicate in a discreet manner so it doesn t predispose you toward any sort of content of that conversation or anything. so, no, i would not be concerned about it. so you re saying what s happening there is mcmaster is the one being degraded? yes. and i think he i
coasting along in this role as s., watching obama take all the hits on the economy, sort of maybe a tweak here or there on how his polices are undermining not just our national economy but our international security which she does have to worry about, then, what, she emerges in a dumb of in a couple of years to say i don t think so? you know what s interesting, if you know about the clintions, you know this is not beyond the realm of possibility. what s interesting megyn: would she really divide the democratic party? megyn, have you not met the clintions? i haven t, actually, no! she doesn t want to wait much longer, she ll get to the point where she s too old. what s interesting, as secretary of state, she has kept her name out of all the big controversies, out of the mcchrystal debacle in afghanistan, even though her state department people were up to their eyeballs in it, she kept her name out of the ground zero mosque ima am,