i think adam schiff did the president great services week by having these hearings and letting people see was going on and now you see in the 31 districts that many of these congressmen have to go home and defend this. it ll be a tough freak for democrat. let s talk about this district, you are so spot on when nobody was talking about michael bloomberg, when you said i m expecting him to enter the race because you did not think anybody on that stage could take on donald trump but let s talk about the 31 districts were referring to and where the member billions. these are areas that donald trump wanted 2016 but the democrats are running for reelection and congress. obama when these districts twice, trump on them and 16, the democrats did not when them and 18. in nancy pelosi handed these candidates. in staten island in up in new jersey. these are hand-picked veterans and people working with the cia, handpicking candidate spring hunter. talk about healthcare, jobs,
gordon sondland is scheduled to testify. he amended his testimony after other witnesses gave their account of what was happening with the foreign aid money to ukraine. now some lawmakers are questioning if the ambassador, who s believed to have had multiple interactions with the president over ukraine, will be a credible witness on wednesday. i think he s got to decide this weekend whether he s an american first or a trump loyalist. i m not sure that we can trust his testimony given the fact that we know it s already changed. reporter: house republicans say after what they saw this past week, they believe the impeachment inquiry is a political stunt. we heard from the house minority whip this torning, steve scalise, blasting democrats for hand picking which witnesses could testify while refusing to grant some gop lawmaker requests. there are a lot of people who worked in the trump administration who have very countering views to that, and they ve not been allowed to come forward.
hillary clinton and until recently worked for john kel lane any. maura gay is an msnbc contributor. this story in your paper mara reflects right here from a number of democratic kratic activists, it says the mood of alarm is more intense because of the party s hunger to defeat president trump. with over three months to go before voting starts in iowa, their impatience with finding mr. and mrs. right among the current crop of candidates. are these concerns warranted, or is this just business as usual, democrats fret, it s early, fretting is what they do. it s funny. i have a little different take. i hear that from folks in new york from a lot of the strategists i talk to. i actually think this is exactly the kind of story that infuriates voters of both sto storistore parties because it suggests that democratic insiders who should be hand picking who the american
president trump openly railed against his former secretary of state pick yesterday tweeting rex tillerson who is as dumb as a rock and totally ill prepared and ill equipped to be secretary of state made up a story. he he got fired. that i was out prepared by vladimir putin in hamburg, i germany. i don t think putin would agree. his outrage comes after rex tillerson told the house foreign affairs committee that russian president putin was better prepared for their meeting. trump s comments are in stark contrast to those after hand picking rex tillerson himself. take a listen. exxonmobil, where a great man, rex tillerson is doing an incredible job. i was just watching as an example rex tillerson, i think it s brilliant what he s doing and what he s saying. i want to thank secretary rex tillerson, rex, who has done a tremendous job of leading the dedicated men and women of the
what really struck me was just how different every person was. there were kids, there were elderly people, there were people who were all there celebrating senator mccain and just such a diverse crowd. john mccain represented, to so many americans, what it meant to put this country first, and i think that was something that just really struck me yesterday when i was at the capital and then this morning, i was back at the capitol watching as he left the united states senate for the final time, and the crowd outside, again, just very diverse, people wanting to remember what this country can be, and i think that that s what they heard from a lot of the speeches we heard today about senator mccain. and elaine, we now know, of course, john mccain s among his final wishes, he crafted his sendoff, his good-bye, hand picking, personally calling president obama to be there, even to the surprise of president obama, despite what obama, you know, revealed, is