romney, some of these republicans who might be incl e inclined to push for witnesses? do you have any indication that they would side with democrats in calling for a trial with witnesses? there s no question, john, and that is the question of the day, that they are contemplating seriously and considering how this trial has to be conducted. mitch mcconnell is nothing without his enablers. he needs those 51 votes, and i ve been talking to anywhere from five to ten of my colleagues directly or indirectly who are seriously considering how they will be haunted by this decision if they deny a full, fair trial. and i ll just be very blunt. there s a saying that courage is contagious, and so is cowardice. they need to step forward, and i hope that they ll be hearing from their constituents over these next couple weeks.
general s report. you saw the way the president portrayed that last night. very differently than you re seeing the inspector general himself testify before congress today saying no one is vindic e vindicated by the time the report came out judges what the claims both sides made when it came to this. i do think seeing that rally last night seeing the way the president lash out at democrats saying at times they didn t go far enough in the articles of impeachment, hearing bribery, bribery so often and not incl e included. also going after pelosi saying she only struck this trade deal because he claims she s embarrassed by it. why she s agreeing to make movement on usmca. i think that could be what we see from the president as he s on the campaign trail next year especially if acquitted. people say that will empower the particular ed to move forward as he s moving forward trying to get re-elected s could be a sign of what sells else is to come. the president having chances to air grievance
name s person saying this was the president s wish. i never got that until the deputy small group meeting in which omb stated on the record, it was the president, through the chief of staff, mick mulvaney. they are looking to move people out of the white house and back to home departments. like many diplomatic staffers, several of the witnesses incl e including lieutenant colonel vindm vindman, they re on loan or assigned to the white house. his advisers warn that firing witnesses could be viewed as retaliation. many witnesses have been fired but they still have their jobs. the same day the president may testify in the impeachmenting inquiry, we re looking at whether he lied to
the second thing they missed is the historical context of this as well. every administration has incl e included some kind of nationality or country of origin question except for the obama administration in 2010, but even president obama s administration for the annual census estimates surveys that they were doing, they asked that question. charles: right. so to say this is somehow discriminatory or a problem is wrong because the reason you need to know is because you cannot dilute some congressional districts in favor of others. in other words, if you have 612,000 legal residents in one and only have 400,000 in another, then the 612,000 are going to get effectively less representation than you would charles: less representation and also of course less money, talking 600 billion dollars at stake. exactly. charles: we have a min tout
back to a democrat like joe biden and this is where his team thinks he can be successful in a place like pennsylvania. so jeff, want to quote something from the new york times this weekend talking about democrats 2020 strategy. because it struck us. a clear evidence from the 2018 midterms is that college educated voters are more incl e inclined to vote against trump. it seems like there s a lot of evidence of this in the polling that this is about trump. even the way democratic voters see the candidate. they want someone who can beat trump. as you speak to democratic pollsters, party operatives, is this where they are leaning for the race? less about issues, more about we re not trump. no question. that s what every reelection race is is with an incumbent on the ballot. this is going to be a referendum on the president.