look into joe biden? of course i did. today joe biden called trump and giuliani s allegations not credible, and he added this the president should start to be president. late this afternoon, biden further issued a statement about these latest reports on trump s conversations with the ukrainian leader which said in part and we quote, if these reports are true, then there is truly no bottom to president trump s willingness to abuse his power and abase our country. donald trump should immediately release the transcript of the call in question and direct the office of the director of national intelligence to stop stonewalling and release the whistle blower notification to the congress. lot to talk about as we say as we end another week. here for our lead off discussion former assistant director for counterintelligence, shannon petipiece, and jonathan la mere.
decision about whether we have a vote on common sense, gun reforms. i d like you to look up because i have to say this is something all of us should be caring about. especially from arizona. where my dear friend gabby giffords was shot for doing her job. it s not okay. the time for turning a blind eye is over. here for our leadoff discussion on a tuesday night, four returning veterans of ours who will be with us for our first two segments tonight, nancy cook, white house reporter for police co, michael schmidt, washington correspondent for the new york times, robert costa, national political reporter for the washington post, moderator of washington week on pbs, and jonathan la mere, white house reporter for the associated press. welcome to you all, and robert because it is top of mind and happened most urgently tonight, what s the stay of play according to your reporting on gun legislation? at this moment republicans on
the summer of 2016 after guiding the president through the early states he was pushed out before the convention and ever since then he s been trying to claw his way back in. he s someone the president talks to from time to time, there s resistance from jared kushner and ivanka trump and other trump children to bring him back fully. but the president values him as a pit bull he went on the attack and he would not play ball with the democrats. he wouldn t, you know, concede any of their points and he fought and fought and in some way showed again this sort of the inability the democrats have had throughout this process. they ve had control of the house now for a while and have not been able to really touch the president in terms of any of these investigations and the talk of impeachment remains stalled. with special thanks for putting up with my overheated questions tonight, to nancy cook, to michael schmidt, to robert costa, to jonathan la mere, wow, great appreciation for joining u
a selective use of the military? well, i think that he will ultimately steer away from any serious action towards iran just because he ran so vociferously in 2016 on not engaging in any military conflict and he wants to keep that promise to his base i do think, though, those clips are interesting because they show the president has always been interested in military hardware, military planes. we saw that with his 4th of july parade, with the planes flying over he s always been very entranced by the trappings of military and i think that that s why he talks about it so much and pays so much attention to the pomp and circumstance of it but he is very aware that a big campaign promise that he made in 2016 was not getting us into a huge, long, protracted conflict like iraq or afghanistan. jonathan la mere, we were locked and loaded this weekend, which the phrase that lives on with mike pence, then we get into more twitter, some travel,
five republicans announced their retirement from congress in beenevidence that could foresha something colossal to come. new polling out of texas shows a number of 2020 democrats either beat the president outright or are within the margin of error. a democrat has not won a statewide race in texas in 25 years. which leads us to our big question today. what do the results of the last election of 2018 and 2019 tell us about 2020? alternate headline, what have i missed? joining me phil rucker, politico s senior writer and msnbc contributor jake sherman and associated press white house reporter jonathan lamere. phil and jonathan are msnbc political analysts. phil, so what have i missed? what s been going on? you left right around the time robert mueller was finishing the russian investigation, the investigation about a project i worked on for