those counties that flipped from obama in 2012 to trump in 2016. rick scott won it by a 1 point chargen in 2018. this is one of the swingy counties where it s important to track how voters are feeling about this. and they re all doing it with an eye on 2020, democrats, republicans across the board. republicans think that this could help trump, democrats, they say it could hurt him, help him. they re just kind of waiting to see how it shakes out. ali vitali on the road in florida. thank you for bringing us that. coming up next, senator lindsay graham is asking the state department for documents on joe biden s communications with ukrainian officials about burisma. what s behind this push? we re going to talk about it after the break. plus the president s long-time friend and one of his closest political allies now facing criminal corruption charges this morning. how benjamin netanyahu seems to be taking a page from the president s play book. for every dollar you spend at a small busi
where you pit a group of israelis who inherently join in the system, against those netanyahu is pandering do who think they re out to get them. but for prime minister netanyahu his legal prospects aren t looking great, so he failed twice this year to form a government. his chief political rival benny gantz is calling for his resignation also failed to form a government. we re in a weird 21 day phase where it s fair game, we can try to cobble together 61 seats and become prime minister. spoiler alert, that s unlikely to happen because the government is so divided. so in all likelihood, israelis are going to go back to the polls next march for their third election in 12 months. molly hunter on the ground there. thank you for that. i appreciate it. other big news you may have missed back here in washington, republican senator lindsay graham t chairman of the judiciary committee, seems to be getting ready to launch an
reside. there are preparations already under way on the strategy. the president had two meetings at the white house yesterday. one was with the group of senators, a series of lunches he s having, including with people who are more reluctant to perhaps oppose this impeachment inquiry, including senator collins and senator romney. so he put on the charm offensive as he s been doing individually. then there was a strategy session going on with the president s attorneys. that s what we re looking at now. and that is with senator tom cotton, lindsay graham, and they were trying to figure out how this is going to play out. and they re talking about they would love it to be wrapped up within two weeks. that they will have the vote to a quit the president within two weeks. of course my sources are telling me that can change and it can go much longer. the white house is saying that no specific strategy has been determined yet, but they are having these discussions and they are absolutely pr
inquiry. i ve tried to resist turning the senate into a circus. i don t want to go after the bidens because trump is mad that he s not getting a fair deal in the house. do you think there s pressure from the right or pressure from the president himself or graham is just fed up with what he s been seeing? i think there s pressure from the right. because lindsay graham and joe biden served together in the senate for many yearsment they were quite close for being on different sides of the aisle. lindsay graham spoke tearfully about conversations he had with joe biden after his son died. so this is a huge movement from lindsay. and i don t think this is going to be famous last words, a huge investigation into biden. but asking for documents is significant. and we ll also see if the state department come price. i was just going to ask you this. the republicans are asking and the democrats have been dying for documents from the state department for a while. how can state give one cha
both chambers of congress were controlled by republicans? that s a good question. i assume it s because of the impeachment inquiry and the right has been very worked up. the trump aligned right has been very worked up that graham, the judiciary committee chairman, is not doing enough to investigate some of the president s the president s enemies, including the burisma folks and joe biden and i think what you re seeing here is the result of that. but in a larger sense, this is instructive in telling us that republicans are not going to vote to convict donald trump when the impeachment resolution comes over from the house representatives. in fact, they re digging in on his side. so i think this is instructive in a larger sense. and you say senator graham said a few months ago he didn t want this. it was more recent than that. time kind of is all over the place. it s a flat circle. let me play a little bit of that sound. should the impeachment trial come to the senate, do you