Thought, the famous verizon ad. Can you hear me now . Good. Can you hear me now . Thats where we land. Cell Service Needs to fall back. If people are using that trick to get off the phone with the president , that is amazing. Works. Liz, thanks for being on the show. This other guy, thank you for being on the show. Thats our show sp. Have a great thanksgiving friday. At 6 00 p. M. , we have our speci special, russia on trial, check that out. And hardball starts now. Trump stands alone. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews up in boston. For weeks, republicans is have distanced themselves from roy moore. Theyve pulled endorsements and urged him to drop out. And many have said they believe his accusers. Lets watch. Do you believe these allegations to be true . Youre talking about he said 40 years ago, this did not happen. So, you know. And i do have to say, 40 years is a long time. Hes run eight races and this has never come up. So 40 years is a long time. Well, both new yo
Racial politics of the 21st century. In the past 24 hours republican president ial candidates have been like circus elephants attempting back flips. Its not been a pretty sight. The question for us tonight, why is the political cotillion that fashions itself as the party of lincoln having a problem letting go of the battle flag of Jefferson Davis . Eugene robins is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Washington Post and Michael Steele is former chairman of the Republican Party. I wonder why your partys having this problem. It was very uneven. Some came out early and said weve got to get rid of that flag in the wake of the tragedy in charleston. Others have been hemming and hawing and only moving most of them, after nikki haley had the courage to make that speech yesterday. What a wonderful way to set the right tone on this discussion. She did finally. Governor haley, so hats off to her. If you want to know how to lead on this issue, follow her. Because she really i think, set th
Government shutdown and keep president obamas Signature Health care law intact but senators ted cruz and mike lee are leading the charge against that effort giving you live pictures from the senate floor, the republicans are still speaking in an effort to prevent a vote. Senator cruz started this just before 3 00 on tuesday afternoon and to tracie potts live in washington. Whats expected to happen today. Reporter what was expected to happen was this vote about an hour after the senate goes into session. These two are trying to prevent that from happening. This allnight talkathon could end up leading to a Government Shutdown. I intend to speak till im no longer able to stand. Reporter at 8 00 last night when he apparently ran out of things to say. Do you like green eggs and h ham . Reporter earlier mike lee took over. The American People have never been enthusiastic about obama care. Reporter but he was back and supports the plan up for a vote today stripping the money from health care
It is the fourth day in the standoff marked by even more bursts of gunfire. They battled al shabaab late overnight. It left 60 dead. Nearly 200 injured including americans. The government there says it is in charge of the mall but the Associated Press says twitter messages from al shabaab says its militants are Still Holding their ground. Not clear how many hostages were freed. The government says more than ten are arrested for questioning and the president there is expected to address the nation today. And back here at home, will they or wont they . A day of high stakes at the united nations. All eyes are on whether president obama will meet with irans new leader face to face. Tracie, good morning. It would be the first of its kind in three decades. Do we think its going to happen . Reporter analysts think we vent see a formal sitdown but at this point any contact between the american president and new iranian president is going to make headlines if its a hello in the hallway, if its
Is he dumping the America First doctrine and buying into the same establishment thinking . But as the president signals anger with russia or syrias use of chemical weapons, the news keeps coming of his campaigns connections with moscow. The Washington Post is reporting that a fisa Court Granted a warrant last summer to monitor the communications of former trump Foreign Policy vazor carter page. Quote, the fbi and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting carter pages communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cau to believe page was acting as a agent of a foreign power, in this case, russia. This follows the explosive reports last week that revealed page met with a russian agent who attempted to recruit him back in 2013. According to court documents, that agent calls mr. Page an idiot but said he was enthusiastic before being sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2015, whatever that all means. Reacting to the post s