Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Disapprove. The numbers are shifting for the president . Talked about it for a long time. A bit of narrow casting. But this is about as narrow casting as it gets. Willie, all i can say for donald trump and republicans who are hoping, like a special election in ohio tonight, the republicans hoping that hes somehow going to get them over the finish line, even in strongly republican districts lie this ohio 12. They better hope that their small slice of the electorate comes out, because, i mean, donald trump is sacrificing just about every other group in america for this one group of white, noncollege educated voters that, again, just there just arent enough to get him over the top or to get his candidates over the top in
that are on trump s team have any intention or any desire to cooperate and i really think that s kind of the end of it. why, though? at this point giuliani said he s not going to cooperate. what is the reasoning behind him not cooperating? to a certain extent they re just going to come after him even more and then it seems as if he s having something to hide. he doesn t have any incentive to cooperation as far as he s concerned, who is he pleasing, what constituency of his is he pleasing, what constituency of donald trump s who is what den grated this commission as illegitimate. what concession does rudy
are are doing is illegitimate. this letter was sent to the congressional committees this afternoon by jon sale who is giuliani s now former attorney. giuliani is telling us that he has parted ways with jon sale. this part of the inquiry or this interaction with congress is over in his view. but we re talking to people close to rooulg and they re vising that he needs a real lawyer, an attorney who will handle this investigation that is ramping up in the southern district of new york and manhattan because there is some real legal problems he faces as a result of this investigation, jake. we re told that at this point giuliani said that he doesn t really see the need for an attorney. he believes he is protected because all of the work he was doing, he said in ukraine, was done at the behest of the president. jake. interesting legal argument. evan perez, thank you so much. a number of major developments in the house impeachment inquiry into president trump over just of the
to who they should be listening to. this is a new president. he has never been in politics before. many of the people surrounding him have never been in politics. of course it stands to reason that they would be concerned as to whether they should be listening to the trump s political lawyer or to the state department. we now know that the two may have been working together, and in fact it may be that the state department was facilitating rudy giuliani s contacts with the ukrainian government. in my meeting, to be clear, zelensky did not make any connection between the aid that had been cut off and the requests that he was getting from giuliani, but he was certainly the ukrainian government certainly through multiple channels was expressing their confusion about who they should listen to. i m wondering just about the investigation now. i think you ve expressed concern that it might go on for a very long period of time and there is a lot of information already out
commentator and host of cnn smerconish. what do you make of this? the president s personal lawyer is pointing a finger back at the president s administration? so rudy giuliani has been portrayed in a lot of this thus far as a rogue agent. in the complaint, the whistle-blower uses the word circumvention to describe concerns he was hearing from others about rudy giuliani s role. now giuliani responds and shows these texts. one of which is thanking him for his involvement and comes from someone named volker, our special representative to ukraine. the point giuliani wants us to realize he was very much on the team and acting at the behest of the state department. i look at that and say to myself, okay. mr. volker, one more person whose testimony will probably come out in the wash that we will hear from before this whole process runs its course. the reporting out of the volker camp is basically that