today on inside politics, the democratic nightmare before christmas. joe manchin says he s retiring from the senate, leaving a blue seat open in a very red state, and leaving a the lot of people wondering what does the future hold for manchin? does it include a run for president? plus the maid, the wood worker, exclusive reporting on who saw what at mar-a-lago and how worried should donald trump be about what his employees wosay on the stand. and the house is a mess, that s how one congressman s summed up the new speaker s strategy to avoid a government shutdown. so what s mike johnson going to do with one week to go until the country can t pay its bills? i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we begin today with a one-man political earthquake. joe manchin has shaken up the political world by announcing hen won t seek reelection. republicans are rejoicing now that they are all but assured to pick up his seat in the senate, which takes them
He then added this. Based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the democrats. They definitely dont want trump. They didnt dont want trump, he said. Even though last week russias president admitted he did favor mr. Trump, at least in the last election, which is what Intelligence Agencies had been saying for a long time, but putin finallied a mid it. President putin, did you want President Trump to win the election . And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that . Translator yes, i did, because he talked about bringing the u. S. russia relationship back to normal. Now President Trump says the russians actually dont like him, despite what President Putin just said. Which is weird because not only did truputin say he liked trump the last election, but because of that Helsinki Summit, Relation Ares with russia had suddenly changed in matter of hours. He said that. It was recorded. Everyone heard that. Lets play i
Charge. The truth is in the history of this republic, theres never been a single party fraudulent Impeachment Process deployed against a president like the one thats being used against donald trump. Thats whats unprecedented here. Its not the claim that a president doesnt want to turn over witnesses or documents. That, as weve said many times today, is actually quite common. And by the way, lets remember it needs to be noted again that President Trump has consistently cooperated with this congress in fulfilling its oversight you are listening to one of the many hours of todays very Historic House Judiciary Committee hearing on the articles of impeachment against president donald trump. Our live continuing coverage will take place over this hour and further hours as needed. But we want to let you know how were going to cover this. Were keeping an eye on this hearing. We have reason to believe there could be a vote on the current amendment soon. The committees obviously been going full s
midterm elections. in georgia, republican senate candidate herschel walker recently returned to his home state from texas. republican senate candidate is facing questions about how long she lived in alaska. former-trump era interior secretary ryan zinky has faced repeated attacks he no longer fully lives in montana where he is competing for a house seat. and former new york times columnist, nicholas christof, also under scrutiny as he seeks to become governor of his home state. once upon a time if you were a carpet bagger candidate for office, you could expect to do pretty badly. um, these days, you are not necessarily going to win as a carpet bagger. but if you can win your party s nomination, people who belong to that party are probably going to vote for you simply because you are the representative of their party. reporter: the pennsylvania race could determine which party controls the senate with the stakes so high by the time candidates get to the general election, voters ma
subpoenas, some without. sometimes it s just negotiated. but normally what happens is subpoena is received and it means you re not going to be able to use an agency attorney even though an agency attorney will not be allowed in even though the only way that the witness can appear and have executive privileges properly claimed is to have an agency or department attorney with them. and that s when things get negotiated and get worked out. but some of our friends know that if they re abusive enough with subpoenas and with law fare not warfare, but using the law as a weapon you can run people out of office. they successfully did that suing sara pailen, ryan zinky.