an eventual senate trial. david, another number to look at from nbc news/ wall street journal , our second full screen, that s looking at senats majority leader mitch mcconnell. he s the individual who decides what will be key baited on the floor of the senate and what will not be. k we ll put it on screen for you. totaln positive, 18%, total negative, 40%.po he s got to be looking at this as he s looking at the upcoming 2020 election. and those numbers reflect that he is in leadershipio and just like nancy pelosi, at times during her moments in leadership has faced some headwinds in terms of polls. it is nothing to worry about back home. i know kentucky democrats are going to work very hard, but i think the odds ares that mitch mct connell s very safe back ho. the odds also are likely where were sit today, as chris said, t acceleration, change of public opinion on impeachment, house
with me and i m not saying we ve done nothing in the senate. we ve had some fine judges. i know you may disagree. listen to my words. not saying we ve done nothing. i m saying we could do more. and put a prescription drug bill on the floor of the united states senate, by god, and let senator bs senats be senators. have you read the full mueller report? i have. what did you make of justin amash s take? you re going to have to refresh my memory. the republican. he looks at it oh, yes, he s entitled to his opinion. this is america. he s entitled to his opinion. i don t agree with him. when a prosecutor takes hold of a case, his job is, or her job to do one or two things. indict or don t indict. if mr. mueller changed his mind and thinks he ought to be indicted, he needs to step up in front of god and country and say
bypass anything, any theoretical block that mitch mcconnell might want to pretend that he s actually doing, so, yes, generally, it s up to the majority leader what moves on the floor. not entirely. there s a way through that. this is why it s very, very good you have a television showe lawrence, because you know thesn things, my friend. by these way, very few senats know that. but enough do that there are ways to maneuver through it and mcconnell, himself, if he wants theif shutdown to happen, there a way for him to look as if he s on the president s side right through every minute of the processy as the united states voting against the president. he knows howga to do that. anybody out there who has mitch mcconnell s cell phone number, please textnn him right now. it telleam him to watch lawren o donnell for thehi next hour he onfo msnbc. it might help. rachel, if you need more time to talk about i m good. the president who said nothing tonight yeah, i m good. oka
the president or the republicans might be offering that as thenly option. it is not black and white vi talking other issue that s come up time and again, a lot of democrats are running on this idea or think that democrats should be running on impeaching the president. where do you stand on listen. i don t have the data or the evidence as certain members perhaps on the intelligence committee, on the senats well as the house, have with regards to donald trump s business dealings or dealings with the russians. i w say this, what we ve seen is unprecedd in modern political history and donald trump in comparison to richard nixon, he makes richard nixon look like a choir boy. so richard nixon resigned because of the break-in in the watergate hotel. there is plenty of evidence there that this president can be impeached. that s obviously a political question with the dominancef republicans in both chambers it. however, i do believe the democrats should have a unifying
that altercation? i saw it as a real unforced error by the republicans. the optics of this were so bad. if they would have left elizabeth warren to say what she was going to say in peace and then let her sit down on her own, they wouldn t be dealing with the day they ve been asking today. instead what they re doing is basically filling a card of social justice bingo. she is a woman being shouted down by a man because she is reading the words of a black female civil rights leader during black history month. thank you. and it was just why did mitch mcconnell have to do that? it is baffling to me. because if he wouldn t, there wouldn t be a 5 million view video on facebook of elizabeth warren completing her speech. i mean, it s like i think they are drunk with power. it s not like, they are. they have the house and the senate. they re acting kind of drunk. this is a drunk thing to do. speaking of drunk, the whole thing started because there was fistfight, literally a fistfight