official effort by congress to conduct an investigation. i wond wonder what merrick f garland will do, purpose to interfere with operations of congress and there is, no need to make a a general threat to prosecutee people for defamation in advance of testimony. because that anticipating an even that has i events that is yet to happen. it is to have a chilling affect to threaten people and prevent testimony, if i were the lawyer for hunter biden, or hunter biden himself, i would watch what i say, are careful. be careful any criminal violation by contempt of congress or extortionallist threat one p prosecuted.
wond wonder what is it? why are we getting these aids. he ll get the aids wh when you the public statement using three words, investigations, clintons and the bidens. clinton is a reference of a debunked idea that ukrainians vo involved itself in the elections. i want to go back to fiona hill. you indicated earlier on that was sort of your worst nightmare for these requests of investigations appeared to be political in nature. this is her answer. correct, my worst nightmare is the relationship between the united states and ukraine and t authorities of other personal vested interests. both of these people, vindman and hill are approaching this from a perspective of national security.
questions need to be sharp and they need to be targeted. now, i also asked him given the fact that this was an attack on the united states democracy, have they reached out to republicans at all to try to work with them and he said, look, there s no point in that because the divisions are just so sharp here. so it s really going to be high stakes and frankly it will be do or die for a lot of democrats on the question of impeachment. joe and mika? nbc s kristen welker, thank you very much. lanhee, on that note, i wond wonder i mean, bob mueller clarified for me he s a private citizen now. is he allowed to answer questions that perhaps he couldn t answer when he was serving as special counsel? is there anything i mean, not that shedding light on the mueller report wouldn t be enough to concern americans and to concern committee members. i m just wondering if there s any more freedom here for him to meet to be more expansive on
individual races in new jersey and new york and virginia. when you pull back and look at the national political picture from a chair is mattic moderate republican cruising to re-election in new jersey to a surprisingly liberal mayoral candidate crushing his opponent in new york, to a long-time opera tif, narrowly leading in the virginia governor s race, you might scratch your head and wond wonder what s going on here. our next guest writes america has been a nation of contradiction and these differences lead us to greatn s greatness. the living, breathing political encycloped encyclopedia. john, it s always great to have you here. first, what do the local races taking place today tell us about where we are as a nation and as a electorate? are we making too much of speaking this in broader terms of what this means about where
eliot spitzer, who knows about sex scandals, is coming after you. cnn s newest correspondent, rosa flores, is here with more from bat t baton rouge. good to have you here. big story. lots of conversation. good morning to you at home. what s really interesting about this is that we ve been covering a lot of weiner s events since all of these raunchy revelations have come out. new these ones. aphe s received applause and support at every single appearance which makes you wond wonder, is that what s keeping him in the race? as a candidate, you should have moral values and right now, i think that his moral values are shot. reporter: harsh words and even a harsher reality for embattled mayoral candidate anthony weern. his poll numbers plummeting from first to fourth in a new quinnipiac university poll. the survey conducted after a new round of lewd internet chats