Trump or kim jong on . Were about to find out. They were making this the centerpiece other than tax the legacy. The legacy for 2018. His Nobel Peace Prize hes accepted it. You cant predict the president but the assumption would be a traditional response would be then walk away. Anything other than that, would that surprise you in. They have no now go through the south koreans and their own you would assume we have to steal our spine here . You would assume that. Find out who wants this summit more. Exactly. All right. You better get out of here. Thanks very much. Lets turn to the politics of impeachment. Believe it or not its become a hot topic with leaders in the Republican Party. Its not for what you think. Whether youre talk about elected leaders, party leaders, even President Trumps lawyers, they are warning that nancy pelosi is readying her caucus for a coup postnovember. If she wants to obstruct everything and impeach the president , i dont think america wants to see that. Her whole goal is to impeach the president , try to win the majority over that. They have a bun of of resist object who want to obstruct and screaming impeachment. Is this election in 2018 going to be a referendum. We go to the American People and say the following. Do you want to impeach a president . You want to have nancy pelosi running the house of representatives. Forget it. All right. Is nancy pelosi encouraging her caucus to talk about impeachment. Ive discouraged any discussion of impeachment. On the political side i think its a gift to the republicans to talk about impeachment. Pelosi has spent months try to tamp down what is a growings faction within the democratic party. Making matters more difficult is President Trump. He is increasingly embracing the idea of becoming the martyr of the midterms by invoking proimpeachment Democratic Congresswoman maxine waters. Maxine water, a very low iq individual. Ever see her . You ever see her. We will impeach him. He hasnt done anything wrong. It doesnt matter. We will impeach him. We will impeach him. We will impeach him. This is what were going to have to fight against. We will impeach him. We will impeach him. Doesnt matter if you do anything right or wrong. They want to do that. We got to win the house. Were going to win any way. Taken together, the president , house leadership, the rnc, its pretty clear the gop believes its best chance of saving the house under President Trump is by dragging democrats into a fight over ousting President Trump. For democrats its hard to see how they avoid getting dragged into this fight. In addition to the i word being blared by the progressive wing
of their caucus which is being amplified by the entirety of the gop pull put theres pressure coming from big democratic donors like Billionaire Tom Stye who are has been holding down halls to fire up that progressive proimpeachment base. You seem to be in the minority in the Progressive Movement as far as leadership is concerned when it comes campaigning on the impeachment issue. Why do you believe youre right and nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer are wrong . Were trying to tell a truth that we believe is the most important truth in American Politics today. Were trying to put the interest of the American People and our democracy first. Thats all were trying to do and thats all were going to
continue to try to do. Im not sure what do you say to democrats who feel youre stepping on a message. Just as i stepped on you. My apologies. Youre stepping on a message of health care and other issues. Youre playing into Donald Trumps hands. He wants nothing more than to be a political martyr. What do you say to that . I think the midterms in 2018 regardless of what any democrat or republican does to a large extent going to be a referendum on this president and this administration. I think that what were trying to do is tell the truth about what hes doing in terms of his. The danger hes presenting to america and the lawless behavior he exhibit os on daily basis an we believe that telling the truth is something thats important to do a at all times and thats why were doing it. Is that the goal . We are a Grass Roots Organization. We organize around the country with our partners. Were probably the largest Grass Roots Organization in the United States trying to promote education and participation by as Many Americans as possible. We believe the answer is more democracy and we believe, in fact, americans are involved and turn out that well get a much Better Congress and congress will flip. That is something where we feel thats something we have done for five years long before the question of impeachment was ever on the table. Thats something we believe is a important battle. For the house to win back
congress, if you want to elect a proimpeachment majority that the three states you would be advertising in woult would not be iowa, south carolina, and New Hampshire. When i look at how youre spending your tv ad dollar, you seem to be most focused on the first four states. Ill throw in nevada. Youre in Media Markets that are all about the first four primary states in the 2020 president ial. I dont see any pennsylvania ads. I dont see any texas ads. Theres a whole buchb of congressional districts. Is this about you raising your profile to run for president . Absolutely not. We have been in nevada. We have even in iowa and New Hampshire since 2014. We have been organizing in those states because they are swing states for a long time. In fact, we have been going to those states. Ive been going to those states for five years. The fact that we are still organizing in those states, we have organizations that have been building grass roots impact there for a long time. Were not in all 50 states but were in 11. Wait a minute. Im sorry. Youre trying to tell me that the fact that a lion share of the money youre spending are in the first four president ial primary states. If i were to believe what youre saying youd be in wisconsin, michigan, florida for the last seven years. You wouldnt have been in iowa, nevada and New Hampshire. Come on. We are in wisconsin. We are in florida. We are in michigan. We are in pennsylvania. Were organizing in all of them. Im looking at the tv ads. You havent spent the money that
youre spending in the president ial states. Actually, if you take a look at where we spent money, we have spent money by far the biggest money is national ad buys which go to every single one of those states. If you look at the spending by state, you will see that the bulk of our money is going to the big biggest states that were in. I want to play an excerpt if your town hall in iowa earlier this week. Take a listen. Mr. Trump has he really is an incredibly skillful and talented communicator. He really is, which hitler was
too. Lets not i think the reason people push back against the hitler comparison regardless of any similarities is hitler ended up Killing Millions and millions of people. Mr. Trump has shown a disregard for our law. He has been he breaks the law. Hes shown a disrespect for the idea of law and in many ways he has done things that we find or oi find abhorrent but he hasnt killed millions of people. Thats why we want to impeach him. Wed like to end it here. You dealt with the contradiction in your answer how when hitler gets introduced. You were asked a question about hitler. You did not bring him up. This is what happens with the impeachment argument. It becomes the Slippery Slope extremist argument and nuance
gets lost. It looks like all they care about getting trump. What do you say about that nuance issue . I think its really important that we stimstick to the fact and the truth. Thats what we have tried to do really hard. If you listen to me in that answer, i was saying no thats not a fair comparison because he hasnt done what hitler did. Were you taken aback by the crowds reaction . Were you taken aback when the crowd didnt react the way you did . No. I know there are people upset about this. I know there are people who havent thought about it as intensively maybe as i have. No, i understand peoples fears and concerns. That doesnt surprise me. I think its important to make the point you make which is there are, its important to stick to the truth and in the go overboard and get into some kind och of emotional rant. Thats what i was trying to do there. Thats what i tried to do at every single instance is not do what youre warning about. I think that would be wrong. Im going to leave it there. I know youre busy and got a plane to catch. Thank you for making time for us. Up ahead, are we simply out of bandwidth for all the aelss of corruption inside the Trump Administration in text alert. Im your phone, stuck down here between your seat and your console, playing a little hidenseek. Cold. Warmer. Warmer. Ah boiling. Jackpot. And if youve got cutrate car insurance, you could be picking up these charges yourself. So get allstate, where agents help keep you protected from mayhem. Like me. Mayhem is everywhere. Are you in good hands . Hello. Give me an hour in tanning room 3. Cheers thats confident. But its not kayak confident. Kayak searches Hundreds Of Travel Sites to help me plan the best trip. So im more than confident. Forgot me goggles. Kayak. Search one and done. Tech dont wait for a chip like this to crack your whole windshield. With safelites exclusive resin, you get a strong repair that you can trust. Plus, with most insurance a Safelite Repair is no cost to you. Customer really . singers Safelite Repair, safelite replace. Mr. Elliot, whats your wiwifi . Ssword . Wifis ordinary. Basic. Do i look basic . Nope which is why i have xfinity xfi. Its super fast and you can control every device in the house. [ child offscreen ] hey lets basement. And thanks to these xfi pods, the signal reaches down here, too. So sophie, i have an xfi password, and its daditude. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Xfinity. The future of awesome. With tcalled audible. Le app you can listen to the stories you love while doing the things you love, outside. Binge better. Audible. Had a little incident witht kia moped in bermuda. E. Oh. Even with insurance, we had to dip into our 401 k and it set us back a little bit. Sometimes you dont have a choice. But it Doesnt Mean You Guys cant get back on track. Great. Great. Yeah. No judgment. Just guidance. Td ameritrade. Welcome back. Nbc National Political reporter and a former Policy Advisor of mitt romneys campaign. I want to get to north korea
especially but i want to start with this impeachment issue. Heidi youre here. You just interviewed harry reid before. Maybe he didnt know he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. One thing about harry reid, he doesnt run away from controversy. Hell doing the controversy thing. Hes afraid of the impeachment message. He grew very animated about this. Helened forward and he said i have a message to all of my colleagues, please stop. He specifically called out tom stier as well. The party elders know that the party, the Republican Party is looking for that thing. That thing that will help energize the republican base. Theres an underlining culture
problem with democratic donors compared to the billionaire republican donors like the koch brothers. They put their money to rebuilding the party from the ground up. They have these pacts that are organized around issues or people. They say they dont want to talk it. Do you believe them . I believe the leaders of democratic party, they dont want to talk about it. They dont want to give the impression that they have prejudged President Trump, that they have launched down this path before even taking they havent seen. Mueller hasnt finished. Those kind of issues we need Democratic Congress to exercise some restraint on a run away administration. That sort of thing. That has to in political terms has to stop short of impeachment. Theres that point where you over it. Your party found that out in 1998. At the same time you want to capture the image what you see now. Im surprised House Republicans are just going along with this messaging but i understand. Whats the one thing that a lot of Republican Voters say they wish republicans had done, repeal obama care. They didnt get that done. The next order is what can we do to animate our base. The other problem is the american political problem of what it takes to win a primary versus a general. The message could resonate with the democratic base. Thats why hes running with it. Thats nice in 2020. With so many discussions im going to michigan to talk to another one of them, they want to stay as far away as possible from this into any and every democrat including nancy pelosi. Think about what youre having to run on. Exactly. Then hes gone. I think what they are so in need, they still fear the democratic enthusiasm thats out there. The president has ticked up a bit in the poll. I dont think anybody has believed thats switched things all around. Theres a lot out there on the democratic side. A lot of people are going to come out to vote and republicans are trying to counter act. A lot of us dismiss donald trump and birtherism as thats discredited him. Nobody will take him seriously again. You Say Something over and over again and it starts sinning in to some people. Republicans ought to be careful what they wish for. Politically i think that. I think the interesting question is this sort of thing and because it fades in the background say its a referendum on impeachment. The Oversight Committee once the democrats take over will be in high gear. Trey gowdy has not issued a single subpoena. With the news about the Chinese Company potential quid
pro quo here. Theres a lot that they will dig into. They just dont want to use the i word yet. Its funny. You can run against a Culture Of Corruption a lot easier than against i, if you make it about the impeachment. The impeachment word is like a stick of dynamite. Its not clear who it blows up if it blows up. Very powerful. You make a good point. It could also really fire up a lot of democrats. It could bring them out. Be careful. Midterm elections are all about intensity. Republicans desperately need something. Intensity is the key. If you cant generate intensity in any other way, you might as well. The fall is going to be lovely, isnt it. What a lovely fall. Civics. Going to be a great civics lesson. Also, what happens in vegas isnt going to stay there anymore. Sports bets are on thanks to the Supreme Court. Th this is what it really means. Its State Capitols that are getting ready to cash in and quickly. Well be right back. L of urgency. I think, keep going, and make a difference. At some point, we are going to be able to beat als. Because life is amazing. So i am hoping for a cure. I want this, to uh, to be a reality. Um, yeah. Now im gonna tell my momma that im a traveller im Gonna Follow The Sun now im gonna tell my momma that im a traveller im Gonna Follow The Sun transitions™ light under control™ vojimmy shouting james as been jimmys longest. Transitions™ hes survived record rain and a supplier that went belly up. So while hes proud to have helped put a roof over the heads of hundreds of families, hes most proud of the one hes kept over his own. Brand vo get the most out of your money, whether youre using quickbooks Smart Invoicing to get paid twice as fast or automatically tracking your mileage. Smarter Business Tools for the worlds hardest workers. Quickbooks. Backing you. And if youve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flulike symptoms or sores. Dont start humira if you have an infection. Help stop the clock on further irreversible joint damage. Talk to your rheumatologist. Right here. Right now. Humira. Welcome back. Im obsessed with integrity or what appears to be a lack of it. The latest story raising eyebrows. Sundays tweet helping the phone company zte because too many jobs are being lost in china. China is giving 500 million to a Trump Project in indonesia. Coincidence . Maybe. It would be easy to dismiss if there wasnt a plague of stories with this same stench of an Ethics Violation or mr. Trump using the office of the presidency to enrich his family personally. It would be easy to dismiss if there werent a plague of stories about Scott Pruitt Spending Money and cozying up. If there werent stories about the president s soninlaw having to update his disclosure forms 40 times or his Hud Secretary ordering a 31,000
dining room set by accident. Why havent we heard about any of these stories . Maybe its congress. Maybe they dont want to investigate. Instead of hearings, we get congressional crickets. Maybe theres too many of them at once. Maybe weve got from Too Big To Fail to too much to read. Maybe weve been focused on the