Shares the substance of 2020 and whether democrats have an obama play book. That is special tonight later in the show. We begin with the top story, rolling chaos at the white house, another acting cabinet official, new fallout from john boltons ouster, democrats prepping what they say is a historic Impeachment Vote tomorrow on the impeachment probe and its different strands, today of course beginning as a solemn day, as i mentioned for remembrance for 9 11, something americans always think about at least at some point during a day like today. What does the president do, well he didnt start it the way most president s do, no surprise, he blasted federal employees at the Federal Reserve as quote bone heads, moments before a 9 11 ceremony, he was then picking fightin fights with the press over his own low polling, more on that later. Donald trump also asked about someone who deals with the kinds of issues that relate to 9 11, his now ousted National Security adviser john bolton. John is somebody that i actually got along with very well. He made some very big mistakes. Johns known as a tough guy. Hes so tough he got us into iraq. Thats tough. John wasnt in line with what we were doing. And actually in some cases, he thought it was too tough what we were doing. Mr. Tough guy. Mr. Tough guy. John bolton has been implying that he will have more to say. Remember, hes one of the few officials who left office calling the president a liar. Today he tells nbc he will say more in due course. They have disagreed about how the employment ended. Democrats say they have a vote tomorrow that is incremental, but they argue it is going to in very significant ways move an impeachment probe forward and potentially result, some democrats say, in articles of impeachment. Our oversight responsibility is very clear in the constitution. We have a constitutional responsibility to hold an out of control executive branch accountable. Our goal is to get the truth to the american people. I do think that ultimately we will have articles of impeachment. We dont work for donald trump. We work for the american people. Now, if you impeach a president , what do you impeach him for, there are some democrats and we have covered this on the show, who say theres actually more than one reason, more than one constitutional viable way to remove the president for what they call high crimes and misdemeanors. Consider some of the pressures just breaking this week, new questions about alleged corruption of the administration routing government spending, your money to trump resorts. Mike pence in ireland, then theres the trump cabinet officials like bill barr dropping 30,000 of his own money to a trump hotel, the air force getting caught up in payments made at the Trump Turnberry resort in scotland, and they want the heavy hitting Homeland Security community to force an independent probe on the military through the trump administration. And theyre defining it as questionable taxpayer funded travel, and lodging at properties owned by the sitting president. Before i bring in our panel and when you see our panel youre going to see it as a power panel, but i want to put this all together. It would of course be easy at a time like this for all of these stories to just kind of get muddled and then get normalized and then fade away, the democrats as reported are vowing probes and efforts to prevent that. Lets be clear, this is not specifically a trump era challenge, although the corruption do stem from donald trump. Remember, the two oldest crimes in politics involve abusing the government to take what isnt yours, stealing government power through elections, one, or stealing government money through graft, two. Thats why our constitution has so many enumerated protections against those political instincts. There are courts to safeguard politicians efforts to abuse elections or to invite foreign help in elections to pick up a s salient example, and there are rules against passing laws to make yourself money or taking gifts while in office or any of the several things that donald trump stands accused of tonight in the public square, in open court cases, all before our eyes. This is not the first test and it wont be the last. The question given the pace line and rules in our politics is what will everyone do about it. Now i turn as advertised to what i think as you make, governor and doctor howard dean, maya wiley, and former counsel to the m mayor of new york who is in the 2020 race, and former Vice President of Trump Organization and author of all alone on the 68th floor. I could begin with any of you, im eager to hear your thoughts, but i start with you maya on the fact that some of these are in the category of obvious graft. Some of them are alleged corruption, you need to learn more about the details, and many of them would seem to be banned by the constitution so where do we go from here . Hopefully to uncover all of those. I mean, i think the vote tomorrow in the house is going to be extremely important. I think the fact that they have laid out a plan for how theyre going to do this from a procedural standpoint, and fair to donald trump, because part of what theyre going to vote on is going to say, youre going to get an opportunity to see what we have. Were not trying to blind side you, but what i think we have to remember is congress is going to decide, as congress, what a high crime and misdemeanor is. The founders were very clear, by the way, if you look at the history that high crimes and misdemeanors included what you might call mal administration, in other words, they thought it would include things, if you appoint unfit subordinates and not paying sufficient attention to the administration of government, not just straight up corruption and crime. Let me get in on your founders party, it also, as you know, includes things that are not actually active actions by the president. They discuss, what if somebody abdicates, what if you have a sitting president who leaves or stops doing the job, there has to be a mechanism, many people think donald trump toggles between not doing a lot of the job, theres evidence in numbers for that, and then abusing the job for selfenrichment. And i think youre absolutely right, and i will absolutely go there with you on the founders, particularly when we have a situation where a president has staff in place negotiating peace deals, has no idea what details of the deal are, says hes going to have a meeting, say sit down with the taliban, whether you think its a good idea or not, he empowered staff to negotiate that, said he was going to do, and then blind sided his own staff by simply pulling out and firing people by tweet. Im not suggesting i agree with the decision to sit down with the taliban, but im saying he has a practice as a president that is very unpresident ial, and not good for the country. Yeah, and i want to show some numbers to you, governor dean on mike pences ireland trip which we know he regrets to some degree because he has been changing his defense of it, so obviously theres the idea of, oh, you can get away with anything, apparently not. Mike pence for whatever reason, whatever his breaking point is, you put on the screen here, obamas similar threeday trip was about 113 k, the state department paying a million for the Ground Transportation for the june visit to the property. Im curious what you think on the politics of why is it that this time its caught them up so much more than some of the other dealings. Viewers will say this has been going on for a while. I dont think the problem is pences trip. Its obviously a problem and the whole administration has been corrupt. Trump has been corrupt since he was born, practically, his history in the real estate in new york is appalling, thats not the problem. The big problem is using the military, which is a wellrespected organization, and wellrespected group of pple and encouraginghe United States of america has been part of trumps scheme to funnel his selfmoney at a scottish resort by refuelling and paying much more than he should at an airport that was about to close and by staying there. Pence, look, we dont respect pence on our side of the aisle for good reason. We dont respect trump for good reason. Using the military as part of your scheme for corruption, i think every american understands how bad that is, and that is what i think is not only going to be grounds for possible impeachment, even if it doesnt work, i predict hes the first president to be convicted after he leaves office, but this is really serious. Yeah, you put it very strongly. Barbara res, you know donald trump. I do. You worked for donald trump. We have a very trumpy thing running into a very serious thing. The trumpy part is the utter embarrassing pettiness of sharpie gate, we covered as much as we had to cover it. The serious part is you have nonpartisan, scientists and weather experts in the u. S. Government dealing with things that affect the information flow of whether people live or die. Its as serious as a heart attack. Donald trump today denying these reports which are well documented in the New York Times that when those nonpartisan people did what theyre supposed to do, they were threatened with losing their jobs, pensions, et cetera, take a look. I never did that. I never did that. Thats a whole hoax by the fake news media, when they talk about the hurricane and when they talk about florida and they talk about alabama, thats just fake news. What trump are you seeing there . Well, thats the trump we know, without a doubt. Hes the liar. I think that he made a big deal out of this particular instance because at first he didnt care, just, you know, he said alabama. I wondered if he had a reason for that, whether it was someone he was talking to in alabama, he wants to make unhappy, but he didnt care that he was caught because he figured like everything else, but i think with the sharpie gate, he really looked so bad, that i think he might have thought my base thinks im not so good, and he doubled down, started threatening people, make it right, make it right. Ive seen him do that absolutely. Would people always be fired when he threatened or it was all just part of the noise. A lot of times people were not fired, but, yeah, he would lie to have his way, and, you know, we were talking about how eventually everyone he hired was someone that would say yes to him. Right. So theres a sort of narrowing. I want to get in the john bolton stuff, governor dean, as they say in the business, we are old enough to remember the last time john bolton had trouble in a white house. It was when his appointment in the Bush Administration was too extreme then. And then he got an appointment and he had to leave. This guy has been a right wing controversy for a long time. I wonder about in this sort of increasingly fact free part of political discourse, what you think of Tucker Carlsons new claim, take a look. If youre wondering why so many progressives are mourning boltons firing tonight, its because bolton himself fundamentally was a man of the left, dont let the mustache fool you. John bolton was one of the most progressive people in the trump administration. First of all, i wouldnt comment on tucker carlson, hes a nit wit, and a racist. Second of all, i know bolton well, because i have done some work with him on an iranian matter. Bolton is a hard liner, he feels strongly that we should in fact attack iran. I actually kind of personally like him even though i dont support his views on things. And i think bolton was too much for trump. Bolton also has very bolton is smart. You may not like him, and you may think his views are awful, but hes a smart guy, andki abo. Trump doesnt. And trump is always threatened by people who know what theyre talking about. Now, im not sorry john is gone, because i didnt want to go to war with iran, and i know john believes we ought to dispose of that regime by force, but, you know, hes going to say something. I have not experienced john bolton as a liar. Hes very conservative, far more to the right than i am. As i wait for his Public Statement about what really happened, im more inclined to believe john bolton than i am donald trump. I find it actually hysterical that the defense becomes, no, john boltons actually a lefty, but think about this, what donald trump said about bolton was actually hes not as tough as i am. Im a lot stronger, like we were too tough for john bolton, which is actually a bizarre Statement Given that what john bolton said was that russia is not our friend and actually took very very different positions than donald trump, beth on russia and north korea and what it really demonstrated to me about his personality was, im going to fire you before you can quit. Always. He says he quit, going to the point we didnt get to talk about barbara, why isnt the trump soho in soho. Ill tell you a quick story, we were doing a project for alexander retail stores, we were going to convert it and he insisted on calling in forest hills, absolutely every trump center in forest hills, not even close. So. I mean, thats wild for anyone who has visited new york, the neighborhoods are in places on maps and they built a property, and they said trump soho, and its not in soho. For new yorkers who walk around, it was an Early Education in what donald trump does. 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And also for a view from the field, someone in the fight right now, Jamie Harrison who chaired the South CarolinaDemocratic Party running for the u. S. Senate against Lindsey Graham. Thanks to both of you for being here. Good to be here. Great to have you both. Thanks for having us. Absolutely. Stanley, given all of your experience, that title doesnt leave a lot of room for imagination, what do you mean, what do you see . Its time not to be sober. I have spent almost every night, every morning writing after the womens march, and dedicated to the resistance, what this book, you know, says is that i understood this election meant that there was be a push back against trump. He would accelerate the trends and everything we have seen here, i think, has confirmed that and if you look at North Carolina, a lot of people look at it and say, well, it was disappointing, it wasnt won, but it was so much in part of the story of 2018, the swing was exactly the same, a 10point swing from where the republicans were in, you know, in 16, the shift in the suburban vote, and also whats important is immigration. He played the immigration card hard in 2018. They played it very hard in the special election, and it does not