report as of tomorrow. the impeachment report, we do not know how long it will be. we do not know exactly when tomorrow it will be released, but we the public are going to get it tomorrow. get ready. here we go. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> in the interest of planning your day, i spoke to chairman schiff in the hallway on my way racing into this room. and the one thing i wanted to know is what time tomorrow? what time tomorrow? >> he wouldn't tell me. did he tell you? >> no, he wouldn't. so, the answer was tomorrow. so, i narrowed it down to tomorrow. >> yes. i asked him how long is it, and he said it's long. that was like -- i -- yeah. >> and i just want to -- one group that i just want people to think about tonight after we alg degrees, relaxing thanksgivings and time off, are the staff, the staff of the house intelligence

committee who i guarantee you were lucky if they were able to get a bite of anything on thanksgiving day. that staff has been working basically 24 hours a day in a relay in order to write a document which is going to be a very substantial, very long document. it's an amazing feat to put this together. chairman schiff told me that not only were the staff involved in this, but he and some other members were also deeply involved in this throughout this last week. and it's difficult. it's a difficult thing for them to do. it's a difficult thing for them to do working around family schedules that we all had last week. so i just want that one note of thank you to them for the job that they've been doing, that they have taken an oath to do. >> and they can't even have -- you know, you get that relief when you finish a big project even if it's been killing you to get it done. you finally, ah, at least it's done. in this case, one of the things i talked to chairman schiff

about is they consider this to be an open and ongoing investigation. they will continue to collect evidence and send out subpoenas and talk to witnesses and they will continue to add to and potentially put out subsequent reports as they get more information on this. so obviously they're putting out what they believe to be the bulk of their findings, but this will be a rolling process from here on out. and so, you know, no rest for the wicked. >> rachel, as i was listening to your interview with chairman schiff, when he got to his emphasis about president trump's obstruction of justice. >> yeah. >> obstruction of congress, it really sounded like he certainly wants to see -- at least he wants to see if there's going to be articles of impeachment, an article that is specifically about the obstruction that the president has brought to the congress' investigation. >> yes, i think that is exactly my same read on it. i mean, and he makes a substantive point. i think a lot of us who have been watching this process look

at sort of expressions of concern, the expressed objections from chairman schiff and from other members involved in this process and say, yeah, you're frustrated. you want to be getting this stuff from the white house, and you're not getting it. but if you spend too much time objecting to the white house not giving you stuff, you're going to get bogged down. they're going to drag this out until after the election or whatever, however long they want it to go. i think we see it in a very instrumental way. but what schiff is articulating is saying, this is about precedent. this is about whether or not white houses in the future ever just direct members of their staff to not respond to subpoenas, to not hand over documents, to pretend like congressional oversight isn't a real thing. regardless of how utilitarian these objections may be in the moment, he's like we've got to play for the long haul. >> all right, rachel. tomorrow. it's tomorrow, sometime tomorrow. >> i know. >> that's when we get it. >> i'm going to stay up all night. >> great interview, rachel, thank you. well, "lisa page speaks."

that is the title of molly jong-fast's article in "the daily beast" in which former fbi lawyer lisa page speaks publicly for the first time about her two years under public attack from the president of the united states. lisa page said that it was donald trump's appearance at a rally a few weeks ago that made her finally realize she had to speak. it was the rally in which donald trump brought the presidency and performance art in general to a new low when he, according to many observers, including lisa page, publicly, onstage, into the microphone, faked an orgasm. i will leave to it you to judge exactly what donald trump was doing in that piece of video which we will show you at the end of this hour when molly jong-fast joins us with her exclusive report on lisa page's description of being endlessly attacked by the president of the united states.

lisa page says, quote, it's sickening, and she said it's like being punched in the gut. we begin tonight with the steadily progressing impeachment investigation of the president of the united states and the president's stunning decision to refuse to defend himself. a decision no other president under investigation has ever made. the decision to simply not defend himself. now, if you were under investigation and you had information to prove your innocence, would you withhold that information? would you not allow witnesses to testify who could help prove your innocence? that's what donald trump wants you to believe. he wants you to believe that he is innocent and that he is withholding evidence and blocking witnesses who could prove that he is innocent. all you have to do is say that out loud to hear how ridiculous

that idea is. but it means that so far the president of the united states is refusing to have his lawyers participate in the first official impeachment hearing in the house judiciary committee this week. that strategy could easily change at any time. the president's lawyers will always be allowed to participate in the judiciary committee's impeachment hearings. the rules of the impeachment investigation allow for the full participation by the president's lawyers in the judiciary committee. and so far the president's lawyers have nothing to say. they have no defense. the first hearing in the judiciary committee on wednesday will be a largely academic one with four law professors, including one selected by the republicans on the committee, offering their views on the impeachment process as described in the constitution and as established by centuries of congressional precedent. as chairman adam schiff described to rachel maddow in the last hour, the house intelligence committee had access tonight to review

chairman schiff's report of the committee's findings concerning president trump's request to the president of ukraine to invite -- to investigate joe biden. chairman schiff told rachel that the report will become public sometime tomorrow and the intelligence committee will meet at the end of the day tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. to vote on approving the report and then sending it to the house judiciary committee where it can then be considered as the basis for possible articles of impeachment. the house leadership announced tonight that they would keep the house of representatives in session an additional week in december. that means that the house of representatives will not recess for the christmas holiday until as late as december 20th. and that might mean that the house judiciary committee will use the first three weeks of december to bring articles of impeachment to a vote in the house judiciary committee. leading off our discussion tonight, jill wine-banks, former

assistant watergate special prosecutor and an msnbc legal analyst. and john heilemann, the editor in chief of "the recount." john, we just heard from chairman schiff in the last hour saying the report is ready, it is written. it's ready to go. it will be released tomorrow. we'll all have it by this hour. tomorrow night exactly as nancy pelosi said they would at the beginning of this process. >> let's be clear. i think what we have learned over the last year, but specifically in the last two months, is that the two crucial players in the house of representatives on this matter are nancy pelosi and adam schiff, both of whom made a political judgment for a long time they did not want to proceed with impeachment until it became absolutely necessary for matters related to questions of precedent, for questions what was they would allow to stand, because they thought the politics were tolerable to go forward. but they are still calling the tune.

this big question that has hovered over once we get through thanksgiving, which was, and i don't think there was ever much of a question, because nancy pelosi and adam schiff were clear on it, was, would they let this thing drag? would they give up all deliberate speed? would they try to pursue through the courts, getting john bolton and other witnesses to come in? i think for weeks it's been clear they would not do that, that they will have this vote done by christmas, and they are still sticking to that throughout. if you want to see what's going to happen over the course of these next few weeks, watch those two. >> we have something that chairman schiff said in the last hour. i think the control room has it ready. about where they are in this investigation and why they are not going to wait around at this point to gather more evidence. let's see if we have that. >> you get to a point in an investigation where you can tell it is going to be a long time before you get the next valuable increment of information. >> jill wine-banks, i assume you've been there as a prosecutor where you have a

case. you know there's more evidence to be dpatherrgathered, but you looking at the calendar, you're looking at how long it will take. you're looking at other factors, and you say, let's make our move now. >> absolutely. i started as an organized crime prosecutor. i could have investigated for the rest of my life any one of the crime families, and i would have kept getting bad information every single day. but at some point, you say enough is sufficient. i have enough to make a case. and it's important that i take these people out of circulation, and i have to act now. and i think that was a very wise choice on the part of the house right now. and i would also say that although there is obviously a lot more that could be gained by the witnesses who have refused to testify, and i believe the courts will say they have to testify, in the meantime, it is perfectly legitimate, people in their everyday lives do this and courts allow it.

you can say -- you can draw an adverse inference from the fact that they have failed to come forward, and that's enough. between all the evidence that we have and the adverse inference from the fact that they have not brought forward anyone, if the president had something that would exculpate him, he would have presented that evidence. there is none. that's the problem. >> let's listen to what california republican congressman tom mcclintock said about the president not participating in the judiciary committee hearing. >> i think it would be to the president's advantage to have his attorneys there. that is his right. but i can also understand how he is upset at the illegitimate process that we saw unfold in the intelligence committee. >> so you think they should bring in lawyers? >> i think it's to his advantage, yes. >> the reason i showed that is tom mcclintock is one of those formerly reasonable conservative republican members of congress. you can get to a point in this discussion with him where he has to admit, yes, there's something

a little strange about not defending yourself. >> of course. there's something more than a little strange. there's something completely unprecedented as you pointed out earlier. and in some sense, it's strange and not strange. not strange in the sense that, if there was a case to be made on the facts, not only would the lawyers be present but these other witnesses we were just discussing, the boltons, mulvaneys, pompeos of world will be coming forward, the president would free all the fact witnesses to come forward if they had facts that would help exculpate him. he does not. on some sense it's strange, on another level it's the most rational thing the president's doing. >> this reminds me of what i used to hear criminal defense lawyers say when i was hanging around courthouses in an earlier life. when they had somebody who is, let's just say, a very difficult defendant to represent, and the question they'd all ask each other is, can you put your guy on the stand? and when they couldn't put their defendant on the stand, it meant

that really there wasn't a very strong defense to be made from the witness stand. and this kind of feels like that. this feels like one of those cases where it's like, well, what defense do you expect us to present? we don't really have one, so the president is making a lot of noise about the process, attacking the process and claiming there's no point in offering a defense in this process. but what defense would there be to offer? >> there is no defense. and what they have said in the minority report, which is completely outrageous, is they just simply say, there is no evidence to support theablizations. but they don't present any evidence that says there is a defense to those. and it's sort of like if i went into a bank and i wrote a check on my own bank account and cashed the check and then i pulled out a gun and said to the teller, and now give me all the money in the vault. the fact that i did a legal transaction by withdrawing from my own account does not legalize

the fact that i pulled out a gun and robbed the bank. and the same thing is true right now in terms of this. they're saying, well, the president was concerned about ukraine's corruption. well, if he was, he never let anybody know. but even if he was, it wouldn't excuse the fact that he withheld the money and put in danger our national security and that of ukraine, an ally, by doing that. and he helped only one person, himself, and putin. so i guess he helped two people, not just one. and that makes it illegal. it makes it criminal. and people have to understand the danger that this poses to our democracy and to the 2020 election. and that even though the election is less than a year away, we can't wait that long. we need to protect our election. and i think, unfortunately, he has pushed into the democratic party to the point where they had no choice but to bring impeachment. >> jill wine-banks, john heilemann, thank you both.

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i don't trust anyone at all. that is in the headline of "time" magazine's report by our next guest, simon schuster, on

an interview with president zelensky of ukraine. president zelensky complained about president trump blocking aid to ukraine saying, quote, if you're our strategic partner, then you can't go blocking anything for us. when president zelensky was asked directly about the connection between military aid from the united states and the trump demand for investigations, president zelensky said, quote, look, i never talked to the president from a position of a quid pro quo. that's not my thing. i don't want us to look like beggars but you have to understand we're at war. if you're our strategic partner, then you can't go blocking anything for us. i think that's just about fairness. it's not about a quid pro quo. it just goes without saying. joining us now is simon schuster, correspondent for "time" magazine covering europe, russia, and ukraine. he joins us by phone from the ukrainian capital where he has been reporting about the impeachment inquiry. also joining us, former u.s.

ambassador to russia during the obama administration, michael mcfaul. he is an msnbc national security analyst. mr. schuster, in your interview with president zelensky, what was your sense of what he was willing to say and not willing to say about his interactions with president trump? did you sense there were limitations about what he was willing to answer about that? >> yes, most definitely there were limitations. the purpose of the interview was not at all to talk about impeachment or quid pro quos or any of the other things related to the impeachment inquiry. he wanted to talk about his ongoing war against pro-russian forces in eastern ukraine, and most importantly about the upcoming peace talks that he has next week with president vladimir putin of russia. when it came to impeachment-related issues and

other issues that are stirring up such a storm of scandal in the united states, he was very hesitant. and you have to keep that in mind as you read the quote that you just read out. you know, even for him to step out and say something like that, that critical of the united states policy toward ukraine, is quite a risk for him. he is still extremely dependent on the united states for support, for financial support, and perhaps even more importantly for political support as he heads into these negotiations with putin. and as we said in the headline of the interview you read out, he feels all alone. so it's extremely important for him to be cautious. the situation with his dependence on the united states has not changed. >> and ambassador mcfaul, even with that dependance that mr. shuster was just talking about, and i think we're all very aware

of, president zelensky did not say president trump did nothing wrong. but of course donald trump characterized the interview as president zelensky saying -- he said, president trump did absolutely nothing wrong. that is the trump summary of this interview. that's not what this interview says. >> that's right. that's why i read the interview three times to see if there was any evidence to support what president trump said. there was none. first of all, i congratulate simon. it was a great interview, a really interesting interview to get insight into the way president zelensky thinks. as he goes into these negotiations, it's really important for americans to understand he is at war with russia. he's trying to get a cease-fire. this is the utmost importance. in previous administrations, in previous times, we supported the ukrainians 100%. yet you have not heard a single word of support for president zelensky from president trump as he goes into these very crucial negotiations. i just think it's very important

for people to understand, there are big national security concerns under way here. we are talking very little about it, including the president himself. he almost never mentions it. >> another complaint president zelensky has in the interview with "time" magazine and simon shuster is donald trump talking about corruption in ukraine. and of course let's remember it's the only corruption in the world that donald trump has ever talked about. and president zelensky says, when america says, for instance, that ukraine is a corrupt country, that is the hardest of signals. it might seem like an easy thing to say, that combination of words, ukraine is a corrupt country. just to say it and that's it. but it doesn't end there. everyone hears that signal. investments, banks, stakeholders, companies, american, european companies that have billion capital in ukraine. it's a signal to them that says, be careful, don't invest. or, get out of there. that is a hard signal. and, mr. shuster, it's the kind

of signal that vladimir putin must be very, very happy president trump is sending about ukraine. >> i think vladimir putin has made that quite clear in his statements about two weeks ago when he said that, if i'm remembering correctly, thank god that now no one in the u.s. is accusing russia of meddling in the 2016 elections, they're now accusing ukraine. and i think the same thing goes for the constant conversation about corruption in ukraine. you know, that is a much better narrative for the u.s. media and u.s. political figures to be focused on than issues like u.s. aggression against ukraine or u.s. continued efforts for russia to meddle in the u.s. elections. so of course i think this, you know, goes along with what putin said, that this is a positive development from russia's

perspective. it's quite a negative development from ukraine's perspective. it's very painful. and the quote that you just read is the point where i think president zelensky became most upset and spoke most emotionally, most freely, and you know, really wanted to get the message across that it is doing harm for u.s. officials, including the u.s. president, to constantly be banging the drum about endemic corruption in ukraine. he admitted during the interview that, yes, ukraine has a major problem with corruption. but the way that it's been framed as this sort of all-encompassing problem within ukrainian society and ukrainian politics, that president trump was somehow trying to root out by freezing the aid this summer and fall, you know, he says that that really hurts the country. it hurts him, and it prevents

the country from attracting the kind of foreign support that it needs to defend itself against russia. >> and ambassador mcfaul, this is the kind of thing, of course, that any ambassador to ukraine would tell the president not to say for specifically these reasons. >> exactly. and, lawrence, i'm really glad you underscored that packagssag. i found it to be the most powerful. remember, zelensky was elected president because he was an anti-corruption candidate. people need to understand that. this was the moment they were going to throw out all the corrupt people. that's why he won. and so right as he enters to do that, brings in one of the youngest governments in all of europe, brand-new people, the president of the united states is saying, oh, wait a minute, i'm going to withhold aid to fight corruption. that's exactly the wrong signal, and most americans now associate ukraine with the word "corruption." that's not in ukraine's interest, and it's not in america's interest.

>> ambassador michael mcfaul, simon shuster of "time" magazine, thank you both for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you. when we come back, republican presidential candidate bill weld will join us. he worked as lawyer in the impeachment investigation of president richard nixon. and he is running against donald trump for the republican presidential nomination. bill weld joins us next. try eucerin advanced repair lotion. it helps stop dryness from recurring by going beyond ceramides with natural moisturizing factors found in skin eucerin advanced repair lotion for healthier looking skin. skip to the good part with alka-seltzer plus. now with 25% more concentrated power. nothing works faster for powerful cold relief. oh, what a relief it is! so fast! steven could only imaginem 24hr to trenjoying a spicy taco.burn, now, his world explodes with flavor.

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just cancel their presidential primaries. and other states are blocking republican candidates from getting their names on the republican presidential primary ballots. joining us now is former republican governor of massachusetts running for the republican presidential nomination against president trump. during watergate he was counsel on the house judiciary committee on the republican staff. things are operating very differently with both the republican staff and the republican members of the impeachment investigation. now, what is your reaction to what you're seeing in the way the republicans are approaching this investigation of the president? >> i don't really think they have any evidence. they're saying there is no evidence, but that's not an argument. it's a conclusion. and i would call it a legal conclusion. it's bereft of any legal support. they're saying these are nameless, faceless bureaucrats hurling these accusations. last time i looked, gordon sondland who is a mega donor to

donald trump and a political appointee, buried everybody, stwlu everybody under the busth bus, perhaps i shouldn't use that phrase, but he was very clear. we all did this because the president directed us to do it, yeah, there was a quid pro quo. >> what has happened to the republican party since the time you were working on the staff of the impeachment investigation, on the republican side? and where we are today? >> well, that was a different era. i'm so sorry to say. and it was fiercely fought. and jim st. clair, representing president nixon, fought for the right of cross examination. albert jenner and john doar on the other side said, we don't want to give you too much. but it was, you know, contested fairly evenly. it wound up being 10 republicans going against the president and 7 going the other -- other way around, 10 going for him and 10 going against. >> the republicans issued a kind of a document tonight

establishing their position, and it's basically what you just said. they don't argue the evidence. they don't get into details of evidence. they simply say this. the evidence does not establish that president trump pressured ukraine to investigate burisma holdings, vice president joe biden, hunter biden, or ukrainian influence in the 2016 election for the purpose of benefiting him in the 2020 election. so they're simply saying, it doesn't establish what the democrats say. >> i'm so sorry but the july 25th transcript which had 12 witnesses to it establishes that beyond any doubt. it was confirmed by a number of live witnesses. and there was no rebuttal. so the evidence does establish that. and saying it doesn't really doesn't advance the inquiry very much. >> you're a former federal prosecutor, former u.s. attorney in boston. evidence like that is the kind of evidence that you are always, i assume, trying to find? >> oh, yeah. no, this is a slam-dunk case,

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former massachusetts governor bill weld is back with us. you're a former federal prosecutor, you started off working on the impeachment investigation of president richard nixon on the republican staff in the house. given your experience in these issues, what do you make of this unprecedented decision by this president to not send his lawyers up to the judiciary committee hearing? >> well, he's taken the position that they can't investigate him, period. there's never been a position like that advanced in court by any president in the history of the united states. it flies in the face of the division of powers between article i and article ii. it's beyond any comprehension how someone could argue that as a legal matter. >> so if you had your original washington job back and you were working on the staff of the judiciary committee now, would you see articles of impeachment taking shape? >> oh, there are three potential

articles that just scream out. number one would be the ukraine matters, which is extortion and bribery of a foreign power, seeking them to interfere in u.s. internal affairs and a presidential election at that, and bun in which the president was a candidate. and that also involves use of the president's office to try to advance his personal gain. those are the two things the framers were most worried about, foreign interference and corruption of the office. two would be the 10 examples of obstruction of justice in the bob mueller report, which 1,000 federal prosecutors signed a document saying it's among the most clear and convincing, overwhelming cases of obstruction of justice that they've ever seen. and three could be, just like in nixon, obstruction of congress and obstruction of justice by refusing to play the role that article ii assigns to the president of the united states. that's interfering with the proper workings of government, and that's quintessentially what

the impeachment and removal power is aimed at. they better come up with something else by way of defense if and when this thing goes to the senate, or there's not going to be much to talk about. >> but what do you make of a republican senate in which so far the no defense is an adequate defense for republican senators? >> well, it's no defense at all. you know, i don't know whether chief justice roberts, who presides over that trial, would have something to say about that. but there's a common misunderstanding here. people seem to think that the senate controls all those proceedings. the house appoints managers to come and conduct the proceedings as prosecutors on behalf of the house. so if everyone throws up their hands and says, we don't know what you're talking about, that's just not a very impressive performance. >> we're hearing from republican senators now. they are parroting this case that vladimir putin makes, which is that ukraine attacked our

election, russia did not attack our election. and now you have republican senators saying, well, they both did. russia did, but ukraine did it just as badly. this seems to be -- many people have said this is actually in service to what vladimir putin wants people to be saying in this country, and republican senators are saying it. >> yeah, so far as i'm aware, u.s. intelligence services did not uncover evidence that ukraine was interfering in the election, quite the contrary. russia was. so this again is the putin storyline. and it's part of what the president's done by insulting nato and trying to undercut it and basically siding with russia and crimea, and withholding the javelin missile funds from ukraine so the russian tanks could continue to roll across the border and fire with impunity. it's all part and parcel of a pro-russia tilt, and, yes, mr. putin must be delighted. >> when you talk to republican voters in new hampshire and

elsewhere, about this particular issue, about the ukraine phone call, about the evidence they've seen, are they defensive of the president? are you finding republican voters who are bothered by what they're seeing -- >> they don't want to talk about the details. they're just so sick of it. all over the country people are just exhausted. but i will say when i was in a parade in concord, new hampshire, maybe ten days ago, people were coming into the middle of the parade route grabbing me and saying, get this guy out of there. that's their view. >> massachusetts governor bill weld, thank you very much for joining us. and so today it was georgia who decided no republicans on the presidential primary ballot. they're fixing it for donald trump in georgia. >> right. >> it just keeps happening that way. >> yeah, i can't wait to see how all that pans out. one state is trying to keep us off the ballot now after having cashed our check for $15,000 to get on the ballot. >> you are facing challenges no one's ever faced before on this. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, lawrence.

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from very early on, i knew i wanted to work for the government and make the world a better place. lisa page said that in her very first public comments about her years of being attacked by the president of the united states. former fbi lawyer lisa page broke her public silence with our next guest, molly jong-fast. in that interview, lisa page said something that no one has ever said about any president of the united states until now. honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel's back. this is what lisa page was referring to. >> lisa page. what a group. she's going to win. 10 million to 1, she's going to win, i'm telling you, peter.

i'm telling you peter, she's going to win. oh, i love you so much. i love you, peter! i love you too, lisa! lisa, i love you, lisa, lisa, oh god i love you, lisa -- >> and that's the moment that changed everything for lisa page, according to molly jong-fast's report in "the daily beast." she said, i had stayed quiet for years hoping it would fade away, but instead it got worse. it had been so hard not to defend myself, to let people who hate me control the narrative. i decided to take my power back. joining us now is molly jong-fast, whose article in "the daily beast" is entitled "lisa page speaks." molly, thank you for joining us. it's an extraordinary piece. we've been wondering about this

woman for years as the president attacks her on a daily basis. and here she is finally telling us not only how she's felt about it, but why she came out, that moment, just in october, when the vulgarian in chief does something that we've never seen before. >> it was an amazing moment to sit with her two weeks later and to hear her tell me that that was the thing that made her decide she was going to, like, just take it back. i mean, i felt very honored to get to be a part of that moment. >> and just for the record, for the audience, her offense against donald trump is that she was, in 2016 during the presidential campaign, watching the most incompetent, least informed presidential candidate in history. she watched him with fear like most americans, and like most

americans, she didn't want him to be president. and she privately communicated that with others, and texass ts that private communication eventually became public, including private communication with a former lover of hers at the fbi. they had a right to that private communication, they had a right to the personal view that donald trump should not be president, would be a bad president, they were completely right about that. >> right. >> and donald trump has attacked her and others as if they had no right to ever think that he would be a bad president. >> well, the only possible law that they could have broken would be the match -- hatch act, and they didn't break the hatch act. but ironically kellyanne conway breaks the hatch act all the time. >> every day, yeah. >> so they're always like obsessed with saying that people are doing the things that they're actually doing. >> and hatch act is publicly advocating for a client, which government workers can't do, which she did not do. then the issue becomes was her

judgment in any of the elements involving the investigation of the russian interference in our election -- was any of her judgment colored by the fact that she didn't want donald trump to be president. and we have found absolutely no evidence of that. >> she's been totally exonerated. i mean it's such -- and we know that this december 8th i.g. report is going to exonerate her further because we've seen that in the leaks. the question is really, like, why were these text messages leaked, and how does the president use women to distract. you know, how does he get his base all ginned up with misogyny to distract from the things he's doing that are sort of nefarious. and we see it again and again and again, you know. >> it almost seems like he would have to invent a lisa page if you didn't have one. >> or a christine blasey ford or a marie yovanovich. it's just this continual women that he finds to use, to abuse. >> and you see and your

reporting indicates that for donald trump, there's extra fuel in this when it's a woman he's attacking. >> yeah. i think there's this weird sexual angle, like the lover, lisa page. but, yeah, he gets much more involved in the narrative when it's a woman, and you see -- it just -- i'm always shocked. like we saw it with e. jean carroll. i wrote about her. it was that same thing where he just went after her. i mean this is my favorite trump thing he does. i mean no disrespect, right? >> yes, he uses that phrase. >> and then he's horrendously disrespectful. you know, that doesn't negate the disrespect. >> yeah. and what did you find -- who is this woman, lisa page, who you spent time with? >> she's amazing. she's completely self-made. she was one of the only women -- she was the only woman in her doj honors course. like she's just a very extraordinary, smart woman and,

you know, andy mccabe thought she was -- he really trusted her with everything. and she's a lawyer, and she's very lawyerly. and the stuff -- you know, she speaks just in -- she's just really a great person. >> "the daily beast" has the piece. molly jong-fast got the story. it is such an honor to have you here. i have been following your thinking and your writing and your tweeting for years and years and years. great to have you here. >> thank you. >> really appreciate it. and when we come back, 13-year-old meggy fundue gets tonight's last word. applebee's new sizzlin' entrées. now starting at $9.99.

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