>> we're live. >> fbi agent jerry clark was just 20 feet from wells. the man people described as calm when he robbed the bank seemed increasingly anxious. >> he's pleading, can you get this thing off me? >> it's gonna go off. i'm not lying. >> no one dared approach. the standoff lasted 30 excruciating minutes, and then something happened. >> you hear a count down beep almost like a bond movie. >> very faintly, a beep, beep, beep, a digital count down timer. >> lamont king heard the beeping too. he grabbed a pair of binoculars and zoomed in on wells. >> i'm listening to him, and i got him pretty much zoomed in. then i hear another beep. once i heard the second beep, he got agitated. >> the standoff had now lasted 31 minutes. the clock hit 3:18. the device locked around brian wells' neck exploded. >> i'll never forget it. mr. wells fell back, and i watched his chest, and the air went out but never came back. and i thought, this is a fatal situation. >> and debris is sailing through the air, huh? >> you could feel the percussion from the device. >> i felt

jerry nadler is in the room in his seat what comes next? >> reporter: so, he will make an opening statement, there's a swearing in of the witness and we'll here from doug collins, a rhetorically colorful guy. five minutes between each democrat and republican. after that wraps up, then we'll hear from committee staffers and this, of course, goes back to what we talked about earlier, the new framework of how they're going to handle their impeachment investigative hearings of which this is one. this entire process could take a matter of hours. i think if you came back to me 6:00, 7:00 tonight eastern, i'll probably be still here as this hearing makes its way through. but we should say, of course, this is one of the building blocks this committee has already announced they're going to hold another hearing on emollients. and the revelation that trump is trying to pump up a scottish resort nearby. the idea that the president -- here is chairman nadler speaking, i'll toss it back to you byes >> let's listen to jerry nadler. chairman of the house j

jerry nadler, chairman of this committee, explained these rules will make these hearings, subsequent hearings, more efficient and more effective as they try to build the public case against president trump. as that case democrats say gets stronger, they at the end of this entire effort will make a determination as to whether or not to introduce articles of impeachment against president trump to the full house. now, this has been the entire effort has been a point of contentionmong democrats on this committee because they've all talked about it differently, some say inquiry, other investigation, the control room can tell me if we have that sound, i'm not sure if we're going to use it now. our colleagues have been on the hill days now talking to lawmakers and they've described it differently. we can hear some of that now. >> i don't want to get caught in semantics. >> essentially the impeachment inquiry has begun. >> a bit technical inside baseball maybe. >> we're holding hearings for the purpose of investigating the possibility of voting articles of impeachment against the president.

i spoke at jerry falwell's church. i spoke at liberty college when it was liberty university back in the day. and i knew these people. so you know, if you look at trump's attorney, jay sekulow and his family who take in about $230 million a year in contributions and pay themselves out millions, when you look at people like kenneth copeland, who's worth $750 million, when you look at benny hin, worth $40 million, jerry falwell jr. is just another con artist grifter cashing in on 501(c)(3) tax-deductible status. there's a long history of this. first of all, it doesn't represent the best of christianity in this country. it is the evangelicals who should be rising up furious that their name is dragged through the mud again and again and again by these con artists. and then when you look at the present situation, one thing has changed. the old con artists like oral roberts were glad just to make money, squirrel it away, steal, lie, et cetera, et cetera. now we have jerry falwell jr., and what he wants is access to power, an

they did look at it, rightly or wrongly, deluding jerry nadler's standing here. including nadler's committee and we'll see how long it takes them to come up with conclusions to these various probes and whether they report to him that there are impeachable offenses that should go into articles of impeachment. >> danielle? >> i'm just so happy that this is finally happening. can i just say that? it's like -- >> i'm going to tell you, some democrats that we've heard from and some critics of donald trump say they come to this more in sorrow, it's sad to impeach a president. you're honestly saying based about what you think this president has done and got away with you're happy? >> yes. overall this is bad for our democracy and our country, of course it is. >> we've been in a sorrowful place for a while. >> i'd much rather have a president who didn't break and abuse all of our norms, but now that we do have one, i'm very happy that we are at the point as david said calling the thing what it is. >> and your position is -- you don't support impeaching trump because you

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but jerry sr.'s vision of the church, just as ben was outlining, was to bring moral compass to the political world. that is not what liberty university under engineer jerry doing. it's been described as by one of the senior -- that was reported by one of the senior officials at liberty is the university is really a hedge fund. it's a real estate hedge fund now, this will be -- look, a lot of universities do what liberty university is doing and invest in a lot of companies. they have a return, but the line between a 501c-3 and if they were a private, for-profit companies, they could do a lot of these things. but there has been poll manipulation that has happened in the last campaign to bring up trump's numbers. they manipulated a cnbc poll to make trump look like he was a great businessman. that was done in the run-up to the campaign. that was done by the chief, jonjohn gauger, the chief tech person at liberty university, which separately owns a polling company, which seems really inappropriate for a

ben & jerry's released a new flavor "justice remixed." proceeds will go to the advancement national project. ben & jerry's has a long history of releasing a number of flavors tied to social issues. the ice cream giant and a group along with padagonia took out a page urging others to do the same. with us is ben & jerry's ceo. good to have you with us. tell us how this permeates your everyday life at the company talking about criminal justice reform. >> we're very lucky to have the values of our co-founders, jerry and ben, still guiding us every day. yes, we want to make the best ice cream in the world and wow people with our flavors but keeping our social mission and specifically focused on climate justice and social justice is something we do all the time. it's not either/or which is a false narrative in the business world. >> i threw out this term big corporation. how the way you do business is different from those in another company, the way those on the business roundtable would do business. >> b corp is the best structured approach to

jerry nadler wants to impeach the president. nancy pelosi doesn't >> matt -- >> i don't know how you grade that. >> wants to get this done, file articles of impeachment by the end of the year. how long does the court process take to take people like corey lewandowski to court, to compel them to have to answer those questions? >> that's one of the issues that can take months and months and months this scenario i raised at the beginning, if the chairman instrumented the hearing and said i'm going to hold you in contempt, go to court to try to enforce this, well, when they subpoenaed don mcgahn they didn't go to court for over three months to force it that's not nadler's call he doesn't control the house council. it goes to court there's internal politics in the house that makes this very difficult. >> what's happening behind closed doors are people like jerry nadler, do they feel like the defeatism that we've all alluded to, in terms of this entire endeavor, does the blame for that lie at nancy pelosi's feet and does nancy pelosi

>> jerry nadler. >> you have nadler? >> you know where he is right now? he's over here. >> that was an excellent reveal. >> come by and say hi on your way out the door. >> i will. okay, bye. >> thank you, rachel. >>> house judiciary committee jerry nadler is here to talk about the breaking news of the night with the trump justice department trying to block his subpoena for grand jury material from the mueller investigation. chairman nadler will be our first guest tonight with his reaction to that new legal filing by the justice department. >>> also tonight, donald trump lost a big round in court today on the emoluments case against him, which has now cleared legal hurdles to move forward. >>> we'll take a look at last night's debate and show you why you can ignore almost everything in the policy details that the candidates argued about last night. >>> cal perry will join us with a new must-see investigation into the potential dangers of the practice of flaring natural gas in texas. we begin tonight with the breaking news, the trump justice department head

the post says several lawmakers in the room saw that as a dig at chairman jerry nadler. back with us again tonight, rick wilson, veteran florida man, veteran republican strategist whose views about our 45th president best expressed by the title of his book "everything trump touches dies." rick, i was following you, following your every word yesterday. we quoted you on this broadcast last night as accusing the democrats of having brought a soup ladle to a gunfight. among your best work. they got rolled. they got played. and, again, the football was snatched out in front of jerry nadler again on a national audience. your point has been for the last 24 hours if corey lewandowski is going to do that to you, imagine when you get a professional in front of that committee. >> exactly, brian. it is an absolute sign that they are not prepared to execute on a plan to impeach this guy. should he be? make that argument all day long. will they be able to pull it off? if they're at the performance level they showed yesterday, i would put donald trump's odds of even getting enough vote

jerry nadler said he doesn't want to argue about nomenclature anymore yet he goes on and has to take questions about it. so what happens now is that democrats are trying to build popular support. over the august break you had some more, even some from republican-leaning districts, say they're for an impeachment inquiry, which they came out as if something would change. they were saying this as the investigation was going on anyway. the point of why they're doing it, the ones i've interviewed said to me, is that they were trying to get the public's attention. now, there's some kind of razzle dazzle, if you said, today, vote, 4:00 on the impeachment inquiry, you would have a countdown clock going on right now. that's what they're trying to do is to get a national focus on the investigation, to have the public with them to say, is it outrageous that the justice department is trying to block the normal oversight activity of congress. >> what's interesting is that now they're calling this a coverup. take a look at this. >> this is another instance of the trump administration trying to cov

>> jerry nadler. >> you have nadler? >> you know where he is right now? he's over here. >> that was an excellent reveal. >> come by and say hi on your way out the door. >> i will. okay, bye. >> house judiciary committee jerry nadler is here to talk about the breaking news of the night with the trump justice department trying to block his subpoena for grand jury material from the mueller investigation. chairman nadler will be our first guest tonight with his reaction to that new legal filing by the justice department. also tonight, donald trump lost a big round in court today on the emoluments case against him, which has now cleared legal hurdles to move forward. >>> we'll take a look at last night's debate and show you why you can ignore almost everything in the policy details that the candidates argued about last night. >>> cal perry will join us with a new must-see investigation into the potential dangers of the practice of flaring, natural gas in texas. we begin tonight with the breaking news, the trump justice department headed by the trump attorney g

if jerry nadler were doing that, it would be the impeachiest. i think what's behind it is nancy pelosi's desire to keep control of the house of representatives in the next congress. there's an electoral push there, an electoral desire. she wants to make sure she's not losing house members. she doesn't want to force tough votes on her members. for many of them, it would be difficult to have a vote on impeachment. it would basically pit the liberal base in their districts against more moderate swing voters that they need to win. so i think that's what we've been seeing for months and months and months. now, as a practical matter, you know, this question of impeachment and the courts and whether or not democrats are moving forward, the courts have ruled on this in the past in terms of grand jury testimony. going back to the nixon period and watergate, the house's power to impeach and its power to investigate toward impeachment is something that is absolutely recognized by the courts as a reason to go and unseal that grand jury for the congress to g

tonight, jerry nadler spoke out about the latest effort to thwart the investigation. >> we've been very clear for the last several months in court filings, in public statements, and if proceedings in the committee that we are, in fact, conducting an investigation, preparing to decide whether to recommend articles of impeachment in the house. this is another instance of the trump administration trying to cover up and hide from congress and from the american people, in this case from congress because the american people wouldn't stee grand jury information, all kinds of information. >> meanwhile, the "i" word, impeachment, appears to be on the president's mind of late. just this morning he asked, quote, how do you impeach a president who has helped create perhaps the greatest economy in the history of our country, done more than any other president in the first two and a half years despite phony and fraudulent witch hunt illegally led against him? you don't impeach presidents for doing a good, great job. it came up last night when he spoke to a gathering of house democrats in baltimore. >

you've got jerry nadler who would like to commence the impeachment process. you have nancy pelosi who still seems to not want to go down that path. the question of whether this road map that's been laid out, whether this turns out to be largely a political exercise in which the leverage of opening impeachment -- is used to try the get politically damaging witnesses, fact witnesses in front of the various committees, people like don mcgahn who can do some political damage to the president, or whether it is really a pathway towards impeachment. that remains unresolved. i said something about the clock. there are not very many legislative days this congress has scheduled in session this fall. if you believe that with a very limited legislative calendar going forward and a presidential election a couple of months away that you're going to launch into a genuine real impeachment process, not a political one, but real one to try to get the president impeached in the house if not convicted in the senate, man, it's hard for me to see how that's going to happen. i'm no

you've got jerry nadler who would like to commence the impeachment process. you have nancy pelosi who still seems to not want to go down that path. the question of whether this road map that's been laid out, whether this turns out to be largely a political exercise in which the leverage of opening impeachment -- is used to try the get politically damaging witnesses, fact witnesses in front of the various committees, people like don mcgahn who can do some political damage to the president, or whether it is really a pathway towards impeachment. i think that question remains unresolved. i said something about the the clock a second ago. man, there are not very many legislative days this congress has scheduled in session this fall. if you believe that with a very limited legislative calendar going forward and a presidential election a couple of months away that you're going to launch into a genuine real impeachment process, not a political one, but real one to try to get the president impeached in the house if not convicted in the senate, man, it's hard for me to

the letter from white house counsel to chairman jerry nadler directions former advisers not to appear before congress saying the two are absolutely immune from testifying. both are key witnesses in several instances of potential obstruction of justice laid out by mueller. the second letter places limitations on what former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski can and cannot say. lewandowski is not allowed to answer any questions with his communications with the president beyond what was in the mueller report. nadler responded to the letter saying this is a knocking and dangerous assertion of executive privilege and absolutely immunity. the president would have us believe that he can willfully engage in criminal activity and prevent witnesses from testifying before congress, even if they did not actually work for him or his administration. >> joining us now on the msnbc set legal analyst danny cevallos. corey lewandowski never worked for the white house, left the campaign well before trump became the president of the united states, working for cnn before he won the election in 2016

on one hand, we've got jerry nadler with a head cold, on the other end, we've got the speaker of the house. it also seems to me impeachment comes in two flavors. regular/classic or diet. this seems to be the close to diet impeachment we're ever going to see and that seems to be exactly the way the speaker wants it. >> there's not really a different of opinion between chairman nadler and speaker pelosi. i was talking to house democrats over recess and in the last week, and their whole perspective is speaker pelosi wants to drag this out a little bit longer because she wants to see the investigations and the probes on the trump properties. she wants to see people brought up to capitol hill. her argument to her top allies is not that she doesn't want to impeach president trump, it's she wants to see the process play out so the case can be made. you have house democrats adjusting to the post-mueller report world. starting to build the facts in the public narrative, what the president has done in terms of his administration, spending money, whether the trump hotel in washington or trump p

post says several lawmakers in the room saw that as a dig at chairman jerry nadler. back with us again tonight, rick wilson, veteran florida man, veteran republican strategist whose views about our 45th president best expressed by the title of his book "everything trump touches dies." rick, i was following you, following your every word yesterday. we quoted you on this broadcast last night as accusing the democrats of having brought a soup ladle to a gunfight among your best work. they got rolled. they got played. and again, the football was snatched out in front of jerry nadler again on a national audience. your point has been for the last 24 hours if corey lewandowski is going to do that to you, imagine when you get a professional in front of that committee. >> exactly, brian. it is an absolute sign that they are not prepared to execute on a plan to impeach this guy. should he be? make that argument all day long. will they be able to pull it off? if they're at the performance level they showed yesterday, i would put donald trump's odds of even getting enough votes

tonight, jerry nadler spoke out about the latest effort to thwart the investigation. >> we've been very clear for the last several months in court filings, in public statements, and in proceedings in the committee that we are, in fact, conducting an investigation, preparing to decide whether to recommend articles of impeachment in the house. this is another instance of the trump administration trying to cover up and hide from congress and from the american people, in this case from congress because the american people wouldn't see the grand jury information, all kinds of information. >> meanwhile, the "i" word, impeachment, appears to be on the president's mind of late. just this morning he asked, quote, how do you impeach a president who has helped create perhaps the greatest economy in the history of our country, done more than any other president in the first two and a half years despite phony and fraudulent witch hunt illegally led against him? you don't impeach presidents for doing a good, great job. it came up last night when he spoke to a gathering of house democrats in baltimore

on one hand, we've got jerry nadler with a head cold, on the other end, we've got the speaker of the house. it also seems to me impeachment comes in two flavors. regular/classic or diet. this seems to be the close to diet impeachment we're ever going to see and that seems to be exactly the way the speaker wants it. >> there's not really a different of opinion between chairman nadler and speaker pelosi. i was talking to house democrats over recess and in the last week, and their whole perspective is speaker pelosi wants to drag this out a little bit longer because she wants to see the investigations and the probes on the trump properties. she wants to see people brought up to capitol hill. her argument to her top alleys is not that she doesn't want to impeach president trump, it's she wants to see the process play out so the case can be made. you have house democrats adjusting to the post-mueller report world. starting to build the facts in the public narrative, what the president has done in terms of his administration, spending money, whether the trump hotel in washington or trump p

and tropical storm jerry is about to become a hurricane. of course jerry, the next little area to watch, for our friends in the caribbean island and those are sometimes the storms that head to the u.s. we think, pretty much all in agreement, with all of our computer models, we're going to go just north of the leeward islands and puerto rico and stall it out and do that bend. maybe a problem for bermuda again but it doesn't look like it will head to the southeast coastal areas. six storms. the peak of the season. it's the most that they've ever tracked at the hurricane center in miami. talk about being busy but none of them, except the one hitting the area right now, will be hitting the u.s. zbr the >> the there is a there is a lot of fuel in the oceans. >>> facing pressure from president trump, federal reserve chairman jerome powell announced that rate cuts will be happening for the second time in two months. l be happening for the second time in two months find a balanced solution. try great-tasting boost glucose control. the patented blen

catch every episode of this is us with xfinity. >>> and just moments ago, house judiciary chairman jerry nadler arriving on capitol hill for this showdown with corey lewandowski. all lewandowski expected any moment. white house exerting executive privilege late last night, saying he cannot answer anything outside the bounds of what has already been reported in the mueller report where he was a key witness. let's check in with nbc's geoff bennett on capitol hill. geoff, this is unprecedented it's never been exerted successfully for a nonstaff member nor over rick dearborn, the former deputy chief of staff and rob porter, two former staffers who don't have absolute immunity and such a thing doesn't even exist, but they're not even showing up so, what do you expect from the hearing? this is the first impeachment hearing. >> reporter: you're right about that, and as i speak to you, i'm keying my head on a swivel because we expect lewandowski to come in a minute the white house is claiming privilege where none exists and the reason that lewandowski is such a key member for this panel to testi

jerry nadler released a resolution today detailing what it calls the ongoing impeachment very long into president trump. the document cites attempts by administration officials to avoid congressional oversight. a vote to, quote, consider procedures regarding whether to recommend impeachment is scheduled for this thursday. the vote is expected to follow the same procedures that were used during the nixon impeachment proceedings back in 1974. so this short time frame means that hesitant or otherwise vulnerable democrats have arealy only a few days whether they are willing to move forward with impeachment or whether they'd simply rather keep investigating the president. "the new york times" reports that nadler's committee is preparing new front of investigation, saying on the agenda for new scrutiny are mr. trump's role to illegal hush money payments to women who said they had affairs to him, reports that he dangled pardons to officials and whether his resorts have illegally benefited from political spending. political reports members of the military were staying at the president's turnber

jerry nadler is going to have a difficult time with 41 members getting them to focus and the five minute rule is absurd, however. >> one of the things we saw mimi in the prior testimony in front of nadler's testimony with corey lewandowski is difficult. the five minute rule is difficult and a lot of these members of congress sometimes gets more political than getting answers. that took hours to get anything out of lewandowski, what are you looking for as these hearings move forward? >>> first of all. ali, i think hopefully they will make use of what they did with the lewandowski hearing which is excellent council that they have with berry burke and others they need to hire others, berry burke in 30 minutes has accomplished. first of all, this is what is frankly brilliant about subpoenaing pompeo first. you are starting to see people turn on each other. i had trials like this as a prosecutor, multi defendant trials. where all of a sudden fingers started pointing at the other defendant one another. i think that's going to happen and i think that's going to happen here. i mean pompeo and gi

>> jerry nadler. >> you have nadler? >> you know where he is right now? he's over here. >> that was an excellent reveal. >> come by and say hi on your way out the door. >> i will. okay, bye. >> thank you, rachel. >>> house judiciary committee jerry nadler is here to talk about the breaking news of the night with the trump justice department trying to block his

jerry nadler is going to have a difficult time with 41 members getting them to focus and the five minute rule is absurd. >> one of the things we saw mimi in the prior testimony in front of nadler's testimony with corey lewandowski is difficult. a lot of these members of congress sometimes gets more political than getting answers. that took hours to get anything of lewandowski, what are you looking for as these hearings move forward? >>> first of all. ali, i think hopefully they will make use of what they did with the lewandowski here which is excellent council that they have be berry burke and others they need to hire others, berry burke in 30 minutes accomplished. first of all, this is what is frankly brilliant about subpoenaing pompeo first. you are starting to see people turn on each other. i had trials like this as a prosecutor, multi defendant trials. where fingers started pointing at the other defendant one another. i think that's going to happen here. pompeo and rudy giuliani already, they can't both be telling the truth and not implicate the other one. their stories don't match u

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. >> house judiciary chairman, jerry nadler says they plan to question fbi director christopher ray about the bureau's kavanaugh investigation at a hearing that will be next month. here for our leadoff discussion on a monday night as we start a new week of this, tim o'brien executive editor of bloomberg opinion, also happens to be the author of trump nation, the art of being the donald. ab stoddard, columnist and associate editor at real clear politics and harry litman, a former federal prosecutor and former deputy assistant general. and counselor, i would like to begin with you on the west coast. you said today this tax return story, this request, this demand could be a game changer, why is that in your view? >> everything about the house ways and means committee request is strange and barricaded by the department of justice, which is fighting tooth and nail with specious legal claims. this is a straight up request from a private party, the accounting firm that says it's going to cooperate as part of a criminal investigation so none of those blockades are there. it's likely to get the in

worth detective jerry cedillo and his partner ernie pate sped over there, too. >> there was a crowd that was startin' to gather. and next thing you know, we have about 40 to 50 friends and family and co-workers. and then we had residents that were just, you know, lookin' from balconies, so we had quite a crowd out here. >> reporter: by now, firefighters had squelched the flames, and the detectives walked up the steps to ashlea's door. >> when you went into that apartment, what was that like? >> it was um -- it was very disturbing. >> reporter: a woman's lifeless body was lying face down on the bedroom floor. >> we waited until she was turned over and we got a good look at her face. and she was also identified by some of the tattoos. >> reporter: and then they knew. the victim had her name tatooed on her rib cage, ashlea harris. outside ashlea's friends were totally in the dark. >> we were asking, um, if we could talk to ashlea or where she was at, they just said that she's unavailable right now. >> reporter: ashlea's boss, chris cravey had just arrived and was trying to get some answers.

>> jerry nadler. >> you have nadler? >> you know where he is right now? he's over here. >> that was an excellent reveal. >> come by and say hi on your way out the door. >> bye. >> house judiciary committee jeremy snarlgds here to talk about the breaking news of the night with the trump justice department trying to block his subpoena for grand jury material from the mueller investigation. chairman nadler will be our first guest tonight with his reaction to that new legal filing by the justice department. also tonight, donald trump lost a big round in court today on the emoluments case against him, which has now cleared legal hurdles to move forward. >>> we'll take a look at last night's debate and show you why you can ignore everything in the policy details the candidates argued about last night. >>> cal perry will join us with a new must-see investigation into the potential dangers of the practice of flaring, natural gas in texas. we begin tonight with the breaking news, the trump justice department headed by the trump attorney general, william barr, told

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it's all part of what house judiciary chairman jerry nadler calls an ongoing impeachment investigation into the president's conduct. our political panel joins me shortly. later on, we'll update you on the unfolding disaster in the bahamas as we learn more about the devastation that has left 43 people dead. much of the island nation literally under water. joining me now, chris lui, former white house cabinet secretary under president obama, and a senior fellow at the university of virginia's miller center, and sarah longwell, publisher of the bull work and director of republicans for the rule of law. let me go to you first, sarah. rule of law, it is clearly explicitly, it's going to is the term i used opening up, written that a president should not gain personal profit or personal funds from government sources. then how do we look at the fact that the vice president 180 miles away from the meeting site stayed at the president's resort, this questionable stop that was made on the way to kuwait by military officers, the president constantly going to mar-a-lago or to his resort in new jers

. >> house judiciary chairman jerry nadler says they plan to question fbi director christopher wray about the bureau's kavanaugh investigation at a hearing that will be next month. here for our leadoff discussion on a monday night. tim o'brien, executive editor of "bloomberg opinion," author of "trumpnation: the art of being the donald." a.b. stoddard, columnist and associate editor at real clear politics. harry litman, former federal prosecutor and former deputy assistant attorney general and, counselor, i'd like to begin with you out on the west coast. >> all right. >> you said today that this tax return story, this request, this demand, could be a game changer. why is that, in your view? >> everything about the house ways and means committee request is strange and barricaded by the department of justice which is fighting tooth and nail with specious legal claims. this is a straight-up request from a private party. the accounting firm that says it's going to cooperate as part of a criminal investigation. so none of those blockades are there, it's likely to get the information, although,

we're not talking about jerry nadler and the house starting impeachment proceedings. we're talking about them starting an impeachment inquiry and impeachment investigation. and regardless of the political majority, there is value in that for house democrats because it methodically gives them the opportunity to draw out facts, lay them on the table, and let the american people shape their opinion about impeachment or not. these are the facts given under oath about this president's behavior and what does that mean for the election, that's right. >> is it not difficult, holly, for the republicans, if the democrats come up with a candidate that can really drive the message home, to defend that, that you have a president that, according to this report, dealt with these things that are clearly cited as possibly obstruction in terms of criminality? clearly obstruction, period, that he has people flying out of their route to stay at his hotels, on and on and on. isn't that hard for conservatives to defend that kind of behavior? >> it's actually not. for years now, three years

. >> house judiciary chairman jerry nadler says they plan to question fbi director christopher wray about the bureau's kavanaugh investigation at a hearing that will be next month. here for our leadoff discussion or on a monday night. tim o'brien, executive editor of "bloomberg opinion," author of "trump nation: the art of being the donald." a.b. stoddard, columnist and associate editor at real clear politics. harry lippman, former federal prosecutor and former deputy assistant attorney general and, counselor, i'd like to begin with you out on the west coast. >> all right. >> you said today that this tax return story, this request, this demand, could be a game changer. why is that, in your view? >> everything about the house ways and means committee request is strange and barricaded by the department of justice which is fighting tooth and nail with specious legal claims. this is a straightup request from a private party. the accounting firm that says it's going to cooperate as part of a criminal investigation. so none of those blockades are the there, it's likely to get the information, a

for what it's worth, she kept denying that jerry nadler was doing -- >> i think she's always endorsed it. do you think jerry nadler would have been conducting this investigation if nancy pelosi had told him not to? of course not. she rules in the house. now, but let me answer your question. i don't know what happened in the conversation between president trump and president zelensky. we're going to find out tomorrow. he's agreed to release the transcript. i hope the president and the white house has gotten the consent of president zelle encan i zelensky because i think that's a slippery slope, i think that's a good way to have foreign leaders talk to you. bear with me, may think this is a strange analogy but it's how my mind works. i think we're headed toward two investigations here. here's how i think of it. guy robs a bank. on the way to jail, the cops beat the living hades out of him. the cops should be investigated. should you beat a criminal suspect? no. should there be investigations? yes. but you also have to go investigate the alleged bank robbery. and i think what you're goin

new questions about your party's strategy as speaker nancy pelosi and judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler seem to be contradicting each other over whether an impeachment action is actually under way. let's listen. >> if we have to go through we'll have to go there, but we can't go there unless we have the facts. >> some call this process an impeachment inquiry. some call it an impeachment investigation. there's no legal difference between these tomorrows. >> the "new york times" asked the same question. is this an impeachment inquiry congressman, i'll ask you that same question. >> speaker pelosi talked about process and the fact we have other committees doing investigations that could lead to articles of impeachment different than the ones the judiciary committee is investigating. so i'm not sure there's much difference between them as possible. the reality is, and i'm a strong supporter of impeachment. i think if we don't move towards impeachment of this president then we might as well eliminate the impeachment provision from the constitution, because it will be meaningless, but

the name jerry west. i guess they didn't know his connection to the electoral college. it's the highest honor a civilian can receive, and he has now received it. trump for his part heads back out on the campaign trail on monday with a stop in north carolina. alexey mccann at axios says it was going to be a political rally. now it's been rebranded as a hurricane damage assessment. the president will be on the road as congress returns to washington with a long list of investigations and calls for investigations. here they are into the trump administration. our friends at "meet the press" daily compiled the list you're seeing scrolling on the screen. you can pick any one of them. there are over 60 of them and there's likely to be more added to the list. so with us tonight to talk about all these things, tim o'brien returns, executive editor of bloomberg opinion. jonathan lemire is with us, white house reporter for the associated press. so jonathan, is the democratic story line going to be, okay, we took the

he'd been jerry ford's national security advisor and ran the changes in the national security council. he knew it and if there was onet word that says what you ought to have in the white house in both then, president and national security advisor is experience.r and if you don't have it in the president and you often don't, you need it in the national security adviser. >> there's some late reporting tonight from cnn. the president is considering gh mike pompeo to remain as id secretary of state and take on e this position. >> henry kissinger did that. we saw how that worked. it didn't work at all. the congress should take great exception to that because you've got a person with no portfolio e that's subject to their advice and consent not elected in the national security advisor but immensely powerful because of his proximity to the president and a cabinet officer subject to all of that and equally bi powerful. you don't want someone with both portfolios. >> thank you for your time and analysis tonight. >>> all right, john bolton's out. yesterday president trump's first national secur

we heard from jerry nadler, chair of the judiciary committee this morning on local radio. he said he is too busy impeaching the president to investigate kavanaugh. he might have made news there regarding the president. one thing he did say, he said the committee will talk to fbi director wray, he will app investigation into kavanaugh. that's one thing critics are intent upon, the fact that this investigation into kavanaugh at the time was not thorough enough. but that was also the point. the point was that the investigation was limited in scope. they only interviewed about ten people. it was not an extensive investigation, and that's the way it was supposed to be by the directive of the white house. now, senator chuck grassley, then chairman of the senate judiciary committee took to the senate floor and defended the investigation, defended the fbi's investigation, and defended his own committee's investigation saying it was thorough and that there was no corroboration, but katy, there's a lot of talk about this, it resurfaced, and i don't know how fast it is going to go aw

joining me now by phone, jerry jones, he is the mayor of moorehead city, north carolina. mr. mayor, thank you for joining us. you're certainly familiar with the reports we're familiar with. there is a possibility this storm could make landfall where you are. are you prepared for that. >> i don't know if you're ever prepared. but as i describe hurricanes, it's always a work in progress. you do the best you can this year. but as we know, hurricanes are unpredictable. so the next hurricane brings new challenges. but we are prepared. right now the model shows the eye, it does not over cape lookout which is in carter county about eight miles from moorehead city. it will be pretty close. right now we're just getting tropical force winds. i'm looking in the backyard. i've got some tree limbs down and stuff. in moorehead city, we're under curfew, but it's hurry up and wait for it to get here. >> when you say you feel you are as prepared as you can be, what does that mean? what goes into that? >> well, it's communication. and i'll hats off to all the media, cnn, you, and everybody, ju

and let me tell you, jerry nadler doesn't do a single thing without speaker pelosi's blessing. so rather than focus on her exact words, what we should be focused on is that she has greenlighted the chairman to begin an impeachment inquiry. >> let me ask about another issue that is top of mind, i know for you and some of your democratic colleagues, which is gun control and putting forward some kind of gun legislation, getting it through the senate, if you will, much less the house, which has already passed some background checks. are you hopeful and confident? it seems like it comes down to president trump and what he would support. that's what mitch mcconnell has said in so many words that he's waiting for. are you confident you'll get some kind of a signal soon from the president on where he stands and what he will support? how much do you need that? >> we definitely need it. and he goes back and forth. one day he says, let's have red flag laws and let's have universal background checks. and all backgrounds are is saying that we shouldn't give guns to criminals. and the other

we have jerry nadler going on this network on cnn on a random thursday night in the middle of summer and say it is kind of an impeachment inquiry. what is this we are witnessing exactly? >> thank you, brian. we are in impeachment inquiry. we are holding hearings to decide whether or not we should impeach donald trump. it is clear to me that the president of the united states committed multiple felonies, obstruction of justice and campaign finance and law violations and other felonies. what members of congress do with that information is up to them and their conscious and their districts. speaker pelosi who i greatly respect will make the decision with the house of caucus and i will respect that decision after what's. >> can you see looking back that we try to point out many times on this broadcast perhaps the mueller report failed in its lack of a story teller or writer cohesion and on this day and age that we are living in quoting two or three lines on twitter. by the same account, would you agree democrats in the house of representatives suffered for a lack of telling a cohesive st

i'm sure he's cooperating with jerry nadler's investigation, with the da's office. and at some point his lawyers are going to go before the judge and say michael cohen while he's been in prison has cooperated with a whole series of investigations and therefore, judge, you should lower his sentence. and that's what he's going to try and do. >> thank you, both. we appreciate it. >>> coming up next while republicans continue to obstruct gun legislation democrats are finding new ways to get things done. how one governor is taking matters into his own hands after this. s taking matters into his own hands after this of course i have- ever since i started renting from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter... ...and choose any car in the aisle. and i don't wait when i return, thanks to drop & go. at national, i can lose the wait...and keep it off. looking good, patrick. i know. (vo) go national. go like a pro. my body is truly powerful. i have the power to lower my blood sugar and a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activate

we have jerry nadler going on this network on cnn on a random thursday night in the middle of summer and say it is kind of an impeachment inquiry. your speaker wants none of that. what is this we are witnessing exactly? >> thank you, brian. we are in impeachment inquiry. court filings say we're in impeachment inquiry. we are holding hearings to decide whether or not we should impeach donald trump. it is clear to me that the president of the united states committed multiple felonies, obstruction of justice and campaign finance and law violations and other felonies. what members of congress do with that information is up to them and their conscious and their districts. speaker pelosi who i greatly respect will make the decision with the house of caucus and i will respect that decision after whatever it is. >> can you see looking back that we try to point out many times on this broadcast perhaps the mueller report failed in its lack of a story teller or writer cohesion and on this day and age that we are living in quoting two or three lines on twitter. by the same account, would you agr