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either way the risk of conflict increases. >> susan rice, former u.n. ambassador and national security advisor and the author of "tough love my story of the things worth fighting for," thank you for making the time to be here. >> thank you so much, rachel. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. >>> all right, that is going to do it for us tonight. we'll see you again monday where i am here to tell you now we are going to be joined live on set by massachusetts senator and democratic presidential contender elizabeth warren. she will be here in studio with me on monday night. monday night right here i will see you then. now it's time for the "last now it's time for the "last >> now it is time for the last word. >> rachel, a lot of remarkable information in your show. what stuck with me is over my holidays, my daughter asked me to go to "little women." i demured. now i'm no trouble. >> if you want me to take her, i will not. i did it once. >> tonight, we are digging into a white house under extreme stress over the escalations of iran to the possibilities of

either way the risk of conflict increases. >> susan rice, former u.n. ambassador and national security advisor and the author of "tough love my story of the things worth fighting for," thank you for making the time to be here. >> thank you so much, rachel. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. , rachel >> we'll be right back stay with us i'm not hungry! you're having one more bite! no! one more bite! ♪ kraft. for the win win. saturpain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. >>> all right, that is going to do it for us tonight. we'll see you again monday where i am here to tell you now we are going to be joined live on set by massachusetts senator and democratic presidential contender elizabeth warren. she will be here in studio with me on monday night. monday night right here i will see you then. now it's time for the "last word" where ali velshi is in for lawrence tonight. >> rachel, there was a lot of remarkable information in your show, but the only thing that stuck

susan rice will be joining us live in just a moment, stay with us. st a moment, stay with us >>> george w. bush was president, the year 2007. general stanley mccrystal was then the head of u.s. special forces and he had a shot. this is how he tells it. quote, i'd become accustomed to making tough choices but on a january night in 2007 the choice was particularly tricky. whether or not to attack a convoy that included qassem soleimani, the head of iran's elite quds force. there was good reason to eliminate soleimani at the time. iran made bomb at his command were killing americans. but to avoid a fire fight and the contentious politics that would follow i decided we should monitor the caravan and not strike immediately. by the time the convoy had reached soleimani had slipped away into the darkness. it was 2007. other presidents, other u.s. military commanders under other u.s. presidents have since had their own chance to take that same shot. but every president who's had that opportunity has decide it was in america's best interest not to take it. ev

that is susan. of course there is no one better to interview susan rice then susan page. we have a lot of susan's here today. [no audio] >> the award-winning bureau chief of usa today, she has covered six administrations and reported from six continents and dozens of foreign countries. an author herself, she is about nancyur book pelosi. please help me welcome susan rice sensors susan page. [laughter] >> thank you. i'll never been in a room with so many women who have name cards that have ambassador before their name. [laughter] >> are not going to criticize the fact that the subtitle seems to end with a preposition. [laughter] >> my story of the things worth fighting for. it is at least understandable, isn't it? things forcovet the which they are worth fighting. [laughter] >> possibly not. -- also before he got a questions, i would like to note that this would make an excellent christmas gift. i think they are going to be for sale afterwards. >> they are for sale. appropriate for people who care about politics, democrats, republicans, women, maybe also men. the monograph

rice, ambassador susan rice, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> and coming up, will congress get anymore guidance today on what the administration says was the imminent threat that led to the killing of iran's top general. democratic senator chris murphy will join me right here on "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. one of seven delicious entrées - like new hawaiian-style garlic shrimp. and, get a sweet dessert. three courses. one amazing price. so come in today. you get more than yourfree shipping.ir, you get everything you need for your home at a great price, the way it works best for you, i'll take that. wait honey, no. when you want it. you get a delivery experience you can always count on. you get your perfect find at a price to match, on your own schedule. you get fast and free shipping on the things that make your home feel like you. that's what you get when you've got wayfair. so shop now! >>> and in the last hour, president trump speaking about the alleged imminent threat that prompted the killing of top iranian general qassem soleimani. >> he was planning new atta

and former national security advisor susan rice talks about donald trump and the predecessor he can't get past, barack obama. and later in this show i'll ta to filmmaker michael moore about the candidate he says is the democrats' best chance of beating trump in 2020. and at the end of the hour i'll ask recent british prime minister david cameron, he'll be here, his thoughts on president trump. but we begin with msnbc's very own rachel maddow. i recently talked to her about her new book, blowout. in 2019 robert mueller released his report on russian interference in the 2016 american election and the role president trump and those around him played in all that. understanding what motivated trump is only half the story. why was it that russian president vladimir putin was so intent on messing with our election? why were there more than a hundred contacts between trump associates and russians during the campaign? those are some of the questions that led rachel maddow to write her new new york times best selling book, blow out, corrupted democracy, rogue state russia and the richest most d

susan rice, thank you for joining us. i really appreciate it. i want to go first of all to this tweet the president put out where he basically said -- basically committed the united states to committing war crimes, attacking cultural sites, saying there are 52 targets, and that number was chosen simply for symbolic purposes, not necessarily military tactical purposes. mike pompeo now trying to walk that back and say, we won't do that. administration officials saying we won't do that, but the commander in chief has said we will. >> well, lawrence, it's very disconcerting, to say the least, when the president of the united states is publicly and recklessly threatening to commit war crimes. and i should hope that saner heads would prevail, that in the state department, certainly in the defense department, that they understand what the laws of war are, what our domestic law also requires, and would refuse to execute an order that was in stark violation of international and domestic law of war. so i'm -- as hard as it is to swallow some of the, you k

blaming the obama administration for the missile attack drew a searing response from susan rice. >> this is another series of despicable lies by donald trump. the fact that 3 and a half years after taking office, three years after taking office he remains obsessed with president obama shows his extreme weakness and insecurity. >> susan rice speaking there. an interesting moment today. nato is more involved. and for a great number of years. a country that is obviously in deep turmoil right now. >> thank you. the house moving forward with a war powers resolution aiming to limit donald trump's military options with respect to iran. in the senate a split between hawks like lindsey graham and senator mike lee who railed against the short length of today's administrative briefing and concerns that congress is being pushed out of the loop. >> probably the worst briefing i have seen as we saw the military issue in the 9 years i have served in the united states senate. and one of the messages, do not debate. >> a vote for the house is set for tomorrow. big disagreement about what happened in the

i love susan rice, okay? i can tell you that susan rice and i had it out on a number of different occasions. >> we have witnesses. [laughing] >> it's true. but the point is let's have it out. these are hard questions we have to resolve, and we should make sure that in the christian of progressives, the tradition of taking on big challenges -- in the tradition of progressive -- that meets both inside the government, having a robust inter-agency process. apparently now they don't have many interagency meetings because against two substantive and too spicy. we should be comfortable. the other thing is we should make sure we recognize congress has congressional responsibilities embedded in article one. i love article to not but i used to like article one. the fact is that our people who have responsibility under each of those articles that need to carry them out. you shouldn't hide from them. you should engage them. the same time we should be engaging opportunities for gathering information, ideas, from each othe

i love susan rice, okay? i can tell you that susan rice and i had it out on a number of different occasions. ms. rice: we have witnesses. [laughter] mr. mcdonough: true. true. somebody is getting written up in the book. she didn't write it, though. the point is, let's have it out. these are hard questions we have to resolve, and we should make sure that in the christian of progressives, the tradition of taking on big challenges, let your hair down and have it out. that means both inside the government -- so having a robust interagency process. apparently now they don't have many interagency meetings too substantive and too spicy. we should be comfortable. the other thing is we should make sure we recognize congress has congressional responsibilities embedded in article one. lovee article two, but i article one. the fact is that our people who have responsibility under each of those articles that we need to carry them out. you shouldn't hide from them. you should engage them. the same time we should be engagin

joining us is former security secretary, susan rice. thanks for coming in. let's talk about what the president said a little while ago. he said the u.s. should have killed general soleimani a long time ago. was that ever under serious consideration during your tenure during the obama administration? >> during my tenure as national security advisor we didn't have the opportunity, to my knowledge. had we had the opportunity, we would have given it obviously very careful consideration weighing the pros and the cons. frankly, then as now, it's not clear that when you look at the strategic landscape and the costs and consequences of such an action whether the benefits outweigh the real risks. the most important thing, wolf, we took these serious situations under careful consideration. we would way deliberately the risks and benefits and considered the second and third order consequences and most importantly, we would have made very sure before we took such an action that would undoubtedly lead to escalation we put in place preparations to protect and defend ameri

let me start with susan rice's. first, someone should have notified someone there was the iran deal, because they did little to stop the advance of their nuclear program, as the israelis kindly pointed out to us, and as chris knows, he may not, i'm not sure how much reading he did on wikipedia before the show, but the iran deal had a provision, we had to get the iranians permission to inspect military facilities. i'm sure the iranians are going to let us and give us permission to inspect facilities where they may be producing nuclear weapons they are not supposed to be producing. it was a nonsensical deal. secondly, chris's point was really so silly, i don't know what he even said it. heis said president trump, we've got to give him credit for not getting into a war that he tried to start? what are you even talking about? president trump ran and made a point of getting us out of unnecessary war is. he said he wanted topo de-escalate -- >> he did. >> he did, in turn, de-escalate the situation. why take a cheap shot?

susan rice decided to come into the president taking out a terrorist. listen to this. >> i'm doubtful about doing the right thing. >> do you trust what you hear from the trump administration right now about information about the intelligence assessments? >> i wish i could. this administration has a record of almost daily misrepresenting the facts, about issues big and small. it is hard to have confidence on the face of her presentation. >> what about lying from susan rice? >> remember comic books, bizarro superman where everything was backwards? we living in an alternative universe here? this is the same woman, susan rice, who went on national television multiple times and claimed the benghazi attack was due to a video, factually's leland: hundred% new that narrative was false. we have a photo, i love this return. i can see this. it is on the screen. i see what you see. i couldn't always do that. she is telling people a video caused the benghazi attack but don't forget round 2. there is always a backup with susan rice, the person who sent an email to he

put your hands together for tom healy and susan rice. [applause] >> there is a lot of love in this room susan. >> thank you for coming out everyone. [applause] tom, thank you for doing this. >> thank you for coming to miami they arrived half an hour ago. [laughter] she made an entrance. i would set it up why is a poet introducing a diplomat but that is because we are friends and we have been with our spouses for a long time now. and actually i wanted to start by taking us back almost ten or 11 years ago to something that was red for president obama's inauguration and she writes we encounter each other with that whisper and that is love. to talk to us about toughness and love. >> it is how my parents raised me my husband and i have tried to raise our kids and that is how i try to serve our country. with someone you love they are not doing what they are supposed to do if you care you will tell them and to bring them to a better place and that has been so valuable to me professionally and personally but the back story with full disclosure i

with susan rice's. first, someone should have notified someone there was the iran deal, because they did little to stop the advance of their nuclear program as the israelis kindly pointed out to e may not come i'm not sure how much reading he did on wikipedia before the show, but the iran deal had a provision, we had to get the iranians permission to inspect military facilities. i'm sure the iranians are going to let us and give us permission to inspect facilities where they may be producing nuclear weapons they are not supposed to be producing. it was a nonsensical deal. secondly, chris's point was really so silly, i don't know what he even said it. he said president trump, we've got to give him credit for not getting into a war that he tried to start? what are you even talking about? president trump ran and made a point of getting us out of unnecessary war is. he said he wanted to de-escalate -- >> he did. >> he did, in turn, de-escalate the situation. i take a cheap shot? that is just silly, your poi

well, that drew a searing response from former national security advisor susan rice. >> this is another series of despicable lies that president trump. the fact that three and a half years after taking office, he remains -- the readers of the taking office -- he remains obsessed with president obama, shows president trump's extreme weakness and insecurity. >> susan rice speaking there. and interesting moment today, shannon, was on the president said he was asked nato to become more involved in the middle east progress, and in the case of iran, a country that is obviously in very deep turmoil right now. shannon? >> shannon: it is. kevin corke on the white house beat for us, thank you, kevin. the house moving forward with the war powers resolution aiming to limit president trump's military options with respect to iran. in the senate, a split emerging between hawks like republican lindsey graham and senator mike lee, who railed against the relatively short length of today's administrative briefing, and concerns that congress is being pushed out of the loop. >> i would add, probably the wor

it's a privilege to have you here, ambassador susan rice. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >>> coming up, speaker pelosi tells house democrats to prepare to send the two articles of impeachment against president trump to the senate next week, so this thing's ending. it's beginning, actually, too. the trial is coming. but that big question remains, will we hear from witnesses, especially, well, john bolton says he's willing to testify. but today trump says he might invoke -- you hear it now, as you've heard it before -- executive privilege to block bolton from even talking. here goes. >> you can't be in the white house as president future -- i'm talking about future, many future presidents, and have a security adviser, anyone having to do with security and legal and other things -- >> you're going tio invoke executive privilege? >> well, i think you have to for the sake of the office. >>> plus, the royal exit. harry and meghan are getting out of the royal family business, at least most of the time. if you've watched "the crown," you kno

it's a privilege to have you here, ambassador susan rice. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >>> coming up, speaker pelosi tells house democrats to prepare to send the two articles of impeachment against president trump to the senate next week, so this thing's ending. it's beginning, actually, too. the trial is coming. but that big question remains, will we hear from witnesses, especially, well, john bolton says he's willing to testify. but today trump says he might invoke -- you hear it now, as you've heard it before -- executive privilege to block bolton from even talking. here goes. >> you can't be in the white house as president future -- i'm talking about future, many future presidents, and have a security adviser, anyone having to do with security and legal and other things -- >> you're going to invoke executive privilege? >> well, i think you have to for the sake of the office. >>> plus, the royal exit. harry and meghan are getting out of the royal family business, at least most of the time. if you've watched "the crown," you know

. >>> and susan rice, why she says americans should brace for war. when you shop with wayfair, you spend less and get way more. so you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one. for small prices, you can build big dreams, spend less, get way more. shop everything home at wayfair.com >>> iraq's parliament take steps toward demanding u.s. troops leave the country. i want to bring in cnn's arwa damon in baghdad. why is the demand for u.s. troops to leave so significant? >> reporter: well, you have a country that is stuck in a pretty extraordinary circumstance. this vote took place because parliament was, in fact, able to achieve quorum, but only through the representation of its sunni parliamentarians. so basically the kurds -- sorry, it's shia parliamentarian. basically the kurds and the sunnis were not present. this shows you just how divided this country is over the issue of u.s. troop presence. now, the argument to actually expel foreign troops was made by the caretaker prime minister himself who said that he believed that that wa

susan rice, who you quoted, said in her op-ed piece, we're further away today. we know that the world is much less peaceful without american leadership. look around the world what's happened under this president. iranians have become stronger. the president has said i'm in love with kim. he's in love with me. americans don't have to worry about the nuclear threat from north korea. that gave kim three years of cover to continue his nuclear program. in russia, the president refused to push back on putin. he tried to extort ukraine into doing his political dirty work. in place after place after place, he strengthened dictators while giving our allies the stiff arm. the ones i'm meeting with want a president who can lead these alliances. >> quickly before you go, do you see a senate trial on impeachment involving witnesses? >> i certainly hope so. the american people are demanding that we have witnesses. the american people should see those witnesses and they ought to have the documents as well. >> okay. senator michael bennet, we'll leave it there for now. thank yo

susan rice, who served as president obama's national security advisor, told andrea mitchell this this afternoon. >> we can be pretty confident the iranians are going to use proxies, cyber attacks and possibly terrorism to continue to retaliate as they have historically for the killing of soleimani. >> and the professor at the university of california los angeles. heetz rar national surrogate for senator bernie sanders. good to see you again. what are we actually thinking about? i think it's important for people to understand iran has cyber capabilities not about hacking your email. the things they can do, we have seen demonstrations are substantially more serious? >> yeah. potentially this is the case. but so far-we can look at what they've done, even over the past decade in the united states and with the sort of using the trump picture on the federal depository library, we can see iran is not interested necessarily on full-scale assaulted. not at this point. i think they're signaling their sovereignty in cyber war fare. and not necessarily cripple our infrastructure. i think it's car

go look at the comments of president obama's homeland security secretary, jeh johnson, susan rice, or so many others who recognized what soleimani actionnted and that this was long overdue. and just like we when we were in when president obama took out osama bin laden, we supported that action. the right thing to do when president obama gave that command. just by the same token it was the right thing to do when president trump gave the command to take out soleimani. a are a safer world because brutal terrorist is gone from who hadnet, a terrorist killed hundreds of americans and was planning to kill even more. become t shouldn't partisan. it's very disappointing to see some in the democrat leadership in the house trying to criticize those actions that safer.erica using some of the same talking of ts that are coming out tehran, and now talking about changing the war powers act to ability for the any president of the united states to defend this country. would suggest speaker pelosi go back and look at the legislation that then-senator biden filed in 1995 to president would have the ful

joining me now is susan rice, former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. she's the author of "tough love: my story of the things worth fighting for." she joins me now. ambassador rice, in terms of this letter that was apparently accidentally released by the military regarding withdrawing troops from iraq, does this kind of thing happen a lot? >> no, anderson, it doesn't happen a lot. and it should rarely, if ever, happen. this is a messup on the order that we rarely see, particularly out of the pentagon, which typical is a pretty tight ship. >> particularly in the midst of, i mean, it is a critical time. it's not like it was just an average weekend, you know, it's been -- it's obviously not a great time to have a mistake like this. you write in a "new york times" op-ed that americans would be wise to brace for war with iran. and while it's not a certainty, the probability is probably higher than at any point in decade. i mean, that's pretty disturbing. you think the u.s. needs to brace for war? >> anderson? >> yes, can you hear me? >> i've lost -- yes, say

former national security advisor susan rice joins a paddle with officials just -- to discuss what a progressive government should focus on. former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., samantha power looking at the progressive agenda as it relates to national security. democratic legislative campaign committee president jessica post discusses the states the committee will be targeting in the 2020 election. liketing states pennsylvania, arizona, and texas. >> hello. good morning. i'm the d.o.c. national press secretary and welcome you to our first press event. having a room full of reporters is a milestone and attention that the we weren't getting. the major driver of our driver is our president who i have the job of introducing today. she spent most of her professional career working in the legislative space. to quote a piece, they wrote, steering democratic strategy, jessica, an operative who is little known outside of campaign circles and turning the once sleepy dlcc into a juggernaut. without taking any more of your time, i will turn it over to jessica who will share exactly how we will win more legi

has susan rice become a comedian? the escalation began in 1979 when americans were taken hostage for over a year in the iranian embassy, that's when the escalation began. it began when soleimani, there's a report that soleimani was the man responsible for the deaths of at least 603 american service men and women in iraq. if one of your viewers sees a veteran with missing limbs today if you are traveling through an airport and see somebody on prosthetic limbs, lost an arm because of an ied it is in all likelihood the result of a that iran gave melissas in iraq, that person is limbsless and that is when the escalation began. i -- when i was in the white house the president asked me in the oval office what do we do about the iran deal inherited from obama and i said kill it. this is a deal that when it was inked the then secretary of state john kerry said we know some of these funds, $140 billion, some of these funds will be used to sponsor terrorism. if you or i, there was a copy in dc a few years ago who was sympatheti

has susan rice become a comedian? that is beyond the pale. the escalation began in 1979 when americans were taken hostage for over a year in the radiant embassy. the escalation began when general soleimani and there's a report that general soleimani was the man responsible for the deaths of at least 603 american servicemen and women in iraq. if one of your viewers sees a veteran with missing limbs today. if you're traveling through an airport and you see somebody was on prosthetic limbs, lost an arm because of an ied. it is in all likelihood, a result of aid that iran gave the militias in iraq that that person is now limitless and that's where in the escalation began to i'm so happy that when i was in the white house, the president asked me, what do we do about the iran deal? i said, kill it. this is a deal that when he was inked, the then secretary of state john kerry said openly, that we know some of these phones, more than $140 billion - - some of these funds will be used to sponsor terrorism. there was a cop in dc a few years ago who was

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. >> former national security advisor susan rice joint a panel with obama administration officials to discuss the national security priorities that aggressive government should focus on during its first 100 days in office. >> good morning. cap nationale security conference. it is wonderful to see so many friendly faces, former officials, advocates, congressional staff, and thought leaders. thank you for joining us this morning. it feels a little bit like a family

. >> former national security adviser susan rice joined a panel with obama administration officials to discuss the national security priorities, progressive government should focus on during his first 100 days in office. >> good morning. welcome to the national security conference. it is wonderful to see so many friendly faces, former officials, advocates, congressional staff. thank you again for joining us this morning. it feels like a big family reunion which is nice to have but it is more than a reunion, more than an

rice crying like a little child? [applause] and they realize then when the lawyer comes to his defense with those allegations i have security clearance for those who been put away for child porn. you can see his feed. january 2017 the crew has started impeachment is next. then you realize here we go again it's just another set up. so that's what we have been dealing with. kimberly alluded to all the successes do you know how that's never actually spoken about all time low unemployment. [applause] for everyone.african-americans,. [applause] all time high start up businesses.ne even his haters say i don't like that guy but he's doing all the things he said he was going to do. [cheers and applause] trevor know what not exactly a fan says this. isn't that supposed to be what politicians do? when did we get to a place when that is no longer the norm? how sad is it that it is not? they don't talk about that what we saw in the last debate is how can we take his twitter s rount away. [laughter] do you know what wasn't mentio

rice. [applause] then they realize when his lawyer comes to his defense other than the weird allegation i have security clearances for guys who went away for child pornography you see his feed. january 2017 the crew has started impeachment is next. then you realize here we go again it is just another set up. that is what we have been dealing with. kimberly alluded to all the successes notice how that's never spoken about? all-time low unemployment. [cheers and applause] for everyone.african-americans, all-time highs start up businesses even his haters say i don't like that guy that he's doing all the things he said he was going to do. [cheers and applause] trevor know not exactly a fan says isn't that supposed to be what politicians do? want to be get to a place that is no longer the norm? how sad is it that it isn't? they don't talk about that at the last debate we saw how can we take his twitter account away. to know that was not mentioned? china. since we are at the reagan library china

susan rice, who appeared with our colleague, andrea mitchell. >> this is another series of despicable lies. the fact at the three and a half -- or three years after taking office, he remains obsessed with president obama. just shows president trump's extreme weakness and insecurity. the facts about the iran nuclear deal are at the it effectively halted and rolled back iran's nuclear program. >> donald trump, never wanting to let facts get in the way to air his grievances with his rivals, also envision as bigger role for nato, you know our biggest allies, who he now realizes he needs. >> today i am going to ask nato to become much more involved in the middle east process. the very defective jcpoa expires shortly anyway. and gives iran a clear and quick path to nuclear breakout. iran must abandoned its nuclear ambitions and end its support for terrorism. the time has come for the united kingdom, germany, france, russia and china to recognize this reality. they must now break away from the remnants of the iran deal or jcpoa and we must all work together towards making a deal with iran at

rice, you know they're all in government in waiting, sitting on the sidelines, trashing every little move regardless of whether they had culpability in years past. >> it's ridiculous. i loved what mike had to say. this is a guy who loves his country. and people are out there accusing him of wanting war with iran? this is infuriating. these are the people who took $1.7 billion on the back of an airport and delivered it to the iranian people. and they're suggesting this didn't pay for missiles. this hasn't supported the shiah militia groups? it's ridiculous. my brothers and sisters in arms are over there right now and these dollars have been spent on weapons systems that are hurting them, that are killing them. it's -- it's unconscionable. >> laura: they said this is iran's money, we just released it. that's their way of answering this. because iran has been such a good actor. it deserved to have the pallets of cash sent over by obama to say oh, thank you for all of your great compliance. >> but they are right. this is iran's money. this is the people of iran's money. but those who got

ambassador susan rice doesn't think killing soleimani was quite worth it. i want you all to listen to this. >> it's not clear that when you look at the strategic landscape and the cost and the consequences of such an action, whether the benefits outweigh the real risks. >> did the president, president trump, do the right thing? >> that's a very complicated question, and i am doubtful that ultimately it will prove to be the right thing. >> are americans safer today than two days ago? >> i don't think so. >> raymond: colonel davis, this is the one who claimed benghazi was caused by a movie. is she right? are we know safer after killing soleimani? >> in the near term, it may be at least at some of the troops are at higher risk than they might have been. other people in the region are at higher risk because of the actions that were taken here, but that's part of the calculated risk that we take, but the question is, are they going to do that? are they going to risk from as president trump made very clear today, that he would have even stronger retaliation, were

john kerry saying this and all the obama folks, susan rice, they are kind of waiting in the wings, see, he is the guy that we told you he was. >> president trump: if you look at the middle east right now, it is much calmer than when i got here. when i got here, it was all over the place. number one, we got rid of the caliphate, the isis caliphate. tens of thousands of prisoners and we killed most of their fighters. we've gotten rid of vices. they come back and take care of it. other people should take care of it. other countries should have taken care of it, europe should take them back.e >> laura: and nato stepped up and i know they committed to doing more in the middle east, but what extent, specifically will nato contribute to take the burden off the american taxpayers. >> president trump: as i came in, nato was virtually a dead organization. it had no money, nobody was paying except us. practically nobody was paying. if you look at a chart of money and funds received, it looked like a roller coaster down. now secretary, i think he is terrific and my first year, i raised $130 billio

but former obama advisor susan rice called that a despicable lie. he's been president for almost three years now. why is he still bringing up obama? >> he's bringing up obama because there is an election coming up in 11 months, don, and he wants to keep the republican base still fighting the last war which in his head is either the demon obama or the demon hillary. he's going to bring them out, roll them out as much as he can and try to wrap into every political -- every political element of their past into his campaign. and as a defense for himself because he knows he has a short attention span. the whole orangutan act today on tv, he knows he will lose focus on iran in a day or two and it will be off on some other tangent. and he wants to have something to blame when this whole thing chances. he wants to have some backstop to pretend that it's not his fault, he did nothing wrong, et cetera. that is why he brought obama up today. it's why he'll continue to blame everyone in the past. it's frankly -- he even threw reagan under the bus today if you l

at 9:00 rachel maddow is going to sit down with former national security advisor susan rice. and on monday chris matthews returns for just in time for what is shaping up to be a very busy week. in addition to ongoing fall out from the killing of general soleimani, congress will take up where they left off. also on monday we'll be just four weeks away from the iowa caucuses. that is "hardball" for now. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> we took action last night to stop a war. >> massive contradictions from the white house. >> we did not take action to start a war. >> as more american forces head to iraq. >> americans in the region are much safer today. >> tonight the fall out from the strike to kill iran's top general, reaction from the region and the dangers of escalation. and "the new yorker" dexter fillkens how

director, susan rice who at the time was the national security advisor. ben rhodes, the deputy national security advisor. admiral mike mullen, former chan man of the joint chiefs of state of. general carter ham former commander of africom. defense secretary leon panetta, he also showed up. general michael flynn, former d.i.a. director. who else showed up? the former secretary of state hillary clinton. she testified publicly under oath for 11 hours. that's cooperation. what happens in this particular instance in the house? no documents, no witnesses, no information, no cooperation, no negotiation, no reasonable accommodation blanket defiance. that's what resulted in the obstruction of congress article. so all we are asking is for the senate to hold a fair trial consistent with past practice. at every single trial the senate has held, the average number of witnesses is 33. we cannot normalize lawlessness. we cannot normalize corruption. we cannot normalize abuse of power, a fair trial. >>> lastly, of the witnesses that did testify, voluntarily showed up, wh

former obama national security adviser susan rice slammed trump for those claims. >> this is another series of despicable lies by president trump. the fact that 3 1/2 years after taking office he remains or three years after taking office, he remains obsessed with president obama just shows president trump's extreme weakness and insecurity. the facts about the iran nuclear deal are that it effectively halted and rolled back iran's nuclear program. >> trump said iran's provocations have increased since it signed on to the nuclear deal. >> iran's hostility substantially increased after the foolish iran nuclear deal was signed in 2013. and they were given $150 million not to mention $1.8 billion in cash. >> not only did trump inaccurately state the deal was signed in 2013 rather than 2015, the agreement did not provide american money to iran but did release a hundred billion dollars in previously frozen iranian assets. a separate transfer of cash was to settle a decades long dispute, and agreed into parallel to the nuclear deal. and despite years of diminishing the importance of nato re

john kerry sang this and all the obama folks, susan rice, they are kind of waiting in the wings, see, he is the guy that we told you he was. >> president trump: if you look at the middle east right now, it is much calmer than when i got here. when i got here, it was all over the place. number one we got rid of the caliphate, the isis caliphate. tens of thousands of prisoners and we killed most of their fighters. we've gotten rid of vices. they come back and take care of it. other people should take care of it. other countries should have taken care of it, europe should take them back. >> laura: and adel stepped up and i know they committed to doing more in the middle east, t what extent mike specifically will nato contribute to take the burden off the american taxpayers. >> as i came in nato was virtually a dead organization. it had no money, nobody was paying except us. practically nobody was paying. if you look at h hurt of money and funds received, it looked like a roller coaster down. now secretary come i think he is terrific and my first year, i raised $130 billion from them, not

at 9:00 rachel maddow is going to sit down with former national security advisor susan rice. and on monday chris matthews returns just in time for what is shaping up to be a very busy week. in addition to the ongoing fallout from the killing of general soleimani, congress will take up where they left off. also on monday we'll be just four weeks away from the iowa caucuses. chris will have the very latest on the campaign. that is "hardball" for now. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> we took action last night to stop a war. >> massive contradictions from the white house. >> we did not take action to start a war. >> as more american forces head to iraq. >> americans in the region are much safer today. >> tonight the fallout from the strike to kill iran's top general, reaction from the region and the dangers of escalation. and "the new yorker's" dexter fillkens how the death of qassem soleimani is a turning point for the middle east. plus the impeachment of donald trump. >> we did nothing wrong. >> what looks like even more new evidence and h