Jitters. Joe biden goes to iowa. It comes as he holds a Strong National polling position but struggles in some of the early states. Are you trying to win the primary by talking about the general . The reason im running is because of the general. Im not running against anything having to do with the character even of the candidates are running. What im doing to trying to make the case that trump is a gigantic impediment to this country moving forward. We begin this hour and this week on capitol hill where democrats and republicans alike now preparing for the impeachment inquiry to go public in realtime with two days of public hearings later this week. Wednesday the witnesses are bill taylor, the top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine, as well as george kent, the Senior State Department official. Friday is the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, Marie Yavonovitch. We have their transcripts to the private depositions. All of them worried that the president was putting political vendettas ahead of u. S. Policy goals. The president is very aware of the mistakes and taking this week to warn his republicans. Dont be led into the tools trap of saying it was not perfect, but it is not impeachable. No, it is much stronger than that. Federal courts are closed for veterans day, yet judges will hear if an active chief of staff can join a lawsuit asking them to rule on whether congressional impeachment rules must be honored. John bolton and Mick Mulvaney, of course, have firsthand knowledge of key impeachment inquiry events. Lauren fox joins me live up on capitol hill. Lauren, normally a day off for veterans. Is it quiet or busy up there . Reporter there is a sense of ca calm, and this is in a blockbuster week of public hearings on wednesday and then on friday where america will hear testimony of bill taylor, george kent and Marie Yavonovitch. One democratic senior aide told me it was even bigger than what they did for the mueller testimony, in part because they feel like the public is on their side. Theyve been releasing these transcripts day after day. Theyve had multiple leaks coming out of these depositions, and this is just building for public hearings. They have to have a big moment in these hearings to keep the movement going ahead. Democrats behind the scenes preparing questions, preparing rebuttals for the republicans, and promoting a strategy in realtime to try to build all of this as the country, of course, will be watching. John . Lauren fox with a very busy week up on capitol hill. Here with me in the studio, margaret telev with axios, carla and post with positive lit politico. What are they doing to get ready not only when they have these three key witnesses in the chair, but also for people at home. You need to Pay Attention to this. People think they know the information already, so when it comes out, its not surprising, i think, to democrats. The real challenge is going to be capturing the Public Interest right out of the box, honestly, and say heres why we think this is serious, heres the accusations against the president and why theyre important. I think they are prepared. I think theyve gone back, looked what they did wrong with mueller and theyre trying to correct that. Heres the reason they have the lineup that they have. They feel bill taylor, who is first up, will be a really compelling witness. Theyll only have about two weeks of public hearings so they can keep this ball rolling forward. The president understands the big stakes this week. He has mostly public unity. You hear privately criticism about what happened than you hear publicly. These are two republicans on the sunday shows. Both are retiring, not running for reelection next year. They make the case a lot of what people say privatie inly now publicly. If youre getting a political rival used in a public campaign, i think most republicans have said that would be a violation of the law. I believe it was inappropriate. I do not believe it was impeachable. The challenge for the president is to keep it to a few handfuls who say that. If that momentum grows, even if a big number of republicans come out ask say, its not impeachable but its wrong, a, it angers the president. And b, it puts pressure, whether its in the house or the senate, for some republican to stand up ask say, i move to censure, to block impeachment. Some see this as a slippery slope. The republicans who are making this point see it as their best compromise. Theyre personally deeply offended at what the president did. This is like where they meet him in the middle. The president sees this as something that can dampen enthusiasm before his election effort, or something that could make it okay for other republicans to step out and have a stronger stance. I just think those two witnesses that are retiring are saying theyre not even voting for impeachment. You had william hurd in the interview say he wanted to call out mr. Biden that the hardcore trumpees want. I found that hard to believe since hes exiting, since hes leaving. The democrats probably wont get anyone else to testify, firsthand account that trump told them personally to do xyz on ukraine. What theyre going to be presenting now theyll be presenting in public, but they probably wont get any more proof than they have now, so if republicans arcent willing to open the door now, theyre not going to get impeachment. The judge knows what week it is. The judge knows public hearings are starting. The judge could have waited until tuesday, he could have waited until friday, he could have waited until next month. Mick mulvaney is trying to join a lawsuit brought by john boltons deputy, first, then joined by john bolton essentially saying, weve been subpoenaed by the deputy. Judge, tell me, do i have to testify . The president says no, the courts say yes, let Mick Mulvaney decide. If this judge rules on the power of a congressional subpoena, it could put them in the witness chair and both of their lawyers say interesting things. Boltons lawyer last week, ambassador bolton was involved in what you already have of testimony as well as relevant meetings and testimony that has not been discussed so far. Then Mick Mulvaney trying to join this lawsuit which the president of the United States is one of the defendants in the suit, Mick Mulvaney saying, both in his capacity as the acting white house chief of staff and as the director of the office of management and budget, mulvaney met with and advised President Trump directly on a frequent and regular basis and implemented President Trumps plans. Including stopping the aid to ukraine before they gave in to investigations. Bolton looks like to me hes trying to be forced into the hearings, that he kind of wants to testify, has things to say, but he wants to be ordered to do it. I know the courts have a hearing today. The courts still grind pretty slow in these kind of cases, and the democrats seem to be on a quick timetable. I dont know if there is enough time to get decisions to force bolton to do this. Its fascinating in the sense that if you believe boltons assista assistant, fiona hill, saying they cooked it up to something akin to a drug deal. They may Say Something different if mulvaney and bolton were forced to testify. The consensus seems to be that mulvaney is trying to slow down the process and that bolton doesnt really want to testify. But both of those things could be wrong. We dont really know whats in their heads and here are some complicating factors. Mulvaney, on one hand, is a staunch supporter of the president , and on the other hand, has always known when youre chief of staff in this white house, youre part of the team until you find out from twitter that you are no longer part of the team. Which is why he built up his own team. Mick mulvaney has to protect himself and that may be part of whats going on. John bolton has a lucrative book deal and wants to put details in this book that may not be out already. 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The president had the capability to do that. I get it. They have to testify. You might as well tell them get it over with, tell the truth. The part about the corruption, his words may have always been about that, but read the transcript. The president says, biden. We need a favor. The president is not talking about deep, systemic or legal corruption. This is about biden. Hell say, oh, we always hold up foreign aid or make sure you have good democracy in these countries were supporting, elts. But clearly this is bs because they have to look specifically at he was asking about the bidens. He was asking about investigations that helped the president politically in 2016. Pompeo is saying be truthful, because behind the scenes, he was telling people not to go. There is a little nuance there. We found out in these transcripts that the state department, while telling people not to show up last week or previous weeks, never gave advice about subpoenas. If they got subpoenaed, the state department never told them not to show. Youre right. At the white house, lets make it more personal. The president of the United States, when hes watching these hearings next week, it will be interesting to see how the president reacts. You mentioned the republicans are debating how to do this. The lead witness happens to be a vietnam war veteran, so you dont question the character of these witnesses. This is someone who served for a long time. Listen to rand paul here. The president dropped the whole argument about quid pro quo. You asked the ukraine president to do something and everybody does it. That would be saying that everyone tries to manipulate ukraine for their purposes. Obama tried it, trump tried it, they all tried it, to get them to start an investigation. The democrats he mentioned there, melendez, murphy and biden, would tell you, no, they were asking ukraine to clean up its borders, to have a judicial system that works, not to investigate domestic political rivals. And thats a big difference. This is also, as rachael pointed out, to make it seem as though multiple president s have done it, that the u. S. Does it on a regular basis, and thats just not accurate. Weve already seen republicans try to attack the witnesses, attack their character, so it remains to be seen whether or not they think that will be an effective strategy during the actual hearings. We expect that they will attack a lot of democrats process, still, continue to call it a sham investigation. But, again, democrats are pretty hopeful that they can effectively sell this as these public hearings start. It wont be any new information, but that finally the public will start to tune in and see things that they havent before. But can republicans just stir up enough dust, raise enough doubt, distract . To rand pauls point, everybody does it, as one of his arguments there. Hunter biden, not going to testify. Then it goes on to have a former dnc staffer who is not involved in this at all. It is if you have a republican Conspiracy Theory in your head about who meddled in the election in 2016. Necessarily lee ohr goes back to the steele dossier. The democrats are going to say no to just about everybody on the republican witness list, to what end . I think youll see a lot of republican efforts to disrupt and distract. Theyre going to try to do a lot of things to grab headlines, make it look partisan. This witness list obviously reflect that. It shows no seriousness, really, in trying to refute what the democrats are doing. I think thats just how its going to play out, especially in the house. I think if it gets to the senate, youll see a different kind of proceeding, but the house guys, you know, they added jim jordan to that committee for a good reason. Hes been good about getting out there and trying to divert attention from what the democrats say is really happening. But there are three witnesses on the list, all diplomats, all involved in this policy. If the president can call and get a difference of opinion here or different facts. We shall see. Up next, nikki haley is back her own stories of disarray in the white house. Again, as we go to break, its a very special day across the United States live. Pictures of the war memorial as we serve and continue to serve in the United States armed forces. Them. Tmobile is here to hele thats why were offering 50 off family lines for military, veterans and first responders. So they can stay connected, on our newest, most powerful signal ever. 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She said, kelly and tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president , they werent being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country. When they said that to me, they should have said that to the president , not asking me to join their sidebar plan. It should have been go tell the president what your differences are ask quit nd quit if you don what hes doing. But to undermine the president is a very dangerous thing. It goes against the constitution and it goes against what people want and its offensive. What do we make of this . Timing is everything in politics. I know the Book Publishing is on a schedule, but the week of impeachment she pops up. Number one, it does confirm chaos in the administration. Number two, shes taking the president s side here saying if you disagree, youre supposed to go tell him you disagree, youre not supposed to undermine him. But . Overwhelmingly, republicans and Many Democrats think nikki haley has a good chance of being the first female president. Probably not in 2020, but these are the things you say when youre trying to distinguish yourself from the people who broke with the president but also trying to clear a lane for yourself to have differences of opinion with the president , and consistently, both while she was inside the administration and throughout her exit and departure, she has managed to keep this politically, managed to keep this lane for herself where she is still a darling of many fans of President Trump but also respected by people who have issues with trump inside the republican party. Shes been a shrewd politician and that was a shrewd interview. To that very point, number one, on other issues, she said she disagreed with the president on the shooting in charlottesville, for example. Other areas where she could be a mainstream republican. She told npr, its not a practice of ours to ever ask a foreign country to investigate an american. So there shes saying what the president did was wrong. But on impeachment, she said this. Sdp youre going to impeach the president for asking for a favor that didnt happen and giving money and it wasnt withheld . I dont know what you would impeach him on. The ukranians never did the investigation and the president released the fuchbnds. When you look at those, theres just nothing impeachable there. More than that, i think the biggest thing that bothers me is the American People should decide this. Why do we have a bunch of people in Congress Making this decision . Its a stunning response or logical reasoning that shes trying to give. Impeachment doesnt need the act doesnt need to have been carried out for congress to impeach a president. If they find his conduct unbecoming, which is the act of asking for this favor, then the house can proceed as they see fit. Haleys as margaret said, what haley is doing is very obvious. She is positioning herself to rise as a potential replacement to trump, whether hes there for all eight years if hes reelected or not. Available if and when they need someone. Whats interesting to me about this book and the excerpts is like she could have done that, positioned herself in both camps without throwing a knife at john kelly. I think that was particularly interesting. And if you remember back, you know, when she was accused of getting talking points wrong on a sunday show regarding syria, i guess it was kellys position to go out and defend her when other people in the administration said she was confused and sort of threw her under the bus. Clearly theres still some sour grapes there, because shes basically accusing kelly of not treason per se, but saying hes undermining the president. I thought it was interesting shes going after him while trying to balance these camps. Nikki haley throws extrump officials under the 2020 campaign bus. To your point about john kelly, heres what he said to the washington post. Mr. Kelly said, quote, kelly said that if providing the president with the best and most open, legal and ethical staffing advice from across government so he could make an informed decision is working against trump, then guilty as charged. Her view is do it. Its such a delicate act shes trying to perform heere t stay on both sides of it, it will be hard to maintain it. She basically did confirm what we all talked about for two years, that there was this movement within the white house to hold the president in check. I think that sometimes when you try and do it this calculatedly, it blows up on you later, and she may come to regret later some of the things she said. To margarets point, she is the only person i can think of who has managed this balance. 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Joe biden hoping to connect with voters in iowa, hold be two town halls. You can see one of them tonight on cnn. Interesting position. Strong in the National Polls but falling behind in some of the national states, especially iowa and New Hampshire. How worried is he . Dana bash caught up with him this weekend. If here in New Hampshire you dont come in first or even second, do you feel confident that your candidacy can survive . First of all, i think im going to do better in both places than that. Lets just say hypothetically. Im not going to go there. Smart not to go there. It is interesting because you do have this odd dynamic in the race with this bloomberg, i might get in the race late scenario, and you have sanders at the top nationally, and you have Elizabeth Warren one of the top candidates. What does it have on nevada, what does it have on South Carolina . Do voters see a weakened joe biden . 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That resume question, just one of two weekend controversies circling the mayor. A Los Angeles Times reporter misquoted buttigieg talking about the failures of the obama era. That turned out to be an uncorrect quote and they corrected it today. Buttigieg trying to move on and stay on message. I appreciate that fact got cleared up today so its not a focus on veterans. If we continue to reach voters with the right message, then thats how were going to win. Senator klobuchar have a point . I mean, there is no question that female candidates have to deal with a number of things that male candidates dont, you know, from mysogeny to just different standards that women have, questions about elect ability for women or minority. That being said, buttigieg is rising for reasons. He seems to have latched onto this unifying message that people feel as though hes pulled from obama. He also has this new generation field him because he is a young candidate, so hes playing into that. But the big question is hes struggled a lot with minority voters, with black and brown voters, and can he make inroads there. Because if he doesnt, he cant really survive. As you jump in, a couple interesting perspectives. David axelrod was the top strategist for obama back in 20072008. He said this. It is a natural thing when a young candidate comes along and has success for other candidates who feel like theyve been toild in the vineyards to resent it. She worked in the Clinton White house, worked on the hill before that, she was responsible for Hillary Clintons campaign in 2016. She retweeted the story about Amy Klobuchars point. This is 100 true. It doesnt mean buttigieg is not a worthy candidate. It means we should push ourselves to see same potential in promising women as we do in promising men. There are two things going on here. You have some jealousy, which in that quote people were getting to right there, buttigieg was one of the lower tiered candidatesme candidates. He really was able to stand out in the debates and has soared in iowa, so clearly people resent that, given his lack of experience, perhaps, here in washington. At the same time, klobuchars point about shes a battletested candidate, these are things that she is going to be trying to point out to voters to say i am the better candidate. I have won in republican districts. I have won in districts that Pete Buttigieg has never even tried to win. There are points on both sides of this, but of course you have to think about jealousy, of course, factoring some of that, too. I think that it shows that democratic voters are looking for something new, maybe not something from washington, and i think she does have a point, but you just kind of have to live with it. He has caught on a little bit and is rising, and the fact they are all turning on him and criticizing him like this is a bonus for him. One thing about that misquote, transparency has its problems. I feel bad for those reporters. 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Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. Another House Republican headed for the exit today. Representative peter king says he will not seek reelection in 2020. He becomes number 22 for the amount of representatives that have left. He said this is about time with his family, not any worry about losing. He was hoping his daughter could run for the seat, but she recently moved out of state. He announced, in the coming weeks and during the next year, i intend to vote against President Trumps impeachment and will support the president s bid for reelection. A very smart statement from congressman king to keep himself out of the twitter feed, to make sure he said, this is not about you, sir. This is a big number. Again, how much of it is the minority, how much of it is having to deal with trump every day or a combination of above . A combination. I talked to pete king a week or so ago. It was clear he was not happy with this impeachment. He, of course, voted against the articles of impeachment against president clinton, so he was one of the few republicans who did that. Its tough being a minority, but i think hes just decided its time to move on. You cant do much in the minority. He was a guy who liked to get things done. Reporters were crying today because pete king was really good at dealing with the media, always available and a great guy. They dont want to be in the minority. Some of them also dont like answering questions about the president. Others just believe things other than the president. Theyre in Trumps Republican Party now, but theyre more traditional republicans. One of them who is now gone, charlie dent, who is a cnn contributor, put it this way. Pete kings seat will likely be a competitors seat for republicans to defend. In part because theyre tiring frustrated with the current political environment and the president s conduct in office, and i think you have to still watch out for more. Look what happened this week in elections. Those elections sent a bad sign. They dont bode well for 2020. Hes dead right there will be more. Hes talking about last tuesday. When you look at the kentucky suburbs, the virginia suburbs, pick your spot, that had elections this year, President Trump was getting hammered in american suburbs. Its a number of things. Its not only fears that they will not win back the house. Ive heard a lot of republicans say they think trump could possibly lose in 2020, and i heard a quote somewhere along the lines of we think were in the wilderness now, imagine us losing the white house. Were going to be in a worst position we are right now. And the tweet thing, you cant overstate how much republicans hate having to answer for the president s controversial tweets. One of the republicans i interviewed just after his announcements, Paul Mitchell in michigan and a trump district, a very conservative area, one of the tweets that led him to retire was when trump came out and made a racist comment about those four liberal women in the house, saying they should go back to their countries of origin, even though theyre all americans. Thats what led him to go home, have a conversation with his wife and say, enough is enough. Im done. It is an interesting count counterpoint to Nancy Pelosis decision to get behind the impeachment inquiry. There were so many comments from democrats, including her, that going aggressive on this could hurt their hold on the house. There is still some concerns among democrats that it could hurt their bid for the white house in 2020, but this seems to bolster the idea that the thought is it will not cost democrats the house majority. I just want to put the numbers up before we lose this. If you go back to the last congress, the republicans started in 2021. Minority now with 197 to start this congress in retirement. Democrats are excited about king retiring. I love this conversation. Im sorry, brianna, ill give it back to you tomorrow. Brianna starts right now. Im Brianna Keilar live from cnns washington headquarters. Underway right now, a monumental week for the fate of the presidency. The republicans are mounting their defense with public hearings set to begin in two days. Its a surprising move by white house chief of staff. Why Mick Mulvaney is trying