Democrats are coming and in greater strength with up to 40 new seats in the house of representatives, the body that impeaches president. Yes the past week has been a sobering reckoning for President Trump as he sinks increasingly deeper into possibly the most perilous situation of his presidency. He has lost ground on several fronts. A rebuke at the hands of the American People in last weeks midterm elections. He faced defeat in his war with the media after a federal judge ordered his administration to restore a white house Reporters Press pass and, of course, there is that looming inspector of special counsel Robert Muellers investigation and the existential threat it poses to his presidency and to the liberty of his family members. Well, today, trump was asked about his twitter rant against the special counsel and his team yesterday and what may have triggered it. On twitter yesterday, you seemed agitated about what you might be receiving im not agitated. The whole thing was a hoax. There was no collusion. Did anything trigger that set of tweets not at all. Im very happy. Trump also weighed in on one of the most contentious aspects of muellers investigation announcing hed completely the written answers to questions in the russia probe insisting hed done it all by myself. My lawyers arent working on that. Im working on that. I write the answers. My lawyers dont write answers. You write answers. I was asked a series of questions. Ive answered them very easily, very easily. Im sure theyre tricked up because they like to catch people you have to always be careful when you answer questions with people that probably have bad intentions, but no, the questions were very routinely answered by me, by me. Im joined right now by White House Reporter from bloomberg news, michael schmidt, cynthia axion, david xiaory who is no longer affiliated. I love the way no longer known as a republican. Let me go to michael on this. Can you report now what is in the questions that trump says are so easy to answer but he hasnt done it yet . They have had the questions since february since march of this year. They know what the topics are, they knew in september that mueller would take written responses. They said the responses were going to go on wednesday. They still havent gone. Why havent they gone . What is holding them up . Mueller wanted to sit down with the president , he made the accommodation to allow him to give written answers. He is gone that far, why is it that the president cant hand it over . What is hold lets go to the possibility that theres a conflict between the president and his attorneys because three days of arguing with them, hes come up with nothing. He doesnt want to release, so somebody says, i want to release and somebody says dont do it. Whatever it is cynthia, do you think theres a part that says, in the end, you dont testify if you dont have to the oldest rule for the defendant. The oldest rule. There is zero chance that any lawyer would allow him to answer the questions and ever get in front of the grand jury and talk to mueller. That is never going to happen. If it goes up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court rules, hes just going to take five. This president is never going to testify. What about this take home exam . First of all, this business about i wrote them myself and all that excitement that he had today for us, that just didnt happen. Thats just a lie. Why would he lie he lies about by saying i personally put these words on this paper, doesnt that put him more into a perjury trap yes, absolutely. Hes giving away a defense because one defense was always to be the lawyers made me right that. Hes giving that away. These are his questions to answer them. You cant have your lawyer go in and testify. Technically, he has to be the one to answer the questions. Now we know like michael said hes working on the lawyers have been working on these questions for weeks but he has to be the one who says he answers them. If he signs it, if he signs the statement, does that make him culpable for perjury even if he didnt write them . Are you responsible yes. If he signs them, but you can see him saying to the American People or testifying later or going to trial or something and saying, well the lawyers just told me to do that. The truth of the matter is i was very busy, i was negotiating treaties with north korea and trying to avoid nuclear war and they made me sign it and i didnt pay much attention and therefore i had no intent. Go ahead. Heres the thing, he wants this to be over. He doesnt want it to drag on so whatever is stopping this is so powerful that it is continue to go allow this to drag on. They need to get some sort of answers from him before they close the investigation. That is whats delaying it. Are you suggesting this is it. We think so. Everyone thinks they know what muellers going to do. We dont know. We think its close. Theres one thing that is likely holding it could be dispute over these questions. It could be that his lawyers have said in exchange for answering these questions they want assurances that this is it. That youre not going to make him come in, that these are going to satisfy you. That youre not going to make him come in still for an inperson interview. If we give you these questions, thats it. Youre not going to come back with a subpoena for something else. In the politics, most of us watching this, most on the journalist side of the aisle and everybody are watching trump looking like hes caught right now. He doesnt look happy. Despite the tanning power he goes to whatever, he doesnt look healthy or happy, he looks agitated. Then we got the word he fought with his attorneys for three days, and then he went out to cover this whole thing up with the smiling number today, but nobody believes it, why, whats wrong . At this point i think donald trump should plead the fifth and heres why. The answers he submits will be a sworn statement from the president of the United States and even if the lawyers think theyve nuanced it so its not committing perjury or not revealing culpability for criminal activity, Robert Mueller is not going to agree to no followup. Heres the reason for the panic. Donald trump knows hes in a corner but he doesnt know which corner hes in because he doesnt know what other information Robert Mueller has gotten from cooperating witnesses and thats the panic. This isnt a matter of donald trump being able to verify, im telling the truth based on what donald trump i said a year ago. This is am i telling the truth based on evidence Robert Mueller has from others that i dont have visibility in to, which is the reason for the panic and i think at this point the reason donald trump should plead the fifth. Cynthia . I definitely agree. Robert mueller would never would never make the deal that the lawyers may be pressuring is that they dont ever have to have followups. These questions reportedly do not include anything about the obstruction and there is no way that Robert Mueller would agree that hes just never going to ask the president question and hes not going to try to do it. Thats not in keeping with his character or any prosecutor ive ever known. That could be the holdup. They still want answers to obstructions questions and the president s lawyers want a guarantee, that youll leave us alone on obstruction. President trump may have unwittingly revealed his true intent to install Matt Whitaker as his new acting attorney general in an interview today. Asked who might replace whitaker as a permanent attorney general, the question that did not mention the Mueller Probe at all, he digressed into a rant about the russia probe. Whitakers just somebody thats very respected. I knew him only as he was with Jeff Sessions and, you know, look, as far as im concerned this is an investigation that should never have been brought. Its an illegal investigation. He knows why he put whitaker there was to protect him from the russia probe and whoever i put him permanently will keep those people down. Hes tried to put some distance between himself and whitaker. Theres all these stories that different issues that whitaker has and the questions of why hes truly there and the question keeps on moving him closer and closer to the side. Thats what he does right before he dumps them. Right before the tweet comes out. I dont know nothing. But he may be the best bet to do things he wants. There seems to be no idea who the next attorney generals going to be. He had two years to think about it. Does anybody here maybe youre the one, does anybody think that whitakers not going to be the line on which trump is going to fight and stick with whitaker all the way because i dont know what other game he has john hugh made no, you cant do something, that would have been over. Because rosenstein had so much credibility. If whitaker says something, no, you cant subpoena that witness and then whitaker has to Tell Congress under the rules, whitaker doesnt have the same credibility. Mueller might just say, youre not properly assigned. Youre not right. Theres if youre trump, you want a guy thats going to back you up and take all the heat. Because whitaker doesnt have credibility, it weakens his ability to control the investigation ultimately. Lets talk politics. If youre trump you dont have a lot of option, one is to say, everybody sat around here three weeks ago it has to be rosenstein. This is all in the rules, its all there. All part of our judicial culture. It has to be him, all these little rules and ethic rules and trump says, look, ive been shooting the moon all my life. Im not going to play by your rules. Im going to pick my guy and im going to dare you to get rid of him and im going to keep him there. If this guy mueller gets free rein, im dead. That seems to be trumps approach. Certainly. If youre donald trump and youre trying to pick out a loyal fall guy it is Matt Whitaker. Matt whitaker could do all the dirty work over the next six to eight weeks and then trump could let him go and actually nominate somebody for the next two years and make whitaker the fall guy on terminating the Mueller Probe. What is different, though, is weve been living through two years where there is no oversight from the United States congress into any of this, no subpoena for testimony from any of these destination officials. That all is about to change and that is why were going to see donald trump start to play by different rules, rules that even further confront some of the constitutional norms that weve seen over the past several years. Is this his avenue months before january 3rd when the new house comes . Inn . I guess so but whatever he does will still get scrutiny then. I dont know where he has to move. Where are the places that he can go . If he does something in this period of time that the democrats dont like, theyll bring it up in the beginning of january. I dont know if it really matters. You dont think hes houdini like i do sometimes . Hes best qualities you act like hes done, hes finished. He might be politically houdini. If he can convince the senate not to remove him from office theyre never going to do that. Hes got 91 of the Republican Party. If he can make the democrats look like fools for impeaching him and be like clinton and have his approvals go up the only republicans that come out against trump are the ones heading out the door. That would be corker, goodbye, flake, goodbye, charlie dent, go on. They just leave. Nobody sticks around for the next election challenges trump. Nobody. You dont know what they will do. They may do the right thing if the evidence warrants it. You have to have some hope name the one republican that will stand up. I dont. I cant. Ive given up all those people you have to assume the evidence is going to matter. David, it seems like the only people that are willing to stand up against trump are those that dont have to stand against trump with the voters . I was a sitting member of congress in december of 17 who called on trump to drop out of the race. There are several reasons i probably lost my last race one was redistricting but that was the other one. You confront this president , you lose. Thats a greater test of leadership. Instead republicans today have become more trumplike. Theyve fallen in line on the hill. Theres not that howard baker. We shouldnt expect that from todays Republican Party, we know that. Thank you, all. Coming up, the Justice Department is preparing to criminally charge wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Could this help prove the extent of russias conspiracy to get trump elected in 16 . I think so. And dozens are dead and more than 600 are now missing out there in california as those wildfires continue to devastate the state. The president blamed the fires on gross mismanagement and threatened to withhold federal money. What message will the president have when he visits the state tomorrow . Plus shes in it to win it. Facing opposition within her party, nancy pelosi is launching an intense battle on capitol hill as we speak to regain and hold her speakership. Let me finish tonight trump watch. This is hardball where the action is. Hey, no big deal. 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The clue is found an motion filed last august in a completely unrelated case, a case brought by the same federal prosecutor is investigating wikileaks in the Eastern District of virginia. Well, that prosecutor accidently stated in the filing that the complaint would need to remain sealed until assange is arrested in connection with the charges and can therefore no longer evade and avoid arrest and extra diction. Assange has been living in london for the past eight years, which makes this potential extradition difficult and while its unclear whether the charges against him would be brought in connection with russias hacking, his knowledge of that operation or any conspiraciries in that would be a value to prosecutors. Im joined by senator Richard Blumenthal and glenn kirshner. How does this all connect . Well, chris, weve seen with some of the indictments that bob mueller has returned for hacking into and trying to impact our elections. We are about to see, we all believe, the american side of that. As soon as bob mueller shows his cards, whether by returning indictments, authoring a report to congress or both. Now weve got Julian Assange and wikileaks right smack in the middle of it. And obviously what i find most intriguing about this is the president was benefiting from the fact that wikileaks had these illegal emails, they were disclosing them for obviously political reasons, and weve seen that montage of the president saying wikileaks about 1,200 times, wikileaks, wikileaks, wikileaks. Ill tell you, thats the president exploiting stolen information for his own purposes. And that is yet another potential crime, receipt of stolen property, exploiting it for your own benefit. So i actually think the assange piece is right smack in the middle of the russian piece and the Trump Campaign piece, and its going to be really interesting to see what happens if we get our hands on assange. As glen just mentioned, wikileaks played a major part in trumps closing arguments again Hillary Clinton back in the 2016 election. Heres candidate trump repeatedly praising wikileaks that was doing russias bidding. , by the way, did you see another one, another one came in today. This wikileaks is like a treasure trove. This wikileaks is unbelievable. What weve learned about her and her people. We love wikileaks. Boy, they have really wikileaks. They have revealed a lot. Boy, that wikileaks has done a job on her, hasnt it . Ill tell you, this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. It tells you the inner heart. You got to read it. Now this just came out. This just came out. Wikileaks. I love wikileaks. Senator, i think they call that soft intel in the spy game. Its open right there in the public. I mean, right in public you see candidate trump benefiting and wanting more benefit from the russians through wikileaks. He knew what he was doing. It looks to me like this would be part of any kind of report from mueller when it comes. Perhaps soon. It should be part of any report that bob mueller produces and, in fact, i am going to be introducing legislation that requires a report along with full disclosure of any findings and evidence in the event that he is fired or hes forced to resign. And the key word here is the one you used, chris, conspiracy. Roger stone, who may well have had advanced knowledge, a close friend of the president and a confidante, others who may have disclose to donald trump about what was going to appear in wikileaks, all of it amounts to a potential conspiracy and thats exactly what the collusion charge may involve. There are at least three Trump Associates who have reported ties to wikileaks, jerome corsi, roger stone and donald trump jr. Theres a hot one. All of whom have been subject of recent speculation of coming indictments. Theres a suggestion that corsi had advanced knowledge. And we know that roger stone who clammed to have a back channel to wikileaks discussed the release of those emails in a text message conversation just before they were leaked. And atlantic said donald trump jr. Exchanged messages in the fall of 2016 telling other members of the Clinton Campaign that wikileaks made contact. Lets start with this, glenn. Everybody on this program working with me has known that roger stone has been pushing trump to run for president for 20 some years. He joined melania when he came to penn. Rogers always close at hand. Always been pushing trump to run. He didnt disown him now, can he or will he . Thats what makes roger stone one of the potentially big ticket cooperators. If they can crack open roger stone he doesnt want to go to prison. No, hes not going to want to die in prison. He doesnt look like he would thrive in prison. If they can crack him open and get all the information that trump may have had or he may have provided against trump, thats going to be looking forward, chris, lets Pay Attention to if the u. S. Gets its hands on assange and can extradite him from the ecuadorean embassy. Hes a big fish but mueller will look to cultivate him why dont we pull one of those israeli numbers and just go grab him. They will step to anybody as a potential cooperating witness, except the biggest fish, the president. Everybody below him, including assange, is in play. Senator, what do you know about how close this report is coming . We had people on tonight, smart people. Cynthia and michael of the New York Times, they know whats going on. They all seem to be suggesting that the last element in this whole report by im losing the names by mueller, that its all coming to an end once they get the written answers from trump. Is that your understanding that were getting close to the end here . My hunch, and its not much more than an educated guess, is that the special counsel still has a good deal of work to do. Remember that the written answers to these questions pertain only to the preelection period. So far donald trump has refused to answer any questions involving the transition or postinaugural period, which has to be unacceptable to the special prosecutor. The special prosecutor may well seek oral answers to these questions, as he probably should. I think we still have a ways to go. You said earlier that donald trump is looking like he is caught. I think the walls seem to be closing in. And as manafort and rick gates and Michael Cohen continue to cooperate, remember they were all active just this past week and talking to the prosecutors, there is still more information to be gleaned here. Robert mueller is nothing if not methodical, determined, by the book and meticulous. I think the reckoning is a really serious one. I dont think trump is going into that room and answering questions in a live situation. I just dont think hes capable of it. I think hell be told hes not capable of telling Something Like the truth. Thank you, both. And very helpful to understand this. Up next, dozens killed and hundreds are unaccounted for. After threatening to withhold federal fund because of what he calls gross mismanagement of the forest, what will trumps message be when he visits the state tomorrow . Hes got to Say Something nice. This is hardball, where the action is. Fridge, weather. Clear skies and 75. Trash can, turn on the tv. My pleasure. Ice dispenser, find me a dog sitter. Okay. And make ice. Pizza delivered. Whats happened to my son . I think thats just what people are like now. I mean, with progressive, you can quote your insurance on just about any device. Even on social media. Hell be fine. [ laughs ] will he . I dont know. Will he . With advil liquigels, what stiff joints . What bad back . Advil is. 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He also talked about funding for that state. At least 71 people confirmed dead and a growing number, over 1,000 now unaccounted for, thousands more also displaced. Now, back to hardball. Welcome back to hardball. At least 66 people have now died and more than 600 remain missing as wildfires continue to ravage california. Three are major wildfires burning north of sacramento and west of los angeles. And last friday the camp fire in Northern California engulfed the town of paradise, leaving an apocalyptic landscape in its wake. There it is. The camp fire is now californias deadliest and most destructive fire in the states history. Look at this. This is like after borld world war ii there. President trump had this to say in an interview with fox. California, purpose of your trip tomorrow. Just to see the firefighters. Nobodys ever seen whats going on over there. Now theyre saying there could be as many as 600. This just came out before we met. Could be as many as 600 killed, up by 400. Its incredible whats going on. And burned beyond recognition. They cant even see the bodies. Its incredible. For the latest im joined by the mayor of chico. What are we dealing with there. Chris, you just said it, its catastrophic. No ones seen anything like it before. I dont even know how to describe it. You said it looks like the aftermath of world war ii, the analogy i made to someone today, i was talking to the bbc and id seen pictures of when london was bombed after world war ii with st. Pauls cathedral standing up, thats what it looked like. Whats it like when it strikes . We hear about people getting killed. Most of us are used to fires that move well, not at a human pace. They dont usually catch up to people if they get a jump on it. Tell us what happens to people when they get caught up in this inferno. Well, you end up seeing what your clip what the president just said. You end up with a lot of dead people. The fire was moving at a rate of almost 800 yards a minute. The inferno wasnt that fast but it was jumping that quickly. So there were people that didnt get out. Whats extraordinary is 50,000 people evacuated, 63 dead so far. Im surprised the numbers not higher. They did an amazing job getting people out of that town. Lets talk about the people who escaped and are in your city of chico. What do you have . How do you handle, what is it, 50,000 people who just come . We dont know how many exactly are here. We have a small humanitarian crisis here. Were a very compassionate community. There are people in homes, people in sanctioned shelters, people in unsanctioned shelters, people in parking lots and when i say weve got a humanitarian crisis, weve got the noro breaking out in some of the shelters, fema and oes are just starting to get a handle on that as we move more and more people into proper shelters. What are you going to ask the president if you get to meet him tomorrow . I dont know what id ask him. Im going to give him a paradise football ball cap and ask if hed wear it in honor of the football team. Im going to say thanks for coming. Chris, we dont get National Politicians in Northern California in the rural valley. The governors dont come up here, the president s dont come up here, so the fact that people are paying attention and were getting the full cooperation of the federal and State Government is huge to the citizens of paradise. What do you want to ask for the American People to do right now. I want to give you a chance to make a pitch for help. What a great question. Thank you so much. I got two things. Number one, im going to ask for continued prayer because thats what we need. And number two, the town of paradise needs hope and it needs money to rebuild. The best two places to do that are the north Valley Community foundation, nvcf. Org and Golden Valley bank. Theyre both local institutions. Golden valley bank you can find it online. All that money will go to the victims of the fire. Its not going anywhere else. Its not going to admin. It will go directly to rebuilding a fantastic town that right now is part of our city and were happy to have them but were also anxious to get them back where they want to be. Just give me that address again. North Valley Community foundation is nvcf. Org. Nvcf. Org, locally run, very, very well run. I know the executive director. The over one is our local community bank, Golden Valley bank in chico, california, theyve got a donate button right on the front page and theyve been here for years. We will make sure all they will make sure all those donations go to the right places and dont get sucked up into admin and other things. Ive learned over the years that the hardball viewers, a lot of them respond to these pleas and it looks like you need them. Thank you so much, sean morgan, mayor of chico. Thank you for spreading the message. A big showdown looming on capitol hill as nancy pelosi ramps up her campaign to get the speakers gavel back. 17 democrats are now saying they will not vote for her but nancy pelosi says shes ready to call their bluff. Is that the right phrase . Youre watching hardball. Here we go. Discover. I like your card, but im absolutely not paying an annual fee. Discover has no annual fees. Really . Yeah. We just dont believe in them. Oh nice. You would not believe how long ive been rehearsing that. No annual fee on any card. Only from discover. Once i started looking for it was a nobrainer. I switched to geico and saved hundreds. Thats a win. But its not the only reason i switched. The geico app makes it easy to manage my policy. I can pay my bill, add a new driver, or even file a claim. Woo, hey now thats a winwin. Thank you switch to geico®. Its a winwin. Back to hardball. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is working overtime these hours to win the support of her party. And with it the gavel of the speaker of the house. In a sign that shes in it to win it, pelosi has begun making concessions on a couple issues. In a meeting with the congressional black caucus, the Washington Post reports that pelosi, quote, pledged to give Committee Chairs a free hand to move legislation through their panels, a major issue for the cbc, which counts five incoming chairs in its ranks. Nancy pelosi was willing to provide key committees, we agreed that there should be opportunities not only for season cpc members but also for our brandnew cpc members, many of whom bring particular issuearea expertise. Will these concessions be enough to corral the party behind her bid for speaker . Tiffany cross is managing editor of thebeat. Dc. Chris louis and let me start with you tiffany, is pelosi going to make it . I think she will. Weve seen this time and again. I remember when she first ran for speaker against harold ford and made these sexist comments. I remember the last time tim ryan challenged her and when she passed all those reporters in the hallway and she just said twothirds because she got twothirds of the vote. Theyre actually necessary steps to take to involve an increasingly diverse democratic party. I think it makes sense for her to come out and endorse the rooney roll. It makes sense for her to create room for rising stars in the party. She has to make room for people like that to come to the forefront. Shes totally fine. I know shes been how do you get past the people who promised their voters theyre going to vote against pelosi and they say present. I think its challenging. Im not a vote counter. Shes one of the vote counters there are. I think she will get there and she should get there. I will tell you youre not answering my question. How do you say to your voters for months im going to vote against nancy pelosi in your ad campaign and then get a picture on cspan of you voting present . Shes going to make some concessions. Clearly there needs to be new blood in the party and i think shell try to bring more people into her Leadership Team and in the end she may have to make the concession shell just serve these two years. At this point were about to embark on an epic fight for the next two years. We dont have the luxury of having a speaker who needs onthejob training and shes the right person for the job. Thats a normative argument and political argument. Youre a determine freshman, the first vote you cast betrays your promise, how do you deal with that . You say i couldnt vote for the other guy. If the sky is blue but the people know this. If the wave is blue, nancy pelosi will be speaker. You can vote for john lewis theyre not ready. Its going to be binary like clinton against trump. Theyre going to say that nancy pelosi she just won the best democratic gain against watergate one thing about politician thats people dont like, bill clinton runs around in arkansas give me one more term, i wont run for president. Theyre used to this stuff. Teddy roosevelt said i didnt run because i promised not to. I didnt want to be a politician like everybody else. So the first step you make is you say im a politician. Im not a democrat. No one cares what i think. I have to say as i get older. Im a little tired of the argument that we need young i dont want young people in there. I want experienced people in there so if i look at my party, i want experienced people running who have experience with their job. Look at the president of the United States, hes not young but he had no experience with the job. Here you go, again. So President Trump loves this guy mike pence, hes very religious, pious even, is he going to keep him . Of course. Are you sure hes loyal . He likes to punk him. He likes to keep everybody on edge to make them know in the pecking order that hes in charge and put them on edge. Hes doing that with Kirstjen Nielsen who was behind him today. The president s beginning to question the loyalty of another member of his white house, repeatedly asking aides and advisers in recent weeks in Vice President mike pence is loyal. Hes repeated the question so many times that hes alarmed some of his advisers. The president has not openly suggesting dropping mike pence from the ticket, but those kinds of questions indicate that hes grown irritated with someone just last week, trump was asked whether pence would be joining him on the 2020 ticket. Well, i havent asked him. Mike, will you be my running mate . Stand up. Raise your right hand. Im only kidding. Will you . Thank you. Okay. Good. The answers yes. Chris, what do you think . Theres always idle speculation like this in the white house. Hes the one doing the speculation. Thats the important part. The key thing in the New York Times story is a recognition in the white house that perhaps the demographics of the Republican Party arent big enough to make a winning coalition. Can any Vice President ial candidate really expand trumps base significantly and how about female . Possibly, but oprahs not going to do it. I dont think you matters on the ticket. This is a lesson. Donald trump won. You can put kanye west as his running mate and hes not going to win. If he picks nikki haley, she looks like somebody that wants to be president and will get there. Shell outshine him, though. And he doesnt like that. I dont think people pick the president based on the Vice President. You never looked, you never thought that way in your life, my first vote i cast, i voted for humphrey and mussky would get us out of the war. Youre the only one. If you look at very close elections no, rick youre not old enough. Vice president s dont really make a difference. Which state do they bring. Thats the only time they make a difference. What about lewinsky . Why is Monica Lewinsky, 20 years later, after the relationship with the president she coming back for a three part docuseries on it . I dont want to speculate about why shes doing it but from my perspective this is ancient political history. Not for her. Hillary clintons not the president , shes not going to be a president ial candidate. Really . You didnt read mark pences piece the other day. I did. I will say this. This is for those people that dont realize what happened with impeachment 1998, they should watch this. Anyone in the democratic site whos clamoring to impeach donald trump, when bill clinton fini finished he won five seats in the house. You think this sunday a e is premiering the new document series the clinton affair and Monica Lewinsky is telling her side of the story in a scandal that captivated the country 20 years ago. Heres a bit of it. Its not as if it doesnt register with me that he was the president. Obviously it did, but i think in one way the moment we were actually in the back office for the first time, the truth is, i think it meant more to me that someone who other people desired desired me. However wrong it was, however misguided, for who i was in that very moment at 22 years old, that was how it felt. What do you think . Listen, we are close in age and i remember i was in college when all this happened and i know whats it like to have the seduction of power of an older man go after the 22yearold. She was taken advantage of and she was the casualty of this republican effort to target bill clinton. Im so happy that she is telling her story in her terms in her own voice. She deserves that. Ive been reading this in her words that she felt that she was betrayed by clinton when he denied the relationship. He was betrayed by clinton and linda tripp and bullied by the investigators who targeted her. Everyones gotten to move on except for this girl. If i was judged by the decisions i made at 22, i would not be sharing this panel here with you tonight. Tiffanys so right. I love this story. I want to relive this. I love politics and history. I think we should go through this again and see it through the new lens, through the me too movement, through what happens through a new lens of history and she finally gets to tell her story. Its a great redemption story and people should watch it. This was not a bright moment for either the two parties so i think a lot of people would rather put them behind them. This is a powerful its a sense to see how far this country has come in terms of the me too movement. Hugh jackson is doing this movie on gary hart im so excited about it. Snakes come in pair. The roundtable is sticking with us. Youre watching hardball. No matter when you retire, your income doesnt have to. 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Chineseamericans, indian americans, 77 voted democrat. Why do you think . I think its a lot of cultural issues, i think its immigration, the rhetoric. But republicans are making a play for them on affirmative action. I would say without denigrating any group, asianamericans would seem to be the most entrepreneurial, the most interested in having free opportunities economically in this country than being a social welfare state. A lot of it is the rhetoric. The cultural trashing of people. That makes sense. Rick, you have time. Democrats should run, 2020, someone who can beat florida in swing state, georgia, arizona, north carolina. Oh, youre the new breed. I know you. Listen to me, democrats, or they have to win michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania, some combination of those, or two of those states and one other swing state, youre in, youre done. The new breed guys are pushing this arizona, georgia. I havent changed. Im pushing the same old, same old. Pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan. 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Next friday, the day after thanksgiving ill be signing books at mitchells bookstore in nantucket. Im convinced in the deepening interest in Bobby Kennedy is the necessary reaction to what were getting from our Political Leadership in the white house. I cannot remember or ever imagine the president attacking minorities so nastily and personally as this one has so recently. Donald trump seems to save his worst vitriol for africanamerican women, whether hes calling congresswoman Maxine Waters a low iq person, or insulting my friends and colleagues and april ryan for their racist and stupid questions. He reserves a nastier tone for people below the border, grouping them as gang joining criminals and rapists. The hero in my book could not have been more different. He would campaign in an open car in gary indiana. He wanted to unite, not divide people. Bobby was the first mainstream american politician to take up the cause of the latino farm workers in california, joining in a religious bond with the great caesar chavez. He never broke faith with the White Working Class families that came out to mourn him. Im asking you to go with me on this weekend and get this story out ive written about this man in paperback, its what i believe america can and should be. I believe good leaders show us ourselves as opposes to the tribal bitterness donald trump has shown. Thanks for being with us. All in starts with chris hayes right now. Tonight on all in. I write the answers, my lawyers dont write answers, i write answers. All eyes on the Mueller Probe as the president claims to have answered the special counsels questions. I was asked a series of questions, ive answered them very easily, very easily. Tonight the signs that something is happening behind the scenes as the world waits on possible indictments. I imagine its ending now from what i hear its ending. Then, the inadvertent revelation of undisclosed criminal charges against Julian Assange. This just came out, wikileaks, i love wikileaks. Plus, the fight for leadership in the house. I intend to win the speakership with democratic votes. And an update on potential ambassadors for the United States. Daytime, midnight and the