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Integrity. but the pressure is so high because my political base is hearing from fox news, theyre hearing -- >> my favorite thing about that, the very same senators who are doing that will then go on twitter to blast an nba player who wont speak out against china. look in the mirror. senator jeff merkley, its great to have you here in the studio. thanks a lot. >> thank you. key polling in battleground states that has echos of the 2016 election. what democrats plan to do about it, ahead. what d...

And so i think there may be a small group of republicans who are thinking i want to act with integrity. but the pressure is so high because my political base is hearing from fox news, theyre hearing -- >> my favorite thing about that, the very same senators who are doing that will then go on twitter to blast an nba player who wont speak out against china. its like look in the mirror. senator jeff merkley, its great to have you here in the studio. thanks a lot. >> thank you. key polling in batt...

Least the authorities. in this case, the manhattan d.a. so this lifelong new yorker who made his brand, of course, you know the pictures, you know "the apprentice," all about new york, he says hes leaving because he doesnt like the way politicians have treated him. no word on whether its to hide the fact that he doesnt want everyone to know how much money he actually has. coming up on the show, we have a lot more, im excited about, rock legends from rem are in the house tonight. but first, thi...

Shes got 55% of the public now with her on impeachment and removal of donald trump. this evening a new poll that shows 61% of americans believe that donald trump disrespects our democratic institutions. you could almost hear echos of her in her remarks that we just played talking about our democracy and talking about protecting it. do the democrats feel like they have the upper hand in terms of public opinion? >> they do for the moment. but they recognize that that could be fleeting and that its...

John bolton told him. bolton, according to his testimony, said that he was concerned and cautioned that rudy giuliani, the presidents outside attorney of course, that giuliani could be an obstacle to increased white house engagement. thats a quote from his testimony. more echos this has now been a consistent theme where you had state department official after diplomat after state department official all raising questions about rudy giulianis role in this pressure campaign, this ukraine pressure ...

Senate floor some time in about 15 minutes or so. the other thing were watching is what you mentioned, house investigators hearing today from two more state department officials, career officials. the first, katherine croft, is expected to tell house investigators about her participation in a mid july meeting where she says a white house budget office staffer told her that acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney had put an informal hold on security assistance to ukraine. now, in her prep...

At least was. >> no, i am not a russian spy. i think this is a completely unhinged conspiracy theory. i think its really outrageous that hillary clinton is trying to promote this crazy idea. you cant just slander people. you have to present some basis in fact. >> i just think its great that the accusation is now that hillary clinton is the vast left wing conspiracy that sort of echos what she used to say in reverse. and i think it does open a kind of wound in the contract party, this sort of kin...

You what i think it does, which is raise at least two questions. the first is clearly nixonian. what happens when the confessions are worse than the cover-up? the second echos wisdom from a different leader who also knows something about the criminal lifestyle, shawn carter, who famously said why talk about things that you dont know how to use. you always tell on yourself and that has people so confused. >> there was no quid pro quo. there was nothing. >> when i talk to your foreign minister, he...

And his presidency and that goes a long way. but and there is a but. this does in some ways have echos of the presidents behavior towards a different former attorney, that would be michael cohen. the president was supportive of cohen until suddenly he wasnt when the fbi raided cohens apartment. you could see a world in which these investigations to rudy lead to something problematic, the president would have some problem washing his hands. were not there yet. >> jeff bennett, one of the chief co...

>> any echos of anything familiar there that the president has ever said about perhaps any other lawyers in his orbit? >> yeah, brian. weve seen this time and time again with the president where somebody gets into a scandal or hot water of any kind he tries to distance himself from them. after paul manafort was indicted in the russia investigation, we heard from the president that paul manafort barely knew him, hardly worked on my campaign even though he was the campaign chairman. >> very short ...