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Rationale for impeachment, quote, i have said before truch is not worthy of impeachment, but our constitution is worth it, our democracy is worth it and our republic, if we can save it, the worth it. up with me this morning is ben rhodes, an msnbc contributor. someone hofs on the call with nancy pelosi yesterday. adriana, laura from "the new york times" editorial board, rena shaw and with us from washington this morning is eli, a white house report rer for the los angeles times. let me try here ...

For this white house because ultimately, they understand this to be a political matter, not a a legal matter. they were right about the way they defended themselves from the mueller veinvestigation. ultimately, it workeded, but in this case, the politics, if the politics move, they dont really have a plan. you know for republicans who are already trying to avoid reporters. who are already looking foolish trying not to answer the question of whether or not its okay for a president to ask a foreig...

I know that yesterday there was a full day of testimony and i want to see what was said before i cast my vote. but serply, we dont have to cast a vote before we do this. no person being investigated, no suspect goes ahead and tells the investigate or this is the way u should do it. >> absolutely not. >> eli, lets get your reaction to that and have you comment on what weve seen over these last two nights. weve seen the president doing a one man show with a lot of role-playing and impersonations. ...

Says, hey, he thinks will be one of the decisionmaking elements for americans as we head into the 2020 campaign saying do you want me to be fighting china or do you want joe biden to be the one fighting it? its obvious this is sort of a fight the president thinks benefits him. >> absolutely right. peter alexander, thanks for rushing to the camera. really appreciate it. vaughn hillyard. eli stoke bs. stay with us. were going to continue to monitor the presidents comments and we will, again bring ...

Whether or not we had an obligation to inform khashoggi that he was in danger. >> let me go to eli, my friend. it seems to me if we threw this case that theyve thrown at us before at an american jury, it wouldnt go very far. 15 guys got into a boxing match and a guy died? but we couldnt tell you for 17 days. >> right. and youre supposed to believe this investigation thats coming, that the crown prince is supposedly going to be leading. >> like nixon was leading the cover-up vex. >> yes, youre ri...

That country has issued a carefully worded statement, the saudi prosecutor. it says that, quote, the discussions which occurred between mr. khashoggi and the persons who met him while he was present at the kingdoms consulate in istanbul led to a quarrel and fighting by hand with the citizen jamal khashoggi whiched throw his death. this comes after mounting evidence emerged over the last several weeks to implicate saudi arabia in khashoggis disappearance. now 18 saudis are reportedly being held a...

Business and some other business, but he is not a government official. we have dont have anything to do with him. >> after you heard that he had been indicted, did you pick up the phone and call him? >> like i have nothing better to do. ive got so many things to do and so many problems. >> hes your friend. he had just been indicted. >> translator: didnt you whatever i said? he is not a friend of mine. >> malcolm, let me ask you about something that impressed as a political person. im amazed that...

Online advertising they were doing through the social media websites. i think this is a really significant criminal complaint thats been unsealed today that were looking at on screen. and i think its something that really deserves our attention to know that theyre still doing this, and theyre still trielg get nour heads in this country. >> malcolm, as tom just mentioned, the criminal complaint states that the russian influence operation which was indict today was financed by a wealthy russian ol...

Was considered solid red, 95% white, rural pennsylvania, a district that trump won by 20-something points. the republicans are worried about losing that. thats the political climate were living in as we consider a possible shutdown. >> eli, thank you, ben and nan are sticking with us. up next, russia investigation closes in on president trumps inner circle. but with both bannon and lewandowski refusing to answer questions, do committees need to get tougher? saturday marks one year since presid...

Hes empowered by the president. what he was saying is look, when we get down to these specifics of policy, we know that there are certain specifics that are different, if you will, from political rhetoric. and we will accommodate those. but nonetheless, the issue remains that weve got to get these issues hammered out by tomorrow. in terms of whats going to be included in a continuing resolution and whats not. >> yes, and the uncertainty of that complicated by this lack of an agreement, eli, on d...