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Thousands of conservatives in front of students here in west palm beach. the president out of economic growth, and reaching phase one of a trade agreement with china which he says he will sign very soon. but there was some bipartisanship when the president left for fraud alert. house and senate got together funding the government and spending bills. also the government approved a trade agreement with mexico and canada and the president did accept an invitation from the house a speaker who delive...

The same time. >> mr. president, it looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet. >> reporter: democrats want four witnesses to testify including the presidents chief of staff, mick mulvaney and john bolton. >> it the presidents case so weak that none of the presidents men can defend him under oath? >> reporter: mcconnell is prided himself on his iron grip on the senate. holding open a supreme court seat for is 11 months, denying garland a meeting. >> one of my proudest moments was when i lo...

The reason they would like to call me as a witness is just to have a chance to attack me. nothing more. >> joining me now to discuss julia manchester, reporter at the hill. julia, good morning. >> good morning. >> do you envision a scenario where adam schiff is ever a witness witness in the senate trial? what would be the point of that? >> right. so i think a lot of republicans would obviously love to have adam schiff come as a witness. adam schiff has really become a face of their anti-impeachm...

And 5 minutes. but i think he may eclipse that. but thats just a prediction. so i dont have that on good authority. i just have the president saying at the beginning of it, he wants to talk. gigi. >> in the past, weve seen adversity emboldening the president. hans, do you see signs of that here so far? >> well, yeah, he likes to punch back, right? the president likes having a foil. hes -- >> whoops. >> at show biden. hes also mentioned elizabeth warren using a nickname he has for her. he likes t...

Candidacies benefited most, biden, buttigieg and klobuchar which obviously aligns with a more moderate version of democratic orthodoxy. i certainly think that warren, sanders, the progressive wing, certainly has a strong chance apartment the nomination still, but clearly in this time a lot of us are focused on impeachment and thinking about donald trump as the foil for hover the democr whoever the democrats go up gerns, settled in or the moderates. amy klobuchar experienced a boomlet, pete butti...

You conduct a fair trial. i have some leverage and y long term. play for 2020. go after the vulnerable republican senators running. hang hank kunl and trump. and the same one repluved. hey, guys. they want all in, defend the constitution sfw foil and why with mccarthy? >> youre saved by the watch right there. when we come back, well be in heated arguments. transmittal of the parsicals of impeachment will be umfor them.

Had to do it. i have been a part of both of these institutions for a long time, and i know what it looks like when the department is trying to protect people and protect information. and i know what it looks like when theyre not. there were plenty of ways to fulfill their congressionally mandated oversight responsibility without politicizing our messages, without shoveling them out in the way that they did. >> why do you think they did it? >> well, my speculation is because this was not a great ...

Like when the department is trying to protect people and protect information. and i know what it looks like when theyre not. there were plenty of ways to pull fill their congressionally mandated oversight responsibility without politicizing our messages, without shoveling them out in the way that they did. >> why do you think they did it? >> well, my speculation is because this was not a great time for the justice department. you had attorney general sessions constantly beleaguered and being lam...

Playing out. that was really how he was reacting to it, more than 100 tweets a day or retweets, day after day, expressing his anger over what was going on. >> yeah, watching the presidents twitter feed and his public comments, you really get a sense of the emotional churn hes grappling with on impeachment. as he said at that rally in hershey, pennsylvania the other day that there was a silver lining and as he said in those remarks you showed, he thinks that may help him politically. he may be ri...

>> i think for him, its too-part. he likes a powerful woman, right? like remember, hes still talking about hillary, and shes not running for president anymore. he loves a powerful woman. thats a great foil for him. and then, she works -- she worked in the fbi and she worked on mueller, so she has this deep state narrative which he loves to talk about. so, i think that she gets -- she sort of fills two of the things that he likes to talk about. >> yeah. and look, obviously, you worked this for qu...