the wrong side of history and that s a choice they face starting in january. we ll see which way they go. nancy makes a good point when it comes to the number of people that knew what was going on or had some sort of participation in withholding the aid or pushing back against the withholding, trying to justify withholding it or pushing the white house and saying this was not appropriate. chuck, the article points to a number of other officials. what does this do for chuck schumer s argument to call more witnesses in the senate? does it put more pressure on mitch mcconnell? it should in the logical world, right? you have more pressure on leader mcconnell and agree to call witnesses. that s not how the senate seems to be working. to the ambassador s point, i think it is an important one, the facts will come out. they always come out. they didn t all come out in the impeachment inquiry, we heard from a limited number of witnesses, though those men and women i thought were honest and
trump if he s impeached because the rules require it. and donald trump s own cabinet members do not appear to be yet united publicly. on whether their focus now is in saving the president or saving themselves. as promised, i turn to our experts on these big picture issues from the united states congress, ted lieu, who serves on the judiciary committee, nancy soderbergh, the third ranking official on the national security council during the clinton administration, and nyu law professor melissa murray, who clerked for judge sotomayor. good evening to each of you. professional, i want to begin with you on the law. what does it mean when we see the sitting united states attorney general trying to take a half step away and the secretary of state here caught on that call. are these individuals in your view looking at their own legal liability? it would be hard for them not to at this point. i think we have seen other the last couple of months that bill barr has been incredibly close to the
barr, is this, in your view, worst based on the evidence? whatever happened in the trump tower meeting, it wasn t a government meeting. there was no transcript. no one may ever know other than its members. here there is more evidence. do you see this evidence as worse or you wouldn t go that far? it s worse in the sense we have more evidence. we have the clear complaint and undisputed fax. no one disputes that donald trump halted military aid to ukraine and a week later he has this phone call where he solicits the favor. very interesting. real expertise. i thank each of you congressman lieu, ambassador soderbergh and professor here with us in new york. thank you. there will be a trial of trump if there is an impeachment. neal katyal is here. how trump and his allies may be fumbling their defense of this big battle. and ignoring the jared and ivanka email abuse while reviving a probe into clinton s email at state.
let s look at virginia 10, florida 6 and illinois 14. nrcc doing $5 million there for barbara comstock s race. i know she s a strong competitor. she s down in that race. then in florida 6, nancy soderbergh almost doubling the almost of campaign spending that has been spent in that race so far over the republican down there. then illinois 14 at $700,000, that one is kind of a surprise sort of last-minute looks like the republicans might be in trouble there. i ll turn it over to you and you tell me if you made good decisions. first of all, let s talk money. we re constantly evaluating how to use our limited resources, with the only goal keeping the majori majority. some group doss not have contribution limits. we do. we have raised over $180 million. that is a record.
donna shalala not running a good enough campaign. they knocked a 74-year-old former clinton cabinet member who doesn t speak spanish in a district that is 60% hispanic, right? and the republicans she is more charismatic than people give her credit for. right. but i think, that race seems to be the polling is indicating that she ll pick it up. the other race is probably the more interesting one, because carlos curbelo, he stayed in that race. sort of moderate republican, has distanced himself from trump on some issues. that will be that kind of bellwether districts, diverse districts i m going to talk about southern california, that we might not know about for weeks. this is the kind of district that will tell us about the mixed districts. then we go further north into the state, we ve got the 5th district there. that s excuse me, the 6th district. that s an open seat. that s ron desantis, who is running for governor. he had to leave that seat in order to run for governo