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In our 2020 lead today a surprise. michael bloomberg maying running for president. the former new york city mayor and eighth richest person in america planning to file paperwork by end of business today for the alabama primary in case he decides to run. cnns cristina alesci joins me now. all signs are pointing in that direction. >> reporter: right. an about-face from two moss when he told us he felt completely comfortable sitting this one out. the big question today is, what changed? bloomberg a...

Barreling ahead, house democrats doing everything they can to fast track and pointing to the very real possibility that the president could be impeached by christmas. that was news on 2020, okay? a new candidate is preparing to jump into the crowded field of 2020 democrats. we just talked about it. the real billionaire, former new york city mayor michael bloomberg preparing for a potential run. as joe biden tries to break away from the field. a trump campaign source telling cnn that bloomberg en...

Million into a michael bennett or amy klobuchar superpac. >> i mean, okay. sure. im sure that theyll listen to that advice. i mean, i think that mike bloomberg has wanted to run for president certainly as long as ive covered him. in the book he wrote about his own life shortly before he got into the mayors race in 2001, he listed the remaini ining job would want. one was president of the world bank and the other was president of the united states. i dont think hes eager to float a klobuchar supe...

The job. it is easy to understand factually what happened there and how its wrong. maybe illegal, maybe not. at least wrong. thats a big distinct from what weve got in terms of the phone call to the ukrainian prime minister. >> bill: the mulvaney story, do you think its wise to ignore the subpoena? would you recommend that? is there a different legal track we need to be aware of? >> a little bit of a tactical error. the better track would be to have a noisy response either filing a motion to qua...

Direction from rudy. the problem is, based on his own comments to you and his twitter comments, arudy is saying he di at the behest of the president. acting as the presidents personal representative. so i dont see how the democrats will have a hard time attributing rudys direction, if in fact he gave that direction to them, back to the president. >> now, you take everybody pointing pointing rudy now becomes more transparent in the transcripts and he keeps saying mr. giuliani he was acting for hi...

Years in the foreign service. his transcript has not been released yet, but lawmakers told nbc news that he testified that he was told to lay low when raising concerns about rudy giulianis ukraine efforts. finally, the third person is ambassador marie yovanovitch. she is the former ambassador to the ukraine. she a career diplomat. she served six administrations to both parties. s she testified in an abrupt conversation, out official said this is about your security. you need to come home immedia...

In a way. and so, you know, maybe the argument here is that, well, all of these things happened. there was a quid pro quo, we held up the money in order to push ukraine to investigate the bidens. but as long as the president himself didnt use the words quid pro quo and the president himself didnt direct all of these people potentially to do this, that it doesnt matter. that is where were kind of ending up with the republican argument here. thats not sufficient given the body of evidence we have ...

Following -- well, we found out that being an a-hole is slightly worse than being a liberal, about bevin and pointing out that other republicans in kentucky, all of the other republicans there have done very, very well and that bevin is an aberration. having said that, chris, just before coming on with you, i got a text from a different republican strategist who was involved broadly in party fund-raising and planning for this who said very candidly this is a blow because republicans were all in ...

Public appearances yet and we did get a statement long after the transcripts were released and pointing to gordon osondlan and kurt volker and sondland made a massive reversal in his amended testimony that he added there at end in what was released today and they have not acknowledged at all that in that amended testimony he directly tied the investigation into the bidens to that military aid and the announcement to the investigation and that is something they are not acknowledging which is note...

Why? most of them are about screaming actually, and pointing. pay attention to your sources. thank you, mom. >> juan: go mom, go. dreams do come true. for a basketball player in michigan, it came true as a surprise. take a look at what this coach is announcing. speak im going to be an rn. he got into nursing school today. [cheers and applause] >> juan: he got the news that he got accepted into the nursing program. it was the best way to find out, because all of his teammates were there. way to g...