From all sides as the president changes decades of u. S. Policy in the middle east. It is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here new york and welcome to mtp daily. Using forgiven if youre exhausted from the sheer number of important stories breaking on the hour today. Donald trump jr. Was grilled by Congress Many investigators for the First Time Since revelations about his contact with wikileaks. The president recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel, upending decades of u. S. Foreign policy in the middle east. The house took a vote on his impeachment forced by democratic congressman al green. Yes, actually an Impeachment Vote today. Mr. Trump threatened a Government Shutdown could happen in two days as he prepares to meet with chuck and nancy and senator al franken is apparently toast as democrats try to regain the moral high ground and make the gop own its endorsement of roy moo
friend united states has and he has called for a hearing on it. i don t know whether they had to do it now. that i know sheldon addison who is a very big shaker in this party, very passionate about israel. owns a numb ovewspaper oh there. when he was work with businessmen, they could hear adellson in the back ground. if they were reluctant, he would get on the phone with them and ream them out. so this is a chaotic time for a very explosive part of the world. was this good domestic politics? he thinks so. with evangelicals. i don t see how it is good domestic politics for him. it is as though he has lit a match and thrown gasoline over there. it has no practical effect but it is a statement of intent. it is rallying people up. the state department officials
the roundtable tonight, bernard. sarah lenty is a republican strategist who works with jeb bush s candidate. we ll get to the sanity to jeb bush in a minute. michelle, people thought trump was crazy and says crazy things and so does dr. carson. but, my god, bill kristol talking about bringing back dick cheney and that puppetoon of his, just like marco rubio does what sheldon addison tells him to do. of course they want puppets to neo cons. listening to bill kristol s statement is absolutely astonishing, because remember he is the establishment of the establishment in the republican party. and what have we been hearing for months and months and months? if you have a third party candidate, you ll be handing over the white house in 2016 to hillary clinton. so does bill kristol really believe that dick cheney or someone else, you know, can run as an independent third party candidate, in the event that
neurosurgeon is suddenly accelerating, quadrupling his number in just two months. well, today, trump and carson are making the big news today by administering a shellacking to the establishment republican party we all grew up with. all other candidates remain in the anemic single digits. jeb bush dropped seven points since july according to the times. he s now tied with marco rubios and ted cruz. i m joined now with steve schitd, a smart guy. the washington bureau chief for usa today, susan page. and we have ron reagan with us, msnbc analyst. first of all, i ve got to go to schmidt. i ve got to go to you on this. you re one of the really smart guys out there on the republican party. is your party coming apart? these are just pissant numbers that the republican numbers are greating. it s less than 1 in 16 republicans saying yes to bush. and there s carson with no political history or apparent political skills, a good guy, a smart guy with no ability in this field, way up the