Fiona hill and Alexander Vindman both allege that effort was coordinated by acting chief of staff mick mulvaney. Bringing the conspiracy one degree closer to the president himself. And next week the public will hear some of the damning testimony with their own ears and with each passing day republicans are shifting their defense of trump. Cob torting themselves into logic pretzels to explain it all away. If you could show me that trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo, outside of the phone call, that would be very disturbing. Did you read the transcripts that were released . No. Im not even interested in the whole concept here. What i could tell you about the trump policy toward ukraine, it was incoherent. It appears of who you talk to. They seem incapable of forming a quid pro quo. So i find the whole process to be a sham. Well, listen, that train doesnt appear to be stopping before it hits impeachment station. Then on our separate but parallel track you have another Freight Train barreling down on republicans, elections. Republicans lost in places they shouldnt have. Democrats won in places they shouldnt have. That train appears to be headed for a blue wave junction in 2020. In both scenarios this is bad for republicans. The commandner chief may well be impeached and bruised in the process and the party may lose huge in state houses down the ballot on 20 but a word of warning for democrats this does not mean they could coast. The president may very well walk away from impeachment unscathed and impeached in all likelihood but just as more popular. Wont likely be removed from office unless Senate Republicans grow in serious testicular fortitude in the near future and hell use that in advantage for his election bid. And this shows not any democrat can win in trump territory. Look at kentucky with andy beshear beat matt bevin as trumps own Campaign Manager said the democrats nominated a moderate whose dad was a nominate and who didnt talk about the impeachment and acts like a republican. Were anybody listening to that or only listen to the ghosts . Are they reading the polls . This weeks polls found that 55 prefer a moderate candidate. 62 want someone who could compromise with republicans. The data and the recent Election Results make a case for a moderate to beat trump. Well there happen to be a couple of running. Joe biden, amy cloklobuchar and Pete Buttigieg fill that degree. And but for Michael Bloomberg, none of the democrats running against donald trump are good enough. On friday bloomberg filed for the alabama prime minutes before the deadline laying a groundwork for a run. The reasoning according to his adviser, we now need to finish the job and ensure that trump is defeating but mike is concerned that the current field of candidates is not well positioned to do that. Well sorry, democrats who have been running for two years, visiting all 99 iowa counties, eating fried butter at state fairs, sending staffers to burrow down in New Hampshire and South Carolina and everywhere in between. Sorry democrats debating, fundraising and answering reporter and video questions and twitter questions and replease plan after plan and explains over and over how you fix health care, sorry you guys just havent performed up to Michael Bloombergs standards so here he comes to save the day. Here is the deal. Bloomberg is not the answer. Not now. Probably not ever. He has no constituency ever and if you could believe it, despite the dozens of candidates vying for the democratic nominee, others are still considering jumping in this late in the game. Some names being floated include former Massachusetts GovernorDuval Patrick and eric holder and former secretary of state john kerry, and even Hillary Clinton. Okay. I just i have one question. How guys lost your minds . Iowa is less than three months away. Democrats have spent the last year introducing us to their candidates all 200 of them. And the field is finally consolidating behind a handful of candidates. Qualified candidates. With voter bases. That anyone would think getting in now would help democrats instead of hurting them blows my mind. Except oprah. Oprah could still get in. Here to discuss is mitch landrieu. Mr. Mayor, i hope you enjoyed that. Hey. What is going on in your party. How are you doing . Are you worried that Michael Bloomberg thinks the field is insufficiently capable of beating trump. First of all, two things. Im definitely for oprah and im excited that alabama is cleaning the clock right now and getting those two important things out of mind. There is a lot going on right now. Were in an unprecedented time. Thinks change from daytoday. We have the impeachment moving forward that congress is working on and it appears there is evidence from people inside of the trump administration, many of wlom appointed by trump that the president abused his power to hurt our country. That is not a big surprise. But i think the depth and the breadth of it will surprise the American Public and of Course Congress has to do its job and theyre going to do that. While that is happening, you have these election thats took place that are pretty compelling. In virginia, i think virginia spoke very, very loudly and clearly about what direction they want the country to go in and independents sided with the democratic view of the world at least in that state election. In kentucky, which is a i mean really a bell weather for the Republican Party you had a democrat beat an incumbent in a red state. Right. And then next week we have louisiana where we have an incumbent democrat right. I understand why you dont want to answer my question, but my question is no, im coming im coming to it. Are you worried ma Michael Bloomberg doesnt think yall have your acts together in the primary . Im coming to your question. And then John Bell Edwards is likely to win it. So you have a lot of stuff going on. I dont share the view that mayor bloomberg has that our party is upside down and we dont have candidates that could win. Joe biden i think has been doing very, very well and you have a lot of other people that can. But be that as it may, he has decided to get into the race and what impact will it have on the race. Hes well qualified to be president and more money than anybody else in the country. Hes got a record to run on and because elections are like roller skating derby, it is going to have an impact that we dont really understand at this point. So well see. But it is hard to predict at the moment. So monmouth polling found this week, brandnew poll, 74 of voters are satisfied with the current field. That is among democrats. Shouldnt that be definitive enough for anybody considering getting in this late. I think that is probably true. That is the way i read the polls. I think the people are happy with the candidates that we have and 21 good candidates that have been through the gill. But be that as it may Michael Bloomberg has every right to run. He would take up a fairly significant space in the lanes and now hell have to go perform so well see. I dont think we know. It is very hard to predict given howl volatile the political world is and what the heck will happen in the next three months. Youve never seen anything like this, right. No. For sure. And look on the republican or the democratic side. That is true. Lets talk more about joe biden. He spent much of the week sparring with Elizabeth Warren about medicare for all and what he called an elitism. Warren returned fire accusing joe biden of sexism for not allowing women to be angry. Im a woman. I didnt hear his comments that way and that is just me. But here is bidens response yesterday to that. It is not anything that i did or was intending to do. It had nothing to do with that. It had to do with the fact that it starts off and she said biden is running on the wrong primary. Because i disagreed with her medicare for all proposal that cost trillion dollars to pay for and there is no way to pay for it without raising the taxes on middle class people. Mr. Mayor, i thought it was a low blow for Elizabeth Warren to say that was sexist, to say what joe biden said which was look it is either her way or the highway and if you dare question her plan, youre somehow either a coward or insufficiently democratic. What did you think . Well the person who made that charge most eloquently was senator Amy Klobuchar in the last debate as you may recall. So obviously it is not a sexist comment. It is okay for senator warren to be angry or passionate and not okay for her to be wrong. And think what shes trying to do is evil knievel the grand canyon on the medicare for all plan and i think what Vice President biden and senator klobuchar and mayor pete is that listen there is a way to get to universal Health Care Without taking private insurance away from 160 million americans and raising taxes on the middle class. The democrats are the ones that are in favor of giving People Health care. Not taking it away. And think what the realistic wing of the Democratic Party is saying is dont give the republicans the Health Care Issue back again. Right. Be thoughtful and smart about how you propose something that actually works that you can pay for that doesnt raise taxes on the middle class and gives People Health care and i think people have legitimately said to senator warren because we dont agree with you, doesnt make us weak or not ambitious, were just thoughtful of building a bridge to get you to the other side. Or sexist. And this is all primary stuff. It is to be expected. Theyre big boys and girls. They can take it. Theyre throwing elbows at each other and that is the way primaries go. And more to come. Well have you back former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. Happy to come back. Thanks. Up next, the path Michael Bloomberg would take to the white house. Well it has never been a successful one. Im sure hes different though. And later House Republicans want to call hunter biden and the whistleblower to testify at next weeks public impeachment hearing. Im talking to a congressman about whether theyll get their wish. 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But Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who have railed against the billionaire class seem giddy of taking on the billionaire, former mayor of new york city. Warren invited blmberg to try out her billionaire tax calculator that showed he would pay 3 billion under the wealth tax and sanders posted the billionaire class is scared and they should be scared. But that is all campaign bluster. What do the hard numbers say . As two of my cnn colleagues put it yesterday, Michael Bloomberg the ultimate data guy is ignoring the data. A fox news poll showed that 32 of democratic primary voters would never vote for bloomberg and his advisers saying if hell run hell skip the first four primary states and instead focus on supertuesday. So why run when the numbers are against you . Why run if youre skipping the early states which has never worked . And if youre goal is for democrats to nominate a moderate why run if your candidacy weakens the moderate and boosts the two left flanking nonmoderates. Here to figure it out aisha moodiemills and john brabender. And skipping the early caucus and primary states and hedging his bets on supertuesday. And i dont even live in those states and i feel disrespected. Totes. Im going to snub and compete on supertuesday but the realist is he has no path to victory with regards to the delegates. Who is bloombergs base . I dont know. I dont think that he knows. Im not sure how i dont know countsing this out here. But if hes going to do this. You could say it is unfair but it is smart strategically if he does this. Hes saying this is not going the way democrats thought. They thought we would play nice. Said who. 74 are satisfied . Youre talking about the Billionaire Boys Club class. Theyre saying biden was supposed to be the pick. Still the frontrunner, okay. But now hes fourth in iowa. Okay. And what a lot of people believe hes falling, falling. And hell lose iowa and New Hampshire and a lot of people get excited about Elizabeth Warren when she probably wins both of those and then all of a sudden there is no centrist. And that is why he doesnt want to get in the early ones. But how will he explain the optics of getting in this late, parachuting in just becaus hes a billionaire. He can only do that because hes a billionaire. How does he explain that . To democrats. He with the gold makes the electoral rules. It is massive air quotes around this they. Massive air quotes around the mysterious they. That they think biden is tanking and the they are not the people. Were talking about a donor class that is condemned a moderate donor class concerned that Elizabeth Warren will take mir money and they want to prop up joe biden and that is not the people Hillary Clinton is making phone calls to potential donors about potentially getting in this race. So if it was go so well for biden, do you think even Hillary Clinton would be thinking about getting into this race. I think that said more about Hillary Clinton than the state of the race. John, i heard it nonstop over the past two days, Michael Bloomberg is central and he could appeal to republicans. I dont know a single republican including this one who likes Michael Bloomberg. It feels like a fantasy. Who is his base. But be fearful of the democrats on the left because they cant get elected in the november and i can. Im a real democrat. But im a centrist one sand a reasonable one. And who is he telling that to . The democrats . Here is the problem with the enti entire conversation is that were not talking about the people. And we look at the polls and the national polls, people are clearly saying the Democratic Base, the voters are saying, look, sure we want somebody who could beat donald trump but we think that most of these candidates in the field already can beat donald trump. Number one. So we dont need somebody else to be an alternative. And two, the narrative of the Democratic Base now is to figure equity of the condition of america. Were not about propping up billionaires and making their our saviors. Tell that to Michael Bloomberg. And i have one more. Aisha, Duval Patrick, no one outside of donors knows