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Medicine in yogurt or apple sauce. that is an extraordinary thing to say about the president of the united states. >> i cannot believe that analogy either. extraordinary in so many ways, guys, our conversation. betsy and john, thank you so much. we'll see you again. let's go now to 2020 and the second step criminal justice forum now under way in south carolina. that's where several democratic candidates are taking the stage this weekend. and among those in attendance, senator cory booker, of course, 2020 democratic presidential candidate, and the senator joins us right now. senator booker, a...

Here? did microsoft simply make a better pitch? >> such a big coincidence, alex. yes, we connect the dots. we know by the memoir from john snodgrass, former speech writer to john mattis, that the president instructed mattis to screw amazon in this process. now, jim mattis said we weren't going to do that, we're going to do it above board, but jim mattis isn't there anymore. and one of the things that we've seen, the iterations of this presidency, have been people willing to restrain his impulses, removed, and to be replaced by people who are weaker and who allow his impulses to proceed unimped...

He was just riding on john mccain's coattails. john mccain died, and the way i put it is he found himself a new father figure in trump, and he's now doing the same thing, but trump is the leader of this. so, i think we have to banish the notion that lindsey graham is some sort of a maverick or a truth-teller, and he's really just beating the drum in defense of donald trump now. occasionally, he may lapse or not be able to go as far as the president wants him to, but it seems like virtually every time he's wound up right there with donald trump. >> mm-hmm. if you look at the house republicans w...

Piece that there is a growing recognition within the democratic caucus that they need to start figuring out the public aspect of their impeachment inquiry soon or else the republican stunts, decrying the closed-door process, that could dominate the narrative. do you think there's a timeline to when the public portion of the impeachment probe is going to happen? >> so, there is definitely a time crunch right now. i mean, lawmakers only have a couple of weeks before they leave for thanksgiving, a couple of weeks after that, and then they're into christmas. after that, they're really quickly faci...

Republicans aren't going to notice they're not defending the president on any of the facts and they're just focusing on the process? i mean, how many times that day in q&a did we hear the word process uttered? >> this is all they're left to, alex. i mean, look, we're beyond the point of what the president did. you know, he traded -- he wanted to trade arms for dirt with the president of ukraine, and that's been well established, not only by the white house, but by the whistle-blower and by witnesses and people who have now heard the phone call. and by the way, it was part of a much larger sche...