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will be fireworks, this isn't a summit. it's a leaders meeting. they won't have a joint agreement because they're not sure the president will sign t in year three of the president's term and they've learned their lesson on how to try to get it to be less -- to be less fire works. they expect less. >> all trump does is destroy. anita kumar, bobby ghosh in london, thank you. up next, senator john kerry joins us to talk about his vitally new initiative on climate change and his thoughts on impeachment, the crowded 2020 democratic field, the works. john kerry coming in a minute. you're watching "hardball." you're watching "hardball.
overseas, i'm not going to talk about something. his aides may be telling him, look, this is what the uk wants. don't get involved. but he has already been involved. when asked a question, he tends to answer. >> bobby, tell me about -- it strikes me, not always lately, of britain wanting to go the way of brexit like they don't want to be part of europe at all. there they are, hosting the nato meeting this week. is there going to be fire works at this event this week? >> well, this time, for a change, it's not only president trump who could toss a hand grenade into that room so to speak. although that's always a likelihood. this time you have at least two other people, the president of turkey. erdogan, and the president of france, macron, who in the lead-up to the summit have been hurdling insults at each other and questioning the future of nato. we are expect iing one or more these three people to say
to stand up against him, which i think is critically important. >> what do you make watching as an intelligence expert, the republican statement tonight, the thing we read a few moments ago on the show now about their claims? they're not thinking at all about the fact that -- history books will be filled with why this president was impeached when he's impeached. they're not talking about that. >> they have no interest in finding the truth or being honest with the american people. clearly they have bets on mr. trump and will continue to stay with him. it's the bed they've all made together. they cannot refute any of these allegations based on substance. they'll continue to try to disparage those that stood up against him. i think the republicans are just going to continue to look blindly at the impeachment. >> french had to root for the germans once they cut the deal with the nazis, the nazis had to win. after correcting his discredited claim that ukraine hacked into
>> i think one truth is becoming clear for the walt in 2020. there's something worse than losing in the primaries. losing to your fellow partisans is something they can endure. they tried. did not make the cut. time to stand with the nominee. there's one bigg deep defeat that will not be forgiven. it the one comes out in the primaries and then loses to donald trump in the end. that's based on an incontestable fact. trump is beatable. that being clear, the democrat who runs against him, how can a democrat lose to a president who has for his entire term been rejected by a consistent majority of the american people in to lose next november, even in the low depths to which this president has taken us would be unforgivable and it can only happen if the democrats choose a candidate that lacks the wit, the guts, the basic appeal to be
with protests, although he has been shielded from some of them. and let's not forget, this is where that famous balloon of the baby trump first made its appearance. so, johnson doesn't want to be seen anywhere near any of that, and that little radio clip you showed earlier of him saying we don't interfere in each other's politics is his own trial balloon if you like. president trump doesn't care about these political niceties and traditions. if he feels like he wants to speak his mind on johnson, someone he prefers, then he will probably say so tomorrow or the day after. >> anita, do you think trump will stay out of this? >> probably not. >> why does he think he might have a chance after louisiana and after kentucky, he can actually identify with a win? >> well, his point is that when he's asked, and he's often asked, he likes to talk to the media. he likes to tweet. if he's asked about something, will he weigh in. he doesn't generally say i'm
>> the mayor of london. he has been a not very good mayor from what i understand. he has done a very poor job. >> the ambassador has not served the uk well. i can tell you that. we're not big fans of that man. corbyn would be so bad for your country. he'd be so bad. he'd take you into such bad places. boris johnson. good man. he's tough and he's smart. they're saying britain trump. >> anita kumar, politico white house correspondent associate editor and bobby ghosn. it looks like this guy, boris johnson, doesn't need trump, doesn't need him anywhere near him, in fact. >> well, yes. i think he's trying to create a bit of a distance between himself and president trump, knowing how unpopular trump has been here and every trip that trump has made to this country, this city, he has been greeted
they also care about their friendship at the top. these friendships are real. >> yeah. >> are they going to throw joe biden under the bus because trump told them to? >> of course. >> of course? >> this is the same reason that john mccain, mitt romney and even george w. bush are spoken of by much more highly by democrats. if vice president biden will be the democrat nominee for president, the issues related to his son, the work, will be front and center in this campaign. republican senators are willing to help the president make that issue. >> you just said something i don't agree with. people say good things about john mccain a long time. >> sure. >> it wasn't just when he was out of business. >> there were a lot fewer complimentary democrats in 2008 than there were at any other time. >> yeah. that's during an election year. >> yeah. >> joyce vance, thank you. michael steele, making the best case. president trump's visit to london comes ten days before the big election over there.
impeachment articles before the christmas recess. amid all this, and with his legacy hanging in the balance, president trump has declined to mount any formal defense against the accusations he faces. the white house counsel yesterday informed the committee that nobody will represent the president in wednesday's hearing, calling the proceedings unfair. i'm joined tonight by former director of the cia john brennan. we begin tonight with democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthi. this report, it seems to me, is pretty clear cut. your report as you understand t it, will call for the impeachment of the president. >> i think that is going to law out the facts and evidence of serious wrongdoing. we're going to send that to the judiciary committee. they'll have to decide what they want to do with it in terms of drawing up articles of impeachment as well as what types of articles, if they
articles. >> in claiming interference, kennedy is citing articles from 2016 about ukrainian politicians who openly opposed trump's candidacy. politico is now reporting that the republican-controlled senate intelligence committee thoroughly investigated that theory and found no evidence that ukraine waged a top-down campaign to help trump win in 2016. >> first of all, senator john kennedy is a great discredit to his name. >> we can agree on that one. >> secondly, he's not being dup duped. he knows he's being dishonest, trying to defend and protect donald trump at all costs and so he's not going to be honest with the american people. clearly, he has continued to propagate this narrative and that's why they allow this to go forward despite every indication from the intelligence community
set to vote late tomorrow to approve the report before turning it over to the house judiciary committee. as "the new york times" describes it, the hand-off of the report, which will most likely form much of the basis for articles of impeachment against mr. trump will be a stylistic and substantive turning point for the inquiry. it comes as the house judiciary committee prepares to hold its first impeachment hearing on wednesday. that's this week, convening a panel of expert witnesses to describe the historic and constitutional basis for impeachment. judiciary chairman jerry nadler tonight announced the four lawmakers who will make up that panel. from there, according to politico, the committee is expected to have at least one more hearing, likely the second week of december, week after this, in which they will make their case against trump. aiming for a full house vote on