his comments were aimed directly at president bill clinton, amid the monica lewinsky scandal. and if these comments prove anything, it s that hypocrisy in politics is alive and well. that will wrap things up for me this hour. kasie hunt is back with us for the 3:00. kasie, i don t know what mike pence is thinking when he stares adoringly at the speak as the president speaks, but i wonder if any of that is going through his head? reporter: let s just say that some of the behavior that we have, has been alleged against this president, is not necessarily anything that the mike pence that i have covered for many years would have ever approved of. katy, it s nice to see you. you too. iam kasie hunt in for ali velshi. rick gates, former trump deputy campaign manager, and manafort s longtime business partner, has just concluded his testimony and for the first time in the trial, we re hearing about manafort s time with the trump campaign. gates is cooperating with the special counsel s office, after pleading guilty to lying to investigators and he s not holding the back. he just confirmed previous reporting by nbc news that paul manafort promised a friend of his a job in the trump white house. for more on this, we re going to go now to ken dilanian, nbc s national security and intelligence reporter. he is, again, outside the courthouse for us. ken, tell us a little bit about what these revelations mean in context to the case and what do we expect this afternoon? reporter: that friend, kasie, is a man named steven caulk, and he s a chicago banker with, and manafort is accused of defrauding his bank as part of a $16 million loan. yet manafort was trying to get him a job as the secretary of the army in the trump administration, and there was an e-mail introduced into evidence from december of 2016. this is well after paul manafort had left the trump campaign and after donald trump was elected president. and the e-mail referenced the no? reporter: yeah, this is huge for them. and it looks like it s going terribly for manafort. there s a mountain of evidence against him now, and it seems like their only chance is to somehow impugn rick gates. but even if they do that and even if the jury discounts everything that gates has said, there s a host of other evidence, including manafort s own tax records and the testimony of his accountants and bookkeepers about these foreign bank accounts, where he had millions of dollars that he didn t pay taxes on, kasie. reporter: ken dilanian in alexandria, virginia, thanks for keeping an eye on it, what seems to be a fascinating courtroom to be in. thank you, as always. for more on this trial, i want to bring in glenn kirschner, a former federal prosecutor who spent his 30-year career here in d.c. glenn, rick gates has not been shy about saying, look, these are crimes that i committed. he s even gone out there and said, i told these prosecutors about crimes that i committed, that they didn t even know about before we sat down. what what s the best outcome Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. of this. surprised it s not a more colorful term, to be perfectly honest with you. but perhaps there is one you can t say on tv. occasional, we use more colorful terms, but not here. glenn kirschner, thank you so much for your time and your insights today. really appreciate it. turning now to ohio. quote, we need change. the words of a democratic voter in ohio s 12th district. the last special election before november s midterms. this area was once solidly red, but the political climate might have changed enough to flip this district blue. and the results have major implications for both parties. president trump has campaigned for the gop candidate, state senator troy balderson. trump won the state by 11 points less than two years ago. but the president s support could now be a big liability. that s because the democratic candidate, danny o connor, has panted himself as the moderate in the race, and this is an area that former presidential candidate john kasich, a fierce trump critic, once represented. as politico sums it up, anything short of a 5 to 7-point win over upscale suburbs tend to be college educated, white-collar professional class. this area is a third of the population, a third of the vote is going to come out of this. right here, this small area. this is the blue part of the district. and it s become really, really blue, because of donald trump. you see, trump lost it by nearly 20 points to hillary clinton. that was a huge change. he ran the presidential election here in this same area in 2012. it was almost a tie. obama won by a couple of points over romney. absolutely exploded in the age of trump, so this is the epicenter of democratic energy here. that sort of suburban resistance to donald trump. that is the story here. take a look outside of that area, in a little bit of the suburbs up here in delaware. but take a look, you know, the rest of the district here, it s the exact opposite story. you are talking about blue collar, tends to be a blue collar, non-college whites, you know, rural in some cases, small cities. talk about zanesville here. here s a perfect kpamexample. talk about the trump surge in places like this, this county, overwhelmingly that they needed to turn out to vote, but that republicans, quite frankly, didn t, and that some of those attacks on social security and medicare issues had been working with seniors. what are you hearing on the ground? and what effects did trump s visit have there? that s another thing these sources told me that, they really needed him to just make sure everybody was aware that they needed to go vote. reporter: yeah, kasie, prior to trump s visit here, i think you saw a reversal of what would be the normal midterm dynamic, where republicans tend to be a lot more dialled in on midterm elections than democrats are in this special election. democrats were fired up in this one from the word go, and republicans needed a reason to get behind their candidate, troy balderson, who has been a state senator here for some time. he s got a lot of experience, but has been a bit of a lackluster campaigner. he hasn t exactly set the world on fire. the trump visit here did help republicans in that sense. it galvanized their voters a little bit, got them to make sure they were paying attention, and make sure they could connect balderson, who they only sort of care about, to trump, who is the core of the republican base right now. whether that had the flip side effect of amping up democrats a little bit more is tough to say. there s nobody in this district certainly that i ve talked to who was somehow on the fence about donald trump before that visit. but the president has galvanized voters on the left, too, and what will make this left or break it, will be whether the president s existence, whether the way he and washington, d.c. have operated over the last year and a half has turned off enough of those mitt romney republicans or conservative democrats, who don t typically vote, and got them out to the polls. i talked to some folks like that earlier today. here s what i ve been hearing. it s kind of, i don t know, embarrassing, i think, for all of us to see the kind of shenanigans that are going on at the highest level of government right now. this is really more about sending a message, you know? the republicans have to wake up, you know? if they re not if they re not going to be a break on this guy, then we vote for the other side. i m really not happy with the way politics are going in our country right now and i really believe we need to change. reporter: so kasie, with the cavi caveat that it s all anecdotal, what seems to be connecting with voters in this district is running against washington. that worked for donald trump in 2016. danny o connor seems to be the candidate who has captured that energy now. we will know tonight, hopefully, whether he captured enough of it to be the first democrat to represent this district in his own lifetime. hopefully, indeed. steve kornacki, if you re still with me, can i get a little preview of how the night s going to look? i know we re all excited to see you at the big board, but what is one place? if we re looking at one county, one spot on the map as a leading indicator here, where should we be watching? yeah, look, i think delaware county. this is just north of columbus here, about a quarter of the vote is going to come out of it. that was a bad number for republicans. republicans should be winning that by a lot more. this is where trump came and had that rally over the weekend. if the republicans in balderson is in trump territory here or even worse, that s a very bad sign for republicans. delaware county, the waukesha of tonight s congressional race. steve kornacki and garrett haake, thanks to you both, really appreciate it. so what does this tell us about the upcoming 2018 midterms in november? for that, i am joined by connie schultz, she is a pulitzer prize winning journalist and a former columnist for the cleveland plain dealer, now a nationally syndicated column iist. full disclosure, she is married to sherrod brown. connie, great to see you again. i really appreciate you being here. i m interested to know what you think, as someone who spends time on the ground, thinking through, understanding that the political dynamics of the state of ohio. this is a place that has often been the bellwether, so goes ohio, so goes the country. but there was some conversation after the election of 2016 that perhaps it would go for republicans and no longer be a swing state. what is this race that we re going to watch tonight tell you about the state of play there? and where do you think things sit in ohio? well, casie, first of all, i want to say, i don t usually come midday, but i have such high regard for your work as a journalist, which is why i m here right now. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. sure. back in 2004, stay with me for just a moment, when i was still at the plain dealer, we did a series. i wasn t part of it, but it was a huge amount of reporting called the five ohios, and it was called that for a reason. you can t look at one election in the state of ohio and make any determination about how the state s going to go, because it is a bellwether state, always. and i was listening to steve and the other reporter, i m sorry, i m drawing a blank on the name. garre garrett haake. thank you. i couldn t see his face, so it was harder. no worries. there are substantiative issues at play. health care looms so large. and a lot of suburban women care about health care. the other thing we re not talking about at all, but suburban women are starting to respond to the family separations. so i think that could be in play, as well. keep in mind that balderson, just last month, said he wanted to raise the eligibility age for medicare and social security. and, of course, that was a bomb that blew up for him. and he s tried to dial that back and he has his mother in an ad for him right now. but o connor has an ad that compares him to kasich in terms of his willingness to work with others. and supporting what governor kasich, a republican did on medicaid. so you can t look at this one district and predict what s going to happen around the country, certainly. and not around the state. but, again, this has not been as was already mentioned, this congressional district has not been in play for, what, three decades, almost. and that it is in play now has a lot to do with how people are feeling about these substantiative issues, certainly about trump, as well. and keep in mind, the day before trump came to ohio, he went after lebron james. and you don t have to live in the cleveland area to care that the president was attacking lebron james. he s popular around the country. he crosses all ethnic and racial lines, economic lines, and people all across the state love him. so that was not the smartest move for him. and then you have balderson yesterday talking about, he was in zanesville staying, we don t want people in franklin county determining who s you know, my immediate reaction when i heard that was, wait a minute, i ve got we ve got two daughters, four grandchildren, two sons-in-laws we happen to be very fond of and they all live in franklin county. what s wrong with franklin county? and it made me realize, there are a lot of people in zanesville who know or love someone in franklin county right now. it was such a tone-deaf move, i m still trying to understand how he could have said that. he must have really tired and hot. well, we certainly have been dealing with a heat wave. can i ask you, you know, i think for a lot of us who covered you know, i was on the road for the 2016 campaign, but there was a lot of assumptions about who what the outcome of that was going to be. and there s been a lot of reflection since about, you know, how to make sure that those kinds of mistakes aren t made again. i m wondering, is there anything that you re picking up on the ground in ohio that you think we in the national media should be paying attention to? the local trends, the feelings among your neighbors, people who have switched, who may have surprised you. is there anything that you think we should be watching in the next couple of months? well, i live in the city of cleveland. so i m not surprised, particularly, in our neighborhood, our surrounding area is predominantly african-american. so i m not surprised, because it s been very consistent. you know, we have the same conversations over and over again of real substance, but the concerns haven t changed that much. what i m hearing particularly from ohio, i go back to these suburban moms in particular who supported trump. some of whom did not. who voted for obama, but didn t want to vote for hillary clinton, they voted for donald trump. and two themes keep bubbling up. number one, even if they still somewhat support trump, they don t want everyone else to behave like him. they don t want a governor like trump or a member of congress like trump or a mayor like trump, right? but again, i go to the family separations issue. i don t think we re paying enough attention to how much this has affected a lot of voters, particularly women. who, we ve all seen the images. i mean, we ve all been a child, right? let s start that. and if you ve ever loved a child and you watch that, and i don t think we re paying enough attention to that, yet. that could have a long-term impact, depending on how much the democrats bring it up, i think. connie schultz, thank you so much for your insights today and thanks for coming on. sure. coming up, what some are calling junk insurance. the new, inexpensive plans being pushed by the trump administration in an effort to undermine obamacare. we ll explain who really pays for those. but first, an nbc news exclusive. president trump s next immigration target. legal immigrants. the details of his plan, a plan that could leave $20 million people in limbo, up after the break. you re watching msnbc. p. and at expedia, we don t think you should be rushed into booking one. that s why we created expedia s add-on advantage. now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. add-on advantage. discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. only when you book with expedia. boost® high protein. be up for life. legal immigrants to become citizens, affecting millions of people. and they plan to do it by going after anyone who has used certain public welfare programs. nbc s national security and justice reporter, julia ainsley joins me now with more on her exclusive reporting. first of all, julia, great reporting. some of these programs include they re essentially targeting people who have used obamacare, the children s health insurance program, food stamps. can you just explain a little bit about what the changes would be and also, how is it that the trump administration can do this basically unilaterally? yeah, that s a great question. i was asking myself the same thing. so i was directed back to this law that was passed in the 1800s, if you can think ellis island days, that think that immigrants coming in who wanted citizenship, it should be considered whether or not they would be a public charge. whether they would be a drain on the american economy rather than supporting it. that has been broadened over the years. and even now, most immigrants who are on social security insurance, ssi, what we think of as classic welfare, cash assistance, they would have a hard time gettinging citizenship. generally, they want to see you prove that you are table to work here if you re getting a green card or moving from green card to citizenship. what is changing is how much they are broadening this. they re going after so many social programs that could be potential disqualifiers. that would be like, if you ve used the insurance exchange that s provided through obamacare, if you ve had children s health insurance, which in a lot of states is given to people well above the poverty line, or if you ve used food stamps. some versions even included heat assistance. a lot of things that are, yes, given to people who might be falling through the cracks, and who need a social safety net, but also things given to people who could be making as much as 250% of the poverty line. julia ainsley, thanks so much for shining a light on this. kasie. coming up, michigan s race for governor is testing the limits of the left. one candidate, gretchen whitmore, we ll talk to her about her strategy and her party s internal struggle in the primary. stay right here with msnbc. dear foremothers, your society was led by a woman, who governed thousands. commanded armies. yielded to no one. when i found you in my dna, i learned where my strength comes from. my name is courtney mckinney, and this is my ancestrydna story. now with 2 times more geographic detail than other dna tests. order your kit at ancestrydna.com inside your arteries. for plaque which builds up as you age- and increases your risk for stroke and cardiovascular disease. and by getting them through this package, you re saving over 50%. so call today and consider these numbers: for just $149 you ll receive five screenings that could reveal what your body isn t telling you. i m gonna tell you that was the best $150 i ever spent in my life. life line screening. the power of prevention. call now to learn more. not in this house.? cause that s no ordinary family. that s your family. which is why you didn t grab just any cheese. you picked up new kraft expertly paired cheddar and swiss for eggs. beat that! kraft. family greatly. to the polls today. kansas, michigan, missouri, and washington are also in play, as democrats remain just 23 seats shy of controlling the house. but there s another story line shaping up in the gubernatorial races. as the new york times points out, the surge of women running for office could be the biggest breakthrough in america s gubernatorial races. as the times writes, quote, nowhere is the challenge as great as it is in the midwest, which was the last region to elect a female governor. and where a woman has not been elected since jennifer granholm of michigan, a democrat, left office in 2011. with me now is one of those channelers, gretchen whitmore. she s hoping to be michigan s democratic nominee in the state s gubernatorial race. gretchen, thanks very much for being here. i want to start about asking you about the late-breaking dynamics in this race. your progressive challenger releasing a medicare-for-all single-payer health care plan that seems to have at the very least caught the interest of bernie sanders, who s endorsed him, and gotten a lot of attention in the waning weeks. what s your health care plan and why do you disagree with your opponent? listen, i m not running or disagreeing with anyone. i m running on a real plan and a real record to get things done for people in michigan. michiganders aren t interested in labels or an outsider coming in. we want a governor who can solve problems. and as the senate zmdemocratic leader, i had a proud progressive leader. that s why everyone from the uaw to planned parenthood have endorsed me. so do you support medicare for all? i support getting everyone covered, absolutely. universal coverage is everyone s goal here. but as the one person who negotiated medicaid expansion in my state, 680,000 people got coverage because of the work that i did. we re not going to stop until everyone in my state is covered. and i m not waiting on washington, d.c. to solve our problems here in michigan. do you think medicare for all is an unrealistic plan? do you do you think it couldn t be paid for, for example? well, listen, it would require two waivers from the trump administration, a constitutional amendment, and $100 billion. i m not going to wait on washington, d.c. i think we in michigan got to move forward. we need a governor who s actually going to be able to get in there and get things done. our water we have a water crisis in michigan that is not over. the devos agenda has been destroying the public school system in michigan. as a mom with kids in our public schools, these are the things that i know how to get done. and i don t accept excuses in my house and i don t except them from my government, either. and i m ready to get to work and solve these problems. do you think that the democratic socialist label is helpful for democrats who are trying to get elected in a state like michigan, that voted for president trump? you know what, michigan is that kind of a state. we go back and forth, we really do. and people ask me less about whether or not i am a democrat. they ask me what my plan is, how we re going to solve these problems. i think that, you know, having getting caught up in those labels is really, you know, a distraction. we ve got to talk about cleaning up drinking water. people in flynt still don t have clean drinking water. our schools used to be the best around and now we re in the bottom ten in our country. this was the place people came to from around the world for a good job. and all of the attacks on labor have made it harder and harder for working people to get ahead. these are the things that i stay focused on. and that s why, i think, my campaign is one that s been able to build a real coalition and a place where progressives have been able to come home to, because we got to start getting things done. and it starts with winning this election. why do you think president trump won michigan in 2016? i think there s been a lot of analysis, but it was really a low turnout year, it was. and michiganders are frustrated. there are a lot of people in my state that are hurting. they haven t seen a raise in ten years, or they re working a couple of minimum wage jobs and cannot put food on the table or get ahead and they re frustrated. that s why the campaign that i ve run has stayed really focus on the dinner table issues. sure. if you re worried about your child s education, you know, nothing else matters. and that s why that s where i m going to start fixing problems. hillary clinton did lose in 2016 in michigan twice, first to bernie sanders in the primary in a surprise and then again to president trump. so, your point about low turnout taken, but at the same time, clearly, there s something going on in the state that has people looking for something different, something outside of the establishment. and i m just wondering how you ve thought about that in the context of your campaign? you know, i ve been the leader of the resistance during my time in the legislature. and despite that, always being in the minority party, i was able to deliver health care coverage to 680,000 people in my state. i do think it s time for change here in michigan. our leaders have failed us. and that s why i m running. that s why i m leading with a real plan to clean up our drinking water. with a plan to get people into high-wage skills. to fix our schools by fighting back on the devos agenda here in michigan. do you think that there s anything that president trump has done in office that you would commend him for? well, you know, he has given lip service, anyway, to rebuilding the sue lox, which is in the upper peninsula, is the gateway for so much international commerce. our state depends on that gateaway remaining open and it s dangerously old. so if he actually starts to take steps towards doing that, i would be grateful, and certainly everyone in my state would be. gretchen whitmore, running to be the democratic nominee in michigan s race for governor, we ll be watching closely. thank you so much for your time today. thank you, kasie. joining me now is sahil kapur, a national political reporter for bloomberg politics. sahil, let s talk a little bit about this michigan governor s race to start. it does seem as though it feels to me like a familiar dynamic, and maybe i ve overlearned the lessons of having covered bernie sanders surprise win in michigan on the ground, but, it does seem like the energy of voters across the map is with people who are from outside of the political system. right, there s that spectrum, there s the outsider/insider spectrum, and there is the ideological spectrum. and i think this resembles the bernie sanders versus hillary clinton proxy battle in a way, because that was a genuine difference of opinion in what direction to go, how to campaign, how to think about issues inside the democratic party. you have the center-left candidate in hillary clinton, who gretchen whitmore sounded very much in the mold of, you know, kind of, remember hillary clinton s phrase, i m a progressive who likes to get things done? yes, indeed. that s almost exactly how she s campaigning, where you have abdul sayyed who s running a as a progressive candidate on medicare for all, a much bolder, loftier vision, even if it may not be achievable in the near future, some progressives believe that s the way to galvanize the base. the big x factor is women. the democratic base have decided to turn a corner and they want more women in power. that s totally understand and agree with that particular point. and you know, one thing that our first read team has looked at, they ve they rate, under this headline, in democratic primaries, it s often bernie sanders versus emily s list. and this is exactly to your point. the democratic advocacy group that backs pro-choice, pro-abortion rights and female political candidates, back in 2016, there wasn t much love lost between bernie sanders and emi emily s list, and fast forward to now, the two factions are facing off more and more, and that s recently because sanders in races that feature women have often endorsed a rival male candidate instead. what do you make of that? the interesting thing about brn bernie sanders and his whole push is he s not losing a lot of primaries. his primaries are not always victorious, but he s clearly winning the battle of ideas, even when he loses primaries. the candidate that s more center left who wins that primary ends up campaigning and running and kind of trying to pursue very progressive ideas. so that s the tectonic shift i think we see in the democratic party. it s going to be very interesting to see how it plays out in the next presidential primary. i totally agree with you. on one other race i m watching today, kris kobach, the gubernatorial primary in kansas, what does the landscape there look like, in a very deeply red state if kobach pulls that off? kobach seems to be the favorite. he s got that trump endorsement, which is very valuable in republican primaries. we ll see how it works in the general election. his opponent, the incumbent governor right now who took over for sam brownback is essentially portraying his his campaign is essentially portraying him as the only one who can defeat democrats in the general election. that s a remarkable thing to say in often is deep, red state. who is basically trying to signal to voters, this guy is so toxic, he s a republican who could lose in kansas right now. that s the battle, but i would still say kobach is probably the favorite. and there s the x factor, greg orman running as an independent. sahil coo pookapur, thank you s for your insights today. thank you. up next, president trump s latest move to dismantle obamacare. he s pushing a type of health care coverage that some are calling junk insurance. after the break, we ll break down what the plans really cover. you re watching msnbc. ade for better things than rheumatoid arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough it can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened. don t start xeljanz xr if you have an infection. tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts, and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. your doctor should perform blood tests before you start and while taking xeljanz xr, and monitor certain liver tests. tell your doctor if you were in a region where fungal infections are common and if you have had tb, hepatitis b or c, or are prone to infections. don t let another morning go by without talking to your rheumatologist about xeljanz xr. to break it all down. anne, it s great to see you. what is the administration trying to do? and why are they calling this junk insurance? reporter: well, kasie, the administration is trying to give people choice, but under the obama administration, short-term health insurance plans was a stopgap measure. three months of coverage for people between jobs or waiting for more comprehensive coverage. now the trump administration is extending the length of those policies to up to three years. but not what they cover. and that s why some are labeling them junk. reporter: for the 28 million uninsured americans, short-term health plans may sound like an attractive alternative. certainly, the trump administration is playing up the positive. this will be great health care. they may be as much as 50 to 80% cheaper than the obamacare exchange plan. reporter: for example, in los angeles, short-term premiums start at $141 a month versus $264 for the cheapest obamacare policy. but critics warn, you get what you pay for. people really need to know exactly what these policies, when they buy them. and the reason that they re inexpensive is because they don t coffver very much. reporter: what they don t cover? 43% offer no mental health coverage. 62% don t cover substance abuse treatment. 71% don t cover outpatient prescription drugs. and $100%, all of them, don t cover maternity care. the policies may also contain annual or lifetime benefit caps, unlike obamacare plans. we reached out to some of america s largest insurance providers, but none would comment on camera. in a statement, america s health insurance plans, an industry trade group said, consumers should clearly understand what their plan does and does not cover. the new requirement for short-term plans to make clear disclosures to consumers is an important improvement. that knowledge, critics say, is crucial. in the case of a lot of cancer patients, when they get a cancer diagnose, they found out they were not covered for things they thought they were going to be covered for. reporter: critics say it could divide risk pools, with younger people opting for short-term plans, while driving up premiums on obamacare plans, because they have older, sicker patients. the better solution would be to have everybody in the same insurance pool. reporter: now, the trump administration predicts about 200,000 americans will switch from obamacare to these extended short-term plans. these extended plans will be available in october and a very important thing to remember, kasie, is that these plans do not provide coverage for pre-existing conditions, which, of course, obamacare covers. anne thompson, thanks so much for that reporting. very useful information for all of you are viewers as they try to make those decisions coming in the fall. coming up next here, mike pence in his own words on how a president should behave. and what should be done to a president if he or she engages in, say, immoral or unethical behavior. what he said then versus what he s doing now. but first, 20 years ago today, august 7th, 1998, 224 people were killed, thousands more hurt when an al qaeda-affiliated suicide bomber drove pickup trucks into the gates of the u.s. embassies in the capitals of kenya and tanzania and detonated thousands of pounds of explosives, reducing the buildings largely to rubble. earlier today, the state department honored the victims of the attacks that set off what many view as the modern age of terror. the united states accused osama bin laden of being behind the embassy attacks and it s believed that just months after those bombings, he began his planning for september 11th, 2001. this is cancer treatment centers of america. and these are the specialists we re proud to call our own. treating cancer isn t one thing we do. it s the only thing we do. expert medicine works here. learn more at cancercenter.com cancer treatment centers of america. appointments available now. lewinsky scandal that a president who was unfaithful to his wife should be removed, writing joining me now is charlie sykes, a contributing editor at the weekly standard and an msnbc contributor and the author of a book how the right lost its mind. charlie, those words perhaps pressient from mike pence to say what s going on now and our acceptance of this behavior would lead to more difficult things. but this time he s standing by somebody who has allegedly at least committed some of the sins that pence was talking about there. well, that was then and this is now. but mike pence tracks almost perfectly what has happened to the conservative movement, because his comments back in the 1990st rst not at all surprising, virtually every conservative thought leader made the point. the republican party said character matters. the president is a role model. a president who lice discaes disqualifies himself from office. think about what we ve seen evangelical christian leaders do from the 90s to now. back in the niblt90s, no group thought personal integrity was more important than evangelicals. now they re among his strongest supporters. so mike pence has gone with the flow of what s happened to the conservative movement and conservative mind. charlie, do you think, though, that pence has really it s easy to when you read these old columns, he really believed what he was saying. his personal morality is often brought into his public life. you look at the relationship he has with his wife, cakaren. he has lived out the things what you should do. has he really changed do you think or is he just biting his tongue? well, that s an interesting question. we ve also seen how transactional our politicks become, what people are willing to bite their tongues for if they get something in return. again, he s not the only one who has made this kind of a bargain. in his case, as in the case of many of the christian leaders, it s pretty dramatic if you compare and contrast what they said then and what they are doing right now. charlie, i want to ask you about one other it s related, not exactly on point with mike pence. but there s a story out about paul ryan, and he writes that trump used to call ryan a boy scout. i thought it was a compliment, said ryan, a former altar boy and habitual people pleaser. but after the republican controlled congress passed bills, trump announced that he would stop using the nickname, so i guess he meant it as an insult all along, the speaker said. i didn t realize. this is illuminating on so many levels. but the fact that the president seems to think that calling someone a boy scout is an insult, that seems to be another xach example of this evolution you re talking about. yes, and paul ryan has made some bargains, as well. that piece is very illuminating. there were some things i thought, i didn t really understand that before. but yeah, that s an interesting anecdote. that apparently when donald trump was referring to paul ryan as a boy scout, he thought that was demeaning, that was an insult, that he wasn t tough enough, that he wasn t a fighter, what the playground bully you were supposed to be in the era of trump. it s interesting that paul ryan tells that particular story. for what it s worth, my father was an eagle scout and i will always look up to that. charlie sykes, contributing editor at the weekly standard, thank you. we ll be right back. you see clear skin. you see me. but if you saw me before cosentyx. i was covered. it was awful. but i didn t give up. i kept fighting. i got clear skin with cosentyx. 3 years and counting. clear skin can last. see if cosentyx could make a difference for you. cosentyx is proven to help people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis find clear skin that can last. don t use if you re allergic to cosentyx. before starting cosentyx, you should be checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms. or if you have received a vaccine or plan to. if you have inflammatory bowel disease, tell your doctor if symptoms develop or worsen. serious allergic reactions may occur. see me now. i m still clear. how sexy are these elbows? 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tonight, the historic showdown on capitol hill. the impeachment inquiry takes a dramatic new turn today. the witnesses, constitutional law scholars. they re asked, was the president s conduct impeachable? they do not hold back. and the scholar who said the democrats are rushing this. and the moment one witness brings up the president s youngest son. did she cross the line? terry moran with the explosive testimony from the hill tonight. president trump on his way back this evening from his trip overseas, cutting the trip short, lashing out at the inquiry, and the other headline tonight, taking aim at canadian prime minister justin trudeau. what trudeau was caught on mic saying about president trump. the breaking headline tonight involving thousands of u.s. troops. are they being sent to the middle east? and the new headline. a u.s. warship seizing iranian missile parts at sea. martha raddatz standing by live tonight. the outrage mounting this evening. the new lawsuit filed by george zimmerman. the man acquitted in the shooting death of trayvon martin. now suing trayvon martin s family for $100 million. what he s now claiming. and the family tonight says they re being victimized again. we re watching two new storms, one that could cross the country again. rob times this out. the major news involving the catholic church tonight. the vatican and the investigation here in the u.s. the bishop out tonight, accused of a coverup. and the health headline involving women and breast cancer and concern over hair dyes and straighteners. dr. jen ashton and what you need to know. good evening and it s great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. and we begin tonight with the historic next step in the impeachment inquiry, and a very combative one that played out today on capitol hill. the heated proceedings in front of the house judiciary committee. the witnesses, constitutional law scholars, who were asked, was president trump s conduct on ukraine impeachable? three witnesses telling the committee, yes, arguing the president abused his power for his own personal political gain. the republican witness saying the democrats don t have the evidence and that this is being rushed. and tonight, the unexpected moment when one of the witnesses brought up the president s youngest son to make a point. it was not well-received by many and tonight, she s apologizing. president trump, meanwhile, flying back to washington tonight and lashing out. this evening, what we ve learned, the president s team already looking ahead to what they want in a senate trial. terry moran leads us off from the hill tonight. reporter: it was a highly partisan and dramatic day. the first high stakes hearing in the judiciary committee featuring constitutional scholars. and the issue before the panel? does the evidence show that what president trump did on ukraine rises to the level of an impeachable offense? the president has shown us his pattern of conduct. if we do not act to hold him in check now, president trump will almost certainly try again to solicit interference in the election for his personal political gain. but this is not an impeachment. this is just a simple railroad job and today s is a waste of time. reporter: right out of the gate, three out of the four scholars, the ones chosen by democrats, testified that the president should be impeached. and i just want to stress that if this what we re if what we re talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable. if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy. that s why the framers created the possibility of impeachment. the very idea that a president might seek the aid of a foreign government in his re-election campaign would have horrified them, but based on the evidentiary record, that is what president trump has done. reporter: stanford law professor pamela karlan said the president s alleged actions, withholding nearly $400 million in u.s. aid approved by congress, simply for personal political gain, has never happened before. the evidence reveals a president who used the powers of his office to demand that a foreign government participate in undermining a competing candidate for the presidency. reporter: karlan said over the thanksgiving holiday, she read every witness transcript and she pointed out what she found most troubling. and the most chilling line for me of the entire process was the following. ambassador sondland said, he had to announce the investigations, he s talking about president zelensky, he had to announce the investigations, he didn t actually have to do them, as i understood it. and then he said, i never heard anyone say the investigation had to start or had to be completed. the only thing i heard from mr. giuliani or otherwise was they had to be announced in some form. and what i took that to mean was this was not about whether vice president biden actually committed corruption or not, this was about injuring somebody who the president thinks of as a particularly a particularly hard opponent. reporter: but law professor jonathan turley, called by republicans, said he did not vote for trump, but he is still troubled by the democrats impeachment inquiry, in an agitated time in our country. i get it. you re mad. the president s mad. my republican friends are mad. my democratic friends are mad. my wife is mad. my kids are mad. even my dog seems mad. reporter: he said democrats don t have the evidence they need. there s a difference between requesting investigations and a quid pro quo. you need to stick the landing on the quid pro quo. you need to get the evidence to support it. it might be out there, i don t know. but it s not in this record. reporter: and, he added, that democrats are rushing this. it s a perfect storm. you set an incredibly short period, demand a huge amount of information and when the president goes to court, you then impeach him. in nixon, it did go to the courts and nixon lost. and that was the reason nixon resigned. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi urging house democrats, quote, are you ready? while vice president mike pence rallying the republicans to turn up the heat on the democrats. and back in that hearing room, republicans were furious when one of those law professors argued that the constitution does not make trump a king. driving the point home with a quip about the president s son. so, while the president can name his son barron, he can t make him a baron. when you invoke the president s son s name here, when you try to make a little joke out of referencing barron trump, that does not lend credibility to your argument. it makes you look mean. it makes you look like you re attacking someone s family, the minor child of the president of the united states. so, let s see if we can get into the facts. to all of the witnesses. if you have personal knowledge of a single material fact in the schiff report, please raise your hand. and let the record reflect, no personal knowledge of a single fact. so, after that moment today, let s get right to terry moran tonight, he s live on the hill. and rry,irst, the apology just in tonight from that law scholar who brought up the president s youngest son? reporter: that s right, st stanford law professor pamela karlan said, at the end of the hearing, i want to apologize for what i said about the president s son. it was wrong of me to do that. it wish the president would apologize, obviously, for the things that he s done that are wrong. but i do regret having said that. in the meantime, terry, where does this go from here? it seems to be moving very quickly. and news tonight from the president s legal team, suggesting they believe a senate trial is a certainty. and what do they want to see in a trial? reporter: well, the president is a tough litigator and he s planning a scorched earth defense. they want a full senate trial, including the president wants the ability to call witnesses, perhaps live in the senate chamber itself. he wants the republican leadership, they ve already blocked out the entire month of january. this is, essentially, a way no one should be surprised, the president using the trial to put his accusers on trial. david? terry moran leading us off again tonight. terry, thank you. and president trump, meanwhile, returning to the white house tonight, lashing out at the inquiry and returning home from the nato summit, where he took aim today at canadian prime minister justin trudeau, after what trudeau was caught saying on mic about president trump. abc s chief white house correspondent jonathan karl traveling with the president. reporter: president trump was outside of london, meeting with nato leaders as today s impeachment hearings got under way. thousands of miles away, but paying close attention to what was happening on capitol hill. but think of it, they get three constitutional lawyers and we get one. what s that all about? it is the most unfair thing that anybody s ever seen. i don t think too many people are going to watch, because it s going to be boring, all right? reporter: the president was also paying attention to this. a video clip from a reception last night in buckingham palace where several leaders including the british prime minster boris johnson, french president emmanuel macron and canadian prime minister justin trudeau can be heard apparently laughing about how president trump threw off their schedule by talking to the press for so long during their meetings. he was late because he did a 40-minute press conference off the top reporter: and trudeau described the reaction from president trump s advisers when he unexpectedly announced that next year s g7 meeting will be at camp david. you just watched his team s jaws just drop to the floor. reporter: this morning, trudeau acknowledged the leaders were talking about president trump. last night, i made a reference to the fact that there was an unscheduled press conference before my meeting with president trump, and i was happy to take part of it, but it was certainly notable. reporter: after the video clip went viral, the president was asked about it and took a shot at trudeau. have you seen the video of prime minister trudeau talking about you last night? well, he s two-faced. and honestly, with trudeau, he s a nice guy, i find him to be a very nice guy. but you know, the truth is, i called him out on the fact that he s not paying 2% and i guess he s not very happy about it. reporter: a short while later, president trump was overheard boasting about what he called trudeau. that was funny when i said the guy s two-faced. all right, so, let s get to jon karl, live from london again tonight. and jon, we took note today that the president was supposed to hold one final press conference before he left the uk, but that was abruptly canceled? reporter: it sure caught us by surprise, david. the press conference was on the schedule, the traveling press was there waiting for it to begin, when the president sud n suddenly canceled it and decided to fly back to washington instead. one factor may be that he had already taken many, many, many questions from the press over the past two days. david? all right, safe trip home tonight, jon. thank you. and we are following another developing headline tonight involving possibly thousands of u.s. troops. will they be sent to the middle east? and it comes amid news that a u.s. navy destroyer seized iranian weapons and missile parts in the arabian sea headed for yemen. abc s chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz and what she s learned tonight. reporter: tonight, with pentagon officials seeing new indications that iran could be preparing for more aggressive action, the u.s. is considering another significant increase in american forces in the region. a u.s. official tells abc news that thousands more americans could be sent to the mideast, although no decision has yet been made. the u.s. began increasing troops in may, after what the u.s. said was an imminent threat from iran to american interests and forces in the region. that was followed by what were said to be iranian attacks on saudi oil facilities, commercial oil tankers and a sophisticated u.s. drone. some 14,000 u.s. troops, a bomber group, patriot missile batteries and an aircraft carrier were eventually sent to the region in response. and martha raddatz with us live tonight, as well. and martha, your sources are telling you that this decision on whether to send more troops to the region could actually be made before the end of the year? reporter: it could, david. it could come within weeks, because the u.s. says the threat from iran is not going away and is only increasing, given the protests that have been taking place within iran. david? martha raddatz with us from washington. thank you, martha. and there is growing outrage tonight over a new lawsuit filed by george zimmerman, the man who shot and killed unarmed teenager trayvon martin, but was acquitted. zimmerman is now suing trayvon martin s family and others for $100 million. what does he claim? and the family tonight saying he is victimizing them again. here s steve osunsami. not guilty. reporter: he was acquitted of killing an unarmed black teenager in a shooting many argued was racially motivated. and tonight, george zimmerman and his lawyer are suing trayvon martin s family, their attorney, state police and former state prosecutors, making the unsubstantiated claim that one of the witnesses at zimmerman s 2013 trial was a fake. in a lawsuit filed in florida today, they paint a grand conspiracy and are asking for $100 million, arguing that the young woman who testified that she was on the phone with trayvon martin as he was being killed was a fraud, coached by prosecutors and martin s family. he said, what are you following me for? and then i heard a hard breath man come and say, what are you doing around here? reporter: the lawyer filing the lawsuit has a long history of suing black lawmakers and pushing conspiracy theories. larry klayman once submitted a petition to deport president obama. his legal tactics have gotten him sanctions and bans from some courtrooms. george zimmerman hasn t rested since the trial, selling confederate artwork to raise money for a supposed muslim-free gun shop and even selling the gun he used to kill trayvon martin. the timing of the lawsuit is curious. where i got to know george zimmerman. reporter: it comes as zimmerman is promoting a new movie on these new allegations. trayvon martin s family tonight says once again, they feel victimized. their lawyer is calling this another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others. david? all right, steve, thank you. next tonight, we re watching two new storms. one storm hitting right now and a second one that could cross the country again this week. and this image tonight. a truck driver losing control on a slippery highway, this is in east l.a. the big rig partially hanging over that overpass. so, let s get right to rob marciano on both storms tonight. hey, rob. reporter: hi, david. been a tough day in california and it s not over yet. not much of a break before the next one. have a look. the core of the low and the cold front has not pushed through yet. been a high snow level event, so still some heavy rain across southern california. it does push inland. this next storm has really developed in the next 12 hours. grown bigger. it s going to effect the entire west coast. portland, seattle, getting into northern california. that s where the heaviest rain and wind will be friday into saturday. could see one to three feet of snow in the mountains above 5,000 feet. we ve got some lake effect snows here on the east coast, but this is nothing compared to what would come with that pacific storm next week. david? watching that in the days to come. rob, our thanks to you. and now, to the major news involving the catholic church tonight and the vatican review right here in the u.s. and now, the bishop in buffalo resigning today, two years before retirement. abc s david wright tonight on the accusations of a major coverup. reporter: tonight, a painful chapter for buffalo catholics has finally come to an end. bishop richard malone resigned amid a firestorm over his handling of sexual abuse claims. for more than a year, malone has been accused of not being fully transparent about alleged abuses by buffalo priests in the past. was this a coverup? no, it wasn t a coverup. because reporter: was it damage control? no, i don t believe it was damage control. i know that s been said often. reporter: the bishop s own former personal assistant, siobhan o connor, photocopied secret church files and became a whistle-blower. i had to try to do what i could to bring the truth to light. reporter: bishop edward scharfenberger of albany taking over in the interim. he promises accountability, even as the diocese faces more than 200 new lawsuits. i m not here as a knight in shining armor. i m not here, you know, as the fix-it man. i m just here to be a spiritual father. reporter: today s announcement comes after a vatican review of the diocese. the findings of that report still secret. today, many survivors of abuse applauded the bishop s resignation, but the fbi is still investigating. david? david wright, who has been following this case for some time. thank you, david. there is still much more ahead on world news tonight this wednesday. the health headline involving women and breast cancer and concern over hair dyes and straighteners. dr. jen ashton standing by with what you need to know tonight. also, the massive fire this evening. the emergency air alerts. evacuations ordered. the pictures coming in. and the murder mystery under investigation tonight. the 50-year-old therapist found dead in the counseling center where she worked. a lot more news ahead tonight. we ll be right back. doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacist-recommendeding? memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. in connemara. right! connemara it is! there s one gift the whole family can share this holiday season, their story. give the gift of discovery, with an ancestrydna kit. next tonight, the new study that got a lot of attention today involving women and breast cancer and the use of hair dyes and straighteners. and so, we asked dr. jen ashton to come in tonight. this was alarming, jen, we are hoping for some context, but first, you have the numbers. reporter: yeah, let s get right to it, david. large study, 46,000 women with a family history of breast cancer who used permanent hair dyes or straighteners were found overall to have a 9% increase associated risk of breast cancer. when they looked at it by race, 45% increase risk for african-american women overall and if those women were frequent users of hair dye, that risk went up to 60% for african-american women. so, these were women with a risk to begin with. reporter: right. in the meantime, we know more study is needed and you wanted to put this into a proper context. reporter: a couple of caveats. first of all, this was a high risk population, so, the results may not apply to an average risk population. this study, again, was based on association, not cause and effect. and lastly, some previous studies, david, actually showed no increased associated risk, so, we need more research. got to stay on it. all right, dr. jen, thank you for coming in tonight. when we come back here, the major fire triggering air quality alerts and evacuations tonight. and more on that murder investigation, the therapist found dead at the counseling center where she works. when you retire will you or will you just be you, without the constraints of a full time job? 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