Hardball with Chris Matthews

By Chris Matthews, MSNBC

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Join Chris Matthews each weeknight for a spirited hour of political analysis and debate with prominent politicians, newsmakers, and cultural icons. Matthews asks his guests the tough questions, and never backs down, in a relentless pursuit of the truth.

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11.16.2019

David Holmes, an official from the US embassy in Kiev who testified behind closed doors, said that he overheard the President's phone call with Ambassador Gordon Sondland in Ukraine. Holmes said that during that call "I heard President Trump ask, ...

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09.06.2019 Dems plan to investigate Trump’s role in hush money payments Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are planning to refocus their investigations of the White House on the 2016 scheme to silence two women alleging affairs with the President. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.29.2019 Trump lagging behind Democrats in 2020 matchups With the 2020 election about 14 months away, a new Quinnipiac Poll shows Trump trailing each of the top four Democratic candidates by double digits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.28.2019 Tim Ryan says pharma getting ‘away with murder’ in opioid epidemic A court has ruled that pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson helped fuel the opioid epidemic in Oklahoma, ordering the company to pay more than $570 million. This could set a precedent for the roughly 1500 cases across the country. Learn ...
08.27.2019 Chris Matthews slams Trump for promoting his resort at G7 On President Trump’s behavior at G7, Chris says “A public servant would have been interested in the world and its future. A business person would be interested in profits for his resort down in Florida … It’s clear what Trump’s ...
08.24.2019 Beto O’Rourke: Trump has given racism new life Former Congressman Beto O'Rourke was in Texas with former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords meeting with victims of the recent mass shooting in El Paso. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.23.2019 Ron Reagan on Trump’s behavior: ‘It’s only going to get worse’ Rattled by the US economy, and his prospects for reelection, an unhinged President Trump is stumbling through a week of self-induced chaos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.22.2019 Chris Matthews: Trump thrives on conspiracy theories On Trump promoting conspiracy theories, Chris says “the really scary story, is that the man who believes all this is sitting in the Oval Office, as he likes to say, ‘calling the shots.’” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
08.21.2019 Parkland father calls Trump a liar for flip-flopping on gun control The Daily Beast is reporting that President Trump has lost interest in passing gun control measures in the wake of the mass shootings earlier this month. Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg who was murdered in the Parkland shooting, says ...
08.20.2019 Eric Swalwell: Zero chance McConnell, Trump support background checks A new NBC News Wall Street Journal poll shows overwhelming support for some reforms, including 89 percent of Americans saying they want background checks for all gun sales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.16.2019 Joe Walsh on Israel barring Tlaib, Omar after Trump’s tweet: It’s unAmerican Israel announced it would block two American Democratic Congresswomen from entering the country ahead of a planned visit this weekend. This comes shortly after the president’s urging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.15.2019 New poll shows Biden and Warren in statistical tie A new Economist/You Gov weekly tracking poll shows Former Vice President Joe Biden at 21%, with Senator Elizabeth Warren in second at 20%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.14.2019 NYT: Biden gaffes rattling advisers On Biden, the New York Times reports, "Some of his advisers said in interviews that they were privately nervous that his recent gaffe spree would become cemented into the larger narrative of the presidential race." Learn more about your ad ...
08.13.2019 Chris Matthews: Dems want background checks on guns, GOP wants to expand gun rights Chris explains what each political party stands for on guns. Simply put: Democrats want background checks and a ban on assault weapons. Republicans want to "expand" the rights of Americans to own and carry weapons where ever they go. Learn ...
08.09.2019 Amy Klobuchar: Trump is afraid of the NRA Senator Klobuchar recently released a plan that will, "end the hateful rhetoric that has become all too routine during the Trump Administration” and she has come out against Trump’s support of the NRA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
08.08.2019 Chris Matthews: Trump has made GOP the party of, by, and for white nationalism On Trump’s appeal to white nationalists, Chris says “In their lemming-like way of following Trump, they are identifying their Grand Old Party as a new party of Trump-style white nationalism. This isn’t going to go away.” Learn more about your ...
08.07.2019 Pete Buttigieg calls Trump blaming video games for gun violence ‘absurd’ Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer joined Hardball to talk about Trump’s history of anti-immigrant rhetoric and response to the recent shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.06.2019 Kamala Harris on gun violence: People are dying everyday in America Trump's condemnation of white supremacy stands in contrast with his words from last March, when he downplayed the problem to reporters in the White House. Senator Kamala Harris says, "People are dying everyday in America ... We have babies who ...
08.03.2019 Malcolm Nance says Ratcliffe would have made US intel ‘Trump’s own private toy’ The President's attempt to install a partisan loyalist to the top intelligence job in this country appears to have backfired with Congressman Ratcliffe’s nomination out of the window. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.02.2019 Chris Matthews: The Democratic debates failed to unite the country On the Democratic debate on Wednesday night, Chris says it “doesn't look good, doesn't serve as an uplifting couple of hours, doesn't show me the route to victory . Or if it does, it shows me only a road that ...
07.31.2019 113 House Democrats calling for impeachment inquiry into Trump President Trump continued his racist rhetoric against Congressman Elijah Cummings and the city of Baltimore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.30.2019 Al Sharpton responds to Trump's attacks Reverend Al. Sharpton joins Hardball to respond to President Trump's attacks against him. The latest on Trump's attacks on Rep. Cummings & inner cities. And Trump plans to nominate a partisan foot soldier as his next Director of National Intelligence. ...
07.26.2019 Jerry Nadler: We can’t let Trump ‘get away with these crimes’ What are the Democrats going to do in light of the revelations highlighted by the Special Counsel? Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler says, "I certainly agree that we cannot permit the president to get away with these crimes and set the ...
07.25.2019 Former federal prosecutor on impeachment: There’s enough evidence, make a decision Should Congress impeach the president? Former Federal Prosecutor Cynthia Alksne thinks there’s enough evidence to make a decision on the matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.24.2019 Jemele Hill: I don’t know what’s so far left about equality and health care President Trump is pressing on with his attacks on four congresswomen of color. Jemele Hill says, "I don't know what's so far left about equality, health care. The whole thing is that the Republicans/Conservatives have always positioned progress as something ...
07.20.2019 Joy Reid says Trump is running a ‘white nationalist re-election campaign’ Just one day after claiming he was not happy with his supporters chanting "send her back" at his rally on Wednesday, President Trump today is walking back his attempt to disavow it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.19.2019 Maya Wiley calls Trump disavowing ‘Send her back’ chants a ‘flat out lie’ President Trump spent most of his day trying to disavow the repugnant chant from the crowd at his rally in Greenville North Carolina last night: "Send her back." Maya Wiley says, "It's a flat out lie. The video shows it's ...
07.18.2019 House votes to hold AG Barr and Commerce chief Ross in criminal contempt over census The House of Representatives voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt of Congress for withholding subpoenaed documents from the Oversight Committee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.17.2019 House passes resolution condemning Trump’s racist comments The House of Representatives voted to condemn President Trump for having "legitimized fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color." The resolution followed the president's racist comments about four congresswomen of color. On Trump’s racist comments, Congressman Ted ...
07.17.2019 Chris Matthews: Trump amplified his language from ‘dog whistle to bugle call’ Chris says, “Not since Woodrow Wilson showed ‘Birth of a Nation’ in the White House has an American president been so flagrant in his racial messaging as this one.” On Trump’s racist remarks regarding four congresswomen of color, historian Jon ...
07.12.2019 Barbara Lee: Trump’s effort to add citizenship question to census ‘an attack on our democracy’ Ever since the earliest days of his presidency, Donald Trump and his administration have sought to put the question of citizenship on the US Census. Today, President Trump announced he was standing down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
07.11.2019 Former Palm Beach State Attorney says Acosta ‘completely wrong’ on Epstein On Secretary of Labor Acosta’s defense of his handling of the Epstein case, former Palm Beach State Attorney Barry E. Krischer said, “If Mr. Acosta was truly concerned with the State’s case and felt he had to rescue the matter, ...
07.10.2019 Amy Klobuchar calls on Labor Secretary Acosta to resign after Epstein arrest Senator Amy Klobuchar was among the first of the Democratic Presidential candidates to call for Acosta to resign following Epstein's indictment yesterday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.09.2019 Former federal prosecutor says DOJ failed victims in Epstein sweetheart deal Allegations of Epstein's behavior resurfaced after the Miami Herald launched a three part series that revealed Acosta's role in the plea deal, as well as new details about Epstein's alleged crimes. On Acosta’s sweetheart deal, Cynthia Alksne says, "Let's think ...
07.04.2019 Carole King: Trump’s 4th of July rally feeds his ego Carole King is performing during the 4th of July festivities at the Capitol. On the other side by the Lincoln Memorial, Trump is hosting his own rally. On the president’s rally, Carole King says, "His spectacle with tanks and the ...
07.03.2019 NYT: Military officials concerned about Trump’s July 4 parade On the president’s Independence Day parade, the New York Times reports that "Top military officials have expressed deep concern about letting the armed forces be used by the president to advance a political agenda." Learn more about your ad choices. ...
07.02.2019 New poll shows Joe Biden plummets, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren rise A new CNN poll out today shows a significant tightening in the Democratic contest, with big gains for Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, and bad news for Former Vice President Joe Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
06.28.2019 The first Democratic debate: Night 2 Night 2 of the first Democratic primary debate of the 2020 campaign was marked by confrontation and rhetorical fireworks. Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie, Jose Diaz-Balart, Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow moderate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.27.2019 The first Democratic debate: Night 1 The first Democratic primary debate of the 2020 campaign kicks off from Miami with ten candidates taking the stage for the first of two two-hour debate sessions. Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie, Jose Diaz-Balart, Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow moderate. Learn ...
06.25.2019 Democratic candidates hoping for breakout moment in debate It's a big week for the 2020 Democratic candidates with just two days to go until the first debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.21.2019 Hope Hicks refused to answer 155 questions during House testimony The House Judiciary Committee released the official transcript from the Hope Hicks closed door testimony yesterday, where she wouldn’t answer 155 questions. For example, Hicks wouldn't say whether she had been truthful in her testimony to Robert Mueller. Learn more ...
06.20.2019 WaPo: Trump re-election rally speech filled with false, misleading claims According to the Washington Post Fact Checker, President Trump's speech "was littered with the same false or misleading claims he has so often repeated as President." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.19.2019 Amy Klobuchar: Trump promised an economy so many people aren’t a part of Senator Klobuchar released her 100-day plan today, laying out a number of actions she plans to take if she wins the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.18.2019 New polling backs up leaked Trump internals showing him behind Biden New head-to-head numbers for the president and his most likely Democratic opponents are consistent with what other pollsters are finding from other outlets. There's a 10 point lead for Biden, 9 points for Bernie Sanders. Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and ...
06.14.2019 Chris Matthews to Democrats: You won’t impeach, you don’t scare Trump President Trump is defending his willingness to accept dirt on a political opponent from a foreign power without reporting it to the FBI. On impeachment, Chris says that Democrats aren’t moving on the issue and it doesn’t scare the president. ...
06.13.2019 Trump: If foreigners offered info for 2020, ‘I think I’d take it’ In a stunning admission, the President told ABC News that he has no problem accepting dirt on a political opponent from a foreign power. In fact, Trump denied that foreign help should even be considered election interference. Learn more about ...
06.12.2019 Poll: Biden leads Trump by 13 points nationwide Even as the president tried to parry reports that he's afraid of Biden, a new poll out today undercut him. The new Quinnipiac poll shows the president losing to Biden in a general election matchup by 13-points. Learn more about ...
06.11.2019 John Dean says Trump in ‘fast competition’ with Nixon in committing crimes The Judiciary Committee kicked off a series of hearings on the findings of the Mueller report. Among the expert witnesses was John Dean, the former White House Counsel to President Nixon who famously blew the whistle on the Watergate cover-up ...
06.07.2019 2020 Democrats criticize Biden’s support for Hyde amendment 2020 Democratic candidates for President were quick to pounce on Biden's position regarding the Hyde Amendment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.06.2019 Claire McCaskill: Trump dodged draft ‘because he had power and money’ President Trump is sounding off in London on day three of his European tour commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.05.2019 Michael Bennett: 'Our farmers are paying the price' for Trump's tariffs The president has vowed to apply tariffs of 5 percent on all Mexican goods next week and increase the rate to 25 percent in coming months if Mexico does not substantially halt illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexican border. Presidential Candidate ...

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