Sake. Theyre not talking about the budget or the millions of americans who will lose paychecks in a Government Shutdown, including members of the military and air Traffic Controllers and tsa workers. Instead, the house gop is focused on hunter biden, spending this entire thursday morning and afternoon, again, just two days before the government shuts down on saturday to open their Impeachment Inquiry into his dad, the president. Theyre looking into hunter biden as well. We ask, is this time well spent. Joining us now capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and Punch Bowl News cofounder and msnbc political contribute jake sherman. There are 52 hours or so before the government shuts down. Is there anything else happening that were not currently watching on television . No, not really. There are a couple of things worth noting. Number one, the senate is trying its best to cobble together a Border Security package to ride along
Its an effort to undermine our democracy, to diminish Donald Trumps own two impeachments, his first impeachment for trying to illegally bribe a Foreign Government to help him with his campaign, and the second for a deadly insurrection in the halls of this capitol after he asked his followers to tear through the halls of congress which they did with zip ties looking to execute the former Vice President. And we know donald trump has called for this Impeachment Inquiry, because we have the direct evidence from his own social. You can see it right here. He says impeach the bum. And we also know that hes been directly coordinating with members of this committee as reported by the New York Times right here, a member of this committee has been briefing donald trump on this inquiry. We also know that if donald trump doesnt get his way, he wants his loyalists to shut down the government. How do we know that . Because he posted it right here on his social media and his loyalists in this committe
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it depends how the republicans try to do it what s their strategy. only require 51 this. budget reconciliation it require 6306 which allows the democrats to filler buster it. the problem for republicans, they are going to push to repeal it. but there are aspects of the obama affordable care act that has an attraction, you start going after that you create a political problem that i m not sure they fully appreciate until you see some mother talking about her child who has a sickness and inability to take care of him. they are going to vote to