Hearings. What he thinks the Supreme Court will want to get involved in his case. In georgia, all of the 19 codefendants accused of conspireing to overturn the 2020 election down there have now waived their arraignments. What happens next . We have news on a just scheduled hearing Recording Sydney Powell and Kenneth Cheesebrow and when will we hear from the judge about moving mark meadows case from State Court To Federal court. Hes been deliberating for more than a week. What that will mean for the president of the United States. Lets get do it. Joining us now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, whos outside of the courthouse. Garretts The Lucky One who got to get inside to see airconditioning. Sorry, ken, out there sweating it out. Talk to me about tarrio and what the prosecution is asking for. Reporter theyre asking for 33 years but they wont get it based on what the judge did with the other proud boys leaders last week. The judge sentenced them to betwe
We will return live to the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney general ken paxton aftemorning of pretrial motions and we expect Opening Statements to get underway this afternoon. Live coverage here on cspan. Again, waiting for openingstf texas senator ken paxton. The texas senate is considering 20 articles of impeachment against the attorney general, which include bribery, abuse of office, and obstruction of justice. The charges stem from allegations brought to light in late 2020 by general paxtons own senior staff. They say he did political favors for a federally indicted Real Estate Developer and Campaign Donor in exchange for a Kitchen Remodel and a job for a woman with whom paxton was having an alleged affair. No criminal penalties are associated with impeachment and attorney general paxton will not automatically lose his state pension if convicted. Hes currently suspended without pay pending the trials outcome. Attorney general paxton denies doing anything wrong. Again, opening ar
The government will shut down if no budget is passed, mccarthy has announced he would open an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. Now that is a gambit that is certain to fail. And i dont just mean that mccarthy cant possibly get by the removed from office, which would involve not just an impeachment in the house, but a trial in the senate, i mean that it is unclear if mccarthy can even win an Impeachment Vote in the house. It is unpopular gambit with a smaller meeting faction of the Republican Party that still cares about governing, which is probably why mccarthy opened the Impeachment Inquiry without holding a vote as customary and as he had earlier indicated that he would do. Why would the speaker of the u. S. House of representatives third in line in the presidency, launch a presidency that appears to be both strategically and politically unwise . Easy. Because he owes that important job to a small band of farright conspiracy peddling wing nuts who belong to the cult of donald
Thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredericka witfield. We begin with the historic autoworkers strike, now in its second full day. Negotiators for the carmakers and the union are expected to be back at the Bargaining Table Today. For the first time ever, workers are striking at plants for General Motors, ford and stellantis at the same time. The carmakers say despite big profits in recent years, the raises being demanded would drive them out of business. President biden weighing in, saying now is the time for the companies to step up. No one wants a strike. Say it again. No one wants a strike. But i respect workers rights to use their options under the collective bargaining system. I believe they should go further to ensure record corporate profits mean record contracts. Gabe cohen is at a Stellantis Plant in ohio where workers there are striking. Any signs of hope that these negotiators, when they meet today, might have good news for the strikers . Reporter were waitin
And canadian coast, just hours ago, lee, hurricane lee, weakening from a category one to a post Tropical Cyclone. But it is still posing serious threats, including strong winds and heavy rain, Meteorologist Derek Van Dam is live for us in cape cod. The National Hurricane center issuing a new advisory, just moments ago, on this major storm, was a hurricane, what is going on now . We have all of the latest information to pass along to you, and our viewers, were on cape cod, on the coast of massachusetts, still getting beard by the occasional Tropical Storm force gusts here. And that information, you want to hear is, that this storm is only a matter of hours before making landfall, somewhere as according to the National Hurricane center, between the border of canada and the United States. So it is well north and east of where im at, but were still feeling the impacts. Thats the idea that weve been stressing for several days now, that this wind field is just so large. Speaking of winds, 75