Freedom information act, and they do not try to point any exemptions for National Security or classification reasons, it would be an unprecedented event as far as i know. The state department is incredibly aggressive. All agencies of the federal bureaucracy are incredibly aggressive impacting information that could be classified. The notion that the secretary of state, in the course of her duties, could write 55,000 pages or receive 55,000 pages of email and not one ioda of it is classified, would be very difficult for me or for anyone who is somebody with the freedom of information act to believe. I am confident it will be an interesting thing because the state department, as they process request, will have to decide they will look at an email and say, this is classified but if they try to read acted as such, they are making a liar out of the Hillary Clinton defenders. It will be interesting to see how they perceive when they hit that conundrum, but i would be shocked if there is not
Crossing a total of 420,000. On capitol hill right now, the senate is gaveling into session and is expected to confirm more members of the president s cabinet by the end of the day while republicans though, continue to block democrats from taking full control of their committees. And less than four hours from now, the house impeachment managers will walk across the capitol to the Senate Chamber to deliver the article against former President Trump. One of those managers is standing by to talk to us live in just a minute. Joining us now to start things off, Kelly Odonnell live at the white house. And nbc news correspondent Leanne Caldwell on capitol hill. Senator mcconnell taking the floor as i understand it. What are democrats going to take full control of the senate and the committees . Reporter lets start with impeachment. The house impeachment manage letters walk the articles of impeachment to the senate tonight. That begins the process for this impeachment trial. The senators will
Conflict over the direction of the party and increasingly the frontrunner. If the washington deal makers try to steal the nomination from the people, i think it would be a disaster. It would cause a revolt. Im going to do everything within the normal political bounds to make sure that we dont nominate donald trump. I think he would be terribly unfit for office. Romneys a bittermann. He looks like a bitterman. Hes attacking really your frontrunner by a lot. Hes a joke art sxwlis the guy is a rhetorical bully. He has turned the most important election in a generation into a circus and freak the show. You know that in florida they hate little marco rubio so much. Little marco rubio, 16. Cruz, lying ted cruz, lying ted, its amazing no matter what you say with ted, he will change it. If hes our nominee, it will split the Republican Party. And it will be the end of the modern conservative movement. Speaking of ending, gop contender Bernie Sanders gave official word about the fate of his camp
President ial race. Climate change is a big issue for democratic voters and today biden outlining his plan. This initiative will create more than 10 million new good paying jobs all across the clean economy in the United States of america. Back to that story later, but we begin this hour in london where the president and the Prime Minister doing their diplomatic best to end things on had a high note. President trump has repeatedly criticized Prime Minister theresa may including in an interviewed timed just before his arrival in the uk for this state visit. Prime minister may at times has bristled at that criticism and shes landed a few blows of her own and today she called him donald and said its a sign of strength that friends can disagree and the art of the deal president paid her the ultimate compliment though its may hes handling of the brexit saga that is forcing her to yield power on friday. I still believe its in the best interest of the uk to leave the European Union with a dea