Where in our rushed moment here i suggested to you that there are ways for a bill to come to a vote in the Senate Without Mitch Mcconnell calling up that bill for debate and a vote. Yes. That was a very intriguing little droplet you dropped that night. I still had no idea what it meant. And its wicked complicated and i have yet to explain it. One version of it actually occurred in the United States senate today. It was captured on cspan. And so ooh. Tonight is Senate Procedure night here at the last word. Because i finally have the teaching device i can use. And i run the risk of losing a large number of the audience when i get into this explanation. Not me. Im going to do my best. Its going to be right here in the next few minutes. So dont leave the building, rachel. This is the moment. You are following the person who reads transcripts. Yes. On tv at length through commercial breaks. And people stay with me, dude. Were here. Were all here. I know two retired Senate Parliamentarians w
Will the gamesmanship ever end . Pelosi blocks the state of the union. Pelosi takes away her planes. Im betting if the unpaid tsa workers start to interfere with our plane travel, thats when the shutdown will immediately end. And the tragic deaths of four americans in a deadly syrian blast this week was a political rorschack test. Some say its prove we need to stay. Others argue, it confirms we stayed too long. Senator rand paul is here. Plus, the wall street journal calls him the capitalist for the common man. He invented the index fund to protect small investors. Well remember the late jack vogle. But first, dont kid yourself. Yesterday was a bad day for journalism. Too many threw their street smarts to the wind and cast their lot with this incredible story about the president. No amount of Wishful Thinking should ever trump evidentiary and critical thinking. The key paragraph of the buzzfeed story was this, quote, now the story sources have told Buzzfeed News that cohen also told th
You think we are making it up . Nope. Take a look. We are deep in the realm now of credibly impeachable offenses. Impeachable. Impeachment. Impeachment. Impeachment. Impeachable. Impeachment. Impeachment. Impeachable. Impeachment. It seems like an impeachable offense. Impeachment. Impeachment. Impeachment. Impeachment. Impeachable. Impeachment. Impeachment. Impeachment. Impeached. Impeachable. Impeachable. This is the tip, tip, tip of the iceberg for a president that is going down. Sean that didnt exactly age well, as it turns out the buzzfeed story was yet another sad, pathetic example of fake news in this country. On friday night, a spokesperson for the office of special counsel, they literally released a statement totally refuting the article. Now in their rush to smear, slander, besmirch the president of the United States, members of the hate trump media totally, willfully, purposefully missed all the glaring warning signs that i had talked about earlier in the day on my radio show
Critics from both parties say canceling her trip to afghanistan after she suggested he postpone the state of the union is petty, childish, and inappropriate. And with officials now unsure how many thousands of children were ripped from their families at the border, and with thousands of American Families now suffering in this shutdown, we try to make some sense of our current state of the union. The 11th hour on a thursday night starts now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 728 of the Trump Administration. And day 27 of the partial Government Shutdown. Well have much more on the longest shutdown ever in just a moment, but we begin with some significant breaking news coming from Buzzfeed News within the past hour or so. Buzzfeed news posted a story that says President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to congress. President donald trump directed h his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to congress about negotiations to build a trump tower
Weve all been talking about this story. Its the buzzfeed story that came out thursday night that said President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to congress. With a clearcut Impeachable Offense being alleged, the story went everywhere within a matter of minutes. But then on friday night Robert Mueller did something incredibly rare. Something his Office Almost never does. His Office Issued a lawyerly response seemingly knocking down the story saying buzzfeeds description description of specific statements to the special counsels office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office are not accurate. Lets go back to the story. Did the president tell cohen to lie . Whos accurate . Here for their first sitdown interview, Anthony Cormier and editorinchief ben smith. Thank you for having us on. Were happy to talk about this story. Im glad you began with the question of the truth of the allegations because ultimately, this is a media show, were here to talk about p