Possible when americans put their Heads Together to do something truly grand. Just an american feat of breo and engineering and ambition. Its major heartsing to see the Team Celebrate at the jet propulsion lab, to see those first pictures beamed back from the surface of mars, where we have our rover now. It was just amazing. Were going to have more on that later in the show tonight. But meanwhile, here on earth, today, same day, same country, we still have not figured out how to keep the lights on. Hundreds of thousands of Americans Still in the dark tonight in the great state of texas, suffering what has been a dayslong, slowrolling disaster caused by a big and very cold winter storm that has pounded most of the country, and it is bad in a whole bunch of places and in a whole bunch of states, but the situation in texas is just a catastrophe, not only because of the weather, but because of the mix of the weather and texas inability to prepare for it and inability to handle it. Against
Business, the media, across the board, and the president since hes been in office has stoked that in an unprecedented way. The argument that theyre going to make about the fact that hes obstructing certainly matters on constitutional level but does it matter on a who cares level. This is an issue, i think the loss of institutional integrity, because our politics are tribalized and divisive, why nancy pelosi did not want to move forward with impeachment for the longest time, because it would be so divisive and she feels like her hand has been, you know, that theres no choice but to move forward. Whether its i remember during the health care debate, senator dodd said this is a really bad idea to do this on a party line vote. Doing impeachment this way is really hard because it allows one side to cast the other as seeking to legitimize them. Thats what the American People should not want because it undermines our institutions. Were going to hear from three witnesses basically at length to
The Ukrainian Government adopted a unilateral position in favor of one candidate. More than that, certain oligarchs certainly with the approval of the Political Leadership funded this candidate or female candidate to be more precise. And if there was ever any doubt about who benefits from this unfounded theory put forward by President Trump and his associates, President Putin made it clear very recently when he said thank god no one is accusing us anymore of interfering in u. S. Elections. Now theyre accusing ukraine. In the face of clear evidence, not only from Intelligence Community experts, but from his own National Security team that russia, not ukraine, interfered in the 2016 election for the benefit of donald trump, President Trump still pressed the Ukrainian Government to announce an investigation into this Conspiracy Theory. Why . Because it would help his own
political standing. President trump even saukt sought to with hold an Oval Office Meeting from the president of ukraine
Campaigning before tomorrows caucuses. All eyes on nevada tomorrow both for the ultimate results to see if the polling frontrunner Bernie Sanders can make it three in a row or maybe 2 1 2 in a row after he shared first place with Pete Buttigieg in iowa. But beyond just the top line result, in addition the whole country is going to be watching to see what the turnout is in nevada because that is a key measure of democratic enthusiasm. Turnout was sort of meh in iowa. It was pretty good in New Hampshire. Heading into nevada, the early vote turnout in nevada, those numbers were really, really good. Well see if that ends up getting matched by big turnout tomorrow as well on caucus day. The caucuses themselves begin at 10 00 a. M. Local time in nevada. And in addition to all of those things, because the Iowa Caucuses were such a logistical pig pile this year, such a mess, this is the first caucuses since then, and were going to be watching to see how well the Nevada Democratic party does in
And so im going to stand with the 60 who the president made fun of today, because we need a little help. You know the president always says, like, im your president or im our president or something. Maybe he just means people who wear contact lenses. Rachel, put on your glasses as soon as you get out of there. Thank you, rachel. Trump has a 54 disApproval Rating in the latest nbc news poll. And at the end of the hour, were going to show you the president s disApproval Rating statebystate which shows that at this point the president has virtually no path to coming close to winning the Electoral College in his Reelection Campaign as of now. Disapproval of the president comes in two forms, and sometimes at the same time. One is disapproval of the president s policies, the other is disapproval of the person. And disapproval of the person cannot be changed by changing policy. Here is the person that a clear majority of American Voters disapprove of. I dont know what i said, ah, i dont remem