More to say about that when im through at the end of the show. But first, the news. Theres been a turning during the last two weeks thats now inevitable that the u. S. House of representatives, led by a great, even historic speaker, is going to call the role on an article of impeachment and it will pass. Its inevitable, too, that Senate Republicans will be called to a reckoning in the trial of whether an impeached president should remain in Office Another year. Whether it remains beyond that, beyond next year is a decision that lies before the American People. But even the president now seems to acknowledge the inescapable truth that impeachment is inevitable. Do you believe that its a foregone conclusion that the house will impeach . Well, i think they want to. Any democrat wants to because theyre not going to beat me in the election, so of course they want to impeach. Why wouldnt they want to impeach me . Its so illegitimate. It cannot be the way the founders, our great founders mean
Have it. But were not going to wait. We cant wait seven months to aju adjudicate these kinds of cases. A lot of developments to talk about as the president gets ready to head to florida for a Campaign Rally before spending the rest of the thanksgiving holiday at his maralago resort. Joining me now from capitol hill is garrett haake. Also with us, former u. S. Ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, an msnbc International Affairs analyst. Good to see you guys. Garrett, what do we know so far about the Judiciary Committees hearing scheduled for december 4th . Im told that this hearing is something we should look at as a 30,000 foot view on impeachment. The Judiciary Committee membership hope that they will have intels report on everything that we know about this ukraine scandal by then, but even if they dont, this hearing will be to set the table. What is a high crime and misdemeanor. What is an impeachable offense. And perhaps, if they have the report by then, some answering of the questi
situation. it is not clear if he was home at the time. with us now to talk about this, msnbc national correspondent yasmin vossoughian outside the courthouse in manhattan, katie phang, host of the katie phang show, now at noon on saturdays, catherine christian, former manhattan assistant district attorney who is now an msnbc legal analyst, and betsy woodruff swann, politico national correspondent and msnbc contributor. so, yasmin, take us to what has been happening so far right now. reporter: a lot happening so far this morning. i tell you, it is cold out here, but there is a lot of sparks flying inside the courtroom. it began with the attorney general making her way to the courtroom on the steps behind me. courtroom getting up and going at 10:00 a.m. despite the fact there was a bomb threat at the judge s house early this morning in nassau county, nassau county police responding to that bomb threat and leading the investigation there. and closing arguments beginning, especially af
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this country are instructed by judges every day. ladies and gentlemen, there is no way to look into the mind of another human being and discern what their intent is. that s why you re allowed to infer corrupt intent from the statements the defendant made, the actions he undertook and the other circumstantial evidence. i maintain that once they re in court and the rules of evidence are being applied, the rules of evidence provide that prosecutors can introduce incriminating statements of the defendant, but the defense attorneys cannot introduce exculpatory statements of the defendant unless the defendant testifies. i don t think proving donald trump s corrupt intent is going to be all that difficult for jack smith. ken dilanian and betsy woodruff swann, thank you very much. our special coverage continues all hour. up next, we ll dive into the trump defense strategy. and later we ll talk to