pretending to be black bernie supporters, those were in my mentions and they had an impact. i can t quantify it. i can t say ten voters didn t go because of a meme they saw on facebook. i cannot prove it but i know that it had some sort of an impact because people parrot the lines that they see in this propaganda back to you when you re talking about the campaign. and that s something we need to keep an eye on. ten seconds. something has changed. during the clinton impeachment, the democrats who defended him say the behavior was bad but not impeachable. what strikes me now is republicans aren t even saying the behavior s bad. the analysis is that they can t criticize him at all because they ll draw his ire. i think they would want to make that defense actually. guys, stay with us. after the break, we ll talk to a former white house lawyer as we wait to hear if another former white house attorney, don mcgahn, must do i have. and later we ll hear from one of the politicians to
across the country, they paid him and he in turn bribed the coaches at ucla, usd university of san diego, usc, stanford, georgetown, wake forrest, and yale, to get children into their programs using the dedicated slots they had for admission to athletic programs. these were, in some cases, the prosecutors say, the students were aware of what was going on. in some cases, they say, they didn t know. after they took the a.c.t. or s.a.t., somebody else was marking up their tests for them. in many cases they say the children were aware of this. they say the issue is when people got into, say, 12 slots in georgetown in the tennis program, it s not just that they were taking tennis slots. they were taking 12 slots at georgetown, in a highly competitive university, that would not go to other students
among the 50 people charged including actresses felicity huffman and lori loughlin, both charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. nbc justice correspondent pete williams has been covering all of this. pete, this is extraordinary, we re talking about some of the elite schools in the country. are they aware of all this or are they unwitting to it? it looks like they re unwitting, according to federal prosecutors. elite schools, andrea, and elite parents. people with a lot of money, paying a man in newport beach, california, who would then arrange to have somebody else take their tests for them or correct their a.c.t. or s.a.t. tests, or phony up athletic backgrounds to try to get them admitted to these schools through the athletic programs. $25 million is the total that prosecutors say was paid to this california man, william singer, who then helped some 41 parents
and now they ve got to go make somebody pay for it. mike memoli was at that event today, still down in biden country. mike, he s now given a second speech where you are, midtown, this morning, the biden center, the public policy center, his alma mater, the university of delaware. clearly he had the fire on the budget issues and issues that will work well on the campaign trail for him. yeah, that s right, andrea. as you say, he just finished remarks here to a group of professionals affiliated with the biden center, a much more subdued event, nothing like what you saw at the firefighters convention. but even in this event he was signaling his intentions in 2020. he mentioned dark money in politics and was talking about the loss of faith that many americans have in their
house speaker nancy pelosi stirring debate within her own ranks saying publicly for the first time what she has been telling impeachment fire brands in her own caucus, telling the washington post magazine impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there is something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, i don t think we should go down that path because it divides the country and he s just not worth it. pelosi did not back down when asked about these comments monday evening on capitol hill. they don t believe in it. they want it to impeach president bush because of the iraq war. i didn t believe in it then, i don t believe it now unless there s conclusive evidence that takes us to that place. joining me now is congresswoman barbara lee. thank you for being with us. on impeachment is she saying it divides the country that unless the senate is going to go for it, why go down this path, because it will only blow back against democrats? but what if there is a real