Virginia today . All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The third impeachment trial in the history of the nation to possibly remove the president of the United States from office is about to begin. Late today Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell released the highly anticipated resolution regarding how the trial of donald trump will proceed in the senate. And its clear that he wants to move very fast while also delaying any consideration of those pesky witnesses or testimony until after opening arguments. At 1 00 p. M. Eastern time tomorrow, mcconnell will formally introduce the organizing resolution thats what its called which Chuck Schumer is already calling a cover up and nothing short of a national disgrace. The document that lays out the rules for the start of the trial will be taken up tomorrow and after the introduction of the resolution, there will be up to two hours of debate and then most likely democrats led by schumer will introduce
Country mark the Martin Luther king, jr. , holiday, just what was happening in richmond, virginia today . All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The third impeachment trial in the history of the nation to possibly remove the president of the United States from office is about to begin. Late today Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell released the highly anticipated resolution regarding how the trial of donald trump will proceed in the senate. And its clear that he wants to move very fast while also delaying any consideration of those pesky witnesses or testimony until after opening arguments. At 1 00 p. M. Eastern time tomorrow, mcconnell will formally introduce the organizing resolution thats what its called which Chuck Schumer is already calling a cover up and nothing short of a national disgrace. The document that lays out the rules for the start of the trial will be taken up tomorrow and after the introduction of the resolution, there will
Allies, it is what we stand for. Also on the programme prosecutors in new york make their rape case against Film Producer Harvey Weinstein. They say he was a hollywood power broker who was no match for his female accusers. Chilli with a chance of a qantas. Unseasonably cold weather in florida means reptiles are falling out of trees frozen stiff. Hello, and welcome. Im katty kay in washington, and Christian Fraser is in london. The big names are all in davos this week, an annual gathering where they swap ideas, exchange cards, agree to talk further about future plans. So, imagine at a similar Business Forum you meet the crown prince of saudi arabia. Even for a tech giant like jeff bezos of amazon and the Washington Post, you might be flattered. But what he cant possibly have envisaged when he handed the crown prince his phone number, that it would later be used to hack his smartphone. That is the extraordinary allegation from the un, whose investigation into the death of the washington
He was just he was having fun with the crowd. You say that as a guy who lived and worked in florida around jeb bush and knows jeb bush and knows his personality and that was his dry as you say, his dry humor that perhaps didnt translate to the rest of the country, but i think in that crowd jeb still is the standard bearer are please clap in that jeb pose at the end. Do you know how else he is a standard bearer is jeb bush said during the campaign that donald trump was the chaos candidate. It is hard to imagine how this country would be different if everybody in the republican primary voted the way i did and voted for jeb bush. What a difference. I mean, you know, people go to the ballot boxes and they think, oh, it doesnt matter, they are all the same. They are not all the same. Its hard to really imagine, but now would be a good day to stop and say, okay, we are in the middle of impeachment for a president who extorted a foreign leader to interfere in americas elections and Everybody
New york times report that alleged trump directed him to help with ukraine pressure campaign. A report that boltons lawyers have not denied quote for all the focus on ukraine and impeachment trial, to me there are portions of the manuscript that deal with ukraine. I view that as the sprinkles on the ice cream sunday in terms of the book. In effort to write history. I did the best i can. Well see what happens with the censorship. Seems like a good time to point out while his book is urn review the white house is not attempting to stop him sfr speaking publicly. The National Security adviser in and out of the oval office clearly knows more than he is telling. So so far anyway going onto say this, im not asking for martyr dom. I knew what i was getting into. This makes you wonder what he would have said if he had been called to testify under oath. In the impeachment trial. That as more than 2,000 former doj officials are calling on the attorney general to resign. Officials who served in b