They could move to a markup session. Look for clues as to what the articles of impeachment might be. Will they deal with contempt of congress . Bribery . There is one possible article of impeachment that is particularly radioactive. It is in article 2, section 4 dealing with treason. Only twice before have they ever dealt with the potential article of impeachment with treason, one with a judge and one with a senator. Rare they might get into that area. The potential democrats might wander in that area. They should start at 9 08 this morning. Bill the members make their way inside the hearing room now. Sandra lets bring bret baier in washington as you heard from chad clearly laying out what were about to see and hear in the hearing room on capitol hill you said look for clues for what those articles of impeachment may be. We just dont know yet, bret. The biggest question is whether theyre broad or limited in the articles of impeachment and whether they go on to include perhaps obstructi
Wbur and msnbc contributor. Kimberly, youve seen the documents and all of the reporting about it. What do you see as being significant about them . Well, what it does is it creates a clear connection between this effort to remove the ukrainian ambassador, to recall her, and secretary of state mike pompeo and Rudy Giuliani. It just adds more factual basis to the two weeks of testimony that we just saw in the impeachment hearings, which shows an effort to remove yovanovitch from her post because giuliani and others who were a part of this parallel tract focused on this investigation, getting an investigation by ukrainian officials of joe biden. They saw her as an impediment to that, and this is a key part of this entire narrative that the democrats were laying out this week. And these documents show exactly how that took place, with the phone calls leading up to her recall. Okay. So, you have the state department denying congressional investigators access to the documents. And the way th
Good friday morning, everybody. What a week its been. It is november 22nd. The end of the week, already . Monday or friday . I cant even tell. They all blur together these days. Im yasmin vossoughian, and it is friday thankfully alongside ayman mohyeldin. We begin in washington as the last scheduled hearing in the impeachment probe wrapped up yesterday with fiona hill and political counsel david holmes. Dr. Hill told republican lawmakers out of the gate that she refused to entertain conspiracies of ukraines meddling in the 2020 election and also framing it as a matter of National Security. Watch this. Some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its Security Services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps somehow, for some reason, ukraine did. This is a fictional novelty that has been perpetrated and propagated by the russian Security Services themselves. Right now, russias Security Services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their in
But we begin with chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill with the public hearings appear to be concluding. Good evening to you and in what could be the final public hearing of this impeachment probe, fiona hill, a former russia expert on the National Security council warned they want to see ukraine as an adversary and next years election is at risk. The cost of this investigation, i would ask that you please not promote divisive falsehoods. Hill told lawmakers moscows interest has been to create chaos in american politics. The russians are to delegitimize our entire presidency. Glover became the president by trying to tip their hands on one side of the scale under a cloud. After hill suggested some are in denial of moscows role in the election, republicans fired back. Not a single republican member of this midi has said that russia did not metal from the 2016 election. To have our democratic colleagues say these untruthful statements just reeks of political desp
Nobody. Martha today we have a chorus from unlikely places that cross fire hurricane, the investigation into the Trump Campaign in 2016 was anything but normal. The New York Times called it ugly, secretive, system for carrying out National Security surveillance on american soil. Referring to what happened to carter page. Matt taibi wrote if the report constitutes a clearing of the fbi, never clear me of anything. What a clown show the trumprussian investigation was. Matt taibbi at Rolling Stone. Tonight, kash patel along with his former boss devin nunes vindicated in this report. What he was saying and was vilified for saying all along. Also tonight, karl rove and Juan Williams. Lawmakers are finetuning the president s articles of impeachment. Jesse watters is here as well. A special Maxine Waters addition of wednesdays with waters. First i am joined by trey gowdy. Always good to see you. Great to have you in new york tonight. What did you think about the fact that places like places l