The president s incitement of the violence and his response to it has prompted dozens of Congressional Democrats including nancy pelosi and republican Adam Kinsinger to be removed from office. Short time ago secretary lane chou said she plans to resign on monday. You can ask yourself if shes going to be part of any 25th amendment group. Perhaps monday is your deadline there. She joins several white house staffers who have resigned. You can add these strong words from the mayor of washington, d. C. About yesterdays insurrecti insurrection. What happened yesterday is what he wanted to happen. We must not underestimate the damage he can do to our nation and our democracy over the next two weeks. Its not just the president who is accountable, so too are the domestic terrorists who stormed the capitol. What happened yesterday is textbook terrorism. Joining me for the hour as we continue our coverage is Andrea Mitchell and katy tur. We plug along here as we wait as more people start to tell
Reforms, adding into this mix, of course, this is now a Midterm Election years year. Things are not easy in an Election Year so that adds into this complicated agenda they have. Up here on the hill tomorrow white house aides will be meeting with top congressional leadership trying to work towards that Government Potential Shutdown Showdown that we might have in a couple weeks and this weekend, speaker of the house, paul ryan, and Mitch Mcconnell, will be heading to camp david to meet with the president about the legislative agenda ahead. Also changes in the senate. Al franken, minnesota senator, Stepping Down Today and then all eyes on utahs republican orrin hatch, will he run for an eighth term . What are we expecting . Thats right. This is frankens last official day. Tomorrow his replacement, tina smith, will be signed in. He steps down amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. That officially ends his term here in congress today. Of course utahs orrin hatch, this is a big ques
We have a ballots brewing in nevada, the next primary caucus state. We will get to those developing stories in a moment. We begin tonight with breaking news. After a week of questions whether any republicans would speak out against the president s behavior post impeachment moments ago his attorney general bill barr Whose Justice Department is facing scrutiny for its odd hajj handling of roger stones sentencing recommendation he spoke out about President Trumps tweets about the controversy. Public statements and tweets made about the department, about people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department, and about judges before whom to do my job and to assure the h integrity. Barrs comments come three days after prosecutors recommended stone be sentenced to seven to nine years in prison for an conviction on seven felonies, a jury conviction. Two days after senior Justice Department officials intervened to recommend a lighter sentence. Leading all four
Cuban spies. Tonight youll hear from two cuban lawmakers. Youll also hear from a congressman who was on board the plane that brought alan gross back to america. First the stunning news. Able gonzalez joins us live from havana. What was the reaction of the people in havana upon learning we may normalize relations with cuba. Reporter the release of the three as we call them here, on the first one theres a lot of excitement. People are cheering in the streets. How happy the cuban people is about the release of those three guys that were in prison over there. People are excited. They dont know yet how far with this. But people are were tired already of this not having a relationship with america and now they will see an opportunity to increase business and things will come from america that will create jobs. People in cuba believe that we have so much in common with america. And with americans. And so this is certainly good for both partners we believe. Cuba plays a very Important Role and
Sarah huckabee sanders. Some people refused to accept the fact that we are not affiliated. They just are not stopping. Except it wasnt that restaurant. Oops. This is mtp daily, and it starts right now. Good evening. Im Steve Kornacki in for chuck todd. Welcome to mtp daily. A debate about the president s border policies has taken some unexpect and nast turns. The president is pouring fuel on a fair of fires involving the story right now. We are not sure what is going to happen next. First, there is his response to the fire burning over his treatment over immigrant families. The president pouring fuel on that fire by seemingly calling for the end of due process at the border. And there is his response to a democratic congresswoman who was lived over his border policy. She urged her supporters to confront white house officials in public. In response the president seemed to suggest that his supporters might react by physically harming her. After a virginia restaurant refused to serve the