finished. pardon-palooza. rhonda santa fouls to pardon some january 6th insurrectionists, including trump himself. what is he thinking? i m michael steele in for ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. to breaking developments tonight to begin the hour. in a history making vote, the texas house just voted to impeach state attorney general, ken paxton. a republican. temporarily removing him from office over actions of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office. the vote to adopt the 20 articles of impeachment was overwhelming. 100 and 21 to 23. attention now shifts to the texas senate which will conduct a trial with senators acting as jurors, and designated house numbers representing their place, presenting their case rather, as impeachment managers. also breaking tonight, new developments on the critical debt limit negotiations. a short time ago, nbc news learned that president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just finished speaking by phone. their call lasting
and both investigations have expanded to former members of the trump administration. former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and ex treasury secretary steve mnuchin both testified before the january six committee this week. any day now, the committee could hear from former secretary of state mike pompeo. meanwhile, mike pence s former top aides, marc short and greg jacobs, testified before the federal grand jury convened by attorney general merrick garland, making them some of the highest profile witnesses to testify. they are questioning at those proceedings contributed to the news first reported by the washington post, that the doj is formally investigating trump s actions leading up to january 6th. possibly a step closer to a criminal probe of trump himself. more and more former trump officials have come forward since the january six committee s public hearings started last month, and congressman jamie raskin, who is a lead manager and trump s second impeachment trial
learned that president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just finished speaking by phone. their call lasting about 90 minutes. earlier biden spoke with democratic leaders, chuck shimmer, and he hakeem jeffries. the conversation comes at a critical time during negotiations, while both sides work to finalize a deal. one of the potential reasons a deal remains elusive, treasury secretary, janet yellen, just revised the fiscal deadline. telling all lawmakers they know of a few extra days until june 5th to act before government runs out of money to pay its bills. this, folks, is a very fluid situation. let s bring in former dana craddock congresswoman, donna edwards, and nbc political analyst and washington post columnist. congresswoman edwards, donna, as a former woman of congress, how do you think the president should be selling this to democratic leaders right now? i think first, the president
administration official about this outrage from russia he s going to pursue it. he s liberated now and he wants to show that even when it doesn t bear fruit that he s trying. i don t know how long that s going to work. with respect to iran the pressure is going to be incredible once the presidential campaign politics begin. very much pressure on hillary to be sensitive to israel on this question and when those negotiations peter out next summer he s going to be under real pressure to come up with something solid. to talk about that pressure, we ve got a sound bite from republican mark perr, a senator from miami and senator perk is suggesting to fox with a new republican senate coming in in just a few days, he may have votes for new sanctions. listen to this. one of the big votes coming up is going to be on iran. on that vote i already have 17 democrats with me including leading lights like chuck
still with bill crystal and that 50% tooth fairy crowd in thinking the republican leadership in the senate and then, as a result of that, in the house are going to decide that they ve already taken enough punishment. the punishment will get worse after january 1st and that ultimately they will accept, at least temporarily, perhaps not as a permanent solution, but at least temporarily, the deal that bill crystal says was worse than the one they rejected from a republican point of view that they rejected in the plan b proposal, because the outcome of this at the end of the day is pretty clear, and even people who are stubborn idealogically understand where their political bread in the long run is buttered as a party and those poll numbers showed a lot of the story that you just showed. let s listen to what chuck shimmer says he thinks will happen if we do go over the cliff. make no mistake about it, if we go over it, and god forbid, i