appreciate it. that is all in on this wednesday night. alex starts right now. thank you, my friend. as always. joe biden was sworn in as president of the united states at 12:00 p.m. on january 20th, 2021. just one day and four hours later, this happened. found articles of impeachment on president joe biden. we ll see how this goes. we ll see how this goes. biden had been president for less than 30 hours, but house conservatives decided that he had already committed high crimes and misdemeanors and needed to be removed from office. since the very start of his administration, republicans have been desperate to try and obscure and minimize the two impeachment trials of former president donald trump. and to do that, they aim for joe biden to be the next american president to face the same humiliation.
donald trump was not in court today, but his criminal hush money trial was clearly top of mind this morning. he took to truth social to rent about what he considered unfairness during jury selection yesterday. specifically that his lawyers were not allowed unlimited opportunities to strike prospective jurors. nevermind the fact that trumps legal team was allotted the same number of so-called challenges as prosecutors, and they ve used the same number of those challenges to weed out people they believe would not be impartial jurors. it appears what donald trump is actually upset about is that he is being treated, so far, mostly like any other criminal defendant. trump has had to sit through the groundhog day like tedium of jury selection and its repetitive questions, and after trump spoke and gestured in the direction of a juror, he was reprimanded, as any other defendant would be, by judge
about it, like, okay, that s it, you ve done this, you ve done this, this is it. next time, bring your toothbrush. wow. i mean, you ve seen merchan in action. do you feel, like, that is going to take an extraordinary amount of fortitude to even consider doing something like that to a former president of the united states with a current candidate for president. i mean, what is the impression you ve gotten of the judge? he s a very straight, businesslike, very straightforward, and serious jurists. i think he is very competent. i think he s very, very conscious of what he s doing and what he s projecting in the courtroom. i think he s, and i think he s going to protect the jurors, because that s the most important thing. he, his job is to ensure a fair trial, and that means protecting the people who are going to be deciding the facts of the case, which is the members of the jury.
so there s no doubt putin is spending a lot of money in the united states and in europe trying to undermine support for ukraine, trying to support individuals who are trying to argue against ukraine funding. and listen, there s no doubt that he is rooting very badly for donald trump. there s no doubt he ll likely play a big role in this upcoming election, because if we get this bill across the finish line, alex, if we do fund ukraine it ll only be through the beginning of next year. if donald trump is elected, that s a pretty big guarantee this would be the last funding bill that would clear the house senate and get signed by the president. i want to draw everyone s attention to a russian opposition figure. and he says americans consider that insofar as they re not directly participating in the war in ukraine then any loss is not their loss. this is an absolute misunderstanding. a defeat for ukraine, he said, means that many will stop fearing challenging the u.s., and the costs for t
mitch mcconnell just after that vote. madam president, we set a very unfortunate pres dependent here, which means that the senate can ignore, in effect, the house s impeachment. this is a day that s not a proud day in the history of the senate. republicans including mitch mcconnell are angry today because they spent the better part of this year on this impeachment and for what? they could have spent that time actually trying to fix our immigration system. democrats negotiated one of the strictest bipartisan border bills in decades, something that would have been unthinkable just a few years prior. it gave republicans lmgs everything they wanted on border security. but donald trump forced republicans to kill that bill because he thought it might help president biden. so instead of legislation, republicans made a failed attempt to impeach someone who committed no crime on an issue they themselves refuse to solve.