white house starts right now. hey, everyone. 4:00 in new york i m in for nicolle wallace. justice and accountability. more than a year after a harrowing attack that shocked this country, the ongoing political violence at the forefront, the jury found david depape guilty on counts of attempted kidnap taing of a federal official and assaulting a family member of a federal official. talking husband of nancy pelosi, paul pelosi, with a hammer in their home back in october of last year. depape faces life in prison. nancy pelosi they are deeply grateful for outpouring of prayers and warm wishes for mr. pelosi across country during this difficult time. the pelosi family is proud he densated extraordinary bravery and demonstrated in the courtroom this week. he felt in immediate danger when depape arrived at the doorstep in the middle of the night. the nbc news, the door opened a very large man came in with a hammer in one hand, zip ties in the other and he said, where s nancy.
that does it for me. the reidout with joy reid is up next. good evening. we are awaiting the start of president biden s news conference following his bilateral meeting today with chinese leader xi jinping. when it starts, we will bring it to you live. but we begin tonight with a wild day in court in fulton county, georgia, as we learned the source of the leaked confidential interviews between d.a. fani willis s office and key figures in her january 6th rico case. fulton county judge said he would issue a protective issue in the case barring disclosure of certain information from the discovery process. one that would allow some evidence from the pre-trial discovery process to be labeled sensitive and with held from public scrutiny. the videos obtained by abc news and the washington post showed interviews with witnesses, jenna ellis, sidney powell, scott hall, and with kenneth chesebro whose video was not released publicly. all have taken plea deals to flip on donald t
Whether or not Speaker Pelosi votes. Its tradition the speaker doesnt often votes but on a day like today i would think she would want to lead from the front. Well see. It seems like unprecedented times. Hagar, felipe, congressman, thank you so much. Well hand off to ari melber. Good morning. Im ari melber reporting live from nbc headquarters with coverage of todays events on msnbc. The breaking news coming out of capitol hill, lawmakers in the house about to take their first ever formal votes on how to proceed with the Impeachment Inquiry of president donald trump. This new resolution maps out the blueprint and rules of the road
for what democrats say is the next public phase in this impeachment probe. Now many are expecting a Party Line Vote today. Lawmakers will vote on these ground rules which includes moving the closed door depositions of all of these key witnesses into public hearings. Weve seen squabbling over this process. Were expecting in our special coverage to hear from Spe
has heard these witnesses by the way with republicans in the room, and he now knows he has factual witnesses that will be very powerful to the american people and i think that s what this is about. yeah. moving it into a public process where the people of america can take a look and go, holy cow. those folks who really care about our country are tremendously worried about what this president has undertaken. you mentioned congressman schiff we saw speak on the floor noticeably before speaker pelosi is a former prosecutor and presented impeachment caseses to the senate before. to your committee. yes. congressman shift in that role as house management for the impeachment of a federal judge. he was the lead prosecutor in the impeachment of a federal judge out of new orleans and i was the judge. we had the majority in the senate then. my co-judge was orrin hatch. i new from opening statement this guy had been in the courtroom and as an aside, ari,
no more than a political witch hunt. well he s looking at the house really their aim is to whip up the public with ridiculous attempts to make me look evil. without the chance to refute them now but only after the elections is the. enough with that though not their luck show in august. ignore the spin i intend to continue to serve you as prime minister for many years to come. after more than two decades in office netanyahu is only months away from possibly becoming the longest serving head of government in israel s history yet some israelis see the april ninth election as a good time for a change of leadership. and co-judge of the sufi done i think this is the end of the road netanyahu should say goodbye and leave as fast as he can before he gets into more trouble. but he was good but that said he should give the chance to young