Urged his colleagues to get back to business. It was great to see him yesterday on the floor of the senate. What a moving moment that was. I keep saying the toughest guy ive ever met. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Just hours after Senate Republicans cleared a Major Health Care hurdle. Senators decisively rejected the first proposal to repeal and replace obamacare. It would have combined the senate bill for 100 billion for republicans and the rejection an early sign of the chaos as gop leaders work to find a plan their conference can agree to. So theyre supposed to work on a repeal only proposal. Many republicans reject a repeal without a replacement ready. Just voting to begin debate proved dramatic enough. The Senate Voting to do so by a margin of zero after these chants from the senate gallery. Kill the bill, kill the bill. Sergeant arms will restore order in the chamber. Despite needing the Vice President to cast the deciding vote President Trump calls it a big step i
Of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The assessment is that Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman directed, ordered, this assassination. President trump announced today hes finally done writing out answers for the special counsel. President trumps legal team balking, taking issue with some of the questions. I write the answers, my lawyers dont write answers. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good saturday to you. Top of the hour now. It is a Staggering Number now because more than 1,000 people are unaccounted for in the wildfires burning across Northern California. Officials know of 74 people who have been killed. That number is expected to rise today. And in a few minutes the president is departing for california. Hes expected to put politics aside, touring the devastation with californias governor and governorelect. Both of whom, of course, are democrats. Press secretary Sarah Sanders says the president wants to show support for the victims. I think this will proba
Lawrence tribe on how he says democrats can bypass the senate with impeachment. New reporting on Jared Kushners financial conflicts of interest. And Major Movement where democrats will move first. Were going to change the channel to something completely different. What new poll numbers in iowa mean for the 2020 field. I am prepared to make the case for america and to prosecute the case against donald trump. All in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im ali velshi in for chris hayes. The House Judiciary Committee is making its best effort to investigate the president s attempts to obstruct justice in the face of vast stonewalling by the trump administration. Having been blocked by the white house from interviewing key witnesses in the obstruction investigation, in particular former white House Counsel don mcgahn, tomorrow the house will vote on a civil contempt resolution allowing it to go to court to try to force witnesses to comply with subpoenas. Earlier today, house judiciary re
Good evening from new york. Im ali velshi in for chris hayes. The House Judiciary Committee is making its best effort to investigate the president s attempts to obstruct justice in the face of vast stonewalling by the trump administration. Having been blocked by the white house from interviewing key witnesses in the obstruction investigation, in particular former white House Counsel don mcgahn, tomorrow the house will vote on a civil contempt resolution allowing it to go to court to try to force witnessest to comply with subpoenas. Earlier today, house judiciary reached an agreement with r Justice Department after weeks of back and forth to give members access to some of the underlying evidence used in the special counsels obstruction probe. Sp in the meantime, the committee is forging ahead with a series i of hearings on the mueller f report. Ea now, most americans, as you heard, have not read the entire 448page report and some of their representatives in o congress havent read it eit
As a surge in cases of a more contagious Covid Variant is worrying Health Officials there and now here at home. Thanks for being here, everybody. Happening rival at this hour, President Biden is meeting with nato allies in brussels. The president will soon be meeting with turkeys president on the sidelines of this summit. This is President Bidens first inperson gathering with nato leaders where this morning he is calling the alliance critically important and a sacred obligation in stark contrast to his predecessor. This all comes ahead of bidens highly anticipated meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin on wednesday in geneva. Lets begin with jeff zeleny live in brussels for us now. The president has already had some tough words just today for russia and china. What did he say . Reporter well, President Biden has been repeating that message everywhere he goes throughout his European Tour here about the rising aggression from russia and the rising threats from china. Hes doing the