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
some of the biggest sticking points we ve been talking about concern spending cuts to domestic spending. that is what republicans want. they wanted in the shape of work requirements, of permitting reform. other areas that they believe they can get that done. we don t know the exact outlines of that deal. it remains to be seen how democrats feel about it. which i m told, as of this moment, they do not have a call scheduled to go down. the contours of the agreement. we will see what we get in just the next few moments as they have this phone call of course. julie, one quick one for you. have you been hearing any grumbling from either democrats or republicans as there are being fed what this potential deal is? not yet. right, you ve seen a lot of public posturing all day. a lot of republican members in the house freedom caucus pointing me to their latest tweet, their latest public comment. trying to keep the pressure on republican negotiators, on speaker mccarthy, who of course wanted