For defying a congressional subpoena and the president s son was criticized for his appearance by republican members congressional subpoenas in relation to the generally sixth attack on the u. S. Capitol. The end of the meeting the full house for consideration. A quorum is present but without objection a chair is authorized to declare a racist at any time. Pursuant to Committee Rule five beat house rule 11 clause to the chair may postpone further proceedings today on the question of approving any measure or manner or adopting an amendment i wish a recorded vote are ordered. The first order of business is ratifying the new subcommittee roster. The clerks have distributed the roster electronically. I ask unanimous consent the Committee Approved the appointment to the assignments as shown on the roster. Without objection the subcommittee roster is approved. The chair also notes points of order pertaining to the engaging of personalities against the president will not be in order for the d
House for consideration. A quorum is present but without objection a chair is authorized to declare a racist at any time. Pursuant to Committee Rule five chair may postpone further proceedings today on the question of approving any measure or manner or adopting an amendment i wish a recorded vote are ordered. The first order of business is ratifying the new subcommittee roster. The clerks have distrutnically. I ask unanimous consent the Committee Approved the appointment to the assignments as shown on the roster. Withouobhe subcommittee roster is approved. The chair also notes points of order pertaining to the engaging of personalities against the president will not be in order for the duration. Given the underlined subject matter of hunter by the subpoena on this committees investigation members must be allowed to speak frankly. Now pursuant to notice i call up a report containing a resolution recommending the house of representatives find Robert Hunter biden in contempt of congress r
Mcconnell doctrine. Winners make policy and losers go home. Breaking news on the start of impeachment as capitol insurrectionists attempt the trump made me do it defense in court. After this, were going to walk down and ill be there with you. All that and the congressman caught trying to bring a gun onto the floor of the house. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Happy friday. One of the biggest differences between the last administration and this new one is the recognition at the very least of the depth of the crises we are in and the urgency they want to bring to fixing them. Weve seen that with the executive actions the new president has taken in 2 1 2 days signing 28 executive orders and memos on everything from immigration, the climate crisis, economy, nutritional aid, and the basic facts of where we are right now is that, well, one party one and one party lost. But, of course, narrowly. Its a narrowly divided country. A deeply divided country and
Insurrection is an impeachable offense. If not, what is . Joining us now, newly confirmed secretary lloyd austin, who will be confirmed this hour. As of today hes restoring the rights of transgender people to serve in the military. The odds of getting 17 republicans to convict donald trump in the trial and make it possible to hold the second sentencing vote to a fair majority for ever running for federal office again, the question is how much of a political place will President Biden and the democrats be paying for demanding accountability . That may be a longterm calculation democrats have to make. Right now theyre pressing on this trial. We will see action tonight and tomorrow with the senators being sworn in. A lot of this moves behind closed doors with lawyers preparing briefs, impeachment managers preparing their strategy. If past is prologued, that is the time in which donald trump could make this worse for himself. If you talk to republican senators, its pretty clear as of right
On tuesday night and that we continue to see today. More of them today. And the victories are now moving up into where the exit polls were actually projecting them on tuesday for democrats. The exit polls were saying they were going to take at least 30 seats, maybe more. They have now taken 30, and they may be taking more. And so Michael Moore is one of those people whos not looking at it with any kind of disappointment at all on what happened tuesday. No. And the way this is we should have known this. I think in some ways we did know this on tuesday night when the democrats were targeting so many seats in california, and we know that it takes a month to count in california. Democrats are over 30 seats flipped right now. They may get up to 35, 36, 37 very quickly. At least i was focused on california in case those california seats were the difference in terms of who controlled the house. But thats not where theyre coming in. Theyre coming in terms of how big the democratic margin is go