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
democratic members of our caucus. on that manufactured crisis piece, that had been prevailing talking point for a number of republicans over the past few days, especially now that we ve seen that turned a corner into a deal. how do the democrats respond in this moment, given this backdrop leading up to now, sort of steadily saying, we are working a deal. seemingly, the white house has won. well, we will all be looking in great interest on what is in the deal, of course. i will be looking to see whether there are these increased work requirements for the poor. i thought that was the worst aspect of their proposals, because that would only serve to inflict pain on the poor. and what effectively cut off health care for 1.7 million low
in a crisis like this there s oo battle between again it right and get it done fast. when it s with an agency not in the white house, the white house struggled to get the facts in front of them so they can move fast. it s taken them a few days to get their sea legs. it feels to me that there s two different layers on the political crisis piece. i want to come to you on this. on one chance you have the three dimensional tar trek chess occurring and the white house trying to respond on levels and you also have the gop needing to make decisions an how far they re going to push this. i want to read you the heritage action letter that went to john boehner and eric cantor. the letter is saying you have to stay on the scandal. it would be improvement to shift the focus from the obama administration. stay on the scandals. don t talk about real governing. suspect that going to be a scandal on the right? the idea of stay on the