Actually hold office to be impeached. Since the 45th President is no longer president , the clause shall be removed from office on impeachment is impossible for the senate to accomplish. Now the house Impeachment Managers brief was a lot longer. It was 80 p0 pages, it focuses President Trumps betrayal of historic proportions and the threat he poses to the constitution. They say the president is to blame for the insurrection writing its impossible to imagine the events of january 6th occurring without President Trump creating a powder keg, striking a match and then seeking personal advantage from the ensuing havoc. Jim accost osta joins me now. The trump team was concise in comparison. They appear to have come to a compromise with the president on whether to focus on the constitutionality or the stolen election. Thats right. I think it boils down to what the president s advisers have been saying for weeks now, that his speech on january 6th, while some may view it as incendiary and it c
the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. hi, noik coalle there s a lot happening, but that interview was certainly news making. also an exclusive many people would want so since i have you for a second, what came through to you on more than one topic talking to this fox producer turned whistle-blower it s so amazing you want to jump off the thor and process everything you heard. then we had another hour to do, soy haven t processed it i think what i m most impacted by, other than any human being going through this process of being part of and i said to her, look work cover the damage that i feel fox has done to our democracy by broadcasting lies to its millions of viewers you helped produce them. how does that work and she talked about wanting to advance her career but realizing now what she was a part of but the thing that strikes me is once again we are talk about an alleged toxic culture, a culture of misogyny. she alleged anti-semitism at fox news and th
on the brink of having their bodily autonomy snatched away from them. before the religious right, it s an excuse for celebration. it is the holy grail finally within reach, the culmination of its decades long battle to end abortion rights in america. in fact, the religious right is so entrenched in anti-abortion politics it s arguably their most defining issue. there s even an origin story about this movement being a reaction to the roe v. wade decision in 1973. but that s what they want you to think. it s a myth, a hoax, a lie. back in 2014 dartmouth historian randal bomber did a deep dive into the real origins of the religious right. he also revisited the topic in a piece that dropped today. as he notes, before and for several years after roe, evangelicals were overwhelmingly indifferent to the subject of abortion which they considered to be a catholic issue. according to experts featured in the pbs special god in america, even famed teleadvantage rift pat robertson and
they might say, hey, ari, this wasn t going to really happen. and it didn t happen we didn t see a fake commission popped up to do this let me tell you this tonight underestimating authoritarian plans hatched at the highest levels of your government would be a mistake this was hidden for a reason they don t want to you know about it, don t want to you take it seriously now that is the democracy part then there s something educaelse i want to share with you before we bring in our expert, and boy do we have some good ones tonight these cruz tapes reinforce something else, how the republican who staked his campaign on topping donald trump not only turn into the a trump endorser which is typical in party politics you know about primaries and people often come back together. but no, the cruz tapes show senator cruz turned into someone trying to overthrow an election that donald trump lost and just as we know cruz didn t
said cruz didn t do anything. he s an embarrassment to the state of texas. let me just say that. i don t care what or who runs again him. i will work for that campaign to defeat that son of a you get that idea. cruz s office told the dallas morning news his silence was out of concern of antagonizing strong man vladimir putin. well, how polite. that the does seem to be a trend among some in the new republican party, concerned not to anger the ex-kgb authoritarian communicator. take the president cruz enabled, president trump. you may remember this oval office photo five years ago. the smiling man next to trump is russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and we only have picture because russia s state news agency sent it out at the time. the russian photographer was the only one allowed in the meeting, in the oval office while u.s. journalists were kept out, strange, right. that was also the meeting where trump revealed highly classified information that was given to us