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
learned that president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just finished speaking by phone. their call lasting about 90 minutes. earlier biden spoke with democratic leaders, chuck shimmer, and he hakeem jeffries. the conversation comes at a critical time during negotiations, while both sides work to finalize a deal. one of the potential reasons a deal remains elusive, treasury secretary, janet yellen, just revised the fiscal deadline. telling all lawmakers they know of a few extra days until june 5th to act before government runs out of money to pay its bills. this, folks, is a very fluid situation. let s bring in former dana craddock congresswoman, donna edwards, and nbc political analyst and washington post columnist. congresswoman edwards, donna, as a former woman of congress, how do you think the president should be selling this to democratic leaders right now? i think first, the president
used a lot of tapes. they really made the case. it s very important, because it could lead to a conviction just on one tape recording. but it depends on what it is. and we will have to wait and see. so congresswoman, you have a situation where trump has this long history of denigrating judges, lawyers, jurors, robert mueller, all of the above, right? do you see him actually being able to contain himself from continuing to defame miss carroll? i think unless we are going to see a different donald trump than the one we have seen over the last several years, then i think it is hard to believe that he is going to be able to contain himself. i think the difference here though, michael, is that you have a judge giving a pre-warning, essentially. saying you ve got to shut up. i think that that is i think only when you have that