Rachel, you had Jim Rutenberg on talking about that New York Times article which is just amazing, and by the way, must be said, beautifully written. I think it may be the best written yeah. Of the trump investigative pieces. Andrew weissmann is going to join us on the same subject to pick up where you left off, which for me is, are there new crimes in this reporting that were looking at . Yeah. The times uses the very gentle word, extralegal. Does that mean illegal . Andrew weissmann is going to take us through it and tell us what he sees in that reporting. Excellent. And its really well timed. Tomorrow were going to see the response from the president s defense team, such as it is, to the Impeachment Charges and the Impeachment Charges are about him inciting an insurrection against the u. S. Government. And what rutenberg and his colleagues just filled in is a lot of the details about how they knew exactly what they were setting up. How they organized it and how it was a coordinated t
We are coming on the air this morning with Breaking News from capitol hill. Our first look at just how house Impeachment Managers plan to prosecute their case against donald trump. Set to file their pre friel brief and we are now getting a look at it just seconds ago, this is all ahead of next weeks Historic Second senate trial and we have a better sense of what their argument will be. A point by point case that trump is responsible for inciting the deadly insurrection at the capitol and that his responsibility for those events is unmistakable. Those managers taking direct aim at what im told will be one of the key arguments by the former president s team. That defense team also rushing to meet their own filing deadline today. My new reporting on how theyre going to convince senators or try to to acquit donald trump again. Good morning, im Hallie Jackson in washington along with our nbc news team covering this. Garrett haake on capitol hill, Shannon Pettypiece outside the white house,
Vows not to dilute, dither or delay that legislation. The white house focuses today on immigration as President Biden prepares to sign a series of executive actions, including Assembly Task force to reunite families separated at the border during the Trump Administration. Welcome to tuesday, its Groundhog Day, the longest Groundhog Day any of us have ever experienced, isnt it, anyway, it jen psaki will hold her briefing the house Impeachment Managers have filed their pretrial brief this morning as well. Well get to both of those in a moment. The Daily Briefing comes after President Biden met with ten of the most moderately minded Senate Republicans, not necessarily an ideology but perhaps in tone last night at the white house. The that meeting they proposed a covid relief deal that they probably knew biden could not support and biden probably knew they wouldnt be able to stay united on that anyway. Case in point, its not every day you see Mitch Mcconnell publicly renouncing or praising
it all comes 24 hours after militants fired off 18 drones and three missiles towards ships in the red sea, their largest attack yet. american and british forces shooting them down. tonight, at this hour, the military action from the u.s. and the uk now. the white house tonight saying the u.s. will, quote, counter and defeat these mounting attacks from the iranian-backed houthi rebels. mary bruce standing by live with what she s learning right now. in new york city, donald trump lashing out during closing arguments in the $370 million civil fraud trial against him. trump blasting the judge in court. the judge telling the defense, control your client. what comes next now for trump? aaron katersky outside the courthouse. in the northeast, rivers dangerously high, with this new storm now set to sweep across the country and right into the northeast. the tornado threat right now in the south. how much snow will chicago get? and the east set to get hit again as it barrels right
this comes 24 hours after militants fired off 18 drones and three missiles toward ships in the red sea, their largest attack yet. american and british forces shooting them down. at this hour, the new signals tonight that significant military action could be coming. the white house tonight saying the u.s. will, quote, counter and defeat these mounting attacks from the iranian-backed houthi rebels. mary bruce standing by live with what she s learning right now. in new york city, donald trump lashing out during closing arguments in the 37 $0 million civil fraud trial against him. trump blasting the judge in court. the judge telling the defense, control your client. what comes next now? aaron katersky outside the courthouse. in the northeast, rivers dangerously high, with this new storm now set to sweep across the country, and right into the northeast. the tornado threat right now in the south. how much snow will chicago get? and the east set to get hit again as it barrels ri