Russia gate controversy. Microsoft issued reports that were very. Ready for was the u. S. Government government position. Clearly microsoft thought it was important to cooperate with washington to avoid any kind of regulatory crackdown by washington. And i would see microsoft activities in the ukraine as essentially roughly the same thing occurring where microsoft hastens to do the bidding of the u. S. Government. Because it knows the Us Government could make life very, very unhappy for if it didnt do so. Acclaimed american novelist stephen king has admitted that hes quite fond of world war 2 nazi collaborator, sta pon been dera, saying that he was, quote, a great man on a call with a duel of russian pranksters, one of whom pretended to be ukraines president lensky. The best selling author even pledge to use his influence on the u. S. Media to engage in Information Warfare against moscow. There are our people who have flaws with human beings. We do that are bad choices and then there a
World. We are getting a sense of u. S. President Donald Trumps Defense Strategy as his legal team prepares for his impeachment trial. The white house will file its legal brief by noon monday on the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Now, we already know the president s team will argue he shouldnt be impeached because his conduct with ukraine was not a criminal offense. Thats what theyre saying. Meantime, the democratic leader in the senate said i will push for more evidence to be admitted. The president is afraid of the truth. Most americans, my guess is even republicans, know what the truth and know hes hiding it. We democrats aim to get the truth and make no mistake about it. We will force votes on witnesses and documents. And it will be up to four republicans to side with the constitution to side with rule of law and not side in blind obeisance. He probably thinks hes guilty. Sarah westwood has more now on whats ahead. Reporter with the trial of President Trump s
Articles themselves and rigged process that brought them here are a rigged act brought by democrats. Now 100 u. S. Senators will zied this case. Trial rules will be the first test to whether republicans are open to breaking with their president. Sarah westwood is on capitol hill where the house managers are meeting today. Whats the latest . Reporter ana, some of those house managers have been filtering in and out of the Speakers Office over the past five hours, since this began. They havent taken our questions about how this prep session is going. Their identities just unveiled laft late last week, yet they have to be prepared to present on the floor of the snlt by tuesday when the senate trial gets under way in earnest. They are going through who will present what arguments, what is the best way to lay out what they have described as the overwhelming evidence they have against president trump. Last night we got a glimpse at what their case will look like. They did file their trial bri
They struck down part of the defensive marriage act. The windsor ruling did not legalize gay marriage but it showed gay people treated as second class citizens. Scalia was senator furious. He said the ruling was written to broadly and poorly that it might as well have just legalized gay marriage across the land. He said the majority arms well to restricting marriage to its traditional definition. When he said that he meant that has an insult as a bad thing. But to the delight of gay right supporters everywhere. Justice scalia turned out to be right. On the morning before that decision came out, it was legal for samesex couples to get married in 12 states across the country. June 2013. Since that morning you can add california new jersey hawaii illinois new mexico oregon pennsylvania virginia oklahoma utah wisconsin, indiana, colorado nevada west virginia, North Carolina alaska wyoming, kansas montana, south carolina, florida. This is what momentum feels like. State after state after st
About a football field an hour. Our special report on resettling americas first climate refugees when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. In their first appearance side by side on the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren present an energized and unified front and did what warren seems to do better than any else, throw donald trump off his game. Quite a site in since, ohio, two powerful women on stage together in coordinaing blue looking just like a democratic president ial ticket. Warren is on clintons vicepresident ial short list but a decision has yet to be announced. In her rouing introduction, warren made a strong positive case for clintons candidacy. Hillary has brain, she has guts, she has thick skin and steady hands but most of all, she has a good heart, and thats what america needs. And thats why im with her. Are you with her . As she has done before in other settings, warren eviscerated trump over his temperament and business re