For a vote. She has said for months now she likes it, she wants it, the woman is grossly incompetent. All she wants to do is focus on impeachment which is just a little pipe dream shes gotten and she can keep playing that game and ive been told, who knows if this is so, i have pretty Good Authority on it, that she is using usmca because she doesnt have the impeachment votes so she is using usmca to get the impeachment vote. Doesnt matter because right now, you have a Kangaroo Court headed by little shifty schiff where we dont have lawyers, we dont have witnesses, i just got to watch and the republicans are actually killing it. They are doing so well because it is a scam, a big scam. They are doing something that the founders never thought possible and the founders didnt want, and they are using this impeachment hoax for their own political gain to try and damage the Republican Party and damage the president , but its had the opposite effect because youve seen the polls, i am the highes
Minutes. Okay. Meantime, good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. High noon in the east, 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome, everyone, to weekends with alex witt. Closeddoor testimony now under way. How a senior white house budget official could hold an important piece of the impeachment puzzle. Also, the first direct account of an overheard phone call where the president allegedly asks about ukraine investigations. Forget about everything else, why this could be the real bombshell moment. The testimony you might have missed. The biggest takeaways from the first public hearings. Plus the point of order is will the chairman continue to prohibit witnesses from answering republican questions as youve done in closed hearings and as you did gentlewoman will suspend. This week when you interrupted our questions. Not a proper point of order. Jeanetgentle woman will suspend what was that about . A member of congress explains. But top of the hour, breaking news as right now,
They really wanted this meeting. We couldnt get the aid. They wouldnt give it to them. The guys on the phone with the president shouting so loud hes got the phone out here. Hes saying, yeah, the president doesnt care about anything but the bidens. What happened and why is clear. The question is the consequence. Right. And people who didnt necessarily know each other. Right. I mean they may have heard of each other, worked at the same place, but they didnt know each other and theyre all pretty much corroborating what the whistleblower said. Heres an interesting conversation that i had or im going to have it later on because, you know, you and i talk. John kasich and i talk occasionally to try to figure out what is going on in this world. He believes and i believe this as well, that maybe over this holiday, people are sitting at home in front of their televisions. The tvs on cnn or fox or on msnbc. Its on in the background. You may have a Football Game on now and then. But people are goi
Republicans plan to push back. Democrats are saying the fix is in. Conducting a trial in the senate is enormous. Democrats trying to push the proposal what the trial would look like. To engage the trial without facts coming out is to engage in a coverup. Chuck schumer hopes it will game republican support. Do they want a fair, honest trial that examines the facts or a trial that doesnt let facts come out. Trials have witnesses. Thats what trials are all about. In a letter to Mitch Mcconnell, schumer called for subpoenas to be issued for four witnesses that have direct knowledge of the ukraine affair. Acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, rob blair, Budget Office official Mike Mcduffie and john bolton who allegedly called what the envoys were doing in ukraine a drug deal. Each of them will have information to share about charges made by the house, information that no one has heard at this point. Sources say mcconnell doesnt want witnesses, working in lock step with white House Counsel o
Inquiry congress is working through the weekend. A top official is testifying under subpoena before house impeachment investigators in a rare saturday sergs. T session. He was involved with directly interacting with President Trump and Rudy Giuliani on ukraine matters. Live from capitol hill, our reporter. First up, who is phillip reeker and why is his testimony so important right now . Phillip reeker is the latest to be brought in before congressional investigators to continue to paint the timeline. Who is he specifically . He was the person who oversaw ukraine policy for the United States, and we know that way back in march he started to raise reservations up the chain at the state department about the Smear Campaign that was happening that we now know is run by Rudy Giuliani and spread in conservative media about then ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. We keep hearing about Marie Yovanovitch over and over again throughout this inquiry, this impeachment inquiry. We know that a couple mont