house vote, but they have announced that this is now a formal impeachment inquiry. so i don t think that her reasoning really holds up anymore, given the way that the developments have unfolded. all right. glen kirchner from washington, d.c. thanks to you. coming up, a big shake-up coming to president trump s cabinet. acting department of homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan resigned pe released a statement thanking the president for his support. joining me a reporter for the daily beast wrote about this today. congratulations, betsy, i should mention. your nuptials. writing about all this. first question about this is, why now? that s a good question. mcaleenan has long been eyeing an exit from dhs from chatting with sources in the department over the months. long been a view that he realized that he was not going
there have been so many departures real and imagined, real and fake disputes. departures, i wouldn t read too much into that but we will get more reporting for you. easy to lay blame on somebody possibly leaving the administration. hans, thank you. here to break down a lot of this, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, glen kirchner. i want to start with you about the second whistle-blower. you know this sort of stuff. . what s happening behind the scenes with the second whistle-blower. the attorney or team representing the whistle-blower is probably doing a number of things. they re vetting his story, making sure whatever corroboration they can present, they do present. the other thing, i m sorry to say this, they re probably trying to put some safety
than $1,200 for many workers. negotiations between the union and general motors still under way as strikers prepare to enter their third week on picket lines. general motors, by the way did a reversal. just a couple days ago said they will pay health care costs for strikers rather than leaving it up to the union. analysts say gm is losing at least $50 million a day with the strikes. this is the first national strike for the uaw on general motors in more than a decade. turning back to the impeachment talk and battle, and how to protect the whistle-blower. joined now by new york times washington correspondent and msnbc contributor charlie savage and with me as well msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutor glen kirchner. welcome to you both. and rudy giuliani seems to press on he was just obeying orders. a sense he s acting more than just trump s personal attorney? where s the line here for him?
said. what he said about whistle-blowers and those people who gave that person the information. when you heard what he said, and an american president saying that what were your thoughts? it made me a little nauseous as both a former prosecutor and as an american citizen, but i think there is a sentence in michael atkinson s report on the whistle-blower. michael atkinson being inspector general for the intelligence committee. second sentence of his report should give the whistle-blower and perhaps all of us a little bit of a comfort level, because here what it says, kendis. bears repeating. he said in the course of my official duties i have received information from multiple u.s. government officials that the president of the united states is using his power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in our 2020 u.s. elections. right there, this is not hearsay. this is the inspector general saying, i have spoken with
emboldening the president with congressional procrastination. joining me, charlie savage, msnbc contributor and washington correspondent for the new york times and glen kirchner, nbc news analyst and former federal prosecutors. are these an example of high crimes and misdemeanors, the ultimate impeachable offense? absolutely. high crimes and misdemeanors means, well, whatever congress defines it to mean, but it means an abuse of the power of the presidency. it mean as violation of the public trust by the president. it really is hard to envision. you know, the president keeps ratcheting up his misconduct. it s hard to envision something more egregious than this. maybe he ll figure that out tomorrow how to top himself, but when you re going to a foreign power and saying, you know what? i am going to leverage some of what i could give to you if you investigate my political opponent or his son, and