Actual takeaways on the first election in the impeachment era. You cant let that happen to me. Live from studio 6a in rockefeller plaza, all in starts right now. Hello. Hey, everybody. How are we doing . Welcome back. Welcome, everybody. To 30 rock. Thank you. Its great to have you here. It is great to be back in our 4a studios. It was a crazy, crazy week. We learned the impeachment hearings of the president will be televised next week. One thing we learned this week. We also got hundreds and hundreds of pages of impeachment deposition transcripts released including two key ones today. We are going to be talking about those in just a bit. And we also had the First National election in the impeachment era. We will talk about that with Steve Kornacki. And the white house wants the Supreme Court to rule on the president s tax returns. We just found out that today. Were going to get to that as well. But i think its useful to remember this entire scandal starts and revolves around the notes
Lets impeach the president , isnt that a good idea . When all in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im joy reid. Chris hayes is in ohio covering tonights debate. Well, at this point its not a question of if the president of the United States, donald trump, committed an impeachable offense. Hes already admitted to it in public statements and in documents that the white house itself released. We know that when the president of ukraine said that he wanted to buy more american weapons to protect his country from military aggression by russia, donald trump immediately responded, i want you to do us a favor, though. And then he proceeded to ask that ukraine investigate former Vice President joe bidens son and give life to a nutty right wing Conspiracy Theory that would absolve russia from meddling in an election. And trump told the ukraine wherein president multiple times to talk to the man who had essentially become his personal fixer, Rudy Giuliani, about those investigative favors. Q
Now its time for the last word with ari melber is in for lawrence tonight. Good evening, rachel. To quote rachel on watergate, im excited to watch where the grass grows tomorrow morning. I know we have to because we know theres going to be days of hearings, into this week and all next week, but im already too excited to sleep for anything. Its going to be very interesting and every sense of it well be watching. I am ari melber in for lawrence odonnell, and we have a big show tonight. On the eve of these first public hearings about impeaching President Trump. And by the way, we get it. It is 2019 and people in the press and in politics say this is big a lot. But this is big. Donald trump stands closer to m impeachment tonight than ever before. Were going to begin with the impeachment news but later turn to another report, john bolton, saying in a meeting hes concerned about compromised National Security for personal interest. And also inside the trial of roger stone, which is revealing
You were directly involved in the law that mulvaney is talking the decision to withhold funding about there, they say he from ukraine. Violated the congressional law can you explain to us now which appropriates funds. Definitively why . Did he also mention to me in not for the president to the past the corruption related override. And of course the other laws to the dnc server . Against abusing or taking a absolutely. No question about that. Thing of value in a coming but thats it. Thats why we held up the money. Campaign. Now, the whole reason for mr. Thats why we held up the money for ukraine. Mulvaneys unusual appearance in thats the president s chief of the Briefing Room is something staff, who also runs the budget we havent even mentioned, coming up on 30 minutes into the broadcast, that trump has done a office, admitting to the thing trump has denied, that they did few other things. Hes cancelled all regular press condition the money for ukraine on the political probe. Briefings.
Weekend. All right, tonight, well be digging into a white house under extreme stress from the dramatic escalation with iran to the pressures of impeachment. And later in the show well look at potential strategies iran thinks it could use in war to outlast the United States. And on the impeachment front senator Mitch Mcconnell might be saying he doesnt care how long the delay in the impeachment trial lasts, but with each passing day the case against President Trump grows. The last 48 hours has seen important new evidence. Well look into that, and well have an Important Note of thanks from lawrence coming up later. But first the surprise of iranian general Qassem Soleimanis killing has left the world on edge. In tehran the ayatollah threatened a harsh retaliation. In baghdad the u. S. Government urged americans to flee the country as iraqi lawmakers worked on legislation asking u. S. Troops to leave. In ft. Bragg, north carolina, roughly 3,500 members of the 82nd airborne prepare to depl