How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
It is absolutely stunning. We just got thumped. I mean, i know that everybody got a lot of snow and this was a big storm, but i feel like somebody played a joke on me. Yeah. This is an insane amount of snow. I will pack some of it into cooler and send it to you. 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 to 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. 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 Charg
File. As you may know by now, trump lost his entire legal team over the weekend. He has since named two new lawyers just last night. They are david schoen and bruce caster, hes represented mobsters and longtime adviser roger stone. Earlier tonight he previewed his Trial Argument on fox news. Besides the fact that this process is completely unconstitutional and this is a very, very dangerous road to take with respect to the first amendment, putting at risk any passionate political speaker, which is really against everything we believe in in this country, foundation of the first amendment. But im going to tell you, its the most illadvised legislative action ive seen in my lifetime. It is tearing the country apart at a time when we dont need anything like that. I think President Biden missed a great opportunity to be a statesman and to demand that this thing be called off, frankly. This is the political weaponization of the impeachment process. Meanwhile, the Biden White House is ramping
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
Passionate political speaker, which is really against everything we believe in in this country, foundation of the first amendment. But im going to tell you, its the most illadvised legislative action ive seen in my lifetime. It is tearing the country apart at a time when we dont need anything like that. I think President Biden missed a great opportunity to be a statesman and to demand that this thing be called off, frankly. This is the political weaponization of the impeachment process. Meanwhile, the Biden White House is ramping up their push for the president s nearly 2 trillion covid Relief Package. Tonight the president met with ten republican senators who proposed a slimmeddown version of the bill. The group, which includes senators Susan Collins and mitt romney, wants a 618 billion package. Their plan would provide 1,000 stimulus checks as opposed to bidens proposal of 1,400. After the twohour meeting, Senator Collins walked out of the white house and spoke to reporters. It was a