weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. the big story, of, course we have two hot wars for the president to navigate on the world stage. the republican-controlled house has voted to formally authorize its impeachment inquiry into president biden despite failing to provide any evidence of wrongdoing by the president. the vote was strictly along party lines with all 221 republicans voting yes, all 212 democrats voting no. republicans say the move will grant them the ability to better enforce their subpoenas in the courts. house oversight chair republican james comer has accused hunter biden and other biden family members of engaging in, quote, shady business practices. but as we said, has yet to reveal any evidence of wrongdoing or influence peddling by the president himself. so here is what several house democrats said ahead of the vote. see the biden impeachment investigation isn t a who done it. it s a what is it? it s like an agatha christy novel where the
i m going to attempt, and i probably regret this, i m going to attempt to make sense of the current debt ceiling situation. instead of having someone come on who doesn t know what s going on, i thought i don t know what s going on, i can just guess and so, we re gonna do a little bit of that. and i will advance a theory that joe biden is doing everything right. there is a theory that i landed on it today that joe biden is doing everything right. i reserve the right to take my mind tomorrow. [laughter] listen, lawrence, i will put my money on you being able to not only explain this but make sense of it, and have a plausible theory for all of it so i m eager to see what you have to say this evening. it s one of the things that i know will sound good while i m saying it. i don t want anyone to think about much after i say it. okay? [laughter] [laughter] let s see what the news is tomorrow. you ve got to get the 10:59. right, yeah! it is given some until 10:59, and
dying. it is your fault. republican states using their culture war to take your freedom. if you vote for this, you will have buckets and buckets of blood on your hands. tonight, why florida residents are saying their governor is inflicting a kind of torture on them. then, big movement in fulton county. i think that people thought that we came into this and some kind of game. this is not a game. plus, the field of candidates, waiting for a trump indictment keeps growing. and does the united states and it have any hope of regulating a i like this? what if i told you you could own this car for less than a lifetime cost of a toyotas corolla? when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. ron desantis s state of florida is forcing a kind of torture on its residents. that s not my conclusion. it s not my word, in fact. the word comes from florida resident peter rochelle, a catholic farther of seven, a grandfather of 17, who had to watch
thank you alex! have a great show. thank you. well this is the breaking news that i m holding in my hands. this is a letter from donald trump s attorneys to attorney general merrick garland. the letter to the attorney general says, we represent donald j trump, 45th president of the united states in the investigation currently being conducted by the special counsel s office. they go on to propaganda rise about hunter biden which acquires makes no sense. and then they say what the letter is about in the final sentence of there s a very short letter. we request a meeting at your earliest convenience to discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your special counsel and his prosecutors. thank you for your attention to this matter. so there it is tonight, the trump lawyers asking merrick garland, attorney general of the united states for a meeting about special counsel jack smith s criminal investigations of donald trump which of course includes the documents
released, why they re here. all of those details are not going to end up in any database any time soon in many of these cases. we re told this is because in part the administration wants to avoid images of overflowing centers, videos, photos that can can t get out there of overcrowding because it s clear from the news conference, there s sensitivities around how all of this looks. more and more are coming before title 42 lifts. we re all going to take a chance. we ll see. we re all going swimming there. so we re all going to risk it and see what happens. so as the click ticks down now, a reporter asking the dhs secretary about the president s comment that the border is about to get chaotic. given the fact that you ve had nearly two years to prepare for this moment, how can chaos be the expectation? i have said for months and months that the challenge at the border is and is going to be very difficult. we have spoken repeatedly about the fact that that difficulty may