finished. pardon-palooza. rhonda santa fouls to pardon some january 6th insurrectionists, including trump himself. what is he thinking? i m michael steele in for ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. to breaking developments tonight to begin the hour. in a history making vote, the texas house just voted to impeach state attorney general, ken paxton. a republican. temporarily removing him from office over actions of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office. the vote to adopt the 20 articles of impeachment was overwhelming. 100 and 21 to 23. attention now shifts to the texas senate which will conduct a trial with senators acting as jurors, and designated house numbers representing their place, presenting their case rather, as impeachment managers. also breaking tonight, new developments on the critical debt limit negotiations. a short time ago, nbc news learned that president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just finished speaking by phone. their call lasting
illusive deal. senators race to find an immigration compromise before christmas. we are making significant progress. and how will president biden balance the needs on the border with pushback from his own party. a return to failed trump era policies is not the solution. plus, abortion struggle. a case in texas hits a nerve. any comment on the kate cox decision in your state? senator cruz? do you support that kate cox decision? could republicans coalesce behind a coherent message. and impeachment saga. the gop plows ahead as hunter biden strikes back. there is no fairness or descentency in what these republicans are doing. and new reporting on the threat that speaker johnson faces from the right. we have to go back to doing things the right way. today was a abysmal failure. inside the corridors of power, inside politics sunday starts now. good morning, and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju. it is been a busy weekend on capitol hill. w
over the past three years, as chief of staff of the air force, general brown has become known for his signature approach, accelerate, change or lose. general, you re right on. as i often said, our world is at an inflection point where the decisions we make today will determine the course of our world for decades to come. to keep the american people safe, we have to adapt and act quickly. we have to manage our competition with china and meet the reality of renewed aggression in europe. we need to make sure we retain our competitive edge in an age where emerging technologies from ai to 3-d printing could fundamentally change the character of conflict. with general brown as chairman, i know i ll be able to rely on his advice and i ll also be able to have a leader who is unafraid to speak his mind. as someone who will deliver a message that needs to be hard and will always do the right thing when it s hard. that s the number one quality a president needs in a chairman. that s the
deadline is june 1st. who has time for a break? well, apparently conversations are not productive, at least that s how the gop is framing it. here was the republicans lead negotiator, congressman garrett graves who walked out of the room early today. the house passed the strong bill. it has great savings, and it s responsible and puts us on a path. until people are willing to have reasonable conversations about how you can actually move forward and do the right thing, then we re not going to sit here and talk to ourselves. speaker mccarthy says the pause is not fatal, and the white house says an agreement remains possible, but it does concede, the white house does, both sides are still pretty far apart, perhaps as far apart as some of the more progressive senate democrats who say the president should ignore a vote all together, and raise the ceiling by himself, with authority, they argue, is granted by the 14th amendment. and the house freedom caucus which tweeted today t
it is economically ill literate. it raises more taxes, creates the biggest government we ve ever seen in the history of the united states. they want to spend money. they want to raise taxes on you. it is wildly irresponsible. julie: wall street journal board sums it up this way. all the president s tax increases for the wealthy, corporate stock buy backs, certain unearned income on the spendsing side the defense increase doesn t even cover inflation when compared to last year s budget. now the plan calls for thousands of new employees for the epa and i.r.s. the border on the back burner yet again. no boost for the dhs budget. the plan also adding only 350 border agents. that won t make up for a shortfall of 1,000. biden s own dhs secretary is even worried. so what do you propose? how do you propose that we handle 8,000 people each day when we are not resourced for that personnel, facilities, transportation an the like? how should we handle that? by redistributing mo