Would gut many components of the Affordable Care act and cover fewer people according to the Congressional Budget Office, which looked at an earlier version. 24 million more people will be uninsured over a decade now. Republicans apparently needed a little inspiration yesterday before the vote. According to the associated press, catch this. Like boxers before a big fight, republicans pumped themselves up with a pounding music of the 1980s anthem eye of the tiger. Thats of course from well, it is of course from rocky 3. And taking care of business. After the vote they were in a mood to celebrate. According to the hill, quote, shortly after the narrow 217213 vote, the gop conference celebrated with beer and cigars and went to the white house rose garden for victory speeches. Well, the Vice President t actually, they cheered, grinned, smirked, and highfived one another down at the white house yesterday. The celebration of course is premature. The next stop is the u. S. Senate, and some re
Thanksgiving day table today. All right, were going to start this morning with the growing controversy over two politicians, congressman john conyers and Senate Hopeful roy moore. Its bipartisan this time. A new accuser says conyers was verbally abusive to her. Meanwhile, conyers attorney released a defiant statement. He says the 27term democrat has no intention of stepping down. Moore, equally defiant. The difference is, he still has a big supporter in his corner, a new one, president donald trump. Its a head scratcher for me. We have a great panel this morning to help us break down both stories. I want to go first to nbcs kelly odonnell. What is the latest on congressman conyers . Well, good morning and happy thanksgiving, were in palm beach of course covering the president and john conyers has some new developments. Of course, its important to point out he is a michigan democrat who is known as the dean of the house, which means hes the longest serving member of congress, 52 1 2 yea
Charged with an Illegal Campaign finance in which they are said to have funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars at least some of which was from a secret russian source that the indictment doesnt spell out. Those donations were directed to the main superpac supporting President Trumps Reelection Campaign and lots and lots of republican politicians and campaign groups. As spelled out in the indictment of lev and igor, one of the things they leveraged with those Illegal Campaign donations was an effort by texas republican congressman Pete Sessions to pile on americas ambassador in ukraine, to get Marie Yovanovitch fire from her ambassadorship and brought back to the United States. Congressman Pete Sessions, according to the indictment, basically took those donations that turned out to be illegal donations. He then took the meeting with the guys who had funneled him those illegal donation, and then thereafter he wrote the letter they wanted, demanding the resignation of americas ambassad
State mike pompeo both head to the middle east for talks. Right now, democratic president ial candidates are hitting the trail following an enlightening debate in ohio. It made clear who the group on stage is most worried about at this point. Senator Elizabeth Warren. Let me bring in nbc news road warrior ali vitali. The candidates they really seemed to focus on Elizabeth Warren. Was she expecting it . And what so far has been the consensus this morning on how she handled it . Yeah, a lot of eyes and a lot of sights trained on Elizabeth Warren and they were expecting it. They know the Warren Campaign what comes with being center stage. We have been able to watch how thats manifested for joe biden over the course of the last few debates but last night it was Elizabeth Warren in the spotlight. If you look, 26 attacks last night from candidates between each other on stage according to our count. 16 of those lobbed against Elizabeth Warren. I want to show you what that looked like last nig
President these days . As the the 11th hour gets under way on a friday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 967 of the Trump Administration. And just tonight, theres a new problem with the way House Democrats are going after and trying to use what are normally secret grand jury materials from the mueller investigation. The democrats argue they need them for an impeachment inquiry. The Justice Department, though, is pushing back, saying the democrats havent made it at all clear that this is an impeachment inquiry. This question is now before a federal judge. And in court papers, trumps doj specifically mentions the messaging by the democrats has been all over the place. Specifically they say, quote, the speaker of the house has been emphatic that the investigation is not a true impeachment proceeding. They add the committees own description of its investigation makes clear that it is too far removed from any potential judicial proceed