then there s a floor vote. no public hearings, then there s public hearings. this is not fair, this isn t a real impeachment. the president has not been invited to participate. and then naturally the president was invited to participate. well, today the trump white house responded to that invitation to participate in the impeachment hearings, and they said actually they have no intention of participating in the proceedings. at least that s what we think this letter means. i wanted to put the letter up there full screen just because i wanted to i wanted you to know why i was distracted. the signature on this letter is so enormous and weird. it s a little bit hard to focus on anything else in terms of the content of this letter, but basically what we believe is that this is a letter from the white house counsel saying no we re not going to participate in your little charade. we still consider it unfair. what that means is for a third straight time, the objections by
friday. also, this sunday we re doing a live podcast at the town hall new york city, i cannot wait to talk to two incredible writers, tony kushner, jeremy harris. come join us, that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening. spectacular, that interview with katie hill was amazing. thank you very much. incredible. thanks and i m sorry you re working this weekend, but i also sort of want to go. it s going to be fun. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here this friday night, the white house and president trump s republican supporters in congress first said that the impeachment proceedings against president trump were unfair because there had been no floor vote in the house authorizing the impeachment inquiry. that was their first objection. this isn t a real impeachment. it s unfair. there has been no floor vote. then, uh-oh, the house held a floor vote authorizing the impeachment inquiry, and that
the president and his legal team had not been invited to participate in the impeachment proceedings. so no floor vote? then there s a floor vote. no public hearings. then there s public hearings. this is the next good try. this is not fair. this isn t a real impeachment. the president has not been invited to participate. and then naturally the president was invited to participate. well, today the trump white house responded to that invitation to them to participate in the impeachment proceedings and they said actually they have no intention of participating in the proceedings anyway. at least that s what we think this letter means. i wanted to put the letter up there full screen just because i wanted you to know why i was distracted. the signature on this letter is so enormous and weird. it s a little bit hard to focus on anything else in terms of the content of this letter. but basically what we believe is that this is a letter from the white house counsel saying, no, we re not going
emwre embraced impeachment and he told people he could view himself voting for three articles of impeachment. obstruction of congress, obstruction of justice, abuse of power. how much is amash s view significant and important to the way your caucus thinks about it that he s been kicked out of the party but he s not a democrat. he s someone of high integrity and also very conservative. he was a member of the tea party, and he looked at the facts and he made a determination based on his principles and applying law to facts and he concluldded this w impeachable conduct. and what we re going to try to do is present the facts in a sober deliberate matter using trump s own people to make the case against him. thank you so much for your time tonight, sir. thank you, chris. so if that s what looks like
rudy and the president. and former congresswoman katie hill and why she s speaking out just weeks after her resignation. hiding away and disappearing would be the one unforgivable sin. live from studio 6a in rock te feller plaza, all in starts right now. good evening. thank you for being here. another historic week. we re doing this thing a country very rarery does, impeaching a president. it s happening in realtime. on tuesday the house committee dropped a 300 page report detailing the evidence collected in the inquiry in that committee into the impeachment of the president. and in that report, which i think we all expected wouldn t have any new revelations, there was a crazy revelation which were these call logs that were obtained by the committee that suggested that the ranking member of the republican on the house intelligence committee, that s congressman devin nunes,