Within two days the president slipped off that rationale like he was falling off a Slippery Rock when he told lester holt that when he made the decision to fire comey he had the russia issue on his mind and he said the same thing to high ranking russian officials. He said i just fired the head of fbi. I faced great pressure because of russia. Thats taken off. James comey said it seemed he was getting fired because of the russia investigation. Do you believe the russia investigation played a role . In why i was fired . Yes. Yes ive seen the president say so. I take the president at his word that i was fired because of the russia investigation. Something about the way i was conducting it the president felt created pressure on him that he wanted to leavrelieve. James comey saw the president admit to lester holt, brag to russian officials that he fired the fbi director because of the russia investigation. Why wouldnt anyone think that was true . We then got lots of detail bolstering james
The Trump Administration going full steam ahead to impose tariffs on mexico this monday. The president making it clear he will not back down when it comes to the security of our border. In an interview with fox news Laura Ingraham President Trump blasting lawmakers who have criticized the proposed tariffs. President trump number one its great to negotiate with. If he they go in well make a fortune. Isnt this congresss fault . President trump yes. Mexico is letting millions of people walk through their country. We want them to help us. They wont pass any legislation in congress. I have senators and others and pelosi coming out saying how horrible. What theyre doing is hurting the deal. They should be saying were with the president and do whatever he wants to do and mexico would fold like an umbrella. Bill we go to shannon, ireland. Kevin corke leads our coverage today. Number of important angles on this story, humanitarian, financial, diplomatic. The market set to open on wall street in
Establishes the official procedures for publicfacing hearings conducted by the house Intelligence Committee. It also includes the process for how the evidence gathered will be passed on to the Judiciary Committee, which will ultimately draft the articles of impeachment. As the new yorker rights, every impeachment reinvents what impeachment is for and what it means. A theory of government itself. Every impeachment also offers a chance to establish a new political settlement in an unruly nation. Also, happening right now, at this hour is the gathering of evidence against donald trump. Two more crucial witnesses are speaking in front of the house impeachment investigators as part of this ongoing inquiry. This morning, state Department Special advisor for ukraine appeared on capitol hill to give her deposition and last hour, christopher anderson, former special advisor to Ambassador Kurt Volker arrived to begin his testimony, which is now under way. Joining me from capitol hill now is nbcs
Brennen on the threat to the rule of law. And new details on Rudy Giulianis indicted associate and his close tie tuesday a russian backed oligarch. Oh, wow. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Theres been a marathon session under way all day in the rules committee to decide the rules for tomorrows big floor debate on impeachment. Tomorrows going to be the only third time in all of American History that there will be a floor debate and a vote on impeaching the president of the United States. Tomorrow dawn md j. Trump is expected to join Andrew Johnson and bill clinton as the only president s in the history of the country to be impeached. If you want to know how the president feels about that, well, he sent an absolutely unhinged deranged 6page tweetlike letter to nancy pelosi today in which he said among a variety of other things, quote, you have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word impeachment, and, quote, more due process was afforded to
Democrats will vote yet. Republicans will vote no. The second vote is the vote that everybody cares about. As weve been reporting, it is going to be largely party line. You are not going to see many defections from either side. If youre looking at democrats and you want to see who votes in that no column, im told its a small universe of nos. Also, keep an eye on the floor. If there are members holding off their votes waiting to see how this is going to go, id be surprised given the fact that everybody has known this is coming. See is everybody is going to vote yes. Right in now, weve been reporting very few if any republicans are going to be torn about this. Many of them completely in line with the party. Ive been told by several republicans, if they can keep all republicans in line here, they will view it as an enormous victory. I think one more thing to broaden it out, this debate over what this resolution is has been packed with semantics over the course of the last couple of days.