as the nation hurdles towards yet another government shutdown. i want to know if new republican house speaker, mike johnson and his lack of experience have what it takes to get a deal done. we are live on capitol hill where today we could learn part of the plan to keep the government open. overnight, strikes israel war on hamas intensifies after another wave of bombings. benjamin netanyahu makes a trip to the gaza border. live in israel with the latest on the 35-day war and the humanitarian crisis growing worse by the minute. later, trump tower of lies. the former first family taking turns testifying in a civil fraud suit. how ivanka trump s repeated claims of, i don t recall, could come back to bite the most indicted one term ex president in u.s. history. all of that and more is coming up. good saturday morning to you all. i m katie phang. we start today with another case of déjà vu on catol hill. this time next week, the government could be shut down. with only six days
That the house managers presentation was well done. Tonight what we learn from day one while even republicans were shocked by trumps defense and what it means for conviction and the country moving forward. Senators, this cannot be our future. This cannot be the future of america. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Today the second impeachment trial of former donald j. Trump officially began and the argument before the u. S. Senate today was focused, it was constitutional. Because it takes place after trump has left office. The end result is that the trial will actually move forward. The measure to move the trial forward passed this evening, 5644. A bipartisan vote with six republican senators joining every democrat in the vote. The result was never really in doubt. Democrats have the majority in that body. Today was supposed to simply be the argument on that technical question of constitutionality. But lead impeachment manager congressman jimmy raskin
Trum trump. The member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. Ambassador sondland told President Trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. Following the call with President Trump, the member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what President Trump thought about ukraine. Ambassador sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of biden, which guiliani was pressing for. Well, the staff is david holmes, who is now scheduled to speak friday to the committee off camera. Jim is the president s tv lawyer, Rudy Guiliani certainly came up a lot today. Rudy guiliani. Rudy guiliani. Rudy guiliani. Guiliani. Guiliani. Guiliani. Guiliani. Rudy guiliani. And by the way, have you ever met Rudy Guiliani . Guilianiing as you know is on record about his work if you crane on behalf of the president , senior state official george kent who testified alongside ambassador taylor today was asked about that
receipts of foreign governments writing checks, or giving credit card payments to joe biden, show it to us. we ve been at this for a year now. we haven t seen anything. then, we show you, in our more than 100-page report, the documented receipts and you don t care about, in other words, you don t care about the principle that our government leaders should not be able to take from foreign governments. that s outrageous. a missed, house republicans as yet utterly unproven and and demonstrated claims of president joe biden s taking illicit funds, which they q.c. was doing, notwhen he was president, to be clear. congressman, jimmy raskin, and other house democrats issued quote, donald trump accepted more than seven point $8 million from foreign states and their leaders, including some of the world s most unsavory regimes. today, raskin wrote a letter to trump himself, police are, quote, immediately returned to the american people the $7,886,072 that we know you have accepted from for
of donald trump s rivals refused to speak out, they refused to even acknowledge january 6th, they avoid it. some even downplay it, some are normalizing it. so what do you think is the impact of that strategy? one of the reasons i m speaking out is that i m from new hampshire, and new hampshire has the first presidential primary coming up and now two and a half weeks. i ve actually already voted. i voted joe biden as president of the united states for the 2024 first-in-the-nation presidential primary. and i am saying, at liz cheney is here in new hampshire, jimmy raskin is coming to new hampshire this weekend, we are seeing to voters our democracy is at stake. whether you vote for joe biden, or you vote for a republican, nikki haley, do not vote for an