trey: good evening and thank you for joining us, i m trey gowdy, and it is sunday night in america. in 230 years, only three u.s. presidents have been impeached, none has been convicted. the standard is high crimes and misdemeanors but what does that mean? what is the real standard for removing a duly elected president? what is the standard for launching an impeachment inquiry. the house voted to open a formal impeachment inquiry to president joe biden and enables the house to seek certain information and evidence and likely places the house in a better legal position to get that information should the matter wind up in court. house democrats impeached former president donald trump twice. the first impeachment was bipartisan only and that both republicans and democrats voted against it. but house democrats and the dc media were undeterred. the second time president trump was impeached shortly before he left office. neither impeachment came close to conviction. are we headed t
trey: good evening and thank you for joining us, i m trey gowdy, and it is sunday night i trey: good evening, trey gowdy. only three u.s. presidents have been impeached, none convicted. the standard is high crimes and misdemeanors, but what does that mean? what is the standard for removing a duly elected president and what is standard for launching an impeachment inquiry? the vote inables the house to seek certain information and evidence should the matter wind up in court. d former president donald trump twice. the first impeachment was bipartisan only and that both republicans and democrats voted against it. but house democrats and the dc media were undeterred. the second time president trump was impeached shortly before he left office. neither impeachment came close to conviction. are we headed toward a new constitutional norm where my president of the other party will be investigated and peached? what due process was president trump afforded? will that be the same for c
3.4%. black unemployment a lowest ever level of 4.7%. job gains in health care, in the restaurant industry, construction, wages climbing, us is purltives are plenty. but yes, also disruptive. the fed suggesting this week it might be done with interest rate hikes, but these jobs numbers spiking after a downward trnd the past three months underlies the effect to cool the economy to tame inflation. let s get to new york and matt egan. walk us through the big numbers, and forgive me if i have to interrupt. this historic jobs boom continues. despite everything going on now, despite the fed slamming the brakes on the economy, despite the worst banking crisis since 2008, and despite the wave of tech layoffs we keep hearing about, people thought hiring would slow down in april. instead, it accelerated. 253,000 jobs added. 3.4% unemployment rate. to go low you have to go back to 1953 under dwight eisenhower. we saw across the board solid numbers here. professional services, health c
lord, when babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers. remind our lawmakers of the words of the british statesman, edmund burke. all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. senate chaplain barry black appealing to lawmakers to do something about gun violence. but one of the party has made it clear where they stand. and it is not with american children who just want to grow up. a republican congressman admitting today we re not going to fix it. also tonight, trump s goons wanted to murder him. so why is it taking a court order to force mike pence to testify about his life and death ordeal on january 6th? and gone are the days of a functioning house of representatives. kevin mccarthy has handed the keys to the insurrection caucus which has no agenda except punishing their political opponents and doing the dirty work for donald trump. former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, widely considering on
and another loss for the trump movement sweeping across the state. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning a jammed back morning joe starts now. on a basis that every single pundit and legal analyst said there is no case. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. he knew there was no case. it was a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud. everybody said this is not really an indictment, there s nothing here. these are felony crimes in new york city state. my lawyers said there s nothing here. the defendant repeatedly made false statements. they re not not saying what you did. he always caused others to make false statements. charging a former president of the united states for the first time in history. everyone stands equal before the law. donald trump and manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, held two very different news conferences following yester