Thanks, my dear. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Happy monday. There are only 100 people who serve in the United States senate. Like the how it is, the senate does all its work through committees. Thats where they work on legislation and oversight and investigations. There are a lot of internal politics about who gets on what committee and who gets to be chair of a committee. In some states, certain committees are very important and give you a lot of homestate advantage if youre on those committees. You can understand why a senator from iowa would want to be on the Agricultural Committee or why one from new york would want to be on the banning committee. But some of the committees, no matter where youre from, everybody wants to be on them because they are prestigious in all the right ways for everybody in the senate. And so even though there are only 100 u. S. Senators in total, 26 out of the 100 senators are on the Armed Services committee, more than one in every four
What are you doing . Come on. No, this is oh, my god. Look at what you did to him. United ceo finally apologizing but its not over yet. The family of the man dragged off that plan says hes being treated at a chicago hospital. Lets get right to our breaking news first though on the Trump Administration charges of improper surveillance by the Obama Administration. Were learning more about the claims of House Intelligence Committee chairman nunes improperly requested the identities of americans appearing in intelligence reports. Here is what congressman nunes said previously. Theres some information in those documents that concern me and the reports that i read that i dont think belong there. It would make me uncomfortable. Some of it it bothered me enough that i went over to the white house because i think the president needs to see these reports for himself. I was concerned about americans identities being either not masked properly or being unmasked in intelligence reports. Congressman
In terms of where we are tonight at the end of this pretty incredible week, is there any more clarity on where the investigation is going in your mind . Theres new energy in the investigation. If you think back to ten days a my republican colleagues were already talking about trying to shut down the investigation because there wasnt enough there. This is despite don juniors meeting and the firing of Michael Flynn. And then George Papadopoulos, a guy admitting to lying about contacts he had with the russians for the purpose of helping donald trump. So that, of course, raises all kinds of questions what happened there, what the followup was, but it certainly gives new energy to all the investigations in terms of finding out what happened. In terms of the investigation, though, were only seeing a tiny the tip of the iceberg here . Thats right. Give bob mueller his due. He kept that under wraps. We didnt know until Paul Manafort walked into the courthouse and the fbi released the George Pa
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Whats going on. Koujter terrorism is on this. Authorities have responded to a shooting incident. As soon as get more information, we will bring that to you. For now, a very good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Im alex witt. Thank you for joining me. High noon in the east, 9 00 a. M. In the west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Another wild 24 hours of impeachment developments, including gripping testimony at a critical hearing. A leading democrat talks about how much closer congress is to the truth. Theyre pursuing an illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional bull [ bleep ] impeachment. Yep, ugly language. The president resorts to coarse language again at his latest rally. So, whats this a sign of . After midnight, how one call from the Trump Administration tried to stop a key impeachment witness and why that call failed, for now. Disappearing act. Some of the president s closest aides stopped talking as the impeachment inquiry unfolds, but why . New detai