Speaking after day one of the trial, mr trump sought to cast doubt over the legitimacy of the court. It isa it is a scam trial. It is a political scam, a political witchhunt that continues, and it continues forever, and were not going to be given a fair trial. Its a very, very sad thing. 0ur North America correspondent John Sudworth has more from new york. Well, when Donald Trumps motorcade left this precinct, a man of course it is no stranger to breaking the rules and norms of political life hit another milestone, this time a legal one, becoming the first former us president to face a criminal trial. 0nce us president to face a criminal trial. Once it got under way, as is often the case in courts, the business was pretty humdrum to begin with, procedural arguments, and the defence raising a number of questions. At one point asking whether donald trump could have the day off at some point to attend his younger sons high school graduation. Thejudge younger sons high school graduation. T
way too early on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. what is the specific constitutional crime that you re investigating? well, we re having an inquiry, so we can do an investigation and get the production witnesses and what is the crime you re investigating? and documents. high crimes, misdemeanors and what are you investigating? look, once i get time, i will explain what we re looking at. wow. that has the real vibe of a kid who did not prepare for the class presentation. the book was not just about mice, but it also had men. that clip is the house republican agenda in a nutshell. that was also my high school career. yeah. in a nutshell. he s not lying. the lower chamber is moving forward with an impeachment inquiry despite presenting no evidence of any wrongdoing by the president. the vote came after hunter biden defied a subpoena from house republicans, challenging them to hold a public hearing for his testimony. we ll ha
impeachment because they feared it would bitterly and perhaps irreparably divide our nation. the founders of this country warned against ais single party impeachment you know why? you guys know why. the founding fathers warned us, i mean they feared a single party impeachment. they knew it would bitterly divide the country. it might be irreparable damage tore the country. the founding fathers warned us no single party impeachments. if an impeachment isn t bipartisan, it should not happen. so spoke theno founding fathers and that was the message from louisiana congressman mike johnson. when congressman johnson was especially concerned about an impeachment happening the december before an election year. if you don t like the president, he goes ondo the balt again after four years. we have an election in 11 months. let the people decide this. today we are once again 11 months outga from a presidentia election, and speaker mike johnson has decided he wants to go ahead with
ago democrats were preparing to impeach donald trump from withholding aid to ukraine in an attempt to get political dirt on joe biden. republicans were not surprisingly outraged. but there was one republican congressman in a particular with a very specific reason for opposing trump s impeachment, a reason that he repeated over and over and over. the founding fathers, the fathers of this country warned against single party impeachment. they said it would be piddly divisive, perhaps irreparably divisive for the country. the founders of this country understand single party impeachment, or because they feared it would bitterly and perhaps irreparably divide our nation. the founders of this country want against a single party impeachment, you know why, you guys know why. because the fear it would bitterly and perhaps irreparably divide our nation. the founding fathers warned us, the spirit single party impeachment, they knew it would bitterly divide the country, it might b
left, like, what do you put on that generation of children that are witnessing this level of draw trauma and, destruction, and death? and peter beinart, thank you both, appreciate it. that is all in on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. thank, you my friend, we have a lot to get to this evening. thank you tom for joining with me tonight. this time of year, four years ago, democrats were preparing to impeach donald trump for withholding aid to ukraine in an attempt to get political dirt on joe biden. the republicans were not surprisingly outraged. but there was one republican congressman in particular who had a very specific reason for opposing trump s impeachment, a reason that he repeated over and over and over. but the founding fathers, the founders of this country, warned against single party impeachment. they said it would be bitterly divisive, protect perhaps irreparably divisive for the country. the founders of this cou