christmas. it ll be the third time in american history that the house passes articles of impeachment against a sitting president. joining me now from capitol hill with the latest. msnbc s garrett haake. again, garrett, nothing unexpected has happened so far. but there was something. this morning at 9:00 a.m., when nancy pelosi came out and says, you ve got the green light. draft the articles of impeachment. yeah. that s right. and the relevant committees are moving pretty quickly to follow the speaker s instruction. we know after her press conference this morning, pelosi met with the committee chairman from the relevant committees who will be working on this. and democrats on the judiciary committee have been told to go ahead and stick around this weekend to prepare for that monday hearing. monday hearing like this is sort of unusual in the first place. typically, congress doesn t really get up and running until tuesday, wednesday, thursday. but you can tell now that democrats are tr
we hope that, at any time, whoever has this power in this country, that they never repeat what alexander warned us would come. and that this day will never happen again in america. so, ali, in the face of this, republicans are clearly digging in here. i am not a lawyer but i do know enough to know that the president s compliance or lack thereof for these investigations, it s not relevant whether or not he thinks it s fair. i mean, this is a question of legally-authorized subpoenas. democrats feel like almost in some cases, the obstruction case is more clear cut than the case about ukraine just because of the blanket refusing by the white house to participate at any level with this investigation. including with fully-authorized congressional subpoenas for information. you re way too clear to be a lawyer, my friend. garrett haake on capitol hill for us. now, having just said that, i m about to introduce a lawyer. how broad should these articles of impeachment go? i want to bring in a
campaigns into each other s strongho strongholds. we re live in iowa, we are also live in south carolina, as well. this is the scene in iowa right now. both of those candidates making their pitch. and as we speak right now, the supreme court is hearing arguments on its biggest case on guns in ten years. it s a decision that could have a huge impact on local gun laws going forward. i m going to talk to a woman who works every day to advocate for new gun laws to reduce gun violence. she spoke on the steps of the high court there just a few minutes ago. we ll talk to her in just a second. but we start with the impeachment process. one round of public hearings is over. another recount set to begin. so how is washington getting ready for round two? msnbc s garrett haake is on the hill. he starts us off. so, garrett, democrats, they re game planning what wednesday s hearings will look like. what do we know about how that game planning is going so far? well, there s even a step before that,
expect to see some of the fireworks on that standpointed at other members as opposed to the witnesses. so scholars and impeachment experts on wednesday. garrett haake, thank you. let me bring in glen kirchner, former federal prosecutor, also a msnbc legal analyst, and yamiche alcindor, pbs newshour white house correspondent. she is also an msnbc political contributor. thanks to both of you. mr. kirchner, i ll start with you, sir. if you were a house judiciary committee chairman nadler, if you were him right now, planning on how you would kick off this next phase of the impeachment inquiry, who are the first witnesses you would call on wednesday? so, craig, it looks like we re going to hear from a number of academic scholars who can give the american people a few different lessons. a civics lesson, a history lesson, a constitutional law lesson, and i think what s going to be most important is for those witnesses to be kind of plainspoken academics. and i know that might sound like
president s corner. and the idea that he might be chasing, pursuing some of the same conspiracies, some of the same things the president is interested in is not surprising either. what he was intending to do with it and what, if anything, the full house will do with this investigation when they come back are i think two worth while questions to follow up on from somebody in nunes s world. you know, you re not alone. our colleague jacob soberoff tried to ask why we vote on tuesday and nunes referred him to his office. it happens with the best of us. even beyond the president. garrett haake, garrett thank you very much. for more, i am joined here in new york by msnbc political analyst and new york times political reporter nick. msnbc political analyst and former clinton campaign advisor zerlina maxwell. guys, there is so much happening today. we are still waiting on this ruling with don mcgahn. whether or not he s going to be compelled to testify. still, if that does happen, the wh