for an entire year. thanks for everything that you do, rachel. thanks for watching. ari melber is next. i will be back in t minus seven hours. good night from new york. good evening. welcome back to our series impeachment: white house in crisis. tonight we join you for the first time since the house judiciary committee voted to approve those two articles of impeachment against donald trump clearing the way for the house to clear the second impeachment. now tonight we have a whole series of experts to help us break down the charges against president trump and also how to watch what s coming next. we will also look at why democrats chose to go with this narrow case for impeachment. i have another story that relates. the origins of the russia probe and a justice report that
a future president can just say no to them for any reason? barrett? yeah. i mean, i come back to looking at this through a former prosecutor s eyes. and i think about when we were making decisions about whether to bring a case or not. we never thought how is this going to make us look? is this going to make the office look good? look bad? it was has a crime been committed and what is the right thing to do. and she so beautifully articulated that same analysis that they did back then and that congress is having to confront right now, what s the right thing to do. jason, stay with me. turning back to our folks here on headquarters, though, impeachment central as it s become, i want to dig into why the obstruction matters when it is so blatant because everyone understands, whether you are a lawyer dealing with pushing deadlines or people buying time, there are all sorts of little ways, nixon cuts that goes on. but one of the things that was laid out is that this is part of
the argument, why don t you just wait, amounts to this: why don t you just let him cheat in one more election? why not let him cheat just one more time? that s the right question when you are talking about whether these articles demonstrate an impeachable offense, because, remember, impeachment means not just the and you say this all the time on the show, ari. it is not whether the president did something wrong. it is how serious is it? because it is a very big decision to remove a sitting president. and what adam schiff is saying is it is very serious and it s very serious because it is our elections. it is very serious because it s our national security, which also includes our elections, and we have an election that s going t to be coming up in 2020. remember that donald trump doubled down in october on china opening investigations on the bidens and suggests he would
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have full control of the process. they are the ones that are going to be able to vote in the rules they like. they are going to be the ones that will have the advantage here. they are no longer going to be able to complain about the process. now they will have to confront that evidence. as we have seen through all these hearings, that evidence is pretty damning. and that process is moving pretty quickly. some of us follow this day in and day out. some say, whoa, a month ago one thing was happening. there were these hearings. next week they re holding a vote to impeach the guy. this is real. a lot of people think, what do impeachment and love have in common? i m sure you know the answer. you can t hurry love. you just have to wait. and a lot of people were waiting for impeachment, not hurrying it. and then all of a sudden hurry up and do it. i want to play chairman schiff s argument for why that is. the republicans have an argument that democrats are out to get trump either way. chair