Then the president s red sox to the kurdish debalker. How the most powerful woman in congress is standing up to the president. I think the president knows the argument that can be made against him and hes scared. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One by one sometimes hour by hour the president s defenses just keep collapsing. Heres how things have gone as the president and his allies have tried to defend the indefensible. First they stake out a position and that position falls out from under their feet and they retreat a step. And then that position falls out from under their feet and so it goes over and over and over again. It started with that infamous phone call between trump and the ukrainian president where he asks for military assistance and trump responds, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. At first trump and company argued it was perfectly appropriate for a president to coerce a besieged foreign entity into investigating his riv
Cosigned a statement urging the house of representatives to expedite its impeachment investigation of the president and move to a potential trial in the senate as soon as possible. One of the cosigners of that statement will join us at the end of this hour. And that is the only cosigner of that letter who has worked on an impeachment case, himself. He was one of the prosecutors whose investigation led to the impeachment of bill clinton. He now wants donald trump impeached and removed from office. Two of the three people who we know were scheming together to do Donald Trumps bidding with ukraine have been indicted and arrested. Heres the one who did not get arrested today, and here is what Rudy Giuliani said about his friends getting arrested by the fbi last night. All i can tell you about this arrest is it comes at a very suspicious time. Well, we can tell you a little bit more about the arrest. The two associates of Rudy Giuliani who have been working with him on ukraine were arrested
Good morning, it is thursday, november 14th, im yasmin vossoughian. Amin is on assignment. It has been quite a 24 hours or so. We begin with that major revelation in the impeachment probe that directly implicated the president in thepr ukraine scandal. It came from ambassador bill taylor,ll who testified alongsi state Department Official george kent inst the probes first pubc hearing yesterday. During his opening statement, ambassador taylor testified about a july 26th phone conversation that happened just one day after trumps controversial call with the president of ukraine. Watchth this. In the presence of my staff, at o a restaurant, ambassador sondland called President Trump and told him of his meetings in kiev, and the member of my staff could hear President Trump on themp phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. Ambassador sondland told President Trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. Following the call with President Trump, the memberfo o my staff ask
Together to root out corruption. Now we know corruption was basically code for the bidens and the dnc. So what would the gop response be . Here it is, a travesty, a sham, a mockery. Two dozen House Republicans storming the room where pence and other official, laura cooper, was set to give a deposition, to testify. The goal lawmakers went through three different doors carrying electronics. Youre not supposed to carry electronics into a schif, a secure room. They were shouting because they were being locked out. Oh, wait, no they werent. There was a handful of republicans colleagues already inside free to ask their own questions. So what was the move . What made this okay . Ohio Representative Bill Johnson was one of those republicans who raided the skiff. Congressman, welcome to prime time. Good to be with you. Dockmcongressman, did you br phone in there . The Washington Post and i dont agree very often but i like their mast. It says democracy dies in darkness. We headed down that hallw
All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on this backtowork monday night. Well, good evening once again from our msnbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,089 of the trump administration, 295 days to go now until our next president ial election. This is the start of a big week in the impeachment case against the president. The importance of it underscored by this piece of reporting tonight from the New York Times that has been subsequently matched by the washington post. The russians have been hacking into the Ukrainian Gas Company at the center of the impeachment case, burisma. The times says the cyberattacks started back in early november just as we all started hearing more about this burisma, about joe and hunter biden, about ukraine and ultimately about impeachment. Bidens son hunter now famously served on the burisma board, and trump has been urging ukraines president to investigate that as he admitted back in october. Mr. President , what exactly did you hope zelensky woul