They are going to start convening public hearings of their own on the legal and constitutional basis for these impeachment proceedings against the president. But even as the process is moving forward in that way, right . With the scheduled public hearings for the Intelligence Committee wrapped and the Intelligence Committee writing up their report now on what their investigation determined, theyre planning to hand that over to the judiciary committee. So judiciary is preparing to receive that report. They have now announced the start of their own scheduled public hearings. All of that toward their ultimate end, which is to draw up the articles of impeachment against the president and put those on the floor of the house for a vote. I mean, even as that is all moving forward at pace right now, we are still getting more about how this whole thing went down including inside the executive branch with these previously unreported protest resignations inside the white house, inside the White H
All in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. We are one week into impeachment hearings. Weve had two days of hearings last week. We have three this week. Just in the last 72 hours, weve gotten a lot of information. One basic top line is clear and it is this. Things are not great for the president right now. In fact it literally was not a great weekend for the president at all. He was rushed to Walter Reed Hospital on saturday. Alongside the white house physician. He spent more than two hours at the hospital. It was not a planned trip. It was nowhere on his public schedule that day. The white house is saying the president just popped over to the hospital to get a headstart on his annual physical exam for 2020, which seems weird. But that happened over the weekend. Generally it feels like from the very moment that trumps call notes from that infamous call from the ukrainian president were released, things have only really moved in one direction, in terms of the pi
Manhattan office idiots and worse for investigating him. Joining us, dana bash, joe lockhart, and cnn Global Affairs analyst bianna golodryga. Great to have you all on this Christmas Eve. Lets start with impeachment and then move to rudy. Im going to have a lozenge while we talk. If you had lozenge on your bingo card. Have another cup of coffee. Joe, who would have thought that wed be looking back on the clinton impeachment as a Gold Standard of civility and bipartisanship. But that is where we are. Mitch mcconnell saying that he will follow the rules as they were done then. Lets take a listen to what he is saying and then have you tra translate it for us into truth. We havent ruled out witnesses. Weve said lets handle this case just like we did with president clinton. Fair is fair. Every other impeachment has had witnesses. Its not unusual to have witnesses in a trial. Okay, joe. Whats he talking about. Whats that clintonera standard that we need to return to . We should remember that
Look at this email. Officially ordering the money to be frozen. It was sent just 91 minutes after trump hung up with zelensky. Fact and contest. Trumps own people sent signals at the same time that they were doing this that the situation was dicey. How do we know . His political appointee mike duffy wrote, quote, i appreciate your keeping that information closely held. Why . Why be so quiet about withholding aid to ukraine . Fact, just days after Congress Found out about the whistleblower, the white house was informed about the whistleblower. Remember the timeline. Even before congress came asking, they knew theres reporting that even the president was aware of the whistleblower. When do they do . When congress comes, they abruptly make the decision to release the money. Why such a quick turn around . Folks at the dod were asking what happened . We dont know what mr. Duffys answer was. But we know he was, quote, glad to have this behind us why would you be glad to have something behind
Democrats and republicans are preparing. What they are going to try to accomplish with the witnesses that will be before them. Speaking of the witnesses, this week bill taylor, the current top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine, george kent, a Department Assistant secretary of state, and Marie Yovanovitch the former u. S. Ambassador to ukrun waine was recalled by the president. Lets start with manu raju on capitol hill. In terms of republican strategy going in, its no surprise, it would be almost malpractice if they didnt have strategies going into these hearings. Whats been revealed is this 18page memo that republican staffers put together about the defenses that they have for the president. What is the strategy . Reporter yeah, theyre trying to move from this process argument theyve been waging for weeks and now looking at the substance. And what theyre trying to argue is that nowhere on the phone call between President Trump and president zelensky of ukraine in july was any pressure, in thei