They both say that they want that. They have both backed billions of dollars for it in the past. But for some reason now its a big problem. Much further south of the border today another story is playing out. The beginning of the end of the dictatorship of nicholas nis maduro who oversaw the death of democracy in his country and drove it into the ground, no food, no medicine, and, if you spoke up to complain, you were likely to be thrown in prison. Today President Trump announcing that the United States would no longer recognize maduro as venezuelas president one day after Vice President mike pence released a video to the venezuela people. The United States supports the courageous decision by juan guaido, the president of your National Assembly to assert that bodys constitutional powers, declare maduro a usurper and call for the establishment of a transitional government. Back in october the Vice President made this claim about the origins and potential backers of the growing migrant c
For a navy s. E. A. L. An update on Ruth Bader Ginsburg as well. She has been hospitalized this weekend. Former congressman david jolly, msnbc contributor, and hayes brown, Senior Editor and reporter from Buzzfeed News and host of podcast impeachment today, which i recommend to everybody. And former federal prosecutor, special counsel to the Senate Committee on the judiciary. I will start with that news about devin nunes who seems to be close to the center of that story the committee has been investigating. It sounds like congressman nunes could face another ethics investigation into a meeting he reportedly had with the ukrainian prosecutor in which he discussed investigation into the bidens. Do you believe that this should be a matter for an ethics investigation for mr. Nunes. Quite likely, without question. Details of the secret meeting surfaced with one of Rudy Giulianis associates was prosecuted. Congressman declined to comment to nbc news and threatened to sue two other news organ
Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. This is moving really fast. We are now at 218. 218 democrats in the house favor the impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Thats the magic number. The magic number. It was 134 on sunday on sunday it was 84 since sunday. You know, the question of how broad theyre going to make this impeachment proceeding in terms of how broadly theyre going to draw these articles is fascinating. I think that its worth knowing, though, that theyve got, you know, its like bird in the hand, two in the bush. At this point if they want to impeach him specifically on this scandal of what he admitted to today in terms of what he asked the ukraine government for, theyre done. Theyve got that in hand if they want to do it. They also have the Mueller Report, and weve never seen one article go forward. Theres a lot of reasons for that, including offering the senate, for example, the possibility some senat
The magic number. It was 134 on sunday on sunday it was 84 since sunday. You know, the question of how broad theyre going to make this impeachment proceeding in terms of how broadly theyre going to draw these articles is fascinating. I think that its worth knowing, though, that theyve got, you know, its like bird in the hand, two in the bush. At this point if they want to impeach him specifically on this scandal of what he admitted to today in terms of what he asked the ukraine government for, theyre done. Theyve got that in hand if they want to do it. They also have the Mueller Report, and weve never seen one article go forward. Theres a lot of reasons for that, including offering the senate, for example, the possibility some senators the possibility to vote against one article or two articles, and then vote for one. And it only takes one. So if you get the twothirds vote on one article, but then two or three other articles dont pass, the president is still removed. And so that is ver