a vote to impeach alejandro mayorkas is heading to the house floor after a 13-hour hearing that stretched into the early hours of this morning, and ended with a gop party line committee vote to advance. but will it advance out of the house and to a senate trial? that is not clear. just like the vote for speaker, republicans have a tight margin. already two members are expressing doubt the gop has enough evidence to impeach mayorkas. are there more out there? that is not the only risk. the move itself is being panned as overtly political, especially as speaker mike johnson vows to squash a bipartisan border bill in the senate. killing a potential fix for the crisis in the cradle. as the wall street journal editorial board writes, quote, grand standing is easier than governing. and republicans have to decide whether to accomplish anything other than impeaching democrats. joining us now, at a shelter near the southern border is nbc news correspondent david noriega, punchbowl
israeli troops disguised themselves as palestinians to kill a suspected terrorist in a west bank hospital. hamas political leaders do not rule out a hostage deal. with me this hour, former bush national security advisor steven hadley on the tensions throughout the region and mike lawler and jared moskowicz to punish iran. house republicans prepare to vote on launching impeachment hearings against homeland security secretary mayorkas, what could be the first impeachment of a sitting cabinet member since 1876. catherine cortez-mastro joins me with the latest on the border and the 2024 campaign. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the president has decided, he says, how and when to strike back against the iran-backed militias who killed three u.s. troops in jordan. he appears to have ruled out striking iran itself. i don t think we need a wider war in the middle east. that s not what i m looking for. local reports say that iranian-sponsored fighters ar
greetings, everyone. i am symone sanders-townsend in for stephanie ruhle. tonight, we heard from writer e. jean carroll just days after a new york jury found that trump must pay her more than $83 million for defaming her. carroll and her attorneys spoke to rachael maddow tonight, admitting she was nervous about physically facing trump in court. but one moment, that changed. amazingly, i looked out and he was nothing, he was nothing. he was a phantom. there was some people around him who were giving him about, but he himself was nothing. it was an astonishing discovery for me. he is nothing. we don t need to be afraid of him. he can be knocked out. as big as that 83 million -dollar verdict is, donald trump may have an even bigger penalty to soon deal with. we are expecting a decision in the new york civil fraud trial in the coming days. now, the new york attorney general is asking trump and his companies to be fined $370 million. and there are questions as to whether tru
region and drag the united states even deeper. the issue is what to do now that three american soldiers are dead. the president says he holds iran responsible and has made a decision on how to respond. is it the right decision? what can he do to balance risk? secretary of state blinken says no one wants escalation. is that true of iran whose leaders call for death to america? in the atlantic, american policy toward iran has failed because it has always taken a segmented approach to the iran problem, defining it as a hostage problem or freedom of the seas problem or a nuclear problem or an iraq problem. but rarely as what it is. an islamic republic of iran problem. joining us now, nbc news pentagon correspondent and traveling with the president in miami is mike memoli. all right, so courtney, the president says he s made a decision. what do we know about what the pentagon proposed for him? we know that it was a wide range of options here. there have been several times in the
we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. we must guard against the acquisition of unwanted influence by the military industrial complex. 63 years after president eisenhower s farewell speech, those words are coming back to haunt us, with fears growing of a regional war in the middle east. also tonight, e. jean carroll speaks out for the first time since the $83 million verdict against donald trump. trump doesn t even pay his lawyers, so how likely is it that ms. carroll will ever see that money? plus, infrastructure and chips and science are among president biden s biggest accomplishments. now, republicans are shamelessly trying to take credit for policies they voted against. but we begin tonight with the growing threat of a regional war in the middle east. over the weekend, three u.s. service members were killed and more than 40 injured in an attack on a military base in northeast jordan near the syrian border. late today