The sphere and the sweet sounds of Secretary Blinken to take us off the air tonight. And on that pretty fantastic note, i wish you all a fantastic night. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me. Ill see you at the end of tomorrow. End of tomorrow today was the first hearing in the House Republican Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. And when i tell you it was not a lot of they are there, that this inquiry was so far based on paranoid vibes and conspiracy hunches, will dont take my word for it. Here are the three witnesses that House Republicans called today to make their case. Let me say that again, these are the witnesses that House Republicans cold. I am not here today to even suggest that there was corruption or any wrongdoing. In fact, i do not believe that the Current Evidence would support articles of impeachment. You mention in your oral testimony, you had written a commentary entitled, youd go to prison for what bi
Sake. Theyre not talking about the budget or the millions of americans who will lose paychecks in a Government Shutdown, including members of the military and air Traffic Controllers and tsa workers. Instead, the house gop is focused on hunter biden, spending this entire thursday morning and afternoon, again, just two days before the government shuts down on saturday to open their Impeachment Inquiry into his dad, the president. Theyre looking into hunter biden as well. We ask, is this time well spent. Joining us now capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and Punch Bowl News cofounder and msnbc political contribute jake sherman. There are 52 hours or so before the government shuts down. Is there anything else happening that were not currently watching on television . No, not really. There are a couple of things worth noting. Number one, the senate is trying its best to cobble together a Border Security package to ride along
Working in lockstep to protect against china what do you expect him Prime Minister kishida to say hes going to be addressing congress what are you expecting him to highlight . Prime minister kishida has been a very vocal advocate when it comes to the role of the russian invasion in ukraine and what it could mean to other countries, specifically in east asia, Prime Minister kishida has really coined the phrase, ukraine today could be east asia tomorrow. And by that he means that if there is not a strong response from western countries to the russian invasion of ukraine, then countries like china could take away the message that perhaps they could take aggressive actions and take over other countries or other territories like taiwan Prime Minister kishida is really going to try to send that message the underlying message there is that he Hopes Congress will pass but a us aid package to ukraine, and that he really hopes to see that come through. And secondly, foreign minister kishida is g
wallace. ever since charged were handed down against donald trump, the ex president has seen returning to the white house as his best defense. no one is more aware of this than jack smith. jack smith asked the supreme court to rule on donald trump s bid to have the charges ruled out because the alleged crimes took place while he was president. this is not new. judge tanya chutkan rejected that claim and trump appealed. jack smith is asking the supreme court to leap frog the appeals court and settle the matter once and for all. the special counsel s move setting up the first, but maybe not the last time, the supreme courtla a role in the united states versus donald trump. prosecutors say, quote, this caserents a fundamental question at the heart ofur democracy. whether a fmer president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed ile in office or is constitutionally protect from federal prosecution when he s been impeached by the house, but not convicte
with less than six weeks until the iowa caucuses four republican hopefuls not named trump try to set themselves apart. good evening from new york. hello from the spin room here on the campus of the university of alabama in tuscaloosa. site of the debate, 2024. it is wrapping up. chris christie, ron desantis, nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy once again the former president did not take part. nikki haley, who has been rising lately as a contender in some polls and in the eyes of some campaign watchers and certainly in the eyes of some big donors came in for she had a lot of criticism heading towards her tonight from desantis and ramaswamy. no doubt that. i know you will be speaking with some of the debaters tonight. look forward to that. pamela brown is checking the facts. gary has his focus group of voters in iowa. and our political panel here. first, a moment from the debate stage. a clash between chris christie a vivek ramaswamy with nikki haley it in the middle. you