finished. pardon-palooza. rhonda santa fouls to pardon some january 6th insurrectionists, including trump himself. what is he thinking? i m michael steele in for ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. to breaking developments tonight to begin the hour. in a history making vote, the texas house just voted to impeach state attorney general, ken paxton. a republican. temporarily removing him from office over actions of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office. the vote to adopt the 20 articles of impeachment was overwhelming. 100 and 21 to 23. attention now shifts to the texas senate which will conduct a trial with senators acting as jurors, and designated house numbers representing their place, presenting their case rather, as impeachment managers. also breaking tonight, new developments on the critical debt limit negotiations. a short time ago, nbc news learned that president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just finished speaking by phone. their call lasting
for the last several weeks. we are told, just in the last few minutes, that the white house and republican negotiators did reach a deal in principle. an agreement in principle, i say that carefully, because remember, republicans want a chance to sell their members. which we are told they are going to do in under an hour. at 9:30 tonight. and all member call will be held where republican leadership will start to begin to see how many members they can get on board for this agreement. if they can sell it to enough of their membership, the event supported at the end, which we expect they will. according to republicans. so look, all of this right now comes down to what s actually in this deal, of course. we don t have the exact contours figured out. but the fact that this agreement was struck, we are told, during that phone conversation between the president and between the speaker that happened earlier in the evening, is significant. patrick mchenry, a close ally of speaker mccarthy had to