Joining me now. Tell us why biden is picking these folks for these roles chlts. These are coming in a speedy way here. This is faster than former president barack obama filled his cabinet. Theyre clearly moving in expedited fashion to fill the space they see, given all of what we are talking about going on in michigan. When you look at the roster of names as you said, familiar faces, longstanding experience in their areas of expertise, john kerry, former secretary of state, long time massachusetts senator, one of the authors of the paris climate accords is coming back into the administration, special envoy for climate change. This is something that doesnt need approval by the senate, he does not need to be confirmed. This is someone that will be on the National Security council. That is one of the bigger surprises on the list of names. It is a whos who of who worked inside the obama government, also for joe biden for a long time. Tony blinken, nominee to be secretary of state, widely e
National security, democracy and the u. S. Constitution. Were standing by for remarks by the House Speaker, nancy pelosi. Were also getting new information about whats ahead as the president faces trial in the u. S. Senate and as the nation is on high alert right now for the possibility of new attacks leading up to president elect joe bidens inauguration one week from today. Lets go to Phil Mattingly up on capitol hill, monitoring these truly historic be developments. Set the seen for us. Tell us what were about to see. Reporter think of it this way. One week ago at this very moment Capitol Police were still under siege, trying to push a mob outside of the United States senate, the United States house. Today the u. S. House, seven days later, has impeached President Trump for inciting an insurrection. Ten republicans joining 222 democrats, leading to that impeachment. An Historic Second impeachment. The first time thats ever occurred in the countrys history for a president and what tha
Biden and Bernie Sanders separated by twotenths of a percent. Elizabeth warren is in third, and joe biden still fourth with just under 16 . I had a chance to sit down with mayor pete yesterday and we talked about what this win, perceived win in iowa means for his candidacy. Heres what he said. We are 48 hours into the process of proving, not talking, but proving that we can turn out voters and win against our competitors. The next chance to prove it is in New Hampshire, then nevada, then South Carolina. I think by the time you get to South Carolina, i no longer have to defend the idea that a Campaign Like mine can be competitive in the first place. More with mayor pete throughout the hour. We have another huge story to get to this morning, the senate vote to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment. We hear from the president at noon today, he will address the Impeachment Vote. As we speak, the president is at the National Prayer breakfast where the decision is clearly on
Chambers to the house floor. Lawmakers are expected to vote on some kind of a bill and were expecting it to be a shortterm funding bill. Just extending funding for a mere three weeks. Yet, just a short time ago, you never know whats going to happen here. The house abruptly went into recess without voting on this bill. So i want to bring in cnns athena zwroens. Also with us chief political analyst Gloria Borger. Lets start with you, athena. The ball has been in the houses court for a few hours. Whats the latest . Hi, ana. That is the latest. Normally for a debate like this we take to you the floor. But right now the house is in recess. There is nothing going on on the house floor. Thats because Republican Leadership is having a hard time getting the votes they need to pass this shortterm bill that would Fund Department of Homeland Security for the next three weeks. Right now gop leadership is huddled in speaker boehners office talking this through. Thats not a good sign either. Heres th
Wednesday night. Well, geeng once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. This was day 650 of the trump administration. And with only six days until the Midterm Elections the president is going big on immigration, big on fears of an invasion across our southern border, and sending troops to head it off. However much that wildly departs from reality. Once again hes calling for an end to birthright citizenship, saying he alone can stop it, and putting down even those republicans who dare to get in his way. Earlier tonight at a rally outside of fort myers, florida the president did talk a great deal about immigration. But he started by condemning saturdays mass shooting at the synagogue in pittsburgh, after calling the shooting terrible and again denouncing antisemitism in his prepared remarks, trump immediately trashed the news media over coverage of his visit to pittsburgh. I came home and sadly turned on the news and watched as the far left media once again used tragedy