Legal ground. The other big news tonight is today, President Trump claimed executive privilege for the first time, the first time ever, in his presidency. All to prevent congress from privately seeing the full unredacted report. These have led to quite the unusual scene. Ill show it to you now. Jerry nadler addressing the press and the public after overseeing this fivehour tense hearing which voted to hold mr. Barr in contempt of mr. Madner saying, he thinks were in a new phase. One of crisis. Weve talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. We are now in it. Now is the time of testing whether we can keep a republic or whether this republic is decemb destined to change into a more i tyrannical form of government. Strong words from the chairman which he says justifies this his, to vote to hold barr in contempt, all for refusing to give congress the unredacted Mueller Report. This goes next to the full house. Speaker pelosi is expected to rally her caucus. It would
Call it, p. M. Joy. Senator Elizabeth Warren makes a point that about russia interfering with the 2016 election. The white house says the two spoke for an hour discussing several topics which included the Mueller Report. A normal president would have told putin to back off and stay out of next years elections. Donald trump is not a normal president. Instead, he proved he is incapable of or unwilling to confront putin and standup for the u. S. Electoral system. Did you tell him not to meddle in the next election. Excuse me, im talking. Im answering this question. You are very rude. We had a good conversation about many things. Did you tell him not the meddle in the next election . We didnt discuss it. Joining me is malcolm. Former california senator, barbara boxer, a Washington Post columnist and coauthor of one nation after trump and david corn for mother jones. In the open, we talked about a normal president and what they might have done. What might a president in a normal frame of mi
Valerie plame, she knows a bunch about bad guys in the middle east and shes now running for congress. She says she has some scores to settle. New week, same call to action. What do you have say, lets get after it. Latest word tonight is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not say if the house is conducting an impeachment inquiry or just investigating. She keeps saying that impeachment as an outcome is, quote, a possibility. She appears to be downplaying the Judiciary Committees new moves to ready the rules that would guide potential impeachment hearings. Chairman nadler has scheduled a vote thursday to define parameters. One of the members on that committee, steve cohen, has been itching to get this going since the beginning to time, it feels to me. He joins us now. Welcome congressman. Good to have you back. Good to be with you. What is this vote we expect around thursday. Why does it matter it matters because it formally sets up a house judiciary inquiry into the impeachment of donald j.
That hearing at the house Judiciary Committee. He would have been, he was scheduled to and now democrats are talking about the possibility of a subpoena, though nor the moment theyre focused on getting the fully unredacted Mueller Report without any of the redactions that were made and crucially with all of the underlying evidence, inste spent the day defending how he handled this is barr released and summarized that report not only against attacks from democrats but also a letter from the special counsel himself saying that he mischaracterized the special counsels findings. Manu raju is outside that house hearing. Barr is not there, he was meant to be the main attraction, so what happens today without him in the chair . Reporter democrats are going to make their objections known very clearly here. They are furious on multiple accounts with the Justice Department, not just the attorney general for refusing to show up, there is an empty chair right now in this room with a placard that s
Im still fighting the battle all these years later. I think you had to know jebs sense of humor. Jebs very dry sense of humor. But it is two and a half years later still fighting for jeb. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Its tuesday, april 23rd. Where is the time going, everybody . We have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, host of kasie d. C. What are you doing here so early . Thanks for having me. And msnbc political analyst Eugene Robinson is here. Please clap. Well always clap for you. Well begin with a poll after the release of muellers redacted report that shows President Trump hitting an alltime low. Politico has trumps Approval Ratings dropping 5 points to 39 . 57 disapprove of trumps job performance, up 6 points since last week. But while trump is unpopular, so is impeachment. The Morning Consult politico poll finds only 34 support beginning of impeachment proceedings, that is down from 39 in january, 48 are opposed. Joe . Yeah. So this is, again, what i say all the time in