Street puppet eeer spinney. Good morning. Its 4 00 a. M. In new york. Six days to the Iowa Caucuses. We start in the nations capital, with democrats facing a momentous impeachment finale, as they set the charges against President Trump. Judiciary Committee Members will hear the case. Party members are questioning whether to include investigations from the Mueller Report. Judiciary committee chairman, jerry nadler, confident in his case but cautious about using muellers evidence. Do you feel comfortable that this whole thing was directed by the president himself . Yes. You feel you have a rocksolid case . We have a very rocksolid case. The case, if presented to the jury, would be a guilty verdict in three minutes thereat. As youre talking about this, you keep bringing up the 2016 election and russia. It certainly sounds to me like you want that to be included going forward. I wouldnt draw any conclusions. Its part of the pattern, which is why i bring it up. Reviving muellers evidence co
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Under way on this monday evening. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. H this was day 1,054 of the trump administration. We have breaking news tonight about the news that is coming ea tomorrow morning. Both politico and the Washington Post were first to report that Committee Chairs plan to announce the articles of impeachment during a press an conference in the morning. Politico reports democrats, quote, plan to unveil at least two articles of impeachment on tuesday, charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of congress. The Judiciary Committee plans to vote on the articles on ci thursday. Nbc news has also confirmed these latest developments, and this comes after another marathon hearing on the hill in which democrats and republicans in the house judiciary committeo faced off over the evidence f compiled thus far against the president. During the hearing, republicans made a point of bringing up the repeatedly debunked theor
Russian disinformation with a straight face, passing along conspiracy theories when they know the truth. Why one reporter said tonight it felt like truth itself was on trial as the 11th hour gets under way on this monday evening. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. This was day 1,054 of the trump administration. We have breaking news tonight about the news that is coming tomorrow morning. Both politico and the Washington Post were first to report that Committee Chairs plan to announce the articles of impeachment during a press conference in the morning. Politico reports democrats, quote, plan to unveil at least two articles of impeachment on tuesday, charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of congress. The Judiciary Committee plans to vote on the articles on thursday. Nbc news has also confirmed these latest developments, and this comes after another marathon hearing on the hill in which democrats and republicans in the h
Leading the proceedings, how judiciary chairman jerry nadler saying impeachment articles will presumably be introduced this week. Both parties making the sunday morning rounds. The process is ill legitimate. You dont want an anonymous person to be able to create pilot proceedings. We have a solid case. The democrats are looking for a partisan impeachment of the president of the United States. If presented to a jury is a guilty verdict in about three minutes flat. The evolving standard for impeachment. This is a classic example of an impeachable offense. The focus is on the president s misconduct. We have to move forward. Abuse of power, might be obstruction of congress. The president accused democrats of changing the impeachment guidelines less than 48 hours before the hearing. Hes referring to this. A 55 page document released yesterday afternoon. It lays out how impeachment will be defined in the hearings. It builds on the report that was originally written and in the nixon era last