Writer e. Jean carrolls harrowing Sexual Assault by donald trump. Plus joy reid on what could be the most consequential event of the primary so far, and what we learned when a federal judge unsealed Sean Hannitys Text Messages with Paul Manafort. Thats what i said, thats obviously what our position in. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. Theres one thing we know for sure tonight and its something to be thankful for. We did not start a military conflict with iran last night. That is unequivocally good news. The rest of the story, including how close we came to launching an attack, remains unclear due to conflicting accounts and an administration whose word has absolutely no credibility. Not long after we got off the air last night, the New York Times broke the story that the president had approved military strikes against iran in response to the downing of an american surveillance drone. And then he abruptly changed his mind. According to the times
Step. The resolution outlining four key changes to committee hearings. One, it would allow chairman nadler to designate full committee or subcommittee hearings as part of the impeachment probe. Two, it would allow staff to question witnesses for an additional hour. Three, it would allow for secret grand jury material to be reviewed in closed executive session. Finally, it would allow trumps counsel to respond to testimony presented in committee in writing. Now nadler is using the same outline the committee used in 1974 during the nixon impeachment proceedings, and he says today it is the next step in the impeachment probe. This news coming as democrats expand the investigation beyond mueller. Now investigating the hush money payments, reports trump dangled pardons to officials willing to break the law to implement his immigration policies. And whether his resort properties illegally profited from government business. Also today, three house committees announcing they are now investigat
And joy read on what could be the most consequential moment so far . Good evening, we did not start a military conflict with iran last night. How close we came to launching an attack. Not long after we got off air last night the New York Times wroek the story that the president approved military strikes against iran. And then he abruptly changed his mind. According to the times siting senior officials they initially approved attacks on a number of targets including radar and missile batteries and radars in air and ships in position when the word came to stand down. Today the president gave his own account on what happened on twitter and in an interview with chuck todd. His version has suspicious details. We were cocked and loaded on three different sites, 150, sir, it was not proportionate, the military is rebuilt, by far ready to go and the best in the world. A lot there, first of all, it is very harge to imagid to imagine pentagon waiting until the last moment to find out how many pe
Them in the general . The wizard of oz has numbers that should stop the democrats in their tracks. The president s campaign, already picking up on a mistake, developing tonight. Lets get after it. Senator Kamala Harris said she was not surprised by anything that came her way last night. Not even this . She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. She blocked evidence she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of california. And she fought to keep cash bail system in place. That impacts poor people in the worst kind of way. Harris may not have been surprised by the specific accusations but she didnt have specific replies. And gabbard didnt make those up. It was written by somebody who used to work with senator harris. How did it work out . Tha
Ainsley is you steve how you cannot sing along with that. Brian because i like frosty. Ainsley there she is. Was this a video taken when she did the original video, brian . Or is this yesterday . You said she is timeless. You cant tell. Brian i cant tell. Why test me. Brian is that from the History Channel or the hallmark channel. Steve fox news channel. And welcome aboard. Ainsley people are sick are talking about impeachment. They just want some christmas music. Brian you can see some of the anger yesterday when you look around. Some of these moderate democrats in trumpwon districts are under a lot of pressure to maybe not go along with impeachment or pretend they are evaluating whether to vote for it or not. One of those was alyssa slot kin she said after much deliberation, i will vote for it, heres the reaction. [chants] thrilled to see such great turnout today. Lets please let her speak. Brian she voted her conscience. Ainsley in a trump district. Only one who actually said he is