Talk about these now because they are public, although we decide them in confidence. There was an allegation, despite the fact he was in jail, about Jesse Jackson and his use of Campaign Funds for his personal use and for purchasing mink coats for his spouse. There are issues kirk Jesse Jackson, jr. Ann junior. We have a number of personal use kinds of issues. There are complaints about illegaly coordination because the Supreme Court has said it is improper to coordinate with independent groups and the candidates because that is a protection of the law so that there can be independent, truly independent expenditures. Kirk lets get it on the table. You have been quoted frequently, lately saying the commission does not have much hope of doing its work during the 2016 election cycle because of a threethree split between democrats and republicans. Republicans on the commission have been quoted as saying the role of the commission is not to enforce the laws, which you implied, but to protec
Transcripts have been released. Mr. President , was Marie Yovanovitch the target of a Smear Campaign by your allies . Tonight what we learned from Marie Yovanovitch about igor and live and rudy and hadntity . As the white house blocks more key witnesses. We have seen a series of shifting, everchanging rationales for this campaign of obstruction. Plus the mutating republican logic defending the president. If there was a quid pro quo, it certainly wasnt a very effective one. And making sense of new battleground polling that shows 2020 could look a lot like 2016. Youre reading the wrong polls. When all in starts right now. Let me just tell you, i have the real polls. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. We are starting to see the actual testimony from the depositions in the impeachment inquiry so far, the transcripts, and they are as damning as expected for the president and his allies. Republicans whined for weeks and weeks about the fact depositions were being held behind closed
Obstruction. Plus the mutating republican logic defending the president. If there was a quid pro quo, it certainly wasnt a very effective one. And making sense of new battleground polling that shows 2020 could look a lot like 2016. Youre reading the wrong polls. When all in starts right now. Let me just tell you, i have the real polls. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. We are starting to see the actual testimony from the depositions in the impeachment inquiry so far, the transcripts, and they are as damning as expected for the president and his allies. Republicans whined for weeks and weeks about the fact depositions were being held behind closed doors despite many of the fact many of them were attending those very same hearings. The president tried to get out ahead of the release for the wordforword transcripts saying they would be faked and republicans should release their own, indicating that he was clearly not happy with what was about to come out. Well, today we got the
Hes been there for several years, long before the Trump Administration came into office. Hes been a long time in that job. And today, we think without warning, he told a bunch of key committees in both the house and the senate that he needs to come see them immediately, tomorrow, because he needs to show them some documents that they need to see. Multiple congressional sources telling nbc news that the Inspector General reached out to congress with what the committees describe as a, quote, urgent request to brief the committees about documents related to the state department and ukraine. Now, there are of course impeachment proceedings under way against the president right now having to do with his own involvement with ukraine. Toward that inquiry, the state department has been subpoenaed. State Department Officials have been summoned to testify in those proceedings. But the Inspector General from that department coming forward on his own to say, uh, ive got something you should see he