Republican Senate Finance committee chair, Chuck Grassley who joins us right now. Thank you for coming. Glad to be with you, neil. Neil what does your gut say how long it could last if it gets to the senate . Chuck schumer is demanding witnesses, wants to speak to mick mulvaney, chief of staff, john bolton, a host of others, where do you think this goes . I dont think there will be any decision on bringing people in for questioning until after we had the Opening Statements by the prosecutors coming from the house of representatives and by the president s response to that, his lawyers responding to that. And then at that point, there might be some debate of that. But i think that the idea is not to prolong this, to give a fair trial and reach a decision based upon well thoughtout testimony for and against the president but not to make it any longer than necessary because the senate has a lot of work to do and, and we want to get to that work. Neil as you know the president seems to be,
Monday. Congress out of town. The president is about to be. Set to leave for florida after injebting a massive dose of chaos into that massive covid relief bill process. A bill he was barely involved with until congress made it a done deal. I am asking congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low 600 to 2,000 or 4,000 for a couple. Top democrats are pointing out they wanted bigger checks all along. Pelosi tweeting she is ready to bring this to the floor possibly tomorrow. Christmas eve, saying lets do it. What about republicans . And as if that werent enough, the president s on a pardoning spree of friends, associates, even convicted killers including two people who lied in the Mueller Investigation. Im ecstatic. And former House Republicans who were the first to endorse then candidate trump. A lot to get this on this Christmas Eve eve. Im Hallie Jackson along with our team. Im being told moments ago senator graham has come out supporting President Trumps demand for mo
Growing on the presidency. Dire warning from a man who would know On The Last Day of the kavanaugh hearing. There is now a cancer on the presidency . Yes, i would agree with that. All in starts now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. 60 days from the midterm election. Danger threatens Donald Trumps presidency from both within and without. 4 including tonight a report that his private business empire, a thing that defines him above all else is in the cross hairs of a federal probe. Inside the white house the president and closest aides are reportedly turning the west wing upside down to try to identify the anonymous author of the Op Ed Claiming to be part of the resistance inside the Trump Administration protecting the country from an unfit president. Asked by a reporter if he thinks the Attorney General should investigate who wrote it, the president responded he does. Claiming the oped is a matter
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Fake news, totally witch hunt. Incoming counselor to the incoming president , Kellyanne Conway. Nothing has been confirmed. Its an american party. We should be concerned that intelligence officials leaked the press and wont go and tell the president elect and the president United States himself, mr. President obama, what the information is. They would rather go tell the press. Its about going to the president. It says they never briefed him on it. Peter to show how quickly news spread these days, the unconfirmed, unverified story was brought up at the confirmation hearing brought up for attorney general sessions. Without divulging sensitive i was, do you know about this or know about what compromising, personal and Financial Information the russians claim to have . Senator, allegations made about candidates all of the time and theyve been made to president elect trump, most of them have proven to be exaggerated and untrue. Peter president elect is expected to announce who he wants to b
Worry object potential conflicts of interest. Kushner reportedly divest of substantial assets before joining the white house. This will be among the many topics asked about as they Host Press Conference tomorrow. Lisa, clayton, back to you. Lisa thanks for letting us know what is going on. Clayton thanks, rich. 51 votes to push them over the threshold. Two picks that republicans may throw the red flag at. The question of the russian sanctions, obviously thats a big concern for senator john mccain, lindsey graham. If they get one more person on board like a marco rubio to stop the nominee that could be problematic,ic you will have to see Rex Tillerson in the past that he opposed russian sanctions, figure out how hes going to respond now that he would become the top diplomat in the united states. The other one would be tom price. Would the moderate republicans be concerned about plans that he would move forward in terms of Defunding Planned Parenthood or pushing a more conservative agend