Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. This is moving really fast. We are now at 218. 218 democrats in the house favor the impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Thats the magic number. The magic number. It was 134 on sunday on sunday it was 84 since sunday. You know, the question of how broad theyre going to make this impeachment proceeding in terms of how broadly theyre going to draw these articles is fascinating. I think that its worth knowing, though, that theyve got, you know, its like bird in the hand, two in the bush. At this point if they want to impeach him specifically on this scandal of what he admitted to today in terms of what he asked the ukraine government for, theyre done. Theyve got that in hand if they want to do it. They also have the Mueller Report, and weve never seen one article go forward. Theres a lot of reasons for that, including offering the senate, for example, the possibility some senat
In just the past few minutes. Tomorrow the acting director of the National Intelligence is scheduled to testify on capitol hill. We will talk live with the Top Republican on the House Oversight committee in just a few moments here. We have Fox Team Coverage first. Mike emanuel on capitol hill with a look at where the impeachment process stands right now, where its going. Peter doocy and Kristin Fisher with the implications of the ukraine story for both the trump and biden campaigns, but we begin with chief White House Correspondent john roberts here in new york tonight with highlights and President Trumps expansive News Conference, good evening. Speak a good evening to you. President trump took fewer questions than i have seen him in any solar News Conference this afternoon. He did have a lengthy preamble, spending much of it talking about accomplishments at the United Nations that got overlooked because of the impeachment news. And slamming the democrats are beginning and impeachment
The magic number. It was 134 on sunday on sunday it was 84 since sunday. You know, the question of how broad theyre going to make this impeachment proceeding in terms of how broadly theyre going to draw these articles is fascinating. I think that its worth knowing, though, that theyve got, you know, its like bird in the hand, two in the bush. At this point if they want to impeach him specifically on this scandal of what he admitted to today in terms of what he asked the ukraine government for, theyre done. Theyve got that in hand if they want to do it. They also have the Mueller Report, and weve never seen one article go forward. Theres a lot of reasons for that, including offering the senate, for example, the possibility some senators the possibility to vote against one article or two articles, and then vote for one. And it only takes one. So if you get the twothirds vote on one article, but then two or three other articles dont pass, the president is still removed. And so that is ver
White house Pressure Campaign on ukraine, they sounded the alarm before that infamous july 25th phone call and then again just minutes after the call. But keep in mind here, the call was not the first red flag for them. The Washington Post reporting subordinates warned john bolton, who scrambled to get his hands on the call, but it was already being locked down on a highly classified server. The post says bolton went ballistic after a meeting where sondland seemed to be asking for ukraine to reup its investigations into joe biden. Theres also the explosive development involving two of Rudy Giulianis associates who were involved in getting ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden. The men, now under arrest, charged with conspiring to make Illegal Campaign donations and lying to federal election regulators. And listen, theres more. Heres where the plot really thicke thickens. Those men were picked up at dulles on wednesday night, just hours after the wall street geor journal reports they had
Welcome to the April 2022 edition of the Political Law Playbook. Of particular note in this month’s edition is the ongoing legal uncertainty of redistricting efforts around the country.