Peddling . What does the law say about this . This is largely more than anything else a political process. All of the above matters because what they are doing. They are investigating to see whether or not they should impeach joe biden. When someone has a pattern of lying. Joe biden has lied about the origins of hunters laptop in the debate of 2020. He lied about that. He lied about china and hunter biden. He has lied about his interaction with him, Business Dealings. Why do you keep lying if there is no there there. Sandra i imagine the republicans in that room will listen for any changing wording or messaging. It comes down to that, right . There was the messaging from the Biden White House on whether or not the president had any dealings with his son or had any knowledge of his Business Dealings. It seems like that evolved over time as well. Jonathan. It has. One of the moments that if i was a Fly On The Wall i would be listening for is when they get to the dinner in which burisma e
Dealing with the former Vice President. There there are biden allies saying they may turn the tables and talk about his own family and whether hes profiting on the presidency. Mike memoli, appreciate that. Chris jansing in new york, it looks like you, my friend, are going to be able to have that taped playback of the president s remarks on the white house south lawn. I imagine those will be coming in the next few minutes, although it depends on how long the president speaks. As fast as humanly possible our folks will get that tape turned around. Hallie jackson, thank you so much. Good morning. Im Chris Jansing in for craig melvin apt msnbc headquarters in new york. A flood of new headlines have emerged since we saw you this time yesterday, each more damaging for him, while offering democrats more bread crumbs to follow in the Impeachment Inquiry. All this can seem overwhelming. Well walk you through this
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Him there were 19 executions after that. kim, did the president, other than state of mind, reveal anything that was picked up in your line of work that was perhaps new? no. it was nothing new. it was clear that he wanted to submit this letter not just to nancy pelosi but to history. he says so much in the letter itself. he wanted to register his anger and his insults toward the speaker of the house, and every single decfense or rant he has made on twitter since the impeachment began. he clearly is unhappy about being impeached. if that was a question at this point, that has been laid to rest. he is angry, and it was basically a letter of grievance. so the question is, is it also a signal to republicans as to how he expects them to respond, how he expects them to defend him as this impeachment inquiry moves
Constitutional scholars said last week, nothing is. the founding fathers intended for us to not allow any president to be above the law, and that s what we re proceeding with this week, so that we can make sure that the american people can have confidence in their elected officials that we ll uphold our oath that we swore to defend the constitution which the president has violated. having said all that, you would vote for impeachment? i m going to wait to see what the articles of impeachment are. that s my responsibility, is to review the things that are put before me that i m asked to vote on, so when i see them, i ll make that final decision. congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. thank you, fredricka. so the impeachment inquiry moves forward. what we can expect from tomorrow s house judiciary hearing on capitol hill.
Accumulations. at this point, it looks like a lot of slushy, wet snow, that s the disruptive kind, across new york city. thank you, pedram. meanwhile, the house impeachment inquiry moves from investigation to prosecution. the white house says neither will take part in the first judiciary committee hearing wednesday. white house counsel pat cipollone says, we cannot be expected to participate in a hearing where the witnesses are yet to be named and while it remains unclear if the judiciary committee will afford the president a fair process. he is accusing the democrats to schedule the hearing while the president is at a nato meeting in london. the white house faces a friday deadline to decide whether to participate in future hearings. one republican on the judiciary panel thinks the white house should be there. i think it would be to the president s advantage to have his attorneys there.