Mexicans would pay for it, to use the money to take land away from farmers and ranchers on the border of the United States. How can any conservative support this guy . Senator, the definition of conservative has changed so fast in our lifetime its unbelievable. We need a dictionary to keep up with it. Senator michael bennet, democrat from colorado. Thank you, sir. Stay safe on the trail. Thats all we have for tonight. Well be back tomorrow with more meet the press daily. Ari melber is picking it up. Good evening to you. We begin here with Breaking News rocking washington. Moment of truth. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that is what faces the nation tonight. Right now as she stepped out and made this announcement just within the last hour. Im announcing the House Of Representatives moving forward with an official Impeachment Inquiry. Im directing our six committees to proceed with their
investigations under that umbrella of Impeachment Inquiry. The president must be held accountable. N
Which i believe according to the laws of physics is impossible, and of course driven by ill motives. The story broke land wednesday. We are six days into this and the speed i guess we knew there was a whistleblower complaint coming out of the dni. One of the defining features of the trump era is the incredible speed, ferocity with which information happens. It was apt that we would end up here after all these months of waiting around, that the thing that turned out to be the trigger could turn it this quickly. Its a great point, it was last wednesday the Washington Post broke the story about the whistleblower complaint being tied to the president s conduct with ukraine. It snapped everyone square in the face. Theres nancy pelosi. Tuesday we observed the anniversary of the adoption of the constitution on september
17th. Sadly, on that day, the Intelligence Community Inspector General formally notified the congress that the administration was forbidding him from turning over a whistleblo
good work, my friend. let me bring in david jolly, former republican congressman from florida. he s since left the party. glenn kirchner is an msnbc legal analyst, a former federal prosecutor as well. he s stationed outside the roger stone trial, just in case there s any news there. david, let me start with you, we heard the president s defense under a couple of stories under the impeachment umbrella if you will. your take so far on his defense? reminiscent of reagan during iran contra when reagan said he didn t trade arms for hostages, later had to apologize. what he said in the apology is my heart and intentions still believe i did nothing wrong, but the facts and evidence suggest that i did. donald trump can say it was a perfect call. he can say he did nothing wrong. his allies on the hill say all the activity was limited to the activities of giuliani and mulvaney. the facts and the evidence point directly to donald trump executing on the corrupt intent. trump said on september 22
that is textbook abuse of power, undermines our national security and the president betrayed his oath of office. and so the intel committee led by adam schiff who s doing a phenomenal job will continue to unwind that thread. but speaker police has said we re operating under an impeachment umbrella. so there s a total of six committees. the foreign affairs committee is involved, the oversight committee is involved, the ways and means committee is involve, the financial services committee involved and also the judiciary committee involved as well. there s also one other aspect that pertains to rudy giuliani, there s a criminal investigation out of the southern district of new york in which two of rudy giuliani s associates, men represented pie their own lawyers as being part of president trump ps legal team are being indicted in federal
vulnerable country that had been authorized on a bipartisan basis. that is textbook apuce buse of , undermines our national security and the president betrayed his oath of office. and so the intel committee led by adam schiff who s doing a phenomenal job will continue to unwind that thread. but speaker police has said we re operating under an impeachment umbrella. so there s a total of six committees. the foreign affairs committee is involved, the oversight committee is involved, the ways and means committee is involve, the financial services committee involved and also the judiciary committee involved as well. there s also one other aspect that pertains to rudy giuliani, there s a criminal investigation out of the southern district of new york in which two of rudy giuliani s associates, men represented pie their own lawyers as being part of president trump ps legal team are being indicted in federal