Williams tonight. The white house is facing mounting pressure to do something about epa administrator scott pruett. Hes been under fire for ethics issues and outside spending. Among those issues, massive raises for two of his closest raids. Pruitt met with President Trump today, originally to discuss his agencys efforts to roll back obama era fuel efficiency standards for cars. It seems the topic of his future was also on the agenda. The Associated Press reports that during his meeting with the president , pruett laid out his case for why he should continue in his job. Pruett spent millions of dollars for a 20 member full time security detail, that is three times the size of his predecessors. Both the wall street journal and the New York Times say john kelly has urged trump to fire pruett, but trump has been resistant. The president sent out a tweet of support for pruitt, and said he was doing a great job, while being totally under siege. The white house backed that up at todays briefi
Being youre running, how close are you . I would say we are past 5050. Probably 6. 4, 6. 5. To begin the hour with the current president , the details on what he is looking for as he looks for his next chief of staff as many wonder who would want the job in the first place. The leader was nick ayers serving as the Vice President s chief of staff. They said ayers and the president could not agree on the positions terms. Trump wanted him to commit for two years and ayers declined. Kaitlyn is live at the white house. The president and nick ayers, their deal fell apart, but they have a task the president gave the man we thought would take the job before he said no, thank you. The president had given him instructions for what had he wanted it to look like. One thing thing and he wanted a thorough review of how it operates. President trump wants it to be more politically focused. Come january when the newly empowered democrats have the power that they will force his secretaries to testify. T
Begin impeachment proceedings against donald trump, at least for now, the party opting instead for aggressive investigation. Theyre planning a renewed and relentless focus on the president and his administration. While they might not all be in agreement, it appears the Democratic Party is largely falling in line. Theres differences of opinion on the ultimate question of impeachment, i have to say, there was a consensus opinion on exactly what we should do next in terms of concrete investigative steps. For now, i think theres broad unity on what the next steps need to be. There may be different views on what we should call those next steps. This after House Democrats held a 90 minute phone call to discuss their next steps after the release of the Mueller Report. Nancy pelosi called the meeting to tamp down on growing calls within her caucus for President Trumps removal. While the congressional rank and file is largely following pelosis lead, not necessarily the case with the president i
Have it. But were not going to wait. We cant wait seven months to aju adjudicate these kinds of cases. A lot of developments to talk about as the president gets ready to head to florida for a Campaign Rally before spending the rest of the thanksgiving holiday at his maralago resort. Joining me now from capitol hill is garrett haake. Also with us, former u. S. Ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, an msnbc International Affairs analyst. Good to see you guys. Garrett, what do we know so far about the Judiciary Committees hearing scheduled for december 4th . Im told that this hearing is something we should look at as a 30,000 foot view on impeachment. The Judiciary Committee membership hope that they will have intels report on everything that we know about this ukraine scandal by then, but even if they dont, this hearing will be to set the table. What is a high crime and misdemeanor. What is an impeachable offense. And perhaps, if they have the report by then, some answering of the questi
it just was not one on behalf of the u.s. government or the u.s. people, or possibly for any middle eastern country, for that matter. it was for himself. back in april, the new york times put it the first of several scathing peaches about pushers dealing is in the middle east. it outlined how he and other officials were quite likely using their government positions to line their pockets with billions once they left office. once they left before you point out how the revolving door between and public enemies is always present, i want to explain why this time was different. this is not your typical transaction that even had the faint of the new year of being an arms length removed from kushner s government work. jarrett kushner, a man with, let me count, zero professional investment experience, opened a private if a equity firm, affinity partners, the literal day after donald trump left off