Broadcast on a wednesday night. Thank you so very much for being here with us. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Were in the midst of live, ongoing coverage of the house judiciariry committee markup. The two articles ever impeachment against the president of the United States that of course congressman jim jordan of ohio speaking right now. This is a standard part of legislative process, the markup. It happens all time. But tonight obviously its quite difference in the import because it is the most serious constitutional activity the Judiciary Committee can pursue. Tonight the committee will be hearing different amendments and debating the two articles before
them. We expect them to be voted on by the full committee tomorrow. Weve already heard Opening Statements from House Judiciary Chair jerry nadler and Ranking Member doug collins. Heres how the chair presented tonights meeting. Taken together, the two Articles Ch
now we know precisely what went down. it was part of it. as part of his investigation, smith deemed it necessary to view the inner workings of trump s twitter account, although it s not currently clear what exactly he was looking for. for the legal filing, quote, on january 17th, 2023, the government applied for and obtained a search warrant that directed twitter to release data and records related to the real donald trump should or account. based on affidavits, the district court found probable kora cause to search the account for signs of criminal offenses. in other words, smith was able to convince a judge that there was reason to believe that don trump s twitter account cree contain positive cause. but at this point to twitter was in the hands of elon musk, busy building public images right-wing trolls. the company was operating such a state of manifest discussion, smith prosecutors couldn t even get through to them, initially.
i quote again, the government faced difficulties when it first attempted to serve twitter with a warrant. on january 17th, 2023, the government rages submit the papers through the company s website, only to find out the website wasn t operative. two days later the government successfully served twitter through that website. so smith gets through to twitter or on the 19th, and the deadline lies the 27th. quote, on january 25th, when the government contacted fritters counsel to check on the status of traitors compliance, today s council stated that she, quote, had not heard anything about the warrant. two days before the deadline, twitter s lawyer says she had no idea there was even a warrant from the department of justice in the first place. at this point not only was mask running twitter in a total state of chaos, according to all public accounts we have, it was clear he would stop at nothing to court controversy and attention for his 44 billion dollar vanity purchase, which was very q
positive cause. but at this point to twitter was in the hands of elon musk, busy building public images right-wing trolls. the company was operating such a state of manifest disfunction, smith prosecutors couldn t even get through to them, initially. i quote again, the government faced difficulties when it first attempted to serve twitter with a warrant. on january 17th, 2023, the government tried to submit the papers through the company s website, only to find out the website wasn t operative. two days later the government successfully served twitter through that website. so smith gets through to twitter or on the 19th, and the deadline to comply is the 27th. quote, on january 25th, when the government contacted fritters counsel to check on the status of traitors compliance, today s council stated that she, quote, had not heard anything about the warrant. two days before the deadline, twitter s lawyer says she had no idea there was even a warrant from the department of justice in the
back in may it was first reported that smith s team was feuding with a major tech company in some capacity. the details of the fight were unclear based on the court records at the time. now we know precisely what went down. it was part of it. as part of his investigation, smith deemed it necessary to view the inner workings of trump s twitter account, although it s not currently clear what exactly he was looking for. for the legal filing, quote, on january 17th, 2023, the government applied for and obtained a search warrant that directed twitter to release data and records related to the real donald trump should or account. based on affidavits, the district court found probable cause to search the account for signs of criminal offenses. in other words, smith was able to convince a judge that there was reason to believe that don trump s twitter account contain