Jansing reports. Lets get right to it. At this hour, did they plan for that to happen . Stunned reactions on capitol hill, when a key witness called by republicans says the Current Evidence doesnt support impeaching the president. The mattress defense, bob menendez faces his colleagues for the First Time Since allegations of bribes and gold bars. Can he convince any of them that he doesnt need to resign . Trumping the debate, the republican front runner skips the stage and says he could cross names off his vip list. And the candidates spend more time fighting each other than fighting to bridge the gap with donald trump. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin with ken dilanian at the surprise testimony today at the Biden Impeachment Inquiry. What happened . Reporter well, chris, the republican star witness, Constitutional Law Professor jonathan turley, a frequent guest on fox news perhaps didnt deliver the kind of testimony that the republicans wer
national party weighs in to push more electable candidates, the more it will be used against them. tea party candidates will say people in washington are coming down choose your candidates. we just run a pure conservative we ll win. that doesn t always work. there s an argument to be made that the republican party could have very close if not a majority in the senate right now had they just, you know, ran more electable candidates. thank you, sam stein. thank you, jonathan allen. coming up, the republican national committee votes nbc and cnn out of the 2016 primary debate because of their hillary clinton projects. it s promising to do something that it does anyway. so what s the point? also we all saw the picture this week of the rodeo clown with an obama mask. disrespectful, racist? not according to a lot of people on the right who say democrats can t take a jobe. and there s certainly a lot of bob filner accusers. and we have the latest, a
more it will be used against them. tea party candidates will say people in washington are coming down choose your candidates. we just run a pure conservative we ll win. that doesn t always work. there s an argument to be made that the republican party could have very close if not a majority in the senate right now had they just, you know, ran more electable candidates. thank you sam stein. thank you jonathan allen. coming up the republican national committee votes nbc and cnn out of the 2016 primary debates. so what s the point? also we all saw the picture this week of the rodeo clown with an obama mask. disrespectful, racist? not according to a lot of people on the right who say democrats can t take a joke happen and there s a lot of bob filner