Impeachment vote. I am martha maccallum. I am bret baier, Just Moments Away returning the verdict in President Trumps impeachment trial. Senators will castro two votes. One for each article of impeachment. The first abuse of power, and obstruction of congress. Guilty or not guilty, for a look at how this will play out, lets turn to Congressional Correspondent chad pergram on capitol hill. Good afternoon, chad. For only the third time in u. S. History, the senate will vote to determine the guilt or innocence of a u. S. President. There have been a total of impeachment 20impeachments, s and removals, that will not happen today. In the past several moments we have gotten the news that joe manchin, democratic senator from West Virginia will vote to convict, and the senator from arizona will vote to convict as well paired here are the mechanics. When i come back into session, they will go through each article of impeachment, the senators will be called alphabetically. They will rise from th
Attention and that would have capitol hill and the white house on lockdown, suggests to us that for the moment theyre taking the reports of shots fired actually now from the Associated Press we now have clarity. Capitol police now report, capitol officials report one Capitol Police officer has been shot, is not seriously injured and the shooter is in custody. Theres no way to know in the early going, when reports like this come, in especially in washington, whether the reports of shots fired might be something falling off the back of a truck or somebody dropping something in a crowded stairwell, but in this case we can now confirm through the Associated Press, not from fox news, but through the Associated Press, one Capitol Police officer has been shot, not seriously wounded, and the shooter is in custody. This is citing information now from the sergeant at arms. Between, this just coming to us on the fox news deck. From a sergeant at arms officer, Police Officer wound is not serious.
Point. This building has totally went been ravaged and is unsafe for firefighters really to go inside. Theyre cautiously trying to clear out some of the debris. This has been described as an artist collective. They were having a party last night. Its a building where people were said to be living. And this is what the fire chief had to say a short time ago there was some type of party that was going on here when the fire broke out. Its been a report that theres been between 50 to 100 people possibly that was in attendance at the fire. A group of individuals were able to escape, some of them have not were not able to escape. Right now we can confirm that there are nine fatalities. But theres still a large portion of the building that needs to be searched. The building was a warehouse that was kind of like an Artist Studio. It had several different partitions, where they had various artists in there. Reporter this fire obviously spread quickly. And fred, the building must be configured i
Trying to create an alternative reality is how i would describe it. And good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where a controversial memo under review at the white house and the deputy fbi directors early exit are dominating the headlines ahead of Donald Trumps first state of the Union Address tonight. Joining me now msnbc political analyst robert costa, National Political reporter at the washington post. Msnbc National Security contributor as well as New York Times washington correspondent michael schmidt, and National Political reporter carroll lee. First to you, carroll lee, your reporting on the conversations with Andrew Mccabe when the president first complained to him after the firing of james comey. This is the backdrop for this forced exit, early exit of Andrew Mccabe. Tell us what you know, what you reported. Andrea, its one of the first we know of. We dont know every conversation the two of them had. What sources have told us is the president was very frustrated watching
Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside alex witt a. The woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has called the hearing not a good faith investigation. Ford continues to believe that a full nonpartisan investigation of this matter is needed and she is willing to cooperate with the committee. However, the committees stated plan to move forward with a hearing that has only two witnesses is not a fair or good faith investigation. There are multiple witnesses whose names have appeared publicly and should be included in any proceeding. The rush to a hearing is unnecessary and contrary to the committee discovering the truth. A Spokesman Says that chairman Chuck Grassley is willing to send Committee Staff to california to speak with ford. However, grassley has informed lawyers for ford that if he wishes to testify on monday, ford must provide the committee with prepared testimony by 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Senator Susan Collins voiced her hopes that ford would testify. I dont t