Been looking for an excuse to impeach this president for a long time now. In fact, when they took over the house pardon of the interruption here. Im going to step out here at the top of the hour, but our coverage of the impeachment proceedings continue now on msnbc. Stay with us. Its all about politics, hurting the president , hurting his reputation. They dislike him intensely. As i mentioned the other day, they really loathe this president and theyre trying to hurt his chances in the next election. But one of my real concerns, and i have a lot of them about this whole thing, and i mentioned this earlier today, im very concerned about is that the democrats are really lowering the bar for impeaching a president in the future. Its becoming too routine. Its becoming the new normal. For 200 years in our nation we had one impeachment, one in 200 years, Andrew Johnson. And now in less than 50 years
were in our third one this time around. And i really am concerned that from now on in all like
important to point out, and something in peter just said, this generational divide. the first time i was in the former soviet union was almost 40 years ago, and you could see a lot of a country like that. putin doesn t understand, you can t seal off the russian federation from the rest of the world, from pictures, and information, and from telephones and communication. he can try. he wishes it was the soviet union 40 years ago, but i just don t think it s gonna be successful in that. as for how things get there. this is the country is not under some kind of russian quarantine or embargo. this is still a country that is capable of moving goods, services, and people, and weapons, between its neighbors, and other places in europe. so, there is a lot of different ways of weapons can get their. but, we re not at the point yet where, some kind of russian cuba like quarantine where
0 good evening, i m stephanie ruhle. it is now just after midnight on the east coast. and we are still following breaking news on the largest nuclear plant in ukraine. they say that a fire broke out in the training compound in the plant, after reportedly came under attack in the russia. tonight, the agency says that no essential commitment has been damaged, the white house saying that it s informations did not show elevated levels of radiation. as russia steps up its attacks on several areas outside ukraine. one official explained why the fight on this power pines is so frustrating. this is unprecedented, a nuclear power plant has never become under attack. there are in place to be hit such attacks. this is another violation by russia. let s go by cal perry in lviv, ukraine. cal, we know there is not in the same area as the plant but you re following the story. what do you know? so at this hour, we understand that the plant is secure, as the iaea has said. essential quick mea
glad he s saying i m okay with the state sorting this out, that they re not trying to big foot or are you frustrated because you wish congress and washington would understand the problem that you re seeing in the states? well, i m frustrate that we don t seal to beist history whi healthy democracy requires states to work with the federal government and the federal government provides a floor under the u.s. constitution of protections for every voter in every state and the states are laboratories of democracy to build on that and it is that partnership breaking down when one side absolves them soself t protect the one person, one vote principle which is what we saw today, that commitment and partnership that the federal government must play if we are to ensure democracy truly works for everyone. secretary, appreciate your time as always and i thank you. thanks for having me, erin. next, new yorkers still