Whether or not Speaker Pelosi votes. Its tradition the speaker doesnt often votes but on a day like today i would think she would want to lead from the front. Well see. It seems like unprecedented times. Hagar, felipe, congressman, thank you so much. Well hand off to ari melber. Good morning. Im ari melber reporting live from nbc headquarters with coverage of todays events on msnbc. The breaking news coming out of capitol hill, lawmakers in the house about to take their first ever formal votes on how to proceed with the Impeachment Inquiry of president donald trump. This new resolution maps out the blueprint and rules of the road
for what democrats say is the next public phase in this impeachment probe. Now many are expecting a Party Line Vote today. Lawmakers will vote on these ground rules which includes moving the closed door depositions of all of these key witnesses into public hearings. Weve seen squabbling over this process. Were expecting in our special coverage to hear from Spe
To meet these expectations that we have had in the last few cycles are kind of unrealistic as you mentioned the newsletter, im an old goat covering politics since the 1980 election and to the 80s, the 90s, in the early part, turnout was much lower than what it has been in the last three cycles. So we actually might see that reversion to the mean and go back to the period when, you know, just not too many people are interested. However, the other factor that we havent talked about beyond this being the first rematch since 1956 when Stevenson And Eisenhower squared off and he won for the second time. Before that Youll Need to go back to 1888. So the rematches are extremely uncommon and people dont like
we re still a couple days if in. the wall street journal reporting stocks rose through much of 2023, powered by the rise of a.i. and the economy that all of wall street anticipated that recession agreed was imminent never came. i want to bring in correspondent dom chu to talk about this. we had a rally in markets, dom, leading up to holiday spending, right? spending was at or above normal. you have inflation at around 3%. doing pretty well. but now markets aren t so great yesterday and today. what s happening? what s happening kind of a reversion, right, 2023 was about that big game in technology stocks like apple, microsoft, alphabet, the parent company of google. meta platforms which owns facebook, of course. there s a lot of attention paid whether those stocks can drive market performance because they ve done such a good job
how much is too much? discover is everything, the puck in one word. as a prosecutor, you have the turnover essentially everything that you have to the defendant, but i think the question is a good one, how much leeway what the judge did the defense that s a different says, judge, we want to prove that the election was stolen and some of the seven states, what the judge allowed them to go down that road, which would vastly expanded trial? they could say that we want to go to each of the seven states. exactly, and it s within the judges purview to say, no, i find that is not a valid defense. i find that you have not given me at least a nugget of reversion to our could work with. given the fact that there have been dozens of court battles about this by the former presidents attorneys and allies, none of which really have gone in their favor, more than 60. does that make it easier for the judge to, to decline their efforts? i think she can look at that. she has to conside
today, just a short ferry ride from the main island, a sense, a feeling of that long gone empire remains. kumejima is a small island that has been largely untouched by the changes in the world. people farm and fish as they always did. anthony: and the war never came here? this is bunshiro nagame and yohina tomahiro. kumejima residents and friends of james. james: no, they didn t. they suffered very little damage in the war. anthony: and, uh, no military bases? no american presence? james: well, up until 72 there was an american base. anthony: there was. james: but then in 72, in the reversion, the base was taken away. anthony: now, nothing? james: only the japanese self-defense forces now. anthony: what do people do here? agriculture?