finished. pardon-palooza. rhonda santa fouls to pardon some january 6th insurrectionists, including trump himself. what is he thinking? i m michael steele in for ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. to breaking developments tonight to begin the hour. in a history making vote, the texas house just voted to impeach state attorney general, ken paxton. a republican. temporarily removing him from office over actions of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office. the vote to adopt the 20 articles of impeachment was overwhelming. 100 and 21 to 23. attention now shifts to the texas senate which will conduct a trial with senators acting as jurors, and designated house numbers representing their place, presenting their case rather, as impeachment managers. also breaking tonight, new developments on the critical debt limit negotiations. a short time ago, nbc news learned that president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just finished speaking by phone. their call lasting
believed meadows will be the fall guy, but what, if anything, will the doj do about trump? also tonight, security footage from uvalde, texas reveals more of the inexplicable lack of action by police as children were being murdered. plus, we will share some astounding ignorance about the female anatomy from the very republican lawmakers who are using congressional hearings to cheer on the post-roe state abortion ban. one of the witnesses joins me tonight. but, first, we start with the breathtaking body of work that the select committee on the january 6th attack has presented thus far, and it is damning. what we know seven hearings in is that trump knew that he had lost. he was told so over and over again, that 81 million americans voted for joe biden but trump who spent his life bending if not break the law decided to take matters into his own hands. surrounded by yemen and what fellow republicans called the crazies, trump pursued three avenues to try to stay in power. first,
Workers delivering food for the world central kitchen to starving palestinians. World central kitchen is the nonprofit started by celebrity Chef Jose Andres at the white house just yesterday is biden hosted several Muslim American leaders to talk about gaza. One of the leaders got up and walked out of the meeting and protest. He handed biden a letter beforehand from an eightyearold orphaned girl living in rafah, orphan in the last six months, cnns mj lee is at the white house. Four is now an empty were seeing yeah. A new level of anger and indignation inside the white house at targeted at metz and yahoo after this deadly idf strike on aid workers. Thats right, jake, President Biden himself, of course, said that he was outraged and im told that the frustration inside the white house has really reached new levels. Its one senior official describing the deaths of the seven workers as a standout incident. The president explicitly blaming israel for this incident, saying that israel is simp
Admitting that these facts were so inextricably intertwined in a colloquy with justice barrett, that it would be very difficult to separate them out on remand. Thats how i interpreted his statements. Please to translate that for people watching, that means that basically, if it wasnt official act, they would not be able to use that potentially at trial. He was arguing they should be able to use it to paint a bigger picture. But trump has argued, total immunity. He has not said, well, some of these are private x. This would mean the case could at least in part go forward and go to trial, we believe that without the official acts charged in the indictment, there is no case. Weve been very consistent in our position from the start, starting with the District Court proceeding through the circuit. Now at the us Supreme Court, that what were talking about is absolute immunity. Yes. But absolute immunity just for a president s official acts in office. I think thats a crucial distinction. And
Im period in question. I thought in many what we did a concession at all was Michael Dreeben essentially admitting the attorney for the special counsels office, essentially admitting that these facts were so inextricably intertwined in a colloquy with justice barrett, that it would be very difficult to separate them out on remand. Thats how i interpret for his statements at least. Well, and to translate that for people watching, that means that basically, if it wasnt official act, they would not be able to use that potentially at trial. He was arguing they should be able to use it to paint a bigger picture. But trump has argued, total immunity. He has not said, well, some of these are private x this would mean the case could at least in part go forward and go to trial. We believe that without the official acts charged in the indictment, there is no case. Weve been very consistent in our position from the start, starting with the District Court proceeding through the circuit. Now at the