Actually hold office to be impeached. Since the 45th President is no longer president , the clause shall be removed from office on impeachment is impossible for the senate to accomplish. Now the house Impeachment Managers brief was a lot longer. It was 80 p0 pages, it focuses President Trumps betrayal of historic proportions and the threat he poses to the constitution. They say the president is to blame for the insurrection writing its impossible to imagine the events of january 6th occurring without President Trump creating a powder keg, striking a match and then seeking personal advantage from the ensuing havoc. Jim accost osta joins me now. The trump team was concise in comparison. They appear to have come to a compromise with the president on whether to focus on the constitutionality or the stolen election. Thats right. I think it boils down to what the president s advisers have been saying for weeks now, that his speech on january 6th, while some may view it as incendiary and it c
Vows not to dilute, dither or delay that legislation. The white house focuses today on immigration as President Biden prepares to sign a series of executive actions, including Assembly Task force to reunite families separated at the border during the Trump Administration. Welcome to tuesday, its Groundhog Day, the longest Groundhog Day any of us have ever experienced, isnt it, anyway, it jen psaki will hold her briefing the house Impeachment Managers have filed their pretrial brief this morning as well. Well get to both of those in a moment. The Daily Briefing comes after President Biden met with ten of the most moderately minded Senate Republicans, not necessarily an ideology but perhaps in tone last night at the white house. The that meeting they proposed a covid relief deal that they probably knew biden could not support and biden probably knew they wouldnt be able to stay united on that anyway. Case in point, its not every day you see Mitch Mcconnell publicly renouncing or praising
about economic issues and inflation perhaps being one of the major motivating factors last night in new jersey and the commonwealth. monica alba is at the white house. ali is on the hill just spent some peppering the senator with questions. let s start with what senator manchin told you about paid leave and whether that was going to be a deal breaker. it seemed as if he was hearing it from you for the first time. that it was going back in the bill. yeah. he was. because if you remember, craig, yesterday we were talking about paid leave from the perspective to borrow a phrase from the princess bride, as a mostly dead policy in the reconciliation negotiations. advocates who i had been talking to as well as democratic lawmakers who were supportive of it did not think it was going to find a place in this larger social spending package. we heard from speaker pelosi who said that four weeks of family and paid sick medical family leave are in this bill. we broke the news it seemed to
by the way, congresswoman yvette clark of new york and judy chu of california are going to join me live with the latest on the reconciliation negotiations, reaction to this manchin meeting, of course, and their must-haves in the legislation. that is right here at 4:00 eastern. so, we are continuing to track new developments in of course that fatal shooting of cinematographer halyna hutchins by actor alec baldwin on a movie set. nbc news is now reporting that dave halls, the assistant director who handed the loaded gun to baldwin, had a history of unsafe practices. that is according to a prop maker who worked with haul. joining me now, nbc news producer, david douglas. daifbtd, thanks for joining us on this. appreciate it. some fascinating and troubling stuff to say the least in some of your reporting. tell us more about what you learned and what else this prop maker told you about david hall s history? of course, yasmin, thank you for having me. her name is maggie. she is a prop ma
that s because medicare expansion on hearing, dental and vision likely aren t going to be in this reconciliation bill. you heard the president last night talk about increases to pell grants because free community college has fallen out of the reconciliation negotiations. the president last night saying expanding pell grants isn t going to get you the whole way there in the way free community college would have, but it at least gets you closer. you also see here the clean electricity performance program. president biden says that s still in, but senator joe manchin has said it has fallen out. it sort of depends which joe you want to take the word of on that one. and then, of course, tax rate hikes on corporations. kyrsten sinema said she doesn t want to see rates hiked on corporations or wealthy individuals. these are the contours of what we re dealing with. it s important as we move forward on whatever timeline happens on the hill, the way that anderson cooper consistently last night t