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Effects on your retirement funds and your ability to borrow money. it could bring a halt to social security benefits, medicare benefits. millions of jobs could be wiped out. why would washington even think of risking all of that not to mention the catastrophic impact on america s standing in the world? to be clear, raising the debt limit is to cover money already spent during the trump administration. raising the debt ceiling right now does not authorize any of president biden s future spending plans. and to start us off this hour, we have nbc news capitol hill reporter leigh ann caldwell, jake sherman, and yamiche alcindor. yamiche and jake are both msnbc contributors. ....
Starting impeachment proceedings based on yesterday s testimony? as a democrat, it s very frustrating to think we ve just got to wait until you or one of your colleagues wins in 2020. i believe that the judiciary committee should begin impeachment inquiries, inquiries, all right? by the way, that s what the shorthand of do you begin impeachment? that s what that means. so did mueller move the needle? if he did, the first places you would start to see it are with constituents, which will tighten the screws on house leadership, probably have the judiciary committee have to take action. in just a moment i ll be joined by a member of the house judiciary committee who has broken with house leadership and last night she heard from constituents. but we ll kick things off with my colleague, nbc news capitol hill reporter leigh ann caldwell. she s been on town hall duty this week. today she is with katie porter. this is a district that could be an interesting indicator for ....
Democrats on the impeachment inner you. so leigh ann, i know you ll have congresswoman porter with you in a second. set the scene. you were in grand rapids for the big justin amash town hall. tell me what s similar, tell me what s different. reporter: so, chuck, we chose this town hall because we re in orange county. this is the first time that this district has gone democrat since this district was created in the 1950s, so this is more of a swingy district, more moderate. so we wanted to see what voters here had to say and actually have the congresswoman here with me. she s willing to take a few questions. thank you so much, congresswoman porter. you are a freshman congresswoman. you ve come to congress and now you re faced with this question of impeachment. so you have not come out in support of impeachment yet. is that position still hold for you? so congress is a dlib afternoon body. so one of the things we re doing is appropriately deliberating. so this morning at 7:15, my ....
Constituents and decide what to do next to uphold our duty to safeguard our democracy. so you re not yet there on impeachment? i haven t made a public decision yet but i m continuing to get briefings every day as things continue to evolve. thank you very much, congresswoman. thank you. chuck, this town hall hasn t started yet, but it s going to be interesting to hear what questions these voters have and come up in this swing district where there s a lot of moderate democrats and republicans here, chuck. leigh ann, it s great. i have to say it caught my ear. she said i haven t made a public decision yet on impeachment. very interesting use of the word public and the fact that they re talking behind the scenes with each other, is i think a very significant thing that we learned there too. great job. now go watch the town hall. let me turn now to another elected member of the house. joining me now is pennsylvania ....
Who s an assistant u.s. attorney. so family problems, definitely. election fraud confirmed by people in this fraud ballot fraud. excuse me. are they going to overturn the outcome of this election. so the gop down there says that the ballots that are in question and leigh ann, tell us if we ve got any update on this, the number of ballots in question would not change the outcome of the election. there was still a big question about whether any ballots were thrown out and not mailed in. have we seen any evidence to prove that? reporter: katy, that has not even been part of the discussion in the past 20, 22 hours, ever since john harris took to the stand in this surprise testimony. it s almost been a moot point, a side point. now mark harris is just trying to figure out, how to move forward in his own defense. this is incredible. ....