President for a long time now. In fact, when they took over the house, one of their members filed articles of impeachment that very day and really since Inauguration Day many wanted to impeach him. This is really all about in my view, its all about politics. Its all about 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. It may well do just the opposite. One of my real concerns, and af lot of them about this whole thing. 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 wed 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 likelihood when
the election results tooverturn the election. give me a call back. that was clearly somebody exhausting from making calls all day long. i surmise from the tone. which isn t fair. but the benality of the effort tells you this isn t something one or two people were doing as a rogue effort. the washington post reports today that understanding the origins of the fake elector slats has become a folks of the january 6th investigation in congress. that seems undeniably true. and told reporters that the investigators are looking into whether there was a broader conspiracy or involvement from the trump white house in the creation and submissions of the fake electors. i should mention that the trump campaign staffer that left that, sort of insane voice mail for
i mean i don t know that there is i a punchy way to do a call like wathis, but this was like rote enough function of what the trump campaign was doing in 2020 that they just had campaign randos leaving this kind of thing on people s voice mail. hi, so and so, whatever, we re overthrowing the government, okay? call me when you have a sec. we need you do a thing. clearly that was not the only call. this was someone who was clearly exhausted from making these calls all day long, i surmise, from the tone, which isn t fair, but the sort of benality tells you this is not something that one or twoyo people were doing a rogue effort. the washington post reports today that understanding the origins of the fake elector slates hasak now become a focusf
camerota and john berman. good morning. welcome to your new day. tuesday, october 15th. 8:00 in the east. breaking overnight, major new developments in the impeachment investigation. a former white house insider describing what she calls a shadow foreign policy. a rogue effort to personally benefit president trump. overnight, cnn learned that former russia adviser fiona hill called congress she witnessed wrongdoing. witnessed wrongdoing inside the white house regarding ukraine. in fact, hill and former national security adviser john bolton were so alarmed they reported their concerns to a white house lawyer. bolton compared the push to get ukraine to investigate democrats to, quote, a drug deal. hill also told lawmakers bolton was furious about rudy giuliani s politically motivated activities in ukraine, referring to him as a hand grenade that s going to blow everybody up. pretty vivid language there. the washington post reports investigators are weighing whether to question john
0 maddow show right starts right now. good evening chris, thanks my friend, much appreciated. thanks for joining us this hour, when the day this is been. be true. turns out it was rudy. here s the front page at cnn.com right now. giuliani led fake electors plot. here s the washington post s version of the that same front page story today. giuliani coordinated plan for trump electoral votes in states biden won. it was mr. giuliani, apparently. you know, you find a little thread of a story, you tug and you tug and you tug some more an one day you re like one more tug on the same thread and the whole sweater comes apart. today the whole sweater came apart and now we re sitting in a pile ofno yarn and you re going oh, that s what it s made of. here s how cnn put it in their story tonight. quote, trump campaign officials led by rudy giuliani oversaw efforts in december 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that trump lost, according to three sources knowledge of t