impeachment. although, his staff tells nbc news no formal announcement of his party switch is planned today. but van drew is in the extreme minority of the party s 40 or so most vulnerable democrats. nearly all have announced that they will vote to impeach president trump. one of them is michigan congresswoman elisa slotkin who announced her decision today in a town hall that clearly showed the deep division and the deeply-divided world we re living in. my nbc news colleague, leanne caldwell, is in rochester, michigan, where congressman slotkin held a town hall today. leanne, it got heated. uh-huh. it did, katy. and like you said, it shows how polarizing politics are these days. especially, on this issue of impeachment. now, slotkin spoke to people on the eve of the impeachment vote, which is huge within itself. she wasn t hiding. what she was doing is she started her day with an opinion piece in the local paper here.
know. he wasn t hiding. he was out there on the campaign trail. he got into some back and forths you may not have liked. people seem to like it. all the dumb you better believe it, jack. you better believe it, jack. if you don t i ll chamg yllenge to push-ups. but people like joe biden, and that s evident in that poll. it s evident in that bus trip across iowa. the campaign doesn t need to keep him isolated. they need to keep him out there shaking hands with people. it s working. maybe they know what they re doing. all right, coming up at his pennsylvania rally last night, president trump said his administration started winning in court when it comes to his border wall with mexico. me must not have heard about the latest ruling by a federal judge. that s ahead on morning joe.
i started running, telling my friend to come on. when i tell him to come on, i see people in the line actually start to fall, like they were getting hit with the bullets. that s when you see the whole crowd of like people just now starting to run and it became a frenzied situation. anthony, i m very sorry, you had to witness this tragedy. i d like to know if you saw the shooter, did you come face to face with the person? i didn t come face to face. i was only able to see the shooter become once we realized where the gunfire came from. he wasn t hiding. he was on the sidewalk. i didn t pay attention if he tried to walk across the street. once we seen the gunfire, we seen the people falling from being hit. like we kind of started running. tell me about this neighborhood being anthony. what is it usually like on a friday or saturday night in this case? it s really packed. friday night is lighter. saturdays get really packed out
made it into the facilities that they were addressed. both of these facilities have these male screening centers located offsite that are set to intercept these letters as they come in. a large-scale investigation will be launched to determine what was the motive of the person who sent it. do we know anything about motive? we don t yet. the person is being questioned by law enforcement as we speak. they make the distinction that they don t use the word arrest as a technical legal term because he has not yet been charged. they are questioning him, gathering additional information. again in order to get to that motive. one thing that s interesting is that we re told the residence was the address listed on the envelope. he wasn t hiding. nevertheless when you re sending this potentially toxic material to federal officials it s something that s going to get the attention of the fbi. josh campbell, thank you so much. let s turn to the politics, democrats on capitol hill demanding to
room [laughter] no one really knows what the answer to this crucial question is. of course donald trump doesn t want to have eric: well, let me interrupt you because reince priebus did say today in interviews that the president did not accept that answer. he said, quote, he absolutely did not believe putin. well, we haven t heard that from the president. why not? and another question, is donald trump going to contradict whatever reince priebus or rex tillerson said tomorrow? i mean, look, mr. tillerson said that they had discussed sanctions. he said that clearly in his news conference. he wasn t hiding. but donald trump said in his tweet hay did not discuss they did not discuss sanctions, but that nothing would be done until their disagreements over ukraine and syria were solved. you know, mr. trump consistently