state senator roman guterres of the impact it could have on his state and country. and frank floozy on the far-right s rush to push violence incidents as a false flag. why it is so when dangerous and what else is going on. later, what we learned about the case manhattan d.a. plans to bring against the former president. this is american voices. we begin this hour in texas where the state house led by republicans voted to impeach republican attorney general ken paxton. that vote coming just over an hour ago. here is the moment when it happened. of all members voted. 121 knows, and the resolution is adopted. paxton has been defending himself, i guess you can call it that. listen to what one republican said on the floor during the hearing. i would like to point out that several members of this house, while on the floor of this house, doing the state business, received telephone calls from general paxton, personally threatening them with political consequences in their nex
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
Learned that president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just finished speaking by phone. their call lasting about 90 minutes. earlier biden spoke with democratic leaders, chuck shimmer, and he hakeem jeffries. the conversation comes at a critical time during negotiations, while both sides work to finalize a deal. one of the potential reasons a deal remains elusive, treasury secretary, janet yellen, just revised the fiscal deadline. telling all lawmakers they know of a few extra days until june 5th to act before government runs out of money to pay its bills. this, folks, is a very fluid situation. let s bring in former dana craddock congresswoman, donna edwards, and nbc political analyst and washington post columnist. congresswoman edwards, donna, as a former woman of congress, how do you think the president should be selling this to democratic leaders right now? i think first, the president
Democratic members of our caucus. on that manufactured crisis piece, that had been prevailing talking point for a number of republicans over the past few days, especially now that we ve seen that turned a corner into a deal. how do the democrats respond in this moment, given this backdrop leading up to now, sort of steadily saying, we are working a deal. seemingly, the white house has won. well, we will all be looking in great interest on what is in the deal, of course. i will be looking to see whether there are these increased work requirements for the poor. i thought that was the worst aspect of their proposals, because that would only serve to inflict pain on the poor. and what effectively cut off health care for 1.7 million low
Microphones at 9:10. but mccarthy is the one that is telling the public and feeding the narrative about the process. the white house, ostensibly, has been somewhat reserved, to put it politely. and sort of creating the narrative around their efforts in the negotiations. am i miss reading that? should americans, or certainly democrats, be concerned about the level of, and agreed to, which the administration has set the narrative correct with them? so that we have a fuller understanding of what s in this deal. so let me tell you why i think that is happening. the house republican caucus has become so radicalized, that they are willing to default and not pay our bills. which would be catastrophic and crash the economy. democrats are just not willing to go there. it is kevin mccarthy that has to now rained back his extreme