Have not told you is not a single political leader supported the movement. Matt won the crusade for voters. And naacp down. Elected leadership down. Nobody anywhere supported it so we asked the city council would you at least put the measure on the ballot so that the people can decide whether they want it or not. Would you allow the people to vote on it, and they didnt do that. At the time i think tim kaine was the mayor of the city, and i said, tim, can you work something out to at least put it on the ballot that people decide it . He said i can only get four votes. I cant get five votes, the majority to do it. Now with that, so what we had to do was to go out and get the people to sign the petition, and if you get the percentage of numbers of people to sign the petition, then it can go on the ballot, so we were able to get about 15,000 signatures to make certain that it had gone on the ballot, and even though the entirety of the leadership was against it, when the people voted, 80 of
Along with joe, willie and me, we have White House Reporter for the associated press, jonathan la mere. Cofounder and ceo of Axios Jim Vandehei and conservative lawyer, cofounder of the Lincoln Project and contributing columnist to the Washington Post, George Conway joins us this morning. Well, a lot to get to, joe. I think the first we should start with is that donald trump is expected to become the first u. S. President to be impeached twice after Vice President mike pence informed at this point the House Speaker nancy pelosi that he would not go forward with the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. In a letter to Speaker Pelosi just hours before the house passed a resolution urging pence to invoke the 25th, the Vice President wrote that such action is not in the best interest of our nation and would set a, quote, terrible precedent. I question his oath of office at this point, but that is what he did. The house convenes at 9 00 a. M. Debate on the impeachment resolution is se