to participate and actually defend itself a on the substanc? or was does it do? is it all bombast all the time until we get to potentially an impeachment vote. i want to delve deeper into that point and also tell our viewers here, as we re at the top of the 11:00 hour on the east coast in washington, you re watching msnbc s special live uninterrupted coverage of what all agree is a historic day on capitol hill.c this is the preparation for a house vote on resolution 660, providing for the rules for the potential impeachmentth of the current president donald trump. what you see on your veen is a countdown that will result in proceeding to thatsu vote. so the current count you see on your screen has not yet arrived under the house procedure on the phone. what i can tell you, in a matter of moments when you sigh this count run down,u within the ne nine minutes, we expect the house to, proceed then to the
actual vote on the impeachment resolution and trules. we also are told in a depa
about fighting corruption, we should also say specifically, burisma in 2016. mr. yermak provided me a statement. i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to president trump and solve this problem that i had observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. the problem being that he is getting a bad set of information, a statement like this could potentially correct that. was mr. guiliani satisfied with the statement? no, he was not. he believed it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, would not mean anything. so in fact, mr. guiliani wanted a statement that referenced burisma and the 2016 elections explicitly. one that would benefit, essentially, president trump.
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dispute. now turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. yes. on august 31st, senator johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on september 5th with senator with murphy. and he wanted johnson wanted the aid released so he calls the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. right. the president said i m not ready to lift the aid. they had this senator johnson, he writes a ten-page letter, very detailed, and he gives some remarkable detail and i would like to read it. it s on page 6. i this is senator johnson speaking, he said i asked him whether there was some kind of
arran arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. without hesitation, senator johnson says, president trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed and he started cursing. he said, no way. president trump said no way. i would never do that. who told you that? and senator johnson goes on to say that president trump s reactionnt
i want to tone things down a little bit here and first express my gratitude for the thousands of men and women who work every day on the front line with the fbi. i come from a background as a prosecutor and our local law enforcement work with the fbi every day in our local office in minnesota, and then in the senate, i ve had the privilege to work with many, many people in the fbi. and i think the inspector general he s job is incredibly important. he keeps everyone honest. but i do think this it is important for those t agents an those in law enforcement that are watching today that people understand there are people up here that understand that you are simply doing your jobs. which i think is basically some recommendations foric change wh the inspector general found in this report. so before iis start my question
i think that it is important to put this discussion in context in the 2016 election which is why we are here today. it is nowe undisputed by our intelligence agencies t
False. it was]( dated 2020. this is your client writing, although the president signed a verification for the state court filings back on decembereç 1st,e made aware some: of the evidenc by the experts has been inaccurate. that was filed in federal court despite the knowledge. how do you then reconcile that with ethical bounds if he knew the underlying evidence was false and phone any, how is this a defense?, there was a suit filed and later on there was a suit filed in federal court. there was a period of time where
Put the heat on the democrats because they re allpolitics. they don t care about the people. they care about their own power. yeah. all right. coming up the meddle covering for hunter biden s caldron of corruption as republicans uncover more evidence of his malfeasance. calderon caldron. r more evidenc malfeasance.
Michael cohen as the star witnesichael cs against trump.si i mean, they re they re shameless in this way. so will heso get a chance to actually present this evidence either before the committe evidenc before or t the public will? i mean, there s so much smoke here , miranda, but the question is, does it does anyone everat e hear the whistle? look, he s on the run and you heard him say he thinksf he ll be on the run for the rest of his lifeor. m he he tells me that he s really in fear of his life. as well, so who knows if he can testify by remote video or by sending a video. will i don t know how kind of we ll figure that out. t out. know is that the democrats are absolute past masterare masts at trashing evey whistleblower that comes forwar d. and you seeing in real time as they re doing it to the irs i whistleblower shapley, a man with an impeccable record of a honesty and integrity who has recovered billions of dollars hw for this country.
From the defense team is present. the ruling follows a request from jack smith s prosecutor filed late friday. it also noted that the evidenc contains information about ongoing investigations tha could identify uncharged individuals. trump of course continues to talk about the case, he pleaded not guilty to 37 count including willful retention of national defense information tonight he was asked about keeping classified documents after he left the white house. why not just hand them over then because i had boxes, i wanted to go through the boxes and get all of my personal things out i do not want to hand that over i was very busy, as you coul see. according to the indictment you then tell them to move the to other locations after telling her lawyers to say tha you fully complied with subpoena when you had not. before i send boxes ove have to take all my things out these boxes were intersperse with all sorts of things trump was also asked abou another incident described i
Garland and his deputy lis monaco were focused on restoring public trust in th doj while some prosecutors fel that top officials were showin away from looking at evidenc of potential crimes by trump and those close to him and, with that, let s bring in our lead off panel glenn thrush, justic department reporter for the ne york times, former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner and anthony coley former justice department spokesperson unde attorney general merrick garland. glenn kirschner, let s tal about the ruling in th classified documents case abou evidence what does it say to you abou this case? you know, it says that th court and the prosecutors ar going to try to put in place all of the safeguards that the can to keep donald trump fro further disseminatin information. he was obviously disseminating saying is that he should not have been, which is what lande him in legal hot water and now the prosecutors and the judg want to make sure that he is
Say, well, three days, ten day trial, but i feel like voting now. e iswait until the evidenc in ande you do a collective decision. okay? and congress, do we say, we are all voting for a week, you don t have to attend the debate and so forth and so on no.so you have your debate and everybody both within the regional period of eve time. a few days, maybe even a week. but two months? things can change dramatically and that is not a national decision based on the same record. so you hav onale to get serious about orit.d. n that.my answer o katie, i had a colleague who went to advise me, people will vote for you even if they don t like you. they will not vote for you if they think you don t like them.f [laughter] is that a policy for messaging, and i d hate to ask the same question but i am fascinated. is it thted e g.o.p. policy that makes the party unattractive to