Holdover Appointees News Today

Broadcast on a wednesday night. Thank you so very much for being here with us. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Were in the midst of live, ongoing coverage of the house judiciariry committee markup. The two articles ever impeachment against the president of the United States that of course congressman jim jordan of ohio speaking right now. This is a standard part of legislative process, the markup. It happens all time. But to...

July 31st, 2016, the fbi opened the trump russia investigation. And spied on four american citizens associated with President Trumps campaign. They took the dossier to the fisa court appear lied to the court 17 times. Didnt tell the court the guy writing the dossier was desperate to stop trump. Department tell the court the guy was working for the Clinton Campaign didnt tell the court the guy writing the dossier had been fired by the fbi for leaking information to the press. And the fbi continue...

Begun on january 17th, 2017. strangely enough the article was posted at 12:19 p.m. while the inaugural ceremonies were still happening. the aclu executive director stated we think that president trump will be in vital of the constitution and federal statutes on day one. then the genre of assassination and personal harm began with kathy griffin poets posing with a model of trumps severed head and robert de niro using the tony awards speech to say f-trump. id like to punch him in the face. >> then...

Then democrats and president obamas holdover appointees began to run roughshod. on march 21st, 2017, representative maxine waters tweeted, get ready for impeachment. march 21st, 2017. on may 16th, 2017, representatives from this committee began the -- or a representative from this committee became the second member of the house to raise the topic of future impeachment proceedings. representative brad sherman and al green introduced the democrats first impeachment resolution for obstruction of ju...

>> i could be biased by my views of service out there and the high regard i have out there for the folks who work at the cia, but there are other possibilities for the leaks. for example, holdover appointees from the previous administration because there are a lot of those folks still in the jobs that they were in because this administration has not been able to get its act together quickly enough to get a number of those slots filled. david: is that the responsibility of this administration, or...