block everything because they re 0 hard right wing people want chaos like donald trump. it s the old way of thinking that you only put things on the floor when you have the votes. sometimes you have to smoke out the no votes. may be that our gop colleagues get off the impeachment train and refocus on matters of policy where we can get something done. it s like this every year. so somehow america is still the greatest play to be on earth. it s a sunny day. a little optimism. neil: everyone could use that. the grand old party suffering grand misses. now a grand old reassessment going on. alejandro mayorkas is still standing after republicans felt sure they had the votes to take him down. they did. the border bill is collapsing with no fix in sight. all of that and that stand alone israeli aid bill going down in defeat. that is giving mike johnson another black eye when he doesn t need it. why chairman mark green says don t count republicans out and democratic senator mi
We are back following the Breaking News. President bidens son hunter indicted on federal gun charges today. Special counsel david weiss recently elevated to that role, brought this case tied to a 2018 firearm purchase, and were expecting the president to speak at any moment. That was previously scheduled. As he becomes the first sitting president to have his child indicted by the Justice Department, but thats not the only reason this is extraordinary. A few months ago this gun case was literally minutes away from being resolved, but the plea deal collapsed in court in front of a judge before questions from a judge, and this could mean a hunter biden trial in the middle of his fathers president ial election bid. Evan, walk us through the charges here and how this fiveyear investigation and lets reiterate five years got to this point. Reporter right, well, we have now the president s son, hunter biden has been charged with three counts. One of them relates to lying on the form back in 20
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Robert mueller is not. See you in a bit. Here onset for another day, dan goldman, an msnbc legal analyst along with our pal nbc News Reporter carol lee. It is less hot than it has been all week. You picked a good day to be here. Dan, let me start with you, if you look at what each side wants, they are both looking for leverage. And the sticking point, one of them seems to be this idea much an in person interview. What is the framing behind that . The trump team wants questions on collusion only and special counsel wants to hear about it all. I think Rudy Giuliani is trying to figure out a way to drum up some leverage because ordinarily the witness of the defendant or target or subject does not have the leverage, the prosecutor does. And but because bob mueller is not talking and Rudy Giuliani is, hes able he has the whole Public Domain to make all of his arguments, even though as
a prosecutor, none of them make se
[question inaudible] their party is in shambles right now. They have the squad leading their party. Take a look at so many of the people that were the most outspoken, and they say this was a devastating day for The Democrats, and you know it, john, and everybody else knows it. This is a devastating day for The Democrats. A very dumb and unfair question. If you look at his correction, he took that totally out of play. He made his decision based on the facts, not based on some rule, so you shouldnt even ask
that question because you know it is a phony. Go ahead. [question indiscernible] pres. Trump The Democrats had nothing and now they have less than nothing and i think theyre going to lose the 2020 election very big, including congressional seats because of the path they chose. Now who knows where it goes, from what i hear, theyre giving up. I just say, i know them too well, they will never give up. Theyll go back in the room and try to figure something out. This whole thing has been h
vacation. tell a well off post to hang out by the pool a couple of weeks is not a real punishment. it is b.s. scolding a host in public, saying what they did is inappropriate, that is a natural punishment. chris is going to have a surreal birthday on monday.ay he always takes his birth week off. but this year he s going to be absent whilelw his brother is fighting for his political life trying to stop this impeachment train. and going to say chris has been canceled when they do not seepo them on the air on monday. do not believe it. i checked with sources on the staff. they confirmed that he booked this time off months ago. tucker: he s got to be a plan from msnbc. no chance he s acting on behalf of cnn. anyway, we are just playing this and you can evaluate for yourself. when one of our anchors takes a