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Signatures to qualify for the march 10th primary ballot. patrick launched his campaign on november 14th after the secretary of state had already submitted lists of candidates for the ballot. his campaign had to submit at least 11,345 valid petition signatures. but state officials said only 8,660 of them ended up being valid. patricks campaign told nbc news in a statement yesterday, quote, our campaign was forced to collect more signatures than any other campaign and did so. michiganders deserve ...

Adam schiff, nancy pelosi, and the whistle-blower to be called to testify in the senate trial. it will only take a few republicans, you know, could be mitt romney. susan collins. lisa murkowski. familiar names you might know of that are moderate republicans. to join democrats to block potential requests like that. okay. my panels back with me. and thats just scratching the surface at the moment. jonathan alan and, you know, for geeks i guess, you can really read into this because the rules are s...

The proceedings but unlike a typical judge he wont have the final say over evidentiary rulings. he wont even have the final say over requests for subpoenas. any single senator if we go by the rules established last time can make such a request and then call for a vote. and it will just take 51 votes to either uphold what the chief justice has ruled or to overturn it. >> you know, jonathan, the other major character, we played some of what he said recently, senator lindsey graham who chairs the j...

The formalities and the partisan pressures. >> great setup because were going to talk more about that in the show. what 51 votes means. what 67 votes means. as this does make it over to the senate. jon th jonathan alan, anne, thanks so much. coming up, the president takes defense strategy to florida tonight. the democrats prepares articles of impeachment in d.c. the democrats prepares articles of impeachment in d.c. woman 2 vo: ...with humira. woman 3 vo: humira targets and blocks a specific sou...

How many articles of impeachment the judiciary ultimately lays out and when you read the report that just came out today, it does look like theres going to be a big decision as to whether theres going to be a separate count for bribery and abuse of power and also a question about what to do with the mueller report and then finally a question of whether to expand it to include things like corruption which is mentioned repeatedly throughout the document. >> a lot of possibilities. robert, anne, jo...

Present in this presidents conduct? yes or no, professor feldman? >> yes. >> and professor gerhardt? >> yes, sir. >> and professor karlan? >> yes. >> you all agree. >> some of the highlights from this week. lets bring in our panel. jonathan alan, nbc news digital national political reporter. anne, "washington post" white house correspondent and msnbc contributor. robert tsy, professor of law at american university. jonathan, lets get straight to whats new today. and thats basically how they plan...

Cooperative. and what you see in the report here is an effort to lay out a real effort -- what -- what they call a strong pattern of obstruction on the part of president trump from the top. they got a long list in the first report from the intelligence committee. detailing all of the people who were subpoenaed. who have refused to comply categorically. so i think well definitely see that comparison be drummed from here on out. >> so that was new today. jonathan, also new today. rudy giuliani pot...

Democrat, won back in 2017. and through those midterm elections and then now last night, we see it again. and these are different types of suburbs, too, ali. youre talking about, you know, in northern virginia, which is already very heavily democratic leaning. aur youre seeing more of a democratic tilt and youre seeing more turnout than you would expect otherwise. youre seeing whole local boards changing to democratic hands. you are seeing some of that in pennsylvania as well last night. those a...

Double check the vote totals. thats not a recount. thats just checking the totals. kentucky has no provision for an automatic recount so bevin would need to get a judge to authorize a recount and he would have to pay for that process. in virginia, democrats flipped both chambers of the state legislature giving them control of the legislature and the governors mansion for the first time in more than two decades. democrats picked up at least two seats in the senate and five seats in the house of d...

Is an employee of the white house by extension of the national security council. so the president not talking about vindman directly but certainly is referring to him using the never-trumper label that has been what he has described political opponents. and saying that he simply got this wrong. the white house has not been specifically trying to discredit vindman, who again is still an employee here. and that is territory fraught with peril in part because weve also seen today how senator schume...