finished. pardon-palooza. rhonda santa fouls to pardon some january 6th insurrectionists, including trump himself. what is he thinking? i m michael steele in for ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. to breaking developments tonight to begin the hour. in a history making vote, the texas house just voted to impeach state attorney general, ken paxton. a republican. temporarily removing him from office over actions of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office. the vote to adopt the 20 articles of impeachment was overwhelming. 100 and 21 to 23. attention now shifts to the texas senate which will conduct a trial with senators acting as jurors, and designated house numbers representing their place, presenting their case rather, as impeachment managers. also breaking tonight, new developments on the critical debt limit negotiations. a short time ago, nbc news learned that president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just finished speaking by phone. their call lasting
overturn the election results. that man is donald trump s top white house lawyer pat cipollone. he sat down for a transcribed interview under oath with investigators this morning. as far as we can tell, that interview or that meeting is ongoing at this hour. punch bowl news reports this about the parameters of today s testimony from cipollone, quote, sources tell us that the select committee does not have an agreement about what investigators can or cannot ask him. prior to hutchinson s testimony the panel had discussed an arrangement with cipollone for an on the record interview, but cipollone backed away from it, sources tell us. cipollone is expected to claim executive privilege over conversations he had with trump, but there is plenty that the committee is interested in outside of that category. for example, we expect cipollone will be asked about conversations with former white house chief of staff mark meadows. the possibility that cipollone could provide gamechanging i
finished. pardon-palooza. rhonda santa fouls to pardon some january 6th insurrectionists, including trump himself. what is he thinking? i m michael steele in for ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. to breaking developments tonight to begin the hour. in a history making vote, the texas house just voted to impeach state attorney general, ken paxton. a republican. temporarily removing him from office over actions of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office. the vote to adopt the 20 articles of impeachment was overwhelming. 100 and 21 to 23. attention now shifts to the texas senate which will conduct a trial with senators acting as jurors, and designated house numbers representing their place, presenting their case rather, as impeachment managers. also breaking tonight, new developments on the critical debt limit negotiations. a short time ago, nbc news
investigations in georgia. that if he were re-elected, he would object to vote koupts in the state. so purdue has to go to meadows and worringly text him, please, remind trump i m on his side. so you can see the way in which he s a gate keeper to trump. so, everybody doesn t always inject this into the conversation, mary, but i will. in the house of representatives, you re on every ballot. right? so every ballot they thought has been snapped by spanish or italian laser, their name is on. it s one hell of a laser and we should make sure the pentagon finds it. every single one of these yahoos was re-elected. i think the consciousness of guilty is so clear in the sort of pigs at the trough pardon
about the pardon frenzy. even jared kushner talks about the pardon palooza he was overseeing and jared kushner testifies to cipollone s discomfort in the final days with everything that was going on. what do you make of cipollone s decision and this is a bit of a cave on cipollone s part and the early negotiations as far as i understood it were that cipollone would testify narrowly about the episodes. it is my understanding from punch bowl and i invite katie or luke to jump in if i have this wrong, but he may or may not answer all of the questions and it is my understanding that he didn t walk through the door with anything off the table in terms of what they would ask. i think that s because there s been so much testimony that s illuminated this to a degree. we know what happened, but as we learn about why it happened and how it happened, even in the trump white house it s worse than we could have imagined in a work of fiction. it strikes me as having worked in the white house it