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Down from trumps bravado and settle for half of the 5 billion donald trump had been demanding for his precious border wall. That was last saturday. And there have been no new offers from either side since. In a few minutes, well be talking with congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and what democrats will do about trumps actions at the border at large, an issue on which jayapal has become a leading progressive voice. They have an ambitious agenda planned, including getting the government operating again...

Offers from either side since. In a few minutes, well be talking with congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and what theyll do about trumps actions at the border at large, an issue on which jayapal has become a leading progressive voice. They have an ambitious agenda planned, including getting the government operating again, introducing new anticorruption and Voting Rights legislation, and jumpstarting investigations into the Trump Administration the republicans have not been all that interested in when...

Democratic senator Chuck Schumer the white house would climb way down from trumps bravado and settle for half of the 5 billion donald trump had been demanding for his precious border wall. That was last saturday. And there have been no new offers from either side since. In a few minutes, well be talking with congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and what theyll do about trumps actions at the border at large, an issue on which jayapal has become a leading progressive voice. They have an ambitious agenda ...

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And nbc news correspondent today show Host Chuck Todd from meet the press. Yes, were all part of the big happy family, but i cant tell you exactly what that nbc news special coverage is going to look like. That said, i can pretty much guarantee you it will not have a theme song as cool or as oddly ponderous and artistic as the way nbc news played its special theme song and leadin to the impeachment proceedings in 1973 for then president Richard Nixon. Because that was all covered with nbc news s...

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Forgotten element of how this was handled in watergate that is maybe a bit instructive for what were about to see tomorrow. and that is for all the drama, for all the gravitas and momentum for that moment, that sort of nationwide, show stopping suspense as to what would happen at those watergate hearings and how they would go, what wed all learn. for all that buildup to that first day, that first public wa want to know who they called that first day, their first witness they called on the big op...

Was not involved of any of the criminal behavior at the heart of this scandal. someone who wasnt even necessarily a witness to the core and most serious wrongdoing that congress was investigating in watergate. by starting with him, by starting with this guy, bob odle, they calibrated our moral vision for what we were about to learn. they started us off with a normal law-abiding person, someone behaving in a rational law-abiding manner. in so doing, through his eyes we could see how abnormal the ...

Impeachment hearings that are now scheduled just between tomorrow and the end of next week. again, some of them will be broken down into two sessions per day. but when things kick off tomorrow, i do think were going to see a little bit of a -- at least a conceptual parallel twoen h between how the watergate hearings started back in 73 and how the hearings start tomorrow. its not going to be -- i dont think were going to recognize mr. odle in the characters that we see tomorrow as these witnesses...

And they will start the public impeachment proceedings against president trump tomorrow. and it is not going to be, you know, bob odle standing there with a pointer pointing at an org chart for the nixon campaign. but it will start with people who know how the legal and proper channels are supposed to flow through, what those channels are. and i think that starts us off basically with a moral calibration, so we can sort of calibrate our moral vision so that the country through these impeachment ...