Were turkey day minus three. So what do you say . Lets get after it. This would be some headline all by itself. A Top Administration official using a personal email account for official white house business. Then you add to that, its the president s daughter ivanka. Whats he going to say about it . Nothing. You are not going to hear chants of lock her up at some trump rally about this. What are ivankas people saying . Theyre saying her private account was used, quote, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family and that she only did so until the white house told her it was a nono. Lets get after it with two of the biggest names in intelligence, former cia director general Michael Haden and Lieutenant General james clapper. Im not going to take up too much time on smaller matters. Using a private email to do government business, even after our reporting is she was told that its a nono, how big a deal, jim clapper . Well, its a big deal politically, certainly. Though
Katie we should do that. Brian also six years since scott stapp had an album out. He is very excited this july this came out. It has been a hit album. You will be hearing it for the first time. Steve it may have been six years since the album it. Will be an hour until we have some famous daves. They asked me on fox friends if i had smelled the grill yet. They just turned it on. Katie any time you smell barbecue first thing in the morning its going to be a good day. Brian katie, good to see you. Katie thank you for having me. Good to be here. Brian meanwhile, there is a lot of news to get to. Steve we have three hours and it starts right now. Today the Trump Administration is going to issue a new border detention rule aimed at keeping migrant Families Together until they their case on asylum is adjudicated. Brian instead just letting them thought 20 days. Number of crimes committed by illegal aliens in the u. S. Is off the charts. Try 64 . Katie Griff Jenkins joins us from the Nations C
Left unchecked. In a fiery dissent, republicans argue impeachment is part of a larger effort to delegitimize the president. Impeachment is likely to head to the senate next. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer who is set to speak any minute now has requested testimony from a number of current and former Administration Officials including john bolton and mick mulvaney. He says their testimony is necessary to help shore up support among republicans. The four witnesses weve asked for, the documents weve asked for are directly dispositive on what the actual facts were. Now, the house came up with a whole lot but there are some of my republican colleagues who say the charges are serious but im not sure theres enough evidence. Thats why these people should come. But a number of Senate Republicans have muld not calling any witnesses at all and Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is saying he wants to get a senate trial over as quickly as possible. Joining me from capitol hill, nbc news correspon
For at least right now. But stay with us. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel. And of course were going to hang on every word the chairman had to say about what is happening with the naming of managers for the senate trial. And does nancy pelosi have a way of negotiating with negotiating with Mitch Mcconnell to get a fair trial . The issue of mcconnells Strategic Thinking on this is a little bit of a black box. Lots of leaks, lots of, you know, competing arguments between the white house and mcconnells camp supposedly. We do know that mcconnell is going to speak tomorrow about what hes calling an unprecedented impeachment, which i think is him trying to unlock the door that says he should follow previous precedent for the way the senate trial is conducted for president clinton. Nancy pelosi is good at this game as is Mitch Mcconnell. She does hold some cards here. No one has ever tried to leverage the conveying of articles of impeachment between
Winning control of the senate. And later in the show, nancy pelosi versus donald trump. The year is ending as it began with another faceoff between the two. This time over impeachment, and today in an interview the speaker of the house said she is never afraid, and she is rarely surprised. Well discuss her impeachment strategy and look at the biggest moments from the speaker this year. At the end of the show there will be a surprise appearance by rachel. Thats all im going to tell you right now. But we begin tonight with some blistering words that have clearly gotten under trumps skin. He should be removed. Thats how the evangelical magazine christianity today described Donald Trumps behavior in a rare and scathing editorial calling for his removal from office just one day after he became the third president in history to be impeached. Quote, that he should be removed we believe is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the creator of the ten commandments. Those were the wor