Looked like the president was firing the Deputy Attorney general overseeing the russia investigation, even before that fire drill this morning, it was clear through the end of last week, all through this weekend and through today that the news is just persistently off its axis right now. And i know that can make it a little bit hard to get your balance. I know, i know. Were going have more on the Rod Rosenstein fire drill, which did sort of look like an emergency this morning, and then it wasnt. He is still in his job. Were going have more on that to come, including speaking with a senator who has been trying to protect the special counsels investigation from just that kind of threat that we went through the motions of this morning. So thats ahead tonight this hour. But i got to tell you, for the second time in just a few day, were actually starting the show tonight without knowing if our first interview is going to happen or not. You might remember this happened at the end of last wee
Week, all through this weekend and through today that the news is just persistently off its axis right now. And i know that can make it a bit hard to get your balance, i know, i know. Were going to have more on the Rod Rosenstein fire drill, which did sort of look like an emergency this morning, and then it wasnt. Hes still in his job. Were going to have more on that to come, including speaking with a senator who is trying to protect the special counsels investigation from just that kind of threat that we went through the motions of this morning. So thats ahead tonight this hour. But i got to tell you, for the second time in just a few days, were actually starting the show tonight without knowing if our first interview is going to happen or not. You might remember this happened at the end of last week as well when we started the show expecting to be joined by one of the lawyers representing Christine Blasey ford who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulti
Story. The New York Times reports the fbi opened an investigation into whether the sitting president was secretly working for russia against the United States. At the heart of the probe, mr. Trumps firing of fbi director james comey and evidence that he linked it to the russia investigation. I said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story, its an excuse. The president responds by harshly criticizing comey and other fbi leaders. Well have New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt and ben wittes on what this could mean for the Mueller Investigation going forward. And joining me for insight and analysis are democratic pollster cornell belcher, peggy noonan columnist for the wall street journal. Republican strategist al cardenas and Nbc News National Political reporter carol lee. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning.
Tried to impeach him again in 1868. That one stuck. But when those articles of impeachment that passed in the house, when those articles were conveyed over to the senate for president johnson to face trial, they couldnt get a twothirds vote in the senate to convict him and remove him from office. So the effort to remove president Andrew Johnson from office failed, even though he was impeached in the house. Basically the same dynamic at work in 1998. Just before christmas, 1998, when the house of representatives voted for only the second time in u. S. History to impeach the sitting u. S. President , who then was bill clinton. And again, in that instance, the house voted to impeach the president but then they had to convey the articles of impeachment over to the senate and, once again, they could not persuade twothirds of the senate to vote to convict bill clinton and remove him from office. And so, again, that effort to remove him from office via the impeachment process, it failed even
At least six California school districts in the past year have adopted measures that require staff to tell parents if their child changes their gender identity at school.