Heres one part. The editor in chief writes, we are playing with a stacked deck of gross immorality and ethical incompetence. It will crash down on the reputation of evangelical collision and it will come crashing down on a nation. Theres a group of conservatives that would give a big amen to that. They just formed a superpac to help defeat the president. Welcome to primetime. Thanks, chris. Now, lets talk about what matters. You look a little beat up. I dont want you to think it was the trul supporters. Give people the Public Service announcement. What did you learn . Get checked for skin cancer, folks. When they get it early, its entirely treatable. Thank god you got checked, youre doing the right thing. I wish you well going forward. I wish you well for your family and the holy days and a merry christmas. And to yours. Thank. You got no case. Evangelicals, hell get three quarters of their votes. They want the judges. They wont explain why. Well have a representative of the community
New impeachment evidence. And the third impeachment trial in American History begins. We are here today to cross an important threshold in American History. What happens next adds the managers are selected, documents are signed and the senate trial begins. This is a difficult time for our country. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. I am chris hayes, and a lot is happening today. All over the world, across the United States and especially on capitol hill. Just hours ago, the house voted to send the two articles of impeachment against president trump, abuse of power and obstruction of congress to the senate for a trial. Speaker nancy pelosi named seven house members as impeachment managers. Those are the folks that will act as prosecutors. They are adam schiff, jefferies of new york, jason crow of colorado and Sylvia Garcia of texas. After the speaker signed the articles of impeachment, they walked the articles to the house to the senate. What is to come later this week
Hour. I have so many pieces of your interview here that were going to rerun and analyze with the people we have here to analyze, joyce vance, john heilemann, performance Laurence Tribe is going to join us later. But it seems as though, its very clear, your interview has created more momentum for witnesses in the senate trial. Weve had a couple of senators now come out and say based on your interview they believe lev parnas should be on the witness list. What do you think what do you think developed here as some of the more interesting witnesses that youd want to hear from who lev parnas has been talking about . Well, i think that thats interesting thats an interesting approach and i think thats the right way to look at it that mr. Parnas is obviously speaking from his own perspective. Hes talking about situations he says he was in and things he says he saw and things he says he heard, but he is to the extent that what hes saying can be corroborated by either other peoples testimony or
What do you say . Lets get after it. We got to look at it as a trifecta of troubles for the president and certainly his lawyer. Among tehem heres a quote. Giuliani was in talks to be paid by ukraines top prosecutor as they together sought damaging information on democrats. We need to look deeper. What actually happened . What was discussed in what were the boundaries at play legally, ethically, factually . Remember this in context, over and over mr. Giuliani has denied hes ever had any financial motives in the ukraine game. I have no financial interest in the ukraine. Im not going to financially profit from anything that i know of in the ukraine. Let me make clear real quick i have no business interest in the ukraine. Look, he was very clear about that. But now the New York Times broke this story that does cast doubt on that idea, reporting that mr. Giuliani privately sought hundreds of thousands in business from ukrainian officials while trying to wage a Public Campaign for dirt on th
Investigations sought by mr. Trump into his political rivals, according to three people briefed on the effort. The drafting of the statement marks new evidence of how mr. Trumps fixation with ukraine began driving senior diplomats to bend American Foreign policy to the president s political agenda in the weeks after the july 25th call between the two leaders. So just backing up for a minute here, july 25th is when President Trump has his phone call with ukraines new president. And according to the white houses own notes on the call, the ukrainian leader brought up military aid that his country was expecting from the u. S. , military aid that donald trump had put on hold. Donald trump said to him on that call, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. He asked the ukrainian president help cast doubt on russias responsibility for attacking the 2016 u. S. Election. Then he asked him for help ginning up dirt on trumps potential political rival joe biden. The white house put the not