discipline that adam schiff has shown and the steady hand of nancy pelosi because they moved this more quickly than typically congress can ever move anything. i thought i think the way they did it, other than yesterday. i don t think yesterday got them a lotpy don t know . the yelling back and forth that just looks like washington, it didn t add anything. but it will be a party-line vote at the end of the next week, i predict it will be a party-line vote. and then the senate trial i think will start in the first week of january and think we ll have bipartisan votes to remove the president. not enough, but there will be republicans that will vote to remove him. joe. well, i ve just got to say, if you are in if you re a republican in some of these swing states, you re in a very cory gardner especially in colorado, good luck running in the general election saying it s okay to the people of colorado, it s okay for the president of the united states to use military aid that the
way this has played out and the attorney general s reaction to it? well, i think when you look at the history of abuses by the intelligence agencies of this country, by domestic law enforcement going back to the civil rights movement, going back to the 1960s, they deserve to have rigorous oversight over them always. and so we see an inspector general report that are looks at irregularities in the fisa process, we should take it seriously. we shouldn t say it s convenient because we re deeply troubled by donald trump, by his corruption, his behavior, that s okay. right. because they re on the opposite it s not okay at all. however, what it exposes clearly is the constant lying, the constant gas lighting of the american people that s taken place for years around these issues. and, in fact, there was not some giant conspiracy to undermine the president of the united states by our domestic law enforcement agencies, by our intelligence agencies at all. it s conjured out of the fever
establishment in the country won t face. and after a couple of years, if you believe he is a crisis, that this is an expo exigent circumstance, beating president trump is a priority, who the democrats nominate is above and beyond its usual importance in this election because defeating trump is such an existential question for the question. and shade has proven over and over again a proclivity for dishonesty that s positively trumpian and it s time for democratic voters to understand the consequences of that going into a general election. all right. joe. so clair mccaskill, you worked with her. to me, at least, clair, it doesn t seem fair to preach
welcome back to morning joe, it s tuesday, december 10th. joinny will joining willny and me, we have john heilemann. former u.s. and msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill is with us. former republican strategist steve schmidt is at the table. and nbc news correspondent covering national security and intelligence, ken dilanian joins us. and after weeks of hearings and countless hours of witness testimony, today democrats are expected to announce articles of impeachment against president trump. five sources familiar with the discussions tell nbc news democrats will bring two articles against the president, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. speaker nancy pelosi s office announced last night that leaders of the house committees
donald trump and a lot of agents were not fans of hillary clinton. in fact, there were a lot of agents, important agents, who were cheering on the election of donald trump. i saw yesterday one part of it on november 9th the handling agent and co-case handling agent were celebrating the election of donald trump and instant messages exchanges going trump, ha, ha, ha, blank just got real. i saw a blununch of blanks this morning. and then the agent goes lol. this deep state theory is ridiculous and suggests again they re either liars or fools because during the campaign was obvious there was a split. and a lot of people inside the