>> thank you for the laughs, andre. you will be missed. and on that very sad note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. ♪ ♪ ♪ tonight on all in -- >> what are they afraid of? i am here, i am ready. >> the president's son springs the trap, and republicans show their hand. >> what are you hoping to gain from an impeachment inquiry? >> all i want to see is donald j trump 2024. >> tonight, the impeachment push not even in full in fox news. >> we don't actually have any facts to that point. there is no evidence that joe biden did anything illegal. then why judge chutkan paused trial proceedings in the wake of jack smith's supreme court gambit, and today's big new in the supreme court will take up its biggest abortion case since the dobbs when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris is, about two hours ago, the republican-controlled house of representatives voted to formally open an impeachment inquiry into president joe biden by a narrow nine vote margin, entirely along party lines. every single republican voter started the impeachment process over, it's not really clear. no one seemed sure what exactly the charges, and to be clear, the bar for productive discourse out at this, historically, on a republican majority, is as low as it gets. this is the same house republican majority that took 15 votes to elect a speaker of the house. they say republican majority to fired that guy after only a few months on the job and at the concert without a speaker, the second one, for the presidency, for three more weeks, the same republican majority constantly at risk of an eternal strike led by extremists and political analysts, a cultish devotion to the man who tried to remove american democracy and is promising to do it again. be in by that standard, this impeachment inquiry is as transparently signal as anything they have done yet. they've been at this for nearly three years. for the moment, president biden was sworn in, they were waiting to impeach him. the facts can come later. here's the thing about many house republicans that is important to understand. they are just as adrift in the conspiracy fever swamp as the most extreme portions of the maga movement that they represent. over the past couple of years, i think a bunch of them convinced themselves that there really was some big smoking gun that would prove that joe biden was guilty of grifting money from foreign governments, which i think is the charge eight again, not clear. joe biden, quite famously, it's about the porous man in all of elected government on the federal level for most of his tenure in washington. that is the guy who they want to believe is not just corrupt but wildly unprecedentedly corrupt in front of everyone's faces while serving as vice president, and no one, no one sniffed it out until now. that's the story. that claim, i think, it's fair to say, is astonishingly difficult to believe, which is why republicans have zeroed in on violence on hunter. that is a man who has publicly struggled with addiction and dysfunction, for most of his adult life. house republicans have hounded the president son under biden to the ends of the earth for years. so, we actually showed up to washington today to make his case for himself. >> i am here to testify at a public hearing today to answer any of the committees legitimate questions. republicans do not want an open process where americans can see their tagless, expose their baseless inquiry or hear what i have to say. what are they afraid of? i am here. >> he's right. republicans don't want an open process. that would risk exposing just out tetanically week their case actually is. >> mr. biden said that his father had no involvement in his business dealings, period. how do you respond? >> that's not what kevin hart just said. there were cow phone meetings, you name it, we know what happened. from december 4th to the december 9th timeframe. >> first of all, the day actually said that they had nothing to do with the business, so he's got that wrong. but, get this, like about the clip that we just played, they are still in the ear of our lord, 2023, trying to make burisma a thing. burisma, because he forgotten, which you are forgiven for doing, burisma is the widely debunked conspiracy theory that donald trump said rudy giuliani to dig up and ukraine. that is the one that trump tried to threaten zelenskyy into pushing publicly, even though it was nonsense. the actual high crime that trump was impeached for, for the first time in 2020, that is the source of it. here we are, four years later, including nearly an entire year with a republican house majority investigating these claims, and that is what they got? they got the thrown away rapper of a scandal from 2020? they got nothing. don't take my word for though, ask republican senator chuck grassley of iowa. >> i have no evidence of that, and i will follow the facts where they are, and the facts have not taken me to a point where i can say that the president did anything. >> that is a grassley, not some never trump than. oh chuck rossi as been doubtful about this for years to. if you're so -- even the weatherman on the fox and friends couches not buying it. >> congressman, excellent question for you, have you found -- have you found evidence that anybody broke any loss? you don't actually have a in any facts to that point. there is no evidence that joe biden did anything illegal. i heard you yesterday referred to them as a crime family, and it is organized crime. make it easy for us, what was the crime? >> the crime is that you are creating policy for money. >> which policy? >> we are going to get into. that >> just the way. congressman james comer, chairman of the over second 80, the guy leading the charge against biden, that's the captain, has done such a poor job outlining his case, that he is getting torch by steve doocy of all people. in fact, get this, comer won't even go on fox and friends anymore. he is fighting in his new space on and even more maga network. >> why would doocy say, for all the work that you have done, you had nothing, why do you think that is? >> he's had that position from the very beginning. i quiin friends because of doocy. >> why would that mean father doocy do you like that? if your case is so thin, that it won't even stand up to the soft scrutiny of fox and friends, i think it might be time to admit that you don't have the goods. but, of course, james comer and the rest of the maga caucus, those folks, know that they don't have it in the back at this point. they understand as well as anyone, how flimsy the cases, but they will do it anyway. for one reason and one reason only, donald trump wants them to do it. >> i rise to oppose the perverse and illegitimate effort to do double trump's dirty work. >> we are here today not because of any wrongdoing by president biden, but because donald trump wants revenge. welcome to the donald trump or french show. >> this has never been about the truth. this is about avenging donald trump. >> the problem is, they have zero evidence. the only crime is that joe biden blew out donald trump in the 2020 election. >> there is a through line to all of this, donald trump will violate the constitution to gain power and to keep it, and republicans will enable him every step of the way. >> you might be saying, that is just a bunch of democrats, we don't believe them. what about maga republican congressman troy nehls of texas. >> representatives, what are you hoping to gain from an impeachment inquiry? >> oh i can see is donald j trump 2024. >> thank you, congressman, there, you have it. >> however, donald trump is facing the most legal peril of any presidential candidate in the nation's history. he's likely to be until at least once in the near, perhaps more times. his sick offense in congress are desperate to counter program with a trial of their own. that is all today's vote was about. congressman jamie raskin of maryland served as a top democrat on the oversight committee. he led the second impeachment of donald trump. he joins me now. today, i suppose today was not a surprise, and yeah, i have to say that i still am a bit shocked. i am, a little bit, that they are going to do it apparently. what is your reaction? >> they got nothing else to do, chris. there is literally no legislative program. they just want to cut off the people of ukraine. they are not interested in humanitarian assistance to ukraine or to people in gaza or to helping people in israel, none of it. they are not interested in any of it it's all about getting that much from back into power. so, i agree with you, i am surprised to, because their investigation is so patently fraudulent and merit-less, but they don't care. the real things to keep it going into the next year into the campaign season. donald trump can say, yeah, i may have 91 federal and state felony charges against me. i may have been impeached twice for the last time for inciting a violent insurrection against my own government and vice president and the constitution, but, look at what is happening at joe biden. they are impeaching him, there will be a child, who knows, maybe it will be in the fall, right before the election. >> again, it is so to me transparently a son, and i say that, honestly, having spent time looking into some of the weeds of this stuff. there have been four impeachments presidents in american history. there would have been a fifth with nixon, had he not resigned. in all of this cases, from andrew johnson to richard nixon to bill clinton to donald trump twice, the conduct at issue was undertaken by the president while he was president. like, that is clearly a core principle here. they are not even pretending. i don't not think that this could be said enough. they are not even pretending that there is a thing there of joe biden's conduct as a president to impeach him over. right, am i missing something? >> the funniest exchange that i have ever seen in congress for saturday and the rules committee, when joe the goose was asking a republican rubberize or, just tell us, what is the crime. he said, that is what the impeachment inquiry is for. but that he said, what is the crime that you're looking for in the inquiry? he said, that is why we're having the impeachment inquiry. then he said, what are you looking for? then somebody passed him a no, for high crime misdemeanor. and then he tore up his hands and said, which one? it is amazing after 11 months of this wild goose chase, they cannot identify what the criminal event is, what the criminal offense is, why joe biden should be impeached. remember, these are people who voted against impeaching donald trump for inciting a violent insurrection that smashed all of us in the face. they saw that with their own eyes and voted no. now, they're voting for and impeachment inquiry for an event that can be defined. it's making a mockery out of the constitution. >> just because he referenced it, and i agree, it was and illuminating exchange. let me play that exchange that you reference with congressman, take a look. >> what is the specific constitutional crime that you produ>> w > it's like a tim explai>> i can't get an answer. i , and here is aagain, the other.as someone who liv it just did not happen until th because, at atop the government, a though he million votes, therth that biden must be taken t's p hope and believe that th here. >> what the new his fam other. demogo after republicans republicans go afterrats someone who lived through remember coverin, ther are somets of democratic caucusd ump early on i think even somlorablconstitutr instance, olation he -- it just did not en unt the ukine focaause there wanse thatn' have somethat riseto crime.l ofpeachabl thly is a fference i the democrats coted thisdonald republican majordo ey that the repuican o t crimes, like what welkin out with biden, becomemes, because they want thbe - inciting a violeurrectio that wnded atalized 150 hoes, kipl atop the govent, it know, whis why aas you abroad these dayarently. everyt is cotely inrted, buher way of log at thihat it all gok to dontrump. joe bidewas animatllo trump, president,n thou by more than 7lion v there are 60 3:32. thried tk him by every s poss in th ates aj, by gettin thvice pre to take a walk and so on none oorked. they to stop b, an lestefanik, stand by wthey did and his dabeliev that b must be taken dow by any mecessary, an that is all thimpeachm about. punisng him enough to that's where we, back to the c stru and the kleptocranau kratz.rats ahe for y hope and beliet thbut mocrat party is up ttask >> yeah, t just he fronin the b shares a birthdath tell us withlearn happy are very kindressman. thanks lot cong up, hunter biden goes o the offensive. for six years, i have been the target of the unrelentin trump attack machine, shouting where's hunter well, here is my answer, i a here >> what the new plan of attack means for president biden an his family next. hi, i'm janice, and i lost 172 pounds on golo. when i was a teenager i had some severe trauma in my life and i turned to food for comfort. i had a doctor tell me that if i didn't change my life, i wasn't gonna live much longer. once i saw golo was working, i felt this rush, i just had to keep going. a lot of people think no pain no gain, but with golo it is so easy. my life is so much different now that i've lost all this weight. for six years, maga when i look in the mirror i don't even recognize myself. republicans, including members of the house committees, who are in a closed door session right now, have attacked my character, invaded my privacy, attacked my wife, my children, my family and my friends. they have ridiculed my struggle with addiction, they belittled my recovery, and they have tried to dehumanize me, all to embarrass and damage my father. >> the lone surviving son of president joe biden, hunter, has been an obsessive focus for the right for a few years. he is not the subject of an impeachment inquiry into his father for conduct the even happen during joe biden's presidency. for all of this, hunter and his father have been in opposition, because joe biden and here's a crucial norm for american constitutional governments, something that explicit donald trump would never for a second follow. but you imagine if his son was indicted with the doj? and that norm means that joe biden cannot comment on the ongoing case, that the department of justice is pursuing against his own son. hunter biden has also not wanted to further distract or injure his father politically, so he has largely kept silent. but he appears to have decided recently that enough ienough, and you have to say something and you're on the fence. as betsy woodruff swan reported anpolitical today, quote, hunter biden's publicaddress on wednesday surprised many of the house republicans who have subpoenaed him detoxify behind closed doors, getting wall-to-wall cable news coverage, he showed up on the turf to reiterate that he would only testify in public. joining me now is betsy woodruff swan, national correspondent for politico. betsy, i had been reading your reporting on this throughout. i had to say, i was so struck today, partly because i work in television, but here is a person that i have read profiles of, read print interviews with, no a fair amount, right incredibly intimate things that he has set, or have been said to him, because of his laptop being leaked. i don't think i have ever seen the guy speak, and i was so struck by, here is this person, an actual human being and guy, talking to us. it was a striking moment. what did you make of it? >> it's fascinating, because he is one of the most covered people in american public life. if you look at stats about people who frequently feature mostly in fox news, the daily mail, hunter biden is those at the top of the list. there is an extraordinary amount of public interest, especially right wing media interest of him as a person. but, for years, he engaged in what folks close to him have called strategic silence. there was a conscious decision by hunter biden, by advisers closest to him, going back to the genesis of the justice department groping into his taxes, that he needed to keep a set down, stay away from the limelight, not do the kind of thing that he did today. and the calculation was, if he cooperated with the doj and kept his head down, things would go well. eventually, and expose the tory narrative would emerge. that all changed dramatically at the hearing in july, and then in august, when merrick garland named the justice department investigating hunter biden as a special counsel, that was a key moment in the thinking of hunter biden and his allies. at that point, according to one person i spoke to who is supposed to hunter biden's legal team, the calculus changed. a change from last engaged and strategic silence to, let's give up from having hunter keeps head down. one person i spoke to said, how is it possible for hunter biden to keep his head down, when they keep pulling his head up and walloping him? today, what we are seeing is very much a combination of this new approach that he has taken, such a striking moment this morning. >> it also signals that there may be more of this. here is someone who is, like you said, and enormous amount of public interest, is being constantly maligned, again, had the most intimate, vulnerable, awful moments of his life, in the throes of addiction, literally naked pictures of him on the floor of congress, pride out of him. just defending himself. i get it, i can't say as a lawyer, is seeking the the tax crimes he charge, i thought. no abby aloha had this to say about that. based on the facts and the law, if hunter's last name is anything other than biden, the charges and delaware, and now california, would not have been brought. i talked to lawyers who would agree with that. with this is me going forward? for sunday a one-off, or are we going to see more of this? >> i would expect war. i can tell you that hunter biden has told friends that he can't expect strangers to defend him, if he is not defending himself, if he is not public facing, still not speaking on the record, not entering into the fray. over the last few months, we saw that begin with him leveling a series of lawsuits against some of his most significant antagonist, including rudy giuliani, very much hunter speaking out and defending itself. what we are seeing now is him on camera, defending not just this character but defending his business record. today, he said he is proud of the work that he started to negotiate international business deals. he said is part of his time serving on a dozen different boards. clearly an illusion to disperse the board that has drawn so much attention from republicans. the audience for a hunters or marks today was not just house republicans, it was also house democrats. another person close to hunter biden told me that there has been a frustration among the president's sons and allies that so many congressional democrats had essentially accepted the republican narrative about hunter biden that he is a bad guy and never deserved to have these jobs. at least is that had no idea what he was doing. congressional democrats have been operating as if those arguments coming from republicans are a given. what we see today's hunter now telling not just republicans and the american public but also democratic lawmakers that, hey, in his view, it is argument, that is beginning to unfold, the claims that republicans have presented as air disputable facts, have not been disputed. >> once a day things also today, and i want to read this quote, it's so clear to me that big part of this is that the justice is putting his finger to the spiritual, emot