Mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. We begin with the impeachment trial of President Trump which resumes this afternoon and Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has unveiled the ground rules for the proceedings. Mcconnell released the fourpage organizing resolution which outlines the rules that will govern the trial late yesterday afternoon. It offers both the democratic prosecutors and the White House Defense team 24 hours in total to make Opening Statements but the time must be confined to two working days or basically two 12hour slots. When each side has made its case, senators will be given 16 hours to ask questions in writing. The senate will consider subpoenaing witnesses or documents and vote on whether to do so. The resolution does not automatically admit evidence from the house impeachment inquiry. The impeachment rules set forward by Mitch Mcconnell vary from those of the impeachment trial of president bill clinton. According to the new york times, while the trial is expected
Close to call as well. Sanders leads by less than 2100 votes. Or 0. 2 of a percentage point right now. Any talk of a sanders comeback in michigan, that was blighted by sanders double digit lead. Biden awards 65 of the delegates so far. Sanders gets 45 of those. 15 delegates still on the table with 7 of votes still out. Were also watching mississippi not because of bidens massive 81 . But because of sanders won 45 there. But its actually 14. 8. If sanders does not land at 15. 0 which the remaining number of votes come in, he wont get a single state wide delegate from that state. Heres where the delegate total stands so far, biden, 836, sanders with 686. According to an nbc news exit poll, this is a 20point yip tick for biden. Meanwhile, biden continued to perform well among key voting groups including in michigan where he received over 60 of the vote of africanamericans and voters over the age of 45. Over in mississippi, he won 80 of voters, older voters, moderates, conservatives and bl
On health care, taxes, and nafta, and my conversation on 100 days of trump with seth meyers. If this were a movie, it would be called 100 days and confused. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. For the second time this week in the runup to the president s 100th day in office, the white house has made a big, blustering, toughsounding ante raising threat only to back down in humiliating fashion. The turnaround seems to be getting shorter and shorter. First there was a threat to shut down the government in order to get funding for the president s border wall which mexico was going to pay for. The white house caved after a few days when it became clear there were no takers on capitol hill. Now after threatening last night to cut off payments to insurers which help millions of low income americans afford their copays and deductibles, the white house has already capitulated. Over and over again, the president has shown he regards health care not as an urg
Health care not as an urgent daily concern for the people hes supposed to be serving, but as a political bargaining chip. Here he was after the first Gop Health Care bill fell apart. The best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. It is exploding right now. I think what will happen is obamacare unfortunately will explode. Its going to have a very bad year. So what would be really good, with no democrat support, if the democrats, when it explodes, which it will soon, if they got together with us and got a real Health Care Bill. The Affordable Care act is not exploding. According to analysis by the congressional budget office, the exchanges despite their problems arent in the much touted death spiral. So the president has been essentially threatening to make the aca explode himself. Floating a plan to withhold those payments to insurers, likely causing markets to collapse. In order to extract concessions from democrats or, put another way, the president of the Uni
Hour. Puerto rican governor announcing he will not seek reelectioning 2020 and said he would no longer head up the new progressive party. The embattled governor is facing massive pressure after it leaked private messages where they allegedly made homophobic, misogynistic, and sexist remarks of victims of hurricane maria. And today marks it it it and. The president renews his twitter war after an art in the Washington Post gives a peek into the tweetsz and the subsequent rally in North Carolina. Said his own top aids didnt think hed fully understood what he had done last sunday when heified off a series of racist tweets and aids and advisors him to tone it down but he reacted by further ratcheting up the attack. Phoney sources that dont exist is fake news. Es for the only thick people were talking about is the recordsetting crowd and tremendous enthusiasm. I dont think theyre capable of loving our country. They should apologizes to america and israel for the hateful things they have sai