rachel: wow. greg palkot is live in kyiv with the latest. good morning. reporter: good morning, folks. yeah, it has been an amazing night with some amazing news just across the border from where we are right now with ramifications potentially for the war here and much more. it s being called the biggest challenge to russian president vladimir putin s 23 years in power, an attempt thed coup, an armed uprising, a mutiny. the man responsible, wagner mercenary group chief. he complain about russian military leadership even saying his forces had been fired on by russians. that s when he took his 25,000 fighters plus tanks, armor, guns to nearby kyiv, population 1 million. with almost no fight put up, they took over the main military headquarters there plus other administrative buildings with the demand that the top russian military brass come to them to discuss complaints. now, threatening to move on to moscow if if not happy if and some of his forces getting closer to the capit
tonight. but your usual host at thi hour would be alex wagner s of on a family vacation this week great week to choose, alex and because she is a way you are stuck with me. i apologize. alex we ll be back next week but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. gentlemen, i believe you ve all received copies of the prepared statement that i read to the court in open court as i said in that statement, the reason i changed m decision to fight this matte is because i do not believe it would be against the nationa interest and we have a brutalizing effect of my famil and is gone a through two-year struggle concerning this matter. you also may be aware that wha i said in open court, that i categorically and flatly den the assertions that were mad by the private prosecutors wit regard to their contentions of bribery and extortion on m part i will have nothing more to sa at this point. i will make an address to th nation within a few days and so the cri
predicate for an impeachment of donald trump, how does this not beat the bar meet the bar for the impeachment of a sitting president for house republicans? riddle me that question. that s going to become increasingly they tried to shelf that over, i think it was marjorie taylor greene a had a resolution, it s going to become increasingly difficult for kevin mccarthy and house republicans to justify not if this is all value dated and as it gets pushed into, bring these people into hearings to have them testify under oath, increasingly difficult if it is confirmed to not take that next step. rachel: there are mountains and mountains of evidence because hunter biden was a narcissist, exhibitionist and is a self-entitled princeling. so the evidence is plenty pete: it s almost too much. rachel: almost too much. we can t unsee can i just add one more thing? and he used his own money and used it as a deductible and actually deducted it off of his taxes for a sex club.
in new york, around the scen of trump s arraignment and booking on tuesday last night, the fox news channel, for example, primetim hosts and their guests, issued dark warnings about th reaction and the unrest that would be provoked by a donal trump arrest one guest said they re agitating for unrest i m ready for whatever is next i hope every other man out there watching this show, hope you re ready for whatever is next. if that s what they want, let get to it. says she would be traveling to new york on tuesday t protest trump s arrest o tuesday herself, quote, i going to new york on tuesday we must protest th unconstitutional witch hunt an she s proclaiming that she wil be there and inviting others t join her, and you remember marjorie taylor greene a having said in december that had sheet organized january 6t outside would have one and the crowd would have been armed.
how did donald trump get elected president? how is marjorie taylor greene a member of congress? with all the scandals both of them had. the truth of the matter, there is an autocratic part of the republican party, facts don t matter, biography doesn t matter, and what used to be disqualifiable behavior is no longer disqualifiable. for some of them, it is a mandate. it is part of why they want to support these folks. but, as i said, right now, these states and all of these races are going to take place across the country. where the majority is at hand for the democrats is tied directly to the performance of president biden at the national level. all of these races have been nationalized. the reason i think it s close in georgia and some of the other states, even arizona, is because president biden s approval rating now has sunk to some of the lowest points its been at his presidency. unless he can rise that approval rating and start to show and convince the american people of