capitalized on my sexuality and enabled my abusive ex to condition that abuse this time with the entire country watching. katie hill explaining why she is resigning. she announced her resignation amid an ethics investigation with an alleged inappropriate relationship with a staffer and nude photos published online, and the speech came as she voted in favor of the next phase of the impeachment inquiry. i m leaving because there is only one investigation that deserves the attention of this country. and that s the one that we voted on today. a man, who brags about his sexu sexual predation, with dozens of women come forward to accuse him of sexual assault, who pushes policies who are uniquely harmful to women and filled the court with judges who proudly rule to deprive women of the most fundamental rights to control their own bodies, sits in the highest office of the land. and so today as my last vote, i
this week about wild conspiracy theories profiting off the presidency and the one person in washington turning the country upside down. only those warnings weren t about president trump, they weren t at president trump, and they weren t coming from the democrats. i could go abroad, make millions off of my father s presidency. i d be a really rich guy. it could be incredible. down in the scif right now is like a cult. these are a group of people loyally following their leader as he bounces from one outlandish conspiracy theory to another. from one man to turn this country upside down to have this vote today, our founding fathers warned about this. and, that could be called the art of projection. could also be called shamelessness at an absolutely breathtaking pace. back in the late 90s during the
yeah, democrats have democrats have struggled to get as much attention as donald trump. especially when you re talking about impeachment. and for impeachment you had that vote yesterday where you had this projection of unity. every republican voted against the impeachment proceedings. but behind the scenes, you re seeing real angst about whether they have to change with the changing demographics. for our axios show this sunday you ll see representative herd of texas, you ll see representative crenshaw of texas really wrestling what it s going to mean to be a republican in a more diverse nation. jim, let s talk a little bit about the impeachment probe, if we can. does it start looking like the rest of the country, there won t be a republican party in this country. but we know where the trends are going and we know what we need to do. i don t take it as a given because you re nonwhite that we
to investigate the democrats, from what they did in 2016, to investigate biden, that preceded the phone call on july 25th and followed the phone call after july 25th. all right, joining me on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. great to have you with us. the house voted yesterday pretty much on party lines to formalize the rules and guidelines going forward. both sides are kind of, well, i should say democrats are saying this is due process, republicans are saying this is a sham process. legally speaking, what did we see unfold yesterday in terms of the due process part of this? how does what the democrats did push the argument that they are giving the president a fair shot as this process goes forward? this country borrows the idea of due process from our criminal procedure. our criminal defendants. we ve had hundreds of years of deciding the degree of due process that criminal defendants are afforded in a case. and similarly, with civil cases, as well. but we have almo
aid from another country, multiple officials tell reuters that the state department told congress yesterday that the white house budget office and national security council have decides to withhold $105 million of military assistance from lebanon. the aid was considered crucial for the country, a key ally in the region and unclear why it is withheld. reuters reports that the state department did not give congress a specific reason. it comes days after lebanese prime minister resigned on tuesday, amid massive protests in that country. secretary of state mike pompeo reacted to the resignation by calling on lebanon to form a new government, while also calling for an end to endemic corruption. meanwhile, president trump is weighing in on the chaos involved in british politics appearing yesterday on nigel s radio show and endorsed boris johnson and the u.k. s upcoming general election while adding certain parameters, regarding the prime minister s recently negotiated brexit deal.