AGAINST HIM AND HE’S SCARED. >> "ALL IN" STARTS RIGHT NOW.
DPOOENG FROM
DPOOENG FROM GOOD EVENING FROM NEW YORK.
I’M CHRIS HAYES.
ONE PIE ONE SOMETIMES HOUR PIE
HOUR THE PRESIDENT’S DEFENSES
JUST KEEP COLLAPSING.
HERE’S HOW THINGS HAVE GONE AS
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ALLIES
HAVE TRIED TO DEFEND THE
INDEFENSIBLE.
INDEFENSIBLE. FIRST THEY STAKE OUT A POSITION
AND THAT POSITION FALLS OUT FROM
UNDER THEIR FEET AND THEY
RETREAT A STEP.
AND THEN THAT POSITION FALLS OUT
AND IT GOES OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
IT STARTED WITH THAT INFAMOUS
PHONE CALL BETWEEN TRUMP AND THE
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT WHERE HE
ASKS FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND
TRUMP RESPONDS, QUOTE, I WOULD
LEAK YOU TO DO US A FAVOR,
THOUGH.
THOUGH. AT FIRST TRUMP AND COMPANY
ARGUED IT WAS PERFECTLY
APPROPRIATE FOR A PRESIDENT TO
COERCE A BESIEGED FOREIGN EPTYNT
INTO INVESTIGATING THEIR RIVALS,
AS LONG AS THERE WAS NO QUID PRO
QUO, THAT WAS THEIR LINE.
UKRAINE WOULD ONLY GET THE
DESPERATELY NEEDED MILITARY AID
IF THE UKRAINIANS AGREED TO
MANUFACTURE DIRT ON TRUMP’S
POLITICAL RIVAL IN A TELEVISED
INTERVIEW AND PROVIDE AMMO FOR
THE PRESIDENT’S BASELESS
CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT THE 2016
ELECTION.
ELECTION. DO BE SURE THE QUID PRO QUO WAS
ALREADY FAIRLY CLEAR, IT’S
BASICALLY RIGHT THERE IN THE
CALL TEXT, BUT TAYLOR’S
TESTIMONY APPEARED TO ESTABLISH
IT MORE OR LESS DEFINITIVELY.
AND TRUMP EFFECTIVELY ARGUING
THIS MORNING, OKAY, THERE MAY
HAVE BEEN A QUID PRO QUO, BUT IT
WAS A REALLY INCOMPETENT ONE
BECAUSE WE NEVER TOLD THEM WE
WERE WITHHOLDING THE AID, WHICH
IS A DEFENSE I GUESS.
HERE’S TRUMP’S TWEET QUOTING
WHAT A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN
SAID ON TRUMP TV, QUOTE, NEITHER
TAYLOR OR ANY OF THE WITNESSES
PROVIDED TESTIMONY THE
UKRAINIANS WERE AWARE MILITARY
AID WAS BEING WITHHELD.
BUT IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR THAT
TO COLLAPSE EITHER.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" WITH AN
ALERT ON YOUR PHONE REPORTING
THAT UKRAINE KNEW OF THE AID
FREEZE PIE AUGUST, WHICH AS "THE
TIMES" NOTES COMPLETELY
UNDERMINES TRUMP’S DEFENSE.
THERE IS IS YOUR QUO.
AND BY THE WAY JUST A LITTLE
WHILE AFTER THAT STORY CAME OUT
THE AP REPORTED THE UKRAINIAN
LEADER FELT TRUMP PRESSURE
BEFORE EVEN TAKING OFFICE.
THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE AS AN
INCOMING PRESIDENT EVEN HOSTED A
MEETING ALL THE WAY BACK IN MAY
TWO WEEKS AFTER BEING ELECTED
BEFORE HE WAS EVEN INAUGURATED
PRESIDENT AND THE MEETING
FOCUSED ON, QUOTE, HOW TO
NAVIGATE THE INSISTENCE.
A NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL FINDS
SUPPORT FOR THE IMPEACHMENT
INQUIRY HAS REACHED A NEW HIGH
WITH 55% OF THE COUNTRY, A CLEAR
MAJORITY PACKING THE INQUIRY.
NEARLY HALF OF REGISTERED
VOTERS, 48% ALREADY SAY TRUMP
SHOULD BE IMPEACHED AND REMOVED
FROM OFFICE.
FROM OFFICE. AND THERE’S THE SITUATION IN THE
SENATE.
SENATE. ACCORDING TO THE DAILY BEAST
TRUMP HAS BEEN PRIVATELY WHINING
SENATE REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN
FAILING TO COUNTER THE
IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY.
IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY. ONE SENIOR REPUBLICAN AIDE TOLD
THE DAILYPIECE, QUOTE, THEY’RE
NOT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT DEFENDING
THE INDEFENSIBLE ON THIS STUFF.
JUST LISTEN TO WHAT SENATOR
McCONNELL HAD TO SAY YESTERDAY.
>> THE PRESIDENT HAS SAID YOU
TOLD HIM THAT HIS PHONE CALL
WITH THE UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT WAS
PERFECT AND INNOCENT.
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE
PRESIDENT --
PRESIDENT -- >> WE’VE NOT HAD ANY
CONVERSATIONS ON THAT SUBJECT?
>> SO HE WAS LYING ABOUT THAT?
>> YOU’D HAVE TO ASK HIM.
>> TO BE SURE TRUMP STILL HAS
REPUBLICAN SINK
REPUBLICAN SINK REPUBLICAN SINK
REPUBLICAN SINK REPUBLICAN
REPUBLICAN REPUBLICAN SYCOPHANTS.
REPUBLICAN SYCOPHANTS. THEY DON’T NEED TO STORM THE
PROCEEDINGS BECAUSE SOME WERE
ALREADY INSIDE AND HAD BEEN
INSIDE BEFORE.
INSIDE BEFORE. BUT THEY APPARENTLY WANTED TO
PUT ON A SHOW ON DISRUPTING THE
HEARING.
HEARING. AND BLOOMBERG REPORTING, QUOTE,
THE HEZ HAD ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE
AND SUPPORTED THE STUNT.
REPUBLICANS DID MANAGE TO DELAY
THE PROCEEDINGS WITH THEIR HIGH
JINX BIUT COULDN’T STOP IT.
THE CONSTITUTION GIVES TO THE
HOUSE AND TO THE HOUSE ALONE THE
ABILITY TO IMPEACH THE
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT. DEMOCRATS CONTROL THE HOUSE
BECAUSE THEY DECISIVELY DEFEATED
DOZENS OF REPUBLICANS IN 2018,
AND DEMOCRATS NOW REPRESENT A
MAJORITY OF AMERICANS IN THAT
BODY OF OUR GOVERNMENT.
IT IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE