don bacon. don bacon does not want to vote for impeachment. i can guarantee you. >> you too are wonderful, thank you so much for your analysis tonight. mary mccord in simone sanders-townsend, whose own show airs every weekend on saturday and sunday at four pm eastern, right here on msnbc. it is much watched. thanks for a time tonight. catch up on all four indictment against donald trump, you can. you can preorder the trump indictments, it contains all the charging document against donald trump and his codefendants, complete and unabridged. the book is edited and introduced by me, and it will be out on september the 25th, if you can't wait till the book is, out you can listen to me read the trump indictments on mary's podcast. prosecuting donald trump. right, now you need to scan that q r code on your screen. lots more coming up for you, including new reporting on one of ron desantis's pet project in his war on woke. first, why republicans and congress are practically silent about a major new win for their constituents. the high stakes of the g

and there is still some work do with some swing district republicans including don bacon who says that and misdemeanors. the committees need to do more digging to clarify this. there is tons of smoke but let's verify what is beneath it all. and despite the fact that house republicans for months have been investigating whether there are any direct links between hunter biden and his father, there still is no direct evidence. so one of the key questions of course from republicans is whether or not opening an impeachment inquiry gives them more power to get documents and witnesses or whether it may be too premature. but again, behind the scenes a number of republicans telling my colleagues that they now view this as a foregone conclusion that eventually and as soon as this fall there could be an announcement that an impeachment disting inquiry against president biden will move forward in the house. for cnn, i'm lauren fox. >>> and there is growing backlash this israel after the country's finance minister announced the freeze of around $53 million. the money had been earmarked for arab muni

and there is still work to with some swing district republicans including don bacon who said did the president commit high crimes and misdemeanors, the committees need to do more digging. let's verify what is beneath it all. and despite the fact house republicans for months have been investigating whether there are any direct links between hunter biden and his father, there still is no direct evidence. so one of the key questions of course from republicans is whether or not opening an impeachment inquiry gives them more power to get documents and witnesses or whether it may be too pre-made murder. but behind the scenes a number of republicans telling my colleagues that they now view this as a foregone conclusion that eventually and as soon as this fall there could be an president biden is going to move forward in the house. for cnn on capitol hill, i'm lauren fox. >>> the u.s. supreme court has revived federal restrictions on so-called ghost guns which are assembled from kits that anyone can bouyg allows federal regulations to remain in effect while legal challenges play out. two tex

we have don bacon posting on x or twitter, that the fbi told him chinese hackers breached his personaljune 16 of this year. this is the same time the hackers breached the imo commerce secretary gina romano. you remember this, and the duplicate was getting ready to go on a trip to help the communication between the two countries in the meantime the ccp is hacking the state department and his e-mails. there was no recourse. >> the cyber espionage campaign that they are conducting inside of the united states is the most comprehensive penetration in the american society in our history what the russians are doing and iranians and north korea absolutely pales by comparison. there's not thousands of people involved in this penetration from china, there's hundreds of thousands and millions of millions of penetration being made every day and every once in a while we get public awareness of something that is happening what is going on constantly, the flipside do we do this to china, yes, do we gather intelligence, were not stealing the intellectual property, here is the other shoe that will drop

one of those members who won in a biden distri back in 2020 don bacon had this to say.te, did the president commit high crimes and misdemeanors? the committees need to do more dig to go clarify this. there's tons of smoke but let's verify what's beneath it all. many house republicans who support this effort say opening an impeachment inquiry gives you more tools to get documents, to get witnesses, to get information where they will try to directly tie president joe biden to his son hunter biden's business dealings abroad. so far both investigations in the oversight and judiciary committees have not been able to find that direct link, but their argument is an impeachment inquiry gives you more power to do that. whether or not that is a convincing argument for some of those more moderate members that remains to be seen. >> how many moderate members are we talking about here who are considered swing votes on this among republicans? >> reporter: well, the number of swing votes varies but there are 18 house republicans who won in districts that biden won in 2020. so that giv

nebraska republican don bacon was indeed hacked informed by the fbi that it happened and a chinese communistnd that breach. sir, how did you find out? >> first, thanks for having me on. i had an initial indication in june when microsoft sent me a cryptic note saying that i may have been hacked, change your password. i didn't know if it was true or not. maybe it was a hoax. i did change my password. there was an indicator something was going on. monday, i got a call from the fbi, which you hear the fbi wants to talk to you, it gets your attention. the fbi cyber team said they were notifying me that the chinese government hacked my e-mail from 15 may to 16 june. they used a vulnerability in the microsoft software. the microsoft team patched me june 16. i schedule them if there's anything that i did that made that more vulnerable or opened a door somehow. they said no, it was a vulnerability. so i asked did anybody else get hacked. they said yes. it was mainly state department folks and commerce department leaders that were hacked. to my knowledge, i think i'm the on congress person that was ha

there's some members like congressman don bacon who are concerned about going that route or at leastrge the president with high kcrimes and disdemeanors. there's tons of smoke, but the committee wants to verify what's beneath that. this is going to be a major focus for republicans in the fall. the white house says it's a partisan political stunt, no evidence to back up the claims. republicans believe it needs more digging. >> thank you for that great reporting. thanks for joining me here on "inside politics." "cnn news central" starts after a quick break. e was made to fill that gap and help grow the workforce that's keepingng us all safe. sleep more deeply. and wake up rejuvenated. purple mattress's exclusive gelflex grid draws away heat, relieves pressure, and instantly adapts. sleep better, live purple. visit purple.com or a mattrs store near you. i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about li insurance through the colonial penn progra if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. what are the three ps? the three ps of life insu

don bacon, who represents a swing district from nebraska, supports ongoing probe.harging them with high crimes and merchandise, if joe biden ask faced with that, that would be fourth time. donald trump of course impeached twice. it is a significant bar. members are not quite ready to go there just yet. if an official inquiry is launched the exception among house republicans that they will vote on articles of impeachment because as one told us once you let the horses out barn it's hard to get the horses back in the barn, especially on something as significant as this. >> no question. thanks very much. >>> right now the polls are open in ohio. voters will cide whether they can still amend the state's constituti wh a simple majority vote. they want to requi andments to get 60% of the vote instead of 50% plus one. it's been a simple majority more than a century. why is this on the ballot one reason is access to abortion. it's not on the ballot today. but it will be in november. and it raises the threshold. that would make it harder to pass an abortion rights attempt. d

others have gone on the record with -- including don bacon of nebraska, quote, i think before we move an impeachment inquiry, there should be a direct link to the president in some evidence. so, they have no evidence, no facts, nothing. to suggest the president committed any high crime or misdemeanor. they're going to barrel head with an impeachment anyway. what to go wrong? david jolly is a former public and congressman of florida, and he joins me now. what is your read of the calculus in the republican house caucus and kevin mccarthy on this? >> i think this goes all the way back to the 15 votes to become speaker. i said to the table during during the speaker vote, i didn't think kevin mccarthy would be able to get the votes to become speaker. largely, because i underestimated his willingness to sell the gavel to the maga crazy crowd. it was apparent, then part of his corrupt bargain with his caucus was a willingness to impeach joe biden. he wouldn't come right out and say, it but we know that many in his caucus wanted to move towards impeachment. i believe mccarthy made that promis

. >>> don bacon from nebraska says the fbi warned him chinese hackers read his emails earlier this year. we know hackers got into sensitive u.s. government accounts, taking advantage of a security error by microsoft. bacon warned, quote, the chinese are not our friends, and said i'll work overtime to ensure taiwan gets every dollar of the $19 billion in weapon backlogs they've ordered and more. you saw the graphic. >>> 'x' yesterday was caught slowing down the connections between it and several websites, like "new york times" and mark zuckerberg's facebook. if you clicked on a link to a "new york times" article, you got a five-second delay. elon musk's distaste for "the times" and for mark zuckerberg is well documented by himself. he says it out loud. the "washington post" was the first to notice the slowdown, which has since stopped and 'x' has no comment on these slowdowns. >> what is it called? >> 'x' is the company, but there's no good verb. have you seen my xs means, which could mean all those many women in my past. what is the word? >> i was remembering the other day when you were

congressman don bacon from nebraska says the fbi warned him chinese hackers read his emails earlier this year. we do know hackers got into lots of sensitive u.s. government accounts, taking advantage of a security error by microsoft. bacon warned, quote, the chinese are not our friend, and said, i'll work overtime to ensure taiwan gets every dollar of the $19 billion in weapons backlog they've ordered and more. >>> there's a graphic x, so he tweeted it or whatever it is we call it. 'x' yesterday caught slowing down connections between it and several websites like "the new york times" and mark zuckerberg's facebook. if you click on a link on 'x' to "the new york times," you got a five-second delay. elon musk's distaste for "the times" and certainly mark zuckerberg is well documented by himself. he documents it, says it out loud. the "washington post" was the first to notice the slowdown, which has since stopped. 'x' has had no response, but they never had response to inquiries. i'm not going to give them the dignity of saying they didn't respond. >> my post took a minute to go live. >> i'

folks like don bacon, they got to go home and justify a vote to impeach the president of the united statesis is serious stuff. i think that's why you saw kargt saying one thing in the press last week about this, speaker mccarthy, and then another thing in the caucus meeting. this is very serious. i think you're going to see the talk of impeachment. you're going to see the talk of holding biden and officials accountable for what they have done. you're going to hear a lot of talk like that from republicans within the house because that conversation -- you're going to see sham investigations from these republican-led committees because that is designed to potentially muddy the waters and set up the oxygen and turn an eye for what are very serious concerns of donald trump and, frankly, members from within the united states house of representatives who did aid and abet in some of these efforts. >> symone sanders townsend, you guys are the best. >>> coming up, hoping for justice accountability. how the capitol police officers who defended the building on january 6th are reacting to donald trump'

so anytime someone lights up, i start to, ah, ahh, well, my last name. [ laughter ] congressman don bacon gives me the munchies. [ laughter ] last time i smoked, i fried up a whole pan of bacon well, my last -- wait, i messed up. [ laughter ] [ rim shot ] [ cheers and applause >> steve: come on. >> jimmy: he didn't understand - then congressman dan newhouse said, "last time i smoked, i went on zillow, ended up buying a, well, my last name. [ laughter ] congressman barry moore said, "bro, that's nothing one time i got so stoned i thought i was drew, well, my full name. [ laughter ] and finally, senator roy blunt said, "anyone got some funyuns? yeah, there you go [ cheers and applause you guys see everyone's talking about elon musk taking over twitter? and now a bunch of people have been tweeting under the name elon musk. so they're saying stuff that he wouldn't normally say. now elon is threatening to ban impersonation accounts that don't label themselves as parody of course, nobody knows whether elon musk said that or if it was from a parody account. [ laughter ] sounds right hey, i want

still have work to do to convince some republicans who won in swing dtrts, including one ofhose, don bacon, whopoke to cnn for this case. the committees need to do more digging to clarify this. there is tons of smoke. buff let's verify what's beneath it all. you're picking up there are a lot of republicans who might still have questions about whether this is the best past forward both wbecause they're nt sure the evidence exists and electorally it could be problematic. that's why you're seeing mccarthy say one thing, but behind the scenes a lot of republicans believe he will eventually move forward. >> can i just say evidence of what? hunter biden, you don't have to convince probably many of our viewers that he is not exactly going to be winning man of the year. but what exactly did president biden do when it comes to hunter's sleazy business dealings? >> well, this is exactly the question that some republicans in swing districts are concerned about. the argument that you hear from leadership is potentially an impeachment inquiry would give republicans more power to get witnesses, to get d

one is don bacon of nebraska who told me yesterday he wants an investigation first before they go downhat route. he's not begging impeachment inquiry, but if they do go down that route, it will put those members in a tough spot. they have primaries to worry about back home which is one reason why some republicans believe ultimately they will impeach the president because once they go down that road, it's hard to pull back. >> yeah. could also be a rallying cry for democrats with the president suffering with some enthusiasm issues from his supporters. >> yeah. >> manu raju on capitol hill. thank you. >> great reporting. >>> just hours from now donald trump is set to hit the campaign trail. he's facing a when i will wind of developments in the multiple criminal cases against him. he will speak today in new hampshire where his defense team -- while his defense team battles with the special counsel jack smith in the election interference case. and this developing overnight, the judge is preparing to schedule a hearing to decide whether to issue a protective order in that case. special coun

last week, i spoke with congressman don bacon from nebraska.ident biden won in 2020. he said he's not ready to open an impeachment inquiry into president biden because he hasn't seen direct evidence, a, of a high crime or misdemeanor that president biden has allegedly committed, and, b, in all these investigations into the biden business dealings and into the hunter biden plea deal and so forth, don bacon said he hasn't seen a direct link to president biden. he said until there is a direct link and there is evidence of a high crime or misdemeanor, he's not ready to launch an impeachment inquiry. >> speak to us, if you will, about two outside forces shaping mccarthy's thinking here. first, that he got bested by the white house and the debt ceiling deal and he needs to prove himself to the hard right in his conference there. and, secondly, the fact that donald trump has been beating the donald trump nearly on a daily basis, calling for an impeachment inquiry just like this. >> exactly right. there are all these swirling dynamics around kevin mcca

current leaders are don bacon and dean phillips. recently, i was impressed by republican wake -- mike waller, a freshman representative from new york. he is putting his country above scoring points for himself. somebody else is he doing that is jeff jackson from north carolina. the scorecard also includes presidential candidates. and peter talked about the work of the select committee on the modernization of congress. they directly support efforts toward collaboration in congress, such as those generated by the select committee. in the last hour, jeff -- our bridging divide movement is blessed to have a bald champion in the utah government. our initiative called -- better. and governors are recording videos together, modeling and encouraging solving conflict. there is hope, even within our political leaders right now. and to underline what peter continues to say, it starts with us looking in the mirror. host: let's go back to the phone lines. lakeland, florida, independent line. caller: praise be to c-span for addressing this import

current leaders are don bacon and dean phillips. recently, i was impressed by republican wake -- mike waller, a freshman representative from new york. he is putting his country above scoring points for himself. somebody else is he doing that is jeff jackson from north carolina. the scorecard also includes presidential candidates. and peter talked about the work of the select committee on the modernization of congress. they directly support efforts toward collaboration in congress, such as those generated by the select committee. in the last hour, jeff -- our bridging divide movement is blessed to have a bald champion in the utah government. our initiative called -- better. and governors are recording videos together, modeling and encouraging solving conflict. there is hope, even within our political leaders right now. and to underline what peter continues to say, it starts with us looking in the mirror. host: let's go back to the phone lines. lakeland, florida, independent line. caller: praise be to c-span for addressing this import

there's congressman don bacon who represented a swing district in omaha, nebraska.red before starting a formal impeachment inquiry. brian fitzpatrick says he's worried they're turning an impeachment inquiry into a vote of no confidence in the british parliament. david joyce in ohio sees himself as a pragmatist and a voice of reason. he says you hear a lot of rumor, but that's not fact to me as a former prosecutor. i think there has to be facts and due process, and i have not seen any of that today. democrats for their part say that republicans are essentially trying to impeach hunter biden. they're trying to make insinuations that president biden was involved in his son's foreign business dealings, but they haven't proven any link that goes back to 1600 pennsylvania avenue. jerry nadler says, quote, through all the slander about president biden, there's no evidence whatsoever that he's involved in any of this. he says nadler told me it's not an impeachable offense to have a troubled son. he says republicans are only doing this to distract from the very serious crimi