A generation we are going to take a look at the film American socialist The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs That's coming up next after the news I'm Max Pongal with these headlines the House Judiciary Committee will consider amendments today to the 2 articles of impeachment that were announced Tuesday against President Trump regarding his actions toward Ukraine the specific charges aimed at removing Trump from office include abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Pennsylvania Democratic congresswoman Madeline Dean sits on the Judiciary Committee she told c.n.n. 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History to be imprisoned 1st campaign platform or to run for president from prison he is the founder of the American Socialist Party and was a major inspiration to Bernie Sanders who in fact in 1979 wrote and produced an audio documentary about the man and his story is told in American Socialists The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Depp's. On Christmas afternoon. Flanked by several socialist comrades Dev's met his privacy a door at the gates of the Atlanta penitentiary where they truthfully raised a child. In a scene unprecedented in any federal penitentiary or deserves to have allowed all 2300 inmates out of their cells to build deps for. As Deb started his long walk to the bleeding. A roar of adulation welled up from them. And I'm sure you are sure you got pictures of her when when Dev's was finally released from prison all of the other prisoners. Applauded and hard to. Carry that prison north of the franchise has been limited to those kind of treasuries of the United States sort of the 3 term president 1st of all That in the United States is in many ways the most unique capitalist country in the world from about $820.00 to around $1750.00 it's the real wages of the American worker went up decade after decade by real wages we simply mean whatever you got in money per hour adjusted for the prices you had to pay so how much could you really go forward with each hour of your pay that went up for 150 years every decade there probably is no other capitalist country that the livered such a rising standard of living to its workers so that even when there was trouble and tension and suffering and injustice and we've had all that in our country that has to be seen as occurring together with the following reality you're talking to a nation of immigrants who come to go through the trauma of coming from far away to come to a country where they are told if you work real hard you will do better than I could have done where you were and then you ever dreamed of being able to do that and for 150 years this American Dream was deliverable to the masses and. All of that stopped being true in the 1970 s. And it had to do with a simple explanation the end of the labor shortage. We developed in the 1970 s. The computer industry which wiped out huge numbers of jobs you know because the computer does that we also have corporations who want to make more money and sound workers much cheaper in other parts of the world because they are not rising wages like we had a year and a capitalist reward rising wages by leaving. Before the Civil War America was. A predominantly rural country but by the turn of the 20th century it had become an industrialized nation with ladies with the growth of mining steel the oil timber transportation communications and bank between the years 1819009 $112.00 national wealth increased from $65000000000.00 to $187000000000.00. But this economic boom was not shared by all who helped with going to. America had a new tier of groups small in numbers but powerful in its control of wealth. 2 percent of the nation's population owns 60 percent of the nation's wealth one man who understood the gross inequality between the working class and the rich and was able to communicate it best in his folksy manner was Eugene Victor Depp's. Terra Haute Indiana became known as the crossroads of America in the last part of the 19th century and Terra Haute bustling commercial activity congenial neighborhoods and surviving churches attracted many immigrants including Jean Danielle and Marguerite. And it was there on November 5th of that year that their search child Eugene Victor Debs was born. Dead screw up in Terre Haute Indiana. I always like to remember the fact that he was named after 2 great. French real well the social realist novelist Eugene's Victor Hugo. So his parents had a social conscience. They understood the larger world and how important that was to be. Individual. Debs and his sister's education was supplemented by their fathers reading to them every night before bedtime in French Deb's favorite book to be read to was laid by 50 Hugo Debs left school at the age of 14 with the help of an old family friend from Al says he got a job scraping paint in Greece for the Vidalia railroad at $0.50 a day. Just a year later in $1701.00 Debs was promoted to fireman in switching arts and soon after as a fireman on the trains running between Terra Haute Indiana. The formation of this character and of his political vision really is grounded in that small community of Terre Haute Indiana had a close connection with the president of the local real road because his father was a green grocer and the local railroad. Brother McCain They were friends of his mom he learned he says the core of his soul of a sense of compassion Tara hold really exuded democratic culture based on an understanding that the work one. Became a way of not only contributing to the community but it was the but the quality of one's word was in fact the way in which. Was rooted and grounded in the community I think that ethic really animated Deb's throughout his entire life he started out just seeing this in terms of being an individual. Journey 77 railroad strikes he did not side with the working class he sided with Riley McCain This railroad entrepreneur who was very well known in Terre Haute that was his hero so he still thought in terms of individuals. As opposed to working class solidarity. I'm June 9th of 885 Debs married Catherine Kate that's the step daughter of the prominent and successful drug as John Jacob. Katie married an up and coming public to show. They marry at exactly the moment when did this in the middle of the transition he probably was needed wherever in terms of its its its his spending and where it was go at that time and so the result. Of. Their marriage was in a sense. To separate the builders. From the very because he. Should begin to express her. Discontent very early. Kate kept a beautiful home and nursed her husband when he came home and exhausted by his constant travelling organizing and speaking she tried to be his secretary and share in her husband's work 5 years after they married with money from an inheritance Kate purchased an ostentatious large home in a fashionable neighborhood of Tara home Kate took great pains to furnish the house Mahvish. But House is not a home. Debs was uncomfortable in these luxuries surroundings and this extract against didn't sit well with his colleagues and associates and I think the turning point for Debs occurred in the late 18 are we eating ninety's and it was at that point that the large reward corporations which had accepted collective bargaining in $870.00 and throughout most of the eighty's. But with the sharpening of competition especially in the West. Limitations. Their profits they began to turn against collective bargaining and they began to pull back some of the benefits that had been negotiated by the railroad brotherhoods. On June 20th 1903 dabs and other dissident railroad labor leaders who shared Deb's disillusionment with the b.l.f. Organize the American Railway you. Think They Are you was quick to recruit thousands of workers in this 1st few months. In 867 George Pullman started a company that manufactured sleeping cars and operated them under contract to the railroads in order to increase and control production Pullman situated his plant on a 3000 acre tract of land south of Chicago which he named Pullman city he provided housing churches water in cemeteries for his employees all of whom were required to live in Pullman city. After the weekly wages for the rent of their homes charge them for the use of the water groceries and for the rent of the churches as the Socialist newspaper the call wrote in an editorial he wasn't a man to let your praise for free. By mail 118943000 polling workers went on a wildcat strike without authorization of their union many of the strikers belong to the American railroad union founded by Deb's Grizzlie I have experienced the erosion of much of this national pride and witnessed amongst the great common people the fear that serfdom awaited them in the near future courts are granting injunctions that leave about the same freedom blacks enjoyed up to the Civil War the power of the law is used to take from one man and give to another book and Piper Canton Ohio that June 26th 8 are you members refuse to allow any train with the Pullman car to move with the exception of male cars Debs did not want federal troops to get involved and he knew they would be sent in immediately if there was any tampering with the Us mail the strike suddenly took a turn for the worse strikers took matters into their own hands derailing the locomotive destroying the arts and setting fire to anything that made. This action lead attorney general on lead to call for an injunction forcing the strikers to go back to work he's accused Debs and the American Railway Union of interfering with mail delivery and hindering interstate commerce thereby violating the Sherman Antitrust Act that afternoon Debs looked out his hotel window and immediately called his brother see a door to come in but. Those fellows are bullish amend their regulars' Clevelanders sent the troops in. We're listening to excerpts from that new film by violinist ethnography her and documentarian Yale Strawn called American socialist The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs it was written by your strawman and Elizabeth Swartz it is narrated by Amy Madigan from Criminal Minds and field of dreams as well as many other television shows and films and all that follows the life of Eugene Victor Debs it also looks at the early socialist movement in this country Labor activism the disparity between economic classes the issue of race and class which is still hotly debated here in our modern day socialist movement as well as the 2 party system in America Eugene Victor Debs actually began as his political career as a Democrat and disavowed socialism and tell of course the railroad strikes in the 1880s where thousands were killed or injured and has clashed with George Pullman who we're just hearing about there is what landed him in his 1st stint in prison he would go back to prison many more times during one of those stints he ran for president and got a 1000000 votes from the American population. Also feel like we should point out like that organizing on the railroads laid the foundation for the organization the 1st black union in this country the brotherhood of sleeping car porters which is responsible for the creation of our 1st black middle class community in the Bay area in West Oakland around the Pacific terminal right well if you know how about that then you also talk about the fact that when when Deb's founded this initial Union. The vote was just by t. Said it the quote was I have not advocating for the association with black people there you go but I'll stand by them for my union did is and actually the inclusion of black people into this 1st union founded by dads was voted down by 2 votes setting back little. I mean it would have completely written the labor movement the history labor movement in this country had black folks been voted into that union So a lot of great history in here a lot of great conversation starters in here like I said that the hot debate even now inside of the socialist movement is we're looking at the. Democratic Socialist Movement in this country and folks are talking about it's race in class it's both Anyway all that stuff is ignited by this new film American socialist The Life and Times of Eugene Victor dabs it's yours this morning when you support your station with a pledge of $100.00 or you can. Be a sustainer station $10.00 a month that's what I am now I just became a state of the station $25.00 a month comes out of my checking account it's also what's best for the station would you like to be thanked on or no. 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We're starting the 1500 dollar count now and asking you to do whatever you can for your radio station the phone number is 1804th. 395732 the documentary American socialist The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs it's just out on d.v.d. It's yours for a pledge of $10.00 a month if you become a sustainer like count in Oakland $100.00 all at once at 180-439-5732 if you can go further get it as part of our holiday film pack it's all our new documentaries this fund drive so that's American socialist corporate Coup D'Etat by Fred Peabody featuring the work of Chris Hedges which we played last week and a new documentary on the rush to trump connection called active measures the 3 of them together are yours for a pledge of $250.00 that would give us one 6th of the way towards making this $1500.00 challenge and our 1st caller just got on the line 180-439-5732 Let's go back to the documentary American socialist on August 2nd 894 the strike officially ended and the Pullman Company reopened at its peak the strike involved 250000 strikers across 27 states and with 30 strikers killed and 50 more wounded by federal troops. And July 10th $894.00 Debs and the rest of the American Railway Union board members were charged with conspiracy on January 5th $895.00 deaths reported to make Henry County Jail at Woodstock Illinois 50 miles northwest of Chicago to serve a 6 month term for violating the federal court injunction handed down during the Pullman strike. While Debs was in the Woodstock jail she wrote a series of letters which were published in the daily press. It is time that organized labor should learn the power and the imperative necessity of a united ballot and in this is meant the ballot of all who work for their daily bread without regard to color or sex it is also high time that allegiance to parties who make laws for the protection of capitalism and the subjugation of labor should be abandoned. Deb's begins to think very seriously about socialism not as this. Outgrowth of the world view of skilled workers but socialism as something that is in a store called development and that is a larger system a whole way of organizing society and he learns this from Karl Marx and Victor Berger who would later become such a great figure along with Debs and the Socialist Party. Brings to Deb's. Coskata Tal and. And Jess reads it and begins to think very seriously about this when he comes out he's not quite a socialist yet but is something that's churning in his mind and he's thinking about it very seriously. Look. Upon his release Debs went to battery d.c. On the shores of Lake Michigan and spoke to the thousands of waiting here it was Nov 22nd 895. For the 1st time in the records of all the ages in alienable rights of man life liberty and the pursuit of happiness were proclaimed July 4th 1776 it was then that crowds set dirs throws to end the Divine Right of Kings to rule sung together and expanded to glorious liberty and sovereignty. It means that the people are roused in view of impending perils and that agitation organisation and unification are to be the future battle cries of men who will not part with their birthright and like Patrick Henry will have the courage to exclaim Give me liberty or give me death. For the workers Debs the man had been transformed into depths of profit as j a whale and the publisher of the most popular socialist newspaper at that time appeal to reason said dubs is a type of man to be on alert in all the ages of the world such men have been crucified burned and and murdered by the ruling powers of the dust for to some such is no control this nation when the future historian chronicles this period the name of gabs will be a great central figure. Well I sort of grew up with with. With Eugene Debs as a household god. My parents met in the socialist movement. They they were a little too old to have voted for Debs but they voted for Norman Thomas every time they had a chance right up through 948 and then they started voting Democratic with oddly Stevenson in 1952. My dad was a socialist party militant By the by the age of 12. Instead of a bar mitzvah he had a soapbox on street corners in the Bronx. Giving his high pitch then voice the socialist speeches in fact when my dad. Went off to Madison Wisconsin to go to college he was given a testimonial dinner by the Bronx Socialist Party of course what a socialist meant to him and too many American socialists. Had nothing to do with. Gulags or slave labor or for an overweening government that controls every aspect of your life it was really just one step further to democracy. Victor loophole Berger was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America and in 1901 co-founder was Deb's of his successor the Socialist Party of America Berger was a powerful intellect but did not possess the same the student skill Deb's had for speaking to the workers without any notes j. Wayland The Appeal to Reason editor expressed what Debs felt there should be Book One closest people a working man and women doing useful things required for a state of surplusage. Deb's understood that in order to galvanize the nationwide in the fledgling socialist. We're listening to clips from the new film by violinist ethnography her and filmmaker Gail strum about Eugene Victor Debs It's called American Socialists The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs a fascinating look at his rise in America as a political figure moving for. A Democrat to a socialist he was a union worker a union organizer created was a supporter of railroad workers and firemen at that time was imprisoned multiple times for his work 5 time candidate for president and the founder of the. America's social socialist. Organization he was then an inspiration to Bernie Sanders in 1000 7 am Bernie Sanders produced wrote and wrote and produced an audio documentary on Eugene Victor Debs and it raises a lot of questions about the state of the socialist movement today in this country where are we are are we not pulling from the lessons learned. From the rise of the Socialist Party during this time one of the still hot debatable things as Brian and I were talking earlier about race or class what do we lead with really well narrated beautifully filmed yours as you support your station this morning for a pledge of $100.00 or by becoming a $10.00 a month sustainer yours when you call 180-439-5732 extension 1800 k.p.h. You can see it on over to our website k p f a dot org. So remember we have one listener standing by this is Nancy I'm standing Somo who has offered what is for us is staggeringly large challenge she's willing to double $1500.00 if we can raise $1500.00 to match her and that's good till the end of the hour which is 23 minutes away so far we have raised $280.00. And at the moment we have a 0 callers on the bottom. Which means we're in trouble we need your help. 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For 10 months Debs toured practically nonstop to raise money for the a century later. My dears Theo the campaign and the results show that we've got everything except folks I am serene for 2 reasons 1st I did the very best I could for the party that nominated me for its principles 2nd the working class will get in full measure what they voted for. And so we begin the campaign for 1904. Most Americans in 1900 were hesitant to embrace socialism because they associated it with the European class relations so he focuses attention on the utopian socialists of the enter belum era who mix political rhetoric abolitionists for communal living and love of literature Debs often spoke of Ralph Waldo Emerson Horace Greeley and Henry David Thoreau Deb's new socialism had to be seen through American historical and religious values I like the 4th of July breeze the spirit of revolution on this day we affirmed the ultimate triumph of socialism. In the span of a single post Civil War and generation $890.00 census recorded that one percent of the total population only more of the nation's wealth than the remaining 99 percent said this is. The 99 percent based daily struggles for economic survival many were learning the A.B.C.'s of socialism from Julius Whalen the socialist weekly newspaper appeal to reason Whalen's editorials dispelled the misperception that socialism was atheistic anti individualistic or opposed to American traditions in 897 k. And his editor Fred Warren moved to appeal to reason to Girard Kansas from 895 to 1922 the newspaper began to publish many of the leading literary luminaries of the socialist movement including Jack London Mother Jones Upton Sinclair Helen Keller and Eugene Debs in $1000.00 know for Appeal to Reason commission Upton Sinclair to write a novel about immigrant workers in the Chicago meat packing house Sinclair's novel The Jungle debuted in 1000 No 5 is a serial in appeal to reason. By 1910 it had a weekly circulation of 550000 during political campaigns in crises the single issue printings reached as high as 4000000 100000 copies a world record at that time. We socialists are marching around the wall Jericho and only lection day we will sound the trumpet that will fail this wall and draw for calculus and to heal from ways you came from. The Helots to Texas Jane with 3986 tours most spectacular meeting was in New York City's the draw over 7500. People paid mission to hear day while another $2500.00 who could not get in waiting patiently for cabs to meet them afterwards President governors believe that the interest of labor and capital are identical or mutual believe do not he believes that these interests can be harmonized and justice done to both. We do not. We believe that Labor is entitled to do all it produces and that labor must organize politically as well as economically to abolish the existing order. This was the final straw for Gompers who in turn denounced dabs as the apostle of failure in the a.f.l. Publication. This was also the 1st presidential election when any party appealed for the African-American vote Deb's did not specifically tackle the problem of segregation but treated the race problem in America in a broader framework of worker versus master poor versus rich Deb's his attitude was considerably more favorable to African-Americans that most socialists and he insisted they were entitled to the full products of their labor with economic equality. I am a woman and cannot vote I am compelled to pay taxes which I have no voice in the procreative I must obey laws that I do not help to make. I would vote the Socialist Berkeley California Socialists were elected and working on behalf of their local working constituency. That is an excerpt from the new film by Yale strum American socialist The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs want to bring you a little bit more of this amazing documentary but had to pull out for a quick fundraising update we have $1500.00 on the line and that's really $3000.00 that's on the line for your station we have $610.00 left to raise to bring in that extra money for your station we have no callers on the line go to the phones right now 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Hey Kate p.f.a. Or on line at k.p. If they got all our g. And help us across the finish line we need you to do what you're going to do right now here's the film will be back in a few minutes. For 10 months Debs tour practically nonstop to That was the wrong clip of the documentary that we had hoped to play for you but this is a good time to say we need your help $51500.00 challenge on the line which is really big money for k. P.s.a. And we just have one person calling in right now now we've gotten very close at last count were 610 just dropped to 560 dollars away. Which is amazing thank you to everyone who pledged if we don't raise that Final $560.00 However we can't bring in the $1500.00 challenge we have exactly 10 minutes left in the hour to do it and we need your help the phone number is 180-439-5732 that's 1800 k. P.f.a. Or on line a w w w dot k. P.f.a. Dot org. The document or even playing is new about the life of the probably most iconic socialist in American history your chain Victor Depp's 5 time presidential candidate ran from prison while in prison under the us being attacked . It's yours for a pledge of $10.00 a month if you become a k p f a sustainer or $100.00 all at once if you make that pledge right now it will close almost one 5th of our cap towards that challenge so it'll be like you're giving more to k. P.f.a. Than you're digging out of your own wallet think about it there are not a lot of mass media in this country that are going to bring you a feature length documentary about the history of socialism in the United States or a mandatory struggles by people of color as we did last hour if you value it. I hope you realize what a treasure we have here in k. P.f.a. And it's on all of us to keep it going because what makes k.p.s. a Possible is the fact that we don't run with the money of large patrons not advertisers not underwriters we were formed to be an institution whose principal economic accountability is to the people we serve and that's you and we have to prove ourselves time and time again so that the next time we ask for money enough if you feel strongly enough about keeping us going that we can still pay the bills right now we're asking you to link up hands with the 2 callers on the line to help us towards this $1500.00 challenge by calling 180-439-5732 extension 1800. K. P.f.a. Or line k. P.f.a. Dot org pick up the American socialist documentary for 100 bucks our holiday film pack for 250. Or get 2 tickets to dinner and a tour with me and Kat and Mitch maybe I'll get 2 more of you to pledge it'll be Thursday January 16th if a studios in downtown Berkeley The tour starts at 530 dinners after 180-439-2573 extension 2500 dollars for that para tickets $1800.00 hake a p.s.a. Or online at w w w dot org And kind of looks like we are now down to $590.00 left to raise $590.00 left to raise 7 and a half minutes to do it and I know Eileen is next on the roster to go to dinner with us on this January 16th we got to get Davey d. And the house to go if you remember this Brian but at the last dinner Davey d. Who does not drink alcohol was gleefully drinking. What he believed was punch. I was not the table I was and I watching Davey d. Pour a glass after glass of what was not punch but what was said Grey and I said to him I said I thought you didn't drink he said I'm not drinking I said oh yes you are not realize short time later that he was indeed drinking alcohol there's no telling what could happen at dinner and the 2 are with the k p f a crew yours for either a $50.00 a month sustain a pledge or $500.00 all at once one person calling in to do that right now would get us this extra $1500.00 for a cape if a at 180-439-5732 extension 1800 k. P.f.a. Or on line p.f.a. Dot org And I just when you think about what's happening both locally nationally and globally right now there is a group of mothers that have said no to being on housed in Oakland and have taken over housing to provide shelter for their children there was a recent police shooting just the other day of a young 24 gold man in Jamaica Hampton in the Mission District in San Francisco as you well know as we all well know we have the impeachment hearings happening we have barreling towards the 2020 Aleck's and there are uprisings happening Bolivia and Haiti and Lebanon and if we're not here where do you have that information where do you get the analysis where do you get the calls to action from we exist to fill that void existed fill the void of mainstream media that is owned and operated by corporations and corporate dollars that's not your station your station is on an operative by all and and I was talking to Brian earlier about trying to figure out how we talk to you about needing this money not wanting to always sound desperate or wear you out with us saying you know we're in trouble we're in trouble but the truth is that's the state of our movement it shouldn't be but it is the state of our. Movement k p f a is definitely a part of the movement we are living paycheck to paycheck month to month trying to beat a system that is infused with billions of corporate dollars determined to shut down our voices and invisible lies our stories and our people and our movements we exist to make sure that that doesn't happen the only way we continue to be able to do that is through your support you showing up and showing out for your station by getting what ever you can if you've got $100.00 for this new d.v.d. American socialist about Eugene Victor dabs great give it to us if you've got to 50 for the holiday film pack which is the American socialist corporate Coup D'Etat by Fred Peabody featuring the work of Chris Hedges and active measures by Jack Bryan about the Russia Trump connection give us that to 50 we need it if you've got $5000.00 we'll take that if you've got $5.00 what ever you have show up for your station 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Hey k.p.s. They are online at k. P.s.a. Dot org All right we're down to $310.00 left to raise to clinch that $1500.00 challenge we are 3 minutes and 40 seconds away from the end of the hour to callers on the line and we're asking you to join them at 180-439-2573 extension 2. This is our hour of need this is your chance to make your pledge go farther 1800 hate k. P.f.a. We're asking you to stand on the shoulders of a whole lot of people who pledged to get us this far this hour Patrick and Sandra fell Ron in Walnut Creek Susan in Los Altos Nicholas in Berkeley Laurie in Oakland Kathleen in Fresno Tara now in Richmond bill in Berkeley Carmelita in Winnetka California Caitlin in Santa Rosa who says Thanks for all the great work that you do I listen all the time on my commute they all pledge so they keep if they can be here for you we're asking you to return the. Favor to pledge to the keep if they can be here for them it is a collective act and right now we need just a couple more of you going to your phones in the 2 minutes and 45 seconds we have left to bring in this $1500.00 challenge $184395732100.00 gets you the documentary on your teen Victor Deb's American socialist to 50 gets you our holiday film packed that's every new documentary in the fund drive $500.00 gets you dinner to tour with me Cat and Mitch possibly me it's just a rich sorry and possibly Eileen Alphyn dairy. That's $500.00 for a pair of tickets to enter a 16th the tour starts at $530.00 dinners right after 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Hey Kate b.f.a. Or on line at w.w.w. Dot dot dot org We're now at 4 colors on the line and just 2 minutes to go listen at least once a week when I'm out and about in the world someone comes up to me and says I listen to your show every single day Kat do you quiz them. That might be kind of rude but I am going to challenge you so far all of you then say that you listen to this show every single day that means that you're listening right now and you've been listening and if all of those people go to the phone or they go to their computers they you go you know go online and you make a pledge whatever you can. You will take us to where we need to go with this challenge you will be supporting your station we appreciate it let's say I appreciate you listening my heart warms every time someone says that to me you know often Brian and I don't know if we're talking to ourselves in the morning or who we're speaking to it means a lot and you say you love the show you love listening to us You love listening to Mitch and Davy and Chris and all the amazing people we have on the air for going to stay here and keep bringing you the coverage you care about we need your support 180-439-5732 extension 1800 k. P.f.a. 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In the dread Spain back in the United States House lawmakers have unveiled 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump bringing a sitting president to the brink of impeachment for only the 4th time in u.s. History this is the chair of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry noddle or announcing the 1st article of impeachment. The 1st article for abuse of power is an impeachable offense for the president to exercise the powers of his public office to obtain improper personal benefits while ignoring or.