hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money payments on his own terms, take a listen to what he told reporters. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer and stormy daniels had negative information that she wa
Unprecedented step further in what critics call an effort to is distract the white house now threatening to revoke security clearance from six former Top National Security officials, all of whom are fierce critics of trumps actions or inactions. These officials have served both democrats and republicans and have decades of experience in intelligence, law or diplomacy. For context, the heads of the Intelligence Agencies usually keep the Security Clearances unless theres reason to revoke them. It allows them mpay attentio to this it allows them to speak openly about matter the. They keep the clearance so if the Current Administration needs some advice or help, they can talk to them. I want to point out something. Sarah sanders was very proud to get up and change the topic because she didnt want to talk about the president s walkback, disaster in helsinki, all the
messes. Certainly didnt want to talk about migrant children. But the people she listed, so proud they want to revehicle the cl
There is a its interesting, theyre talking almost exclusively about the abuse of power, theyre not talking much about the obstruction of congress. But i think this has been a civil he had kageducation here,e can decide whether this has been an Impeachable Offense here, because the issues have been aired out well on both sides. Theyre about to finish the roll call. The republicans will lose the democrats who will win, and then a second one will be introduced. Mr. Richmond, you are not reported. No. Mr. Richmond votes no. Are there any other members that havent voted who wish to vote . Mr. Chairman, there are 17
ayes and 23 nos. The amendment is not agreed to. Is there any further amendment. Mr. Gates . I amend to the desk. The gentlelady reserves a point of order. Amendment to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to hr 755 offered by mr. Gates of florida, page 3, strike out lines 10 and 11 and enter the following. A known Company Named burisma and. This amendment strikes the refe
hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money
investigating president trump at the same time his brother was running to replace mr. trump. mr. trump is the only legitimate reason to be doing it. he is the chief executive. we are? t we are in the judiciary committee, right? we do understand that the president as the intuitive executive is the executive branch. and all power of the executive branch derives from the president. and the president can and should ask for assistance from foreign governments in ongoing criminal investigations. there was an ongoing criminal investigation into what happened in 2016. attorney general william barr at the time of the july 25th call had long before that appointed u.s. attorney john durham to investigate exactly that issue. it wasn t just appropriate, it was absolutely the president s constitutional duty. and hunter biden, the president