Power to determine its own rules. When president nixon during the time he was going to be impeached ruling how that proceeding would go forward. When the Clinton Impeachment was brought forward, there was a unanimous consent request to govern how we conducted ourselves and im not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. Id like to ask unanimous consent without objection to enter into the record a letter that was sent to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee signed by 70 republican members including the republican leader every parliamentary tool available to us and committee on the house floor, to highlight your inaction translated means to try to delay them to make this process as impossible as it can be made. Im not sure in light of this letter that we could get a unanimous consent request and these seedings and break for a cup of coffee, never mind, i just want to stay for the record because i think its important that i think the house has engaged
Country. The administration has worked with the Committee Staff to observe 11 cpb holding facilities, 13 i. C. E. Detention facilities and six state licensed that contract. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington where tonight were watching history in the making as the House Judiciary Committee debates articles of impeachment against donald trump. Votes are expected to take place any moment now. Lets listen in. The committee threatened witnesses that and i quote, any failure to appear, any failure to appear in response to a mere letter requesting their presence for a deposition shall and i quote constitute evidence of obstruction. This is just letters, not subpoenas. In letters to the State Department employees, the committee threatened to witnesses that if they insist on
having Agency Counsel present to protect the Executive Branch in their Confidentiality Interests or if they make any effort to protect Confidentiality Interests at all, these officials would have their salaries
Constitution gives the house the sole power of impeachment and the power to determine its own rules. When president nixon, during the time he was going to be impeached, the chairman of the rules committee, chairman mad n madden, actually spoke on the house floor and snouannounced t would be a rule on how that procedure would move forward. When clinton rules of impeachment were brought forward, there was unanimous request to kind of govern how we conducted ourselves. Im not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. Id like to ask for unanimous consent without objection to enter into a record a letter written by the Judiciary Committee signed by seven people, including kevin mccarthy, the republican leader. The key line here is we will avail ourselves of every parliamentary tool available to us to highlight your inaction. Translated it means to try and delay to make this process as
impossible as it can be made. Im not sure, in light of this letter, that w
obviously the next six months that s going to be the entire campaign. biden is old. trump is crazy right? this is what we re going to hear for the next six months. so congratulations to the wall street journal. you re not first to the story. in fact, you re not even a hundreds. but wall? street journal, and i actually just heard it from bryan lanza, who is a trump ally earlier in the show. he is bryan lanza, put it in kind of what it s getting on this reporting is it s not the age it s the mental acuity. it s not the age, it s the slipping, i guess if i had to sum it up the mental acuity of both candidates has been an issue. does it concern you with biden? well, i mean, listen, there are people on their quoted saying, well, he s not the same as when he was vice president will look up, bite is not the same as he was in 2008 and by the way, breaking news, donald trump s not the same as he wasn t 2016. remember donald trump s the guy who literally sat in a deposition room and goes, oh
Have similar numbers on that same question i just showed you. Trump is benefiting from a Splinter Opposition which he also benefited from in 2016. Remember, he got the nomination after a long fight in a large field. In the end, he pulled less than half of all republicans who voted in those primaries. It was about 45 total or as you see there about 14 Million votes. He also lost 13 states, even to someone, and i say this, respectfully and diplomatically, a politician who is not known for his popularity, senator ted cruz. Ted cruz is your projected winner of the iowa first in the nation caucuses. Trump underperformed and Data Polls and expectations. We finished second and i want to tell you something, im just honored. Former Vice President Joe Biden will win pelts the mania and about. According to the votes he needs, he becomes the 46th president of the u. S. Now, these results show that