Of south koreas largest city. Color u. S. President donald trump says his longtime adviser roger stone has a very good chance of exoneration after he was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison stone was convicted last year of lying to congress witness tampering and obstructing the investigation into russian interference in the 26000 president ial election prosecutors originally recommended a sentence of up to 9 years in jail that was later reversed by the Justice Department after the president complained publicly the president has responded to the sentencing accusing the jury foreman of being anti trump and tainting the case this is a woman who was a person totally. Now i dont know if this is a fact but she had a horrible social media account the things she said on the account were unbelievable she didnt reveal that when she was chosen and shes i guess from what i hear a very strong woman a very dominant person so she can get people to do whatever she wants and she got on then she
Are accusing trumps republicans of rigging the impeachment trial to cover up his alleged crimes thats after a Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell proposed rules that would trigger a quick trial without new testimony or evidence trump is accused of 2 charges abuse of power and obstruction of congress at the heart of this is his request to ukraine in july and that any it investigates a political rival if this is not a process for a fair trial this is the process were rigged trial this is the process if you do not want the American People to see the evidence this is a process you use if you want to hand in hand work in concert with the president allow the president to continue to obstruct the congress and deny the truth the American People thankfully however we know the truth evidence is already overwhelming and that evidence is that the president abuse the power of his office. Again a live picture of outside the u. S. Congress where this impeachment trial in the senate is d
A 2 thirds vote to convict trump and remove him from office with these amendments and they need a simple majority to pass well democrats continue to push for change calling the current rules a cover i send an amendment to the desk to subpoena certain documents and records from the white house the house managers strongly support senator schumers amendment which would ensure a fair legitimate trial based on a full evidentiary record the senate can remedy President Trumps unprecedented cover up by taking a straightforward step it can ask for the key evidence that the president has improperly blocked senator schumers amendment thats just that. Republicans are refusing to allow any amendments they say the democrats request to add new evidence as proof that the impeachment case is flawed. The 1st thing that the house managers have done upon arriving finally in this chamber after waiting for 33 days is to say well actually we need more evidence were not ready to present our case we need to ha
Controlled by the Republican Party of donald trump and the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has proposed some rules that would trigger a quick a trial lets look at what those are initially he gave them we were discussing this a moment ago he gave each side 24 hours which would be split over 2 days for their opening arguments thats now been pushed out to 3 days as i guess was saying presumably 8 hours a day witnesses cannot be called until the opening arguments and even then it will be left to a vote and whats important to remember there is that the republicans as we say are in control so they would have significant powers to block any witnesses called by the democrats this is what they wanted to do and another change to the initial rules Mitch Mcconnell will now allow transcripts from the house judiciary impeachment hearing the house hearing to be submitted mcconnell has promised that this will be a fair even handed process 1st. The senate will hear an opening presentation from t
Hong kong increasingly becoming the target are protesters anger. The United States has impose new sanctions on iran targeting the Financial Assets of 9 people close to the Supreme Leader it came as iran announced it was taking another step away from the 2015 nuclear deal doubling the number of its advance and refuses percent of our imports from tehran. The head of Irans Atomic Energy Organization at one of the countrys most important Nuclear Facilities this is where Ali Akbar Salehi announced that iran has now added another 30 advanced centrifuges. Zines you do see tell you what we want supposed to have 30 chinese centrifuges we wanted to work on it after we tested 20 chinese centrifuges then 3 to 4 years later that to work on the 30 chinese centrifuges but we faced political challenges and senior thorough decided to show irans potential power and determination. This is another step taken by iran to scale back its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal authorities here say since the Unit