I know youre watching on t. V. International for me in the rescue team welcome and thank you for joining us. We start with our breaking story this hour president obama trying has been impeached by the democratic controlled house of representatives becoming only the 3rd u. S. Leader in the countrys history to receive that sanction. The as are 230 the nays are 197 present is one. Article one is adopted. The claim. Is already gathered to have an article of. Well donald trump has been impeached on 2 articles abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Democrats accuse the american president of withholding military aid to cry. For political gain republicans in the house have been strongly opposed to impeachment describing the process is a sham the articles will need to be sent to the Republican Controlled Senate which must hold a trial to determine if the president should be removed from office considering the republican majority in the senate seemed confident of his study during a speech at
Democratic leadership of pressuring Party Members to vote a certain way and there have been plenty of sound bites coming from the house floor already. This is a moment that youll read about in your history books he sought to elevate himself as a dictator a king but we are not him arent monarchy we are the United States of america i want my daughter to be able to tell her children grandma did the right thing because in america no one is above the law now one of the democrat witnesses not one was able to establish that the president committed bribery treason or high crimes and misdemeanors tents taken Office Nearly 3 years ago President Trump has consistently and intentionally divided this country when the president withheld military aid to vulnerable nuke ukraine he sought to sabotage our elections after all the drama the majority is not found a single shred of evidence only 2nd 3rd 4th hand information i cant stop thinking about the cost to our country. Not just the impeachable offense
Live from moscow where its currently just posix in the morning youre watching r. T. International im i was on a look thank you for joining us. Now i saw the breaking news story president of the trump has just been impeached by the democratic controlled house of representatives becoming only the 3rd u. S. Leader in the countrys history to receive that sanction. The as are 230 the nasal 197 present is one. Article one is adopting. The flavor. Question is are you have you have are good for you. Donald trump has been impeached on 2 articles abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Democrats accuse the american president of withholding military aid to ukraine for political gain and republicans in the house have been strongly opposed to impeachment describing the process as a sham the articles will need to be sent to the Republican Controlled Senate which must hold a trial to determine if the president should be removed from office considering the republican majority in the senate trump se
U. S. Doesnt like. Hello there is just content in the morning here in moscow you watching r. T. International now the u. S. House will vote on impeaching donald trump on wednesday the president himself accuses the democratic leadership pressuring Party Members to vote a certain way and also warns that the whole process could actually backfire. And the senate pulled no punches trying to convince the public. We have impeachment the constitution precisely to protect ourselves from a president becoming a tyrant in a desperate sadly the democrats impeachment inquiry has been flawed and partisan from day one its clear that this president acted in a way that not only violates the public trust each up or dies to our National Security clear and present danger right now in this room is the pattern of attack and abuse of rules and out and decisions to get at this president what is President Trump afraid of the truth the facts the American People understand whats happening here is a hoax the whole
You know that i got. To. Welcome everybody to watching the hawks i am tyrone been through and joining me today is Award Winning journalist chris hedges to talk about the how our political leaders are spending so much money just to get themselves elected and the other battle fronts on the war in the port thank you so much for joining me lowers i accordingly the federal Elections Commission total federal Election Fund raising was approximately 2000000000 in just the 1st half of 2019 and we havent even started the primaries yet what do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal election spending at this point chris its more about what it says about the state of politics what its what benjamin demat called junk politic. If you look closely at how this money is spent it is not about the dissemination of ideas its about the dissemination of emotions about manufactured political personalities. About making people confuse knowledge with how they are made to feel and i think whats so