Yes. Jason good evening, everyone. It is a pleasure to welcome you to the Bipartisan Policy Center for our virtual conversation about our nations elections, sitting exactly six feet away from me charlie cook. I think charlie is known to just about everyone as the editor and publisher of the cook political report. I is understood by everyone know to be really the most reliable protector and analyst of our nations political culture and our election outcomes. You know, we often find that we have a society in which you have democrats facts and republican facts, and then there are charlie facts. I just want to take a moment to acknowledge that we are in it hasl crisis, and created tremendous anxiety and uncertainty for all aspects of our lives. I think charlie and i are fortunate enough not to be struggling with Immediate Health crises or economic crises, and we have the ability to be able to step back and talk about the basic fabric. Leadership matters a whole lot, so we will spend the nex
To safety and years of work up in flames were counting the Economic Cost of australia president bush 56. So its official the u. S. House of representatives has delivered the articles of impeachment against donald trump to the Senate Making him the 3rd leader to face such proceedings in American History this was after a vote in the democrat controlled house with 7 members were also assigned as managers of the trial i was your caster as a report from capitol hill. Inside the locus are the articles of impeachment documents accusing President Donald Trump of abusing his power in obstructing congress the 7 newly ordained impeachment prosecutors follow democratic members of the house who will argue that trump should be removed from office as president is not above the law he will be held accountable he has been held accountable he has been a huge the senates reception of the articles marks the beginning of the trial phase of crumbs impeachment the 100. 00 u. S. Senators will soon be sworn in
Philippines forced thousands more people to abandon their homes. And begin in washington where the senate launched proceedings for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump House Democrats read the formal charges triggering the Legal Process chief justice of the u. S. Supreme Court John Roberts is about to be sworn in as the presiding judge all 100. 00 senators will also be sworn in they will act as jurors during the proceedings the trial which donald trump has denounced as a calm job by the democrats will start on tuesday President Trump is accused of freezing an aide to pressure ukraine to investigate a political rival donald j. Trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that. Using the powers of his high office President Trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government ukraine in the 2020 United States president ial election he did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations that
They say the proposed rules wont allow any new testimony or evidence while we have 2 reporters covering this historic day in washington d. C. Can be how could our White House Correspondent is standing by to tell us about the president s legal strategy and who his defense team is and well be speaking to her in just a moment but 1st we go to heidi. On capitol hill heidi all right so talk us through what is going to be happening in this next hour we heard the Senate Majority leader there lay the groundwork basically tell us whats going to be happening break it down for us. Thats right and you know were actually going to be hearing likely more of the same but the official version in a few minutes time thats because what we heard just now was their regular call the order for Senate Business at exactly 800. 00 g. M. T. Is when we expect the Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts to then call the Impeachment Court which is the other persona the senate will be adopting throughout this trial
Because its your turn will there be witnesses. I believe that mcconnell is going to do everything he can to avoid witnesses he wants this to be over its clear that he wants it to be over before february 4th when we get state of the union he wants the president to be able to go in front of 20000000 americans and say ive been exonerated this was a sham this was a hoax and the more witnesses you have the more information you allow the more you the easier the harder it is to wrap it up and youre actually going to damage the president because the facts are pretty clear in this case you know as a matter of fact one of the things that that the attorneys that you saw simple loney and secular oh they never argued the facts of the case they only argued process this is a sham process this shouldnt have happened this way we didnt get due process which we know is not true but what they never argued were the plain facts are clear that came out of the house investigation so jack let me ask you this b