President Trump s defense team continues making its case to the Senate that the president did nothing wrong that would warrant his removal from office a.p. Correspondent Jackie Quinn against the backdrop of new revelations about the draft of a book from former national security advisor John Bolton President Trump s defense team was presenting a case against Hunter Biden who took a lucrative job on the board of Ukrainian energy company then law professor Alan Dershowitz testified nothing the president did meets the level of criminal activity the constitutional framers Invision you cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like quid pro quo he says even if John Bolton testifies that President Trump was withholding aid until Ukraine agreed to investigate the Bidens that would not constitute an impeachable offense President Trump denies Bolton s account while a few Republican senators are suggesting they may want Bolton to testify in the im
Jim Birch health director general of the World Health Organization is in China to meet with government officials in health experts trying to contain the spread of a deadly country of iris that has killed 81 people the spread of the illness is being watched around the world Reuters Jason now bando has more airports around the world are ramping up screening measures of Chinese passengers though its effectiveness has been questioned by health officials some foreign governments are working to evacuate their citizens from all Han France said its evacuees will spend 14 days in quarantine to stop the possible spread of the virus also on Sunday Chinese officials confirm that the ability of the new virus to spread is getting stronger and that infections could continue to rise no deaths have been reported outside of China from the virus so far that s Reuters Jason Obando reporting sports fans around the world are struggling to find words to describe how they feel about the sudden death of retir
Has been a major spike in anti-Semitic attacks in New York this year for n.p.r. News I m Sean Carlson in New York the Russian military has declared its new intercontinental weapon operational They say the weapon can fly 27 times the speed of sound and can make Sherpa new verse while heading toward its target if true that would make the missile much harder to intercept officials say the missile can also carry a payload of up to 2 megatons the flu is in full swing just in time for the holidays the c.d.c. Estimates that 4600000 Americans have had the flu so far this season and it s not over yet N.P.R. s Sidney leptin reports 25 states are now experiencing high flu activity according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention It estimates that there have been $39000.00 hospitalizations from the flu so far the rate of hospitalization is similar to previously seasons this flu season is still gaining steam according to Dr William Schaffner with Vanderbilt University Medical Center it
He abused the power of his office for personal and political gain and has refused to cooperate with a co-equal branch of government this is a vote for our constitution setting the precedent for all future presidents Democrat or Republican Donald Trump must be held accountable for his actions today we send a clear signal to this president and all future presidents no one is above the law I yield back the gentleman from Georgia. Thank you madam speaker at this time of year the minute after the gentleman from Kansas Mr Marshall Genzer recognize him and half I rise today in opposition to the impeachment of the legitimately elected president of the United States enough madam speaker for the love of this country enough as Roger Marshall this congressman from Kansas enough of these sham which guns I m voting no because the president has done nothing wrong the only thing the President Trump is guilty of is doing the things he said he would do and if my Democrat colleagues were honest they tel
They they found the president formulation Madison at one point suggested malfeasance but then he thought better of and thought wow that s going to politicize the process too much because then we ll overuse it that this is the problem it has to be rare enough that it almost never occurs but but common enough that it can be used in extremity and so finding the way to tune the impeachment clause has been one of the was one of the difficulties of the constitutional convention and as you know historically it s proved to be a very difficult business on the the 3 or 4 occasions when it s come up in your country Edwin Randolph introduced it it was part of his Virginia plan Alexander Hamilton submitted his own plan based on the British legal system but not all of the delegates favored it Governor Morris fear that it would cause a president to become submissive leading him to become a quote tool of a faction George Mason said No point is of more importance than the right of impeachment he asked