Tomorrow even before the Democrats official announcement President Donald Trump was tweeting that he did nothing wrong and that impeaching a president with a record like his would be sheer political madness Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says should articles of impeachment reach the Republican controlled Senate which they re likely to a do they have 2 options. Here s what I would anticipate. The House managers have come over to make their argument the president s lawyers would respond. And at that point the Senate has 2 choices it could go down the path of. Calling witnesses and basically having another trial. Or it could decide and again 51 members could make the decision. They ve heard enough and believe they know what happened. And could move to vote on the 2 articles of impeachment sent over to us by the House of McConnell also reiterated a previous statement he thought it would be hard pressed to get 67 senators to vote for impeachment that would require nearly half of Re
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Revealed important evidence as it were along we probably would never have known about the tapes that Nixon had made to the White House had it not been for the impeachment process so watch for the evidence that is introduced particularly on the 1st morning. We look at the political crisis in Bolivia after President. Resigned following what he described as a code morale and says now in Mexico where he s received political asylum. Because he was there but I also want to tell you brothers and sisters as long as I am alive we will stay in politics as long as I m alive the fight will continue and we re sure that the people of the world have all the rights to free themselves. Coming out. Now Democracy Now dot org The War and Peace Report I m Amy Goodman televised impeachment hearings begin today and the inquiry into whether President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate Trump s political rival Joe Biden and his son 2 witnesses are testif
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The boys or if you don t want to play you know. Ok so the most pressing news 1st seems to be. What now call is going to be a secret meeting on Capitol Hill the inspector general of the State Department has asked for a secret meeting to go over documents related to Ukraine in the skiff room of Capitol Hill with members of both parties with your members with with leaders of both parties yes it s a mystery date we don t know what s going to happen now before the door for a little bit of context to be nuclear with us singer the master is going to be 25th Amendment or is it a nuclear war with Iran. Where you are with your rebate be. Done. Now now are traders invited or just for a little bit of context by the inspector general of the State Department is independent of my palm pale the head of the State Department or could be a dream yeah so. They they really don t answer to each other and so the inspector general may have seen some malfeasance really so it just occurred to my compare yester