In the impeachment inquiry. Until then, you will get a preview, take your calls, and we will hear from you on facebook and twitter as well. At a now are looking familiar hearing room on capitol hill. That is where the house today sherry committee will hold its Second Public hearing on the impeachment agree, this one focusing on the evidence gathered in the process. That will start at 9 00. You can watch cspans gaveltogavel coverage on cspan. Go to cspan. Org if you want to watch online and you can follow on our free cspan radio app. Up until close of the time of the hearing, we will take your calls on this latest phase and here is how you can contact us. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. And 2027488002 for independents. If you want to text us, 2027488003 is how you do that. You can post on twitter at cspanwj. You can also post on our Facebook Page at cspan. Org. At facebook. Com cspan. Here to walk us through on what to expect this morning is Greta Brawner. 2 we are
President has done nothing wrong, nothing impeachable, and House Republicans say the president didnt break the law and had a legitimate interest in investigating corruption inside ukraine. We want to lay out what we will see today. We are moments away from this historic hearing, getting under way. In many ways if you havent been listening so far, you can get a sense of everything, all of the evidence today. Nancy cordes is outside that room there. Were going to hear everything, right, everything thats been investigated, every piece of evidence today . Reporter correct. There will be three witnesses at the witness table today. They are all congressional lawyers who will lay out everything that was learned so far, from those 17 witness interviews that were conducted behind closed doors and then 12 of those individuals came back to testify before the house Intelligence Committee. So these lawyers are going to s present what we know and what we dont know. The democratic lawyers will argue
The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recessses of the committee i object. Objection noted. Decorum is present. We are conducting this hearing on the impeachment inquiry into president donald j. Trump. Presentations from the select committee on intelligence and the House Judiciary Committee pursuant to House Resolution 660 and a special Judiciary Committee procedures that are zpliebd section 4a of that resolution. Heres you the committee will proceed for this hearing. I will make an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for an Opening Statement. After that, we will hear two sets of presentations. We will hear 30minute opening arguments from counsels for the majority and the minority. Jerry nadler and the Democratic Party you are the ones, america is done with this. America doesnt agree order in the room. You are removing our vote. We voted for donald trump and americans are sick of the impe
Lets begin with the political environment. What led to the impeachment of president clinton . Alexis one of the things we might forget all this time Going Forward was that bill clinton was under investigation for almost his entire presidency and ken starr became the independent counsel. He began to investigate the whitewater investment deal back in 1994. So, by the time were in the fall of 1998, president clinton and his entire white house were very used to being under investigation for a whole variety of allegations relating to his past in arkansas. And even his Fundraising Efforts when he was president. So in the fall of 1998, he was elected to a second term but they were going into the midterm starr as and what can the independent counsel uncovered was a whole series of alleged relationships that the president had had in the past, that he had investigated, and then he heard of an intern named Monica Lewinsky. So at the time the impeachment inquiry was authorized, and in the house, 3
Iowa. The first candidate to speak his former Vice President biden. Ok, i want to introduce our first candidate who will tell us why we should elect him, former senator from the great state of delaware, former Vice President joe biden. [applause] [cheers and applause] mr. Biden ok. Welcome. Mr. Biden thank you. It is good to be home. Vice president biden, we are in a room full of teamsters and i want you to tell all of them here and all of them watching, why they should vote for you. But no malarkey. [laughter] mr. Biden no malarkey. I tell you why. First i should thank you. The only reason i am sitting here is that in 1972, i was losing in the polls the sunday before the election, the newspaper went on strike. You guys had put on a gigantic insert in the sunday paper to go out on the republican party. You guys would not cross a picket line. And i won by 3100 votes. [applause] if you think i dont like secondary pickets, youre wrong. The reason is, i am, as my grandfather would say, lab