what if other kinds of plants captured it too? if these industrial plants had technology that captured carbon like trees we could help lower emissions. carbon capture is important technology - and experts agree. that s why we re working on ways to improve it. so plants. can be a little more. like plants. back to our breaking news. congressman justin amash is now the first sitting republican in congress to call for president trump s impeachment. in a series of tweets he not only accuses the president of breaking the law, but he calls out fellow republican colleagues. he writes in part, here are my principal conclusions. attorney general barr has dliblt are i misrepresented the mueller report. two president president trump has engaged in kbechability conduct. three partisanship as eroded
everything with congress. and it didn t work out so well for nixon. in nixon s case he tried to pretend he wasn t stonewalling. one of the differences between the two cases. there are a number of them but this is important. is that nixon pretended to be cooperating. and members of congress and we know this from data opened later members of congress were willing the president please cooperate. it s important for our base that you appear to be cooperating. what s different in 2019 is the republican party don t believe it s paying any price at all if the president stone walls on the questions a lot of people are asking about the mueller investigation. if amashes concerns lead to concerns from other libertiarians, people deeply concerned about imperial presidencies. if that happens maybe we will see bipartisan push for some real testimony on capitol hill. paul, if amash does end up lighting a fire under both republicans and democrats, what would happen if the house were to move for
well i think it would look like a vote in favor of impeaching the president. and then we would shift to the trial in the senate. and that s where the real battle would be. would there be enough votes to impeach? i also think the president is counting heavily on his alliance with the supreme court. because there are five conservative justices on the supreme court. and injury he makes a mistake doing that. because when he tries to upset the balance of power between the various branchs of government, the supreme court is looking at their role in government also. and they require cooperation of the president in handing down their cases. so you could wind up having an alliance between the supreme court and the congress against a president who will not cooperate with anybody. and that spells impeachment. i see that as the primary danger area for the president all right, gentlemen good to have you both with us. and thank you for the perspective and expertise. all right. joe biden makes
conclusions one attorney general barr mass deliberately misrepresented mueller s report. two president trump has engaged in impeachability conduct. three. partisanship has eroded our system of checks of balances. four. few members of congress have read the report. i offer these conclusions, he writes only after having mueller peace recontact dakotaed report carefully appear completely. having raid or watched pertinent statements and testimony and having discussed this matter with my staff who thoroughly reviewed materials and provided me with further analysis. in comparison barr s principal conclusions congressional testimony and other statements to the report it s clear that barr intended to mislead the public. about special counsel robert mueller s analysis and findings. in fact, mueller s report identifies multiple examples of conduct satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice. and undoubtedly any person who is not the president of the united states would be indicted base
this. congress weighing in tom cotton a republican from arkansas and a member of the armed services committee when asked what a possible war with iran would look like. could we win a war with iran. yes. that didn t take you a zbleekd two strikes, the first strike and the last strike. that s a bit unprecedented. on thursday, president trump met with the president of switzerland in an effort to establish a channel through which the u.s. could speak to iran. trump shared with the swiss a phone number that iran s leaders could call him to start talking. but iran has shone no willingness yet to do so. in fact iran supreme leader saying this week that negotiations would be like, quote, poison. however, cnn is learning tonight recent intelligence shows some iranian votes that the u.s. claims were carrying missiles returning to port and it appears crews unloaded missiles, according to u.s. officials familiar with the recent intelligence. the sources telling cnns it s