Impeachment hearing on procedure about as partisan as all the others weve seen these past couple of week es. Any actual evidence that the pause on the ukrainian assistance was for the president s improper personal political benefit or might he have had other reasons for withholding aid . Plenty of other reasons and part is the law itself. Certified its the president s call to making sure no corruption is where aid is given and other countries aid was held. From an appropriate operate a d standpoint, it went out early. 68 of polls, every day ukrainian said they bribed a public official in the last year. Go to the july 25th telephone call President Trump never raised the word corruption once but he did talk about joe biden three times. We didnt hear corruption, corruption, corruption. We heard biden, biden, biden. That was the favor we were looking for. He wanted the president of ukraine to come over and say he wad investigating the bidens. Thats unrefuted in the record. Lets not pull th
Hearings. Weve read the transcripts. And its clear that this president acted in a way that not only violates the public trust, he jeopardized our national security. And he undermined our democracy. In 11 months, the American People are going to vote on the next president of the United States. Why then are we plunging the country into this kind of turmoil and this kind of trauma now. When the voters themselves will resolve the matter one way or another. The president s aggressive and unprecedented resistance to congressional subpoenas for witnesses and documents is blatantly and dangerously unconstitutional. If accepted and normalized now, it will undermine perhaps for all time the congressional impeachment power itself, which is the peoples last instrument of constitutional selfdefense. If you read the majoritys report, it is well written. It is some of the best work youll see frankly in some ways of fictional accounts of what this actually is, but it actually talks about it. That the
The truth . House democrats still have the right thing to do for the country. The American People want the truth. The house can turn back from the cliff and not deploy this constitutional remedy of last resort. There is a grand tradition in america. Speedy and fair trials. We want both. The leader seems obsessed with speedy and wants to throw fair out the window. Dana coverage this hour including reaction from former Republican Senate majority leader trent lot who better to ask about impeachment. First kicks things off with chief Congressional Correspondent mike owe manual who is there on capitol hill. Mike . Dana, good afternoon. There have been awkward moments. Polite yet awkward when tom coal asked maryland democrat jamie raskin about house intelligence investigation when they obtained phone records including those of republican congressman devin nunes. I understand we forcefully represented no member of the house of representatives and no member of the press was targeted with any i
Mitch mcconnell flat out says its an oath he doesnt intend to honor. Good morning, everyone. It is wes, dense 18th. I would say probably a day that will go down in history if everything goes as expected. Absolutely, im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian. We begin with House Resolution 755, from the 116th congress. Impeaching Donald John Trump, president of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. The New York Times, Washington Post and the ap all report that democrats do in fact have the votes, meaning by the end of the day, trump will make history as only the third u. S. President to be impeached, coming one day short of the 21st anniversary of the house vote to impeach bill clinton. Now, the house is scheduled to gavel in just a few hours from now, around 9 00 a. M. , to adopt the rules which call for six hours of debate split evenly between the parties before members vote on the two articles of impeachment. Speaker nan