The go with the free cspan radio app. Representative jim town hallner held a meeting with constituents in germantown, wisconsin. Hisot questions about stance on the impeachment inquiry President Trump, as well as other issues. This town hall meeting took place after the first week of putting public impeachment hearings. I would like to call this town meeting to order. I want to thank you all for coming and i want to take the village of germantown for its cooperation in setting up this and local Law Enforcement for their assistance this afternoon. We have cspan filming our meeting, which is coming up live. So this is on worldwide television. When i call on you to ask questions, just stand up where you are as cspan has a boom microphone that we will put in front of you so the world will be able to hear your questions. [laughter] our also want to introduce two state legislators who represent the germantown and richfield area. Senator alberta and representative joelle. Here to listen to yo
Ceo of the National Constitution center, joining us here on washington journal to talk about impeachment and the constitution, where things stand now. And he has a new book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Will get to that as well. Good morning. Thanks for being here. Guest great to be here. Host how does this 2019 impeachment inquiry, where the process is now, how does this align with what the constitution says the process should be . Guest the constitution does not say much about what the process should be. It has a couple of really important things. First, in article one, section two, it says that the house should have the sole power of impeachment. Then, in the part about the senate, it says the senate should have the sole power to try impeachments and that impeachment should be presided over by the chief justice. Impeachedresident is and conviction is by two thirds of the senate but should not extend further than removal from office and disqualification to hold future offices of honor o
Coerce, extort or bribe an ally into conducting investigations to aid his Reelection Campaign and did so by withholding official acts, a white house meeting or hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military aid, must we simply get over it in. Here we are, were supposed to take these people at face value when they trot out a new batch of allegations. Anyone familiar with the democrats scorched earth war against President Trump would not be surprised to see all the typical signs that this is a carefully orchestrated media smear campaign. Its nothing more than an impeachment process in search of a crime. Paul lets bring in wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and columnist kim strassel and bill mcgurn. So, dan, the adam schiff posed those statements in the form of a question. But as i read this, his statement, the rest of it, theres no question in his mind, hes already concluded that the president is guilty of whats been, theyre putting together here. Yeah, th
Believe now theres a reason its being withheld because im ballet theres a problem with it and what does have to say is that goes forward so anybody in the media anybody watching today the 1st you know 45 minutes is when we went through have painted a very interesting picture is painted an interesting picture that goes back many many years it paints a nation picture of picking and choosing which part of the last few weeks we want to talk about and thats fine because well have the rest of the day to go about this but professor turley youre now well rested. And youve got one question youre asking yes no on and not given to elaborate but i want to start here lets just do this. Elaborate if you would because you tried to on the question was asked to you and then if theres anything else that youve heard this morning that you would disagree with or how i am for soem i will go ahead and tell you some time to talk by the way just for the Information Mr but this is the coldest hearing room. In t
Coerce, extort or bribe an ally into conducting investigations to aid his Reelection Campaign and did so by withholding official acts, a white house meeting or hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military aid, must we simply get over it in. Here we are, were supposed to take these people at face value when they trot out a new batch of allegations. Anyone familiar with the democrats scorched earth war against President Trump would not be surprised to see all the typical signs that this is a carefully orchestrated media smear campaign. Its nothing more than an impeachment process in search of a crime. Paul lets bring in wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and columnist kim strassel and bill mcgurn. So, dan, the adam schiff posed those statements in the form of a question. But as i read this, his statement, the rest of it, theres no question in his mind, hes already concluded that the president is guilty of whats been, theyre putting together here. Yeah, th