Paul welcome. Great to see you. Thank you for having me. Paul lets take this legal question starts with the assertion of alleged crimes starts with bribery. What you think of chairmanships definition of bribery . I suppose he is right if you accept the gerald ford famous definition of an Impeachable Offense that is whatever the majority of the members of the house of representatives decide what it is. You know, thats a political judgment and ignores history in the constitution. Lets start with the constitutional language which is where we should start. A president or any public official cannot be impeached unless a determination is made by the impeaching authority which would be the house that treason, bribery of other high crimes or misdemeanor has been committed but the only one. Paul the only one defined as treason so bribery they are now using bribery all the time. But that can be untethered from what the founders understood bribery to beat which was at least common law bribery and
Dedicated their lives to a murderous regime. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us a man has died in hong kong after being caught in clashes between prodemocracy demonstrators and police the 70 year old street cleaner was his in the head with a brick on wednesday its not clear who threw it earlier this month a student fell from a car park and later died from his injuries the unrest in hong kong has worsened did recent days have to read more than 5 months of antigovernment unrest. Well lets cross over to hong kong where our correspondent Mathias Bellinger is standing by for us but he is this is now the 2nd death related to the protests within a week what 4 do we know about how this particular incident happened. We know that 2 groups of people were standing were confronting each other hurling bricks at each other one of the groups were protesters and the other groups the other group were people who were against the protest it is not very clear where these people came from it hap
Clashes on the streets of georgias capital tbilisi as fountains of protesters attempt to blockade the Parliament Building. And im leah harding with sports australias Prime Minister slams rugby star israel folau for his comments on the countrys bushfires claim the fires are gods way of punishing australia for passing same sex marriage and abortion laws. Saudi arabia says yemens whos these have hijacked a ship towing a south korean drilling rig in the red sea but the rebels theyve captured military vessels the official has told aljazeera they will release the drilling rig once they can confirm that belongs to south korea the saudi government is called the incident a terrorist operation who these have in the past targeted vessels off yemen at the southern mouth of the red sea. Joins us from yemens capital sana take us through this and try to clarify exactly whats happened here is this the hijacking of a saudi ship and a south korean oil rig or are we still trying to ascertain. Yes accordi
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange record highs as you know by now, up almost 250, yields close to seven week highs carl, we have record highs in all three major indexes. You can see behind me, you look at those particular moves with the dow, s p 500 and nasdaq, we will put stars next to every one, record highs for every one of these indexes, and trade optimism fueling a lot of that you look at sector leaders over the course of the past month that pushed those averages toward record highs, within the s p 500, financials, industrial, technology up 10 for financials, 9 for industrials, technology up 7 . These two sectors, tech and industrials are close to their own record highs now, on pace for some closes at record levels then if you want to look at stocks within the dow, check out these names, ones more tied to trade optimism or pessimism throughout the course of the last ye
Writer right now because they are treated as politicians. You represent. I say nobody. Im not running for office. We live in a time a politics as team sports. In the teams poor aspect of politics has really displaced almost Everything Else in the intellectual content. And now just tribe on tribe action. I dont think having a bigger gang is necessarily something that tells you anything about whether an idea is good or not. The fact is 50 of the population if you watch broadcast television or you look at the actual bestsellers list. Great big crowds of people that i dont trust very much. The original sin of that journalist is his or her desire to be liked. I see this a lot. You can shop for opportunities to invest. And there are a lot of writers who are unable to resist the urge to play to the crowd. To engage in constituent service. I understand the desire to want to be popular to an extent, we have to sell books. We were to be popular in the way. Where they have the devoted cultures fo