Whatsoever. They made the argument that it makes sense to try the case and then consider documents. They made no argument that the white make sense to have trial without witnesses are and why, because its indefensible. Its indefensible. No trial in america has ever been conducted like that, and so you would nothing about it. And that should be the most telling thing about councils argument. They had no defense of the mcconnell resolution because there is done. They couldnt defend on the basis of president , they couldnt defend on the base of history, based on the constitution, they couldnt defend at all. So what did they say . First they made the representation that the house is claiming there is a such thing as executive privilege. Thats nonsense. No one here has ever suggested theres no such thing as executive privilege but the interesting thing here is they have never claimed executive privilege. Not once during the house investigation did ever say that a single document was privile
Renovation and research looks at Election Security as camping 2020 approaches. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is is next. 24 hours ago at the white house, President Trump announcing the death of isis leader albaghdadi after a late Night Saturday raid in syria by u. S. Special forces. This is washington journal. We will start with your calls and comments on that raid and what it means for u. S. Military presence on the broader war on terror. Republicans, call 2027488001. For democrats, that line is 2027488000. Independents and others, 2027488002. You can send us a text as well. That is 2027488003. Make sure you put your name and where you are texting from on that. You can tweet us at cspanwj and we welcome your posts on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. That announcement coming just after 9 00 eastern yesterday morning during part of this program and we will show you some of the comments from President Trump in
Catherine mcmanus who is with rollcall and covers capitol hill. Lets start with the rate over the weekend. The comments we heard from callers of questioning about whether president prshould have informed democratic leadership aheadof time. Currently in his comments he mentioned he didnt. Did we know what the president supposed to do or torby tradition has done in these situations . The president wouldnt form what is called a gang of eight. It is leadership of the house and senate , republicans and democrats as well as a Certain Community chairman including the Intelligence Committee chairs and one of the reasons that i imagine trump will continue to hit on his adam schiff is one of the traditional people that he would have told ahead of this rate and that did not happen and he specifically said leaks were part of his rationale for that. A Foreign Policy success for sure for the administration, for the nation and a political success. It gives him a boostjust when he needed it. He caught
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