Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here. This is a great day for us. Of course it began well in the Supreme Court of the United States when the constitution was upheld and that was a beautiful thing and now we are here to talk about how we go into the future. When we won in 2018, we said to the American People that for the people, we would lower the cost of health care by lowering the cost of prescription drugs and preserving the preexisting condition. Low er health care costs. Bigger paychecks by building the infrastructure of america ain a green and resilient way and third, we would have cleaner government. Cleaner government by improving, enhancing the voice of small donors and the grass roots in our political process. Between now and fourth of july, we will bring the aca enhancement legislation to the floor on june 29th. Next week, we will bring the justice and policing act, part of our bill initiatives to the floor. Before the fourth of july, well bring this important l
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As we speak today, House Democrats still have the opportunity to do the right think for the country and avoid setting this new president. The house can turn back and not deploy this constitutional remedy last resort, to deliver a predetermined partisan outcome. This morning mountain president , i swear to speak to one very specific part of this. Over the weekend, didnt later decided to short circuit the process and learn basic groundwork in advance of a potential impeachment trial and the brechbuhl past, wouldve been a conversation in person which nonetheless i still hope to pursue. Instead, he chose to begin by writing me in a long paragraph letter on sunday evening deliberate by the way of the news media and begin a Cable Television campaign of two hours later. The Democratic Leaders lesser ig an interesting document from the very beginning. For example, in the second of this 11th paragraph, our colleague literally misquotes the constitution. That error actually aligns with his confu
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Right before they took a break, the prosecution in Donald Trumps Hush Money Case reminded the jury Michael Cohen is not the one on trial here. Despite a crossexamination that got heated, just as he was finishing, and yet an admission by trumps former fixer on the stand did leave the d. A. s office with some clean up to do. Im Chris Jansing alongside my colleagues, Andrea Mitchell and katy tur. Sorry, Michael Cohen acknowledged under oath that he stole 60,000 from the trump organization, that he did it out of anger that mr. Trump cut his bonus. The prosecution is trying to use their second shot at questioning Michael Cohen to redirect the focus back to the former president. Were going to bring you live updates as we read them when Michael Cohen returns to the stand in just a few minutes after the lunch break. Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is live at the courthouse. Catherine christian is still with us. Also with us, andrew weissmann, former lead prosecutor in Robert Muellers special counsels