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
Let me begin with the outlet section on this sunday. The p spiral ron turn saying donald trump is what Alexander Hamilton had in mind when he pushed for impeachment powers by congress. A fair statement. The most important function for impeachment is as a check by the legislature, it goes by the public in general, check by the legislature against executive overreach. And the concern by the framers that we would have a president so far exceed his authority and be so essentially inappropriate at the job that even the remedy of election would not be sufficient. We need to remove him sometime between the four years between elections. Host the debate in the 1860s with Andrew Johnson and 1974 with Richard Nixon and in the 1990s with bill clinton gets to the core of the u. S. Constitution. Following, the conviction of treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors. It is still vague today, isnt it . Or is it . Guest i wouldnt call it vague. The standard is treason, bribery or other high crim
Mind when he pushed for impeachment powers for congress. Guest i think that is a fair statement. Host why . Guest the most important is aion for impeachment check by legislature against aecutive overreach and concern by the framers that we would have a president who would authority andhis be so essentially inappropriate at the job that even the remedy of election would not be sufficient. We need to remove him sometime between the four years between elections. Host the debate in the 1860s with Andrew Johnson and 1974 with Richard Nixon and in the 1990s with bill clinton kids to conviction of treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors. It is still vague today, isnt it . Guest i wouldnt call it vague. Treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Only crimethe defined in the constitution, essentially defined as giving aid and comfort to an enemy in the time of war. That is not what we are talking about. Is easily defined. It was well known then and now. The phrase you are
Only bipartisan vote on that for was against. The question to the speaker, the in theestions i provided letter, about the unfair process that we had. What has changed since march . In all the hearings, theres nothing compelling, nothing overwhelming. So the speaker should follow her own words on what bipartisan on that floor and in the sham that has been putting this nightmare. Ough this thats exactly what this vote shows today. I want to call up our whip, Steve Scalise. Thank you, kevin. And when we talk about the vote, important to note, when you see that not only did rejectingle republican the soviet style impeachment were even joinrd by democrats who couldnt stand it anymore. At where we are right now, were at an important point in history. That wethere are people serve with that dont like the results of the 2016 election. Thats their prerogative. The country next year will be deciding who our president is going to be. It should not be nancy pelosi in a small group of people that s
On social media on twitter is at cspanwj. On facebook, and facebook. Com cspan. A very good friday morning, you can start calling you now. Whoas Lindsey Graham introduced a resolution yesterday looking to condemn the house impeachment inquiry. This is Lindsey Graham talking to reporters. [video clip] what is going on is a runaround of the impeachment process creating a secret proceeding behind closed doors that fundamentally, denies due process, and when you are talking about removing the president of the United States it seems to me that you want to have a process that is consistent with who we are as americans inconsistent and is consistent with what bill clinton, and Richard Nixon was allowed to do. The process i think is the danger to the future of the presidency. If you can drive down a numbers by poll having proceedings where you selectively leak information when the president is pretty much shut out, god help future president s. [end video clip] that resolution was introduced ye