Desk. Every single senator in the Democratic Congress and in our caucus here in the senate is cosponsoring the for the people act. Senator merkley, senator merkley and my companion bill the h. R. 1, for the people act, but it is very deep in the leaders legislative graveyard. Over the course of the last year, as the for the people act has languished, tens of millions of dollars were spent, much of it in secret, to influence the policymaking process. Almost half a dozen states passed new laws restricting voter rights. The u. S. Supreme court gave the green light to political gerrymandering, and President Trump has with his own properties dozens of times funneled millions of taxpayer dollars into his own pocket. Yet, the Republican Senate is silent, sigh length as silent as our democracy faces a crisis like none we have ever seen in our lifetimes. We can draw a Straight Line from the crisis in our democracy to more than 300 bipartisan bills buried in the majority leaders graveyard. The b
town hall meetings across the bay area tonight. amber lee is in dublin where gun rights activists were on hand to challenge reporter: that is right, there was a large turnout at dublin high school. 250 people were here. control and the impeachment of president donald trump are were of high interest to those attending the townhall meeting. a largely enthusiastic audience greeted the congressman for the townhall meeting at dublin high school on thursday night. spank the president of the united states is impeached. reporter: many say the impeachment of resident donald trump and the upcoming presidential elections are of high interest. what we are doing to prevent russians meddling again like they did in 2016 is important. reporter: before the townhall, the congressman tells us the priorities. housing, reducing congestion and traffic, and holding a reckless president accountable. reporter: he also addressed gun control, an issue at the forefront of his brief run for pr
big national story democrats will be wrapping up their opening arguments today in the senate impeachment trial of president trump. on wednesday house democrats focused on the july 25th phone call between president trump and ukraine s president yesterday they again cited some of those details but focused on the first article of impeachment. moving forward the defense team will get to work on preparing to argue their side we ve got our washington dc correspondent alexander lemon live this morning to talk about this good morning. alex. hey james good morning. so we ve got this dade well this final day of opening our was that we heard anything new or is this sort of a sort of their reaction reinforcing trying to get through to some of the senators. well we did see democratic house managers bring up some of the same evidence, but they also employed a little bit of a different strategy yesterday in that they played a little defense because we know that the president s lawyers p
Friday morning. Im christine romans. And im laura jarrett. Friday, january 24th, 4 00 a. M. In new york. 10 days until the iowa caucuses. Today will be the final day of opening arguments of democrats. House managers on thursday made the case the president abused his power. Tla tried to convince skeptical and tired republican senators the trial needs more witnesses and documents. Republicans have said a lot of what theyre hearing is repetitive, but at least one admits some of this is fresh. Senator john kennedy of louisiana telling the new york times, quote, ive learned a lot, everybody has. Senators didnt know the case, they really didnt. We didnt stay glued to the television. We havent read the transcripts. Democrats not shying away from a topic. House managers have repeatedly mentioned Hunter Bidens position on the board at the heart of gop conspiracy theories. Democrats also displayed elaborate exhibits, judiciary chairman jerry nad ller using a 1999 clip of Lindsey Graham. At the t
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